NEWS IN BRIEF
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ing to Ketchikan today under its
own power.
The coast guard, which flew
owner Fred McKay to the Eureka
yesterday, said the ship was ex
pected here today.
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — Passengers
aboard a Pan American Airways
plane were shaken up but unin
jured yesterday when the aircraft
came down short of the Annette
Island runway, company spokes
men said. The plane suffered some
damage.
Passengers were taken on to
Seattle in another plane.
H O N O LULU, </P) — Peter B.
Gruening, son of Alaska Gov. Er
nest Greuning, and Mary Jane
Mallison announced their engage
ment last night. Both are 26.
Miss Mallison, daughter of Mrs.
Laclair Robertson, Los Angeles, is
vacationing here. Gruening is a
United Press reporter.
SEATTLE, (/Pi — The steamer
Chief Washakie of the Alaska
Steamship Company, due to re
turn to Puget Sound on May 8,
following the completion of a six
month charter to the Pacific Far
East Lines, will be renamed the
“Chena” before sailing May 18 on
her first Alaska voyage this year.
The name Chena was chosen
from the River on which Fair
banks is located, the company
said. I
JUNEAU (/P)—Canadian fisher
men still are unable to sell their
catches in a United States port,
the collector of customs said here
Wednesday.
The collector said he had been
advised that a U. S.-Canadian
treaty which would permit such
sales by Canadian halibut boats
still has not been ratified by the
katiiKii Mon ii men I
Open For Tourists
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — Katmai
National Monument, on the Alas
ka Peninsula, will have tourist fa
cilities this summer for the first
time since President Woodrow
Wilson established it in 1918.
The National Park Service said
Saturday it has issued a five-year
permit for Northern Consolidated
Airlines, Inc., of Anchorage and
Fairbanks, to operate two camps
within the monument.
The main camp will be at the
mouth of the Brooks River. The
company also will establish two
camps at adjoining lands admin
istered by the Bureau of Land
Management. The airline will 1
provide plane transportation to
visitors from Anchorage.
Katmai is the largest of the na
tional Monuments. It has many
miles of frontage on Shelikox
Straits. Lying west of Kodiak Is
land, it contains 2,697,590 acres of
land and water.
The Monument long has been
known to wilderness fishermen
for its big rainbow and Dolly Var
den trout, grayling, mackinaw
and salmon.
Park Service fishing regulations
will apply—a limit of 10 fish in
one day’s catch and 20 fish in pos
session at any time.
U. S. Senate.
JUNEAU, (JP)—The fishing ves
sel Falcon of Juneau sprang a
leak and sank 400 miles south
west of Kodiak Island, it was re
ported here Wednesday. There
were no casualties.
A coast guard plane from Kodi
ak picked up the crewmen and re
turned them to Sand Point on
Popoff Island.
The vessel was owned by Alvin
Osterback of Juneau.
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The Fire Department was called
out this morning to a small cabin
on Kings Way and Steadman. The
fire was out, however, before the
department reached there.
Chrysler Strike
Ends; Workers Get
Pension; Pay Hike
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fication of the contract Saturday,
but none is expected to reject it.
Approval usually is automatic, i
UAW president Walter Reuther
claimed these gains, among oth
ers. in addition to pensions and
hospital-medical insurance bene
fits:
Three to 13 cents an hour more
for workers in several Chrysler
parts plants.
A boost of $31.10 a year in va
cation pay for workers with three
to five years service.
A check-off of union dues. »A
plan under which the company
deducts union dues from wage
payments-.
The UAW lost its demand for a
union shop, under which all
workers would have been forced
to join the union—after obtaining
jobs if not before.
The company still contends the
Union could have got virtually
what it received today without
the strike, which cost an estim
ated $1,383,720,880 in lost wages
and sales.
Only the General Motors strike
of 1945-46 lasted longer or cost
more. It cost $1,457,000,000 and
lasted 113 days.
The union claims its gains equal
the “10cents-an-hour package” it
demanded when it called the
walkout.
UAW president Walter Reuther
viewed the settlement as a “vic
tory over the blind selfishness of
the Chrysler Corporation.”
He added:
“The Chrysler strike was more
than a fight for pension, hospital
medical and insurance benefits
and an improved contract. The
Chrysler strike was a part of a
great human crusade to build a
better tomorrow and a better
world.”
Herman L. Weckler, Chrysler
vice-president and general man
ager, issued a statement stating:
‘(The new contract is a good
contract. It provides pension and
insurance benefits that should be
helpful to our employees in the
emergencies of life that people
are not always financially pre
pared to meet.”
Reuther and other union nego
tiators were bitter as they told re
porters of the settlement.
His voice unsteady with anger,
Reuther declared:
“Chrysler Corp. has sunk to a
low never before attained in the
auto industry.”
There was not even a surface
show of amity, such as usually at
tends the end of negotiations.
Asked to pose for pictures with
Chrysler negotiators, the union
men voted to refuse.
The 14-week strike was a peace
ful one. There were only two
flareups of violence, both minor,
involving only a few people with
out serious injury.
Housin'? Bids
Under Kstimates
ANCHORAGE, (A3) — Low bids
for 50 eight-family housing units
at Fort Richardson are reported to
be $2,000,000 below the govern
ment cost estimates.
Patti-MacDonald Constructio n
Co., of St. Louis and Kansas City
apparently led the field of 18 bid
ders. Specifications were so com
plicated however, that three other
firms might have an edge in the
final evaluations of the bids in
Washington, D. C.
The Patti-MacDonald bids on
five types of designs for the build
ings ranged from $4,253,422 to $4,
718,140 for the 50 buildings to
house military personnel.
The government estimate was
around $6,800,000.
Authorities said that if a study
of the bids shows that the row
type units for eight families can
be built at a reasonable figure,
the government may cancel tenta
tive plans to build 3.531 dwellings
under the Wherry Housing Act at
Anchorage and Fairbanks. Build
ings under the Wherry Act are
limited to $12,000 per unit.
The bids on the Fort Richard
son project averaged about
$10,000 to $11,000 per unit.
The firms listed next to Patti
MacDonald in the bidding on the
preliminary appraisals, were: J.
H. Pomeroy, Inc., of San FYan
cisco; a combine of Morrison
Knudsen of Seattle and Boise,
A. VS. Seeks More
Nurses. Doctors
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SAN FRANCISCO, i/P) — Dr.
Robert N. Shuler, medical repre
sentative of the Alaska Native
Service, arrived yesterday to re
cruit personnel for the hospital at
Mt. Edgecumbe, near Sitka. The
ANS cares for medical and educa
tional needs of Alaska’s Indians
and Eskimos.
“We need 30 registered nurses
at the new hospital and at least
ten others elsewhere in the Terri
tory,” Dr. Shuler said. “We need
at least three more doctors, a good
pharmacist and occupational and
physio-therapists.”
Idaho, Peter Kiewit Sons of Om
aha, and L. F. Baldwin of Seat
tle; a joint bid by J. C. Bocspflug
of Billings, Mont., Montana Con
struction Co. of Billings and S.
Birch and Sons of Seattle.
The complicated call for bids
on five types involved differing
numbers of bedrooms, basement
and other facilities.
\ Contractors also were invited to
j bid on buildings of their own de
| sign. Bids were accepted on the
whole 50-building job or on units
of 10 building each.
| The Patti-MacDonald bid for
concrete frame buildings of its
design was §6,067,387 for the en
tire project and $1,231,470 for 10
buildings. For light metal frame
buildings of its own design the
firm bid 06,066,308.
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