The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-11
Chamber Honors
 Behrends

Two companies that have grown up with Juneau and Alaska were given recognition at the Chamber of Commerce meeting held Thurs day noon in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel.
 Honored on its 60th anniversary was the B. M. Behrends Company and the B. M. Behrends Bank. The Standard Oil Company of California which opened its first Alaska ware house before the turn of the cerA tury was cited as one of the Ter ritory's oldest service companies.
 R. E. Robertson paid tribute to B. M. Behrends, founder of Juneau's first department store and bank. MT. Behrends opened his first store in Juneau in 1897 and on October g, 1891 founded the B. M. Behrends Company. Of MT. Behrends, MT. Robertson said, The stood for reliab- ility. integrity, honesty, and square, dealing not only in Juneau. but all over Alaska"
 MT. Robertson paid tribute to MT. J. F. Mullen, who he said has car- ried on in the same tradition as President of the company and bank.
 The early beginnings of the B. M Behrends Bank were related by MT. Robertson who said that the store became a private bank when miners lucky enough to have poke would leave their gold in the store safe. The firm operated as pri- vate bank until 1913 when the first territorial legislature drafted banking laws that enabled the firm to be incorporated.
 MT. Mullen, president of the B. M. Behrends Company and the B. M. Behrends Bank thanked the Cfiarnpef iu1 It's lecogfncivfi. hai :. Albertson who has been manager of the store since last January said that he found it pleasure to work for the store and said that it has personality"
 Children and grandchildren of Ju- neau people who once bought penny candy at the stores counters are among the stores younger custom CTS now and Mir Albertson said that the store will continue to give the best of service.
 Committee Praised
 In intoducing s. E. Stretton. dis trict manager for the Standard Oil Company of California, Chamber vice president O. F. Benecke thank ed Stretton for his service on the Alaska committee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
 Of the Alaska committee, Benecke said that many times the group has supported platforms which have heen beneficial to Alaska but detri- mental to Seattle and individual Chamber members. As an example he cited the committees support of the ruling that will not permit logs to be transported for manufact- uuing in the Puget Sound area or the states.
 Oil Company Honored
 MT. Stretton outlined the history of the Standard Oil Company in the Territory and said that Alaska has been good to us and we like Alaska" Since the first warehouse was built at Nome in 1898 the com- pany's Alaskan operations have ex- banded to 40 plants. He said that the company has done its part in publicizing the Territory as three motion pictures on Alaska have been made by Standard Oil and have been shown to more than two and half million people in the states.
 A letter from Mayor Waino Hendrickson stating that the city property committee had inspected the Airport Terminal Building and that necessary interior repairs would be made, including the in- stallation of a new public address system. Next spring, the entire roof will be repaired and the building will be painted.
 George Rogers, chairman of the Alaska Field Committee, was well comed as new member. Standard Oil. officials who were guests at the meeting were M. s. Jorgensen, Anchorage. and John Smith and William Downing of Seattle. Rod McIntire, an architect with Foss, Malcolm and Olsen, and First Lieu tenant William B. Lynch of the Sal- yation Army were also guests.