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1. Rescind its regulation limit
ing “nonskeds” to the three-and
eight flight pattern.
2. Issue a temporary regulation
permitting the “nonskeds” to run
a sufficient number of flights to
permit profitable operations.
3. Issue a regulation establish
ing a procedure for existing and
new irregular carriers to file for
rrermanent authority to operate
an unsubsidized second-class, or
coach-type, route service without
regard to regularity, but limited
as to the total allowable flights.
ALASKA SHIPPING HEARING
Hearings on the increased pas
senger and freight rates of the
Alaska Steamship Company will
be held in Alaska, according to
information given Delegate Bart
lett this week by Secretary A. J.
Williams of the Federal Maritime
Board.
COMMERCE DEPARTMENT
APPROPRIATIONS
The House Appropriations Com
mittee in reporting the appropri
ations bill this week covering ap
propriation of funds to the Com
merce Department for the 1952
fiscal year earmarked $3,925,000
for Alaska projects.
The funds are broken down
into $200,000 for the Federal Aid
Airport program. $225,000 for
maintenance and operation of
public airports and $3V£ million
for roads in the Tongass National
Forest. In addition, the bill car
ries money for other activities of
the department in Alaska, but the
general appropriations made for
allotments for Alaska included in
the entire country will not be
known until final action on the
appropriation bill is taken by
Congress. The overall requests for
each agency in the department,
however, suffered cuts at the
hands of the committee. In sub
mitting his budget to Congress
earlier this year, the President
asked for appropriations which
would allot $1,202,000 for air
navigation facilities in Alaska,
1.222,000 for CAA salaries and
expenses, $124,000 for Alaska
functions of the Civil Aeronau
tics Board, $3,138,000 for the
Coast and Geodetic Survey, $1,
750,000 for forest highways aside
from the $3Vj> million sought for
the special road program for the
Tongass National Forest and $1,
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692,000 for the Weather Bureau.
The committee’s earmarked al
lowance of $225,000 for mainte
nance and operation of the pub
lic airports at Fairbanks and An
chorage represents only 50 per
cent of the requested $450,000.
“The committee was informed,"’
the report stated, “that at the
Fairbanks airport the landing and
lighting areas are completed ex
cept for the installation of a ro
tary beacon. With regard to the
Anchorage airport it is expected
to be available for only limited
use after the first of September,
and the present small airport will
probably be used for another
I year.”
NATIONAL AIRPORT PLAN
The Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration has listed 45 new airports
and seaplane bases which it would
like to see built in Alaska and 63
existing projects it wants im
proved.
The new airports would cost
about $983,000, and the improve
ments would cost approximately
$4,082,000, and are proposed to
be undertaken within a 3-year
period.
The CAA stressed that listing
an airport in the plan does not
assure that any funds will be al
located to it. After Congress ap
proves the CAA appropriation for
the fiscal year, the CAA will de
termine which airports will be
built or improved. Of the total
f
estimated cost of the program for 1
Alaska $5,065,000, the federal gov- -
ernment would put up $3,766,000 :
and local sponsors would contrib
ute $1,299,000.
The list includes 70 places in 1
the Territory where airport work
is contemplated, including Pal
mer and Matanuska.
Proposed new and improved
seaplane bases are listed at 54
Alaskan communities.
COAL ANALYSIS
LABORATORY
Delegate Bartlett, in response
to his representations to the Bu
reau of Mines that a coal analysis
laboratory be re-established in
The Alaska Railroad area, has
been informed that the bureau is
currently working on this prob
lem.
“The development of Alaska’s
coal as an inexpensive and read
ily available resource in the pro
duction of heat, light and power
is paramount,’’ Delegate Bartlett
stated to Director Boyd of the
Bureau of Mines. “When the pre
vious coal analysis laboratory
was closed, testing and experi
mentation on coal were lost as
technical aids to the mining in
dustry. It seems clear because of
the potentially large market for
Alaska coal that it would be a
practical investment if the lab
oratory could be reopened.”
In reply, Acting Director Miller
informed Delegate Bartlett that
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3ureau is currently working on
:he re-establishment of a coal
analysis laboratory in Alaska in
cooperation with the Department
af the Army. Alaska Branch, and
as soon as the latter makes avail
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and a working fund is set up lo
finance the sampling and analyz
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pared to proceed with the coal
analysis work. The Bureao of
Mines is prepared to provide the
necessary equipment and a coal
analyst to operate the laboratory.”
GOOSE BAY COUPLE HAS SON
A boy. Harold Asa, was born
July 16 to Mr. and Mrs. John
Travis of Goose Bay at Valley
Hospital. He weighed 9 pounds,
13 ounces.
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