The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-22

three years Mir Carroll said that
 he did not wsh to act as chairman again He felt he should give mere time to his own interests as other business people have teen doing in Ithe past. He had enjoyed the work land learned a lot from meeting var lious people, but feels that the time lhas come when some other person should take oyer-that it would be excellent training for some young ,person.
 It was statcl that with 300 pas sengers from the Princess Kath- lleen 1t would be necessary to put n more games upstairs in tfa Eagles Hall as well as in the back lroom. These dances would probably ientertain 250 people from the beat, iwhere the most that has been han
 dled before has been l95-130.
 1 Mrs r. L. Johnston gave an in- toresting talk She said that the Idanees should be put on as a Civic Affair and, instead of the various iorganizations each receiving a small Icheck, that each year a substantial lsum could be realized by a civic l. Organization. She would like to sec Itae money used for a skating rink with concrete wall around the same, land with a heated tuilding So that |young and old might enjoy the ! skating. She stated that today there
 was not young person in town who knew anything about playing hockey and that this was once one
 of the most popular sports here. c. J. Roehr gave an interesting 1 talk on the activities of the old 1 Hockey Club. It was stated that the 1 present gambling equ .pmsnt in the Eagles Hall was the property of the l Hockey Club. After much discus sions about the Dances a standing vote was taken to see whether the Chamber of Commerce members wanted the dances to be handled as civic project. Carried. A commit tee was appointed by the president 0 contact the business mcn on i Broadway and also different mem
 ars of the community to see ii
 this would be generally favored. The i members of the committee are Mrs. II. L. Johnston, chairman: Mrs. Christ TIC LamereauX, EIr. M. Moe, T Wilhelm L. McGuane, Gail Budd, Dr R. Snithson, and J. Kel- Her. This committee is to report at the neEt meeting.
 MeGugne read a copy of letter from the Alaska Coastal Airlines to the Railway Mail Service, seatlle. explaining why Haines receved such lr0or mail service during. the montts Of Novsmber-Decenber This was due to weather conditions, whe it was toe rough to land on the water and the airport in no condition 10 land on.
 Carroll stated that the city was drafting letter in regards to hav- ing the Jones Act suspended for skagway He stated that t is iIn- ,pcssitle to travel from Skagway to
 Juneau with the present boat serv- Ice although it is possible to travel from Juneau to skagway by Alaska isteamship. The Chamber of Com Imerce will draft letter along sim
 ilar lines.
 l MT. Johnston read letter from the Alaska Road Commission that ] barge ramp would Le put in this
 spring similar to the ones at Ha .nes land Elfin Cove. MT. Roehr stated
 that if the Road Commission cat
 could be obtained for 10 days a good
 harbor could be made. He said that lit had been reported that fixed
 charge Of $75 per day was to be
 charged for the cat. It was suggest
 d that MT Taylor and MT. Met
 calf be contacted at Juneau.
 MT Carroll said that if the city would build a breakwater that the Federal Government would dredge
 out tehind the same. Where ever
 Goat harbors have teen built in Al- laska the Federal Government has done so, 50 he could see no req
 son why this could not ba done for l Skagway. It was voted that a lst-
 ter be written to MT. Metcalf ask ing that the Barge Ramp ths Boat
 Harbor, and the Breakwater, be
 completed.
 The president stated that Nome I broadcasts what is known as a
 beef program over various radio
 stations in Alaska, and he would
 ke to have Skagway do the same.
 The radio station at Juneau ! charges s25 for 10 minutes. He stat sd that he had a wire recorder
 and that a spool of wire cost s. He would like to have some roundtable ! discussions to inform the rest of
 the Territory of the needs of Skag- iway. He will bring his recorder to the next meeting.
 MT. Givan gave an interesting talk 1 stating that in various other towns moon day luncheons were held where