TRAINING Dili Yfor DR.
Doctor Philip H* Moore, hoad of
the Mount Edgecumbe Sanatorium, at
Sitka, Alaska,' and a Lt. Comdr. in
tho Naval Reserve, reported to the
U.S, Naval Hospital, Kodiak, Alaska
May 25, for two weeks active train
ing duty there.
Acting as host, Lt. Comdr. Dean
Schufcldt, MC, USN, Chief Surgeon
at tho Kodiak Naval Hospital, in
troduced Dr. Moore to the various
medical activities there, and to the
station as a whold.
Dr. Moore began his work in Alas
ka in I9I4.6 when he acccptod a po
sition with the Alaska Health De
partment. His Mt. Edgecumbe Hospi
tal serves the entire territory,
containing I4.35 Lods for tubercular
patients, and 25- for general surg
ery. Two thousand employees, en
cluding vocational teaching staffs
under the Alaska Nativo Scrvico,
aro employed at tho hospital.
Working under a grant from the
National Research Council, Dr.
Mooro and his staff at Mt. Edgccunbe
have completed three years of strep
tomycin research in combating tuber
culosis .
When asked why the disease was so
provelant in Alaska, the Doctor re
plied: "We have not determined all
the reasons for the high incidence
of tuberculosis in Alaska, but are
succeeding in checking it."
A graduate of tho University of
Oregon Medical School, Dr. Moore
entered the Navy Medical Corps as
a Reserve Officer during V/orld War
11 and served with the Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery. He later
served at various Naval Hospitals,
and as senior medical officer a
board tho USS Ajax, a general re
pair tender. • •
OPS NEWS
JUNEAU--Alaska merchants, along
with the merchants of the other
territories, will soon have tho ben
ifit of a realistic approach to tho
price control setup as applying to
territories, Fred G# Hanford, Terri
torial Director of tho OPS, said to
day.
Hanford's statement came after
conferences this week with Edward J.
Friedlandcr of Washington, D.C.,'
Price Executive for Region II4. of
the OPS, which ombraces all tho
territories. Friedlandcr is in A
laska on an 11-day visit during
which time he will meet with mer
chants in Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Ho met with Juneau merchants last
week.
According to Hanford, tho OPS
[Washington offico oxpccts to allow
tho territories' district offices
to make recemmendations for regu
lations for their own areas. Thus,
future regulations may incorporate
many of the ideas suggested by A
laska business men themselves. He
made it clear, however, that this
would not necessarily moan that
merchants would bo given everything
they want in the way of a regula
tion but will mean that their views
and suggestions v/ould be given
ifullest consideration.
Mo OPS District Office in tho
states is givon this much local au
tonomy, Hanford said-. Ho also an
nounced that Industry Advisor;/
Committees for various businesses
v/ould soon bo sot up to discuss the
tailored regulations.
Fricdlnndcr, who was v/ith the OPA
during World War 11, spoke at a
meeting of merchants in Juneau Tues
day. He said he was awaro of the
fact that many Alaska merchants '
havo expressed a desire to be allow
ed to operate under stateside Reg
ulations 7 and 11+, 15 and l6« Reg
ulation 7 applies to a large seg
ment of soft and durable goods and
Regulations lip, 15 and 16 apply to
food stores. Both are in effect
only in the states. At present A
laska Regulation 9 covers all the
commodities covered by the above
named regulations.
Friedlandor said he doubted if
those who express a preference for
the stateside regulations realize
fully what inclusion in their cover
age would mean. Ho said that al
though 3one stateside regulations,
notably those above named, do allow
a percentage system of marking up
prices, theso regulations also re
quire a ponderous amount of record
keeping. He also pointed out that
the percentage multipliers permitted
are .specified^by OPS and do not ’
necessarily provide a return as
large as that derived from the mer
chant’s pre-Korean percentage mar
gins.
Friedlander acknowledged that A
laska's Regulation 9 squeezes down
percentages in cases whore invoice
costs go up, hut said there should
be little fluctuations in those
costs once the current phaso of
"leveling off" is over. He made
special note of the fact that re
tailers' customary percentages may
bo squeezed a little in all regula
tions—whether in the states or in
the territories—since it is the
announced policy of OPS, in accord
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