The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-19
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SITKA, March Special Cor respondence) The Territory Con- struction Company has completed arrangements to move equipment and crew on barges to Hoonah this week end, tc start construction on the rebuilding of the village. The company won the contract to lay sewers and waterlines and to build roads for the new settlement.
 John Cushing, a partner in the company states that the first month will te spent in cleaning up debris and the grading and filling of the site
 Art Hicks, the other partner, IS now in Juneau opening an office TOT the company, through which the Hocnah project will be handled, as the Sitka office is too distant to De practicable
 James Laidley, Charles Whitney, Robert Weaver, A. J. Schwondt and John Kresse will accompany MT. Cushing to Hoonah. The rest Of the Territory Construction crew VIII he Hoonah men. MT. Schwondt ana MT. Kresse arrived on the last Ncrthland from Minnesota, to act as construction foremen on the job.
 Quonset huts have been erected fer workmens quarters, mess, cock house, etc. Henry Moy, local fish buyer and former restaurateur, has located pool parlor, soft drink and snack bar on wanigan there un- der the management of his daugh- ter, Mrs. Marietta Williams
 The bciy of Carl Judy, who met death by drowning Tuesday evening, was shipped to Juneau by plane on Thursday for embalming. It will then be shipped south on the North Sea. Mrs. Ludy boarded the North Sea in Sitka and will accompany the body of her husband South.
 On Thursday evening memorial service for MT. Ludy was conducted by the Rev. Arthur N. Billy at the Presbyterian Church, which was Beautifully decorated with greens and flowers
 Miss Ora Kuykendahl, who with Mrs. Ludy was hospitalized Wednes- Jay at the Sheldon Jackson Hospital for exposure and shock is improving, md it is hoped she will be released carly next week. Mrs. Ludy left the hospital on Thursday.
 Passengers arriving on the last Northiand were: MT and Mrs. A. J. Schwondt and John Kreese from Minnesota, to join the Territory Construction Company; MT. and Mrs R. A. Johnson returning from . vacation in the States; Mrs Ted Wagner and Thea Dona Wagner from vacationing in the States; MT. ard Mrs, Lou Grover returning to the Columbia Lumber office after a vacation south; Art Hicks from a brief business trip south Tom Nor I round trip from Juneau.
 Passengers leaving on the North land were: to Juneall-Dr. Lillian Rae Carlson. after a weeks business stay in Sitka; Everett Smith, OPA investigator here on business; N. A. McEaehran, Schwabacher salesman; Mrs. L. A. Ozenne, who has been visitinng her husband, who is in the Coast Guard here; A. J. Stern, agent from the Treasurer's Office; Ben Miller, head of the local Park Ser vice, on short business trip.
 For Petersburg-C. R. Burley of the University of Alaska, who has heen holding mining classes here for the past few weeks.
 For Ketchikan-Mrs. John Das- SOW and son Richard, after a weeks visit with her parents, MT. and Mrs R. H. Dawson; Mrs. G. Wadsworth, who has been visiting her husband in the Coast Guard here; Hugh Me Glassen, who has been in charge of the hardware department for the Cold Storage Store, and previously had owned a large hardware busi- ness in the Aleutians; MT. and Mrs. George Sarvella, who for the past two weeks have been visiting their sister and brother-in-laW, MT and Mrs Charles Wortman. MT. and Mrs. Frank Keuhn are enroute to Prince Rupert after a visit with Mrs Keuhn's mother, Mrs. Mae McNulty.
 For Seattle-Mrs. Harriett Mo- Cougall, who has been a houseguest at the home of MT. and Mrs. E. M Goddard between boats; Mrs. Good win, wife of local Coast Guards man and former clerk at the Sani- tary Market; c. B. Hodgins, who was called south by the illness of his mother; MT. and Mrs. Whitehead. who were here briefly on business. Miss Ila Weaver, en route to New York where she will make her home.
 H. Orlin Johnson returned on Thursday by plane after an absence of several months. He was form erly butcher at the Cold Storage CtOro