THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
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NEW AIR MAIL ROUTES LEAD TO NOME
Today’s Associated Press dispatches carry a detailed
story from the office of Alaska’s Delegate to the National
Congress, Anthony J. Dimond, pertaining to the proposed
establishment of six star air mail routes in Alaska.
Two direct routes are proposed to terminate at Nome,
one from Southeastern Alaska northward to Fairbanks and
into Nome, and the other from Southwestern Alaska across
the Alaska Range to Nome. Both are well tried, and es
tablished routes for commercial air lines. Many times
planes have flown to and fro between Anchorage and Nome
and this winter is witnessing the successful flying of mail
into and out of Nome twice-weekly from Fairbanks. The
only part of Route 1 from Kechikan and Fairbanks into
Nome, which still remains to be definitely established is from
Ketchikan into Juneau, as the Pacific Alaska Airways, is
already flying frequently between Fairbanks and Juneau.
During recent months and more particularly during
the last year, Nome has been designated and included in
every long range plan for the carrying of air mail from the
United States to the Orient. Not for nothing is it included |
on proposed routes.
The natural contention is that it is strategically situat-j
ed and is to become a potential air terminal for major air
line operations in the near future between the North Ameri
can continent and Asia and Europe. Air Travel in Alaska,
which has progressed with astounding leaps and bounds
during the past few years, is headed toward being one of
the Territory’s greatest factors in the development of this
country.
Without the rapid transportation of express, mail and
passengers many of the remote localities in Alaska and par
ticularly in the vicinity of Nome would still be moving!
along at a rate of development which would take, years to
result in any profitable work being accomplished. Nome:
has been air-minded from the earliest inception of aircraft
in Alaska. Early commercial flights were made into and
out of Nome and today it points with pride to its own com
mercial airplane companies, flying thousands of miles mon
thly in the regular course of business.
The fact that Nome is again included as one of the
major terminals for air mail distribution in Alaska not only
demonstrates its practicability as a center for aviation, but
clearly shows that it is situated on proposed routes of travel
to the Far East and through to Europe.
So much for commercial aviation. Military and naval
aviation, as exemplified by government flights last summer,
point directly to the favorable consideration and notice
which Alaska is receiving in Washington, D.C. The federal
government today realizes the need of government air bases
in Alaska and in the none too distant future will see such
action taken. During that time Alaskans should work to
gether and not separately for the establishment of those
bases. When they are designated it will not be through
the efforts of one city or another, and their publicity pro
grams, but through the scientific and experienced deduc
tions of the Board of Military and Naval Strategists.
As an example of Nome’s position in commercial air
travel, were the many flights into and out of this city in the
regular line of work, and the many celebrated airmen who
have stopped here at different times. Nome can well point
to the banner-head which has been carried by The Nome
Nugget for the past several years, boosting our position as
a great air terminal. The people of Nome should combine
and work energetically together in support of that banner:
“Nome is the Strategic World Flight Air Base—Especially
Adapted for Commercial and Military Aviation.”
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Busy Hospital
At Unalakleet In
Summer Months
WESTWARD INSTITUTION SERV
ED COAST GUARDERS AS
WELL AS RESIDENTS
Mrs. May Bunting, who described
herself as a “10-year-old sourdough,’’
is interested in her work as nurse
at the Unalaska hospital, and spoke
of a busy summer for 1934.
She was in Seward between the
arrival of the SS Alaska and the de
parture of the SS Star, having re
turned from a vacation in the states
to take passage on the mail ship for
the westward, says the Seward Gate
way of December 24th.
MODERN FEATURES
The Unalaska hospital, now under
the direction of Dr. White, formerly
at MetlakVtla, is equipped with X
ray and other modern facilities to
take care of the afflicted that make
the institution in demand by both
white and native residents.
In addition the hospital, function
ing in public health service, cared
for coast guard crew members,while
the cutters in turn did duty as am
bulance carriers serving Bristol Bay
and outlying points in emergency
cases.
There are 20 beds in the hospital
and these were literally filled to
overflowing at times, it being found
necessary at times to assign two
children to one bed.
NATIVE GIRLS TO HELP
Besides Mrs. Bunting there is a
janitor-orderly, a cook and native
help about the institution.
Patricia Anderson and Nellie Ya
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thehemenoff assist os word helpers.
Patricia is a Jesse Lee Rome girt,
and Nellie is the daughter of the
chief at Unalaska. Berth girls are
exceptionally efficient in their work,
and Mrs. Bunting was generous in
her praise of their performance of
duty.
.. Mrs. Banting was in Nome and
Kotzebue before going to Unalaska,
where she has been for a year, or
since the hospital was established in
service... This was her first visit to
Seward and over the Starr route,
former trips having been made di
rect from Seattle on the SS Victoria.
TELLER NEWS
(Special Nugget Correspondence)
Teller, Alaska, Jan. 8, 1935
Frank Miller Jr. and Thos. Blatch
ford are leaving for Nome on a
short business trip. They expect to
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be gone about a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lars Tjemagel spent
Wednesday at the Teller Mission.
Mrs. Skavlan, who has been ill
for the past week, is well again.
Mrs. Blanch Havercamp returned
from Nome after the Christmas holi
days.
School at both Teller and the Mis
sion started again on the second of
January.
Charles L. Levan, U. S. Commis
sioner, and Mrs. Levan spent New
Year’s in Nome. They returned to
Teller on the 4th.
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