Gruening’s Libel
Suit Win Upheld
By Appeal Court
SAN FRANCISCO ,(*)—'The U.S.
Court of Appeals today upheld
the libel suit victory of three for
mer Alaskan territorial officials,
incdluding Gov. Ernest Gruening,
against a Juneau newspaper.
Gruening, former treasurer Hen
ry Roden and former highway en
gineer Frank Metcalf, who
sued Empire Printing Corp., pub
lisher of the Juneau Daily Em
pire, for $350,000 damages, re
ceived a total of $15,003 by a fed
eral district court jury award.
A jury before Federal District
Court Judge Walter H. Hodge at
Ketchikan awarded each of the
plaintiffs $5,000 punitive damages
and $1 compensatory.
The trio had charged that a
story published by the paper on
Sept. 25, 1952, libeled them. The
article grew out of handling of
funds collected by the Territorial
Board of Road Commissioners of
which the three officials were
members. The money was collect
ed from operation of the ferry
boat between Juneau and Haines.
The appeals court. said that
Judge Hodge’s instructions to the
jury were proper. It said that
while the verdict of the jury
awarded punitive damages in sub
stantial amounts the “record con
tains a mass of evidence disclos
ing express malice” on the part of
the company “which if believed
by the jury well warranted the
verdicts returned.”
WALT SIPPRELL AT BETHEL
Walt Sipprell of the Alaska
Steamship Co., is busy in Bethel
this week as the first boat of
the season has arrived there and
is discharging cargo.
OBITUARY
Dick K. Kugzruk died at Nome
June 4th. He worked at U.S.
Smelting.
He was born at Teller Mission
on April 9, 1905 and was baptized
at Teller. He was confirmed at
Igloo April 1, 1923. He attended
the Indian School at Salem, Ore
gon for five years. He married
May Eyuk March 31, 1928. In re
cent years he lived at Teller and
worked for the U.S.S.R.&M. dur
ing the summers. He was a mem
ber of the Church Council at
Teller Lutheran Mission and he
served as interpreter at Igloo and
Teller.
He was .buried at Teller with
the Rev. Norval Hegland officiat
ing on June 6th. He is survived by
his wife and children Marcella
and David; his mother, Grandma
Kugzruk; his brothers: Willie,
Phillip, Harvey, Johnnie, Johnnie,
Ralph; sisters, Mrs. Wm. Oquilluk
and Mrs. *Erank Mosquito.
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Unemployment High
In San Francisco’s
Construction Industry
j SAN FRANCISCO, IB-Unem
1 ployment in San Francisco’s con
| struction industry is “the worst
I’ve seen since before the war,”
a spokesman for the San Francis
co Building and Construction
Trades Council said Monday.
Daniel Del Carlo estimated 25
percent of the city’s construction
workers are unemployed, mainly
because of a 50 percent drop in
home building, but said the situa
tion “seems to be picking up a
little.”
In April of last year 630 build
ing permits were issued, while
only 366 were issued April 1957.
Construction workers claims for
unemployment insurance in six
San Francisco Bay area counties
in March were double those of
March 1956—7,747 claims filed
this March compared with 3,442
in March 1956.
Jens Forshaug, former teacher
for ANS at Nome and King Is
land, has been named as reloca
tion officer , for the Bureau of In
dian Affairs with headquarters at
Fairbanks. This office will have
jurisdiction over all relocation
problems of native people in all
of northern Alaska. Forshaug has
been in Alaska since 1938.
! FISHING LICENSES ARRIVE
Commissioner Herb Jenks re
ports that the fishing licenses
have been received and will be
available starting Saturday, June
15. To accommodate the public
the Commisioner’s Office will be
open from 12 noon until 2 p.m.
for those who desire licenses for
use over the weekend.
Car License Violators Arrested
The Department of Taxation
and local law enforcement of
ficers have started arresting car
owners who have neglected to
get 1957 license plates. The first
two offenders were brought be
fore the U.S. Commissioner and
' were fined $10 apiece.
Tree Saves Life
Of Parachutist
WOODBRIDGE, England, UP)—
An overgrown Christmas tree
probably saved the life of a U.S.
Air Force pilot who parachuted
from his burning jet plane.
Capt. George E. Day of Austin,
Tex., was approaching this base
on a training flight when his
supersonic F-84F Thunderstreak
burst into flames.
Day used the automatic ejector
system and hurled himself from
the fighter-bomber at an altitude
of only 500 feet. His parachute
had hardly opened when it caught i
on a fir tree, breaking his fall.
“His escape was a miracle,”
said an Air Force spokesman.
Day suffered a sprained ankle.
His plane, crashing in a heavily
wooded area owned by the British
Forestry Commission, was de
stroyed.
Mrs. Cameron Returns From
Library Board Meeting
Mrs. Wm. Cameron returned
yesterday from Juneau where she
had attended a meeting of the
Territorial Library Board held
May 29 to June 1. After the meet
ing she joined her husband in
Fairbanks where he had gone on j
business.
Mrs. Cameron reports that at l
Juneau the board were the din-1
ner guests of acting Gov. and
Mrs. Waino Hendrickson. The
board also acted on a new budget
for the department.
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