Sues For Loss
Of Fish Oil
Oceanic Fisheries Co. Inc.
has filed suit against Kotzebue
Oil Sales, Inc. for $307,415 for
the alleged loss of an entire
cargo of fish oil by the sinking
of the oil barge, Arctic Chief
late in November.
The oil barge went aground
on Seal Rocks, approximately
four miles north of Marmot
Island, when a tow line to the
John Michael, tug, parted.
Kotzebue Oil Sales had con
tracted to deliver the oil barge
to Seattle.
Efforts to recover the barge
by the Kodiak Salvor, salvage
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vessel skippered by Bob Lo
gan, Met with failure when a
storm blew up and caused the
oil barge to shift its position.
When the oil barge broke
from the tow it hit the rocks
and partly submerged in a
j vertical position in 17 fathoms
of water.
Archie Ferguson, Kotzebue
j resident, is head of Kotzebue
Oil Sales, owner of the tug.
The oil barge was being towed
from Port Vita, herring re
duction plant on Kodiak Is
land, to Seattle at the time of
the sinking.
Gil Joynt, of the CAA in
Anchorage, came here by
PNA Monday.
Dining and Dancing
CASINO
SPORTING CLUB, INC.
for your listening pleasure
>*¥etett '2'VaiaCeaCe
at the piano
KODIAK WELDING WORKS
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For all your
WELDING NEEDS
or problems
PHONE 2151
NEW LOW FARES
°n
PACIFIC NORTHERN
AIRLINES
KODIAK to ANCHORAGE $35
KODIAK to HOMER $18.25
KODIAK to JUNEAU $105
Tax is not included in fares
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Ray Martin, District Traffic Agent
Club Liquor Store
Phone 4131
Cabs right
License j
j Renewal j
The possibility of a cab-bus
war ioomed Wednesday night
[as an tltercation between cab-,
[drivers and Jim Loan, man-1
,'agerof the Kodiak Transit
Company, was aired before)
the city council.
Edward Metzker and John!
McLaughlin, cao drivers and)
members of the Teamsters
'Union, objected to the re
newal .»! a cab license to Loan,
and charged that he “was out
'to run the cabs out of busi
i ness”.
!
Loan heatedly denied the;
accusation and said that the1
statements made by the two1
men were “a misrepresenta
tion of the facts”.
In July of last year the
council approved the issuance
of a cab license to Loan
despite a city ordinance which
limits the ru nner of cabs.
Wednesday night Mc
Laughlin said that Loan
threatened to use the G. I.
Bill of Rights to obtain his
cat) license from the council
and that he claimed he was
forced to give up his cab busi
ness in the early war years
because he was drafted.
McLaughlin also said that
Loan was using his cab to
haul bus passengers and that
by doing so he deprived the
other cab drivers of business. '
“We (cab drivers) are being
injured by unfair competition
and our businesses will dis
integrate if Loan continues to
operate his cab, ” MacLaugh- (
lin said. “We will exhaust'
every effort to avoid a cab war I
but we have powerful weapons ,
if one should come. We ask1
the council not to re-issue
Loan a cab license.” ■,
Loan answered the-charges
by oeclaring, “Their accusa-!
tior.s are a bold, barefaced ’
lie.” He said that he did not
own the Kodiak Transit Com- j
pany when he applied for a
cab license and that he had
not deprived the cab drivers
of fares by using his cab to
haul bus passengers.
McLaughlin had stated,
earlier, that when Loan ap
plied for a cab license he had
plans to purchase the bus line.
“The cab drivers haul bus
passengers free to deprive
me of fares,” Loan declared.
“If the council feels that I
am hurting the cabs with my
one little cab I’ll surrender
it,” Loan said.
He added that he did not
own the bus line but that it
was owned by several local
business men.
Mayor Lee C. Bettinger'
stated that he could find no
ordinance to permit the coun
cil to revoke a cab license. He
suggested that both parties
obtain legal advice and report
at the next council meeting.
Couicilmm, Bud Metzgar
was named to look into the
matter and report at the next
meeting of the council.
HE A Nominating
j Committee Named
* Eleven men were named to
| the KEA nominating eom
| mittee Monday night, and will
i prepare a slate of candidates
to be presented by January
24, for the March election.
Capt. L. W. Bucy is chair
' man of the nominating com
mittee which includes Stanley
| Alvine, E. E. Foster, Jorgen
I Fredrickson, James Garoutte,
j Henry Haag, Carl Huer,
Homer Luntroot, i-ienrr
Neseth, V W. Root and 2.
C. Wilson.
-Alternates , are William
Worth, James Martz, At
Miller and li. F. MacDonald
Donald Koznek, warehouse
man for Donnelley and Ache
son, will leave soon for Spo
kane, to work for the Rail
way Mail Service. He for
merly worked in the posi
office here.
Herts*Wurilinger Drugs
BABY
SUPPLIES
everything for the
little ones
powders lotions oils creams
toys sterilizers bottles
BABY VITAMINS
Shop the drug stores
RHOADES
FURNITURE STORE
WES RHOADUS, PROP.
Phone 4151
LA LANDE’S
KODIAK BAKERY
Lemon Cream Roll
Drop in and shop from the most
complete line of bakery goods
ever baked in Kodiak
Max & Aline LaLande, props.