Alaska and Roads
Is Main Topic at
Chamber Meeting
Alaska and its roads was the
main topic at the Chamber of
Commerce luncheon Monday with
Donald McKinnon, Commissioner
of Highways, giving a thorough
picture of what has been done,
what is being done and what is
about to be done.
Mr. McKinnon was appointed to
his position last May and this is
his first trip to Nome. He stated,
“the more I travel in this big state,
one fifth the size of all the other
states put together, the bigger the
highway problem becomes. It is
the most challenging road construc
tion problem in the whole U.S.A.”
In surveying the developments
since he took over the department
McKinnon states that he has found
many capable people already in
the department and the completely
reorganized department is “really
starting to produce.”
Tile state now has 30 millions
of dollars worth of roads under
construction and 25 milions to be
let this year as well as $750,000
for access roads. “We hope to
reach the 50 million mark by Janu
ary of 1963,” he said.
He outlined the roads in this
area as No. 130 the Nome-Safety
Council Road; 131 the Nome-Teller
Road and the 141 Nome-Kougarok
Road. The Nome street repaving
was deleted for this year when
the repairs were made.
Now under construction are Pen
ny to Sinuk and Teller to Blue
stone with Bluestone to Tisuk
being held up as there was a
right of way involved. This will
be advertised this winter.
In the design stage are Nome
to Anvil; Coffee Creek to Kouga
rok and Nome to Dexter.
McKinnon explained the impor
tance of getting all available fed
eral monies obligated as soon as
possible. Alaska is so far behind
the other states in roads that $800,
000 has been allocated for a sur
vey of highway needs so that an
additional sum may be made to
Alaska and the amount estimated
to get it adds up to standard. It
is therefore necessary that all fed
eral monies now available under
the Omnibus Act be allocated and
projects engineered ahead to show
what must be done to integrate
the road system.
Other representatives from the
State Highway Department were
Lee Hubbard and Bert Hyde. Ken
Beck, of Central Construction, who
was recently awarded the Teller
Lost River contract was also a
guest.
New Doctor Introduced
Dr. Robert Fenstermacher, ad
ministrator of the MMM Hospital
and director of the OVR program
introduced Dr. John Schadler,
medical director # of the hospital,
who arrived over the weekend, to
JUSTICE DOUGLAS SAYS
FOREIGN AID SELDOM
HELPS little; PEOPLE
SEATTLE (iP— Supreme Court
Justice William O. Douglas said
last night that many nations which
have received United States for
eign aid “are worse off for it.”
Justice Douglas, addressing a
Masonic fraternal convention, said:
“The people at the top became
rich on American aid, while the
people at the bottom starved.”
The jurist discussed “America—
at Home and Abroad” as principal
speaker at the annual Rose Ban
quet of Prince Hall Grand Lodge,
F & AM, and Grand Chapter,
OES, of Washington.
A predominantly Negro audi
ence of more than 500 heard him
give his explanation of “why we
have been losing ground in the
under-developed nations.”
“Under (Presidents) Truman and
Eisenhower,” he said, “we were
fighting Communism abroad with
planes, bombs, guns and dollars.
The financial aid was used to shore
up feudal societies, not to finance
reforms.
”It went to sustain feudal over
lords, not to aid the people in
realizing economic justice.”
PARENTS NIGHT
Parents Night will be Friday
evening at 7:30 at the Dexter
Camp where the Girl Scouts are
now on encampment.
the members of the Chamber.
Dr. Fenstcrmacher also an
nounced that Dr. Alexander, who
did some dental work here this
spring, is moving to Nome to set
up his practice. He plans to base
his practice here and also to be an
itinerant dentist to the immediate
surrounding area when his sched
ule here permits.
Over 200 Guests
President Pete Walsh announced
that over 200 visitors on tours, in
addition to people traveling
through on business were in Nome
last week.
A1 Hulin Due Here
Walsh also announced that A1
Hulin, Regional FAA Director, will
be a guest at the next Chamber
meeting and will be accompanied
by a military representative from
Washington, D.C., headquarters of
FAA, and the meeting should be
very interesting. He also expressed
regret at losing a good community
worker in Rev. John Maakestad
and congratulated him on the Boy
Scout honor conferred.
Appreciation was expressed to
Mr. McKinnon for giving his time,
by the president who stated, “so
many departments pass up this
area and are conspicuous by their
lack of knowledge of ALL of
Alaska.”
Cub Scouts of Den 2, Pack 63,
with Mrs. Earl Towner as Den
Mother, presented a musical se
lection for the Chamber.
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! FISH HR MAN PHILS ABOUT
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| Gary Burlison came into town
; Monday from Moses Point where
| he and his brother Orville, are
| catching salmon for the freezer
1 ship there.
Burlison was to return to Moses
i Point today, taking his family with
him.
He said he and his brother
caught 3,000 chums in 7 days of
gillnetting. The freezer ship is pay
ing 35 cents per fish. He said that
some of the 15 boats fishing have
caught as many as 6,000 fish in
the seven days they have fished
so far.
The freezer ship is the North
Wind, owned by Bering Sea Fish
eries, and it takes its catch on
weekends to the cannery ship at
Golovin.
Burlison said he understood the
operators are considering moving >
up into the Deering area after the :
Norton Bay and Golovin runs are
over.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy with occasional light
rain. Low tonight 49, high tomor
row 61. In the last 24 hours: High
of 63, low of 50. Max. wind 21
mph from NNE. Sunrise at 1:56 j
a.m., sunset at 10:16 p.m. Temps, j
a year ago today: High of 52, low I
of 47. Extremes on this date since
1907: High of 72 in 1919, low of’
28 in 1934.
Wedding Application
An application for marriage has
been filed with the District Magi
strate by Johnnie Weyiouanna and
Mary Hoodhope, both of Shish
maref.
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New York, Paris and London
datelines.
“Fully successful” said the stor
ies in the official Soviet news
agency. The combined dispatches
totaled a little over 100 words, i
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WASHINGTON W - The surg
ing National League ran its un
beaten streak to five games yes
terday lay whipping the American
League 3-1 in the 32nd All-Star
game on superb pitching, smart
running and the spectacular de
fensive play of Willie Mays.
With four victories and one tie
in the last five games, the Nation
als closed within one game of the ;
Americans — 16-1.5-1 — in the
mid-summer inter-league rivalry.
A crowd of 45,480. including
President Kennedy, saw the Na- 1
tionals break a scoreless deadlock
with two runs in the sixth inning
and then hold the rallying Ameri
cans to one run in the last of the
sixth on two fine plays by center
fielder Willie Mays of the San
Francisco Giants.
The Americans were held to four
■ its by Don Drysdale of the
Dodgers, Juan Marichal of the
Giants, Bob Turkey of the Reds
and Bob Shaw of the Braves.
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WASHINGTON — The Sen
ate has agreed to take a crucial
vote on the health care for the
aged hill a week from Tuesday,
dashing hopes of Democratic lead
ers for passage this week.
Republican senators, after a
round of hard bargaining with
Democratic leader Alike Mansfield
of Montana, forced him to delay
final action until next week in re
turn for an agreement to limit
debate.
The unanimous consent agree
ment. obtained late Monday, is ex
pected to bring final action on the
legislation Wednesday or Thursday
of next week.
However, the Senate fate of
President Kennedy’s social security
health plan probably will be de
cided next Tuesday.
The agreement provides for a
roll call vote then on the question
of tabling and thus killing the
proposal of Sen. Clinton 1’. Ander
son, (D-N.AT.i, which embodies the
President's plan.
Anderson and his supporters
were optimistic but said they would
like to recruit some additional
votes so they would have a com
fortable margin.
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