House Votes Refund
Fishing License Money,
Cuts Pension Increase
JUNEAU, UPi—The House com
pleted legislative action yester
day afternoon on a bill for refund
of approximately $400,000 to
non-Alaska fishermen for excess
payment on their fishing licenses
since 1949.
The lower chamber also voted
to cut in half the old age pen
sion increase,voted previously by
the Senate. The House amended
the bill to provide for an increase
to $9Q monthly from the present
$80. ? f <■* •,
The measure, must now return
• to the Senate. It also eliminates
all remaining citizenship restric
tions under the pension law.
The fishing license refunds will
be the difference between the $5
resident license fee and the $50
charged non-residents.
; The United States Supreme
Court held the difference was dis
criminatory, and illegal.
The Senate killed, by indefinite
postponement, a House bill to re
quire schooling to the age of 18
if schools were available and
tabled another to take juvenile of
fenders from under justice court
jurisdiction in felony cases.
Several secondary bills were
approved, including one to raise
the marriage license fee to $1.50
and another to make a minor over
the age of 16 responsible with the
seller for purchase of liquor.
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All Price Controls In
Alaska Are At An End
JUNEAU—All price controls in
Alaska are at an end effective im
mediately, Fred G. Hanford, terri
torial OPS director' said today.
Hanford said he received word of
the decontrol of all goods and ser
vices in a wire Tuesday from Ed
ward J. Friedlander, regional OPS
director in Washington, D.C.
The decontrol order is the last
step pursuant to the President’s
direction to terminate price con
trols. Hanford said it ends all con
trols in both the continental Uni
ted States and the territories and
possessions. ,
Hanford added, however, that
the termination does not affect the
requirements regarding the pre
servation of records as to past
transactions.
The official who has directed
OPS activities in Alaska since the
agency started in January, 1952,
said his Juneau office has been
busy for the last several weeks
getting things in order. He said
the Juneau office as well as the
branch offices in Fairbanks, An
chorage and Ketchikan would be
closed within a few weeks.
Hanford took the occasion to
thank Alaska businessmen for
their cooperation during the last
two years, observing that a law
such as the OPS “is not easy to
administer, since most people
have a natural opposition to con
tx’ols of all kinds.” He said Alaska
businessmen as a whole under
stood the necessity for controls at
the time and their cooperation
made the work of the OPS staff
easier.
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Alaska Freight
Lines Take Over
Ocean Van’s Run
By LOUIS R. HUBER
SEATTLE, March 12 — Alaska
Freight Lines Inc., announced to
day it is taking over Ocean Van
Line’s equipment and operation
between Seattle, Tacoma, and
Alaska.
Ocean Van Line had announced
earlier that it had suspended its
freight service to Alaska. It has
now leased its vans, trucks, trail
ers, cargo-handling gear and facil
ities in Alaska to Alaska Freight
Lines.
Ocean Van ships have reverted
to the parent company, Ocean
Tow, Inc., and will continue to
serve as Alaska freight carriers
on an irregular basis and without
the van service.
Alaska Freight Lines will inte
grate the container-van units OVL
was using into its present twice
weekly schedule between Puget
Sound and the Alaska ports of
Valdez and Seward.
“We feel that perpetuation of
the container-van unit of trans
portation, along with our own
barge - truck - trailer service, will
give Alaska the finest possible
transportation system,” said E. W.
Hundley, executive vice-president
of Alaska Freight Lines.
“By taking over Ocean Van
Line’s container - van operation,
we are now able to offer the
fastest through, controlled - tem
perature transportation for perish
able and sensitive commodities
moving into Alaska,” Hundley
said.
He also announced that Alaska
Freight Lines will commence tow
boat-and-barge service from St.
Louis and Chicago to western
Canada ports on April 15.
Using its own barges, Alaska
Freight Lines will schedule sail
ings for the 15th of each month
from St. Louis and Chicago to
Alaska.
Main ports of call for the ex
panded service will be Chicago,
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati, St. Louis, Memphis,
and New Orleans on oite end and
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Port
land, Seattle, Tacoma, British
Columbia and Alaska on the
other.
“We feel this new towboat-and
barge service will revive maritime
commerce which ended when Isth
Ocean Van Trucks and
Trailers Attached By
Alaska Railroad
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Ocean Van
Line trucks and trailers were at
tached Monday by the federal
government for payment of a
$314,160.35 debt allegedly due the
Alaska Railroad.
The complaint was signed
against Ocean Van Line and its
parent firm, Ocean Tow, Inc., by
Assistant U. S. Attorney Dave
Talbot. «
The bills the government claims
are owed include demurrage,
wharfage and switching and dock
age in connection with trips of
19 OVL vessels between Seattle,
Seward and Anchorage from Nov.
18 to March 2, 1953.
The firm has been in operation
for about a year.
The government action came
after the company announced it
had suspended service to Alaska.
The railroad, which carried
OVL vans from Seward to An
chorage and .Fairbanks announced
cancellation of its joint tariff
agreement with OVL.
The OVL equipment and Alas
ka operations are being carried cm
by Alaska Freight Lines.
Wife of Col. Mack of Ladcf
Air Force Base Found
Dead of Gunshot Wound
FAIRBANKS, UP—A six - hour
search by a thousand volunteers
ended Tuesday with finding of
the body of Mrs. Mary Millis
Storr Mack, wife of Col. Stephen
B. Mack of Ladd Air Force base,
in a clump of bushes near the
Chena River. She had died of a
gunshot wound.
The search began when her
husband returned home after his
day’s duty and found she and one
of his guns was missing.
The searchers finally found
footprints in the snow leading to
her body.
mian Steamship Company and
Luckenbach Steamship Company
stopped calling north of San
Francisco several months ago,”
said Hundley.
Alaska Freight Lines at present
owns eight powerful Miki - Miki
type towboats and 14 barges cap
able of hauling 2,000 tons each.
From Ocean Van Line it is acquir
ing 200 vans and 20 trucks to
add to its ..own highway fleet of
50 powerful Kenworth trucks and
200 forty-foot trailers.
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Lucky St. Patrick’s For
Mrs. O’Brien of Seattle
SEATTLE, (fl) — Mrs. Patrick
O’Brien could thank a total stran
ger—also an O’Brien—and some
of the luck of the Irish for sav
ing her life this St. Patrick’s Day.
Mrs. O’Brien, 50, wife of a mer
chant seaman now at sea, was
overcome frcftn a burning over
stuffed chair in her apartment
about 5:30 a.m. A visitor in the
building, smelling smoke, sum
moned the manager, D.F. O’Brien
—no relation.
He unlocked the door knocked
off a chain night latch, and drag
ged Mrs. O’Brien out as firemen
arrived. She was unconscious.
Her condition was grave from
shock and partial asphyxiation. A
cigarette had apparently smoul
dered in the chair since about
midnight.
Tests have indicated that almost
every person living in industrial
societies has been infected with
tuberculosis before he reaches the
age of 15 although serious disease
results in only a small part of
the cases.
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