FIRST OF TWO
RATE HEARINGS,
HELD, KETCHIKAN
Witnesses presented their argu
ments at the Ketchikan hearing
this week before the Federal Mari
time Board on increased rates put
into effect last September by the
Alaska Steamship Company on
frozen fish shipped from Alaska to
Seattle. A second and last hearing
is scheduled to be held December
11 at Seattle, according to George
Sundborg, executive assistant to the
Governor of Alaska, who attended
the first meeting as a representative
of the Territory.
Sundborg said the hearing was
attended by about 40 people. Ten
witnesses appeared before Examiner
Robert Furness, named to conduct
both hearings. The witnesses in
cluded officials of the Alaska
Steamship Company, and cold
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storage officials and fish buyers in
Alaska.
Present Figures
Witnesses for the Alaska Steam
ship Company presented facts to
substantiate its claim that increased
revenues are necessary and why it
felt the frozen fish rates could
j stand an increase, Surdborg said.
Figures presented by the com
pany showed that in the year 1949
the total revenues in Alaska op
erations were $14,687,441.00 and
that the total expense of operations
was $14,764,432.00, resulting in a
net operating loss of $76,991.00.
This does not take into effect
an” returns on investment, the com
pany pointed out, according to
Sundborg. For a return on their
investment in accordance with the
Maritime Board accounting pro
cedure they claimed they should be
entitled to $996,702.00 before federal
income taxes. Finding a means to
increase revenues is indicated, it
was pointed out.
Increase in revenues based on the
1949 traffic in fish would amount
to $33,895.65 on frozen fish, pro
vided the rate now in effect is
' allowed and the same amount of the
commodity is carried as last year,
it was stated.
J. D. Nelson, assistant general
traffic agent for the company men
tioned that the company is now
contemplating rate increases on
other commodities including fresh
fish, shell fish, fish oil and fish
meal, on all of which rates are
too low he contended, Sundborg
said.
Drive Out Fishermen
W;;r.esses who appeared before j
the examiner to oppose the increase i
in shipping rates on frozen fish j
based their opposition largely on
the claim that increased rates
would drive the halibut landing
especially to Prince Rupert and |
that as a consequence cold storage
plants, fish buyers and others wTho !
rely on the fish business will suffer,
Sundborg said. I
The opposition contended, he said,,
that the Alaska Steamship Com- [
pany would lose more than it would [
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gain as a result of increased rates.
Ketchikan claimed that even if
the rate increases are allowed they
are prejudicial to Ketchikan be
cause even by the company’s own
figures the Ketchikan rates are in
creased to 28 percent and only 12
percent at westward cold storage
locations, Sundborg said. The rate
from Juneau was increased 18 per
cent.
Witnesses
Witnesses who appeared for the
Alaska Steamship Company were:
J. B. Nelson, W. P. McCarthy, audi
tors; Capt. C. O. Walsh, ship’s mas
ter and C. S. Duryea, general agent
for Alaska. General Manager D. E.
Skinner and others were present
at the hearing.
Appearing before the examiner
to oppose the rate increase were
Jack Mendenhall, manager of the
Ketchikan Cold Storage Co.; E. C.
Phillips, Ketchikan fish buyer;
James Pinkerton, assistant man
ager of the Ketchikan Cold Storage
Co.; Walter Stuart, former man
ager of Ketchikan Public Utilities
and George Sundborg, representing
the Territory.
Voice of America
Giving Red China
Dope on U. Nations
(By Associated Press)
The State Department's “Voice
of America” facilities have been
made available to the United Na
tions for broadcasts to Red China
and other sections of Asia.
West coast transmitters now are
being used to give Asia full cov
erage of UN developments. Relay
transmitters in Hawaii increase the
power of the broadcasts.
CAB MAN HERE
Fred G. Powell, representative of
CAB from Anchorage is at the
Baranof Hotel.
WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
Trade with Red
China Continues
Asserts Stefan
(By Associated Press)
• Republican Representative Karl
Stefan of Nebraska says he thinks
the actions of Red China should
throw the spotlight on what he
| calls “The dubious trade policies
that the administration and our so
called friends and allies” have been
1 following.
Stefan says some Congressmen
have called attention to the con
tinuing trade with Red China and
other Communist countries, but
| that there has been no action.
Stefan says that Red China is
getting dollars in trades, and that
the United States is in effect “fin
ancing the purchases of cotton and
I other war potentials to be used
1 against our troops.”
READY FOR EVENT
OF ENEMY ATTACK
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 — UFI —
The administration has sent to
Congress a bill to establish a civ
j ilian defense administrator at top
level with unparalleled powers in
the event of enemy attack.
NEAR SHIPWRECK
WILL NOT DISRUPT
VOYAGE TO ALASKA
A By Associated Press)
Three Portland men are deter
mined to go to Alaska.
Melvyn Paisley, Jack Lewis and
Arnold Johnson are not ones to let
a little thing ilke a near-sinking
disrupt their boat trip from San
Francisco.
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The three sent an S-O-S when
their ketch lost parts of its rigging
and had its auxiliiary engine room
flooded in a storm off the Oregon
coast Tuesday.
Two Coast Guard motor life
boats towed them into Coos Bay,
Oregon yesterday. And the three
say they’ll go on to Alaska when
the vessel is repaired.
Founder of Beech
Aircraft Corpor.
Dies, Heart Afeck
In Wichita, Kansas, a heart at
tack has ended the life of a vet
eran aviation industry leader—
Walter Beech. He was 59 years
old.
Beech founded the aircraft cor
poration that bears his name. He
had, been active in aviation for
more than 30 years in jobs rang
ing from test pilot to top execut
ive posts.
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