Practical and pretty are the new winter uniforms worn by
Pan American’s stewardesses Edith Fields (left) and Charlotte
Halverson, on the northern stops in Alaska. The parkas with fur
trimmed hoods, ski trousers, and fleece-lined boots are worn for
the stop-over time at Fairbanks and Nome.
(Courtesy of Seattle Times)
3,550,000 Cars
Made In 1947
■ DETROIT, (/P) — Although the
nation’s motorcar makers started
and stopped their assembly lines
repeatedly throughout 1947 be
cause of unbalanced materials in
ventories they managed to make
the year the fourth largest in out
put volume in their history.
The auto factories came to the
year-end today with an indicated
United States production of 3,550,
000 passenger cars and 1,235,000
trucks, and the heaviest volume of
replacement parts ever turned out.
The vehicles and the parts that
kept millions of pre-war models
on the road had an estimated
wholesale value of $8,500,009,000.
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REPUBLICANS FILE FOR
LEGISLATURE
John Fargher, well known Jun
eau man, who has been there since
1915 operating a tailor shop, has
* filed on the Republican ticket for
candidacy as Representative.
William Paul, Sr., of Wrangell
is reported to have filed for the
House on the Republican ticket. |
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
Greek Forces
Drive To Aid
Of Konitsa
ATHENS, </P) — Hard-driving
Greek army relief forces pressed
within sight today of embattled
Konitsa, where a weary thousand
man garrison has been holding out
since Christmas Day against furi
ous attacks by an estimated 5,000
guerrillas.
Military authorities in Ioannina
said the juncture of the relieving
forces with the garrison could be
expected about noon. The battered
Konitsa garrison signalled to the
relief column: “We’re glad to see
your movements and know you’ll
be coming soon.”
Athens press reports said the
rebels* encircling the city had
launched a last desperate assault
on Konitsa and were being pound
ed by artillery fire.
MADELINE PAUL JACOBSON
PASSES ON
It is reported that Madeline
Paul Jacobson, native woman,
died Monday. She is of the Paul
family of Cape Nome and sister of
Mrs. Joe Amarok.
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Metcalf Sees
$700,000 For
Roads In 1948
The Territory will have approx
imately $700,000 for highway,
trail and airport programs during
the 1948 season and a well-round
ed program will be worked out for
the season’s operations between
now and next March, it was an
nounced by Frank A. Metcalf, Ter
ritorial Highway Engineer, direc
tor of the Alaska Highway Partol
and superintendent of public
works.
This is substantially higher
than the normal sum available for
Alaska’s share in road and airport
construction, improvements and
maintenance, Mr. Metcalf pointed
out.
He assigned two major reasons j
for this condition.
1— The special gasoline sales
tax, and
2— The widely publicized “stop
order” of the Territorial Board of
Administration which last spring
“froze $480,000 of ro id funds set
up for the Roads Department for
use this year.
During his visit here and at
Fairbanks, he discussed possible
! projects with local residents and
with officials of the Alaska Road
Commission. Included in the local
discussions were a number of ac
cess roads tying in mining areas
and agricultural regions with ex
isting highway systems, and a
number of pending airfield pro
jects in the Anchorage district; on
Kenai Peninsula, and the Alaska
Peninsula.
“If the 1947 legislature had not
j refused to pass enabling legislation
submitted to it, which would have
made it possible for the Territory
to participate in the national Air
port air act of Congress, we would
have been eligible to receive ten
thousand dollars this ytro- for a;r*
port construction and improve
ments. As is now the case, the
civil aeronautics board has ruled
that we can’t legally receive allot
ments from the national funds and
that position will probably stop us
from getting our share of the 1948
allocations,” Mr. Metcalf declared.
The highway chief endorsed the
bill in the national House of Rep
resentatives to extend the Federal
Aid Highway to Alaska. “Alaska is
the only unit under the United
States flag that is denied such as
sistance and we have been work
ing for more tha na quarter ot a
century to remedy this condition,"
he pointed out. Under the terms of
the recently introduced measure,
which carries an appropriation of
$11,373,700 and specifically pro
vides for a road to connect An
chorage and Seward, the Territory
would be required to put up a
matching fund of only 10 per cent.
The measure also provides that
the Congress shall annually pro
vide not less than $7,000,000 for
Federal aid in highway construc
tion and maintenance in the Ter
ritory.
Under such a system, all Federal
funds for expenditure on Alaska
roads and highways would be ad
ministered by the public roads ad
ministration. The measure now
pending in the national House pro
vides that personnel, materials,
supplies, equipment, etc., now in
the hands of the Alaska road com
mission would be transferred to
PRA, or from the Interior to the
Department of Agriculture.
“Wa% he surprised when you
said you wanted to marry his
daughter?”
“W^n he! The gun nearly fell
out of his hand.”
By CHARLOTTE ADAMS
BAKED STUFFED POTATOES
4 medium potatoes
1 medium onion, minced very fine
2 tablespoons butter
Vi cup hot milk
Salt and pepper
Bake potatoes at 450° 45 min
utes. Remove from oven. Si ce off
top of baked patotaes and scoop
out insides, being careful not to
break shell. Either rice or mash
potatoes. Add onion and butter.
Add hot milk slowly while whip
ping with a fork. Season. Pile
mixture lightly into shells. Re
heat and brown lightly.
MEAT BALL CASSEROLE
Vi lb. ground veal
Vz lb. ground pork
Vz lb. hamburger
1 teaspoon onion juice
Vz cup apple sauce
i One egg, well beaten
j 1 cup stale bread crumbs
4 tablespoons drippings
I l/z cup flour
| 4 tomatoes
Wz cups cubed raw potatoes
I 3/4 cup diced carrots
2 tablespoons minced onion
; Vi cup chopped green pepper
1 cup stock or bouillon
Combine meat, onion juice, ap
plesauce, egg and bread crumbs
and season to taste. Form into
meatballs about one and a half
inches in diameter. Dredge in
flour. Heat drippings in skillet
and brown meatballs on all sides.
Remove to casserole. Acid toma
toes potatoes, carrots, onion and
green pepper to drippings in skil
I let and simmer for five minutes.
Pour vegetable mixture over
meatballs. Pour bouillon over all.
Cover casserole and bake at 350°
one hour or until vegetables are
i tender.
SON BORN TO MR. AND
MRS. GEORGE TUCKER
Mr. and Mrs. George Tucker
are the parents of a baby son born
yesterday at the M. C. Hospital.
Mrs. Tucker is the daughter of
Charlie Dalquist, well known
ferry operator at Safety, who is
spending the winter in Nome.
i According to Secretary of State
George Marshall, an American
soldier in Japan costs the Ameri
can taxpayer an average of $1,000
a month.
Hope For Missing
Airmen Virtually
Abandoned
(Continued from Page One)
Air force authorities have not
identified the missing trio.
A base camp was established
yesterday about five miles from
the crumpled plane. Capt. Harry
Strong, an experienced Alaskan
now stationed here for the Arctic
Indoctrination School, is in charge.
Meanwhile, two of the six sur
vivors were flown from Nome to
an Anchorage army hospital. They
were Lt. Lyle B. Larson, flight en
gineer, of Colfax, VVis., and T/Sgt.
Wilbur E. Decker, Plainfield, N. J.
Larson has a fractured leg and
frostbite; Decker suffered from
first and second degree burns and
frostbite.
Hospital officers said the condi
tion of both men was “generally
favorable.”
Vandenberg Won’t
Be President
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
I Vandenberg is likely to touch off
! a Republican scramble in Michi
gan with a forthcoming announce
ment that he does not want to be
his state’s “favorite son” candidate
, for President.
Politicians long have known
that Vandenberg planned eventu
ally the ask the Michigan Repub
lican organization not to give him
its formal backing at the Philadel
phia nominating convention in
June.
There are indications the Sena
tor will make this request in a
New Year’s letter to party leaders.
Ask U. N. Entry
Into Palestine
NEW YORK, Andrei A. Grom
yko, Soviet representative to the
United Nations, called on Britain
last night for prompt admittance
to Palestine of the U. N. special
commission set up to supervise
partition of the Holy Land.
The Russian official, speaking
at a dinner of the American com
%
mittee of Jewish writers, artists
and scientists, said it was reported
the British planned not to admit
the U. N. commission until “Brit
ish troops are withdrawn from
considerable areas—May 1 or June
1, 1948.”
“Such a situation cannot be con
sidered as normal,” Gromyko said.
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