Digital Bob Archive

15 February 1980 issue

FEBRUARY 27, 1918-M. Michael and George Courey, owners of The Fair and the Boston Store, have secured a lease on the old Louvre Building on Front Street and will move the combined stock of the two stores to the new location. Carpenters are now busy converting the Lourve, formerly a theater and saloon, to mercantile use. (Note: The Louvre building is now the Stocker Building, housing among other things the Imperial Bar.)

APRIL 8, 1919-The U. S. S. Vicksburg, accompanied by the Submarine Chasers 309 and 310, arrived in Juneau today and will be headquartered here for the next several months. All three vessels are to engage in law enforcement work. The Vicksburg, built in 1896, is classed as a gunboat and has a 1,111 horsepower engine as well as sails. She is in charge of Lieut. Commander C. E. Reordan and carries 170 men. The subchasers each has three officers and 20 enlisted men.

APRIL 12, 1919-The City Council, at its meeting last night, named city officers for the coming year, as follows: City Clerk, A. B. Cole; Chief of Police, Nels Sorby; Fire Chief, Sim Freiman; City Treasurer, B. M. Behrends; City Attorney, H. H. Folsom; Assessor, A. A. Humphrey; Street Commissioner, E. M. Polley, Health Officer, Dr. L. O. Sloane.

APRIL 6, 1921-R. E. Robertson, running on the Citizen?s ticket, yesterday defeated Emery Valentine, on the Progressive ticket, for mayor of Juneau, the vote count standing at 484 to 468. Elected to the City Council for two years were George A. Getchell, Progressive; Rodman Robeson, Progressive; and O. J. Wicklander, Citizen?s. R. W. Keeny, Progressive, was elected to a one year term. Dr. H. C. DeVighne was elected School Board president. A total of 909 votes were cast out of 978 registered voters.

Douglas elected seven councilmen, one of whom will be chosen as mayor. The seven are James Christoe, E. Loomis, Frank Oliver, John Feusi, Otto Widemann, William Robertson and Guy Smith. L. W. Kilburn and Felix Gray were elected to the Douglas School Board.

AUGUST 26, 1926-The Auk Lake Loop bridge over the Mendenhall River will be opened to traffic on the 28th, according to M. D. Williams, assistant engineer of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. The entire loop will be opened to traffic at the same time although there is still much work to be done on some sections. The bridge is a 100-foot span, 16 feet wide, built on a Howe truss and completely housed with galvanized iron. It is believed that this is the only covered bridge in the Territory at present.

JULY 24, 1933-Roger Connor, 7, suffered a broken thigh at 4 p.m. today when he slipped and fell in front of a truck in front of the Federal and Territorial Building on Fourth Street. The street was being washed with fire houses and Roger and other children were in bathing suits, playing in the water. Roger stumbled when he tried to duck under one of the fire hoses that was being used.

FEBRUARY 7, 1934-The 1,750 feet of trail along the side of Mount Roberts above Gastineau Avenue and leading to the portal of the Alaska-Juneau Mine will be rebuilt by the Forest Service. Work will include three foot bridges and 65 by 100 feet of stairway, according to B. Frank Heitnzleman, Regional Forester. Work on the project will start within three or four days. It is said that more than 600 employees of the mine use the trail daily.

NOVEMBER 25, 1937-Jim Ellen, proprietor of Ellen?s Cash Grocery on Willoughby Avenue, was beaten over the head by two unidentified assailants last night but fought them off and they left the store without any part of the $1,500 in cash and checks he was carrying in his pocket.

FEBRUARY 28, 1941-The 14 passenger Pan American Lockheed Lodestar arrived at the PAA airport this afternoon on her maiden flight from Seattle to Juneau. The plane has a cruising speed of 239 miles an hour and made the trip from Seattle in five hours and five minutes. Captain S. E. Robbins was at the controls with Johnny Amundsen as first officer. The plane brought a large load of airmail, the first to arrive from Seattle by air since the company?s DC-3 was damaged in a windstorm on February 3.

APRIL 4, 1941-V. W. ?Penny? Mulvihill was last night elected Juneau Fire Chief for his seventh consecutive term. Others elected were William Neiderhauser, assistant chief; A. M. Mill and J. C. Johnston, foremen; John Morrison, secretary, and A. F. McKinnon, trustee.

JANUARY 1, 1942-Amos Burg, explorer and photographer, will bid farewell to Juneau tomorrow when he points the prow of his little ship, the Endeavor, toward Portland, Oregon. Burg has been in the Territory since early last summer. He filmed a motion picture for Vilhjalmur Stefansson and for the Smithsonian Institution, and made still photos for the Library of Congress and the National Geographic.

APRIL 15, 1942-A graduation exercise was held at the Juneau High School this afternoon, with only one student graduating. He is John Tanaka. Although he was born in Juneau and has attended school for 13 years with the same group of seniors, with whom he had expected to graduate next month, he is Japanese and thus must be evacuated with others of his family by April 20. That will be John?s 18th birthday.

FEBRUARY 6, 1943-B. H. Manery has resigned as Juneau?s Chief of Police effective on the 15th. He has been in city service for three years and chief for six months. John Monagle, assistant chief, has been named to the position. E. J. ?Kelly? Blake has been appointed by the City Council as driver for the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department to replace Holger Larsen who resigned to enter the Armed Forces.