Phone Service
is Speeded Up
The time required to place tele
phone calls betweei* Alaska and
the remaining 48 states and
Hawaii has been cut in half, the
U.S. Army Alaska Communication
System announced today.
This reduction of time applies
to the cities of Anchorage and
Fairbanks, the first major cities
of Alaska to receive the newly in
stalled automatic switching equip
ment. The new switching equip
ment will automatically switch
incoming calls directly to the
Alaska subscriber from the auto
matic switching equipment of the
Pacific Telephone Company locat
ed in Seattle. Formerly these
operations had to be performed by
local manual operations in Seattle
and Alaska.
The Seattle automatic switching
system and similar facilities in 52
major metropolitan areas in the
Upited States and Canada enable
local operators to dial direct to
telephones in thousands of com
munities on the network. Conver
sely, the addition of Seattle to the
. operator dialing network makes
it possible for. Anchorage and
Fairbanks, to connect to the con
tinental network. Thus operators
in these two cities can dial direct
to telephones in thousands of com
munities on the continent and
even in Hawaii.
The number of teelphone calls
made each year between Alaska
and the rest of the natmn is sj.eadi?
ly increpiilg! .Since. ^e^’^J y^hen
the cable of the A T&.«T;oQmpafty.
and ACS were placed in service,
there -hag been ahincrease of 56
percent ;oSfV number of. ’telephone
messages In 1953f‘ some1 267,000
calls were made, . - . v . L
$cout Leaders
graining Course
is Now Offered
! A Scout leaders training course
«s planned for Saturday and Sun
day afternoon at the Community
Center on the Naval Station, be
ginning at 1 p.m.
: The course is open to all Boy
Scout leaders, committeemen, in
stitutional representatives and all
interested people of the city and
on the Base.
The course will include train
ing in leadership, advancement,
outdoors, duties of the Troop com
mittee, etc.
Scout leaders will conduct the
course. These include Marvin
Wilson, District Commissioner,
and Vernon Draper, Neighborhood
Commissioner, with the help of
Joe Rayfield and Tom Nachand.
For further information or reg
istration, contact Marvin Wilson
at phone 378 or 240, or Vernon
Draper at phone 2801 in Kodiak.
Canadian Navy
Visiting at NS
Kodiak, Alaska, JJan., 17—Four
Canadian Navy destroyer escorts
of Canadian Escort Squadron-2,
docked at the U.S. Naval Station
here today as part of their routine
Northern Pacific winter training
Exercises.
• The flagship is the HMCS
CRESENT with Captain J.C. Pratt,
kCN, in coninra^d of the squadron.
' On board the CRESENT is Rear
Admiral H.S. Rayner, D.S.C.,
fc.D., RCN, Canadian FlagOfficer
of the Pa&iflc.-ThV AdfnSal VHtf
fly back to his, headquarters at
Esquimau, B.C., after a brief stay
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at Kodiak. ,r•..
The o.ther three ships in the
squadron ar$ the liMCS MARGA
REE, HMCS SKEENA, and the
HMCS FRASER. The squadron
will leave for Adak on Monday,
Jan., 19, and will conduct train
ing exercises enroute.
While at Kodiak, RADM Rayner
and the commanding officers of
the destroyers will receive an area
briefing by American Navy offi
cers attached to Alaskan Sea
Frontier and 17th Naval District
headquarters here. Afterwards,
the visiting Canadians will be en
tertained at a no-host cocktail
party at the Kodiak Naval Station
Officers’ Club.
Arrangements are being made
to entertain Canadian crewmen in
the station Enlisted Mens’ Club.
Rev. Deyneka, Jr.
In South America
Rev. Peter Deyneka, Jr. former
ly minister of the Kodiak Christ
ian Center, is now in South
America where he is appearing on
programs being aired over a
short wave radio station.
On his way to Argentina he
stopped by Quito, Ecuador to
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visit his sister and brother-in-law,
Rev. and Mrs. Jack Schlanko.
While there he has been' serving
as announcer for the program,
Old Fashioned Melodies, conduct
ed by the Schlankos. Ih addition
to this he has served as announc
er on other programs, as pianist,
and also as station announcer, be
sides assisting in the daily Rus
sian broadcasts.
The station over which he is
speaking is the international
short-wave radio station, HCJB,
which broadcast on a number of
short-wave bands. This station
can be heard in Kodiak daily
from 4 - 7 and from 8:30-12:00
p.m.
After a short visit there in
Ecuador Mr. Deyneka will jour
ney to Argentina where he will
minister among the Russian
speaking peoples of that Latin
American country.
Mansuys Vacation
John and Jerry Mansuy plan
to leave Sunday for a six weeks
vacation.
The Mansuys plan to go to
Washington, D.C., where they will
visitt Mr. Mansuy’s family. They
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will then « gotoMianWv* Florida,
and are hoping to be in New Or
leans for the Mardi Gva& 1 Thcjy
will go to Arizona and California
before returning. TUiey will, drive
most of the way.
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The SS United States and SS
AiAerica -could be . placed on it
with room to spart.
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