The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-31
TWENTY ONE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH

 new construction. On top of all this. the voters want to take on public utilities as evidenced by the results of the last election.
 ITO us it sems ridiculous to offer prospective candidates for the city'S highest office the choice of serving for nothing or accepting $250 per month under a subterfuge. No firm in Juneau with half the volume of business is managed by a person earning less than $500 per month. "The city councilmen are paid nothing more than a portion of what they should receive. They now get $10 month on the basis of $5 per monthly meeting, which, we be- lieve, should be raised to Sl0 per regular meeting attended, but not to exceed $25 per month per mem Der. The extra $5 not paid out for regular meetings would be token compensation for special meetings that the members are called upon to attend.
 "The other salaries of city offi- cials are set by the council at their first meeting after election. Under the fear of criticism from people who berate city officials for the amount of money they spend, the councils have for many years been very reluctant to pay any more than has been necessary to get someone to fill each job. We be- lieve they should pay what is nec- essary to get highly qualified men. If the people of Juneau encourage the passage of an ordinance be- fore the next election, providing for a salary of not less than $500 a month for the Mayor after the election, we believe this will indi- cate to the council the lack of ne- cessity for hiring men as cheaply as possible.
 Your executive board therefore recommends that this Chamber go on record as favoring the passage of an ordinance which will provide a salary of not less than $500 per month for the Mayors salary and not less than s25 month, as above indicated, for each councilman from and after the next city elec- tion.'
 Ex-mayors seated at the head table beside Charles w. Carter, President of the Chamber. were A. B. Hayes, Isadore Goldstein, R. E. Robertson and John Beck. Mayor Parsons was also seated at the table.
 Previous to the salary discussion, a report favoring establishment of a branch of the University of AL aska in Juneau was read from the committee on that subject, and vot- ed approved by the Chamber.
 A copy of the letter sent from the Chamber to Claude " Brown, meteorologist with the Weather Bureau, in relation to the proposed curtailment of the U. s. Coast Guard of the marine reporting program in Southeast Alaska, was read.
 The letter pointed out that the present system of reports from the district center of the Coast Guard at Ktchikan-that is, one report each hour-is highly satisfactory, and that the proposal to change this system to one report every three hours would not be. Among reasons for this were the following five points.
 l. Reports are made available on the radio, and in case of radio failure, the latest report is given rather than marking the report as missing. Under the 3-hourly plan, if a report is missing there would be none available other than one six hours old. Tn case of very poor radio reception this could easily be g or 12 hours old.
 3. Mariners and fliers in South east Alaska need reports more often than every three hours.
 4. Local forecasters can more ac- curately give advices when reports are received regularly and without too long a period of time interven- ing.
 5. Without such frequent reports it appears doubtful that local air lines would be able to fly into the Juneau airport with any regular ity. PA and PIMA are dependent upon an hourly report of conditions at Point Retreat in order to fly into the Juneau Airport from the Gustavus Airport according to CAA regulations.