THE NOME NUGGET
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Friday, November 15, 1946
The Loussac Foundation
(Anchorage Daily Times)
Creation of the Loussac Foundation for the purpose
of making revenue from property owned by Z. J. Lous
sac available in perpetuity for the benefit of the people'
of Anchorage, was completed last Saturday.
The event was one of the most important that has
happened to the city of Anchorage for it marks an inno
vation in the daily life of the community. It was also the1
first time an Alaskan has expressed so indelibly his love
for his hometown and his gratitude for many happy
years of activity.
The event was also a new high mark for personal gen
erosity.
Mr. Loussac named four prominent residents of the
city to serve with him as a board of governors and gave
them wide discretionary powers in expending the
money which, until Saturday, was to be his personal
property.
The plan makes $18,000 a year available in the imme
diate future. This fund will increase as the years go by.
Upon his death, Mr. Loussac has willed that his entire
estate be placed in trust so that the revenue will be still
further substantially increased and made available for
use on projects of a recreational, scientific, cultural or
educational nature.
Simultaneously with the creation of the Loussac
Foundation, Mr. Loussac made a gift to it of his one
half interest in the $560,000 office building now under
construction at Fifth Avenue and D Street.
Mr. Loussac’s generosity is overwhelming.
(Never before in the history of Alaska has this type of
generosity and brotherly love been demonstrated.
Mr. Loussac, in all the documents accompanying the
transfer of the property, the willing of his estate, the
establishment of a trust and the organization of the
Loussac Foundation, has been moved bv the desire to
maintain his property after his death with the sole vie
of making the revenue available for many, many, years
to come.
While he still lives, Mr. Loussac will sit with the four
governors of the Foundation and have one of five votes
in determining how, what would ordinarily be his own
money, will be expended.
First among the projects will probably be a promin
ent library building and a swimming pool for Anchor
age. These projects have been mentioned by Mr. Lous
sac as two in which he is particularly interested. It is
logical to assume that the governors will give them
special attention.
For the first time, this community has an agency in a
position to carry forward worthy projects for which
there has always been a great need but a shortage of
funds. As long as this work continues, Mr. Loussac will
remain an active and prominent figure in the daily lives
of his friends and neighbors.
On “Conking Out”
(The Denver Post)
(Man brags of being earth’s hardiest creature—and so
he is, so long as he keeps his feet on the ground. High up
in the air it’s another story. Lesser critters make a sissy
of him at high altitudes, or so we learn from a study
made by the Air Transport association for Western Air
Lines as reported in Business Week.
“Animals generally conk out less easily than man,’’
the study finds. “For humans, the highest tolerable al
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titude is around 18,000 feet (babies can take it better
than their elders). For dogs, it’s 25,000; cats, 24,000;
flying birds, 29,000; chickens, 20,000; live crabs and lob
sters, 17,000 feet. Cut flowers and fruits well packed
collapse at 25,000 feet.”
But, whoa! We’re too tough to be licked by mere sta
tistics. Just when does a man ‘conk out” into blesesd ob
livion? It’s psychological. Man has imagination. Long
before the oxygen gets dangerously thin he fancies him
eslf strangling. He gasps. His heart thumps. To save him
the possible fatal strain of his own mental agony, nature
knocks him cold in a hurry. There he flops relaxed
while dogs and cats still suffer.
Far from being a sign of weakness, we say, conking
out is evidence of man’s ability to escape the real dan
gers that lurk behind imagined horrors. Thus he con
serves his mental powers to fight for survival when no
other weapons can save him. We’re thing of Howard
Hughes, who flew, crashed and won against odds that
would kill a mule.
One Man’s Opinion By Walter Kieman
Bob Hannegan says greater use of air mail will pro
mote world peace ... I dunno ... I just got one of Henry
Wallace’s coast speeches by air mail and he’s as hot as
when his mail was handled free. — Anyway the U. N.
debaters got here at a good time. They can see with
their own eyes that even during a campaign Republican
and Democratic candidates live together as brothers . . .
like Cain and Abel. — In Washington, O. John Rogge
has been bounced for revealing a “top secret” that the
Germans scaled a peace proposal into Washington in
1939. — I have to be immodest but in 1940 I interview
ed, for I.N.S., William R. Davis, the man who brought
it . . . and if 1946 isn’t too early to get to 1939 business
we’d still like to know what was in it. — Davis died in
1941 but there must be some record of the proposal he
brought and 1946 is as good a time as any to tear the
i “top secret” label off it and let us know what it is.
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Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, Delegate to Congress from Alaska
I
WEST POINT
APPOINTMENTS
The Territory of Alaska is en
titled to the admission of three ca
dets to West Point in 1947, and
Delegate Bartlett would welcome
applications from Alaska residents
to fill the vacancies.
Three alternate appointments
are made for each principal, thus
enabling Delegate Bartlett to nom
D
inate 12 Alaskans.
Under current law, nominees
must be actual residents of the
Territory, and, at the date of ad
mission, have reached their 17th
but not their 22nd birthdays (24th
in the case of veterans with not
less than one year’s honorable ac
itve service in the armed forces).
Applications to Delegate Bartlett
should contain information as
the place of birth and should J
addressed to him at room 4!
House Office Building, Washin
ton D. C.
TRUCKING ON
ALASKA HIGHWAY
At this writing, favorable dec
sion by the Canadian cabinet ai
proving truck shipments in bor
over the Alaska Highway from tl
States to Alaska is anticipated, a
cording to information given Del
gate Bartlett by the State Dep4
ment.
This action will settle the contr
versy which arose over the inte
pretation of the agreement ma<
in 1942 between the United Stat
and Canada on the postwar use
the highway. That agreement rer
in part: “ ... at the conclusion
the war that part of the highw;
which lies in Canada shall becon
in all respects an integral part
the Canadian highway systei
subject to the understanding th
there shall at no time be impos<
any discriminatory conditions
relation to the use of the road
between Canadian and Uniti
States civilian traffic.”
In first refusing to allow shi
ment in bond of trucks over tl
highway, Canada stated the hig
way had not become “an integr
part of the Canadian highway sy
tern” since its control was stilli
the hands of the Canadian am
and, therefore, the agreement w
not effective. It was also stati
there was necessarily no discrir
ination since Canadians were n
permitted to ship in bond ov
Canadian highways. A furth
reason given for not implementii
the agreement was that the end
the war has never been official
proclaimed. ,
It is understood all enablS
regulations have been formulat
for approval by the cabinet so th
as short a time as possible w
elapse before trucks in bond w
travel over the highway betwe<
j the States and Alaska.
AVIATION COMMITTEE
A subcommittee has been esta
lished under the Air Coordinate
Committee of the Commerce D
partment to conduct a comprei£
sive study of aids to the develo
ment of aviation in Alaska, a
cording to information recenl
given Delegate Bartlett.
The subcommittee will be coi
posed of members from Sta
War, Navy, Commerce, Interi<
Post Office Civil Aeronauti
Board and the Bureau of the Bu
get, the last named agency beij
the only non-voting organizatn
in the subcommittee.
The necessity and cost of fedc
al programs in Alaska will be i
vestigated with relation to t
economic potentialities of the Tf
ritory and to the national defend
FWA ADVANCE
PLANNING PROGRAM
The federal government has a
vanced funds for 16 Alaska pu>^
projects under the planning pr
gram of the Federal Works Age
cy and 10 additional project a
plications are under review, ma
ing a total of $203,115 apportion
out of the $314,585 available f
allotment.
The City of Anchorage has i
ceived funds for blueprintii
three projects, namely, a wat
supply system, a school and eiq
trie power and heat plant. App
cations have been made by^ t
city, now being reviewed, for pr
jects for electric distribution, tel
phone distribution, storm sewe
street improvement, City Hall a
dition, equipment yard and st<