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AND EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT
Boat Harborage Badly Needed
¥TNF1L THE EARLY 1920's Nome had no harbor at all and
^ every little coastwise boat and barge was at the mercy of the
elements throughout the navigational season.
Then the small boat harborage on the Snake River was built
and handling of freight and supplies was simplified.
Forty years have passed and the small mail boat no longer
piles the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean. Instead large powered
barges are in the roadstead which could use the harbor if it were
deepened and lengthened bevond the breakers.
Last week such a barge was storm-bound awaiting favorable
weather. It carried supplies which were needed by contractors here.
With a more adequate harbor this barge could have long since
discharged its freight and been on its way, saving many thou
sands of dollars and making it possible for needed projects to get
under way.
1 he Chamber of Commerce is urging the necessary improve
ment and other organizations and individuals should back them
up with letters to our delegation in Washington, D.C.
Conquering Time and Space
jVT.AR I HE END OF jl NE, 1939, 22 passengers filed aboard
a flying boat at i Long Island pier. Some 5,000 spectators
cheered and a brass band played. The plane, capable of the then
notable speed or !50 miles an hour, took to the air. just under 30
hours later it reached Marseille, having gone via the Azores and
Lisbon.
This was history's first transatlantic flight of paying pas
sengers. The international air age was born.
Pan American World Airways operated that flying boat,
named Dixie Clipper. A short time ago another Pan American
aircraft, the Jet Clipper America, soared off from New York’s
International Airport, bound for London and Frankfurt, and then
on around the world to San Francisco. The American, with a
capacity of 161 passengers, cruises at about 600 mph. This par
ticular flight was Pan Am’s 100,000th across the broad Atlantic.
But it was just one of the 204 transatlantic flights the airline
operates on clockwork schedules every week. Since the Dixie
Clipper’s flight, Pan Am has carried 3,590,000 passengers across
the Atlantic.
It has been only 23 years since the Dixie Clipper made history.
In that brief span, time and space have lost the greater part of
their past significance.
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— BRANCHES IN KOTZEBUE and BARROW —
Husk Says U.S.
Not Frightened by
Nikita's Warning
WASHINGTON UP! — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk said Tuesday
this country is not frightened by
Soviet Premier Khrushchev's warn
ing against ahy American attack
on Cuba.
"We arc a great country." Rusk
told reporters. "We are not nervous
or afraid. We'll proceed as we
find it necessary."
Rusk made his observations
after leaving a closed session of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee where he briefed members
on the agenda for the forthcoming
United Nations General Assembly
session.
The secretary did not elaborate
on these remarks, explaining that
he had not read the full text of the
Soviet government statement at the
time he left the State Department.
His observations came on the
heels of congressional reaction
ranging from descriptions of the
Soviet statement as sheer propa
ganda to demands for sterner U.S.
action to prevent the establishment
of a Communist military beach
head in Cuba.
Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana
led off for those who saw sheer
propaganda in the Kremlin decla
ration. saying the Soviets "know'
full well they have erected a
straw man for the purpose of
knocking it down.”
Sen. Frank Lausche of Ohio,
stated the case for the other ap
proach. He promised support for
“whatever firmer action” Presi
dent Kennedy decides to take with
respect to Cuba, and added:
“We cannot continue to be
pushed and pushed offensively by
Khrushchev and Castro while we
are retreating and retreating.”
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT
MAY DRAFT DOCTORS
WASHINGTON 0P> — The De
fense Department warned Tuesday
it may have to resort to the doctor
draft again unless it gets enough
volunteers to make up an expected
shortage of about 1,000 general
practice medical officers.
The shortage is forecast for the
fiscal year starting next July 1.
It cuts across all the armed serv
ices.
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JUNEAU (/Pi — The State Su
preme Court Tuesday denied a
petition by the cities of Juneau
and Douglas and 23 individuals for
a re-hearing of tile capital relo
cation cases.
The high court’s denial of the
re-hearing petition means the
question of whether Alaska’s
capital should be moved from Ju
neau to a point west of Yakutat,
will be submitted to the voters
Nov. 6.
The question will be posed in
the form of an initiative filed by
an Anchorage area group known
as Capital Information Committee
last Oct. 10.
The initiative provides that if it
is approved by the voters, a capital
site selection committee be formed
| within 60 days. The committee
would consist of the senior sena
tors from each senatorial district.
Three Potential Capital Sites
The committee would be required
to recommend, within two years,
i three potential capital sites.
Each site would have to be at
least 30 miles from Anchorage and
would have to include not less
than 6,400 acres of state-owned
or state-selected federal lands.
The state’s voters would then be
asked to make the final selection.
The actual relocation of the capital
would have to start no later than
June 1, 1968.
If the initiative passes, the first
legislature after the new capital
site is selected by the voters would
be required to provide for the plan
ning and sub-division of the site
and for the construction of neces
sary state facilities.
The Juneau-Douglas group, on
Feb. 13, challenged the initiative
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claim
on constitutional grounds
ing that the section of the con
stitution designating Juneau the
capital, the schedule of transitional
measures, could not be changed by
an initiative.
Superior Court Judge James A.
von dor Heydt agreed with the
Juneau-Douglas argument and on
April IT issued an injunction pre
venting Secretary of State Hugh
Wade from placing the initiative
on the ballot.
The Capital Information Com
mittee. through Dr. Merritt Starr
of Anchorage and Clarence Bailey
of Palmer, appealed to the State
Supreme Court.
Court Overturned Decision
The state's high court overturned
von de Heydt's decision and ruled
on Aug. 16 that the capital section
of the constitution could be changed
by initiative.
The petition for re-hearing, de
nied yesterday, was then filed by
the attorney for the Juneau-Doug
las group, Robert Boochever.
After the Supreme Court’s de
nial of the re-hearing petition was
announced, Boochever commented:
“The court has spoken and their
decision is final.
“It is unfortunate that the state
must again be burdened with an
election on this decisive issue.
“I am confident, however, that
the people of Alaska will prevent
the disastrous results of a capital
move which like the Brasilia ex
perience could well bankrupt our
state; and that they will defeat
the initiative proposal even more
resoundingly than two years ago
when the vote was 23,972 to
18,865.’’
Joint Exercise
Lt. Gen. George Mundy. USAF,
Commander in Chief, Alaska has
announced that Army, Navy and
Air Force components of his Alas
kan Command will participate in a
routine Department of Defense
training exercise between now and
Sept. 28.
The exercise is another in a
series which enables the Depart
ment of Defense to test periodic
ally plans for the conduct of
operations under emergency con
ditions.
Planned for some months, the
exercise will not involve major
troop movements. However, some
elements' may be deployed to test
the Alaskan Command's capability
to car: y out emergency pi.ms.
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