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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
HE CAN DISH IT OUT
AMERICANS ABROAD
THERE IS A PLACE, on this globe,
liked.
where Americans are still
When the supply ship Proteus recently sailed from Holy
Loch, Scotland, for Charleston, South Carolina, there were senti
mental cheers and tears as Scots waved goodbye to the Polaris
sub depot vessel.
The ship had been stationed at Holy Loch for two years
and twelve days.
In that time: Some 130 officers and men married Scottish
girls. Another 200 members of the Proteus’ company transferred
to her replacement ship and remained in Scotland rather than
sail for home. And another group had to leave and sail away
against their wishes.
It’s good to know that there is at least one foreign port or
dty where an American might find refuge in evil days. In spite
of all the billions we have poured out to the world since World
War II, cities and countries where Americans are really and
genuinely popular are few' indeed.
Dollars can do many things, but they don’t buy friendship.
Sen. Bartlett Predicts
Wien Will Take Over
Fairbanks-Juneau Route
0
JUNEAU 'je — Sec.. £ L. Bart
lett predicted Wedne&dsj that an
application by Wiem Airlines to
take over Par, Amearttean World
Airways Fairbanks-J uneau route
would be approved.
Bartlett said be oeheved the
Civil Aeronautics Board wii trans
mit its recommendations on the
route transler to President Ken
nedy within trie next week or 10
days.
“I anticipate that the CAB will
make a favorable recommendation
regarding the transfer,” Bartiett
said in a wire to the Associated
Press from Washington, “and I
know of no reason why this will
not be approved by the White
House.”
The transfer must have Ken
nedy’s approval because the route
lies partly over foreign territory,
Canada, and includes a stop within
a foreign country, Whitehorse, Y.T.
There are 165 miles of pioneer
access roads in Alaska.
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No Question in Mind . . .
PROVIDENCE, R.I. uF — The
president-elect of the American
Medical Assn says there is no
question in hit round that cigarette
smoking is the greatest producer
o»f preventable disease
Dr. Edward Armis off Miami,
Fit ., emphasised in an interview
witi tlte Evening Bulletin Wed
nesday that he was speaking as
ai. individual physician in warn
ing against the health danger* of
cigarette smoking.
HONOLULU 'A — Arthur Bel
land of Fresno, Calif . was elected
president -of the U.B Conference
of Mayors Wednesday succeeding
Richard C. Lee of New' Haven,
Conn.
Others elected included:
Member of the Advisory Board
— George Sharrock, Anchorage,
Alaska.
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Alaska Steam
Denied Right to
Purchase Japanese
Built Trainship
WASHINGTON UP — The Sen
ate Commerce Committee killed
Thursday a bill. to permit the
Alaska Steamship Co. to purchase
a Japanese-built ship, “City of
New Orleans.”
The vote against the measure
was 8-7,
The company proposed to pur
chase the vessel, now under Li
berian registry, for a reported $4
million, contending it would help
lower freight rates to Alaska by
shipment of loaded railroad cars.
The firm said it would cost $8
million to build a similar ship in
a U.S. shipyard. The Merchant
Marine Act prohibits operation of
a foreign-built ship under the
U.S. flag.
“The “City of New Orleans”
operated on the Cuba-Florida run
until U.S.-Cuban relations were
disrupted and the vessel was put
up for sale.
The committee's rejection of the
bill followed testimony Wednesday
by Sen. Ernest Gruening in oppo
sition to the measure. Gruening
testified before a subcommittee on
Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
The bill was supported by Alas
ka’s other senator, E. L. Bartlett.
Gruening said it was the first
time the two had ever disagreed.
Bartlett said at yesterday’s hear
ing that there was no difference
of opinion between himself and
Gruening about the need to lower
freight rates to Alaska.
Bartlett told Gruening that pur
chase of the ship by the Alaska
Steamship Co. was “the only an
swer I can see for effective com
petition to Canadian interests in
the Alaska trade.”
Canada recently initiated a
barge service carrying loaded
freight cars to Alaska.
Gruening told the subcommittee
it was “pure poppycock” to hope
the bill would lead to lower rates.
He contended, on the contrary,
that it would result in “yet an
other rate increase to be paid by
the people of Alaska.”
He said he also opposed the bill
on grounds it would injure U.S.
shipyards, and therefore was not
in the national interest. “It would
be shocking indeed to reward” the
Alaska Steamship Co. with “this
particular special privilege legis
lation,” he said.
The committee’s action was
taken in a closed session and an
nounced afterward.
Washington State Sen. Warren
Magnuson, a co-sponsor of the bill
with Bartlett, said the bill was
now virtually dead.
Washington State Congressmen
Thomas Pelly and Thor Tollefson
also said the bill would have no
chance of passage in the House,
where both serve on the Merchant
Marine and Fisheries Committee.
The U.S. Mint hasn’t coined sil
ver dollars for more than a quar
ter century but still has 74 million
of them on hand.
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Grand Jury Report
Urges Security Institution
For Criminally Insane
ANCHORAGE OP — A state
grand jury has issued a report
saying there is an immediate need
in Alaska for a maximum security
institution for the criminally in
sane and a detention home for male
and female juvenile delinquents.
The grand jury said its investi
gation indicated the Alaska Psy
chiatric Institute, a new treatment
center here, cannot be used as a
maximum security facility “with
out the addition of a new wing or
some other structure designed for
this specific purpose.”
The jury said it was aware the
state probably cannot afford such
institutions at the present time.
But it said “this investment is
essential as soon as monies can be
made available, and the cost can
be made available, and the cost
can be somewhat defrayed by a
saving in room and board and
transportation costs to and from the
various institutions in the west
ern states.”
The Alaska Psychiatric Institute
is a so-called open door hospital
without fences and guards. Alaska’s
mental patients in the past have
been sent to Morningside Hospital
at Portland, Ore.
The report said:
“The grand jury would like to
suggest the Port of Whittier as a
possible site for one or more of
these institutions because there
are buildings already there and
Whittier’s relative inaccessibility
would be desirable from the stand
point of security.”
There have been previous sug
gestions that the old Army port
be taken over by the state for
various purposes.
COMIN' and GOIN7'
From Fairbanks: E. Parsons, J.
Fiala, H. Wright, L. Hough, R.
Crow, A1 Doyle, John Fields, B.
Wallace. *
From Kotzebue: Sally Karmun,
Mrs. Hussey, Mr. and Mrs. Paulin.
To Kotzebue: John Williams, G.
Joiner, I. Miller, J. Miller, C.
Miller, W. Ellison, D. Ferguson,
Mrs. Ferguson.
To Fairbanks:
Mr. and Mrs. Orval Schmidt,
Marilyn and Ray Schifiidt, Bob
Gray, Les Bronson, Fred Shedd,
Jean Burand, Jerry Findley, Carol
Doyle, George Utermahle, Dick
Laraux, Doris Corderman.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Samuels
and family, who have been here
for the past year with the Weather
Bureau, are being transferred to
Olympia, Wn., where they will
make their home.
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Airplane Delays Dog Team
Driver At Ceremonies
Marking End of An Era
FAIRBANKS UR — Hazards
ranging from sub-zero weather to
snow storms to soft trails seldom
stopped Chester Noongwook of
Savoonga, the last dog sled mail
carrier in the country, from mak
ing his weekly 100-mile run.
But that very transportation
which replaced him—the airplane
—caused him to miss postal cere
monies here at which he was to
receive a special award Thursday.
The 27-year-old St. Lawrence
Island Eskimo got as far as Nome
where he was stranded for 24 hours
due to a flight delay caused by
poor weather conditions further
north.
Noongwook whose 100-mile
round trip mail route between Sa
voonga and Gambell, along the
northern coast of St. Lawrence
Island, was taken over officially
by Wien Alaska Airlines Jan. 8.
He arrived here about three
hours too late for the post office
ground-breaking ceremonies at the
International Airport at which he
was to receive the award.
However, Asst. Postmaster Gen.
Wm. Hartigan, in charge of trans
portation between 35,000 post of
fices’ from New York to St. Law
rence Island, who was in town
for the ceremonies at the new post
office annex was on hand to meet
Noongwook at the airport and to
present the young Eskimo with a
scroll for his faithful performance
as the last dog sled carrier for
the Post Office Department.
Despite his early “retirement,”
Noongwook will be on standby
duty to deliver the mail when such
hazards as snow storms and fog
prevent mail service by air.
67th Underground Blast
WASHINGTON UR — A low
yield nuclear test was conducted
underground in Nevada today, the
Atomic Energy Commisison an
nounced.
It uses the term low yield for
an explosion up to the equivalent
of 20,000 tons of TNT.
Today’s test is the ninth an
nounced in 1963, and the 67th
announced since Sept. 15, 1961, in
Nevada.
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