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j VIII, No. 13
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1951
Price 10 cents
ntrols Bill Good
‘ One Year
spite Truman
ASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
Truman prepared today to
mer again on Congress' door
a “good' strong price con
law'' to replace what he
d the “deficient” act he
>d last night.
r. Truman emphasized that
iccepted the new, one-year
c n s e production act—“the
;t I ever had to sign"—only
use he could not risk the
: of its rent ceiling and
lg priority control clauses,
it the bitterly disputed law
on the books, and its Repub
and Democratic backers de
ed it against the angry White
>e blasts. Their views were
tied up by the veteran GOP
st. Rep. Halleck (Ind). who
s a bill which, properly ap
1 and administered, will ef
control despite Mr. Tru
s statements.”
; the center of the storm,
lael V. Disalle's Office of
2 Stabilization (OPS) hastily
ored techniques for lifting
i ceilings to the levels now
ired.
salle ordered thousands of
i control roll-backs—and a
ly number of roll-forwards
to effect last night in the
hours before Mr. Truman
?d the new measure,
iw ceilings, held back for a
th during the Congressional
te, were applied to consum
:ems like radios, television
refrigerator and other home
iances, shoes, apparel, coi
exiiles, wool yarns and fab
machinery, chemicals and
</ building materials.
' rushing the orders out last
t, OPS avoided the imm di
necessity of rewriting the
igs to conform to the new
which entitles each manu
irer to pass on to buyers
full business cost increases
3 July 26.
E'S DINER OPENED
H RUSH
ward's new lunch room,
s Diner, opened officially
iay with a rush of business
really put the cook on the
e cook is Dale, himself, for
chief of Seward's Police
rtment. He is an expert and
rienced cook and restaurant
who digressed into the law
cement work upon moving
?ward.
eene took over the man
ent of Cobb’s from Mr. and
Larry Cobb last week. He
to specialize in fried chick
id steak dinners. These can
ad on reservation, or will
ielivered ready to eat to
wives wishing to serve
s in their own homes,
le’s will be closed on Sun
nights from 5 o’clock, but
serve the public from 5:30
to 1:00 a.m. other week
. Greene’s many friends
really kept his nose to the
stone, or to the gas range,
veek making him prove his
s as a good cook. They take
delight in goading him to
reparation of his specialty
lusual hours. But he is a
sport and comes up smil
very time.
•AMAGE IN EARLY
MING CHIMNEY FIRE
e-conscious Seward was
d at 2:30 a. m. today when
arm called firemen to the
hon Cafe.
damage resulted to the
ng from the chimney fire
i kitchen of the cafe. Resi
returned to bed upon hear
le all-clear signal some 15
es after the first alarm.
Alaska Game Bird
Regulations
AP Special Washington Service
WASHINGTON (AP)—‘•Secre
tary of the Interior Chapman
announced today the hunting
regulations for next fall for mi
gratory game birds other than
waterfowl.
Chapman said the waterfowl
regulations will be issued iate
in August, in order to give the
Fish and Wildlife Service more
time in which to analyze reports
from the northern breeding
grounds.
Chapman announced that the
hunting season for ducks, geese
and brant (except Ross s goo^e),
and coot, in Alaska will be as
follows:
In Ihe Second and Fourlh Ju
dicial Divisions. Sep!. 1-Oci. 25:
Third Judicial Division (except
Kodiak-Afognak Island group)
Sept. 7-Ocl. 31; First Judicial Di
vision and the Kodiak-Afognak
Island group. Oct. 1-Nov. 24.
Scoter, eider and merganser
ducks also may be taken in the
Third Judicial Division west of
152 degrees West Longitude
from Sept. 7 to Dec. 21. and in
the Second and Fourlh Judicial
Divisions from Sept. 1 to Dec.
15.
The Alaska daily bag limit
for ducks is four, and the pos
session limit is eight. Shooting
hours for ducks, geese and brant
in Alaska will be the same as
last year, from half an hour be
fore sunrise to an hour before
subset.
The daily bag limit for scoters
and ciders in Alaska is 10 singly
or in the aggregate of all kinds,
and the possession limit is 20
singly or in the aggregate.
The daily bag limit for Amer
ican and red-breasted mergan
sers is 25 singly cr in the ag
gregate of both kinds, with no
possession limit after the open
ng day.
Also for Alaska there is a
daily bag limit of not more than
(a) two Canada geese or its sub
species, or (b) two whiteironted
geese, or (c) two brant, or (d)
one each of any two of these
three kinds with a possession
limit of not more than two each
of any two of these kinds. In ad
dition, there is a daily bag limit
of four snow or emperor geese
singly or in the aggregate of
both kinds, with a possession
limit of not more than eight
singly or in the aggregate.
MRS. STEWART W.S.C.S.
GUEST OF HONOR
The Women's Society of Chris
tian Service held its regular
meeting of the month last week
at the home of Mrs. Thomas
Howell. The group met for a
short business session, led by
the president, Mrs. Bogard, then
was entertained by an interest
ing program discussion of the
medical work of the society in
the Philippines among rural
areas and among the students.
The discussian was led by Miss
Garrett who was aided by Mrs.
Charles Malin and Mrs. George
Green.
Guest of honor, Mrs. Robert
Stewart, ended the discussion by
telling about other medical work
of the society in the United
States, Alaska, and foreign
fields. Mrs. Stewart came to
Seward to officiate at the ground
breaking ceremonies for the new
nurses’ residence. The group was
favored by a duet by Gladys
Bollinger and Miss Yorkel, ac
companied by Miss Helen Case.
After several interesting games
refreshments were served.
Guests for the evening were
Mrs. King, Miss Clark, Miss
Burdick and MitiS Mary Clayton.
Car Demurrage
Charges Revised
By Alaska Railroad
The Alaska Railroad revised
its car demurrage rules and
charges on August 1 to conform
with an Interstate Commerce
Commission order which has
been in effect on all Stateside
railroads since May 1.
' The Alaska Railroad hoped
to side-slep this drasric action,”
J. P. Johnson, railroad general
manager, said last week, "but
a crriical car shortage and the
interests of national defense
makes ihe move imperative."
Unloading delays are "bottle*
necking ' ihe most critical ship
ping movement in Territoral his
tory.
The new order boosts mini
mum daily demurrage charges
from S3.75 to S5 and the maxi
mum assessment irom $7.50 to
$20 a day.
The railroad’s action followed
an urgent request to make more
railroad cars'ready for handling
vital construction materials ear
marked for military work.
A newspaper and radio cam
paign for Alaskan consignees—
particularly contractors—to ex
pedite unloading has been only
minutely successful.
Ships ere being delayed at the
military pert of Whittier ar.d at
Seward for lack of railroad cars
to iake their cargo. Meanwhile,
the voiume of freight moving
into the Territory is the heaviest
or. record.
Despite the staggering freight
undertaking,, the car shortage is
ridiculous, railroad officials
point out. The bottle-neck has
originated in the unloading of
cars, held unduly past the al
located free time. On several oc
casions more than 1.000 frei.h:
cars have been “tied up’’ at one
time awaiting unloading.
Permission to raise demurrage
charges on The Alaska Railroad
to those set down by the ICC for
Stateside railroads was granted
by the Department of Interior.
Under the new demurrage
schedule, shippers are still given
48 hours of free time to unload
cars. After that iima, however,
the railroad will assess a S5 de
murrage charge for each of the
next two days: S10 or. the third
ard fourth days and S20 for each
succeeding day.
Previously The Alaska Rail
road charged consignees 83.75
for the first four days the cars
were held after the free period
and $7.50 for each subsequent
day.
Saturday is also eliminated as
a free day.
Shippers qualifying under the
“average” demurrage charges
are still entitled to credits for
discharging cars early. These
credits can apply against debits
accrued in the first two days of
penalty time. But under the new
ruling, two credits—instead of
one—are now- required to can
cel a debit.
TWO LOCAL SERVICEMEN
HOME ON LEAVE
Pvt. Gene Kirkpatrick return
ed home on furlough Saturday.
He has just completed a course
at the Ordnance School in Aber
deen Proving Ground, Maryland.
The Kirkpatrick family came
to Alaska in 1946 from Aber
deen Proving Ground, where
Gene had worked during the
war. It was a trip to the old
home for him, and he returned
with many interesting color
slides from that part of the coun
try- He will return to duty at
Fort Richardson September 1.
Pvt. Ralph Erickson is home
on leave from Whittier. He will
return to duty Thursday.
Huge Expansion
Program for ACS
AP Special Washington Service
WASHINGTON (AP) — Con
struction projects are planned al
more than a dozen stations in
the Alaska Communications Sys
tem in the next 12 months.
The program was outlined in
general by Army Signal Service
officers in urging a House Ap
propriations Subcommittee to
approve $5,576,000 for the Alas
kan system.
This amount would be divided
between $4,176,000 for mainten
ance and operation and $1,400,
000 for construction of public
works.
Maj. Gen. K. B. Lawton, Dep
uty Chief Signal Officer, testi
fied the plans call for spending
$878,600 for ‘‘construction of op
erational buildings, utilities, and
so forth at 13 stations and $521,
400 for the construction of 22
family quarters at six stations.”
None of the stations was
identified by name.
Lawton said the operation and
maintenance request would in
clude funds to install new power
units in the Seattle Signal Cen
ter to offset failure of regular
commercial lines.
A S190,825 item for radio sys
tem construction, he said, in
cludes installation of VHF radio
link equipment to replace unre
liable facilities now used be
tween Anchorage and Kodiak,
new emergency power equip
ment at Anchorage, "the move
of the signal center equipment
and receiver station to the new
joint Army-Navy communica
tions building being built at
Adak," and installation of new
VHF equipment to provide serv
ice between Ketchikan and An
nette Island.
Lawton said the maintenance
and operation request was $3,
012,460 below estimates for the
last 12 months primarily be
cause of the completion of the
n;w pole line providing new cir
cuits between Anchorage and
Fairbanks.
AIRLIFT PLANE SEARCHERS
AGAIN DISAPPOINTED
VANCOUVER. B.C., (AP) —
Sea and air search has failed to
find “yellow objects” reported
sighted off the Alaskan coast in
the hunt for the missing Cana
dian Airlift plane.
A U. S. Air Force plane spot
ted the objects late Monday
night. The pilot reported they
looked like liferafts or lifebelts.
The big plane bound for Tokyo
with 38 aboard disappeared July
21.
The U. S. Coast Guard cutter
Storis made a wide sweep of the
area. 30 miles south of Yakutat,
but reported “negative results,"
the R.C.A.F. announced today.
Planes also combed the area
without result. Nineteen air
craft participated in the hunt
yesterday, and 21 were sched
uled to resume the search today.
CHANGE ON PAYMENT OF
GARBAGE BILLS
Charges for the collection of
garbage and refuse will be made
directly to Bay Service, Box
971; or to Alaska Bookkeeping
Service, Room 12, Northern
Building, as of August 1.
Mr. Charles Flynn, owner of
Bay Service, now handles all
garbage removal under contract
with the city. He has purchased
a new covered-unit collection
truck which will be put into
service upon its delivery here.
Mr. Flynn will work out any
difficuties of collection and dis- i
posal with householders if he is
consulted. He has recommended 1
a revision of charges to put busi- !
ness houses and individuals on ;
an equitable basis. 1
Peace Delegates
Haggle Over
Buffer Zone
U. N. Advance Headquarfers,
Korea., (AP) — United Nations
and Communist truce terms a
Main today refused to budge
from their opposing stands on
where to establish a buffer zone
across Korea.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy,
chief U. N. delegate, talked for
an hour and 13 minutis telling
the Reds what was wrong with
their demand. It was the long
est speech that has been made
in the 16 Kaesong cease-fire
talks.
The Communists want a buf
fer zone back along the 38th
Parallel, the old political bound
ary line between North and
South Korea. That is inferior
terrain for military defenses.
“Since this is a military arm
istice,” Joy told the five Red
generals, “we are interested on
ly in military realities.”
The U. N. insists that the
cease-fire zone be established a
long present battle lines, where
both armies would be in good
defensive positions.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
Deputy, U. N. Public Information
Oiiieer, told a news conference:
“Lieut. Gen. Nam. II, chief Red
delegate, seemed to understand
the Unued Nations position but
couldn't appreciate the logic that
we used to arrive at that posi
tion."
Nuckols said the U. N. aele
gates were patient.
He reported Joy gave a “pa
tient, logical, detailed analysis
and refutation” of the Red posi
tion.
Joy quoted a definition from
the Hague Convention to em
phasize the logic of the U. N.
position. The Hague agreement
says:
“A military armistice is a
suspension of military operation
b\ mutual agreement between
the belligerent parties.”
Reds Accuse America
Of Robbery
TOKYO, Thursday (AP)_The
Pyongyang radio today said the
U.N. truce team had -orders
from above” to set a cease-fire
line in North Korea and charged
“the Americans are making
every effort to avert the arrival
of peace to Korea.”
It said the line proposed by
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy. chief
U.N. delegate, would run from
Kosong on the east coast to the
tip of Ongjin Peninsula on the
west coast.
Kosong is 27 miles north of
the 38th Parallel. Ongjin Penin
sula juts out along both sides of
the 38th Parallel. The Commun
ists are demanding that the line
be drawn along the 38th Paral
lel.
“Thus the Americans try to
rob a large territory inside
North Korea,” the broadcast
concluded from Pyongyang,
North Korean capital. “The
Americans are making every ef
fort to avert the arrival of peace
to Korea.”
WORK UNDER WAY FOR
NURSES RESIDENCE
Excavating for the new
nurses’ residence building is pro
ceeding rapidly, and is the scene
much local interest.
First Avenue street construc
tion is growing proportionately,
is the fill across the Jefferson
street flume is being made from
lirt excavated for the building,
•n a short time, the street will
)e open to traffic from Adams
Street to the lake, thus creating
t new residential area for home
>uilding.