CAB Denies
Iiialook Charges
ANCHORAGE, t/P)—The Alaska
director of the Civil Aeronautics
Board yesterday strongly denied
charges that CAB policies in Al
aska contributed to 14 whooping
cough deaths in the Arctic last:
winter.
Robert O. Kinsey, the director,
said all airline restrictions are
lifled in such emergencies. Charg
es that 14 babies died were made
in the Legislature at Juneau yes
terday by Sen. Percy Ipalook, an
Eskimo.
In denying the charges, Kinsey
said that they were based on mis
information. He said that all gov
ernment restrictions on all types
of carriers are lifted in such emer
gencies.
Kinsey said the article, written
by Eugene Joiner, Kotzebue pilot
who publishes the paper, the Muk
luk Telegraph, apparently was
the basis for Ipalook’s charges.
He said the Joiner article stated
Joiner was unable to fly serum
to Wainwright because he was
subpoenaed to appear at a CAB
enforcement investigation at Kot
zebue at the time.
“I was at that meeting.” Kinsey
said. “At least four qualified pi
le;." also were there. At no time
was there any mention of a whoop
in,, cough epidemic or the need of
serum to be flown to ‘Wainright.
Kinsey said the Joiner paper
h i ocen critical of the CAB for
some time. Joiner, he said, had
been charged with violations of
CAB regulations at a hearing, and
an examiner had recommended
the Board issue a cease-and-desist
order against the pilot.
Ipalook had wired Chan Gur
ney, new national CAB member,
protesting the Wainwright inci
dent. He said later he had not
made a personal investigation but
obtained most of his information
from the Mukluk Telegraph. .
The paper said the incident oc
curred last winter. A check of the
Territorial Board of Health at Ju
neau disclosed 14 deaths occurred
last July and Augus..
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New Lighterage Plant
For Kotzebue
Word has just been received,
from Jack Bullock, now in Seattle,
of the completed organization and
financing of a new lighterage com
pany to be located in Kotzebue.
This new corporation is composed
of Alaskan business people, all
of whom have lived in the north
ern area for many years, and who ,
are thoroughly familar with the i
problems of Arctic transportation
and supply.
In addition to lighterage work
this new company, as yet un
named, will act as dealers for
Standard Oil Company, which will
construct storage tanks, one of
200,000 - gallon capacity, and a j
warehouse in Kotzebue early in
the season. The new corporation
I is having three steel oil barges
I constructed outside, one of 80,000- j
gallon capacity, and two of 50,000
gallon capacity, which will be
towed into the Kotzebue Sound
area at the opening of navigation
by two tugs acquired outside, one
an off-shore tug, and the other an
inshore tug.
There will be considerable ad
ditional equipment for lighterage
Atom - Powered Aircraft
To Be Developed
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By General Electric
WASHINGTON, (fP)— Another
step has been taken on the road to
atomic-powered aircraft engines.
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The Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC) announced last night it has
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authorized negotiation of a con
tract With a General Electric Com
pany division “ for* the further de
velopment of a nuclear reactor
for aircraft.”
An atomic reactor produces
heat. The AEC announcement said
the new contract will be negotia
ted with the aircraft gas turbines
division of General Electric, at
Cincinnati. A gas turbine engine
uses superheated gases'to whirl a
turbine which turns the aircraft’s
propellor. It was assumed, there
fore, that tvays would be sought
to use heat from a nuclear reactor
to heat air or other gas for a tur
bine engine.
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and Arnout Castel, well-known
Arctic trader and navigator, with
Vickie C, will be associated with
the Company.
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Phone RED 98
First Teachers for New
ANS Kasigaluk School
Leave Wednesday
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fleck leave
Wednesday for Kasigaluk, half
way between Bethel and the Ber
ing Sea Coast, o their first assign- j
ment with the Alaska Native Ser
vice.
Mrs. Fleck will be the first
teacher in the first school for the
town with the population of about
150 people. He will be the special
assistant. Students at the school
will number approvimately 25.
CHILD COSTS A NICKEL
NEW DELHI, India,
four annas —- about a nickel in
American money—ycru can buy
one child in the local kidnappers’
market. Officers have reported
the recovery of 18 kidhapped chil
dren and the arrest of 12 gang
members.
ISAAC EBEN j
FILING HAND SAWS
PEEN1NG CIRCULAR SAWS
SCISSORS SHARPENED, 50c
Phone Black 115
PLUMBING and STEAM-FITTING
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