FAA Announces
$3,991,917 in Aid
To Alaska Airports
WASHINGTON M — The Fed
eral Aviation Agency announced
yesterday allocations of federal
aid money totaling $3,991,917 for
airports and air navigation sys
tems in Alaska.
Alaska members of Congress
received reports showing among
these allocations:
Barrow — $312,590 to construct
100 by 2,000-foot landing strip at
Barrow Airport.
Gambell — $375,000 to recon
struct runway and develop park
ing apron at Gamibell Airport.
Xotzebue — $468,750 to recon
struct and extend north-south
runway to 5,000 feet and con
struct taxiway at Ralph Wien
Memorial Airport.
New Andreafsky—$631,250 to
acquire land; construct lighting
and maintenance equipment build
ing including utilities; site prepa
ration; construct 5,000-foot run
way, aircraft parking apron, taxi
way and entrance road; light run
way beacon and engine generator
at lower Yukon Airport.
Savoonga — $250,000 to acquire
land and site preparation for 2,000
by 80-foot landing strip at Sa
voonga Airport.
In a wire to the Associated
Press at Juneau, the Alaska con
gressional delegation said the Fed
eral Aviation Agency has also
allocated approximately $6,730,200
for 20 Alaska air navigation fa
cilities improvement projects.
VORTAC Stations, to provide
pilots of equipped aircraft with
bearing information as well as
distance to and from the ground
station, will be installed at a num
ber of Alaska points including:
Moses Point, Nome, and Una
lakleet at an average cost of
$392,000 a unit.
Visual glide slope, lights will be
installed at Anchorage and Bethel
at an average of $51,100 per air
port.
Expanded quarters will be built
and equipped for flight service
stations at Cordova, Kotzebue and
Nome at an average cost of
$213,000.
The word bed derives from an
Indo-European term meaning “a
dugout place for safe resting.”
Public Hearing to Be
Held for Establishing
Fur Seal Processing Plant
JUNEAU (#> — A public hear
ing has been scheduled by the
Senate Resources Committee to
investigate possibilities of proces
sing Pribilof Island seal skins
in Alaska and ways of utilizing
the first legal take of sea otter
skins in 60 years.
Senate Resources Committee
Chairman B. J. Logan, CD-Cor
dova), said yesterday the first
meeting would be held in the
Capitol Building in Juneau Jan.
29.
Logan said the meeting was ex
pected to run several days. He
said a number of pioneer Alaska
fur processors are expected to at
tend, including Ed Shepherd of
the Alaska Fur Factory and David
Green of David Green Furriers,!
both of Anchorage.
The sea otter take will be the
first since strict protection laws
were laid down to protect otter
herds depleted by Russian hunt
ers.
Logan said sea otter herds had
been developed along the Aleu
tian Island chain to the point
where a limited commercial take
was practical. He said other herds
are developing along the Alaska
Coast and that it was hoped that
a limited take will 'be permitted
each year.
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fess her sins, but I never knew
one to confess her faults.”
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Chrysler Going
Ahead With Gas
Turbine Car
By Ben Phlegar
DETROIT With Much of the
nation shivering through its cold
est winter in years, an engine
which claims instant starting at
temperatures as low as 60 below
zero would merit attention even
if it had no other outstanding
feature.
And when developers of the en
gine add that it requires no anti
freeze uses a single spark plug
and runs for life on one filling
of oil they they are certain to get
a full hearing.
The type of engine in question
is a gas turbine and the particu
lar variety is one under develop
ment by Chrysler Corp. for pas
senger car use.
On the basis of a recent 3,000
mile cross country test by a tur
bine-equipped Dodge Dart, Chrys
ler has said it will build 50 to 75
turfbine-driven cars within the
next 18 to 24 months and offer
them to selected private cus
tomers.
Its eventual aim is volume pro
duction for the general passenger
car market.
At the moment Chrysler is alone
among the auto companies in its
public enthusiasm for turbine
powered automobiles.
General Motors and Ford, which
have been involved on turbine
projects as long or longer than
Chrysler, see the power plant as
a definite possibility for the mili
tary, and possibly for heavy duty
trucks, but not as a replacement
for the conventional internal com
bustion engine in cars.
George Huebner Jr., Chrysler’s
executive engineer-research who
heads the gas tunbine project,
said just prior to the cross-coun
try run last month that the other
companies have aimed too low.
“Our enthusiasm for the gas
turbine as a passenger car power
plant,” Huebner said, "may be
viewed inside their organizations
with consternation. . .
“Our announcements will be
greeted with feigned incredulity
but the fact remains that they
have yet to do what we have
done.”
Such a reaction was forthcom
ing last weey. Donald Frey, as
sistant general manager of Ford
Division of Ford Motor Co., in a
speech to the Philadelphia sec
tion of Automotive Engineers,
said Ford's turbine research indi
cates that presently, or in the
immediate future, gas turbines
are not economically feasible for
passenger cars.
A gas turbine engine will run
an almost any fuel which will
flow compressed, then heated by
the burning fuel in a combustion
chamber. Hot gasses expand to
drive the turbine wheels and de
liver power.
A gas turbine is air cooled and
has only about 20 per cent as
many moving parts as an internal
combustion engines. The turbine
equipped Dodge averaged 17 miles
per gallon, burning diesel fuel,
regular, premium and white gas.
Illustrated brochures describ
ing the new engine are available
from Larry Galvin, at the Nome
Hardware Store, dealer for Chry
sler products.
Would Sand 4 Alaskans io Study
Reindeer Industry In Europe
JUNEAU UR — A resolution
asking that four Alaskans repre
senting the reindeer industry be
sent to Norway, Finland and Lap-;
land to study the reindeer indus
try there was introduced in the
House Thursday.
The measure was sponsored by
Reps. Robert Blodgett, Jacob
Stalker, and John Nusunginya, all
Democrats of the Northwest Dis
trict
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Arguments Heard Over
Fare Reduction Rates
WASHINGTON UPl — Argu
ments over proposed reductions
in rates on some jet flights be
tween Seattle and Fairbanks were
heard yesterday by examiner
Edward Stodola of the Civil
Aeronautics Board.
Pan American World Airways,
proposes to reduce its one-way
deluxe-class fare from $125 to
$99 and its one-way tourist-class
fare from $99 to $90.
Alaska Airlines Inc., which now
charges $99 for only one class of
service on the route, opposed the
reductions on the ground they
cannot be justified under normal
rate-making standards.
Pan American contended Alas
ka is offering first class service
at a $99 rate.
If Alaska’s charge for this kind
of service is proper, Pan Ameri
; can said, its proposed reductions
| in deluxe and tourist class fares
are equally proper.
Alaska said reduced fares can
only increase the substantial oper
ating losses already being sus
tained by both carriers in the
Seattle-Fairbanks market.
Resolution Would Make Reindeer
Meat Available tor Tourists
JUNEAU UR — A move to get
reindeer on the dinner plates of
more Alaska tourists was made in
the House of (Representatives
Wednesday.
Rep. Robert Blodgett introduced
a resolution, HOR4, urging the Di
visions of Agriculture and Tour
ism to help make reindeer meat
available in restaurants through
out the state, as well as available
to airlines for flight meals.
[ Comedian Ernie Kovacs
Left Estate of $2.1 Million
HOLLYWOOD W — The widow
of comedian Ernie Kovaes says be
left an estate of $2.1 million.
Actress Edie Adams said in a
Los Angeles court petition yes
terday that no will has been
found. She estimated her late
husband’s income at $160,000 a
year.
The petition said Kovacs’ prop
erty included $4,868 in cash, $2,
300 in stocks, $100,000 in bonds
and extensive real estate hold
ings.
Miss Adams asked for an al
lowance of $2,500 monthly to
maintain the home and support
their children, Betty Lee, 15; Ki-p
pie Raleigh, 13, and Mia Susan, 2.
Kovacs died instantly when his
car skidded and struck a utility
pole Jan. 13
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New Bill Provides Commissioner
Of Education to be Appointed
By Slate Board of Education
JUNEAU UPi — A bill would re
place the State Commissioner of
Education with the Board of Edu
cation as the chief administrative
and budgetary head of the De
partment of Education was intro
duced in the House yesterday.
The measure was sponsored by
Reps. Wm. Erwin and Gilbert
Jarvela.
It is similar to a measure which
was killed in the House last year
after one of the most heated de
bates of the 1961 session.
Under terms of the measure,
1 the Commissioner of Education
. 1 would be appointed by the Board
- j of Education, subject to the ap
2 j proval of the Governor, and would
! serve at the pleasure of the Board
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