Digital Bob Archive

7 November 1980 issue

APRIL 25, 1922-A special freight rate granted by the Alaska Steamship Company will enable the Alaska Pulp & Paper Company to resume operations at its Speel River plant, according to manager W. P. Lass. The plant first started up early last year but closed because of a poor market and high freight costs. Allen Shattuck and E. R. Jarger of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce recently discussed the problem with the officials of the Alaska Steamship Company, with a result that the company has granted a special rate of $3 a ton for pulp from the Speel River to Puget Sound. This is exactly half the previous rate charged by all transportation companies running to Alaska.

MAY 9, 1922-The Juneau High School debate team won the final debate in the Southeastern Alaska interschool meet here to chalk up 39 points in the literary category. This added to 30 points in the athletic category made Juneau the winner with 69 points. Runner-up was Douglas with 39 points. Other schools taking part and their point scores were Wrangell, 32; Ketchikan, 21 and Haines, 6. On the Juneau debate team were Margurite Bone, Legia Kashevaroff and Robert Waggoner. On the Wrangell team were Elton Engstrom, Oliver Johnson and John Coulter. Juneau had previously won over Douglas in debate and against Ketchikan in basketball, and had scored heavily in spelling, rapid calculations, written English and track events.

MAY 15, 1922-Snowslide Gulch in Last Chance Basin made a record for itself in annual snowslides this morning. According to old-timers, the slide that came down the gulch at 9 o?clock this morning was the biggest they have ever seen. It filled Gold Creek to within 150 feet of Alaska Juneau bunkhouse, piling up behind the old Ebner mine dam to a depth of 50 feet. Gold Creek was dammed behind the snow but broke thought about two hours later with a tremendous roar and carried logs, a small cabin and other debris downstream to the channel. Water in the creek raised about four feet as it passed through the Casey-Shattuck addition.

JULY 10, 1923-The Goldstein Glacier Fur Farms, Inc. has been incorporated here and has purchased a 135-acre homestead near the Mendenhall River from Pete Carlson for a base of operations. The company plans to raise both blue and silver foxes, mink and marten. Directors are Charles Goldstein, Emil Gastonguay, B. A. Roselle, W. W. Casey and Marion Goldstein. Other stockholders include B. M. Behrends, Theodore Heyder, Ben Williams, James Drake, L. B. Adsit and Elmer E. Smith.

JUNE 12, 1923-The Alaska Steamship Company?s new passenger steamer Alaska arrived at noon today with flags flying on her maiden voyage. She is in command of Captain J.G. Nord and was launched at Tacoma on April 19. She was sponsored at the launching by Miss Francis Nowell, daughter of the company?s Juneau agent.

JULY 17, 1923-Ralph G. Mize of Portland, Oregon, has been named to succeed M. B. Summers as meteorologist in charge of the local Weather Bureau station and head of the Bureau?s climatological work in Alaska. He will arrive in Juneau the middle of August. Mr. Summers and family will leave on August 23 after having spent six and a half years in Juneau.

JULY 19, 1923-Joseph Kendler, owner of the Douglas Dairy, yesterday purchased the dairy business and ranch of Thomas Knudson. The business is known as the Alaska Dairy. The ranch consists of about 300 acres of land about nine miles from town on the Glacier Highway. Kendler will move his Douglas herd to the new location for the summer but will winter enough cows at Douglas to take care of his milk customers here.

DECEMBER 15, 1936-The George Gullufson home of West 10th street was swept by fire about 7:30 this morning but Mr. and Mrs. Gullufson and their three children escaped the flames without injuries. The house is considered a total loss.

JANUARY 8, 1946-Joseph Werner, regional Accountant and Auditor for the U. S. Forest Service here, is leaving that agency to join John G. Young and Joe McLean in an insurance and accounting business. The firm will be known as the Young, McLean, Werner Agency.

JANUARY 9, 1946-Dean Williams, prominent member of the Juneau Ski Club and a ski instructor, has taken over the operation of Bert Caro?s Ski Shop at Second and Gold Streets.

MARCH 7, 1947-Mrs. Henry Harmon is the new president of the Alaska Potters, succeeding Mrs. Curtis Shattuck. Mrs. Jack Fletcher is vice president, Mrs. Olaf Petersen is secretary and Mrs. David Wise is treasurer.

JANUARY 2, 1948-The Oasis Cocktail Lounge and retail in Douglas closed at midnight on December 31 as it was not issued a 1948 license.

APRIL 11, 1949-All officers of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department were re-elected at the monthly meeting last night. A. Minard Mill is chief, William Neiderhauser is assistant chief, and John Morrison is secretary. Joseph R. Werner, former fireman, was approved as president of the Channel Baseball League. Walter Andrews was chosen umpire-in-chief. M. P. Mullaney, who headed the league last year, gave a talk on the operation of the league and the method of assigning players to various teams.

JANUARY 3, 1950-A. F. Ghiglione has been named Chief Engineer of the Alaska Road Commission, effective February 1 when Ike Taylor, who now holds the position, resigns. Ghiglione first came to Alaska in 1929 while still attending college. In the 1930?s he was Resident during the construction of the Juneau-Douglas bridge.