N. (!. Co. Buys Out
Ketchikan Firm
With the addition of Ketchikan
to its list of towns where it has
stores and trading posts, the
Northern Commercial Co., j
Alaska now is engaged in mer- j
chandising from Dixon Entrance
to Bering Sea and beyond the
Arctic Circle. It has 67 places in
Alaska and several in Yukon Ter
ritory.
It entered the Ketchikan field
last month with the purchsae of
the business operated by the Herb
F. Schaub Co. it now operates in
every major community in the
Territory.
The N. C. Co. is one of the old
est companies in Alaska, and is
the lineal successor to the old
Alaska Commercial Co., of San
Francisco. It was founded by the
Sloss family of that city. The
present organization was formed
by Volney Richmond, Sr., in the
■■•trly 1920’s, composed almost en
tirely of company employees, who
still retain control of the manage
ment. The elder Mr. Richmond
retired from active participation
several years ago.- His son, Vol
ney, Jr., is now general manager,
and a second son, Howard, is also
in the company. For many years,
the company operated the largest
river steamship line on the Yukon
Skunk Bites |
Artist-Actress
. V
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—Zoe Mo
zert has been rendered hors de
pallette. It’s as bad as it sounds,
for Zoe, the comely and shapely
advertising artist of national re
pute who does those simply rav
ishing young maidens adorning
the calendars at your office, can
not wield her paint ^rushes.
Zoe has been bitten by a skunk.
She is scheduled to play a part
with a civet (polecat, to you) in a
western movie. Doing research,
she went to a shop that had a
skunk for sale. The animal ob
jected to a change in scenery and ;
retaliated by biting, which is his
No. 2 attack. No. 1 is generally1
considered even less desirable.
Miss Mozert has several unfin-1
ished sketches in her studio, so if
plumber Joe Whoozis’ eyebrow
raising calendar for the tap room
is a bit late this season, blame the
skunk.
Old tin cans have been used
in paving the bed of the Los An
geles River to keep the river
from undercutting its banks.
and Tanana rivers—the Northern
Navigation Co., which it sold in
1914 to the White Pass & Yukon
J*oute.
THE MARKS AIR FORCE BASE
Post Exchange
Has the following excess merchandise that
civilian wholesale or retail dealers may pur
chase in 200 case lots:
9000 Cases BLATZ BEER
24 cans to case, . . . $2.78 per case
4500 cases COCA COLA
36 hottles to case . . $2.29 per case
For additional information contact the Ex
change Officer, Marks Air Force Base.
FREIGHTER SERVICE
SEATTLE TO NOME
Freight Received in Seattle
A Freighter Sept. 23 Sept. 10 to Sept. 20
PASSENGER SERVICE
SEWARD TO SEATTLE
| SS. Baranof Sept. 3
SS. Aleutian Sept. 9
SS. Baranof Sept. 17
W. R. WOOD, Agent
Phone Main 68
May Re-Establish
Coast Guard Dis
trict In Alaska
WASHINGTON, (£*)—Secretary
of the treasury Snyder disclosed
Saturday that consideration is be
ing given to the re-pstamlishment
of a separate coast guard district
for Alaska, as it had during World
War II.
Snyder said coast guard chiefs
are now studying a survey of
Alaska’s defenses and will sub
mit their report “in a short time.”
The report is expected to re
commend a strongly increased
fleet and supporting shore instal
lations for the proposed Alaskan
district, along with establishment
of “LORAN” stations — used in
wartime to detect the approach of
enemy ships and planes.
Snyder, whose department has
peacetime charge of the coast
guard, also disclosed that he went
to Alaska about a month ago to
confer with Governor Gruening
on the project and to take part in
an on-the-spot survey of Alaskan
defenses.
The personal trip indicated the
importance attached to the plan
by Snyder and left little doubt
that a strong Alaska district will
be set up.
Both the army and the navy
have maintained strong establish
ments in Alaska since the start of
World War II, reflecting their j
view that Alaska is one of the na-!
tion’s “front lines of defense” and
a focal point in the event of war.
Alaska’s importance would be
greatest if hostilities develop
with Russia.
The army has made increasing
use of Alaska in recent times as
a training and maneuvers area. It
has also obtained large appropria
tions for building permanent in
stallations there for troops and
ammunitions storage.
The coast guard maintained a
separate district for Alaska from
1939 to July 1, 1947, when it
merged that district with the one
having headquarters at Seattle.
The merger was attributed to
economy. It cames after Congress
had reduced coast guard appro
priations. Recently, the Congress
reversed matters by increasing
appropriations for tl?e service.
Alaska’s Governor Gruening
and Congressional Delegate E. L.
Bartlett have long urged re-es
tablishment of the District, point
ing out that Alaska has over 25,
000 miles of coast line and that
more than two-thirds of its people
derive their livelihood from the
sea.
VASTERVIK, Sweden, UP)—A
landlord in this little town of Vas
tervik gave a tenant notice be
cause of his terrible snoring. The
rent control board refused to al
low eviction but ordered the ten
ant to install insulating material
to deaden the noise.
DREAM
THEATER
—•—
1 Show, Mon. and Tues., 7:30 p.m.
"TWO YEARS BEFORE THE
MAST"
Alan Ladd Barry Fitzgerald
Brian Donlevy - Wm. Bendix
Also ,
"Dixie Pointers"
—•—
1 Show, Wed. and Thur, 7:30 p.m.
"GJRL OF THE LIMBERLOST"
Ruth Nelson - Dorina Cliftoi\
Also
"Time Out For Play"
0. S. Has Only
One Battleship
• - — ;
WASH Ijfc TON, </P) — In
other w<Mlc»Jhe ‘‘Mighty Mo” _
be the country’s last battleship on
active duty, i
i But a light aircraft carrier and
! eight destroyers are coming out
of mothballs for a stepped-up
program of anti-submarine train
ing.
The navy in announcing this
last night said the reason is the
series of revolutionary develop
ments in underwater fighting
since the war’s end.
Thus by retiring the battleship
, Iowa about September 1, the navy
i plans to release more men and
| money for the anti-sub program.
The Iowa will join 13 other bat
tlewagons laid up in the reserve
fleet.
i
That will leave the Missouri—
the vessel on which the Japanese
surrender was signed—the only
battleship actively afloat,
i The 11,000-ton carrier Cabot
will be reactivated in about a
month, and the eight destroyers
will begin rejoining the fleet in
January.
Meanwhile, the navy joined the
i air force and the army in a pub
lic declaration of new harmony
Income Set
* (>P)—The indi
of Americans * in
1947 amounted to an average of
-1,323 for each man, woman and
child.
Tf $
The commerce department has
figured this out in reporting
that total individual incomes
zoomed to a record of $190,000,
000,000 last year.
The per capital average income
of $1,323 compared with $1,213 in
1946. This is an increase of 9 per
cent. ,
While the rise was general,
states in the Northwest did best
of all. They pocketed 20 per cent
more than 1946.
On a nation-wide basis, indi
vidual income was 25 percent
greater than the war peak year
of 1944.
among the services.
The occasion was a meeting of
300 top planning officers to hear
reports on the weekend Newport,
R. I., meeting of the joint chiefs
of staff.
That session was devoted large
ly to a clarification of the role of
the navy and air force in strategic
aerial warfare.
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