Road Engineer
Defends Ferry
With Report
Prank Metcalf, highway engineer,
today released a financial report
showing expenses and earnings of
the territorial-operated Haines ferry
for the past season which, he says,
refutes a statement in another
newspaper that the ferry was cost
ing4 the Territory $6,000 a month
to operate.
Metcalf referred to the Periscope
column of November 16 in the
Wrangell Sentinel written by Lew
Williams, former Secretary of Al
aska. Williams stated that the Road
Board paid $38,877.74 for the Chil
koot last June, and said that it had
been casting the Territory some $6,
000 a month to operate, “far in ex
cess of receipts."
The report released by Metcalf
showed a net profit of $277.98 for
the season—from June 19 through
November 8. Only gross earnings,
expenses and profits were shown.
There was no amortization of ’ the
original investment.
Connecting Link
“If we had lost money on the
ferry, I wouldn't have been surpris
ed,” Metcalf said, “but the purpose
of the Territory taking it over
would have been justified. It had
been heavily advertised all over
the east as a connecting link with
the Alaska highway.”
The report showed 339 vehicles
and pieces of equipment carried, and
562 passengers. It showed ^he Chil
koot covered 3,024 miles from Ju
neau to Haines and Skagwav and
return. Gross earnings on freight
and equipment carried were $18,
738.75; for passengers carried, gross
earnings were $4,427, for a total
of $23,165.75.
Expenses totalled $22,887.77, in
cluding salaries of $16,392.65, fuel
oil costing $1,517.60, agents com
missions costing $1,966.18, insurance
totalling $1,533.35, and other mis
cellaneous expenses.
The report was entitled, “Tenta
tive Report Subject to Supplement.”
Metcalf said that this meant there
were a few minor items not yet
listed but that the figures would
remain “essent^lly the same.”
“A private company could not op
erate on this margin, and that is
why we took it over," Metcalf said.
He compared it to a 65-mile stretch
of highway, saying, “this is the
cheapest maintenance cost of any
highway I know of."
Birds, Planes Are
Flying on Schedule
The birds and planes were back
in the air again yesterday with
Pacific Northern Airlines bringing
in 31 passengers and taking 19 to
the westward.
Prom Anchorage: R. Johnson, A.
Woolridge, J. Fenton, E. Jamestown,
G. Gardner, L. Roundtree, W. For
ward, C. Hollingstad, A. Williams,
G. Degman, G. Hoard, W. Hernan
do, W. Kornum, R. McMulay, C.
Bell, Karl Brunstad, A. Maning, A.
Hughes, C. Ashe, M. L. Manring,
B. Russell, Col. Mahoney, L. Hud
son.
From Yakutat: R. Coffin, B. and
R. Frankforter, John Williams.
From oCrdova: E. Lian, E. Ellis,
E. Ollis.
From Gustavus: Harry Cole, Scott
Bottaroff.
To Anchorage: Ralph Marsh,
Robert McKinley, A. Ambrose, G. R.
Kyes, Erma Wainer, A. K. McLean,
O. Paulson, B. D. Stewart, Ed
White, Clay Scudder, G. L. Winger
son, J. I. Noble.
To Cordova: George Paulson, Fred
Lafte, A. C. McMaster, N. J. Stin
ziano.
To Yakutat: A. Roberts, A. Cope
land, Kelly Westfall. ,
Orders No Parking
On Glacier Highway
According to an order issued by
Lt. Emmett M. Botelho, Alaska
Highway Patrol, cars are prohibited
from parking on the shoulders
and edges of the Glacier Highway.
Lt. Botelho states that snow re
moval crews recently had consider
able difficulty because of a number
of parked cars along the highway.
He said it is particularly im]>ortant
that drivers observe this rule during
snow removal period.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Brennan of
Edmonds, Wash., are at the Baranof
Hotel.
Heaped Wreckage of Streamliners
Passenger cars are piled in heaps and several torn apart in wreck of two streamliners, one the City of
San Francisco, near Evanston, Wyo. The City of San Francisco ploughed into th'e rear of the City
of Los Angeles which had halted for a block signal. Both trains were eastbound and the crash occurred
in a heavy snowstorm. Twenty-one persons were killed. <P) Wirepholo.
Boy Scout Program
For 1952 Be Laid
At Thursday Meeting
The Gastineau District Com
mittee of the Alaska Boy Scouts
Council will meet Thursday eve
ning at 7:30 o'clock in the high
school study hall to set up object
ives and plans for the 1952 scout
ing program.
The committee is one of four
sections of the Alaska Council.
Other meetings will be held in
Fairbanks, Anchorage and Ketchi
kan. This is the first time that the
scouting program has been planned
in this manner, according to George
A. Parks, president of the council.
The local meeting will open with
a general assembly of those partic
ipating in the Gastineau District
Committee. The group will then di
vide into six sections to deal with
organization and extension; ad
[ vancement, camping and activities; |
finance and safety; and leadership ,
training.
j Especially urged to attend are'
scoutmasters, cubmasters, den moth- j
ers, committeemen of packs, troops
I and posts, district committeemen,
| executive board members, school1
teachers, clergy, service club mem
bers, fraternal and veterans organ
ization members and mothers and
fathers of scouts.
Refreshments will be served at
the conclusion of the meeting by
members of Explorers Post 713.
Two Guest Speakers
At Meeting of JWC
1 Members of the Juneau .Woman's
Club will have as guest speakers
at their social-rfrogram meeting
Wednesday afternoon Merton Hayn
es and Miss Marjory Iverson of the
Juneau school faculty, Mrs. Ken
neth Clem, Education Chairman of
the club announces.
! Mr. Haynes, Public Speaking in
‘ structor, will speak on "Youth Prob
lems of Today” and Miss Iverson,
music instructor, will discuss "Pub
lic School Music” and give a dem
onstration. The club-sponsored Girl
Scout troop will give a resume of
the work they are doing.
The program will be preceded by
1 a dessert luncheon at 1:30 with Mrs.
Howard Schleiter and Mrs. Pat Car
roll as hostesses. Members are ask
ed to take a guest and the meet
ing will be held at the home of Mrs.
John McCormick at 436 West
j Twelfth Street.
ATTENTION REBEKAIIS
Initiation meeting Wednesday,
! November 28 at 8 p.m. I.O.O.F. hall.
BERNA WEST, Noble Grand
— EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY -
Cars of Military
Personnel Will Gel
Visitors Slickers
Cars of military personnel in the
Territory with foreign license plates
will henceforth be issued “Alaska
Visitors” stickers, according to Frank
Metcalf, chief of the Alaska High
way Patrol.
This is being done, Metcalf says,
to eliminate confusion and misun
derstanding. The expiration date
of such licenses will be noted on
the stickers and a record kept.
“The foreign plates of all military
personnel, of course, are honored
up to their expiration dates,” Met
calf says, “and car owners are al
lowed to renew in their own state.
But the records will make it easier
to apprehend owners who fail to
renew.”
The stickers may be obtained at
the office of the Alaska Highway
Patrol, rcom 117, in the Federal
building.
BRUNSTAD ARRIVES
Karl Brunstad, of Kodiak, member
of the Alaska Fisheries Board, ar
rived here Monday on PNA to at
tend the annual board meeting. He
is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
— EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY —
Wakefield Chosen
Chairman, Alaska
Fisheries Board
J. H. Wakefield of Port Wakefield
was named chairman of the Alaska
Fisheries Board to replace William
R. Walton of Sitka, who resigned
last summer, Wakefield will serve
until April, 1952.
With all but one member, Ira
Rothwell of Cordova, present the
annual fall meeting of the board
got under way yesterday afternoon.
Those attending are Wakefield, J.
P. Valentine, Ketchikan; Karl
Brunstad, Kodiak; and W. O. Smith
of Ketchikan appointed to fill the
vacancy left by Walton’s resigna
tion.
Today was given over to reports
on the various activities of the
Alaska Department of Fisheries.
IMPORTANT MEET OF
POLIO GROUP WEDNESDAY
Marguerite Dudley, chairman of
the Infantile Paralysis Foundation
executive committee, announced an
important meeting at 8:15 p.m. in
the Territorial /Health Building to
morrow. All members of the com
mittee are urged to be present, she
said. r
Harry Tucker of Seattle is at the
Baranof Hotel.
"With these Low
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RIDE South!”
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Fairbanks Company
Given Loan for
Tungsten Developmenf
A loan has been made to the
Alaska Metals Mining Co., of Fair
banks by the Defense Materials
Procurement Administration for
high grade tungsten ore explora
tion work on the company’s claims
near Fairbanks.
The exploration consisting chiefly
of drifting and supplementary dia
mond drilling must be comple'ed
within a period of two years. Area
in which the work will take place
is on the Stepovich/ Yellow Pup
and Colbert claims on the Gilmore
Dome. Work is expected to start
early as possible this next spring.
Amount of the loan by the gov
ernment was $133,675.50 with the
company contributing $44,558.50.
Members of the company are El
mer Stahl, William Birklid and
Melvin Anderson, all of Fairbanks,
and Morris Rafn of Tacoma.
Total production of tungsten tri
oxide from high grade ore on the
claims totals 120,000 pounds from
1916 to 1944. Major part of pro
duction was during World War I
and World War II. The Stepovich
clajm was worked during the last
war by the Cleary Hills Mining
Co.
JANE ENGLISH SOUTH
| Mrs. Jane English is a passenger
southbound on the Baranof en
route to Chicago for a visit with
her sister. She will come west
to visit two daughters in Portland
and will return to Juneau soon
after the first of the year.
15 Arrive, 22 Leave
On Baranof Tuesday
Arriving on the Baranof south
bound Tuesday morning were 15
passengers with 22 embarking.
Master of the ship is Capt. Joseph
Ramsauer with A. H. Banwell, chief
purser.
Disembarking from Seward: Mr.
and Mrs. William Allen, Jr., and
child; Mrs. W. O. Dickman, Wil
liam Diers, M. Goldberg, Harold
Kearney, Charles Loveland, Mrs.
Robert Tift and two children.
From Sitka: Mr. and Mrs. Nick
Bolshanon, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. John
son, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Paquiz,
Mrs. R. L. Shackleford, Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Sinnett, Mr. and Mrs.
William F. Smith, Mrs. C. Tries
chield.
Embarking for Seattle: Mr. and
Mrs. K. O. Jartun, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Roden, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Melvin, Jane English, Jerry Knapp,
E. C. Lingdren, D. A. Coffroth,
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin La Rue, Mr.
and Mrs. Edgecumb, Alice Edge
cumb, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bum
garner.
For Ketchikan: Mr. and Mrs. Ed
win Roberts, William Paul, Sr., Cy
ril Zuboff, Vincent Boguchi.
IS A LONG WAY
FROM BROOKLYN
Arthur A. Kreiger of the U. S.
Coast Guard arrived here enroute
to his new station at Biorka Island
near Sitka. This is his first trip to
Alaska. "It’s*sure a long way from
my home In Brooklyn," was his
comment. He is at the Hotel Ju
neau.
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