First Flight of
Alaska Airmail
20 Years Ago
SEATTLE, Nov. 1—W)—'Twenty
years ago today the first contract
airmail was flown in Alaska.
And the former dog team driver
who fouled up in loading the plane
recalled it all today after a double
take at the wall calendar at the
Pan American World Airways.
He's Fred Milligan. 64. who now
is Panam’s mail supervisor here.
Milligan, who had put in 20 win
ters mushing his dog team from
Nenaha. south of Fairbanks, to Flat
and Bethel on a contract basis,
saw his job go up in the air with
that pioneer flight.
Figuring "if you can’t lick ’em.
join ’em,” he joined ’em, and that's
how he got his present job.
Milligan told abolit the flight to
day.
The pilot was the late Capt. Alf
Monsen. who died four years ago in
an Alaska plane crash. The widow
is Mj-s. Helen Troy Monscn. owner
of the Juneau Empire, Alaskan
capital city’s daily newspaper.
A Fairchild 71 was the plane
Milligan says the inaugural flight
was delayed two hours by his own
mistake.
“I thought you’d load an air
plane the same way you loaded a
dog sled,” he recalls. “So I stowed I
the 1,000 pounds of mail in the |
rear of the plane. Monsen looked
it over, then ordered me to restow
it right behind the pilot’s seat.”
The flight started at Nenana be
cause that was the point where the
Alaska Railroad dropped off the
stateside mail on the northwest trip
to Fairbanks irom Seward and An
chorage.
"That flight knocked out the dog
team mail delivery service. The
plane did in a day what it had
taken me 20 days to do," Milligan
sasy.
Does he miss the old dog team
days And those 20 winters on the
trail?
“Yes and no. Those winters seem
to be longer now. I like it here.”
Milligan has no family.
To Recommend
Civil Service
For Tax Men
WASHINGTON, Nov. l_</p)_Thc
White House announced today Pres
ident Truman will recommend to
Congress that collectors of internal
revenue be brought under Civil
Service.
The announcement was made
after Frank E. McKinney, India
napolis banker and the new Demo
cratic National Chairman recom
mended such a step to the President.
McKinney in a letter said earlier
the President had asked him to
help see that the federal service
"be maintained at the highest stan
dards of integrity and ability and
with spotless honor."
Big Oil Refinery
At Abadan Is to
Be Reopened Sunday
By Associated Press
The Deputy Premier of Iran, Hos
sein Maki, says the world's largest
oil refinery at Abadan will reopen
Sunday. The refinery has been shut
down for weeks because of Iran's
quarrel with Britain over its own
ership. Premier Mohammed Moss
adegh and his chief oil expert are
now irk Washington and there have
been hints of renewed negotiations
to settle the oil dispute.
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Juneau Survives
Hallowe'en with
Little Damage
Hallowe'en damage in Juneau last
night was at a minimum. Police re
ceived less than a half dozen calls.
No serious damage was reported.
The Moose Lodge gave a well at
tended party and there were many
private parties to entertain the
children.
"Trickers or treaters” made the
most of the evening filling large
shopping bags with their loot of
fruit, cookies, candies and other
goodies.
Juneau merchants and house
wives were busy washing windows
today. At least one good natured
storekeeper was overheard to mut
ter, "Well, the windows needed
washing anyway.”
The 44 youngsters in the Menden
hall Apartments concentrated their
operations on the building.
Three small boys announced
themselves as the Three Musketeers,
"We don't use swords though; we
use soap,” they said.
Over 200 children were guests
of the Moose Lodge froIt^^ to f
p.m. They bobbed for apples and
played games. Prizes were given
for the best costumes.
Mike Haas was chairman of the
committee assisted by Mingo Av
oian, Walter Hermansen, George
Gentry, Hermod Waldemar, Tom
Larman, Janet Francis, Tdabelle
Bryson, Lorraine Gentry, Eleanor
Corbett and Betty Casperson.
The Kiwanis Club provided a
party for the children at the Min
field Home.
Police reported that a truck was
moved on the sidewalk on Ninth
Street; a lumber barricade thrown
up on Evergreen Avenue, damage
done to new concrete on E. Street
and some debris strewn in several
streets.
Families of British
in Suez Canal one
To Be Evacuated
By Associated Press
The British High Command in
the Suez Canal Zone says it soon
will b'egin the compulsory evacua
tion of up to one-third of the Brit
ish families in the tense area. Two
more Egyptian police officials and
four constables were arrested last
night and are to be expelled from
the zone today. They were accused
of intimidating Egyptian workers
employed by the British.
STANLEY BASKIN BACK
FROM COURT IN KETCHIKAN
Stanley Baskin, assistant U. S.
attorney, returned yesterday from
Ketchikan, where he worked on the
prosecution of criminal cases dur
ing the first part of the sitting of
the U. S. District Court there.
CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP
Having purchased The Imperial
Itestaurant from Lauria Jordan, as
cf October 31, 1951, we will not be
responsible for any debts of the
former owners.
Buddy Gomez and Steve Gaun
zon. owners. , 953-2t
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Too Many
Commissions Fish
Men Agree at Meet
There was an almost unanimous
feeling against the formation of
any more international fish com
missions at a recent fisheries meet
ing in Portland, C. L. Anderson,
director of the Alaska Department
of Fisheries reported yesterday up
on his return here.
Anderson and Robert Parker, bio
logist, attended the Pacific Marine
Fisheries Commission meeting in
Portland, Representatives from Cal
ifornia, Oregon, Washington, Brit
ish Columbia and Alaska were in
attendance. They presented reviews
of biological research during the
past year on coastal fish.
Parker gave an illustrated report
on the Department's Alaska act
ivities. Members of the group work
closely In correlating information
from the various areas.
Species under discussion includ
ed king and silver salmon, blackcod.
tuna and sardines as well as bottom
fish.
Against More Commissions
The reasons advanced against
formation of more international fish
emmissions, Anderson said were:
<1> they infringed on states rights:
(2) fishermen are never given re
presentation; and (3) the mem
bership felt that the combined ef
forts of the membership in investi
gations were of greater value than
the international bommissions.
Anderson pointed out there are
no fishermen on the International
Sockeye Salmon Commission and
none on the International Fisher
ies Commission which controls hali
but fishing. There isn’t even an Al
askan on the International Fisher
ies Commission and 50 percent of
the halibut is taken in Alaska wat
ers, he said.
He stated that the California dele
gation was bitter about the halibut
situation and opposes regulations
governing halibut fishing off Cal
ifornia, which like Alaska, has no
representation on the commislson.
Anderson and Parker were inter
viewed for transcriptions on KOMO’s
Old Boat Puller radio program.
The program is heard from Seattle
Broomstick Makes 1=
Power Blackout i
On Hallowe'en
PORTLAND, Nov. 1 — l/T) — A
broomstick caused a power'blackout
here last night—on Hallowe'en, too.
. The Bonneville Administration j
said a janitor wielding a broom ac
cidentally knocked a relay out of
operation at its Troutdale substa- ;
tion. This shut off power to many
lines serving Portland, and lights
over most of the city went out or
were dimmed to shadowy flickers.!
The eight minute blackout piled
up traffic since it put signal lights
out of operation.
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at 6 a.m.
While in Seattle Anderson made
preliminary arrangements to obtain
more eyed king salmon eggs from
the Washington Department of
Fisheries for transplanting her)
in Montant Creek yet this fall. He
hopes to get about 100,000 eggs.
Last December 50,000 eyed king
salmon eggs were planted in Mon
tana Creek. Subsequently checks
to date show that the program is
successful so far.
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