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VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,984
JlTNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7,
1951
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Bond Issues Are
Passed by 6 to 1;
520 Ballots Casl
Five hundred and twenty tax
payers went to the polls ni yester
day's special bond election and vot
ed 6 to 1 in favor of the three
issues totaling $665,000. At precinct
No. 1, Memorial Library. 315 votes
were cast and at precinct No. 2, Ju
neau Dairies, 205 ballots were cast.
The city hall bond issue, $290,000,
carried by 440 yes to 77 no.
The street improvements issue,
$287,000, carried by 431 to 86.
The issue of $88,000, improvements
to the fire station and rebuilding
the fire alarm system carried 468
to 51.
The voting was light during most
of the day but perked up from 4
o'clock to closing time at 7 o'clock
last evening. That great interest
was shown in the three bond is
sues is indicated by the heavy vote
in favor of them.
City Council
Approves
City Hail Plans
City Fathers Lose No
Time; Approve Plans;
Apply APW Street Funds
The Juneau City Council lost no
time last night in approving pre
liminary plans for the new Muni
cipal Building following the over
whelming vote of confidence evi
denced by the passage of three bond
issues. The other two were for street
improvements and fire department
equipment.
Linn Forrest of the Alaska Public
Works and Harold B. Foss, archi
tect, presented the plans which had
been previously checked with heads
of the city departments and Mayor
Waino Hendrickson.
Forrest explained that since the
municipal building would be a Pub
lic Works project, it would be nec
essary to have approval in order
that APW could immediately make
requests for the needed priorities
for controlled materials. Application
must be in three months ahead of
anticipated orders.
Foss will now proceed with final
plans which should be completed by
next February 1 and bids can be
called for early March opening.
It was explained that the heating
unit in the adjoining new fire hall
has the capacity to also heat the
municipal building. The deadline for
completion of the fire hall is Dec
ember 20.
Juneau Volunteer firemen hold
ing their monthly meeting cheered
at the news that the $88,000 bond
issue for equipment and rebuilding
the fire alarm system, had passed.
Mayor Hendrickson reported that
six bond firms had expressed in
terest in handling the Juneau bond
issue.
Juneau’s Finances Good
C. J. Ehrendreich, city account
ant, made a supplementary report
on city finances and said, "I have
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TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
<CoDyr!«ht, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
rr ASHINGTON — The Navy has
taken an unusual stand regarding
the air warfare which is getting
more and more intense over Korea.
It has turned down a request from
General Otto Weyland, Air Force
commander in the far east, that
Navy jets ''help out the Air Force
in combating Russian MIGs.
With increasing Communist power
in the air, and with the Air Force
sometimes badly outnumbered in
battling Russian MIGs, General
Weyland requested help from the
Navy’s carrier-based Jet fighters.
However, despite the fact that
there is supposed to be armed
services unification, the Navy re
fused. Official reason was that
Nav/ carriers Were outside the
fighting, range.
Air Force officers point out, how
ever, that the Navy used to fly
its fighter planes as far north as
the Yalu River when there weren’t
many MIGs in the area; so pre
sumably it could do so again. They
also feel that for one branch of
the service to refuse to help another
branch in wartime—especially when
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A Conference Digests A Nation's Reports
President Truman and some of liis advisers go over some cf the reports and communications contained
i:i the daily niiil pouch which is flown from Washington to the L. S. Naval Baae at Key West, Fla.,
where the President is vacationing. Lert to right arc: Adm. Kohert L. Dennison, the President’s Naval
ride; William Hsssett, a Presidential secretary; John II. Steelman, special assistant to Mr. Truman;
Joseph Short, Presidential press secretary, and Irving Perimeter, assistant to Short. UP> Wireplioto.
UN Sealing of
Red China Is
Again Denied
PARIS, Dec. 7—«PI—The United
Nations General Assembly slapped
down a new Soviet Bloc attempt to
day* to seat Red China and oust the
Nationalists.
Meeting in plenary session, the
GO-nation group also:
Urged the Security Council, by a
! vote of 54 to 5, to approve Italy's
j application for U. N. membership
I It was considered unlikely the
j move would lead to Italy’s admis
sion. Russia has vetoed Italy three
I times in the Security Council anc
1 cast a negative vote today, fore
| casting a fourth veto. ILaly now
participates in the work of the U.N
trusteeship council, without a vote
in the administration of the ter
ritory of Somaliland, but not ir
other U.N. functions. The assemblj
decided to disband its special on
! the-spot commission (UNSCOB
which has been keeping an eye or
; the explosive Balkan situation anc
; give the job to a stand-by grout
i which will sit in U.N. headquarter:
j in New York.
The vote on the Chinese issui
1 came on a Eyelo (White) Russiar
j resolution denouncing a report fron
| the U.N. Credentials committee de
1 daring the Nationalists representec
1 China legally in the United Nations
, The Soviet move was defeated 3!
j to 7 with four abstentions.
Herbert Lang to Be
Here tor Two Days
During Coming Week
Herbert Lang, International Farir
Youth Exchange delegate from Al
aska who spent the summer in Eu
rope will be in Juneau Decembei
11 and 12 to tell of his experiences
He will speak at the High School
assembly at 11:30 a.m. and at re
gular Rotary luncheon meeting or
Tuesday, December 11, and at ar
open meeting where public is invit
ed at the Methodist Church, at t
p.m. Wednesday, December 12.
Mr. Lang's visit over the ter
ritory is being sponsored by th(
Extension Service says Miss Price
Home Demonstration Agent.
RECORD MADE ON
RECORD SHIPMENT
Something of a record was estab
lished this week in the shipment ol
400 pounds of records (phonograph)
from Seattle.
The Record Shop sent out an air
mail order for approximately $1,20C
worth of phonograph records Iasi
Monday. Wednesday Pan Americar
Airways delivered the order here
The air express cost of $56 was £
little more than what parcel posi
on the shipment would have been
Ted Kester, proprietor of the Re
cord Shop estimated.
FROM KETCHIKAN
Alfred Baker of Ketchikan is re
gistered at the Hotel Juneau.
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle Saturday.
Baranof scheduled to arrivi
southbound Sunday at 6 p.m.
Freighter Cassiar due to arrivt
Dec. 12.
Freighter Flemish Knot sched
ulede to sail from Seattle Saturday
I
; Bartlett Voices
Victory Optimism
ii Demo Banquet
Juneau Democrats gathered last
night tor a $5 a plate dinner and
I heard their guest *E. L. Bartlett,
' Alaska’s delegate to Congress, voice
a resounding optimism tor party
| victory in 1952 in Alaska and the
nation.
j “'The Republicans can not prevail
1 if we do the things we ought to do,"
j Bartlett said. He predicted that the
j task ahead would not be too diffi
(cult if Democrats lived up to. the
j promise of the party.
! "The job will be performed if we
| follow through on three main
I points,” he said, and outlined them:
[•TIV To spread the word abroad,
['telling what the administration has
| done in the past and what it will
Ido in the future; (2> We need to
biing the youth of Alaska into the
party. Many thousands of young
people have come here to make
their home—and we need them
and should try to enlist them in our
party; <3> We should make sure
this party remains the progressive
! party, the liberal party, and the
1 truly democratic party."
Bartlett took a swing at persons
who called themselves conservative
Democrats, saying that for those
there only remained the Republican
party.
Demos Must Stand l*at
"The Democratic party must not
yield to those who would stand
pat,” Bartlett said. If we do these
things I have outlined, we ar bound
to succeed. We will prevail, not
only in 1952, but in 1954 and far,
j far into the future.”
Gov. Ernest Gruening said that
with the coming to power of the
Democratic party 18 years ago the
forward progress of Alaska began.
He said that while the national
population grew between 1900 and
1930, Alaska’s population dropped.
"Then we began to move,” Gov.
Gruening declared. “This was be
cause the people had elected a party
which respected the interests of the
common people.”
The governor said there was “no
intention of stopping that forward
movement.”
“All the Democratic party stands
for is progress,” he said. “We must
remain democratic in spirit, name
and fact. If the day comes when
we are npt responsible to the prin
ciples of our party—then we de
serve to be thrown from office.”
J. Gerald Williams, attorney gen
eral, declared strong allegiance to
Gov. Gruening and the present ad
ministration.
“We owe all to our far-thinking
earnest-planning governor, Ernest
Gruening,” Williams stated. He also
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• WEATHER REPORT *
• <U. S. WEATHER BUREAU •
• Temperatures lor 24-Hour Period •
• At Airport: Maximum, 34; •
• Minimum, 28. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with mixed rain and •
• snow tonight. Mostly cloudy •
• Saturday with occasional snow •
• showers. Southeasterly winds •
• 15 to 20 mph tonight. Low to- •
• night near 33 and low Satur- •
• day near 36. •
• *
• precipitation •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
• .At Airport — 0.06 inches; •
■ • since July 1—18.14 inches. •
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Proposal
May Avert
Shiplieup
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7—tl**—
The Marine Firemen’s Union is con
sidering an employers’ proposal not
make public, which may avert a
threatened tieup of west coast non
military ships.
The proposal was made by the
Pacific Maritime Association after
MFU members voted yesterday
against signing the required sailing
articles on non-military ships until
granted higher base pay.
A union spokesman said 12 ships
in San Francisco Bay would be
affected in the next few days by
the firemen's action. Three ships
tied up in Seattle were held in
Puget Sound.
Vincent J. Malone, union presi
dent. said his men are insisting
that PM A carry out the terms of
what he calls "a favored nation
agreement.”
This agreement, signed July 3,
calls for a contract reopening prior
to Dec. 30, 1951, if between June 16
and that date the PMA grants
higher wages and better working
conditions to any other unlicensed
seamen’s union.
Wednesday, PMA agreed to a 6.2
percent wage increase for the un
affiliated Marine Cooks and Stew
ards Union.
J. N. Greathouse, the union’s
port agent at Seattle said the three
ships at Seattle would be permitted
to visit Puget Sound for loading or
unloading, hut union crewmen
would not sign on for voyages. He
I listed them as the Denali of the
Alaska Steamship Co., the Hawaiian
Craftsman of the Matson Line and
| the Ocean Mail of the American
Line.
Ex-Alaska Woman
Dies in Seattle
SEATTLE, Dec. 7—(iD—Mrs. Helen
I. Anderson, 50, died Wednesday
night. She was born in Palisade.
Colo., and had lived in Anchorage
and Seldovia, Alaska, many years
before coming to Seattle three years
ago.
Surviving are her husband, Capt.
Jack C. Anderson, and two sons,
John and Jack C. Anderson Jr.,
Seattle.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow in the Bonney-Watson
thapel.
'.urt Shattuck to Be
Greeted by Neon Sign
When Curtis Shattuck of the
Shattuck Insurance Agency arrive
home today — weather permitting
he will be surprised to see the usual
dignified neon sign in his office
window reading "Glad You Are
Home Curt.”
It is a prank by the girls in his
office. The changeable sign i
ordinarily used to spell out brief
reminders relating to insurance
such as on slippery days. “Were
You Liable?”
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Mary M. Hagerup of Juneau and
Elmer S. Turley, a seaman stationed
rfn the US. Coast Guard cutter
Storis, have applied for a marriage
license from the office of the U.3.
Commissioner.
Atomic
Artillery
Developed
Army's Chief of Staff
Makes Statement;
Alaskan Defenses Strong
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — UP) —
Gen. ,L Lawton Collins says the
United States has developed atomic
artillery and he indicated that such
weapons may be ready for combat
use in the “not too distant” future.
The Army's Chief of Staff said
atomic weapons will not revolu
tionize ground warfare but they
will "greatly enhance the power of
defense” and be of greater value in
defense than in attack.
Collins added that the Army
already is making plans for the
day when atomic artillery and
guided missile battalions will re
place some of the conventional
heavy artillery. I
He declined to say when the
Army expects to have tactical
atomic weapons, “it is not in the
too distant future," the general
said, "but that is all I am going to
say.”
Collins made these "statements in
a radio broadcast.
He also said:
(li He still believes there will be
an armistice in Korea.
(2) With an armistice, the with
drawal of American troops from
Korea will depend largely on any
political agreements reached be
tween the Reds and the Allies. He
ndded: "We should not expect the
early reduction of any of our forces
in Korea.”
(3) If truce talks fail, it is pos
sible the Allies will bring greater
sea and air pressure against Red
China.
r;»4’ The United Nations’ defense,
line in Korea is so strong that itj
will hold “under any foreseeable de
velopment that Is likely to occur.”
(5). Alaskan defenses are strong
enough to hold against Soviet at
tack.
Committee
Reports Air j
Base'Waste' i
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — UR
The Senate Armed Services sub
committee on preparedness reported
today it had found many instances
of "trivial waste” at six air force
bases.
"To tolerate these minor wastes
is to sanction Inevitable large-scale
waste,” the group’s 34th report de
clared. “The days of luxury are
over for our military establish
ment.”
The subcommittee was set up
soon after the Korean war broke
out, to check on the nation’s mobi
lization program.
Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson
(D-Tex) said subcommittee in
vestigators had found “what ap
peared to be other more glaring
instances of waste” at the bases
than those covered in the report.
But he added that further In
vestigation of these is required
before making a public report on
them.
The six bases are Langley near
Norfolk, Va.; Carswell near Fort
Worth, Tex.; Lowry near Denver,
Colo.; Mather near Sacramento,
Calif.; March near Riverside, Calif.;
and Keesler near Biloxi, Miss.
The report, the group’s first de
voted to a survey of a number of
air force bases, listed these as
samples of waste:
Overstocking food at some of the
bases.
Substitution of “elaborate . . .
costly” dining hall furniture for
serviceable equipment.
Request for a lighted baseball
diamond, a golf course and other
‘lavish recreational facilities” at
Mather.
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13
SHOPPING DAYS
O CHRISTMAS
Don't Sing 'Remember Pearl Harbor'
To Ken Who First Spotted Jap Planes
IS Years Ago - They Can't Forget It
Well, Do You
Know What This
Day Means!
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Dec. 7—UP>—
Charlotte news reporters went out
among shoppers today and asked,
"do jjou (know anything special
about this day?”
"It's pay day,” one man said
happily.
“I’m not from Charlotte,” another
fellow replied,’ “so I don’t know
what’s special about today.”
"Can't think of a thing today,
except it's raining," another res
ponded.
One man was in a hurry, so he
said, "I haven’t got tithe to answer
fool questions. I'm a busy man"
“Yes, I know,” a woman ventured.
"It's my sister-in-law's birthday."
Only about cne-half of more than
a score questioned knew that it was
the 10th anniversary of Pearl Har
bor.
White Russia
Gets British
OK for UN Seat
LONDON, Dec. 7— UR—Britain is
supporting White Russia for a seat
in the United Nations Security
Council despite the opposition of
the United States.
The United States is backing
Qreece for the seat.
"We'll keep on backing White
Russia unless it becomes apparent
that Greece is going to muster the
necessary two-thirds mapority,” said
one official. "Then we probably will
switch over to Greece.
"You’ll recall we did something
similar in 1949. We supported
Czechoslovakia, while the United
States supported Yugoslavia. We
finally switched to Yugoslavia when
it became certain Yugoslavia would
get the seat.”
Officials said Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden decided to back
White Russia even though he knew
it would be highly unpopular with
Greece and the United States.
GREECE DISAPPOINTED
ATHENS, Dec. 7—UP!— Press re
ports that Britain and France had
split with the United States and
supported White Russia instead of
Greece for a seat on the UN Sec
urity Council caused disappoint
ment and surprise in official and
political circles in Athens today.
Greece papers said Britain and
France were trying to "propitiate”
Russia. Propitiation ia another word
for appeasement.
Alaska Pioneer
Mining Man Dies
In Washington
SEATTLE, Dec. 7—(tfl—Oliver B.
Millett, Seattle and Alaska pioneer,
who married here two years before
the "Big Fire" of 1889, died Tues
day at Sedro-Woolley. He was 87.
Bom’in Nova Scotia, he lived in
Alaska from 1897 to 1940, mining in
the Dawson, Nome and Iliamna
areas. He was one of the founders
of the Masonic Lodge at Valdez,
Alaska; Past Master of the Ma
sonic Lodge at Sedro-Woolley, and
member of the Alaska Pioneers As
sociation.
Surviving are his widow, Thresa,
a daughter, Mrs. L. Hicks Taylor
of Seattle; and a son, Hugh H. Mill
ett of Dillingham, Alaska.
Petersburg Gets
$55,430 for Work
On Boat Harbor
Frank Metcalf, highway engineer,
announced today that he had allo
cated $55,430 to the city of Peters
burg for the reconstruction of the
small boat harbor there.
The successful bidder for the work
is the Cole and Paddock construc
tion company of Juneau. Metcalf
says Petersburg has agreed to re
move all obstructions from the har
bor before construction starts.
VISITOR FROM ANGOON
Larry Jackson of Angoon is stop
ping at the Hotel Juneau.
* WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—UB—'The
one time army private who first
spotted Japanese planes moving in
on Pearl Harbor is a railroad man
now. Don’t sing "Remember Pearl
Harbor" to him. He doesn't care
for the song.
His buddy, who also stared at
j the radar screen that tragic Sun
day morning and figured something
was lip, now works in a telephone
office. He thinks the U. S. would
be “more alert” to any sneak at
tack today. He hopes so, anyway.
And the Lieutenant who receiv
ed their report of approaching
planes? He’s commanding the
81st Airbase Group in England
these days. He still says he was
surprised that the planes turned
out to be enemy bombers on a
sleepy morning 10 years ago today.
That’s the 10-year-after story
of Pvt. Joseph L. Lockard, who later
became a first lieutenant; of Pvt.
George E. Elliott, later a sergeant;
and Lt. Kermit A. Tyler, now a
lieutenant colonel.
"Ten years ago as a first lieut
enant," Tyler told a reporter at
Bentivaters, Suffolk, Eng., “I was
watch officer in the fighter opera
tions room at Wheeler Field (Ha
waii).
“As the clock neared seven, the
I night staff moved off and I was
left with only a telephone operator.
' The phone rang. The radar tower
! reported planes on the screen.
•'We were expecting some B-17’s
i in but not frpm that direction, so
I was surprised and told radar
to keep watching.”
The bombs began falling at
: 7:55 a.m.
Tyler is 38 now. He’s getting ev
I erything ready for his wife, Mar- (
I iun, of Palo Alto, Calif., and their I
: two children to Join him by Chrlst
| mas.
Lockard, 30, who phoned the first
message to Tvler on Pearl Harbor
Day, is an assistant track supervi
sor for the Pennsylvania Railroad
in Philadelphia.
Like Tyler, he's married and has
a son and a daughter. He doesn't
care much for talking about the
old days—especially Pearl Harbor
Day.
Lockard’s recollection differs a
little from Tyler's. He has said pre
viously that the lieutenant, when
informed of the approaching air
craft, told him to “forget it.”
Elliott, 33, is married and has one j
son. He does clerical work for
the New Jersey Bell Telephone
Company at Asbury Park, N. J.,
and lives in nearby Long Branch.
Thinking back to Dec. 7, 1941,
and the “large flight of planes”
that showed up In the radar screen,
Elliott says he was just plain be
I wildered—“it didn’t seem possible.”
Sedatives in Death
Of Detective Make
Murder Case Claim
j CULVER CITY, Calif., Dec. 7—JP)
I —An autopsy surgeon said today
! the death of an attractive feminine
I private detective was due to bar
biturate poisoning.
“This expands our investigation
into a murder case,” said Police
Chief O. B. Olsen.
Mrs. Shirley Kivlin, 24, auburn
haired divorcee, had in some man
ner received a lethal dose of a bar
biturate, probably seconal, Dr. Ir
ving Madoff, assistant county au
| topsy surgeon, reported.
The cause of death Monday had
been a mystery.
The chief theorized that some
one may have deliberately slipped
j a barbiturate capsule into a drink,
I w ith robbery or criminal attack the
1 possible motive.
CORDOVAN IS HERE
Otto Koppen, long time Cordova
resident, arrived here yesterday
j from Seattle on PAA and is stop
ping at the Hotel Juneau.
j ---
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Dec. 7—(Ji—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%. American Can
111, American Tel. and Tel. 1581 _•.
Anaconda 50%, Douglas Aircraft
60%. Oeneral Electric 57%, General
! Motors 51%, Goodyear 44%, Kenne
J cott 88, Libby McNeill and Libby
8%, Northern Pacific 66%, Stan
dard OH of California 50%. Twen
tieth Century Fox 19%, U.S. Steel
40%, Pound *2.80%, Canadian Ex
change 97.31%.
Sales today were 1,990,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 266.97, rails 83.47, util
ities 44.63.
Two Big
Air Force
Planes Lost
Sixteen Men Aboard
One Craft with Ten on
Another Missing Ship
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — —
U.S. Air Force headquarters said
today that a B-29 Superfort bomber
crashed into the sea near the Azores
yesterday with 16 men aboard.
The body of one man has been re
covered but there have been no
sightings to indicate any survivors
from the plane which was bound
nal Revenue testified today that
Field, Tampa, Fla.
The information was received at
Washington from the Military Air
Transport Service base at Lages in
the Azores.
The big plane was believed to
have crashed about five miles from
Lages, which it had left a few min
utes earlier.
A U.S. air force cargo plane with
10 aboard also disappeared last
night after radioing in only 40 miles
from its destination at Marseille.
France. The plane, a twin-engine
C-47 on a flight from Tripoli, may
have crashed in the mountainous
terrain along the French Riviera or
in the Mediterranean.
(an'l Find
Any MIGs lo
Shoot Down
SEOUL, Dec. 7—OH—A few AHied
Jets hunted unsuccessujly through
storm cluods today for Communist
MIG-15s in hopes of extending their
record breaking 11 day series of
victories over the Red Jets.
The Reds remained safely at their
bases in Manchuria.
The weather was so bad over
Korea the U. S. Fifth Air Force
was held to only 103 flights up to
6 p.m. , i
But neither rain nor cold kept
Communist infantrymen from mak
ing small scale stabs at the Allies
along the central front.
The Reds launched five small
probing attacks shortly after mid
night southwest of Kumsong on
the center of the 145 mile Korean
front. United Nations outposts beat
back four of thepc stabs.
The Fifth Allied unit withdrew
from its advance position in the
face of the attack.
Otherwise, the U. S. Eighth
Army’s evening communique said,
the fronts were quiet.
Reds Hml Only
Half of Total
As Prisoners
MUNSAN, Korea. Dec. 7—UB—
A Communist correspondent hinted
today that no more than half of
the 10,000 Americans reported miss
ing in Korea are prisoners of war.
The report came from a Chinesa
newsman at Panmunjom, where
Allied truce negotiators today op
ened a major effort to reach agree
ment on a compromise program for
policing an armistice.
The Allies dropped their demand
for a joint UN-Communist inspec
tion teams. They also told the Reds
.he question of withdrawing troops
from Korea could be “brought up
and discussed later." But they said
troop withdrawal early in the arm
istice is out.
Chu Chi-Ping, a Communist cor
respondent covering the armistice
negotiations, told Allied newsmen
he knew of no war in which more
than half of the soldiers listed as
missing were prisoners.
“I do not see why the Korean
war would be different from other
wars in this respect," he said.
TIDE TABLES
• DECEMBER 8 •
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• Low tide 3:43 a.m., 3.8 ft. •
• High tide 10:12 a m., 16.3 ft. •
• Low tide 4:46 p.m., 1.9 ft. •
• High tide 11:04 p.m.. 13.6 ft. •
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