City Manager Idea Stirs Debate Over Engineering Costs
The city pays Felix Toner about 3000 dollars monthly for engineering on streets water and sewer projects from Oct 15 1952 to Jun 15 1953 plus 4000 dollars for preliminary work. Similar rates apply to school bridge and dam planning and planned for hydro plant. Proponents argue a city manager with engineering skill could unify departments and save money in the long run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felix Toner
Toner
Petersburg
Council
Editorials Compare Teen Trouble and Parental Duty
The Daily Empire notes Juneau youths’ troubles and cites the Ketchikan News editorial with teen safety pointers. Suggestions include chaperoned parties, no underage drinking, early curfews, open homes, parental whereabouts, child phone check ins, welcoming teens, modest dress, and careful car lending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juneau
Daily Empire
Petersburg
Empire
Bake Sale Saturday at City Library
The women of St. Andrew's Guild will hold a bake sale at the Petersburg library on Saturday afternoon August 23 from three to five. Bread cake and cookies baked at home by the guild will be for sale. Mrs. L L Wingard and Mrs. Carroll C Clausen will be in charge.
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St. Andrew's Guild
Petersburg
L.L. Wingard
Carroll C. Clausen
Fragmented captions reflect a busy town scene
ED HOPE preps to nurse fish. SANDRA FENN anticipates a Thanksgiving dinner in August. REYNOLDS plans a winter color theme. JOAN PETERSON wears a rose in her hair. JIM O HARE notes there isn’t any. DAVE WESTERBERG complains of hard work. ED DOBRASZ learns to drive. HAROLD STOLPE goes homeward early. HENRY STRAFUSS paints Rexall colors on People’s Drug. OPAL DOUGLAS turns on faucet to no water. HARRY KITO jokes about sticking up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ED Hope
Sandra Fenn
Reynolds
Joan Peterson
Jim O'Hare
Dave Westerberg
ED Dobrasz
Harold Stolpe
Henry Strafuss
Rexall
People’s Drug
Opal Douglas
Harry Kito
First Concert of Music Trail September 26
Alaska Music Trail opens its four concert season with a chamber trio featuring Maxim Schapiro Luigi Silva and Bela Urban performing in the high school auditorium on Friday September 26. Ticket pricing ranges from 30 cents for young children to 12 dollars for reserved season seats with season tickets 750 dollars for four concerts.
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Alaska Music Trail
Maxim Schapiro
Luigi Silva
Bela Urban
Schapiro
Silva
Greig
Freda Larson
Petersburg Welcomes New Faculty for 1952 53
Petersburg prepares for the 1952 53 school year with one new teacher for the high school and several shifts in elementary grades. Opening Sept 8, high school classes start with shortened periods while elementary rooms gain new chalkboards seating and pastel wall shades.
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Petersburg
John Hayward
Hayward
LeRoy Lund
L.R. McDonald
Kenneth
Carl Thynes
Doris Tianen
Seattle Visitors to Be Guests at C. C. Dinner
The regular Chamber of Commerce meeting is postponed to Saturday August 30 for a special session. A Seattle Chamber of Commerce delegation arrives that day and departs the next. A 6 30 dinner at the Recreation follows discussions on mutual interests. Reservations by August 28 with Elvina Stedman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Elvina Stedman
Chadwick Outlines Alaska Visitors Association to C of C
Jim Chadwick touring for the Alaska Visitors Association spoke to the Chamber of Commerce about AVA history aims and plans. He stressed the non political nature though funded partly by a legislative appropriation and noted AVA is led by Ed Coffee of Anchorage with George Sundborg praised for help. The AVA’s budget relies on the 40 000 state appropriation plus matching local funds, and advertising last year in Time Newsweek New York Times Sunset drew 25 000 inquiries. An AVA rep will attend a travel agents convention in October to promote tourism, possibly yielding lasting Alaska benefits.
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Chamber of Commerce
Alaska Visitors Association
Jim Chadwick
Alaska
AVA
George Sundborg
Alaska Development Board
Ed Coffee
Anchorage
Chadwick Peis Se
Seattle Chamber, of Commerce Lifeline Committee
Store Owner Mabel Faber Plans Minneapolis Trip
Mrs. Mabel Faber and her two daughters fly southbound this week toward Minneapolis to visit her ill mother and to shop for Dora Mae's shop in the Minneapolis Duluth St Paul area. She will also buy on the west coast before returning in four to six weeks.
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Mabel Faber
Minneapolis
Salmon Pack For Last Week In Southeast Alaska
The U S Fish and Wildlife Service in Juneau reports the week ending Aug 16 total Southeast Alaska salmon pack at 634 931 cases, down from 916 689 last year. Wrangell Peters burg totals 109 431 vs 166 439 in 1951, with Ketchikan 237 158 West Coast 62 573 Eastern 82 726 Western 128 746 Ice Strait 37 476 and Yakutat 6 821.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Juneau
Southeast Alaska
Wrangell-Petersburg
Alaska
Ketchikan
West Coast
Eastern
Ice Strait
Yakutat
Church Outing Set to Begin Tuesday
The Lutheran church outing for boys and girls ages eight to 14 will start Tuesday, August 26, weather permitting. Registrations remain open via Pastor John Hopp. Attendees meet at the church at 9 a.m. with sleeping bags and clothing. A large skiff is needed and loan offers should go to Pastor Hopp. Mrs. Hopp and Mrs. Kohler will lead the girls. Pastor Hopp leads the boys. A tent is provided for assembly.
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Lutheran Church
John Hopp
Hopp
Rain Backups Water Supply as Dam Nears Completion
A heavy rain week improved fishing and pleased city water users after a period of low pressure and smell from taps. The new water dam by contractor Joe Lundberg is near completion, likely next month, promising relief. The CAA weather station logged 3.27 inches over Sunday and Monday.
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Joe Lundberg
CAA
U.S. Marshals Sid Thompson and Ralph Smith in town
Sid Thompson a U.S. Marshal from Juneau arrived in town on official business. Deputy U.S. Marshal Ralph Smith is on temporary leave and spending time fishing.
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Sid Thompson
Juneau
Ralph Smith
U.S
Town approves purchase of two Jeep pumpers
Town council authorized buying two Jeep pumpers for the fire department under Civil Defense Act terms. The $5,500 units would be funded 15 percent by the town, 15 percent by territory funds, and 70 percent by the federal government. Requisition will proceed.
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Theerritory
Wrangell
Elder Lee
Lloyd
Garden Club Fair a Seattle Visit Ties Date
The annual Garden Club fair date moved to align with a Seattle Chamber of Commerce delegation visit. Aug. 29 and 30 at the American Legion Dugout. Proceeds fund beautification of Peters burg hospital grounds and cemetery. Plant sale and white elephant sale welcome donations from members and nonmembers alike.
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Seattle Chamber of Commerce
American Legion
Garden Club
Petersburg
Vi Reynolds
Hospital Guild Plans Fundraising Sales for New Hospital
Members of the Hospital Guild propose a continuing fundraising project to finance a proposed new hospital. They plan regular sales, weekly if possible, featuring used furniture, home furnishings, and other good articles unwanted by one household but useful to another.
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Hospital Guild
Red can returns to correct position at Public Dock
Residents asked why the red buoy bobbed near the Public Dock during a recent high tide. Ed Hope of the Coast Guard explained the buoy was bounced from its Narrows position by swift currents and has been restored to its rightful location opposite the Erick Ness house.
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Erick Ness
Ed Hope
Coast Guard
Mink farmers seek help as Alaska vet arrives in Petersburg
An Alaska governor appeal brings Fred Honsinger, a Juneau veterinarian, to Petersburg to assist local mink farmers. He collects samples for lab tests in Juneau and consults with Fisheries lab in Ketchikan on diet and potential deficiencies. Large losses among young stock are concentrated in West Petersburg, with few deaths at the Experimental Fur Farm and Bud Petersons mink.
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Gruening
E.N. Ohmer
Petersburg
West Petersburg
Ohmer
Fred Honsinger
Juneau
Ketchikan
Honsinger
Bud Peterson
Diesel Plant Maintains Town Power After Pipe Washout
The diesel plant has supplied the town’s electricity since shortly before noon Thursday when a steel pipe washed out between the dam and the plant. J L MacKechnie and Donald were on duty. Don MacKechnie flew out to handle the emergency as workers rebuilt and anchored the damaged section by nightfall.
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J.L. MacKechnie
Webster Cooks
Donald
Slough
Don MacKechnie
New Rumors About Aluminum Plant
Anchorage reports rising Skagway property values linked to rumors of a multi million dollar aluminum plant project. Aluminum Company of America holds waterfront rights since 1948 but would not comment. Washington calls the project a paper effort.
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Anchorage
Skagway
Auminum Company of America
Anchorage Times
Washington, D.C
Defense Power Administration
Weather summary for the week with temps and rainfall
The period shows a high of 66 and a low of 40 with 6.20 inches of rain at the CAA station. In 1951 the high reached 63 and the low 43 with 1.52 inches of precipitation recorded.
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CAA
City council sets 1952 tax levy and revises few valuations
City officials finished equalization hearings and set the 1952 tax levy at 12 mills on city property and 12 mills on boats or $4 a ton. Valuations for one home and one business were reduced, others upheld. Home taxes rise about 20 percent. business taxes slightly lower. The council also heard hospital plans totaling $132,000 with $5,500 architect fees and approved preliminary engineering payments to Toner totaling $3,000 monthly from Oct. 1952 to June 1953.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ragnar Stokke
Willmer Dines
Jim Taylor
Felix Toner
Toner
Petersburg
Fishing improves despite elusive rain impact
Fishing reports show mixed gains across operations this week. Scow Bay cannery and Kaylor-Dahl had strong Thursday days while Pacific American Fisheries notes partial improvement with half trap fish. Libby reports only fair results with north coast catches increasing. season closes 6 p.m. Saturday and reopens 6 a.m. Monday.
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Scow Bay
A.L. Rogers
Pacific American Fisheries
Libby
Kaylor-Dahl
Truman Denies Washington Mess In Press Conference
President Truman said he knows nothing of a mess in Washington despite Adlai Stevenson s claim in a letter to the Portland Oregon Journal. He replied no comment when asked if satisfied with Stevenson and Sparkman campaign moves and noted Secret Service are always right regarding Margaret Thuman’s tour photographers.
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Washington
Truman
Adlai Stevenson
Portland
Stevenson
Sparkman
Margaret Thuman
Secret Service
Deer Reported After Opening Hunting Season
First deer of the season was brought in by Jim Taylor and A P Wasvick on Thursday after a trip down Dun dan Canal. The report notes this as the season's initial entry.
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Jim Taylor
A.P. Wasvick
Dundan Canal Way
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Music Trail
Seattle
C. C
Chadwick
C. of Commerce
D.C
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