New P;:>ks at The Library
Among new books at the pub
lic library are the following:
Mission of Jeffry Tolamy by
Telhet; Jebel’s Children by Kauf
man; Cleft Rock by Hobart; Be
yond the Blue Mountains by
Plaidy; Never Dies the Dream by
Landon; The Hepburn by West
cott; Reprisal by Gordon; Mes
sage From a Stranger by Mannes;
Waltz Into Darkness by Irish;
Golden Fury by Castle; Fid
dler’s Green by E. Guan; In The
Blazing Light by White; Blaze of
Glory by Young; Lord Johnnie by
White; Kentucky Stand by Wheel
right; Yankee Pasha by Edison
Marshall; Night and the City by
Kirsch; Daisy Kenyon by Jane
way; Deborah by Castle; Pride’s
Castle by Yerby; Bernard Clare
by Farrell;
Came a Cavelier by Parkinson
Keys; Western Story Omnibus by
Targ; Doctor in the House by
Pleasant; Gaunt Woman by Gilli
gay; Return to Night by Renault;
I Love Miss Till! Bean by Ilka
Chase; Shoot If You Must by
Lucius Beebe; Julie by Babcock;
Past All Dishonor by Cain; and
The Headmistress by Thirkell.
New whodunits include; Mur
der by the Book, Stout; Swimming
Pool, Rinehart; Mrs. McGinty’s
Dead, Christie; Death Turns the
Table, Coe.
Also there are: People of the
Deer by Mowat; 40 Odd, Mary
Bard; Duke's Daughter, Thirkell;
Story of Seattle, Watt; Cruel Sea
by Mousarret.
Webster’s New Biographical
and Geographical Dictionaries
have also been added.
Alaska Airlines Elect
Pilot As New President
ANCHORAGE, </P) —A veteran
flier and onetime personal pilot
of Chiang Kai-Shek Wednesday
was elected president and general
manager of Alaska Airlines.
The airlines’ board of directors
announced Nelson B. David will
succeed Stanley McCutcheon, An
chorage attorney, in the post.
David resigned as European re
gional director for Pan American
World Airways to accept the po
sition.
David, a Stanford graduate,
served with the army air force in
Hawaii and the Philippines from
1931 to 1933.
He was a pilot for China Na- |
tional Airlines in 1933 and 1934
and in 1935 and '36 was personal
pilot for Chiang Kai-Shek.
He was an inspector for the
U.S. Bureau of Commerce from
1937 until 1940 when he .became
assistant vice-president of Cana
dian Colonial Airlines, a position
he held until the outbreak of
World War II.
During the war, David served
in Wales with the Air Transport
Command and set up the ATC
in the Balkans.
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Minding One's Own Business
Is Apparently Quite Difficult.
So Few People
Make A Success Of It!
CALL
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$20,318,000 Appropriation
For Construction And
Maintenance by ARC
The staff of the Alaska Road
Commission has just completed its
review of the appropriations made
by Congress in Public Law *70,
approved by the President on
July 9, it was announced by A. F.
Ghiglione, Commissioner of Roads
for Alaska.
The appropriations by Congress
for Road Commission work con
tained in the 1953 act amount to
a total of $20,318,000 of which
$17,000,000 is earmarked for con
struction -and $3,318,000 was ap
propriated for operation and
maintenance expenses on existing
facilities. The amounts appropri
ated, it was stated by Ghiglione,
were the exact amounts for which
estimates were presented to Con
JAPANESE PRO CHOKES,
KICKS BASEBALL UMPIRE
TOKYO, (/P)—Tomio Fukimura,
playing manager of a Japanese
pro baseball team, got a sharp
reprimand from his league presi
dent Saturday.
Fukimura had grabbed the
throat of an umpire whose ruling
he didn’t like. Teammates pulled
him off. Ordered to the showers,
Fukimura gave the ump a part
ing kick in the shin.
gress last spring, it having been
recognized by the Appropriations
Committees of both the House and
Senate that the Road Commission
plays a vital part in the develop
ment and defense of the Territory
and of the nation as a whole.
Specific items included in the
amounts appropriated were as
follows:
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Preparation of plans...$ 300,000
Tetlin Junction-Eagle Highway. 540,000
Richardson Highway Paving. 3,500,000
Alaska Highway Paving. 3,310,000
Richardson Highway-McKinley Park connection. 500,000
Local Farm, Industrial and Military Access Roads.... 400,000
Glenn Highway Paving. 3,440,000
Cordova to Richardson Highway connection. 550,000
Anchorage-Seward Highway... 1,550,000
Improvements of Existing Roads and Bridges. 1,250,000
Chena Slough Bridge—Fairbanks. 700,000
Fort Richardson Arterial By-pass. 960,000
Operations and Maintenance. 3,318,000
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AN ALASKA ESSAY CONTEST
FOR ALASKA STUDENTS ONLY
*1200 in pr* e$
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(For High School Students)
FIRST.$300
Beautiful set of encyclopedias awarded to winner’s
school library. ($125 value)
SECOND_$100
THIRD.$ 50
FOURTH_$ 25 <
(For Elementary School Students) i,
. FIRST.$300
i Beautiful set of encyclopedias awarded to winner’s
‘•S school library. ($125 value)
( SECOND_$100
y THIRD.$ 50
FOURTH .... $ 25
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/ It isn’t too eoHy for you school age boys and girls to start studying for this essay
' writing contest. Rules will be available at the start of the school year. Contest
t ants will be asked to write an essay of 500 words or less on Alaska’s salmon
industry. You will find ’’Alaska’s Salmon Industry,” a colorful, 16-page booklet
crammed with information about Alaska’s most important industry, very useful
for source material. You can get your copy by writing to Alaska Salmon Institute,
Box 893, Ketchikan.
This is a good time to send ”Welcome to Alaska” to friends outside. Address
inquiries for this booklet to the Institute, Box 893, Ketchikan.
H#ar Sam Hay#*, noted radio commentator ... every Sunday over your
favorite Alaska Station.
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