The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-08
Opening Move Made Toward
 New Library
Memorial Proposal Gets Council Sanction 10
 Planning Extent

The City Administration was al- ready on the bandwagon when ser vice club representative appeared before the City Council here last evening to present their case for a Memorial Library building l Already prepared and awaiting Council approval were applications to the Federal Works Agency for allotment of advance planning funds for a separate library building and a separate Fire Hall. too, for good measure.
 The Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman, Rotary President, spoke for active concentration now on the library and was strongly seconded by Ro- tarian H. B. Foss. Architect Floss estimated the cost of a separate library building at S58,000, including S10000 to be paid for the proposed site on Third street between the Territorial Building and the Hotel Juneau.
 Rev Hillerman expressed the recognized need for an adequate memorial to Juneau's veterans of the Second World War and to those who gave their lives for the ideals for which it was fought. One of those ideals, the elimination of fu- ] ture wars, would, he said, be con- tributed toward by library to 1 spread knowledge,
 The Rotary President again point ed out the great benefit the City can well hope to derive through a library building that will meet Car negie Foundation requirements.
 Lions Club Support
 Barney Anderson, President of the Lions Club, assured active assis- tance in the library campaign from his organization, as soon as Suffi- cient information is available on which to base action.
 Councilman Edward Nielsen alone of the Council posed objections to the library plan. With the Citys financial condition foremost in mind he wanted to know if the con- struction and maintenance of a separate building to house a library would not increase costs. However when the off-setting advantages were piled up before him, Nielsen was first to submit the motion-which was carried-to file the planning money application with the EVA.
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 MT Foss led the way in pointing cut the advantages of a Memorial Library, as proposed. Though three separate buildings for library, fire department and for other municipal functions will add to the construc- tion cost, he said, public subscription will raise large part of the library cost now--an adequate library now is the City's most pressing need. He stated his belief that the people of Juneau will willingly support a library as a separate entitl. He pointed out the many distracting influences surrounding a library housed in the same structure with ether city operations.
 A new library for the City was projected Is years ago, Floss stressed. The time to strike for it is now while the issue is hot. If the present en- thusiasm is allowed to wane, it may be let slide for many years more. CarneQie Foundation Offer
 Mayor Ernest Parsons suggested as another factor that will aid in off-setting extra costs of separate maintenance of a library, that the Carnegie Foundation had once offer ed to pay the salary of librarian as well as furnishing books, if ade- quate library quarters were provided here. He thought that offer might well still hold good.
 Following approval of the library planning application, Councilman Harry Lea moved for submission also of the Fire Hall Application. That motion too carried. Then the Coun- cil decided to go the whole way, and instructed that a third application be prepared, for planning funds for a City Hall. including jail and police court facilities. The Fire Hall would be built on the vacant lot adjoining the present City Hall on the west and the new City Hall on the present municipal building site.
 As a final note on advance plan ming, Architect Foss replied to a question that the application already made for airport planning funds is now being processed by the EVA in Washington, D. C.