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No Agreement
On Fish Prices
Pete Gilmore and Elmer
Farris, repres&nf a t'iVeK 'of the
Alaska Salmon Industry, left
Kodiak last weekend after
failing' to reach an agreement'
"with ode-' rs of the United
Fishermen of Alaska on fish !
prices for 1951.
Negotiations, which must"
begin within BO days after the
Expiration of the contract, b>,
Iran on January 4 and con- j
tinued for eight days. The'
1950 contract expired .January 1
1. i
No date has been set for
further talks but a spokesman
for the union And icated that
they would be resumed bef A e
spring.
Mr. and Mrs, Laurence
Guice and son Lee were in
eoming.PNA passengers Tues
day.
Union Oil To
Additional F
Construction of a dock and;;
other installations for tl;e
•Union Oil .Company on'.their
property, leased from the city,
near the c’t : d- ch wi 11 begin
Monday, W. E,. “Red”
Thompson, distri it represent i
tive, announced Wednesday.
Ralph Shupp and John
Chase have contracted to do
the work, Thompson said.
The contract calls for the
construction of a dock,
capable of handling large
tankers, a small boat float
complete for servicing all
water craft, a dock house and
a two-* all garage for the
Company's oil tracks.
I Other installations include a
warehouse and office and a
modern re-fuelfrtg tack arid
facilities. i. - f 'Mm
1 Butch Perron, contractor for
The Community Baptist Church
invitHK yiiu
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■ We limit our activities to hauling oil
consequently you can depend upon us
to serve you,
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PHONE 3131 or 4303
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acllities
the'^erection of the tanks, will
return here to build another
tank. Thompson said.
T ie oil company will make
improvements to the tank
farm with the construction of
fire walls, the installation of
automatic gauging equipment,
temperature controlling equip
ment for the products and
other devices.
The project should be com
pleted by late spring and will
represent an investment of
$300,000 when finished,
Thompson declared.
“Upon completion Union
Oil will offer a complete line
of products. We have been
pleased with the acceptance
of our products in Kodiak and
the surroundingarea and we
will offer ? the finest service
possible to our customers,”
Thompson said.
Five of the oil storage tanks
Were built this fall, by Perron
And his construction crew.
Heavy winds hampered con
struction on the last two.
The oil company has been
I using a floating oil storage for
jits products since early last
' year.
Navy Divers
Subject Of Film
A Navy training film on
diving operations was shown
the Rotary Club Tuesday at
! the Montmartre Inn.
Lt. G. H. Grigsby. USN,
Salvage Officer in charge of
ship repair at Kodiak Naval
I Station operated the projector,
j The film included actual
scenes of divers on the ocean
floor and the operating pro
cedure of divers in keeping
their;lines clear and safe.
Methods of avoiding the
dreaded bends were explained
and rescue methods of in
jured divers were shown.
Guests attending the meet
ing were Paul and Harold
Stover, Dr. Bart LaRue,
territorial dentist. Dave Gib
son, Lt. Grigsby, Lcdr. A. C
Schoelpple.
W. E. “Red” Thompson,
Anchorage Rotarian, also at
tended the meeting. ,
Smoking Spitoon {
Signals Siren j
A smouldering fire in a brass
spitoon in the law offices of
Talmage L. Smith caused both
city fire trucks to make a run
Tuesday night.
A foul smelling smoke per
mated the 20 apartments in
the Kodiak Apartments where
Smith, has his offices, and one
of the tenants sent in the
alarm. The fire siren blew at]
7:21 pm.
Other than the smell and
the outraged feelings of the
tenants there was slight
damage.
In Anchorage
Mrs. Dorian Coogan of the
Town Club left Sunday for a
week’s visit in Anchorage.
Navy Recalls First
Carrier Flight
The Navy honored Eugene
Fly Thursday in commemora
tidh''W the first successful
takeoff and landing of a plane
aboard a ship.
On January 11, 1919 Ely
flew a Curtiss biplane to an
improvised platform aboard’
the battleship U8S Pennsyl-'
vania, anchored in San Fran-'
cisco Bay.
Ely held pilot’s license num-!
ber 17 and was a pioneer inj
the field of aviation. He was
awarded the Distinguised
Flying Cross posthumously in
1933 for his aviation exploits.
At the base, a special school
program was presented, and
grammar and high school
children heard addresses by
aviation officers.
Give,to MARCHOF DIMES!
KEA Manager To
Attend Meetings
Leon “Ole” Johnson, KE\
manager, plans to leavj
Thurs lay for Anchorage to at
tend a meeting of all Alaskan
electrical co-operatives in an
effort to organize an associa
tion.
Following the _ Anchorage
meeting, he will go to Wash
ington, D. C. to attend a
management conference of the
Rural Electrification Associa
tion.
The Anchorage meeting is
set for January 26 through
28. The -Washington con
ference is planned for Febru
ary 5 througn 9.
Johnson plans to stop for a
day or so in his hometow/n of
St. Peter, Minnesota, while
enroute to Washington. r
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