The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-09
Dog Ordinance
 Takes 2nd Step
 Toward Passage
Alter Hearing Discussion, Council Votes Approval
 Final Action Feb. l9

The City Of Juneau moved httie closer last night toward having an other dog ordinance when the wide ly heralded leash ordinance was passed to third and final reading by the City Council by a vote of three to one with one not voting and two absent. At the next regu- lar meeting of the Council, Febru- ary l9, the ordinance will be up for final passage. It has not gone through it's first and second read i Ings, accompanied by both protests and acclaim from the taxpayers. Councilman Ralph Beistline, who was presiding in the absence of , Mayor I. Goldstein, William Beck and Oscar Harri voted to move the ordinance along pace while Art McKinnon. voted very definite mo" and G. E. Krause declined to commit himself. Councilman Me- Cafferty like Mayor Goldstein is in the States. r Again the Council heard the op- irlions of avowed dog lovers and those who like dogs in their place. !, It has been made clear during all the discussion that there are no actual dog -haters, and Chief of Po- lice Roy Hoffman has explained to the Council that is one of the req sons he can't get a dog-catcher. Russell Hermann, as Juneaus dog-love No 1, again urged on the Council that it attempt to enforce the present dog ordinance or ordi- nances. Urges Enforcement Just give us two weeks of it, challenged MT. Hermann. "Just enforce the present ordinance for two weeks, and if it doesn't take care of the dog problem won't say anything more about this new ordi- nance. I tell you it is squarely up Ito the Council. You have law right now, an adequate law, but you don't do anything about it. MT Hermann was seconded in his remarks by Josephine Soule, who explained that she too was opposed to dogs as nuisances, but vigorously protested the provision l that all dogs be on leash when out lof their own yard. She declared it wasn't fair to the dog nor the chill dren or owners who have dogs for ipets. She inquired as to the ex- listing dog ordinance and City Clerk A. w. Henning obliged by reading the various ordinances now on the
 books pertaining to dogs and other
 animals running at large in the city. q 1 Shattuck Protests Dogs l Supporting the new ordinaflce, ] or any ordinance which would elim- mate the dog nuisance, was Curtis
 Shaatuck and George w. Folta.
 MT. Shattuck said that he too was
 dog-lover but he also was a prop erty owner and he was very much opposed to dogs running about the
 city as they now do and making themselves objectionable both in the
 business and residential district.
 He urged the Council to take same action to rid the city of the dog
 nuisance.
 MT. Folta argued that something
 should be done to protect the prop ierty owner from prowling dogs. Hu- man rights come before dog rights,
 he contended.
 MT. Harri moved, seconded by MT. Beck, that the ordinance be passed
 in second reading. and it was so
 voted.
 The liquor question on which the
 Council has been getting protests was put over until the next regular
 meeting as was action on the re-
 visions in the building code City
 Engineer Milton Lagergren urged that those who have any sugges-
 tions on the building code to pre-
 sent their suggestions before the
 next meeting, February l9 
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