H0M5R "MAY HAVE
NATURAL HISTORY GROUP
In the next few weeks an
effort will be made to organ
ize a Society of Natural His
tory i*, iloiner„ The prelimln—
arv Wo-^ : s already un&srway
a of interested
citizens who have held two
meetings to expi.ore the pos
sioiliuies of such an organi
zation* io was the feeling
of those present that a nat
ural history society would
offer much to the education
al, material and cultural de
velopment of the community»
For many years Ala aka has
enjoyed a position of promin
ence in several scientif-c
fields and has been -subject
ed to * much study. Material
of great interest has been
gathered but mpch remains to
be gathered. The Cook Inlet
Kachemak Bay region is of
deep interest and in this re
gion there is an abundance of
material available in all of
the associated fields of
natural history. Much of the
local history has never been
recorded.
It will be the endeavor of
the society to gather, clas
sify and catalogue material
in the fields of history.- ar
chaeology, anthropiology,
geology, biology, 'paleontolo
gy. ornithology, oceanography
marine biology, geography and
mountaineering.
It is felt that there will
be many local residents and
many,people who live further
•up the Peninsula who will be
interacted .in joining'such a
society. Through broad par
WASHINGTON NEWSLETTER
by Iwafy Lee Council
Secretary to 2. L* (Bob)
Bartlett, Delegate in Con
gress from Alaska,
STATBS-ALASKA CASE
Continuation of the pres
ent air transportation pat
tern to and from Alaska by
Pacific Northern- Airlines,
Alaska Airlines, Pen American
and Northwest Airlines was
urged by the entire Washing
ton State delegation in Con
gress and D«3.3gate Bartlett
in joint letters sent to the
President and the Civil A^ro
ticipation in such a program
as mentioned xt is readily
seen that the community and
the Peninsula would enjoy a
decided educational, cultural
and material uplift.
However, it is not only
for local benefit that a nat
ural history society would be
formed. All material gather
ed would be mace available to
schools, colleges, individual
scientists and Scientific
groups. Such a society would
attract visitations of scien
tists and groups pursuing
subject material locally
available and would stimulate
interest1 in the region and
particularly Homer as a point
of outfitting and * an opera
tions base*
Next week the NEWS will
discuss further purposes and
aims of a natural history so
ciety and cover in more de
tail the subjects to be cov
ered and their relationship
to the local area.
nail ties Board this week,
"It is the understanding
of the Senators and Repre
sentatives from Washington
and the Delegate from Alas
ka,’r the letter stated, "that
the CAB. by recent vote, has
decided to eliminate Pacific
Northern Airlines and Alaska
Airlines from States-Alaska
service, and to confine both
carriers to intra-Alaska
routes on which they are per
manently certificated. The
effect would be to virtually
destroy two airlines tihoso
o rgaiii zat i on and equipment
have been expanded to a point
where restricted operation
would not be efficient.”
rne ten signers of the
communications which went to
the "fliite House and Acting
Chairman Ohan Gurney of the
CAB and members of that board
also stated their unanimous
opposition to any postpone
ment of a decision on the
States-Alaska case until the
CAB completed a proposed in
vestigation of Intra-Alaska
air routes and operators*
"The public interest will not
be served by postponement,and
such an action would work an
undue hardship on the car
riers involved, in thoir ef
forts to process f^pancing
essential to their service
and facilities."
"Stockholders of the two
companies would face loss of
their investment; state-side
facilities would have to be
abandoned, and many enployees
would be deprived of their
4obs. At the same time, air
rage o
service to the Territory
would be reduced and, in the
event of emergency, Alaska
would be totally dependent
upon two carriers. The fact
that steamship passenger ser
vice between the States and
Alaska has just been suspend
ed makii^ the Territory de
pendent upon air travel ex
clusively, empha sizes the
need for more, not less, air
transportation."the Congress
men pointed out.
Delegate Bartlett, who on
several occasions has urged
members of the CAB to main
tain the present service., has
stated: "Denieil of recertifi
cation to Pacific Northern
Airlines and to Alaska Air
lines would mean that Pan
American would have a monopo
listic position with respect
to the Fairbanks route and
would gain admittance to the
States-Anchorage run at the
expense of Pacific Northern
Airlines#, Not only would
such action deal perhaps a
mortal blow to the carrier
which, together with Alaska
Airlines, we consider to be e
local carrier, but it would
place Pan American in a dom
inant position# I would ar
gue just as strongly that Pan
American should not have its
head chopped off in the Alas
ka service, but no one com
pany should be placed by gov
ernment in the situation
where competition is surrend
ered to near monopoly#”
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The Department of Defense
released this week the long
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