SALES TAX LAW
ADOPTED BUT NO
DATEJO START
City Council to Hold Meet
ing for Study of Rules
to Be Made
The city ordinance calling for a
one-percent special-purpose sales
tax was adopted by the City Coun
cil at its meeting last night, but
no starting date for collections was
set.
Instead, a special meeting of the
council is scheduled for next Fri
day. during which" the council will
hear suggestions for rules and reg
ulations under which the tax will
be collected.
Mayor Waino Hendrickson said a
starting date will probably be set
during the meeting, but stated that
he could not see how the sales
tax could be put into effect before
August 1.
Requests for clarification of cer
tain sections of the ordinance ^y
two Juneau businessmen present
at the meeting last night indicated
that city officials will have a num
ber of questions to answer before
sales tax collections can be carried
out with the minimum of trouble.
Mayor Hendrickson said that the
questions will be tackled at the
special meeting.
The sales tax ordinance was ap
proved by a slim margin when
Juneau voters went to the polls
during a special election June 20
Revenue from the tax will be used
to pay off the city’s present and
future bonded indebtedness.
City to Borrow
Mayor Hendrickson told the coun
cil last night that the city will
have to borrow funds to tide it
over until November when reven
ues begin coming in, and the coun
cil passed a motion authorizing
the borrowing of up to $50,000, as
funds are required.
Pointing out that it is in better
financial shape than it was last
year at this time, Mayor Hendrick
son said that the city would prob
ably have ended the fiscal year,
October 1, without borrowing if
business license revenues were paid
quarterly as they were in the past.
At present, business license fees
are collected by the Territory at
the end of the year, and 60 per
cent of the amount collected in
the city is returned to the city
treasury, he explained.
He said the city began to borrow
in April last year, but all the money
borrowed was repaid.
While on the subject of taxes, the
council read for the first time an
ordinance amending the city’s pres
ent tax ordinance.
The ordinance provides that mo
tor vessels will be assessed and
taxed as personal property at the
beginning of each year, when the
vehicle is licensed.
Municipal Building
The city will buy a strip of
Juneau-Young Hardware Company
property roughly 50 by 72 feet in
dimension and adjoining the site
for Juneau’s new municipal building
on South Seward Street, the coun
cil decided.
The city had been granted an
option on the property. Price was
set at $1.45 per square foot, the
same as the cost of the Waynor
and MacKinnon properties at South
Seward Street and Marine Way,
purchased recently as the site for
the new city structure.
Other terms of the purchase
were that the city tear down the
part of the building on the prop
erty purchased and seal off the
end of the Juneau-Young building.
The council also passed a motion
that bids on clearing and filling
part of the municipal building site
be called for.
Cost of purchasing the site and
filling and clearing will be paid
from the $60,000 given by the Ter
ritory for the present City Hall
property and the vacant lot ad
joining it.
Bids Opened
Three sets of bids were Opened
by the council and two low bids
were accepted. G. A. Baldwin’s
low bid of $337 for repairs to the
City Hall roof, damaged during a
windstorm, was accepted. Acme
Disposal Service’s bid of $6 pet
month for hauling garbage from
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' the City Hall and other municipal
properties was also accepted.
But the bid submitted by Munter
! Construction Company of Seattle
I for purchase of the city's steam
piledriver—$3.760—was rejected as
being too low.
The council decided to purchase
a pump engine for a city-owned
tank truck. The pump engine with
proper equipment for washing down
streets and pumping water for fire
j fighting will cost the city $850.
The council also decided to pay
$404 as the city’s share of the cost
of putting through Park Avenue.
Most of the work has been done by
the Juneau Water Company, which
has laid a four-inch water main
I through to the Highlands.
Mayor Hendrickson said he be
lieved the company was “entitled
to consideration. It did a lot of
work the city would have had to
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MEDICAL SCHOOL MEN
LOOK OVER ANS HOSPITAL
Two medical school officials
crossed tracks here today, both of
them are in Alaska for the same
purpose—to look over Mt. Edge
cumbe Orthopedic Hospital as a
possible training center for young
physicians.
They are Dr. C. Howard Hatcher,
professor of orthopedic surgery at
the University of Chicago, and Dr.
Robert Ray, professor of orthopedic
surgery and head of the Division
of Orthopedic Surgery at the Uni
versity of Washington Medical
School. 3
Dr. James Qooge, local health
administration chief for the Alaska i
Department of Health, said that!
both the Chicago and the Washing- |
ton medical schools have indicated j
interest in sending resident physi
cians to Mt. Edgecumbe for a year’s
work.
He pointed out that the plan for
such a training center is part of
the effort by the Alaska Native
Service and the health department
to improve medical and public
health service in the Territory.
fighTdope
Fistic engagements last night
turned out as follows:
At Hollywood, Calif. — Frank Bu
ford, 194’i, Oakland, Calif., out
pointed Turkey Thompson, 206Vi,
Los Angeles, 10.
At Long Beach, N.Y.—Lou Valles,
155, New York, outpointed Gene
Boland. 154, Scranton, Pa., 8.
At New Orleans — Gene Burton,
145, New York, outpointed Lisel
Isadore, 148, New Orleans, 10.
LEADERS IN B. B.
Leaders in the major leagues
through Friday games are:
National League
Batting — Robinson, Brooklyn,
.371; Musial, St. Louis, .347.
Runs Batted In — Kiner, Pitts
burgh, 64; Sauer, Chicago, 61.
Home Runs — Kiner, Pittsburgh,
23; Snider, Brooklyn, Sauer, Chi
cago and Jones, Philadelphia, 17.
Pitching — Miller, Philadelphia,
8-0, 1.000; Lanier, St. Louis, 8-2,
Laglie, New York, and Chipman,
Boston, 4-1, .800.
American League
Batting—Kell, Detroit, .371; Doby,
Cleveland, .356.
Runs Batted In — Williams, Bos
ton, 83; Dropo, Boston, 82.
Home Runs — Rosen, Cleveland
and Williams, Boston, 25.
Pitching — McDermott, Boston,
5-1, .833; Gray, Detroit, 10-3, .769.
WIL GAMES
Final scores of WIL games last
night are:
Wenatchee 8, Tacoma 2.
Vancouver 2, Yakima 0.
Tri-City 12, Salem 4.
Victoria 6, Spokane 5.
AT BARANOF HOTEL
James and Virginia Nicholson of
the U.S. Weather Bureau are stay
ing at the Baranof Hotel.
Seafood — Chicken — Stt&k —
i Dinners from 4:30 at the Country
I Club. . TJ-lt
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Highway
Oil Delivery
Alaska Transfer
(Douglas Babcock)
/
— delivers oil weekly to
all summer homes out the
Glacier, Fritz Cove and
Eagle River Highways.
LEADERSHIP IN
NATIONAL LEAGUE
IS TIED UP AGAIN
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(By the Associated Press)
Remember when Curt Simmons
was "the $65,000 bonus bust?” and
Ted Gray was just Art Houtteman’s
roomie? Now they're the surprise
pitchers of baseball.
Scouts always said Simmons and
Gray would make it big "someday.”
They didn't say when. Few thought
it would be 1950.
But where would the Phillies be
without Simmons’ 10 wins? Or De
troit without Gray’s 10? They
wouldn’t be fighting for a pennant.
The Phils would be bumping
around in the second division if
Simmons hadn’t made good. Now,
after Simmons’ 7 to 2 win over
Brooklyn last night, they're tied for
the lead with St. Louis.
Same story with Gray. For years
the Tigers waited for the southpaw
to tame his wildness. He came up
with Houtteman but Art zoomed
ahead while Ted struggled for con
trol.
Cleveland became Gray’s 10th
victim last night when he let down
the Indians with four hits, 5-2.
A crowd of 55,145 saw Gray whip
Bobby Feller to keep the Tigers 3':
games ahead of New York, which
downed Boston, 5-2.
Washington shelled Bob Hooper,
who had beaten the Nats three
straight, for 16 hits enroute to a
7-5 win over the Philadelphia A’s.
Chicago and St. Louis split a
twilight-night doubleheader. Dave
Philley’s two-run homer in the sev
enth gave Bobby Cain and the
White Sox a 5-2 decision in the
first game. Owen Friend’s 10th in
ning single won the 4-3 second
game for St. Louis.
Pittsburgh snapped St. Louis’
seven-game win streak, 9-1, in the
National League to drop the Car
dinals into their first place tie with
the Phils.
Johnny Sain, overlooked in the
All-Star picking, became the first!
big leaguer to hit the 12-win mark, !
subduing New York, 8-2. Larry Jan
sen, his opponent, was knocked out
in the fifth, to end a seven-game
win streak. |
Connie Ryan stole home on j
Johnny Vander Meer in the 11th ,
inning for Cincinnati’s 5-4 edge'over ^
Chicago. It was the only day game, i
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GOLD, COPPER
PRODUCTION UP i
4 AND 2 PER CENT
WASHINGTON. July 8 — UP) —
The Bureau of Mines says that gold
production increased four percent
and copper two percent in May.
Gold output in Alaska was four
times greater than in April. Colo
rado gold production increased 27
percent and Utah and Arizona five j
percent each. South Dakota produc
tion was virtually unchanged and
California production declined two!
percent, Nevada one percent, Idano
17 percent, and Washington 7 per- j
cent.
In copper, Arizona and Utah
gained six and five percent respec - j
tively over April production. Mon
tana dropped 31 percent, Nevada
five and New Mexico four percent.
Gold production by states in May:
South Dakota 48,000 fine ounces;
Utah, 41,300; California 35,460; Ne
vada, 16,470; Colorado 13,812; Ari
zona, 9,600; Idaho and Washing
ton, 7,000 each; Montana, 4,000;
Oregon, 1,093; New Mexico, 145;
Texas. 3; Alaska, 8,664; states east
of the Mississippi, 196.
Copper output by states included:
Arizona 34,500 short tons; Utah,
23,620; New Mexico. 4,714; Montana,
3,770; Nevada, 3,520; Washington,
430; Colorado, 301; Idaho, 175;
California, 40.
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Dinners from 4:30 at the Country
Club. 50-lt
Elfin Cove
News Notes
(Special Correspondence)
ELFIN COVE, Alaska, June 28
Buck Harbeson of Dundas Bay was
the most surprised person in Alaska
Friday. Buck was working in the
mud flats and had whiskers an
inch long when a plane landej.
Buck met the plane wondering
what it was all about and lo and
behold, it was his sister, Mrs. Fred
Smith, of Kalamazoo, Michigan
whom Buck had not seen for 20
years. With Mrs. Smith was her
daughter Marjorie and a nephew
Thomas Harbeson. Buck took his
visitors to Elfin Cove and still says
he can’t realize he is with his
sister. Mrs. Smith plans to leave
for their Michigan home soon and
regrets the short stay here but
was happy to find her brother in
good health, the party plans to re
turn again for a longer stay in
Alaska.
Mrs. Ethel Murphy who is a
house guest of the E. O. Swansons
plans to return to Juneau July 10.
after a months stay here. With
Mrs. Murphy when she came, was
Mrs. Zola Devlin who visited for
a week, and who also was a guest
of the Swansons. This is Mrs.
Murphy’s second summer to vaca
tion in the Cove and she enjoys
it here very much.
The Charles Metz family on then
boat the Sea Hawk left for IMe
inside waters to fish last Wednes
day. Stanley Rude on his boat
Harry also left the same day for
the inside fishing.
Mrs. Jim Lingard and daughter
in-law Mrs. Ray Clements and her
daughter Frankie are suffering
from severe colds, the ffrst colds |
for them in the past three years,
in fact, the first colds in Elfin Cove.
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Mr. and Mrs. Roy Elliott opened i
their cafe for business on June 23.
Mrs. Henry Nelson is at honle
taking a few days much neec.:;d
rest after two months fishing in
the outside waters.
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LEARN; TAKEN FOR 2ND
TIME AFTER LONG SWIM
Some salmon apparently never
learn.
A king was tagged in the Cross
Bay area May 26 by Robert R.
Parker, Alaska Department of Fish
eries biologist, after being caught on
trolling gear.
With the red and white tag fixed
directly below its dorsal fin, it was
put back into the water.
The same king was caught' by a
troller June 27 off Noyes Island,
west of Prince of Wales Island. It
had traveled 175 miles in 33 days
before taking a troller’s lure for
the second time.
Although its being a “sucker for
bait” was unusual, the distance it
swam was not, according to the
department of fisheries.
Of the six salmon from which
tags have been recovered since the
troll salmon research program be
gan this spring, three have traveled
at least 175 miles before being taken,
C. L. Anderson, director of the fish
eries department said.
One king—tagged by Parker in
the Cross Sound area—swam 400
miles in 27 days to a river near
Prince Rupert, B.C., before being
caught in a gillnet.
More than 800 king salmon have
been tagged since the research pro
gram was inaugurated.
FROM OGDEN, UTAH
G. F. Clark of Ogden, Utah, is
stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
BECK STROM HERE
B. H. Beckstrom of Seattle is at
the Gastineau Hotel.
SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN’S
Prescriptions
Accurately
Filled
Mail Orders Given
Our Prompt Attention
Jnneau Drag Co.
Phone 33 P. O. Box 1151
Command of 10th
Air Rescue Squad.
In Alaska Shifted
WASHINGTON. July 8 — <iW —
The Air Force has announced that
command of the 10th Air Rescue
squadron in Alaska has been shifted
to the Air Rescue Service of tFIt
Military Air Transport Service
i MATS).
The union—famed for Its role in
various Arctic rescue missions—will
continue under command of Col.
Bernt Balchen. «' ‘
The Air Force said the action is
the final step in a plan to coordi
nate and standardize air rescue op
erations of the eight rescue squad
rons situated at Various places
around the globe.
Function of the air rescue service
is to aid U.S. civil and military avi
ation as well as the planes of other
countries, the Air Force stated.
Headquarters of the 10th Squad
ron will continue at Anchorage,
Alaska. Prior to today’s announce
ment, the 10th was attached to the
Alaskan Air Command.
Powerful New Land
Weapon Be Produced
NEW YORK, July 8 — UR — Dr.
Vannevar Bush, scientist, said to
day a powerful new land weapon
which could make short work oi
heavily armored Russian tanks
could be in production in six
months.
Asked about the danger of the
new weapon falling into Russian
hands, Dr. Bush said "they might
not use it in Korea for that rea
son^’ . ...
Larry Lindstrom, who lives at the
Gastineau Hotel, has returned from
a trip to Ketchikan.
ANDRUS HERE
Max Andrus of Ketchikan is a
guest at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM KETCHIKAN
H. L. Paulson of Ketchikan is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM FT. RICHARDSON
Hannah L. Wilson of Fort Rich
ardson, Anchorage, is at the Bara
nof Hotel.
INDIANAN VISITS
T. N. Steffen of Hammond, Ind.,
is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM PELICAN
M. W. Soule of Pelican is a guest
at the Baranof Hotel.
FLOOR SHOWCASES FOR SAL]
At I. GOLDSTEINS.
BOARD APPROVES
NAME LAFAYETTE
ALASKA GLACIER
WASHINGTON, July 8 — l/H —
The U.S. board on geographic names
today approved the following names
of towns, resorts and settlements
for use on official maps and papers:
(In some instances the Post Office
Department has previously made
the changes the board approved to
day.) I
Alaska — Lafayette Glacier, four
miles long and one miles wide, flow
ing northwestward between College
Fiord and Unakwik Inlet, ending
3'4 miles southeast of Coghill
Point in Chugach National Forest.
Named at the suggestion of Wil
liam Osgood Field, Jr., of the Ameri
can Geological Society’s expedi
tion, for Lafayette College, Easton,
Pa.
EZZARD CHARLES
GETS FIGHT OFFER
BOSTON, July 8 — tW — NBA
heavyweight king Ezzard Charles
today had an offer of a $50,000 guar
antee to defend his title against
Rocky Marciano in a Goodwin
Callahan A.C. Show Sept. 18 at
Braves Field.
Matchmaker Sam Silverman said
he made the offer yesterday by
long-distance telephone and tele
gram to Charles’ manager, Jake
Mintz.
Charles, declared physically fit
Tuesday after a long layoff because
of a bruised heart muscle, is signed
first to defend his title against
Freddie Beshore at Buffalo.
Marciano, whose string of 28
straight pro victories includes 25 ]
knockouts, is scheduled to meet
Gino Buonvino next Monday at
Braves Field.
TEXANS VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Pickett of
Carrizo Springs, Texas, are guests
at the Baranof Hotel.
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BULLETINS;
The chief of South Korea’s tiny
Air Force says his American-trained
pilots have knocked out two Com
munist tanks and “several” enemy
trucks.
American combat casualties to
date are listed at 240 men—of which
192 are considered missing in ac
tion. Many of the missing are ex
pected to make their way back
sooner or later to American lines.
A communique from General
MacArthur tells of the capture of
ground forces of a Russian-made
tank of prodigious size—60 tons.
The metal monster is the largest
Red armor yet reported seen in the
Korean war.
The House Veterans Committee
may consider a bill next week that
would extend the benefits of the
G.I. Bill to the men who are fight
ing in Korea.
The British Labor Party now has
a majority of seven instead of eight
in the House of Commons. The ma
jority was cut when a Laborite
member was appointed as a judge
in Britain's high court. A by-elec
tion will be necessary to fill the
vacancy in the House of Commons.
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Approximately 58.5 percent of the j
average Japanese family’s expendi
tures is for food.
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against such a blow NOW.
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Agency
Phone 249
Seward Street
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