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HE’S MADE INVASIONS BEFORE
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No Clash in Public Vs.
Private Interests Expected
In SE Alaska Development
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — A U. S.
Bureau of Reclamation official
predicted Monday the Bureau will
bow out of the power develop
ment picture in southeastern Al
aska’s Taiya River Valley.
Joseph Morgan, reclamation
chief for Alaska, said he had re
commended that the bureau turn
over to the Aluminum Co. of Am- j
erica all its data on the valley so
that a proposed 400-million-dollar
aluminum smelting project can
be speeded.
The Anchorage Times said Mor
gan’s statement allayed fears of
many Alaskans that a clash of
interests between public and pri
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vate power development might be
in prospect.
The aluminum corporation has
said it will build its own power
facilities. The Reclamation Bur
eau has been interested in the
valley for three years.
B-29s Dump 70 Tons
Bombs On Warned Area
SEOUL, (A3) — U.N. warplanes
roared into North Korea today in
a follow-up of last night’s heavy
bombing of Communist supply de
pots near the Red capital of
Pyongyang.
The U.S. Fifth Air Force said
swooping U. N. fighter-bombers
dropped explosives on Red front
line installations then dived low
and unloaded napalm in support
of Allied ground troops in the
first clear weather in five days.
Seven B-29s last night dumped
70 tons of high explosives on a
Red supply area at Pyongyang. It
was one of the military targets
the U. N. had said would be
bombed out of existence. Civil
ians were warned before the at
tack to evacuate the area.
The Superfort pilots reported
moderate flak over the target, a
110-acre area containing many
supply facilities. Bomber crews
sighted Red night fighters but
said the Red pilots did not attack.
Anchorage Wins Suit
To Supply Electricity
To Adjacent Suburbs
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — The City
of Anchorage Tuesday won the
right to serve the Anchor Homes
project with electricity.
District Judge George Folta
ruled the project comes within
the meaning of the statutory
term “adjacent,” thus entitling
the city to extend its distribution
and power systems in to the area.
Judge Folta’s decision, in effect,
gave Anchor Homes the choice of
taking power from Chugack Elec
tric Association or from the city.
Pete Schenck, general manager,
said the project will obtain its
power from the city.
City officials hailed the deci
sion. They said it gave a legal
green light to extend all utilities
outside the city limits. Other Al
askan cities are expected to be
affected by the decision, it was
pointed out during the hearings.
CEA attorney John Hellenthal
said the decision will be appealed
to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court.
9,000 Moslem Pilgrims
Flown to Mecca by USAF
BEIRUT, Lebanon, (JP) — Thir
teen U. S. Air Force transport
planes are speeding 9000 stranded
Moslem pilgrims to the holy cities
of Mecca and Medina — a flying
carpet that would have made
Scheherazade’s eyes pop.
The big four-engine planes, car
rying 50 passengers each trip,
began their air ferry service yes
terday to Jidda, Saudi Arabian
seaport only 40 miles from Mecca.
They will continue with a flight
every hour until all the pilgrims
have been whisked on their way.
The American airmen stepped
in at the request of the Lebanese
government after an unpreceden
ted influx of pilgrims at Beirut’s
international airport swamped
Beirut’s regular airlines.
The pilgrims must reach Mecca
by Wednesday if their journey is
to have the desired spiritual ef
fect.
Polet Reports
Optimistic Spirit
At All-Alaska Meet
A. Polet, Chamber of Com
merce representative to' the All
Alaska Resources Conference at
McKinley Park last week brings
back an outstanding and optimis
tic report of what leaders in Al
aska think as well 3s what State
side leaders envision for the fu
ture of Alaska.
Most important was the an
nouncement of the Alcoa plant
at Skagway and the birth of a
city of at least 20,000 people
with a permanent future and a
year-round payroll of over $20
million. High on the list of future
growth was the report of Joseph
Morgan, of the Bureau of Reclam
ation, who stated that he sees,
through cheap hydro-electric pow
er, the doubling of Alaska’s pop
ulation by 1970. Harnessing the
tremendous potential will turn
Alaska into a well - developed,
partly self - sufficient land that
can contribute to the nation’s bul
wark of something like 74,000 new
jobs throughout the territory.
Report on Strategic Minerals
Philip Holdsworth, * Alaska
Commissioner of Mines, stated
that the mining in the territory
in 1951 was a 20 million dollar
business. He traced the history of
the development of strategic min
erals in Alaska and stated that
less than 1% of the strategic min
eral potential has been prospected.
He placed coal as high in im
portance for development, listing
this part of the territory as first
with “tremendous” reserves
known ■ to contain 60 billion tons
of lignite and 22 billion tons of
bituminous coal as well as quan
tities in other parts of the terri
tory. He also reported on the
million dollar-a-year production
of platinum at Good News Bay,
and the strides made in tin at
three places — Lost River, Cape
Creek and Buck Creek, as well as
the tungsten production in this
area.
Tourist Business Good
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Even with the handicap of the
boat strike, the tourist business
was reported making healthy
strides and the prophecy was made
it would double next year.
On transportation, C. Zeusler of
the Alaska Steamship Co. report
ed that his company alone now
serves 96 ports on the Alaskan
coast. As for roads, Don Follette
of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce stated that “the demand for
more roads in Alaska is insati
able.”
Polet reported a most optimistic
spirit throughout the entire three
day conference with the complete
realization that better teamwork
was needed to unify the territory.
As a result an All-Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce was organized.
U.S. and Britain Submit
Proposals Designed To
Settle Iranian Oil Row
LONDON, (/P) — Informed
sources said the United States and
Britain submitted broad proposals
tq Iran today designed to settle
the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute and
avert a possible Red coup in the
troubled Iranian kingdom.
The proposals were said to pro
vide for an emergency American
aid program and some important
British concessions to the gov
ernment of Premier Mohammed
Mossadegh in Ihe festering 18
month-old oil row.
' U.S. Ambassador Roy Hender
son and British charge d’affaires
George Middleton conferred with
Mossadegh for three hours today
in what the informants here de
scribed as the weightiest West
ern bid to end the deadlock yet
made.
Henderson told Mossadegh the
UJS. is ready to pitch in several
million dollars worth of aid to
tide Iran over her immediate ec
onomic difficulties.
Middleton indicated British
willingness to relax the blockade
on the Iranial oil industry as part
of a general settlement.
John Bouse, chief deputy for
the U.S. marshal in Nome and
Valdez during the early days and
more lately with the U.S. mar
shal’s office in San Francisco,
passed -away in San Francisco at
the age of 82 years recently.
The All-Alaska Resources meet
ing, which was the brain-child of
Don Goodman, president of the
Alaska Development Board, was
in every way a most successful
meeting, he concluded.
j Olaf Halverson * Leaves
Nome To Become School
Supt. in Seldovia
Olaf Halverson, high school
principal here for the past several
years, has left for Seldovia, where
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he will be superintendent of
schools this year.
The Nugget is indebted to Mr.
Halverson for his timely observa
tions on stars and planets through
the dark winter and for school
notes on activities of the school
for the paper. •
He has been with Nome School
six years and has spent his sum
mers as surveyor for the U.S.
Smelting Co.
We wish him every success in
his new assignment.
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