The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-23
ACTION WILL BE TAKEN ON
 PLANE BASE
Application for Hydroplane Platform to Be Sent
 to Washington

An application for permission to construct a hydroplane platform at Salmon Creek will be submitted to authorities at Washington shortly after the first of February, accord ing to plans announced today to the Chamber of Commerce by H. L. Faulkner, head of the committee handling this subject He is being assisted by L. H. Metzgar and Mayor T. B. Judson.
 Permits on this project probably will not be granted until next April, MT. Faulkner reported. Plans for the platform have been drawn, and the project will cost between $7,000 and $9,000 with one-half of the funds coming from Territorial ap- propriations, he said.
 The site at Salmon Creek has been granted with no charge. Tn this respect Juneau has a decided advantage over Ketchikan at the outset, as the First City had an added expense of S2,5O0 to secure a suitable location.
 Capitol Building Name
 In response to a communication sent to the Treasury Department requesting the new government building here to be titled Alaska Capitol' instead Of Federal and Territorial Building an adverse answer was read today.
 It is inadvisable to make the sug- gested change in name, the report said, because of the confusion it would create in Washington, due to the fact the building has been referred to in all correspondence and other business to date as the Federal and Territorial Building.
 Until some relative concrete pro- ject is brought up for consideration, the matter of importing prison la bor from the States for road work here is to be laid on the table, the Executive Board reported.
 Gov. Parks Speaks
 Gov. George A. Parks, who re- turned Sunday from a trip to the States, made short talk to the Chamber. Ernest Walker Sawyer, Executive Secretary of the Interior Department, is working together on Alaskan m a t CTS, now, he an- nounced, and at present is arrang- ing for tour, on a special boat, of Los Angeles business men. who will visit all leading cities in the Territory.
 Gov. Parks also reported confer ences with o. F. Ohlson of The Alaska Railroad and Col Frank J. Griffin, of the Signal Corps, who now has charge of all Territorial communication and is anticipating better service and equipment, due partly to an increased appropria- tion for the current year
 The matter of cooperating with Bullock's store, in Los Angeles, which plans on holding an Alaska Week in February, has been turned over to the Tourist Advertising Committee, of which M. D. Will Hams is Chairman.
 Among communications read at the meeting was one from the Better Business Bureau, containing advertising submitted by La touche man to eastern publications, which is being investigated to as- certain the validity of statements made in the advertisement.
 Other Speakers
 Tn addition to Gov. Parks, speak CTS at the meeting included Leo w. Breuer, Commissioner of Education, Father Menager, and Brice Howard, Admiral Line agent.
 Tourist bookings in Seattle are behind those of last year, MT. How ard said, but business conditions in the States are believed to be hold ing this only temporarily. So far there are fewer big parties and more individuals on the books than last year. A normal year is ex- pected, he said.
 No definite action was taken on the 1930 membership drive. All but about 100 of the 1929 members have joined the Chamber through the card system and it was de-