Digital Bob Archive

19 June 1981 issue

JANUARY 13, 1902-There was a terrific landslide up in Last Chance Basin this morning about 8 o?clock. The noise attracted the attention of a large number of people and they could see huge trees turning topsy-turvey and a great avalanche of earth and rock rushing toward the valley. About half and hour later another immense body of Mount Juneau broke loose and crashed down into Gold Creek. The point at which the slide occurred is known as Shady Bend. The flume of the Last Chance Gold Mining Company was demolished for several hundred feet and the road at the foot of the mountain is as if it has never been.

OCTOBER 10, 1945-Following 26 years of continuous service as United States Marine Inspector, Lieut.-Commander John A. Newmarker, USCGR, has stepped out as head of the marine inspection office here and onto the retired list. ?Chief? Newmarker, as he is more generally known, reached mandatory retirement age of 70 on September 26. He joined the former Marine Inspection Service at Seattle soon after the end of World War I and was assigned to Alaska where he has been ever since.

NOVEMBER 6, 1945-Juneau retail sales people met last evening to reform their union into a new local. Officers of the new local are Esther Jokola, president; Andrew Robinson, financial secretary; and Anna Murphy, recording secretary.

NOVEMBER 7, 1945-The Juneau Townsend Club met last night at the CIO Hall to elect new officers for the coming year. G. E. Almquist was elected president for the fifth consecutive term. Others are C. E. Boyer, first vice president; Mrs. Almquist, second vice president; Mrs. R. L. Nunamaker, secretary. Members of the Council are Carl C. Collen, L. R. Nunamaker, Robert Burns, Mrs. Emma Smith, A. B. Cain, Jack Wilson, Mrs. Carl Collen and A. J. Goodman. The club was named for Dr. Francis Townsend, originator of the Townsend Pension Plan.

NOVEMBER 7, 1945-The Territorial Museum has obtained a replica of the famous Sukheen of ?Rain Wall? screen which is in the Whale House at Klukwan. The original was regarded by the late George T. Emmons, an authority on Native art, as the finest screen in Alaska. The replica measures 12 by 21 feet and stood at the rear of an Indian community house, partitioning off the chief?s quarters. It has been purchased by the Museum.

NOVEMBER 13, 1945-Lieutenant John Dimond, son of Judge and Mrs. Anthony J. Dimond of Anchorage, arrived by Pan American Airways enroute home for his first visit in three and a half years. Now on terminal leave from the Army, he spent more than two years in the South Pacific with the American Division, with battle service in the Solomons and Phillipines.

SEPTEMBER 3, 1945-Striking for a 25 percent pay raise, the Bartender?s Union yesterday threw picket lines around nine bars and two hotels in the Juneau area. Strikebound over the Labor Day holiday were the Baranof Hotel, Alaskan Hotel, Corbett?s, Triangle, Midget, Arctic, Capitol, Victory and Dreamland bars in Juneau and Mike?s and the Oasis in Douglas. A contract under which bartenders were paid $12 a shift expired on August 31. A new contract calling for $15 a shift was announced on August 16 but has not gone into effect.

SEPTEMBER 24, 1946-The Juneau Elks Lodge has become sponsor for Juneau?s first Sea Scout Ship, to be formed under the local Boy Scout Council organization. It will be open to boys from 15 to 17 and the unit will be assigned a 38-foot Coast Guard harbor picket boat. Cash Cole is chairman of the Elks committee with C. L. Wingerson, Gene Vuille and Robert Boochever as members.

OCTOBER 19, 1946-City ownership of the electric utility system here came a step closer last night when the City Council, by a 5-0 vote, accepted the proposal of Alaska Electric Light and Power Company giving the City of Juneau an option until April 1, 1947, to buy out the company?s utility holdings for $900,000.