Vol. I
December 11, 1046
No. 7
TWO BOATS PROMISED BEFORE CHRISTMAS•
PAPER SHORTAGE
HITS NEWS PAPERS
aUR§Rh DORROV.'S supply
* FOR DECUMBER ISSUE
Paper shortages
because of the ship
ping tie-up are stri
king hard at Alaska’s
newspapers now.
A scarcity of news
• print has reduced the
Anchorage Daily Times
from eight rages to
‘ six in size .and has
lopped a column ‘from
the page.
The Cordova news
papers have been equ
ally- hard hit, with
the daily there tem
porarily suspending
publication for lack
of news print.
• Latest to be -vic
tim of the paper,sho
rtage was the Valley
Settler, mimeographed
sheet printed at Cal
mer. Last weekjs is
sue announced * that
there was raoer en
ough for only one
more edition.
The Aurora, school
publication at Seldo
via, purchased a tem
porary supply of pa
per in November which
allowed that monthTs
issue to be printed.
Board ITIeet ing
Is Postponed
The monthly meet
ing .of the Public Ut
ilities Board, sched
uled for P oTclock .
Monday evening, was
postponed because of
the absence of Jack
English. The board
will not meet again
until January.
Last week1s.annou
ncement of'the meet
ing was mistakenly
carried over the name
of Bob McNaaly as
chairman of the board,.
That position is no
long.er *ne of Mr. Me-*
N.e.aly’s duties. Jack
English now holds the.
n f! fM r» e*
Attention
i
\ Word just brought
fto The Frontiersman
jofflce &nncunce.s that
!the Homemaker^ noet-i
•trig planned. - Tor to-;
jnlght ha§^beerr..post-5
Jponed. . *\
The December issue
of the Aurora ’ .is, ’to
be printed bn £ a. ps re
borrowed from The
Frontiersman , ?;hioh
has an estimated six
months supply on
hand at the present
t ime.
ALAS K A, BA RANOF
TO SAIL SOUTH
•FROM SEWARD
Steamer loadings
are being pushed’full
speed ahead in Seat
tle* today. With dock
workers back, on the
lob since Monday, th*e4
Alaska. Steamship C q. K
has promised two sou
thern. sailings from
Seward before Christ
mas .
The AlasKa will
laave Seward on Deo.
2^ and is. scheduled
to touch at Juneau
and Ketchikan on her
trip south.
The southbound Ba
ranof leaves Seward
on Dec. 23 with sche
duled ports of call
at Valdez, Yakutat,
Cordova, Juneau . and
Ketchikan.
Meanwhile two add
itional supply ships
are expected in Sol
do via ,late this month.
The Reef Knot contin
ues, to load, at Port
land, and'the Lakina
is being loaded at
Seattle. She will
sail direct for Kod
iak and Seldovia.
The fresh foods
carried on the two
ships again will be
welcomed here for
most of the produce
on the Orommet Reefer
was frozen.