Lighterage Rate
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Board, in presenting arguments,
stressed their concern with the
reasonableness of the rates estab
lished by the respondent company i
in relation to the cost of doing j
business, suitable for rate-making •
purposes.
After the noon recess Carl J. I
Lomen, president and general
jpanager of the corporation was
called to the stand to testify in
behalf of the respondent company
and was questioned at great length
by attorney Scholl, into the work
ings and administration of the
company’s various enterprises and
the extent of the lighterage activ
ities.
On questioning, Mr. Lomen
stated that the Lomen Commercial
Company established their rate as
a percentage of the Alaska Steam
ship Company tariff on the basis
of two-4o-one. Their lighterage
^ rate had been increased two times
as were the rates of the Alaska
Steamship Co., on the percentage
basis.
Mr. Lomen explained in detail,
to the extent of his knowledge, the
workings of his company, from
administrative to operational ac
tivity ' based on actual conditions
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during peacetime as compared
w.th war-time costs of doing busi
ness.
Sam Wettrick, attorney for the
lighterage company, brought out
in questioning that the company
estimated the increased costs of
operation were in direct propor
tion to the increases in successive
tariffs and were in no way out of
reason to existing living costs.
The case was rested until it re
opened this morning at nine
o'cIock Vv ita several of the Nome
businessmen called to the stand to
present whatever informa t ion
could be obtained which might
have a bearing on the reasonable
ness of the present lighterage
rates charged by the respondent
lighterage company.
First on the stand was Edward
M. Seidenverg, owner of the Bon
Marche Store, and former Nome
mayor, testified as to the type of
service rendered Nome merchants
during the war years, also stating
that the present service this year
has been much improved through
the efforts of the present freight
manager who “knows his busi
ness.”
Mr. Seidenverg stated that the
high lighterage costs are directly
reflected in the cost of merchan
dise to the consumer, and that any
reduction in rates would be imme
diately realized in consumer sav
ings.
Henry J. Miller, chief mechanic
of the Wien Alaska Airlines, was
questioned relative to freight and
lighterage costs represented on
Alaska Steamship Co. expense
bills to the Wien Alaska Airlines
for transportation of a tank truck
and two separate used tanks
which were billed at the going
tariff of the steamship company
and the lighterage company’s rel
ative percentage of one-third. This
testimony was seemingly for the
purpose of getting the incident
established as a matter of record
in relation of original cost to
landed cost and a basis of ques
tioning on the heavy lift penalty
charge, not distinctly specified in
the lighterage company tariff, but
was explained fully by Mr. Lomen
in later testimony as a charge
made for the extra labor and ex
pense involved in the moving of
excessively heavy pieces of equip
ment.
M. S. Mitrovich. an electrical
contractor, president of the NWA *
Chamber of Commerce, was asked
by attorney Scholl for his opinion
on houisng and household equip
ment and furnishings relative to
the present lighterage rates. He |
stated it was practically impossi
ble to build or furnish a house
comfortably at present transpor
tation costs, and that there was
nothing to attract permanent set
tlers in the area while this was \
the case.
W. Boucher, owner-publisher
of the Nome Nugget, and officer
of the former Nome Harbor Light
erage Company which operated
in the Snake River Harbor from
1933 to 1936, responded to ques
tions on administrative and oper
ational costs of the company dur
ing tne period mentioned.
A Polet, Nome merchant, and
Second Division member of the
Alaska Development Board, was
called upon to give his opinion re
garding the fact that the Alaska
Development Board was instru
mental in having the hearing take
place in Nome for the purpose of
letting the merchants and individ
uals testify in behalf of or against
the lighterage rates charged at
Nome.
Mr. Polet testified both for and
against the status quo of trans
portation rates, laying the blame
of the high cost of living on the
cost of merchandise and equip
ment F.O.B. stateside. He added
that if the Lomen company were
snown tnat tne;r rates were exor
bitant they would be willing to
lower them accordingly, but that
in his opinion the rates were high.
The economic price structure he
stated was to blame for the un
settled conditions in the Terirtory,
and that even though the rates
were reduced the two or three
dollars a ton it would not mate
rially help relieve the situation,
more reduction all along the line
would be necessary.
The hearing went on with a
statement by the OPA and the
Alaska Development oBard. in
tervenors in the cases on the light
erage rates along the Bering Sea
and Arctic Sea coasts of Alaska
lighterage companies, in the plac
ing on record the case of the Kot
zebue Sound Lighterage Com
pany, Kotzebue, Alaska.
The hearing was declared ad
journed to meet in Seatle at a
later date to complete details and
testimony by the Lomen Commer
cial main office in Seattle.
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