The Anchor•re Dally Newt J• n· Thursday, l=ell. 22, 1962 o ·Ie Icebreaker-Cargo Ship To Plow Area Waters Testifies The Port of Anchorage com· Other items handled at the An· 1( pleted * first year of operation chorage port were airplane parts with a net operating profit of apphanc,es, baggage, beer, boats: On Shipping $47,608, according to the p~rt's bulldmg materials, .export tanks, annual report. canned fish, msulatmg materials, SEATTLE liP) - The Port . lumber, · oil exploration equip- of Anchorage, Alaska had sat­ THE REPORT STATES that the ment, petroleum bunkers, plumbj isfactory service from North­ gros> income for the nine month ers goods, gun powder, vans, con· · -land Freight Lines and· t h e ·period from May, the time the tamers, velucle parts. ' Wagner Tugboat Co. last year port opened, through December / A, total ~~ 198 vesse ls used the and i~ "entitled to have-it con­ was $189,998. ports facilities. They included tinued this summer," Henry ·:During th r t 1191 Amencan ships and baraes Roloff, Ancliorage port· direc­ h'indled 38 ~59Ir~o:.ear 'r t~e port and one ship each from Canada, 0 tor, told a Federal Maritime andc.Jomestic carao ~F · oreJgu Denmark, Japan, Liberia~lld Nor· ' o . ~ . oreign car· way. T Commission examiner today. ,o brought. mto the report in· Roloff was on the stand six elude~. fr~Ight, fertilizer, fish, · THE $8 MILLION port's esti· hours yesterday and today. He Igroce11es, Iron and steel articles, mated revenue for 1962 is $248. appeared at the hearing start­ news,pnnt a!ld wallboard. Out- 930. An estimated 85,000 tons of 1 jug .·yesterday on whether, hound foreign cargo included cargo are expected to be handfed Northland Freight and Wag­ Ifre ight, s~rap iron, . non-ferrous at the port during the current I scrap and JUnked vehicles. year. ' ner will be permitted to oper­ ate again this year. A cease a n d desist order s~veral months· ago halted plans for 1962 operations. "The position of the Port of Anchorage," Roloff testified, age Difl,Y 'times '/ "is that a direct port-to-port nesday, Jan. 31. 1962 . TO ARRIVE HERE - The USNS: Mizar, an icebreaker-cargo ship,. will arrive in ice. It is operated by a civil service crew of 11 officers and 30 men under water service is obviously Anchorage March 12 in its newly assigned duty of delivering defense cargo the Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service. The 2,486 ton vessel is named more efficient and more eco­ for Alaska military installations. The t ially designed ship can break ice · after a northern hemisphere navigational star .and was- recently assigned to nomical than service which ~ has ·an intervening rail haul up to lB inches thick and operate in shallow Arctic waters. She replaces the the Labrador-Greenland-Newfoundland run. A sister ship of the same class involved." ·· LST formerly assigned to defense cargo duty. T.he 266-foot vessel incor· has served in tht Antarctic. The Mizar is commanded by Capt. Roger W. porates an icebreaker bow, cargo ~hip hull and crui!er-type stern. It can be Swett. The Puget Sound-Alaskan controlled from the housed control stations up forward for manuevering in (U.S. Navy photo) Van Lines, which has a rail Tbe Military Sea Transport connecl:ion at Seward, has Service icebreaker-cargo ship protested renewing the agree­ Mizar docked at the port of ment. The port intervened Anchorage this morning with Diversion of cargo destined claiming that it would be for a general military cargo from for Anchorage and Fairbanks the community's best inter. Seattle. This is the first trip and no:w handled through the ests. • of tihe 266-foot vessel to Alas­ port is recommended City, f~r ~eward Under cross - examination, Anchorage Daily Times Tuesday, Feb. 27, 1962 ka, theugh it is a veteran ol m the Port of Anchorage's an­ Puget Sound-Alaska Van at· three years of resupply mis· nual report for 1961, just is- FAIRBANKS nJPD -The first sions to Greenland. sued. · tempted to prove that the Will B~ttie direct shipment of antimony The vessel will next call at Increased promotional ef. competing service was a slow­ from Alaska to Japan has been er way of getting cargo into . Adak in the Aleutian Islands f?rts by port and city offi. Anchorage. set for late this coming sum· COUNCIL TO CONSIDER and then return to Seattle for Cials and suppott of business FMC V~rdict mer, it was reported today. more Alaska military cargo. organizations in the Anchor­ The hearing is before exam­ MSTS officials say the Mizar iner A. J. Jordon and other Anchorage will __ .hav:e._ two EARL PILGRIM, wh o operates ~ge arP>l toward such an end the Stampede Mine on the Kan· PORT BUSINESS CHIEF will be used year-round on a Is sought. issues and cases are also be­ representatives at a Federal constant run between Seattle, ing ~eard. tishna River about 90 miles south The establishing of a new istration. The port is seeking Port revenue will increase Maritime Commission hear­ west of Fairbanks, said he has Anchorage and Adak. when the agreement with ~----'--- ing when the Port of ~nchor· position of Port of Anchorage this parcel for a backup ,area a firm commitment from Ja·pan· 1 Captain Roger Swett, who Shell Oil Co., to handle Shell age presents a petition seek­ business manager is schedul- and possible future develop- ese interests for a ~j rl i thum of formerly commanded the LST ~uc;.t~over the dock pier, ing retention of common car­ ,.. 200 tons of the ore. ed for consideration when the ment. Harris County, which the Mi­ -rier service to. the port. The veteran Alaska '' miner, Ancl!orage City Council meets A proposed service area to For· the first time since zar is relieving on the Alas­ 1 The Anchorage City Coun­ who returned to the 4~jh state tonight. • deal with flooding in the Ches- 1!:3TlY . ~ovember the incom1ng ka MSTS operation, is now cil has approved the attend­ this wee:; from a three-month This would . entail reclassi- ter Creek area will be outlin tide failed to bring ice into commanding the Mizar. ' nc~orJ~ :Q ily Time:; 17 ance· of Port Manager Henry ou tside trip, said the ore wo uld fication of the present ac- ed by Mike Gravel. · the port of Anchorage area I There are 11 officers and Fnday, Ma;-ch 16, }91; • R?lo!f and C i t y Attorney be sh ipped from the mine. O\~er countant position at the port. · M. W. Odom, owner of prop­ today. _ 30 men aboard the ship, which: Richard Gantz. The couneil a pioneer access road to. Ltgmte I n c r e a s i n g responsibili- erty in the area which would Warm temperatur.fS and was built in 1957 in New Or­ also agreed that the port of for loading on the Alaska .Rat!· ties and duties are given as be affected, is scheduled to ' easterly ..winds both com~ned .Port To Handle road and transportation to the leans, La., for work in north­ Anchorage be allowed to _pre­ the reason for this request. present a request for the pav• to drive the softened ioe mto ern waters. It was the third Port of Anchorage. It will be sent a petition for leave to Salary range for the posi- ing ~f Second Avenue east of · the Goose Bay and Pt. Mac­ sbip designed especially for Big Shipment intervene in the hearing slat­ loaded aboard Japanese· ''essels tion would be $759 to $889. Street. Kenzie area, out of the ship- schedul ed to call there. · ! c iceqreaker-cargo work. T h e Of Fe tilizer ed March 27 in Seattle. A report on the Anchorage . ping channel. · others are the USNS Eltanin This petition holdS' that the ANTIMONY IS USED chiefly In~r nationa l Airport previ- DUE TO BE considered on The tug Monarch ~th · a and the USNS Mirfak. About 3,000 tons of fertilizer port requires the service of a ln alloys to give them {jardness. ously requested by the coun- first. readi_ng i~ an ord i na~ce barge, and the Coast Guard Construction of the Mizar is . will be unloaded at the port Seattle · Anchorage common Pilgrim said he had sht}lpcd cil, will be made tonight. In dealmg w1th . tidelands wh1.ch cutter Bittersweet n >escart, of welded steel, with an ice­ of Anchorage dock Motl.day, Ic~rrier to maintain reasonable som~ ore to .Japan ilt ·1956 and ~ere f~rced to fig~q•ea'\q)" bound for farms in Alaska, The tug Monarch, with a its study of SB232, providing have been gtVen to the c1ty breaker bow and. a cruiser barge in tow, is being escort. rates. The FMC denial to 1957, but the freight r_·ates .w,cre j for transfer of the airport by the state. Ice gettmg out <IL port ClttJj.. type stern: it was learned today . Northland Freight Lines to too cost)v because It 'had to go 1 day, but the Alalh· Frei~t This will be the first of the ed through Cook Inlet ice by fro·m state to city ownership, Acting as the zoning board the Coast Guard cutter Bitter­ operate to the port removes QY wa ~ ~f Seattle. He .. safU.ARR the council had requested a of adjustment, the co1_111cil Lines icebreaker, ·Milton · II, annual shipments to Alaska had granted a favoi';}h!c · tanff with a barge, had a '11!iatively sweet of Kodiak.