- 1938

Radio Station, KINY, Juneau, Alaska. Alaska State Library, Winter & Pond Photo Collection, P87-2840.

Radio station KINY built a new transmitting station and radio tower on the Alaska Juneau rock dump and increased its transmission power from 100 watts to 250 watts, putting it at 1430 instead of 1310 kilocycles on the dial.

The Douglas City Council accepted the new Mt. Jumbo grade and high school building from the contractors. The school was built to replace the earlier one that burned in the 1937 city fire.

The War Department earmarked $232,000 August 23 for building a long-awaited small boat harbor at Juneau, just north of the Douglas Bridge (Harris Harbor) . Construction began in mid-November on the breakwater, which required 70,000 tons of rock hauled in by truck and barge . Juneau’s waterfront was a busy place in August with 17 steamers from five steamship lines making regular calls here.

A Pan-American Airways “Baby Clipper” amphibian aircraft landed on the Juneau Mendenhall flats airfield August 7 in a trial flight from Seattle to Ketchikan and Juneau. The flight lasted 8 hours and 20 minutes. Scheduled flights began thereafter with the first S43 Sikorsky amphibian Alaska Clipper landing at Auke Bay August 20. Pan Am Airways also inaugurated the first air mail service May 3 from the Juneau Mendenhall flats airfield to Fairbanks via Whitehorse, using a Lockheed Electra plane.

Hollywood film producer Norman Dawn completed shooting his Taku River film, “Golden River” mid- August, which included Mary Joyce of the Taku River Lodge as one of the local “stars.”

The cornerstone was laid October 30 at the Shrine of St. Therese on Shrine Island, near Juneau. Sealed in the cornerstone was a history of the shrine and the retreat house from 1931 when the site was selected by Rev. LeVasseur.