The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-06
ABLE OFFICIALS ELECTED

Once again the voters of Juneau have gone to the polls and elected a Mayor three members of the Council and School Board member On the advisory question of whether they favor municipal ownership of light telephone and water systems in Juneau those who voted the question, declared themselves vir- tualy two to in favor 332 failed to express an opinion.
 As is usually the case able men were chosen to conduct the city,s affairs Harry l. Lucas, long a prominent citizen of the community elevated to the Mayors seat with a handsome majority. Two Of his Peoples Ticket went in with him-1ohn Me Cormick and Ralph Beistlme-indicatng that the modified city manager" plan which he advocated found popular chord with the voters Under it the new Mayor will attend to the general mayoralty duties as well taking of the work of the City Clerk the actual street sidewalk and such work being under the immediate direction of the City Engineer but general supervision of course remaining with the Mayor and City Council It amounts to a city mana ger setup adapted to the law requirements of Terri toria municipalities and should prove successful It's major advantage would appear to be that the Mayor will be closer to-day touch with business affairs of the city
 Oscar Harri who has served ably on the Council in the past apparently is elected to further service as a Councilman The unofficial complete tally gives him nine votes over John A. Krugness of the Lucas ticket With Beistlne and Harri reelected, only two faces will appear in the Council, those of Lucas and Mccormick G. l. Krause, who ran for Mayor, has another year to serve on the Council have Henry Messerschmidt and Sam Feldon. Affairs of the city in able hands with such representative citze-s around the Council table.
 feature of the election was the highly comp- mentary vote given Walter P Scott for reelection to the School Board Outdistancng his opponent about six one MT. Scott well be proud of the high regard in which he is held in this community and the faith the parents of Juneau have in his ability as one of the directors of the citgs school system. With a Board made up of Grover c Winn as dean after 20 years of service in that capacity R. E. Robertson and MT Scott there need be no qualms to school affairs in Juneau.
 The municipal ownership proposition went much as expected It purely advisory question which binds the city to nothing but reveals definite trend in favor of public ownership of utilities and be used by the Council as weather in the event it determines to go further into the municipal ship question what the attitude of the property of the city would be on bonding the city to acquire such utilities remains mooted question which can be answered only if and when a special election should be called for that purpose The final answer to municipal ownership rests entirely with the real property taxpayers Sxty-fve percent of the tax payers vote would be required to put municipal ownership into effect The vote in favor of municipal ownership yesterday 5l percent of the total vote cast
 While the vote was somewhat larger than last year-1,555 casting ballots yesterday as compared to 1479 year ago-the proportion was not as large it should be in view of total registration of 2714 On a comparative basis it actually less The vote only 76 while registration showed gain of 33o Of course registration is permanent since 1885 and it is probable that some of those whose names appear the registration books have moved from the city.
 On the whole however it a representative sentiment of the citizens of this community which