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KODIAK, AI ASKA MARCH 30, 1946
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laxi Hurtles Off Runway; 2 Officers Dead
ew Bus
un Due
It is expected that the new
'agura Transit System yellow
nd red buses will go into opera
on Monday on the run betweer
ie naval base and Kodiak, in
luding Mission road, it was an
ounced today.
P. J. Watkinson, who said hi
i one of the interested parties ir
ie new company, which, he ex
lained, has no connection wit!
ie W. J. Erskine Co., obtainec
buses for the company while ir
ie States, shipping space for 5
eing secured on the Denali,
ith the 3rd bus to arrive later,
!e also obtained 3 bus drivers in
ie States who arrived on the
tenali also.
Mr. Watkinson said organiza
on of the bus company was in
igated m a desire to provide a
ansportation service locally foi
hich it was felt there is a defin
e need, and that the company
oes not aim to hurt any other
rganizations or individuals.
The aim of the company will
to provide regular transport
tion as inexpensive as possib'e,
i keeping with sound business
ractice, with prices, including
bildren's fares and commuta
ion tickets, based as cheaply as
llowable, iwr. Watkinson said.
He stated that he and his as
icia'es whose names were not
nnounced at this time but who
include ex-servicemen”, fe(t the
*us system, besides providing
leces&aiy transportation, will be
1 definite asset to the community
s a business stimulant.
Prices and schedules are to be
forked out and announced next
reek.
Liquor places will close for the
lection.
Mrs. Thomas Stiles, who lived
it the base before the war-time
svacuation, returned on the De
lali to join her husband The lat
er is now the oldest employe in
tears of service now on the base
rreezes Hands
Edward “Scotty” McKenzie
"as admitted to the GM hoapiral
Sunday for treatment for badly
frozen hands, and is recovering
nicely.
He was found after an estima
ted several hours exposure lying
in the small passageway along
side the former Pinch building.
Police, who investigated, said
he had apparently been drinking
®nd fell, and was unable to get
op.
OPA, Dairy Explain Milk Action
Registration Light
Registration yesteiday after
noon was 214, with today until
4 pm the last day for voters to
get under the registration wire.
Last year the total registra
tion was 368, with 287 voting.
I
Daily Seattle
Flights Starting
Dai'y flights from Anchorage
to Seattle by connection with
Pan American Airways at Jun
eau, is announced by Ray Mar
tin, local agent for Facific Nor
thern Airlines.
Daily service to Juneau will
commence April 1st and will con
nect with additional flights of
Pan American Airways which
will be put into service effective
i he same date to provide more
available seats foi passengers
wishing to travel from Anchorage
to Seattle.
The greater number of seats
made available by the daily ser
vice and the use of additional
equipment over the route will
make it possible to provide!
through connections to Seattle
without delay. Passage for Seat
tle can now be conveniently
booked at the local office of Pac
ific Northern At iues.
Court Grants
Injunctions
Juneau (OPA Release to Ko
diak Mirror)—Permanent injunc
tions were entered in the United
States District Court at Anchor-1
age on March 22 in the cases of
Paul A. Porter, administrator
versus the Town Club, the
Ship’s Tavern, Mecca Bar, Club
Unique, and Beachcombers.
A complaint for injunction
and treble damage was filed in
the United States District court
at Anchorage against 0. Kraft &
Son on the same date. Total
damages asked in the latter are
$1047 51.
It is reported here that the
overcharge is based on 1 item,
ammunition.
To Wire President
A wire is to go to President
Truman asking for abolishment
of Katmai National Monument,
as the result of action taken at
the Chamber of Commerce
Thursday.
Feeling the citizens of Kodial
are entitled to reasons for tin
recent OPA action in reducinf
fresh milk prices following whicl
this commodity has been with
held from sale at retail anr
wholesale, the Alaska office o
Price Administration submit!
the following statement:
“Effective March 2 prices or
fresh milk sales in Kodiak wer<
adjusted to 35 cents per quar
retail and 30 cents per quar
wholesale from a previous 45 am
35 cent? respectively. Prices fo
other size containers were pro
portionately adjusted at this
same time. This action was tak
en to establish milk prices foi
Kodiak more in line with those
prevailing elsewhere in the Ter
riiory where production cos's art
known to be similar,
“In the entire gulf area, hist
orically a high price area, pric**!
prevail at 30 cents retail and 2;
cents wholesale. Even at Fair
banks, where a long rail hau
must be considered in additior
to the ocean haul comparable tc
Kodiak, milk retails at only 21
cents and wholesales at 20 cents
A tho ough study ot the Ko
diak milk situation by OPA offi
cials disclosed the fact that early
in 1941 milk retailed at 25 cents
a quart, climbing steadily
throughout the boom resulting
from war construction. Thus
1 when the gentra'l price freeze was
imposed in Apul 1942, prices it
Kodiak had already reached ab
normally high levels for mosl
commodities, including fresh
milk.
“With this commodity such a
fundamental cost of living item
and of such significance to most
family diets and budgets, the A
laska OPA has naturally receiv
ed many complaints from users
requesting the agency to take
action.
“Conducting extensive exam
inations, price officials find no
justification foi present failure to
make milk sales due to the prices
set by OPA regulation on March
2, which, fina icial data indicates
would still place dairies in a
more favorable earning pos
ition than before 1he war.”
E. E. Bell, owner of the dairy
referred to, said this week thal
his milk deliveries to town wil
not be resumed under the new
prices set, claiming the prices dc
not allow a fair margin of profit
He pointed out that under thf
price freeze of 1942 he was al
Election
Tuesday
The Dolls will be open from 8
■ am to 7 pm at the city hall Tues
, day, April 2, for the general city
election to determine the choice
of a mayor, 3 councilmen, 2
school board and record the vo
ter’s wishes on 3 other questions.
; The following candidates will
| be on the official ballot:
For Mayor
Lee Bettinger
; For Councilmen
(3 to be Elected)
W. A. “Pat” Cannon
Harry Christopherson
A. L. Fenner
M. D. Gunderson
Franklin Hariis
Tom Nachand
, A. A. Owen
, Leo Sears
Viola Sipprell
For School Board
Mrs. Marcus Meyer, 3 year
, term
Charles Nettle, 2 year term
Glen Robinson, union official
filed for mayor by friends, wired
last weekend refusing the nomin
ation. His wire said:
“Thoroughly appreciate the
( (continued on page 4)
lowed to sell milk at 7 and a half
cents more wholesale and 5 cents
more retail than he has actually
done since 1943, and said that
the new drastic cut makes his
operations in town unprofitable.
Local consumers have been vo
ciferous in their complaints at
being without milk, many of
them pointing out that while the
disagreement was between the
OPA and the dairy, it is the con
sumer who is suffering the con
sequences.
Said one housewife: “I don’t
care what they do, or who does
it, just as long us we get our milk
back!”
It was reported here this week
that a new contract betweeu the
dairy and the Navy provides for
a wholesale price 4 cents higher
than the OPA wholesale price for
town, in bulk or by quarts
(Ed. note: Without knowledge
of the above OPA statement,
Mr. Bell ordered the paid notice
appearing on page 9 of this issue.
The notice was ordered Wednes
day; the OPA statement was re
ceived Thursday afternoon For
Mr Bell’s statement, seepage 9 )
Register Today! Vote Tuesday!
At approximately 5 am Mon
day a taxi driven by John Kel
logg, of St. Louis, Mo., a recently
discharged war veteran, drove
off the end of one of the naval
air station plane runways, killing
2 of the naval officer passengers
and seriously injuring 4 others in
addition to the driver.
It is presumed the driver, in
order to by pass a section of road
made impassable by diifting
snow, drove out the clear run
way, apparently confusing it
with another which led to the
hangars in the central part of the
base.
After leaving the runway the
car hurtled over the snow-cover
ed embankment onto a rocky
beach of St Paul Harbor, along
which the runway is built.
One officer, Ensign Charles E.
Wayland, of Piedmont, Mo , was
killed instantly Another officer,
Eosigu Chailes Edwin Swartz,
Jr., of 264 Moyn Avenue, Pitts
burgh, Pa., died later the Bame
day at the naval air station dis
pensary of injuries sustained in
the accident.
The injured accident victims
are:
Lt. (jg) Robert Dwight Clause,
Giand Junction, Iowa
Ensign Richard Albert Oben
land, McCloud, Calif.
Ensnni James Augustus Rob
inson, Pound, Va.
Ensign Walter W. Johnson,
1261 Aigyle St., Chicago, 111.
Navy doctors hold high hopes
for the complete recovery of the
seriously injured passengers, all
of whom are at present in the
NAS dispensary, except Ensign
Robinson, who was flown Wed
nesday to Seattle for special
treatment for an injured jaw,
and the driver, who was released
yesterday but will be under doc
tors care for sometime.
The dead and injured officers
were from 2 small patrol waft
which recently ai rived here from
the Westward en route to Seattle
for disposal.
(continued on page 4,
Biffed, Miffed
Dismissed
A man and wife, both residents
of the local base, were parties
this week in an assault and bat
tery charge brought by the wife
versus her husband in the U. S.
Commissioner s court.
The case was scheduled for
Thursday, but before the time
set the wife was granted permis
sion to talk to hei husband. Re
sult—ihe plaintiff withdrew her
charges and the case was dismis
sed
Said a local official: "It’s been
done before.”