Digital Bob Archive

28 December 1979 issue

JULY 30, 1915-Work started this morning on a tunnel to tap the ore body on the Yellow Dome claim situated not far from the Hallum cabin, half way up Mount Juneau. The tunnel work is in charge of John Perelle and 10 men are at work. It will be hand drilled.

FEBRUARY 4, 1927-A modern cold storage plant costing a quarter million dollars is assured for Juneau, Wallis S. George announced today. He has spent the past several months arranging financing for the new plant. It will be located on property recently acquired from the Alaska Steamship Company and others, with 210 feet of water frontage at the south end of the Admiral Line dock and 125 feet on Front Street where the Enterprise Foundry formerly stood. It will thus be just a short distance north of the present cold storage plant. Work will begin in April on the first unit of construction, George said. He has been with the present Juneau Cold Storage Co. for 8 years.

The old company will be merged with the new Juneau Cold Storage Co. The old company was started by Oliver Drange, present cold storage manager, with Ole Oreson as a fish buying business. It was first opened on the old Pacific Coast dock at the foot of Main Street. That firm merged with the present Juneau Cold Storage which was incorporated in April, 1913, by Oliver Drange, J. F. Malony, Ole Oreson and Martin Holst. The present plant was erected on City Wharf property, leased from the city for 25 years. The present plant is inadequate for local needs.

APRIL 30, 1927-A brush and grass fire broke our yesterday afternoon on Friends Hill at Second and Harris Streets. The Juneau Volunteer Fire Department responded quickly and extinguished the blaze before it could harm any of the dwellings on the hillside.

MARCH 20, 1934-Combining his stocks of meats, groceries and general merchandise in one room, Mike Pusich, proprietor of The Hub in Douglas, has been busy getting moved into the main store building on Front Street.

MARCH 27, 1934-Fire which started this morning in Bing?s Cafe in the Winn Building for a time menaced the entire structure but was quelled by the Juneau Fire Department. The building, formerly known as the Opera House, is owned by Mrs. Anna Winn and stands at Second and Seward Streets.

JULY 1, 1935-A new radio station for Pacific Alaska Airlines, a subsidiary of Pan American, has been established on Canyon Island in the Taku River, according to R. J. Gleason, acting Superintendent of Communications for the company. The equipment has been moved to the island from the Mary Joyce lodge.

AUGUST 15, 1935-Dr. W. M. Whitehead has arrived from Wrangell to establish a permanent residence and take over the professional practice of Dr. W. J. B. McAuliffe. He was accompanied by Mrs. Whitehead, the former Dorothy Johnson of Wrangell.

OCTOBER 7, 1935-Artist Rockwell Kent arrived from Fairbanks on the PAA Electra yesterday after spending 10 days in various parts of northern Alaska. The primary purpose of the visit was to gather material to be used in murals in the new Post Office Building in Washington D.C. The murals are to represent the varied methods of mail transportation and one large painting will be devoted to mail transportation in the Arctic. During his trip to Nome, Kent said he saw mail being transferred from an airplane to a dog sled and he sketched the scene for use in the Arctic mural.

JULY 17, 1937-The U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Haida arrived from the south yesterday to assume a permanent station here for the coming year. Commander John Trebes brought the Haida into port but will soon be replaced by Lt. Commander Noble G. Ricketts when the Tallapoosa arrives from the Westward. The Haida was previously here in 1921 and Commander Trebes was on board then.

APRIL 5, 1939-In yesterday?s city election, Mayor H. I. Lucas, heading the People?s Ticket was reelected with 678 votes out of the 1,534 cast. Defeated were G. Emil Krause on the Progressive Ticket and Cash Cole and E. J. Krause, Independents. Elected to the City Council were E. J. ?Kelly? Blake and Elroy Ninnis from the People?s Ticket and Henry Messerschmidt from the Progressive Ticket. R. E. Robertson received 775 votes for the School board position to 610 for R. R. Hermann.

JUNE 12, 1940-More than 200 children were on hand at Evergreen Bowl yesterday for the initial opening of the wading pool. Other facilities, including the horseshoe courts, will soon be completed and several softball games have already been played in the bowl.

AUGUST 14, 1940-The new $18,000 Bureau of Fisheries research boat Heron arrived in Juneau last night for the first time. The 58-foot double ender is powered with a 135-horsepower diesel engine and was designed by Ed Monk of Seattle, where she was launched on July 2. She came north by way of Little Port Walter of Baranof Island where the new fish laboratory building, built by Civilian Conservation Corps labor last summer and winter, is now being finished.

JANUARY 16, 1941-Jerry McKinley is busy preparing new quarters for his Electric Service Shop on Seward Street next to Bert?s Cash Grocery. He plans to open the shop in a few days.

APRIL 2, 1941-Feathers now flying over Alaska in the tails of bald eagles will soon be flying over Germany in the hats of the American Eagle Squadron of the Royal Air Force. A single eagle feather in the flying helmet has been adopted by the American fliers with the RAF as the official Eagle Squadron insignia. An appeal for a supply of eagle feathers has been sent to the local agent of the Office of Indian Affairs.