OPA Ceilings Not
Cause Of Coal
Mine Closing
The claim of the company that
the present shutdown of the Buf
falo Coal Mine the Anchorage area
is due to the maximum prices es
tablished by OPA for all Alaska
produced bituminous coal is not
substantiated by the facts uncov
ered by OPA’s careful analysis
of the situation.
Present ceilings were set on all
producer and dealer sales of the
Alaska-produced product on the
basis of extensive surveys and
consulattion with the operators
and dealers themselves. The Buf
falo company neglected for eight
months to report to OPA required
expenditure accounts which re
MRS. MARY COGSWELL
VISITING FATHER
Mrs. Mary Anne Cogswell,
daughter of Mr. Guy Mish, sur
prised her friends by arriving on
the first boat to visit with her
father.
RITA TAVIS RETURNS
FROM VISIT IN FAIRBANKS
Rita Tavis. popular and effi*
cient traffic representative for the
P.A.A. returned from a week’s
visit in Fairbanks where she com
bined business with pleasure.
fleeted true operational costs, the
Alaska Director stated “and even
in its petition for adjustment it
has not supplied clear and ade
quate cost information upon which
a determination could have been
based readily, had it been avail
able to OPA.”
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Dimond Grants
Injunction Against
Wagner Radio Co.
I
The U. S. District Court in An
chorage, Judge Anthony Dimond
presiding, June 9 issued a prelim
inary injunction against Wagner’s
Alaska Radio Supply Co.,'of that
city restraining them from further
overcharges under price regula
tions which apply to its sales of
goods and services.
A permanent injunction was is
sued on the same day against Will
Key Jefferson, Anchorage land
lord who was previously fined
$100 for contempi of court wnen
he violated the preliminary in
junction first issued ordering him
to cease violation of the Ren Reg
ulation pending final hearing of
his case.
OPA’s action, especially in the
Jefferson case, was bitterly con
tested in trials extending over a
period of several days. The Office
of Price Administration feels con
fident the final orders, as entered
June 13, will serve to encourage
voluntary compliance with OPA
regulations by other merchants
and landlords in the area. These
cases have been closely watched
by the public in general since in
vestigation and enforcement ac
tion first started, and will serve as
a possible restraint on others who
might through violations incur
similar court orders.
President Says
Alaskan Highway
Must Be Completed
OLYMPIA, June 21 — (JP) —
President Truman praised the
work of the San Francisco confer
ence and promised that the meat
situation would be sraightened
out, but denied the report that he
contemplaed removing Secretary
Ickes from office.
The President said the Adminis
tration was working toward a
plan of single control over prices
of food in response to one ques
%
tion, but didn’t disclose how it
would function.
In the first press conference
since leaving the Whitehouse the
President also expressed gratifica
tion over Senate approval of legis
lation extending the reciprocal
trade agreement program with
further tariff lowering authority.
He announced he would stop
over in Portland Monday enroute
to San Francisco.
He came out flatly in favor of
postwar completion of the Alaskan
highway in cooperation with Brit
ish Columbia and said about six
hundred miles of road, from
Trench up were needed to com
plete. He said he had talked over
the Alaskan Highway with Gover
nor Gruening and Senator Mag
nuson and discussed its extension
through Trench. He said it was
absolutely essential that the six
hundred mile gap be considered as
a part of a postwar program in
which Canada and British Colum
bia would participate.
"He said he would try to find a
way to complete it in cooperation
with Canada and British Colum
bia. It’s a good project he added
and he will support it.
“Stories appeared in eastern pa
pers that you are getting rid of
Mr. Ickes and of replacing him
with Captain Krug,” J. A. Krug,
chairman of WPB, a reporter as
serted he asked the President if
he planned such an action. The
President replied that he had no
such intention and it was the first
he had heard of it. It was news
to him and he hadn't discussed it
at all with Mr. Ickes.
The President appeared attired
in a wool pullover sweater he had
borrowed from Governor Wall
gren. It had been knitted by In
dians on Vancouver Island the
President explained, but as to the
nature of the designs he reminded
a reporter to ask the chief of the
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NOMEITE. IN LOS ANGELES
Wm. T. Murran, who lived on
the Sand Spit from 1911 to 1917
is now in business at 6110 So.
Main Street, Los Angeles, Calif.
JOHN PADEN ON BUSINESS
TRIP TO NOME
Mr. John Paden, superintend
ent of the White Mountain Indus
trial School is in town on busi
ness.
Siwashes, asserting it was a Si
wash sweater.
The President said that General
Eisenhower was entitled to any
thing he wants and he will see
that the general gets it. The Presi
dent didn’t elaborate on his remark
made after a reporter inquired as
to his plans for Eisenhower who
was guest at a Whitehouse stag
dinner Monday.
Eisenhower’s first job is to get
back to Germany and finish the
work there. The President said he
had no plans concerning proposals
to lower the age for discharge of
soldiers, asserting it was strictly
a military affair.
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