Digital Bob Archive

4 May 1979 issue

CORRECTION: The date of the final item in the column of April 27 should have been March 23 instead of May 23. The halibut season in 1938 opened on April 1.

JANUARY 23, 1917-The heavy fall of snow during the past two days has brought out the snow ploughs in Douglas. A V-shaped horse-drawn plough is working on the streets, while at Treadwell a big iron shovel, recently built at the mine shops, is being drawn by a locomotive to clear the tracks. This is said to save the labor of 50 to 100 men around the mine yards.

MAY 18, 1918-Work on construction of the salmon cannery buildings on Willoughby Avenue was started yesterday. The main cannery building will be 24 by 100 feet and the plant will have a pack capacity of 25,000 cases. W. A. Estus and J. T. Hansen, who operated a cannery last year at Bangor, Washington, are in charge of the work. Tenders for the cannery will be the Diana, Kitty W. and Noisy Bill.

JULY 23, 1920-The large building just off Third Street in Douglas and just north of the bridge, known as Murray?s Flats, is rapidly being torn down by its owner, Abner Murray. He will load the material aboard several scows which will be towed to Sitka where the building will be set up again.

MARCH 6, 1924-The Douglas High School basketball team, accompanied by Superintendent Foster, returned from Seattle last evening. While on the trip they played nine games and won five of them. They won from Bremerton, 42-17; Bellingham 15-7; Bellevue, 19-6; Snohomish, 30-28; and Ketchikan, 37-14. They lost to the University of Washington freshmen, 21-29; Renton, 13-24; Mount Vernon, 20-23, and Seattle College, 18-38.

OCTOBER 2, 1924-The two line Tee Harbor salmon cannery and 20,000 cases of this season?s pack were destroyed by fire last night with an estimated loss of $400,000. The entire plant, including the mess house, living quarters and all other buildings except the radio building were destroyed. The cannery was owned by Alaska Pacific Fisheries, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 1930-?I am absolutely certain the Messrs. George T. Cameron and Harry Chandler will go ahead with their program to construct a pulp and paper mill near Juneau despite poor market conditions.? This was the statement of Territorial Attorney General John Rustgard today upon his return home from San Francisco.

JULY 14, 1931-The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company mined and trammed to the mill 342,440 tons of ore in June. Operating costs averaged 50.66 cents a ton and the recovery value was 95.06 cents a ton. Gold recovery amounted to $325,000 and silver recovery to $500.

OCTOBER 2, 1931-Effective yesterday, the headquarters office of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations was moved from Sitka to Juneau. The agency has been assigned office space in the new Federal and Territorial Building. Personnel involved in the move include H. W. Alberts, director; Eiler Hansen, Administrative officer, and Mabel Koenigs, clerk.

DECEMBER 7, 1931-Juneau was rocked early Sunday morning when there was a loud road and the ground shook ? but it was not an earthquake. It was the result of what is said to have been ?the biggest shot ever? set off by the Alaska Juneau mine. Eight hundred boxes, 40,000 pounds, of giant powder were set off at the foot of a 400 foot cliff on the back side of Mount Roberts. It is estimated that 750,000 tons of rock were brought down by the blast.

MAY 21, 1932-The Popular Cafe opened for business this week in the Winn Building on Seward Street. It is operated by Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bingham, formerly of Hyder, and they promise day and night service.

OCTOBER 26, 1932-Arrangements have been completed for opening a roller skating rink on the third floor of the Arctic Brotherhood Hall on Third Street, just west of Main. The rink will be open days and evenings. Gus Gustafson is the manager. A $1600 combined player piano and xylophone has been ordered and will provide music for the rink.

JULY 31, 1934-At a meeting at the Alaska Troller?s Association at the Labor Temple yesterday, Sigmund Einstoss, head of the Atlantic & Pacific Packing Company, presented an offer to handle all salmon produced by ATA members. A cooperative marketing association will be organized and Einstoss will act as commission agent. About 450 trollers in Southeastern Alaska reportedly have signed up and of the 28 Juneau trollers who attended the meeting, 25 signed the agreement.

AUGUST 10, 1934-A. B. Phillips, newly elected Superintendent of Public Schools, Mrs. Phillips and their son Robert arrived on the Yukon to make their home here and prepare for the opening of school next month. Phillips succeeds R. S. Raven who resigned to accept a position at Marysville, Wash. Mr. Phillips is in Juneau for the first time since 1920 when he was manual training instructor and athletic coach for the Juneau High School. They have taken the John Reck house on Calhoun Avenue.

MAY 31, 1935-Juneau?s new radio broadcast station, KINY, will go on the air at 7:30 this evening with a special program featuring talks by Mayor I. Goldstein of Juneau and Mayor Albert Goetz of Douglas and by officers of both the Juneau and Territorial Chambers of Commerce. Broadcast hours will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. daily. The station, of which C. B. Arnold is manager, will transmit on 1310 KC. E. B. Kraft of Seattle is owner of the station, which was installed by his brother V. I. Kraft. Miss Louise Kolitsch is program director and Ross W. Swift and Howard W. Mills are the announcers. The studio and transmitter are on the top floor of the Goldstein Building.