Navy Construction Plans
For Aleutians Protested
Gov. William A. Egan said to
day that he has protested to Sec
retary of the Navy John B. Con
nally Jr. against reported Navy
plans to use Scabee labor for
some $10,000,000 in construction
to be undertaken at the A d a k
Naval Station next year.
A letter of protest, he said, has
also pone to Sec. of Labor Arthur
Goldberg with the request that he
intercede with the Navy to use
civilian construction forces.
Egan told Connally he dis
agreed with what he understood
was a Navy view' that civilian
labor should be excluded from
the work for security reasons.
“Some time ago the Air Force
dispensed with the use of mili
tary personnel on its construc
tion projects in Alaska,” Egan
said, “and since then has relied
on civilian contractors and laboi’
ers for both construction and for
maintenance work. Their installa
tions I believe in many instances
are comparable to the Navy’s pro
gram with regard to the need
fur rigid security.
“It has not been brought to my
attention that construction work
accomplished by civilian labor on
numerous highly secret installa
tions in Alaska has in any way
proven detrimental to the security
of the United States of Ameri
ca.'’
Egan noted also that Alaska is
an area of substantial unemploy
ment, and said it “would be a
major factor in alleviating the
critical jobless situation which at
present prevails in Alaska—par
ticularly in the Anchorage-Fair
banks areas where most of the
state's population is concentrat
ed’’ if civilian Alaska labor could
be employed on Aleutian work.
CAB Asked to Extend Stopover
Privileges for Foreign Air Passengers
Gov. Win. A. Egan has urged
the Civil Aeronautics Board to
remove restrictions which pre
vent extension of stopover privi
leges in Alaska to through pass
engers of foreign air carriers.
The governor made public a
letter to CAB chairman Alan Boyd
and other members of the Board
in which he contended the arti
ficial restriction serves:
1. To deprive Alaska of desir
able tourist revenues.
2. To subvert the “people-to
people” program of President
Kennedy.
3. To defeat the purpose of the
congressionally approved admini
stration program of the U. 'S.
Travel Service which is to encour
age travel in the United States
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4. To negate the assistance pos
sible from foreign tourist spend
ing in offsetting the dollar drain
on the U. S. Treasury,
5. To prevent domestic carriers
from realizing the additional rev
enues which would accrue from
travel within Alaska and else
where which stopovers would
encourage.
Egan estimated some 42,000
passengers a year flying the
transpolar routes of Air France,
Japan Air Lines, KLM Royal
Dutch Airlines and Scandanavian
Airline System, are subject to the
restriction.
“It is true,” he said, “that un
der present regulations a passen
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layover and continue on by do
mestic carrier. As a practical mat
ter, however, flights of this na
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the simple competetive reason
that they are discouraged by for
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may enjoy the greater revenues
possible from the through flight.”
Based solely on present traffic
without consideration to addition
al traffic which might be gener
ated by reason of the additional
merchandising lure of an Alaskan
stopover, Egan said if only five
per cent of through passengers
would visit in Alaska for 10 days
additional tourist revenues ac
crueing to the state would approx
imate one million dollars a year.
KENAI COUPLE TRAVELS
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Kent, ac
companied by their daughter, Mrs.
Judi Hunter, and granddaughter,
Tina Marie, drove down the Al
aska Highway recently. It turned
out to be a nine-day trip due to
road and weather conditions but
they reache their destination —
Twisp-Methow Valley, Wash., in
good order The Kents plan to
remain for ome time but Judi
and Tina wi. be returning to Ke
nai after a nonth’s visit with
friends an< datives.
INCREASE AIR TRAFFIC
Airline tra c to and from Alas
ka in 1960 jreased a whopping
12 per cent er that of 1959 and
commercial samship traffic held
slightly ab( the 1959 figure.
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SHARPSHOOTERS
'COLLEGE, Alaska — Univer
sity of Alaska rifle team scored
a dramatic victory recently at the
Kansas State University turkey
shoot, according to word received
from M/Sgt. Everad (CQ) Hor
ton, rifle coach.
All-American shooter Stuart
Watkins was the high individual
winner with 585 points. Other
shooters winning honors in the
individual competition were Her
bert Middleton, third place; Di
ane Sherriff, seventh; and Carole
. Rollison, 18th place.
“Having fired a mediocre 1,418
in its first match the Nanooks
came back the next day with a
second match score of 1,444 to
tie Oklahoma State University,”
Coach Horton reported, “and win
the small bore rifle tournament
with the highest standing posi
tion scores.’’
Award winning teams among
the 30 schools represented were
University of Alaska, 2882; Okla
homa State, 2862; Kansas State,
2846; and Nebraska Univ., 2825.
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