A list of candidates, from
fbieli a president, vice-president,
geereiary-treasurer and 2 direct
ors will be chosen, was nominat
or at the Chamber of Commerce
luncheon last Thursday at the
fic tory cafe.
Election will be held at the
*ext meeting, on May 2*.
The 8 candidates are James
j»artz, V. G. Ellis, Lee Betting
*r, Dr. A. Holmes Johnson, Emil
KDudsen, William Lamine, G.
Rubendorf, and Lilian Moiris.
President Lee Bettinger ap
pointed a special housing com
mittee of William H. Olsen and
f. G. Ellis.
G. W. Bubendorf has made
arrangements to purchase the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Eiao
Xainulainen on Mission road.
Go To Church
d?eek Russian Orthodox Chinch
Rov. Gregory Gleboff
A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all members of the church
to attend the services
CATHOLIC SERVICES
Father Vincent Edge, S. A.
HOSPITAL CHAPEL
Mui on Weekdays 6 AO atn
■©ly Hour Friday 2 to S pm
HOTRE DAME de KODIAK
CHURCH
Maas-Sundays, Holy day* 10 am
Stations of the Cross k Benedic
lfao— Fridays 7:30 pm
Jastxuction & Benediction
| Sundays 7:20 pm
! Instruction in Christian Doc
trine for Children Fridays 4 pm
FORT GREELY
Mass—Sunday* * *n»
PRAISE CHAPEL
Rev. John Marshall
ftntday School 10:40
Sunday Morning Worship 11:40
Sunday Evening
Evangelistic Service 7:00
Wednesday Evening
Prayer <fc Praise 7.-00
Monday A Friday Evening
Class for Young People 7:00
COMMUNITY BAPTIST
CHURCH
Rev. Gregory S. Morony, Pastor
Sunday * May 10
18:15 Sunday School. Classes for
all ages.
11:15 Morning Worship
Sermon r
When We Pray
ISO Christian Fellowship League
J. O. Y.
Intermediate, High School
and Young People’s group
7 A0 Evening Goep8l Hour
Hymn-sing
Sermon:
Whe Owns You?
Mend ay
Children’s choir
^ lay:
lncl^D Inter. Camp Fire Girls
occf5 Bov Scouts Troop 625
/nesday
/SO Sr. Camp Fire Girls
| 30 Mid-week Service:
Prayei and Bible study
Parables of Jesus
day:
2:00 Girls’ choir
1:30 Church Choir
Despite
Coast Gus>
Army Dor
Mayor Lee
wire late la
ed that tb«
clared surp u
ed over to t h
♦hat the
> .• qoired the
■i meriy Kraft’s,
received a
ek t.hai confirm
had been de
• Ki ri! and turn
b-neral Land Of
fice, Department of Interior, for
disposition
The wire, from Delegate Bart
lett, said the General Land Of
fice had no knowledge of the
Coast Guard having any interest
in the dock.
Due to the coal strike Post
masters shall not accept say
fourth clasa matter weights;
more than 11 pounds or over *0
inches in length and gir h, Mau
rice Briggs, local postmaster, has
been informed.
This new restriction does not
apply to local matter or to such
matter where it is known no rail
road transportation is iuvo ved.
A colored postcard from Chi
cago, Illinois, contains the mess
age: “Am getting along fine.
Having a good time.” It is sign
ed by John Steffgen, former local
contractor, who retired recently
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A SIMPLE STATEMENT OF FACTS
At the conclusion of our last fiscal year, we employ
ed Marshall Crutcher, Certified Public Accountant, to
make an audit of our wharf operations for the last six
months of our year 1945.
His report showed that we received a total revenue
from charges we made for handling freight over the
wharf of 84,142.14 for that period and that, our costs
of performing this service were 88,129 24; thus we sus
tained a net loss for 83,987.10 during six months
through perfoiming this service for the people of Kod
iak. This fact is certified over the signature of Marsh
all Crutcher.
Further analysis disclosed some principal causes for
having sustained such a loss, one of the chief of which
was the abnormal ratio of “overtime” pay in our total
payrolls, which itself emanated from the dispatching
of vessels to this port by the Alaska Steamship Com
pany, for its own convenience, to arrive here on week
ends, which has been almost invariably the case dur
ing the past several years, and for which we have been
required to pay the excessive ratio.
As a solution of the problem, to enable the wharf
company to continue to perform its service and to re
ceive revenue equal to its cost of operations, we sought
first to reduce our costs of operation by the working
of our wharf only during the hours when base pay
rates were in effect; the only alternative being a rise
in our handling charge on incoming and outgoing
freight to a point sufficient to take care of all the char
ges involved.
We notified the Alaska Steamship Company by
letter on April 19, 1946, as follows:
“Now that your ships are inoperative we feel that
it is opportune to advise you that when normal oper
ations are resumed, our wharf will be open to the nor
mal handling of ship’s business between the hours of
9 a in. and 4 p. in. each day except Sundays and hol
idays, as per our published tariff.
“Our wharf will be open for the handling of ship’s
business between the hours of 4 p. m. and midnight
and from 7 a. m. and 8 a. m. on weekdays and from 7
a. m. to midnight on Sundays and holidays at nor
mal rates shown in our tariff, except that a penalty be
attached to the ship to equal the amount paid to our
longshoremen for overtime, (in excess of normal base
rate), and the incidental costs of insurance aud (pay
roll) taxes
“We shall appreciate your giving this matter your
attention and consideration during this tie-up ”
In other words, we notified the Alaska Steamship
Company, while their ships were tied up, and of course
the “Lakina” sailed from Seattle on May 2nd.
We also considered with the Alaska Steamship
Company local agent and with a delegation from tlie
local longshoremen’s union the matter of possibility
of labor trouble if and when the steamships should a
gain resume operation, and were assured by them that
there would be no wages dispute when shipping oper
ations were resumed, nor would there be any as they
would abide by the settlement of such matters in Se
attle.
Two days before the arrival of the “Lakina” we were
notified by the union that there had been an advance
in the scale of wages outside and that they wished to
receive the same proportionate advance, to which we
agreed, and we then notified the local office of the A
laska Steamship Company in order that they should
be cognizant of the amount of overtime they would
be required to pay. The Alaska Steamship Company
sailed the •‘Lakina" from Seattle on May 2nd without
instructions to their purser nor their local agent con
cerning our letter of April 19th, ard at this poim
through their local agent refused to pay the amount
of overtime involved. As a compromise with them, we
offered to bear the overtime burden for Saturday if
the Steamship Company would bear the penalty for
Friday evening This was refused by them and conse
quently our wharf was closed at 4 p. m. Friday The
“Lakina” left port with only part of her cargo dis
charged and carried with her many tons of freight
some of whicl\ was consigned to us as well as to other
merchants of Kodiak.
Practically the only revenue that we receive from
our wharf operations comes from the landing of freight
by the steamships from Seattle, once a month or so in
winter and twice a month in summer The wharf ip in
general use for an average of only four days a month
This revenue is augmented in a very minor degree by
our charges to local merchants for the delivery of rev
enue-producing merchandise to sundry small craft.
For the 28 or 27 days of each month that a steam
er is not using the wharf, it is used free and without
cost by all the small boats in this area. Thus, 85 per
cent of the time the people of Kodiak have the use
and benefit of our wharf without paying one cent to
wards its upkeep and cost, and it is these email craft,
which pay nothing towards the dock’s support, that
do most of the damage to it and break its superstruc
tuie No other individual or business enterprise m
tins district contributes so much towards tne welfare,
convenience and prosperity of this community as doe*
the free use of our wharf by the small craft of this
area
For every dollar we pay out in longshoremen s
wages, we pay an additional twenty cent* for insurance
and payroll taxes, as a direct charge to the total pay
rolls. Thus, when we are required to pay overtime at
the rate of $2 22 per hour, the present demanded rate
based on late Seattle awards, we pay a further $ .4o
per hour in insurance and taxes, thus making the tot
al cost $2.67 per hour, oer man. Failure to revert
these excessive costs to the source of their cause will
make necessary an additional levy of revenue from
the merchants and shippers of Kodiak, by increased
tariff rates.
We hope that these points will be settled before the
next steamer sails from Seattle, and feel that events
sushas have been interpolated into our daily living
during the past few days should b; avoided, and
would not have occurred had there been a spirit of
fair-minded cooperation among us of Kodiak.
We solicit and welcome any suggestions towards the
complete and successful wharf operation, in the inter
est of all people concerned.
w. J. ERSKINE COMPANY