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UNIQUE PROBLEMS
Contrary to the belief of many people, the profits
earned by the meat packers, measured as a percentage
of their sales, are among the lowest for a major indus
try. That isn’t because the packers are any more
charitably-inclined than the rest of us. It is the result,
for one thing, of the fact that packing is a highly
competitive enterprise which is 100 percent dominated
by the natural law of supply and demand. And for
another thing, the packing business involves some
unique problems.
A packer, unlike most manufacturers, has no stock
pile of raw materials to fall back on when needed. He
doesn’t know from day to day how many animals will
come to market or what he will have to pay for them.
Such an unpredictable factor as weather can change
the situation overnight. In other words, no one has
any control over the supply.
To further complicate the situation, the packer
cannot hold much of his produce for future sale. About
75 percent of all meat is sold as fresh meat. It is highly
perishable and must move promptly. This means it
must be sold at a price that will attract buyers.
The prodf is found in the figures. Over a 28-year
period, 1925-52, the packers’ net profits averaged but
one cent for each dollar of sales.
$485,300 IS LOW BID ON
NEW SCHOOL FOR SEWARD
JUNEAU, W — The Alaska
Public Works Office announced
Wednesday J. B. Warrack Co., of
Seattle, was the low bidder on a
new high school building at Sew
ard, at $485,300.
The bid called for constructing
a two-story, two-classroom, re
inforced concrete building, a lab
oratory, kitchen, worshops and
administrative offices.
4-Year-Old Boy Strangles In Bed
CHICAGO, dPt — A retaining
board intended to keep a 4-year
old boy from falling out of bed
figured in his death last night.
The boy, Charles Gohn Jr.,
managed to wedge his head be
tween the board and mattress
and couldn’t get loose. In des
peration he threw his body over
■the board. He strangled.
HEAD RUSSIAN ORTHODOX
CHURCH DIES IN RUSSIA
MOSCOW, liPi — Metropolitan
Germogen, 74, head of the Rus
sian Orthodox Church in North
America and the Aleutian Islands
died Wednesday at Krasnodar,
church authorities here announ
ced. Death was attributed to heart
disease.
3 Radiation-Burned Japanese
Fishermen Pass Critical Stage
* TOKYO, (jP)—Japanese doctors
said today the critical stage has
passed for three Japanese fisher
men showered by radioactive ash
after a Bikini bomb blast last
March.
MMM HOSPITAL
Discharged: Alma Tungwenuk
and Wilson Gonongnon.
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Three Democrats Request Commerce,
Interior and Defense Depts. To Insure
Decent Alaska Passenger Shin Service
WASHINGTON, UP) — Three'
Democrats posed what they called
the problem of providing “decent”
passenger service to Alaska to the
secretaries of Commerce, Interior
and Defense Wednesday.
The discussion came at a meet
ing held in the office of Senator
Warren G. Magnuson, Washing
ton Democrat, at which Senator
| Henry Jackson, Washington Dem
ocrat, and Delegate Bob Bartlett,
Alaska Democrat, participated.
The members of Congress in
sisted that the territory is en
titled to ample steamship service
to continue.
One promise of support came
from Brig. Gen. J. P. Doyle, chief
of the Air Force's Transportation
Division. Gen. Doyle said all Air
Force personnel bound for the
north will go via Seattle Nov. 1.
Many have been going north from
San Francisco.
However, Gen. Doyle and Vice
Admiral Frances D. Donebrink,
commander of the Military Sea
Transport Service said regula
tions under which they operate
would not permit diversion of
enough passenger traffic to Alas
ka Steam to enable it to continue
passenger service.
Magnuson said some way must
be found to provide enough pas
sengers to permit the line to
continue operation of two smaller
vessels in Alaska passenger ser
vice.
Denebrink said the M-S-T-S
Assistant Interior Secty.
Felix V. Wormser Arrives
In Territory On Tour
JUNEAU, UF>—Assistant Secre
tary of the Interior Felix V.
Wormser arrived here Wednes
day to begin a tour of Alaska.
After conference Thursday
with the governor, Interior agen
cy heads and mine directors,
Wormser and his party will leave
Friday aboard the U.S. Geological
Survey boat “Waters” for Tracy
Arm. From there they will fly
to Chichagof and Baranof Island,
and to Sitka.
Alaska Salvation Army
Commander Transferred
To San Francisco
JUNEAU, UP)—Brigadier Eric
Newbould, commander of the Sal
vation Army’s Alaska region for
the past seven years, and Mrs.
Newbould will leave Aug. 9 for a
new station at San Francisco.
He will be in charge of the
Army’s Western Division states,
and Hawaii and Alaska youth
activities.
His Alaska replacement will be
Brigadier Max Kurtz, who is be
ing transferred from the Army’s
Border Division, including Ari
zona, New Mexico and the Texas
Panhandle.
Complaints Because He
Does Not Have To Pay Taxes
LINDEN, N.J., UP) — Stephen
Sembern was a tax collector’s
dream come true today.
Sember, who lives in a trailer,
lodged a formal complaint with
the city demanding to know why
he hasn’t been billed for taxes.
Sember said he had- lived in
trailer camps in various parts of
the country for the past 10 years
and always had been obliged—
and happy—to pay his taxes.
Why, he asked should it be any
different in Linden?
The council’s tax committee
promised to look into the matter.
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had never taken any business
away from Alaska Steam.
“Unless there can be diverted
to the private line enough pas
sengers to meet their needs, they
are going out of business,” Mag
nuson said. “We must do some
thing to aid. Apparently no help
can be expected from the mili
tary unless we can form a change
in policy, which we are prepared
to do.”
Jackson and Magnuson insisted
that representatives of the Mari
time Administration, Interior and
Defense Departments report to
their departments that the con
ference expects them to work out
a plan for preventing stoppage of
passenger service, then to report
it to the senators.
The senators declared they felt
it a matter of public policy to
keep the Alaska passenger ser
vice operating, and that if neces
sary it should be operated under
a subsidy, either by diverting pas
sengers from the military services
or by an outright subsidy.
No time was set for the depart
ments to act, but the lawmakers
stressed that prompt action was
urgent.
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China Refuses Accept 2nd
U.S. Protest On Downing
Of British Airliner
LONDON, Wi — Red China has
refused even to accept a second
American protest against the
shooting down of a British air
liner off Hainan last month, dip
lomatic officials said today. Three
Americans were among 10 per
sons killed in the attack.
The U.S. State Department dis
closed July 29 that the Peiping
regime had contemptuously turn
ed down American protests on
both that incident and a subse
quent fighter attack on two Am
erican rescue planes in which the
attackers were shot down.
The protests were relayed by
British charge d'Affaires Humph
rey Trevelyn. The Chinese would
n’t accept them from his hand.
Informants here said Trevelyn
had sought anew to deliver Wash
ington’s protest, but the Commun
ists refused for the second time
even to consider it.
The United States does not
recognize Red China and has no
diplomatic dealings with the Pei
ping government.
U.S. Secretary of State Dulles
said Tuesday the Chinese had put
themselves in the wrong by re
fusing the protests.
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