"Where The Trail Lnds And The Sea Begins"
1August 5, r-1954
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MANAGER QUITS
The PUD board of directors this week
received the resignation of dock mana
ger Hugh Watson. In his letter to the
board Watson stated "the reason for this
resignation is I feel that there is too
much management for only one dock."
The resignation! is effective September
1, The board of directors will undoubt"
edly act on the resignation at their
seating Vonday night. \
The resignation came after the ques"
tion of who"should longshore the tank"
ers that tied up at the local dock had
arisen at the last board meeting. The
PUD has a contract with t.be local long"
shoremen's union to.handle all ships
coming into port end they felt that the
contract should be honored whenever
possible. The board at the same meet"
ing- expressed confidence in Watson and
the manner in which he had handled the
dock in the past.
Last week the dock manager had in"
formed the board that in 30 days he
would start working eight hours per day,
forty hours per week, at the rate of
$2.50 per hour. He has been working,
on a flat $500 per month salary and has
placed himself on call at all hours.
In last week's NLW’S it was stated
that the reason for the dock manager's
decision to work on an hourly salary was
the request by the longshoremen's uniqn
local that in-the future the PUD
live up to its agreement with the union
and that longshoremen'‘be called to tie
up and release ,all tankers calling at
Homer.
The doc* manager i^ook exception to
this statement and asked that the Nt-WS
explain his reason as follows: "The
reason he said that he would work for
182.50 an hour was because some long"
shoremen can't seem to understand why
the dock manager trade- almost as truch as
all the longshoremen-"
A'atson felt so strongly about his
point in the controversy that he has
placed a paid advertisement in this
weekrs issue of the NLWS expressing his
views.
DEMOS TO MEET
Homer Democrats have been invited to
attend a meeting Friday night at 6:30
at the Skyway theatre, according to
Harry Hegdabl, secretary of the local
Democratic The meeting has been
called to appoint delegates to the Third
Division Democratic caucus at Seward
Sunday.
ELKS TO GATHER,
The Homer tlks will be host to a
group of about 35 Seward Llks Saturday,
August 14, according to Coke Nelson,
chairman for the affair. Plans call
for a lodge meeting and initiation cere"
monies to start at 7:30 to be followed
by a dance. Steamed clams or qrab will
probably be served during the dance,
Nelson said.
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POWER LINE
I'be new HE A. power line from Anchor
Point to Homer should be in next week,
according to Jiggs Tice, HE* manager.
Stringing of the wire.op the poies will
get underway soon after the poles are
all in, he said.
Tice also announced that the HE A has
cleared land on the^Gus Lofgreh bome
stead about seven and. one-half ceiles
from town on the Diamond Ridge road to
make room for a cabin for their new
radio transittter. The cabin will be
10 x 12 and will be constructed of Kwik
Logs supplied by Cap King. Three trucks
of the HEA will be equipped with radio
and will be inconstant contact with'
the Hi.a office in Homer. The transmit- .
ter and the equipment for the ' vehicles
are expected to arrive on the ship due
in Homer next week.
CHAMBER MEET
The attendance was small at the Mon
day noon meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce this week. Two topics consumed "
the majority of the time allotted for
business.
First a discussion on revising the
mimeographed information letter sent
:,out by the Chamber created some comment.
It was the decision of the group that
‘the letter, which was made up some years
ago, be revised ••and brought up to date. .
Homer Thompson, Jim Reynolds and Mary
High were appointed to do the work with
Thompson as chairman. , /
The second topic concerned the pos
sibility of a "package tour" of the Ho- t
.mer area for tourists. It was mentioned
that tourists have been known to arriv.e
in Homer expecting to find a tour sche
duled and are dissappointed when pone
is available. Howard Mybi11 stated that
efforts in the past by Paul Choquette
to get this type of tour for the area
had met with failure. Jim Reynolds of
fered his services to tourists if they
needed direction upon their arrival in
Homer.. " ';
Two guests were present during the
meeting, Earl Williams and Carl Morton,
both representatives of the Line Mater
ials company of Milwaukee,- Wisconsin,
were introduced to the membership. Mor
ton is the Anchorage representative of
the firm whi le Williams is out of the
Milwaukee office. •
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A; MARSHALL?
Fred Willi air son, IL S. marshall for
the Third Division was in Homer over
the weekend to check orf housing for ;a
deputy irarshall for Homer.- The possib
ility of getting a marshall here in 30
to F0 days was goqd,/beyUaicH but hous
ing would have to be found. ' A building
where a marshall could live, work and
install one or two cells is desirable.
Williamson said that four men have <
qualified for the job and had been cer
tified by Washington but he .did not \
state who they were or where they war$ r
from. ,
jne took to the air this
week with the establishment of the H0~
MLR NEWS RADIO STATION. The station,
which went on the air Tuesday night, is
received locally at 720 kilocycles.
"" Owned and operated by the Homer News
and the Homer Telephone Company, the
station is strictly a carrier current
transmission, and has, at the present
moment, a limited coverage. Reports
from listeners indicate that the station
is being heard throughout the Homer area
proper and isreaching about three miles
out on the Last Road. It is expected
that as the telephone service is exten~
ded the station will reach the Forest
Service station pn the West road and
out as far as Cap King's sawmill on the
Last road.
The station is hperating within the
limits of the Federal Communications
Act of 1938, according to Homer High,
chief technician for the station:’
Hours of operation for the station
have been set at 5:30 to 7 p#®. daily
except Sunday. The studio is located
in the Homer Telephone Company building
and the telephone number for the station
i s 47.
PUD .NEWS NOTES
The following news notes were con
tained in the PUD news release this
week. v
Payroll checks for the men who worked
on the power scow ’'Hornet" both tiires
it docked at Homer are now ready to be
picked up at the PUD office.
Francis Thorn has had his well dril
ling equipment at the hospital site
this past week repumping and bailing
out the well. The water is clearing up
very well and a new water sample will
be sent to the engineers, Rutledge,
Johnson and Tryck,for-chemical analysis.
No further information has been re
ceived from the PUD attorney concerning
the delinquent tax roll submitted this
past ’month for approval and order of
sale by the district court.
Dr, Provongha, who will manage the
planned Hospital-Health Center,- was ad
vised by letter recently of all devel
opments relative .to the hospital con
struction, and of a program to seek
funds, equipment, supplies and furnish
ings from various sources to augment
the money to be available from Terri-’
torial funds and that budgeted from
PUD revenues.
The new 'Fairbanks-Morse deep well
injector pump for the hospital well is
now on hand and will be installed at an
early date* The pump is presently in
storage at the Pioneer Hardware. •
In the very near future it is anti
cipated t^at it will be possible to
release a general agenda of PUD business
prior to the semi-monthly meetings. ' In
this way all questions in which the
public is interested ®ay be recognized
and the opportunity for expression of
spinions increased. It is. noted that
residents of the Utility District are
rery welcome , to attend all regular
meetings of the District. Regular meet
ngs are held the second and fourth
'ondays of each month at 8 p.m. at the
m office.