Fact Finding Board

A WARTIME BOARD OF FACT FINDING AND Review has been established by the Hanover Chamber of Commerce to study problems of business interests in relation to the large Naval group now resident in the community. Specifically, the Board will consider complaints and requests from the Navy personnel, undergraduates, and residents, and advise the individuals and groups who provide services for the community how the difficulties can best be remedied.

Dean Herluf V. Olsen '22 of Tuck School is chairman of the Board. Other members, representing varied community and business interests of Hanover, are Miss Ruby Dagget, Mrs. Ford K. Sayre, David Rennie, Kenneth W. Foley '24, Andrew J. Truxal, James Campion '28, Robert M. Lewis, and Joseph Saia.

President Hopkins and Captain Briggs, commanding officer of the Naval Training School, have both expressed keen interest in the work of the Board in providing a leadership for making necessary adjustments to the present crowded conditions and shortage of labor. In a recent statement President Hopkins said: "Establishment of the Hanover Wartime Board of Fact Finding and Review promises to provide the community with a much-needed clearing house for receiving, studying, and taking action on complaints, comments, and suggestions for improving local facilities. As the general liaison with the Naval Training School the College appreciates the desire of the community to make all relationships of maximum satisfaction to the Naval personnel. If the work of Dean Olsen's Board is widely supported, as I hope it will be, the objective will be achieved."

Captain Briggs, in discussing the work of the Board, said, "I am much interested in the survey made with a relation to the Naval Training School and Hanover. I haven't before seen a community make a similar effort to obtain the opinion of Naval personnel and the undertaking indicates that we of the Navy have reason to expect a continuation of our harmonious relations. I will follow the work of the new Board with much interest."

The survey mentioned in Captain Briggs' statement was sponsored recently by a joint committee of the College and the Chamber of Commerce. A questionnaire was sent around to the Naval personnel of the last class asking for their opinion on different topics.

Reporting on this survey on October 8, Dean Olsen said, "We have covered a multitude of topics that are of vital impor- tance to the Navy as well as to the students and townspeople. However, the four main topics which have concerned the Board are entertainments in Hanover, the laundry and dry cleaning problem, clothing and transportation."

Dean Olsen went on to explain that a plan is under way to show films of interest to the Navy on Sunday afternoons at the Nugget. As far as the laundry question is concerned, there is little that can be done at present, but the Board believes that with the departure of some 400 seniors in December, the problem will disappear. In dealing with the problem of uniforms and much-needed Navy supplies, the Board promises that the men will be kept informed of varying price levels so that there will be no question of price discrimination here over Boston and New York stores.

The last problem, that of transportation, is nearing a satisfactory solution. Taxi companies will publish a set standard of rates between Hanover points. Dean Olsen added that facilities between Hanover and White River have already improved and that further information on this subject will be available pending an official reply from the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington.

DR. GILMAN D. FROST '86 His death in Hanover, October 8, ended along and distinguished career as Dartmouth Medical School teacher and Hanover physician. (Necrology notice, class of1886, will appear next month.)