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SEW INDUSTRY DEVELOPING—
Building a new industry in Alaska
two livestock corpo rations Lave 20U.
fcXi acres of grazing lands on the;
Aleutian Lslands, it is reported in
Fairbanks by A. C. Kinsley, agent,
for the Department of Interior. Mr
Kinsley has just returned from a
tour of inspection in the M estward
ILs job has been to investigate graz
ing leases for the department.
COMBERS SENT TO SITKA—
The navy department disclosed re
ntiv that six patrol planes and a
aval tender had been sent to Sitka
. ‘ make weather and aeroicgieal
s. rvations t'h i s winter.’ “Any
r ot to St: up a military base in
toe Sitka an. a might have repereus
: ns Li Tokyo,” aa official sail, “hut
. tpen would have no grounds fj>r
. . si objections.’' The planes are
i rtsge twin -motor bombsrs
..h a new :f five or six each. The
..... wet per Lapwing is their sur
uace .ender. The planes flew unan
_nt.d from Sea-Lie. Stressing that
kt. purpose of the establishment of
w.n.er bn.-e in Alaska was scienti
fic rather than military, a naval offi
cial it was in addition to-a smal- j
ler winter base already set up far—j
thtr west in the Aleutian Islands .
Six men were taken there this tall
by the cruiser Portland and they will
'.ay there-ail winter. They are ex
pected to make observations in the .
tppet air by m.-m of small radio:
equipped captive ball >ns. With the
crew at the Lapwing and mechanics
for planes, tit - navy will have more
than 7ft men at Sitka. The force may j
be increased before the winter is!
over, it was.inuicated
PLEADS-KOE ONE HOUSE—
A da far -approval of the proposi
tion to replace the Terr itorial legis
lature wits a un . amoral house mark
ed an address recently at Anchorage
by Joe Green of Juneau, speaker of,
the House of Representatives and;
territorial rax collector. Mr. Green:
spoke in support of the proposition!
U come up for approval of the vot
ers at the met general election at
the dose of a public gathering at the
Anchorage Grill. Mr. Green con
demned the present system of hand -
;n:g legislation at Juneau, contend
ing that four senators control ali
p tiding matters. Mr. Green denied
r&meHtx>n±- that hr unicameral house
*.uld place control of all Alaska leg
riation in the First Division. He as
serted the representation would be
the same under the one-house meth
d as under the present system with
■wo houses. Your representatives go
to Juneau and try to give you the
legislation you want and which will
■ e of benefit to you. out it is all kil
-ed in the senate." Mr. Green said.
“Lobbyists work on the senators and
as soon as they get four convinced
that a piece of legislation is blocked,
it is impossible to get the measure
passed. You know yourself hew easy
it is to convince four senators and
you can read between the lines as
well as I can.” Mr. Green also at
tacked the "duplication of work” ne
cessary under the two-house system.
He asserted that one house investi
gates legislation and then pass it to
the other. Another investigation
must then be concocted, covering the
ssme ground the first house covered.
“With a unicameral legislature all
this will be abolished. Legislation
will be speedier, expenses will be re
duced and good bills w H ave a bet
tor chance of passage.”
Old broom handles make good
clcthcs rods, and when placod across
the closet they make more space for
clothes than hooks in the walL
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ALASKA RAILROAD MAKES
OPERATING PROFIT OF $10,000
WASHINGTON—Although tie re
cord shows the Alaska Railroad
ended the la*; fiscal year with a defi
cit of $172.' 65, the railroad itself ac
tually made an operating profit of
S9.971, it was disclosed recently by
Secretary I ekes in his annual report
to the President.
The secretary pointed out that the
deficit chalked up against the rail
read was due to the emergency op
eration of ships to Alaska during the
maritime strike last winter.
By subtracting the costly opera
te. it of the ships and $7,449 spent by
the railroad for investigations of the
mineral resources of the Territory,
both items- not directly involved in
he- operation of the railrcad would
show a profit of almost $10j000.
It was the second ccn-ecutive year
hat the railroad operated at an ac
ual profit. During the fis;al year
nded June 30. 1936, Col. O. F. Ohl
s n reported an operating profit of
$9,000.
Secretary I ekes set forth that the
rrilroad report shewed a deficit of
5174.065 and that the steamship op
ratioas during the maritime strike
ost $174,58ft. Adding the $7,449 for
nvestigatiorrs of mineral resource;
nd deducting the "total of the two i
items leaves the normal operation
spenses of the railroad showing a
profit
In his report Secretary Ickes point
4 proudly to the balanced budget
for Alaska at the close of the fiscal
year last June 30.
Secretary Ickes said the Interior
Deportment came out with a surplus
f $5,527,944.49 for the bienn'vn
• 933 to 1935.
FIRST MAYOR DIES—
John L. Steel, first mayor of Yal
iez after the town was incorporated
rn 11*01. and a partner of Joe Bcturke
in a mining property at Landloek
Bay, died suddenly in Los Angeles
October 29. while riding in his -car,
a heai(^ attack apparently being the
cause of his demise. Funeral' ser
' vices were held November-" 1. inter
ment taking place in Inglewood
; cemetery. Mm* Steel came to Valdez
in 1901 from Santa Monica, Calif
I ornia, installing tbe first electee
< light plant in northern Alaska. Al
askan pallbearers were Calvin Haze
let, Charles Debney, Edward W.
Hunt, J:hn Rice, Harry White, Car
enre Hoodenpyle, and many other
Alaskans were in attendance, ire. i
ing Mollie Crittenden, Walter H. So
derberg and Johnnie Hazeled. Mr.
iiiee.who was one of the pallbearers,
laid out the town of Valdez. Mr.
Steel left a wife and son, H ward, in
Los Angeles. He was bom in Illinois
and was 72 years old when be died.
STRIKE GAS AT CHINTTXA—
Gas and slight indications of oil
have been struck at Chinitna Bay,
on Cook Inlet, by the Iniskin 03
Drilling- Co., according to word re
in Anchorage recently from Homer
Havenstrite, superintendent of' oper
ations. The discovery was made at
a depth of 4,990 feet and has con
tinual while the drill went to the
5,000 foot level. Meanwhile, opera
tions at Chinitna Bay are continu
ing. Havenstrite stated that minor
gas indications have been “consis
tent in the ditch since the 4.900-foot
level.” He referred to the ditch in
which mud from the well is piled.
Gas indications are discovered when
they are emitted from the mud. “The
core from 4.9£5 feet to 5,003 feet
shows thin streaks of porous sand
stone in shale and unmistakable gas
and possibly oil indications in the
sandstone,” the superintendent said.
The dip of the formation at the
5,000-foot level is 42 degrees, show
ing that the hole is on an anti-cLine
as the geologists plannd.
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?250,000 FIRE LOSS—
Fire of undetermined origin that
broke out on the public wharf at Pe
tersburg Not. 22, destroyed the fish
house. Trading Union wharf and the
Kay]or Ostness shrimp ami crab
cannery. The owners estimated .the
loss a: $250,(00 which was partly
covered by insurance. Included in
the loss was $30,000 worth of halibut
gear stored by members of the- hali
but fleet, the Trading Union’s stock
f mer.andise, merchandise in the
Ostness cannery store, cannery fish
bot.es ar.d other equpment, and 50,
, COO b'aek cod from the schooner Mit
V ff which were salted the day be
fere and were in the fish house. The
fire department pumped salt water
>n the flames finally extinguishing
them after they threatened the $83,
000 cold storage plant near by. The
hslibuter Terry J of Petersburg, was
tied at the wharf at the time of the
fire but escaped damage.
FIND EODY MISSING MAN—
The body of £. D. Ennigar, elder- *
ly resident of Anchorage, who was
lost in the weeds southwest of Lake
Sptnard Sept. 7, 1936, was found re
.enjy by a man ranging-the. woods,
and who ran on the. skull and banes.
I he man had gone out with his son
in-law and becoming exhausted, sat
d.wn to rest. He apparently became
tired of waiting and wandered off in
the direction which he thought was
right. Positive identification was
made with discovery of his watch,
purse, keys, good luck piece of tee
Veterans ox Foreign Wars and other
personal belongings but it is sup-,
posed he threw them aside when he
b.came exhausted. The remains
were discovered by Harvey Smith
and W. E. Davey, who were on a
hunting trip. The skull had been
gnawed by a bear or some other ani
mal and the bones and portions of
! clothing were badly scattered.
' A simple and effective remedy Tor
chilblains is to paint the affected
parts with Friars balsam. If the
chilblains are broken, this method is
ineffective.
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