Lytle An<l Green
Low Bidder On
Anchorage Airport
ANCHORAGE. (/Pj—A low bid
of $8,679,142 has been presented
for the construction of a new in
ternational airport here which will
handle planes flying the Great
Circle route to the Orient.
The offer came from the C. F.
Lytle company and the Green
Construction company, both of
Des Moines. Iowa, who bid joint
ly.
Plans for the airport call for two
concrete runways of 7,200 feet
each running east and west and a
northwest-southeafct strip of 8,600
feet.
Airport administrator Chris
Lample said the schedule calls
for completion of the field by Oc
tober of 1950. However, he said
officials hope to have one runway
in operation by next winter.
Ralph Rich, chief of the con
tract procurement division of the
CAA, said awarding of the con
tract for the construction is ex
pexted within 10 days.
Other bidders on the airport job
and their figures were Brown
Root company of Omaha $12,356.
898, uMorrison-Knudsen company
of Anchroage $8,965,018.
The airport is to be located four i
miles south of Anchorage. Speci
fications for the field also call for
the construction of a three-lane
highway between the port and the
city.
Preliminary work of staking the
airjjort has already been com
pleted. Clearing of land is expect
ed to be finished this “winter.
Give Hop es For
Atomic Power
DENVER. America’s chief atom
master gave a shot in the arm to
hopes for a new source of power.
David E. Lilienthal, chairman of
the U. S. atomic energy commis
sion. said prospecst for atomic en
ergy in the future are good.
“It appears clear that atomic
energy is on a sound basis for an
indefinite period in the future,”
he said in a statement prepared
for a press conference.
Potentialities of the atomic age
have been sold short recently, Lil
lenthal claimed.
»
"Statements have been made
and widely publicized,” he said,
"that there is only enough urani
um ore to last a relatively brief
period, and so the prospects of
benefit from atomic power must
go glimmering. This is simply not
! so-’’
Lilienthal explained that a wet
blanket was tossed on hopes for
atomic power by estimates that
; known reserves of uranium would
last only 30 years and not more
I than 40.
1 “As explicitly as national secur
ity permits,” he declared, “the
atomic energy commission wishes j
to state that it finds no basis in
fact for these statements about ex
tremely limited uranium ore sup
plies.”
Portuguese writers attribute the
discovery of the Bay of Rio de
Janeiro to Andre Goncalves who
entered its waters on January 1,
1502—and named the great river,
feeding into it, “The River of Jan
uary.”
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Monday. December 20. 1948
5:00 p.m.—News
5:15—Words With Music
5:30—Jubilee
6:00—Down Beat
6:15—The Cross and The Star
6:30—Music From America
7:00—On Stage America
7:30—Abbott and Costello
8:00—Ginny Simms
8:30—Johnny Desmond
9:00—You Asked For It
9:45—Today’s American
10:00—Inner Sanctum
10:30—Nelson Eddy »
11:00—Sign Off
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Tuesday. December 21. 1948
7:00 a.m.—Melody Round-Up
7:15—Sunrise Serenade
7:45—Morning Devotions
8:00—Fred Waring
8:30—G I Jive
8:45—Saludos Amigos
9:00—Record Shop
9:30—Dick Haymes
10:00—Turntable Time
10:30—Heard At Home
11:00—Impressions In Melody
11:30—Album Music
11:45—Personal Album
Moon—V Disc Varieties
12:30—WXLN News
12:45—Serenade
1:00—Around the World in Music
1:30—You’ll Be Surprised
2:00—Musical Varieties
2:30—Westward Ho
3:00—Matinee Melodies
4:00—Remember
4:15—At Ease
4:30—One Night Stand
5:00—News
5:15—Words With Music ^
5:30—Show Time
6:00—Down Beat
6:15—The Golden Rule
6:30—Show Time
7:00—Life Of Riley
7:30—Music America Loves Best
8:00—Fibber McGee and Molly
8:30—Music From America
9:00—You Asked For It
9:45—Today’s American
10:00—The Whistler
10:30—Starlight Souvenirs
11:00—Sign Off
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Wednesday, December 22. 1948
7:00 a.m.—Melody Round Up
7:15—Sunrise Serenade
7:45—Morning Devotions
8:00—Fred Waring
8:30—G I Jive
8:45—Saludos Amigos
9:00—Record Shop
9:30—Kate Smith
10:00—Turntable Time
10:30—Heard At Home
11:00—Impressions In Melody
11:30—Album Music
11:45—Personal Album
Noon—V Disc Varieties
12:30—WXLN News
[ 12:45—Serenade
1:00—Around the World in Music
j 1:30—You’ll Be Surprised
2:00—Musical Varieties
i 2:30—Westward Ho
| 3:00—-Matinee Melodies
4:00—Remember
i 4:15—At Ease
4:30—One Night Stand
5:00—News
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COL. JOHN NOYES FAVORS
NOME-FAIRBANKS ROAD
Col. John Noyes, commissioner
' of Roads for the U. S. Road Com
mission arrived with the Alaska
Airlines Sunday. Col. Noyes is
well known here, having worked
on the Nome Harbor when it' was
still a project.
Col. Noyes is reported to be in
accord with the Chamber of Com
merce roads program as published
some time ago, and broadcast over
WXLN Sunday evening. He also
is in favor of a road to Fairbanks
as proposed.
MOSCOW. nP>—1Three hereto
fore unknown rivers have been
discovered in Siberia. A Tass dis
patch from Leningrad related how
an expedition of scientists headed
by Prof. A. A. Fedorov, of the Bo
tanical Institute of Sciences, pene- b
trated 700 kilometers of Siberian
forest trails to find the rivers.
*
They were all in the little ex
plored central mountain range <>t
the Sayansky mountains. In addi
tion to the rivers the scientists
found four large glaciers and sev
eral large and deep lakes rich in
fish.
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