Digital Bob Archive

9 March 1979 issue

JULY 14, 1934-Yesterday afternoon the seven-place Fairchild seaplane recently purchased by Alaska Southern Airways arrived here to take its place in the company fleet. It was brought north by Pilot Frank Knight. The company is now operating out of Juneau, Ketchikan and Cordova.

JULY 26, 1938-John D. Coffman, Chief Forester of the National Park Service is in Juneau, and while he says there has been no definite plan formed by the Park Service to make Admiralty Island into a national park, he will look over the island to ascertain the facts about it. Regional Forester B. Frank Heintzleman of the Forest Service, and R. F. Bessey, a representative of the National Resource Committee, will accompany Coffman on the inspection trip to Admiralty Island. While in Alaska Coffman will also visit Glacier Bay National Monument and Mt. McKinley National Park.

AUGUST 17, 1938-After two summers of travel in Alaska by boat, plane and afoot, Joe Yolo has completed several thousand feet of film of wildlife and is heading south. He has done the filming for the Forest Service and the Alaska Game Commission as it is expected that at least three movie shorts will result.

MAY 6, 1939-The City Council last night instructed Police Chief Dan Ralston and Magistrate Grover C. Winn to enforce an ordinance forbidding obstructions of sidewalks. Drug stores will have to take in protruding magazine racks and groceries must remove sidewalk produce displays. There have been many complaints on encroachments on already narrow sidewalks.

APRIL 2, 1932-The Juneau employment situation will considerably improve next week when 100 workers will be hired by the Juneau Lumber Mills. This number of men will be required to do common labor at the mill. No outside labor is being brought in, according to Roy Rutherford, president and manager. There is an ample supply of logs on hand to start the season.

MAY 27, 1932-The home of Elton E. Engstrom in Douglas was badly damaged by fire this morning and Mrs. Engstrom was severely burned. Mr. Engstrom, who buys fish at the Juneau Cold Storage, left Douglas on the 8:30 ferry. Mrs. Engstrom was asleep when he left the house. She woke to find the house enveloped in flames and before she could escape she received burns on the back, arms and shoulders. Mrs. Engstrom is a teacher in the Douglas High School.

JULY 11, 1934-The motorship Dart has completed its first mail trip to Windham Bay, Petersburg, Kake and way ports, replacing the motorship Pacific on that run. The Dart is owned and skippered by Captain Maurice C. Reaber. The mail contract is held by Swanson Bros. of Juneau who sublet it to Captain Reaber.

JULY 21, 1934-H. L. Faulkner, Juneau attorney, has announced that on August 1, Norman Banfield will become associated with him as assistant while he studies to pass the bar examinations. Banfield is resigning from the Weather Bureau with which he has been associated for five years. He has been in Juneau since 1931 as assistant to R. C. Mize. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin where he majored in foreign and domestic commerce.

FEBRUARY 15, 1935-With 22 delegates present, the 27th annual joint session of the Grand Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska, and Pioneer Auxiliary, was opened yesterday afternoon at the Odd Fellows Hall. Juneau delegates are Dean C. E. Rice, Lockie MacKinnon, William A. Hesse, Mrs. Anna E. Snow and Gertrude Laughlin.

JULY 20, 1938-Eighteen girls and 35 boys passed through Juneau yesterday with George Buchanan on the 16th annual tour of ?On to Alaska with Buchanan, Inc.? The group goes to Skagway on the Princess Charlotte, then by train and lake steamer to Ben Machree.

Under the program established by Mr. Buchanan, a Detroit businessman, boys and girls who make the trip must pay one third of the expenses from their own earnings. Another third is paid by the parents while Buchanan pays the other third.

MAY 7, 1914-C. W. Carter, manager of the Young Tigers baseball team of the C. W. Young Company, is trying to arrange a game with Skagway at that city in the event the Tigers made the trip to Whitehorse for the annual Queen?s Birthday celebration.

OCTOBER 12, 1914-Goldstein?s Emporium, Juneau latest department store, opened its doors this morning on the lower floors of the new Goldstein Building at the corner of Second and Seward Streets. There will be a formal opening and dedication of the store on October 26 from 8 to 10 p.m., with a musical program including violin selections by Willis E. Nowell. Special ferries will be arranged to run from Douglas and return there after the program, with no charge on any of the special ferry trips.

JUNE 9, 1917-Racing both to beat a previous record and to catch the eastbound train at Prince Rupert, the steamer Prince Rupert of the Grand Trunk Pacific Line arrived here yesterday morning from Skagway, four hours and 20 minutes, dock to dock. The ship had been delayed leaving Skagway by the late arrival of the train from Whitehorse.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1917-Captain William Strong and his river boat Cassiar, with several Juneau businessmen aboard, last night returned from the experimental trip up the Taku River. The object of the trip was to develop a trade with Atlin and the boat reached a point near the mouth of the Inklin River, just 43 miles from Atlin. The Cassiar is 65 feet long with 18 feet of beam and draws a foot of water when light. This is said to be the first trip to the upper waters of the Taku by a vessel of this size.

APRIL 21, 1920-Construction of a new salmon cannery on Willoughby Avenue will be started at once, Thomas Knudsen announced today. It will be known as the Juneau Packing Company and will be a one line cannery. The cannery will adjoin the Femmer and Ritter dock and will be managed by J. L. Scanlon.

JUNE 13, 1929-Miss Eva Yurman has joined her father, H. J. Yurman, Juneau furrier, in his new shop on Front Street. Miss Yurman will assist in the manufacture of fur garments. She recently returned from Seattle where she worked in the fur department of the Hudson?s Bay Company.

MARCH 14, 1931-An extension of Alaska Juneau Gold Mine holdings through an option on two large groups of mining claims in the Gold Creek Valley was revealed today by L. H. Metzgar, general superintendent of the company. The options cover the Hallum and Dora groups of claims which adjoin the Ebner property on the west and are controlled by the Hallum family. The Ebner property is now controlled by the Alaska Juneau under a working agreement with the United States Smelting and Refining Company.

MAY 17, 1931-The number of automobiles on Douglas Island has increased nearly 100 per cent during the past year and the Douglas City Council will adopt traffic regulations for the town in the near future. The licensing of drivers will be a part of the proposal regulations.