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Tab A
(Palau District)
ULITHI
(a)
(Cont'd)
Religion.
The Catholic church is a small, unventilated quonset,
served by a local priest, and with a reported congregation
of the entire village.
(e)
Economic development.
Copra is the only exportable product.
Purchases from the
natives in the last calendar cuarter of 1948 totalled $507.15.
There is considerable area for new plantings of coconut trees
(and taro) in space formerly used for war-time service roads
and plane parkways.
.
The natives have sufficient foodstuffs in coconuts, sweet
potatoes, bananas, and some taro.
Fishing adds to this supply.
Officials expressed a desire for importation of chickens and
Pigs, and some logs for making canoes.
(f)
Rehabilitation is satisfactory on Falalop.
(g)
Services.
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Transportation.
The natives on Falalop have eight 5-—passenger canoes, and
fifteen small ones most of which are old.
There is no pier, the former one having been destroyed by
typhoon. A war-time seaplane ramp has been repaired sufficiently to permit use by a Coast Guard DUKW.
The airstrip on Falalop represents the sole plane facility.
Seaplane operations normally should be restricted to ereas inside Ulithi atoll that are shown on published charts.
Import and export shipping is dependent on naval ships
and aircraft.
(Sistndene
(2) Radio communications with ULithi atoll may be established
with the U.S. Coast Guard redio station on Potangeras Island.
C.
Administrative orgunization.
Liaison between the Civil Administrator, Palau District, and
Falalop is accomplished by quarterly field trips, the lest one of
which visited the island in an AG on 14 December 1948.
Tasks of
these field trips are similar to those noted on pa-e 18, Tab A.
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