The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-03
IN ewsy Noies
 From 5kagway
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE

Forty-fiye members and guests wert present for the Chamber of Com merce meeting Wednesday night ir the private dining room at tht Skagway Grill. All business mer of the town who were not mem, bers of the local organization were asked to be present and were giver cordial welcome and invitation to become members.
 Of major importance among mat ters actel upon that evening was the Day of '98 program scheduled for this summer. This celebration is being advertised nationally by the Canadian Steamship Co.,, ano they have promised the boats vii be held over until midnight so that tourists may participate in the en. tertainment planned for them President Policy announced that the executive board had met with the various heads of the organizations in town and that as soon as they had met with their various groups definite schedules for the summer would begin to take shape. While this is sponsored by the Chamber l it is absolutely a matter for the whole town as it is too big for one group to take over.
 i Already letters of inquiry regard ing tke Days of '98 are being re- ceived from various interested per sons and organizations in the States and Skagway expects large attendance
 The Chamber is also pushing fol flood control for, due to the heav- | test snowfall in many years, there is imminent danger. of another dis. astrous flood hitting here thi' spring. The last one washed away the bridge on Third Avenue, ane several houses, and damaged tht dairy.
 1 A letter from Whitehorse carniva manager Campbell, asked tha' Skagway sponor another queen thi. year and a committee was ap- pointed to take care of this. Mary Pullen, Wm. Feero, Jr, and Mrs Beulah Knott will work out the de. tails Last years queen won tht contest as Queen of the White. horse Carnival. Miss Viola Sullivan has been invited to Whitehorst again this year to reign as queer until the new one is chosen. Hel chaperon, Mary Pullen, has alsC been invited to accompany her.
 Whitehorse also annc c-.ced that an excursion train would he run from Skagway at temptingly low fares and local residents were giv- 1 en a hearty invitation to go over The Chamber voted to have new descriptive folders printed and Christine Lamoreaux, Barney An derson and L. McGuane will pre- pare the material for them.
 The town voted to make every effort to get definite appropria- ton for the completing of the Dyea Road.
 Ruth Honius. Hal Johnston and Barney Anderson volunteered tc serve as Legislative Committed to study and report on all bills that might affect our locality.
 Elmer Rasmuson, President of the Bank of Alaska, gave fine talk on the recent meeting of presen- tatives from various Chambers of Commerce in the Territory at Anchorage.
 Early in the meeting, President Policy told Supt. Andresen of the TB San that there were rumors on the street that the San was to be moved by February 1, and did he know anything about it? Andresen said is was true. What had start ed out as very interesting eve ming died right there. Everyone present was shocked into absolute silence.
 Never before in the entire history of Skagway has tEe town been in such an uproar The policy of feed- ing larger places by draining the blood from smaller ones has again been demonstrated. To build a territory, small towns and local ities must be developed. too. Skag- way may have to take this blow, but one thing is certain, the whole world is beginning to know that