One D & M Partner
Is Still Trucking
-It may be Dow Freight Lines
now, but the M of the former D
& M is still very much in busi
ness. Bob Mielke, the second half
of the partnership, is continuing
to truck independently, he an
nounced this week.
Mr. Mielke is doing business
as the Mielke Way Freight Lines,
with “offices in my truck,” he
stated.
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Remember? —Adv.
Vm getting service now that l have
entrusted my air freight problem to
Dependable
Mi McKinley Airways
All the Way.
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE
TO AND FROM SEATTLE
CHARTER TRIPS
Mt McKinley
AIRWAYS
Agent at D & M Freight Lines, Palmer, Phone 4
521 E Street, Anchorage Phone Main 746
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Hartley Bros. Motor Co.
Alaska Owned and Operated
FIRE PROTECTION
We have a complete line of fire fighting equip
ment for both home and business use.
— Also —
The handy new “POWER PACK” especially
for automobiles.
Drop in and see oar display
Tappan Stoves and Hot Water Heaters
‘ TIRES TUBES BATTERIES j
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Complete line of baby foods
the finest in meats and groceries
we specialize in hard to get items •
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Open Thursday Evenings Until 9 p. m.
ART MILLER, Manager Meat Market
JOE KINKADE. ROY SVENDSEN. Owners
331 Fourth Avenue
PO Box 1907
Anchorage
Looking Inside
From Outside
| Lots of embarrassing questions
have been asked at Alaska’s
freight rate hearings, according
to current news reports, but no- i
body’s been rude enough td press
for an answer yet. Occasionally
if a question hits too close to a
tender spot, the one who asks
it is chided gently with a re
minder about the rules in the
! freight rate hearings game. Some
, questions mustn’t be asked.
The longshoremen started
their move early, when they ac
cused the companies of bad
housekeeping. One union spokes
man compared some ship’s cargo
stowage with Fibber McGee’s
cupboard. Those overtime wages
are a pitter pill to take, too, the
union man said. They’re a
scheme of the management and
no part of union wants.
The owners got right back
in the game of unanswered
questions when they raised a
questioning brow over cargo
pilferages. They put one wit
ness on the stand, who helped
clear up the situation quite a
bit, when he testified that car
go thefts were undoubtedly to
be blamed on one of three par
ties—either the longshoremen
who loaded the cargo, the crew
who sailed the vessel to its des
tination, or the longshoremen
who unloaded it at the destina
tion.
About this time, the subs on
the ownership team began to
throw dirt at the first team, in
their effort to get into the game.
Their questions were designed
to show the first team hadn’t
been playing the game squarely,
but the referee disallowed their
point.
The territory of Alaska, bench
ed during the first part of the
hearings, scored well, with a
question about the why of one
rate for “town” freight to Alaska,
and another for cannery freight.
Owners said it was “hard to ex
plain” but justifiable.
* * *
National defense, which re
quired that patriotic Americans
get by without new homes dur
ing the war, may help build
homes in Alaska. Del. E. L. Bart
lett has a plan that relies strong
ly on national defense to bring
5,000 units of permanent housing
to the territory. That’s the num
ber of veteran’s houses Alaska
needs, according to estimates of
Wendall Kay, head of the Alaska
Housing Authority.
Mr. Bartlett, after talking to
Mr. Kay, has promised to do
something. He’s figured it out
this way: Defense depends on
| people. People need houses to
live in. Build houses, people will
! come, and there’s Alaska’s first
I -me of defense.
j The delegate expects to take
1 the matter up with White House
advisers, the Department of the
Interior and Federal housing of
ficials. He will concentrate on
obtaining permanent housing
units, rather than temporary,
which do nothing but shelve the
problem for a time.
• • •
There’s one Alaskan town
that’s still living on a war-time
basis, the War Department learn
ed recently. The Department post
in that town was planning to
shoot Unalaskans who go beyond
a military fence line.
The Unalaska garbage dump
seems to be the factor behind
the major’s threat. The garbage
dump was included within the j
confines of the post during the!
war. It evidently was convenient,1
for the army made use of it, too.
Now that the war’s ended, and
civilians are dumping garbage in
Unalaska on the old terms, they
often pause to reclaim a bit of!
Army garbage which strikes
their fancy. The shooting major
doesn’t like it.
The mayor of Unalaska is
quite bitter about the whole mat
ter. “This is the cleanest little
town in the world,” he wired the j
War Department, “but we can’t
even use our own garbage!
dump.” i
GIVE YOUR PORTRAIT
It’s the friendly way to say “Merry Christmas”
Phone 12Y3 For An Appointment
Palmer Photographic Center
PALMER COLD STORAGE AND
LOCKER SERVICE
Ml e are now taking orders
for your holiday turkeys
LOCKER SERVICE
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ALASKA RAILROAD WATCH INSPECTORS
Across from City Hall Aachorag*
There’s an O’HARRA bus leaving...
PALMER FOR ANCHORAGE
Daily at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
ANCHORAGE FOR PALMER
Daily at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
(Except Sunday)
Sunday bus at 9 ajn. and 6 p.m.
PALMER FOR WASILLA
Daily at 1 and 8 p.m.
Connections for Gulkana. Fairbanks and Whitehorse
On Monday. Thursday. Saturday. 11 a. m.
O’Harra Bus Lines
Alaskan Surplus Store
Now Opened
834 Fourth Avenue, Anchorage
(First Building Beyond the Times)
Good Stock of Winter Apparel at Real Savings
4- and 5-BUCKLE ARCTICS.$2.95
10- and 16-INCH BLUCHER BOOTS.$4.95
COMFORTERS.$1.95
WOOL and SHEEPSKIN JACKETS $2 to $12.00
You are welcome to come in and look arming «nd gee our
varied assortment
Dozens of Other Real Buys
•
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WE DON’T HAVE IT.”
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