The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-18
COLE PROTEST IS
 DELAYING MARINE
 WAYSF0R JUNEAU
Council Moves 10 Seek Solution to Present
 Deadlock

Juneau's city Administration sharpened it's spurs last evening with the intent of speeding con- struction of the marine ways pro- posed for installation here by the Northern Commercial Company. Asked to explain to the City Council his protest to the War De- partment against the NC Com pany's application for the site ad- joining the Small Boat Harbor on the north, J. V. Cole, pile driver operator, replied that he has held that location for the past eight years. MT. Cole expressed his will lingness to move to any other suitable location that might be provided him for his equipment, but said he declined to move with out any provision for new spot to locate. So far, the NC Company has been unable to dig him up one. Sc, now the city intends to take 6 hand.
 MT. Cole outlined negotiations he has been conducting with Roy Rutherford for a right of way through the Juneau Lumber Mills log storage ground further up the. el--negotiations which have now come to a halt. Mayor Ernest Parsons proposed that he, City Alt torney Howard D. Stabler and City Engineer J. L. McNamara com- prise a civic committee to call upon MT Rutherford early next week, to see if the deadlock now holding up progress on the much needed marine ways cannot be broken
 It was explained that claims once held by the city to the site proposed for the ways have either been relinquished or have expired.
 Right Of Way Needed MT. Cole seeks a 60-foot- right of way through the log stor- 1 age ground, to give him access for l his equipment to waterfront lands inshore from where log booms are frequently held by the lumber mills.
 1 Mayor Parsons stated the citys position: That the marine ways has been sought by Juneau for years; that it is perhaps the most needed addition to Juneau's in- | dustries; that the city is willing 7, to do all it can to see that MT. Cole suffers no injustice, but that it does not mean to stand idly by and see construction of the ways held up, now that the dream of years is so near to realization. Mir Cole, being unable to find merit in other proposed parking places for his driver outfit, imme- diate prospects for the marine ways now seem to hang upon the out come of next weeks meeting with the Juneau Lumber Mills owner. !, Now that the postwar thresh- hold has been reached, the council last night again turned its atten- tion to local public works planning. Sanders A. Wilson opened the dis cussion, from the audience, by ask ing city permission for application to the War Department for fill of that portion of tidelands between the mouth of Gold Creek and the Boat Harbor. The consensus of opinion was that the city should now develop plans for all such projects, to the end that provision for streets, sewers and other re- quired civic facilities be made part of any such undertaking and haphazard development avoided.
 Mayor To Form Program ] The mayor proposed, and re- ceived council agreement that be- fore the next regular meeting he should prepare an outline of all projects for which the city should begin to plan now. A letter from the Federal Works Agency stated that the city's application for S7,00O advance planning funds for the ! Juneau Airport is now receiving consideration. The mayor pointed out that since the funds are avail able, many more needed projects could now be put into the prepara- tory stage without cost, but with much benefit to the city.
 l City Engineer McNamara sug- gested that a model treatment of Juneau's tidelands area would be attained by an extension of Harbor