NO'MNG BUT ice and water are where the south win~f thfl city.port's petroleum facility used to be. The steel alk, wJ,icp was recovered from the icy water, was atl<i h d 'tfi the atform slightly to the left of the post at the far rign f the photograph. (Daily Ne~s. photr _

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9tf's Petl-oleum Dock Put Out of Conimission ·· !

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It came as no surprise to port workers yesterday when they showed U{l for wor~ to find part of the city's temporary petroleum. facility had disappeared, putting the facility out of · action for the winter.

The engineers had pr.edicted that the 'temporary struc­ture, put in following the earthquake as an emergffncy measure, would probably not withstand the rigors of the

ice and tide during an Alaskan winter.

The south dolP'hin, a . cluster of 21 wooden piles, was appar-

1 ently knocked ove.r by the ac­tion of the tide and ice some­time early yesterday morning. There were no witnesses, ac­cording to Port Director A.E. Harned.

2 - Anchorage Daily News, IT IS NOT known whether \ the dolphin was sheared off by the ice or merely knocked over. I

'(, December 1, 1964 i Three tankers were schedt!led 1

'1 tt. unload at the petroleum fa­~ ch y during the r_emainder of

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· thtit year. They will now be fp:e .-\ to unload • .at the City Dot!e.:. risking a possible con­

.with Sea-Land llervice, 4 hich has priority rights

two days a week at the dock.

The steel catw11lk which led :

1 out'to the dolph~n was salvaged

yesterday morning b~ the spe­cially equip~U tug "Milton II," which is opett.t\h.g at the port under' contratll.ttft Sea-Land.

' HARNtD S~ members of the Port Co'rt~f\'):'~sion viewed the dan\age ~nd ·'tentatively con­cluded that the dolphin w ould h~~;ve to be re-in~;U.~~I.

An off thk cuff ·~t- estimate s&eured by Ratned a~ $30,000.

;r I. '1, 1"" - e said ,exopee)fd • '' a flood

o · tank .ed ·after . b~up next sprity~ •I Q' r1!pleni,jlh the tank f~rll\JI wr.~clr. ~ve liP rung up ln tne' uort llr~a sinre the earth­quak~? t ~L

I The ~~~sed 1965 City Budg­et includes a bond issue of $p.25 million to finance a permanent clty petroleum facility which woulc not be subject to ice damage.

'ta~ponso~~{o~!!an traf- ' be~en the continental

ited hfe, and Alaska ex-edli!IIJ)IoO ~M during 1964,

If'~ GE&IdM!f~d J. Reeves, Comma~ ~ Chief, Alaska, ann9,t~n _ "tF4f~

Ckneg], dWpwl, in comment-Ing on.t~s, pointed out that military traffic comprises a significant part o! the over­ell •et!.W~~e Pori of An­·chorageJ·~~ military cargo passing ~ih 1Jhe pori repre­sents ~ per cent of the total dry cargo traffic recently reported

the 'Anchorage Port, and 22 !Per eent of the petroleum traf-6. He 811id these totals did not include eivllr .-eontnctor ~~PCJn­,;ored ocean tra:ffia moved into Alaska l.n I!!Uoppori of the 1~64 military eonstruetion program.

AJachorage'Dally Time• Tuelday, Dec. 1, liM

Eort Director Feels Do k ~epairable

port There · o timing conflict in-tb~ volved.

rv>h·ole•lllh Sea-Land's sel arrived at the

next night, escorted by .. ' icebreaker, Harned

the doti9ffin The port director 8\lpporting t h e dock's south Milton II, operated by Albin walkway and swept off a log Towing Co. , would te in the in·· raft desig'91tltert incoming let this winter. Concern had Ice frorrv ity this past been voiced that ice could cause weekend.l a hazard to winter operation un-

ReplaM$olphin pilings less an icebreaker was avail· dulling i 'IUld be dif- able. ficult a ex ve, Harned said. .

He ~'W~r has been turn­ed on t~~·s main platform where tankers unload. The wa­t~. as it -ftl!ezes will turn the dock "into a solid block of ice" , Hamed .said.

It is hoped that freezing the dock solid will protect it from water borne ice, he said.

The $500,000 facility is consid­ered a temporary dock. The port is asking for $2.25 million in bonding with part of this total earmarked for construction of a permanent petroleum unloading facility.

Three -on ta!lkl!fts, due in De­cember, will 'UIIJ0ad at the mu­nicipal terminal.

Two Standard ·00 Co. of Cal­Ifornia tankersr tal't due to ar­rive next week. Some resched­uling is necessary so that the weekly Sea-Land cargo vessel will have cleared the dock by the time the tankers arrive.

Unjon Oil Co. of California will send a third tanker into An­chorage in late December.

Anchorage Daily Times Saturday, Ja,.. llll ·~·.-

'Port. lfere Is U' .- -.. ea ~~:,l.~t~ . AI~ Wll~ftlti·&h~ of

ill . otber Southcentnrf Alaik ports '.to rRll tbare of-lliJIIrif:' a

IMn ~fa.'lnllltary-spilhsor­loceaR!Wtlle shil'J)i!d·~een

fiN! o:Jlllrl•'tUriitehBtates ~ AHSI~i1984. ,;C

' '\)yp~ ... ,;., • , , ·~ . . · ..... -neeve, · ~ %1asi8,, an-

Il0\1]1cett'tti8Fa of 923,726 · tons .was 'tQi'pped b . the mili-

tary ' ·, , ·This in-cluded'~ · dry·. car. go and ·- c!P• fle«yletnn I prod ~It • H•.m. . ·f

. . AncbO~~,._ ion .. ·~I of 21~~051.' inelU~ ~\om of dry Catgd'in8'-'t44,4fios of

bulk pet~- T l1 is . total wail eJ . .... 'lJy the port of • . g point of the mill , Haines-Fairbanks pipeline; ~ ·& had an annual total ~ _395, .. tons - all 1n petroJeiiin · . licts.

Figures t!!¢. other Alaska 1 ports lnclud.-1; .

Whittier, .u;796 tons of dry cargo and 19,510 tons of petro­leum, for a total· of 61,306 tons. Adak, 24,572 tons of dry lfBPgo and 56,490 tons of petrolftnl, for a total of 81,062 tons. 1Qo4i­ak, 11,823 tons of dry cargo anlil 44,670 tons of petroleum fot a total of 56,493 tons.

Also: Seward; ii,m tons. of dry cargo and no petroleum. Re­mottvaites, in · annual re-supply

: program, 9,395 tons of dry cargo : and 98,1lt8 . tons of bulk petrole­• tnn ._, • total of 107,443 tons.

8 Anchorage Daily 'J'hner . , Monday, Jan. 11. 1965

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Rortm;)htts ~ Gi vrbe!lnt_ l

ven:~;iuiay , 'IMie Federa\ :Ma?tb!ne Com­

mission -has aj>proved City of An~l).o~e contracts -With Sea­Lalfd ices, ..bd, Robert' Bamn, · ce-chapJn'an of t h e city's PQI!t Gf!!~sion, said to­day.

Bamn said the city was ·in­~rmed today that ·the commjiic :;ion· had approved ·two contracts w1th Sea-Land last Thursday. '

One contract is for Sea-Land's. industrial p ark subdivisiol\ ~ease. The second is Sea-Land'S' preferential a~ment for me bf the port murlicipal terminal

. has been ~ed to penni' 11\e Military ifansport Serv-ice to make u 'tf h munici­pal terminal ~ ,. 1i~t come­first serve basis in an emer­gency.

The original ~ontn.:ts were signed last September.

Anchora,ge Daily Tim.•• MondayJ Jan. 4, l9fl5

Officials Predict A Bright Fufbre; Bonding Vote ·Slated

A cargo shlp, which ;.,as load­ed while in a Seattle drydock for repairs, put into the Port of Anchorag~ tab morning to get today's Port of AncbQrage Day off to a good start.

The freighter, Sea-Land's Se­attle, tied up at !he municipal terminal at a.m. 1

One of't.fta'fgo ships serving the weer!y~eattle - Anchorage ;:un, the Seattle went into dry· iock in her home port after her last ~.Jl~· .}.. broken rudder mount liad' to be repaired. Sea­Land unloaded her south-bound cargo and loaded .Alaska freight on the Seattle while she was stitt>fbl drydock. ,

1 Optimistic port officials today hailed the futurtl of the four­year-old city facility w h i c h

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········-------···-· operated et a profit for t h e first .time last year.

While dting tht1 port's "~inn fooodation", they cited need for immediate expansion. · '

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A- $2.25 ~Ilion general obliga­tion w.rt1 bond isspe will. go to voters 'March ~· .. , ,

.B.ond funda , are. earmEd to

bulld1

a permaipe ' dock .to repla~ J , rt~pqfa-dllty erected dri~ , err(, pcy basis just after: e . ke and to enlarge t 11et fo han-dling dry cargo. ·

A. E: Harned;"POrCdirector, said ~troleum pl'll!l~ ~.~or half of the cost IILjil'dt ~ra­tion with dry cargo meeting the remainder.

Although increased revenues are see11 'ftom the ~xpan5ion, under th~ \)Ort trust agreem~nt now in effect, a~ rev~ues ~ust be used to ' retire tile.· orlgmal $6.2 million bondingfor'port con-structio~. • r •

For this reason, ~~ton program Is proposed 'On. a gen­eral obligation bonding basis.

Port ·Records 'Its Fir.st Profitable Year ' In' '64 . The Port of Anchorage record-

1 ed its first · profitable, , year in 1964 members of the Greater Anchorage Chamlier of Com­merce were told~ ... ,: '

Port Director .$,. · 'l·lHllrl)ed and Rober;t.._Bil\mi. t:e. dlhlr-

1 man' ot-tbe poit'to'fumission~ in prepared renaarks, discussed port activities ~t the weekly chamber luncheon

1 "This is the first year that we

operated iJ), the black," Harned said. .... 1

"We have S!'mjit-....$3Q,OOO left over after we set ~e the. :fet 15 payments d~ '~i.:!urk bbillson " and the payment .Of ~c • Harned explain~ ,. . .

"Also, 1964 was . a btg Yeax' because we becan\e. the n~­ber one port in Afaska for m-I \bound tonnage," said Harned:

Hamed cited a 643,000 ton .m­crease in 1964 over 1963, .putting tonnage for 1964 to 840,000 tons.

"We anticipate o!er 900,000 tons in 1965," he said.

Baum explained th~ ~echan­ics of the port comnussiOn and pointed out the important roles of the oil industry, Sea-Land Inc and the state ferry system in building Jll active dock fa-cility.

Baum and Hamed pressed for approval of the M~reh 9 bond issue in order to build a n e w petroleum dock._....._ 150-foot north extension to the main dock. .~~

Harned pa~a ..-c-.1 tribute ~ past and nJ. l<H;t conurus-sions and IIUaTiy Haro.ld Strandberg, ~~~g!Jial chair­man , All su~els 1lnd expan­sion.plans we have in mind are directly attributabl o the manY hours of thought.' ~tudy by this commission, S81d. .. A new informationill brochure

the Port of Anchorage was to be distributed for the first time at the luncheon.

Fairbanks

In line with our concept of

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atronage Is Solicited Next sailings from s!attle

December 17th December 24th

December 31st January 7th

The vice chairman of the An· chorage Port Commission arid the municipal dock's director entered strong_ pitches .at _the

1 Chamber of Commerce luncheon

The original bo~tinking fund will be built up and $1l.ould al-

duce our yesterdlly f6r expansion of the port this ~ear. ' from 6 per cent tb per

CO~ISSIONER 'Robert Baum and nirector A. E. 1!fer­ned spoke to the group at the Idle Hour Restaurant iH" Spe­nard, as Mayor Elmer ~­son proclaimed yesterqay ";P~rt

at a saving of $100,000 a pea'(." Harned said.

I of Anchorage Day!' -

The. port commission and ad­ministration is pushing for voter. approval of a $2.25 million .gen­eral obligation bqnd iss~e r to finance the port e!'-Pansjon. ~­iden ts. will make ,their dectstpn at a special election March 9.

Contemplated i.s a pet'manent petroleum unloading facility, ex­pected to cost about $1.75 _mil­lion and a 150-foot extension to the dry cargo dock, to cost about $500,000. '

Noting that the port operat ed "in the black" for-the first time

. last year, Baum said, "These two projects will insure a continu­ing of our operation in the black ;;t.nd will be a basis for the ac­~ommodatior: of increased busi­

'rms." n11 . · 1 HARNED said the petro eum f.:flity "was ~aonceived before th~- qua~e." It ~s obvious to the port conimissio,n that the installation was "necessary," he explained.

.And due~. tpp,shifti,ng of oil concerns' operahons to Anchor­a,ge, "The eatt.hc:\'Uake :nade it mandatory," Jli!Med satd.

,· l l" - 'I .Lc, The propos·ea· bopds ; would

cost the taxpayeEI 4 1 mit'f1at 70

I per cent valuSi~k . .Jn .taxes , Harried said. r!T

' 9 "UNFORTUNJ). ,"he said,

the trust agreement concerning the port's present bonded in­debt~lru*'a, "precludes using .. additional revenue for the new b<>nds." '

Group Studies Port Future Im~ct .of a ~. petrole- agenda include: bond Sales pro­

tnn pipeline from Whittier to motion, zoning If ci ti~nds Anchorage on the Port of An- a small boat h~ ence' chorage will be d:i~ed when · ·1 the Anchorage Port Commission ' meets in the City Council Gham-ber at 7:.30 p.m. today •

The que811ion of a possible pipeline- betm<elr1Vh!ttier and Anchorage first was raised when t.1w port and too. military were Dftotiating port 'Costs for handJini military fuel. . ·

D . 964, the port handled 144,400 of military bulk pe-trol~ t~tcording to the Alas­kan Oon)DOnd.

A tot.11 ol 19,510 tons of miJi­tary .Jialt petroleum entered tbe state t:hNu&h the Port ol WJlt. tier.

. . AI . Renk, t:e~ting truck-mg firms which wOitld be using

: the planned north extension of , the dock, will meet with the , commission to outline these

firms' needs. The 150-foot north e.nension is included in the port's $2.25 million bond issue whicb g1>e5 to voters March 9.

Other matters on the meeting

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