Digital Bob Archive

2 January 1981 issue

SEPTEMBER 5, 1923-A total of 170 pupils were enrolled in the grades and high school at the opening session of the Douglas school yesterday. Of the total, 36 are in the high school.

DECEMBER 18, 1923-Fire early this morning destroyed the old Heidelberg Saloon building on Front Street, wiping out three businesses and resulting in a loss of approximately $17,300. The fire started in the kitchen of the Old U & I Cafe and that business as well as the Palace of Sweets and John O?Brien?s barber shop were lost. Both the Boston Store and the Juneau Hardware store were threatened but were saved. (Note: This was the site of the present Blomgren Building.)

NOVEMBER 11, 1943-Mrs. Lu Laughlin has been elected to head the Rebecca Lodge for the coming year, succeeding Mrs. Peggy McIvor as Noble Grand. Mrs. Kay Halm was elected Vice Grant; Mrs. Isabell Jorgenson was named Secretary and Mrs. Katherine Benedict is the new Treasurer.

JULY 16, 1945-The new 6000-ton cruiser U. S. S. Juneau slid down the ways at Kearney, New Jersey, yesterday and was christened by Mrs. E. L. Bartlett, wife of the Delegate in Congress from Alaska. This is the second vessel in the U. S. Navy to bear the name of Alaska?s capital city.

AUGUST 28, 1945-A memorial library to be erected in Juneau as a tribute tot he veterans of World War II heads the list of Rotary Club projects for the coming year it was announced today by Rotary President Herbert Hillerman.

MAY 24, 1947-In the second game of the 1947 Gastineau Channel baseball season the American Legion defeated the Moose by a 9 to 4 score. Playing for the Moose were Moore, Metcalf, Magorty, Perkins, Pasquan, Forsythe, Hollman, Garcia, Hollander, Floberg, Harvey, Dean, Muller, McClelland and Haas. On the Legion team were E. Nielsen, J. Nielsen, Rosenberg, Ferraro, Gaunt, Halloway, Cope, Rollinson, Jensen, McDaniels and Mierzjewski.

JUNE 27, 1947-The Corps of Engineers dock, formerly known as the Subport dock, the Government dock, and by many other titles, is now operating 13 tugs and 40 barges out of Juneau. James W. Huston, the Resident Engineer, reports that the Engineers have purchased and transported more than 260 million board feet of lumber from Southeastern Alaska to various Alaska and South Pacific bases. The Corps of Engineers now employs about 250 men in Juneau.

MAY 4, 1948-Ed Garnick of Juneau has been appointed deputy Commissioner of the Territorial Department of Labor, succeeding Leonard Evans. The latter was recently appointed Alaska representative of the U. S. Department of Labor. He succeeded Michael J. Haas who resigned last October.

JUNE 10, 1948-Dade Nickel, coach of Sterling High School in Colorado for the past two years, has been named physical education instructor and basketball coach for the Juneau High School for 1948-49, it was announced today. He will arrive early in September.

JUNE 23, 1948-Former Alaska Governor George A. Parks today announced his retirement as Regional Cadastral Engineer of the U. S. Public Survey Office in Juneau. He has held the position since 1934. Parks came north as a mining engineer in Yukon Territory in 1907 and joined the U. S. General Land Office in Alaska two years later. He served as governor from 1925 until 1933.

JANUARY 1, 1949-Phillip Read Bradley, 73, died at his home in Berkeley, California, yesterday, according to word received here by J. A. Williams, General Manager of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company. Bradley was chairman of the Board of Directors of the company. He first came to Gastineau Channel in 1914 as General Superintendent of the Treadwell Gold Mining Company and the following year also became General Superintendent of the Alaska Juneau, which was then under development. He remained in that capacity until 1922.

FEBRUARY 16, 1949-Attorney General elect J. Gerald Williams will be joined here this spring by a young attorney who has been associated with him in this Anchorage law firm since last September. Attorney John Dimond will come here when Williams takes office on April 1 to serve as assistant Attorney General. Dimond, the son of Judge Anthony J. Dimond of the Third District Court, received his law degree in the spring of 1948 and passed the Alaska bar examination last summer.

MARCH 7, 1950-?Floating? libraries will soon be established in Southeastern Alaska by Sears, Roebuck & Company and will be stocked with 2,000 books as a starter. B. Frank Heintzleman, Regional Forester, has been instrumental in getting Sears to participate in the project, which will be co-sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of Juneau and Ketchikan. The books will be placed in villages around the Panhandle, and later picked up again by boats of the Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, mission boats and mail boats. The Initial book selection will be made by Mrs. Edna Lomen, Juneau city librarian; Martin Holm of the Alaska Native Service and Dr. Dorothy Novatney, deputy Commissioner of Education.