The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-08
PENNY pRUDENIS LOOKING FOR JUST
 ONE BIG MOSQUITO
Delighted with Trip 10 AL aska-TeIIs of Tour
 isfs' Impressions

Miss Penny Pruden, announcer
 and commentator of Station WKRC
 in Cincinnati, Ohio, spoke on "A
 Tourists Observations ofJuneau"
 Tourists Observations of Juneau" Chamber of Commerce this noon
 at their regular luncheon meeting
 in the Baranof Hotel.
 If Alaska gets along with every
 body as well as it does with its guests" she said, success is a cer-
 tainty." She gave a number of instances in which she had exper- fenced true Alaskan hospitality" in service and friendliness since she
 has been here.
 Delighted with both the country
 and the people here on her first trip to Alaska, Miss Pruden has
 had only one disillusioning eXper- fence to mar her sojourn in this
 city. She can't find any of the famous hard-biting Alaska mos quitces. Under assignment to write an article on a mosquito-bite pre-
 ventative, she is filled full' of a medication that is supposed to prevent insect bite. Since being
 here. she said, she has waited pat
 iently for a mosquito to come along
 and either keel up and die on
 sight" or just fly away in frustra-
 ton. Convinced that she is lethel
 medicine for any mosquito, she
 would like a chance to prove it.
 During the humorous and en-
 thusiastic accounts of her opinions
 of this city, Miss Pruden covered
 the salmon canning industry, the
 tourist sights, the worthiness of or
 ganizations to gain an end such as
 statehood, touched gently on the
 labor situations, and in short pre-
 sented a well-received column on
 tourist thought"
 Previous to Miss PruGcn's talk,
 correspondence from Delegate E. L.
 Bartlett on HR 3898 ITO provide
 fer the admission of Alaska as the
 10th State" was read.
 1t was also announced that the
 United States Coast Guard is con-
 sidering the possibility Of locating
 a Cutter at this port with approxi- rlately l25 men, in the event suffi- -ient housing may be obtained for the Coast Guard personnel. From minutes of yesterdays eI- ecutive board meeting it was point d out that if the c. c. does not locate in Juneau, it will, according to tentative plans, establish sta ton at Sitka. This will mean less Of about $10,C0G in revenue to tie city of Juneau and it's businessmen, according to Executive Board mem bers.
 Burr Johnson was appointed ksad gate housing possibilities relative to the Coast Gard situation. Norman Banfield, H. B. Foss, and Mayor Hend1ickson were appointed to a COIlllIllGtCS 1Ol PiOPooiliS HI III for the area adjacent to the Chan nel Apartments to that this land might Ee used to erect new hous- ing. The possible floating of bonds for these and other expenses tow ard making needed repairs in the city was mentioned as point to be studied and reported on by the committee.
 A letter outlining conditions in Juneau relative to OPA prices was approved and ordered sent to the Office of Price Administration of ficials in this city and to Mrs. Mil dred Hermann, Director of Alaska OPA, who is now in Washington Members of the Pan Pacific Tour group now visiting in Juneau were guests at today's meeting.
 Other guests were: Frank Stine, Dr. Marquardt, Commodore N. H. Leslie of the Coast Guard Cutter Haida, Don Paul Balmat. New members were: Mary Ann Palmat, Dr. H. O. Harris, Howard H. Fischer, and R. M. Akervick