The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
TANKS BEGIN INVASION OF PHILIPPINE

not in favor of too much change in government. Tying the city manager form of government in with improvements, he said that there were 10 times as many ob solete buildings in Juneau as in his former home town, Petersburg.
 Close More Places
 Rude said one of the men va cated from the Roberts Row was totally blind and could have walked off the dock He stated Antrim should not have been criticized for his action, adding they should close up a few more places"
 There was general agreement that the cocktail bars and liquor stores should close at an earlier hour. Curtis Shattuck, who has been Investigating the late hours for the Chamber of Commerce, said he had talked to most of the bar owners and they offered no objection to an earlier closing.
 Mrs. Smith put the motion be- fore the audience and it was fa- vorably voted upon.
 Public Utilities
 The most spirited discussion of the evening took place when Hector Plante asked for purchase by the city of the public utilities, saying he blamed the loss of part of the local fishing fleet to Ketchikan on the fact that fish boat could tie up to float there and plug in on city power at very cheap rate.
 Dr. Rude, on the floor again, said the cost of electricy in Peters burg to heat one water tank came to $50, whereas in Juneau, it came to $6 or $7 a month.
 Mrs. Robert Simpson said she was in favor of the city purchas- ing the electric power system and Mrs. Mable Lybeck, who returned, Wednesday from Skagway said that city was about to buy the electric power plant there and op- crate it.
 Harold Smith urged caution in any move that might be taken to buy the electric system, wanting to know what kind of financial showing Ketchikan Public Utilities were shown The KPU report was read, showing that in the nine years the city has owned and op- erated the system more power has been used and the rates have gone down.
 Part of the rate given is: First 15 Kilowatts-6 cents; 100 KW-3 cents; over 150 XVI cent, over 300 KW-one- cent.
 Benefits
 A rather len gthy discussion sprang up then over the benefits of public and private power. It was pointed out that Anchorage was putting money in the bank for post war fund with the money saved by owning it's own power system.
 Hugh Antrim pointed out that Juneau City last year alone paid the light company $8,40O for street lighting.
 Dr. Rude wanted to know if the light company pays the city for placing it's poles along the city streets. According to the terms in the 36-year-old franchise, the city receives only taxes on the light company's property, Antrim said.
 It was brought out by Jack Fletcher that the present electric rates would hardly attract indus try to the town. It was then ex- planned that Ketchikan was to build the Beaver Falls project with the aid of a $150,O00 bond issue; the additional power used to take care of new customers.
 The utilities question was then put to a vote and there was no objection to the proposition that the City of Juneau own and oper- ate it's own power utility.
 After War Plans
 It was decided that the City Council should be asked to create postwar planning and develop ment council to bring in people and give them employment.
 Arthur Hedges and Curtis Shat tuck called attention to the six reports of the National Resources Planning Board that might be use- full as background for planning commission Mrs. Lybeck said some good advertising for Juneau and Alaska ought to be put out to counteract the bad advertising given the country by false prom ises made to incoming workers from the States.
 In the final phase of the meeting, John Kennedy, former President of the Juneau Mine Workers Union, protested that the city council spent too much time pickering to oiua opv attention to rnanhore