The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-09-05
CHAMBER PLANS TO HAVE BOOTH AT LOCAL FAIR
Will Stage Exhibit at SEE Alaska Fair = Other
 Towns Interested

The Cnamber or commerce to- day voted unanimously to have an exhibit at the Southeastern Alaska Fair which opens next Wednesday. It will be largely pictorial, the pie lures now used in the Chambers Information Bureau being used.
 A special committee composed of M. D Williams, w. s. Pullen and s. Hellenthal was appointed by President H. L. Faulkner to ar range for assembling the display and putting it up in the Fair build ing. The Fair Association has of fercd the Chamber one or two booths for the exhibit, no charge being made.
 Stress Educational Displays
 The Fair management is this year stressing educational displays and cutting down the carnival fea- lures to some extent to make room for such exhibits, the Chamber was told by R. E. Robertson, member of the Associations board of direc- tors. He urged the importance of patronage by local interests, de- claring it was the duty of the Chamber to lead and of individual merchants to cooperate with it. It is the towns fair, designed to up- build the community as well as the surrounding district, he de- clared. Eventually the building now owned will be turned over to the community as public property, or if the town doesn't desire it, will go to the Territory, he said.
 The Association is profit making organization. After it has earned sufficient to pay off it's bonded indebtedness at per cent interest, the property will revert to the public, MT. Robertson said.
 Exhibits Are Assured
 A fine array of agricultural and floral exhibits are assured for this years Fair, MT Robertson said. An unusual amount of interest has been shown in the outlying com munities. It is hoped that the Army harbor boat Torrance, at Chilkoot Barracks, can be obtained to bring down the exhibits prom ised from Haines and Skagway. The Sitka exhibit will leave there next Monday under the charge of E. A.. Eggersgluess of the Government experiment station. Other dis plays are expected from Tenakee, Petersburg, Strawberry Point and elsewhere.
 R. B. Martin, Fair manager, is doing a fine job, MT. Robertson said. He is lining up a fine en- tertainment of local talent bol- stered up by three singers of na- tional renown, and who have been headliners on radio programs at KJR and KOMO, at Seattle. The fireworks displays will be unusually elaborate.
 Not Move Booth
 The building erected by the Chamber on Front Street for the Information Bureau this summer will not be moved. The Chamber today voted to keep the building intact in it's present location to be used again next season.
 The total cost of construction and operation was about $700, M. D. Williams, Chairman of the Ad- vertising Committee reported. He said he had an offer for the build ing for what it had cost to con- struct, but the Chamber declined to sell.
 MT. Williams said that local pub- licity material had been placed where it would do the most good through the medium of the bu- reau. Miss Mildred Abrahamson had given out many booklets to people calling at the booth. and they had invaribly mailed them out to friends in the States. Pur- sers on the several steamers, dur ing the latter part of the season had called at the booth southbound for supplies of booklets and on their return trips had distributed them among passengers after the ship sailed from Ketchikan. This, he said, was the first time the Cham Der had been able to secure this kind of cooperation.
 Finance Roads Exhibit
 The Chamber voted $50 today to cooperate with other Alaska cham bers of commerce in putting on ar Alaska Exhibit at the 1930 annual Good Roads Show of the American Road Builders Association at At lantic City, N. J., next January Major Malcolm Elliott said he hac communicated with Lieut.. Johr Moves, former local resident, ask ing him if he could attend the convention and take charge of the exhibit. He said it might be poe