The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-18

COUNCIL APPROVES SPECIAL ELECTION
 PLAN FOR HANGAR oNpR0pERTY GRANT
 AT JUNEAU AIRPORT IS SET FOR APRIL 20.

The City Council last night gave it's approval of the plan to con- struct a hangar and operations building at the Juneau Airport with the aid of Federal funds available under the Public Works Bill for Alaska.
 The passing of a motion approv- ing the prospectus as it now stands" was urged by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce aviation committee. which includes officials of two of the airlines serving the city.
 The action by the council last night did not commit the city to carry out the project.
 Mayor Waino Hendrickson was authorized in the motion to repre- sent the city at meetings between the Juneau groups backing the pro- posed project and Civil Aeronautics Authority representative
 A site for the proposed hangar would have to be leased from the CAA which owns the land on which the airport, stands.
 Tom Dyer, Chairman of the Chambers aviation committee, assured the council that hopeful replies had been received regard ing the possibility of leasing a site for the planned buildings from the CAA regional office in Anchorage.
 Dyer said that Juneau must keep up with the advances in aviation. Suitable shop and hangar space at the airport would convince the air lines that Juneau is more than daytime stop. he declared.
 Bargain Price"
 o. F. Benecke, a member of the aviation committee, explained that the hangar could be obtained at bargain price" since one half of the cost would be taken care of through Public Works funds.
 Tt would be wise for us to take advantage of this opportunity while we have it." he said.
 Financing the remainder of the cost could be accomplished through the issue of revenue bonds which would be paid off over a 20-year period by money received for rental of space in the hangar and opera tions building. he explained.
 The airlines have verbally agreed to guarantee rental of the buildings, Benecke said.
 The hangar would be 194 by 200 feet; the operations building 32 by 200 feet. Cost has been esti- mated at $255, ,30O..
 Discuss College Problems
 It was decided at the meeting last night that the finance com- mittee of the council will meet with the executive board of the Cham Der of Commerce Wednesday to discuss the problem of sending a of the city to Cleve- land, O.. April IT to argue in iavor of Juneau as a site for the pro- posed Methodist college for Alaska. The Methodists will decide upon a site for their college in Alaska at that time.
 The action came as the result of l letter from the Chamber of Com merce urging that Mayor Hendrick- son represent the city. The Cham per is sending II. L. Faulkner to the Cleveland meeting.
 The city will pay for part of the Gold Creek emergency repair work ,o be done this spring, the council decided. The Corps of Engineers had written asking that the city give it's assurance that it will fi- nance the completion of the S27 500 ,epair job. The city's share of the cost will be $5,625.
 John Kennedy, owner of the Home Hotel on Gastineau Avenue. called attention to the parking troubles on the hillside avenue.
 He said that many times during the winter parked cars and oil trucks bringing fuel to homes along the avenue had blocked the road for as much as an hour.
 What would the fire truck do if there was fire up there?' he asked.
 The council promised that a per- manent solution to the parking problem on that street would be sought by the councils street com mittee.
 Applications for card table li- censes by the Occidental Bar, Buds Bar and the Dreamland Cocktail Bar were approved by the council.
 Purchase of creosote piling for repair of South Seward Street be- low Marine Way was authorized by the council.
 The new traffic ordinance for the city was read and passed for the second time.
 City police. required to maintain their efficiency with their pistols, were authorized to purchase a re- loading outfit which will cost $138.