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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,712_ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1951_MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
Federal Grant Alaska Airport Being Probed
WAGE TALKS
START WITH
CONTRACTORS
Parleys Start in Anchorage
Next Week-Dilemna
Is Presented
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 19—
IIP!-^Contractors start 1951 wage
parleys with labor unions next
week. No matter the outcome, the
contractors feel they can't win.
A contractor today outlined the
dilemma.
If wage increases are not grant
ed, prospects are that few construc
tion workers will come to Alaska
this spring and summer.
If wage increases are given out,
many contractors who hold $70,000,
000 worth of work under the old
wage scale will be unable to meet
increased costs.
There is some discussion of seek
ing renegotiation of government
contracts in the hope of boosting
them to cover an increased labor
cost.
The Associated General Contrac
tors will meet with seven labor
unions next week. In the first
meeting, they’ll talk things over
with teamsters, laborers, operat
ing engineers, cement finishers,
ironworkers and roofers. The car
penters want to talk things over
separately.
One of the main topics on the
agenda will be wages, although
other working conditions will be
discussed.
A meeting Monday likely will
conflict with—or defer to—a meet
ing with ex-S'en. Frank P. Gra
ham of North Carolina and military
and other governmental agencies.
The Graham meeting will try to
obtain a no-strike pledge in case
negotiations for working agreements
fail to result in contracts, a spokes
man said. Graham will serve “in
the nature of a consultant to the
Interior Department,’’ it was an
nounced in Washington, D. C.
Meanwhile, electricians are meet
ing Fairbanks. Some local elec
tricians are taking exception to
having Anchorage wages set at
Fairbanks.
Painters and sheet metal workers
wil meet soon with sub-contractors.
Plumbers, having signed a two
year-pact last year, have negotia
tions coming up.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Norah from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Saturday after
noon or evenings.
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle, 4 p.m., today.
Baranof from westward sched
uled to arrive 1 p.m., Sunday south
bound.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951, Dy Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Washington — only a hand
full know it ,but the raging argu
ments between President Truman
and Sen. Robert A. Taft could have
been avoided.
A few weeks after his big elec
tion victory in Ohio in November,
Taft sent word to the White House
he would be glad to sit down with
Mr. Truman and talk over the
problems of defense with the view
to reaching a closer cooperation
between the Administration and the
GOP leadership.
Senator Taft’s position, as ex
pressed by such nonpolitical mem
bers of the Administration team as
Undersecretary of Defense Robert
Lovett, was that he had not made
up his mind on foreign policy
and wanted to hear all sides. In
fact, friends of Taft said that he
was so anxious to attain the sta
ture of invalid Sen. Arthur Van
denberg, that he was willing to
drop isolationism if he could be
shown it was against our best in
terests.
This was reported to President
Truman by Secretary of State Dean
Acheson, also by Secretary of De
fense George Marshall. They urg
ently felt the Senator should be
invited to the White House.
The White House Staff, however,
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Shakeupin
ESA Ranks
By Truman
Valentine Reiuctantly Fir
ed-Eric Johnston Placed
in New Command
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 — (A1) -—
President Truman shook up the
nation’s economic high command
today.
In an effort to resolve a high
level row over when to clamp a
price-wage freeze on the country,
Mr. Truman reluctantly fired Alan
Valentine as Economic Stabilization
Director and replaced him with Eric
Johnston.
Johnston, granted leave as Presi
dent of the Motion Picture Associ
ation of America, formerly headed
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Whether the shakeup would speed
or delay the imposition of the long
rumored wage-price freeze was up
in the air.
Charles E. Wilson, Defense Mobi- |
lizatlon Director, would say only
that it would speed a decision of
when to apply the controls.
Valentine, in a letter of resigna
tion which he said the President
had asked, disclosed that he had
laid before Wilson yesterday a plan
for overall controls to become ef
fective “about February 1.”
He also wrote that:
“I can fully appreciate pressures
upon you for drastic action which,
though it has seemed to me pre
mature, you now feel should be
taken immediately. I should not
i stand in the way of your desires.”
Mr. Truman replied that Valen
tine had served the public interest
by stating his position "so openly
and honestly.”
Michael V. Disalle, ESA’s Price
| Stabilization Director, two weeks
■ ago urged an immediate 30 day
I moratorium on price increases, but
was overruled by Valentine. John-;
1 ston, the new ESA chief, was a
| backer of Disalle for-the price direc
1 tors job.
I _
STRENGTH OF RED
KOREA TROOPS IS
STILL UNCHANGED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 — «l — {
An Army briefing officer said to
day that Chinese Communist troop
strength in Korea appears un
changed from that of recent weeks.
In answer to questions, he told
reporters the army here has no in
formation indicating any with
drawal of the best elements of the
Chinese Communist armies.
So far as is known at the Penta- I
gon, Chinese Communist strength in
the Korean battle zone still re
mains at about 300,000, with another J
450,000 in the combat field forces, i
the so-called “striking reserve,” toI
the north. This reserve force is in 1
the Yalu river area, but the brief- '
ing officer said it could not be I
estimated what part of it is on the I
Korean side and what part in Man
churia.
He said that while the Chinese
Third Field Army, which operated
i against U.N. forces in North Korea,
may have suffered heavy casual
ties—possibly as much as 50 percent
—the Third Army appears still to
be in that general area.
16 FROMANCHORAGE
3 FLY WESTWARD
VIA PHA THURSDAY
Sixteen arrived here from An
chorage yesterday via Pacific North
ern Airlines and three flew to An
chorage.
I To Anchorage: Ralph Zwolsman,
A. V. Collar and R. Brown.
From Anchorage: Steve McCutc
heon, A. Conright, Mr. and Mrs. D.
N. McDonald, Gunnard Engebreth,
Mr. and Mrs. Les Disson, Paul
Johns, Bill Soule, B. Gutherie, T.
’ Thorson, H. Nelson, D. Brestrom,
| Elmer Mork, R. Nathan and Lee
j Charles.
i -
CONTRACTOR HERE
| Bob Slater, Fairbanks contrac
| tor, planned to leave today for Se
attle to return here in about two
j weeks.
Branding
Red China
Aggressor
Few Dissents on House
Voice Vote-Joint Repub
lican-Democrat Action
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—OP—The
House of Representatives, after a
flurry of debate, called on the Un
ited Nations today to brand Com
munist China the aggressor in Kor
ea.
A resolution to that effect sped
through on a voice vote. Only a
few dissents could be heard.
Action was delayed for a brief
time after some Republicans con
tended the resolution was equiv
alent to a declaration of war on
Red China.
The resolution was brought to the
floor by Democratic Leader Mc
Cormack of Massachusetts jointly
with Republican Leader Martin of
Massachusetts.
McCormack told the House the
resolution was presented as a move
to “show clearly not only to the
country, but to the world, the bipar
tisan unity of sentiment which
exists among Americans.’’
McCormack made clear it was the
product of joint action by him
self and Martin, and was drawn
with the prior approval of other
leading Republican and Democratic
members of the House.
Rep. Shafer (R-Mich) forced a
roll call of the membership to de
lay action after asserting the OOP
collaborators on the resolution
"don’t speak for the Republican
Party.”
Rep. Hoffman (R-Mich) also
criticized the resolution as a step
to turn over to the United Na
tions the authority of Congress to
declare war.
“I don’t see how you have the
nerve—how you dare to presume—
to do such a thing,” he said.
UN DELAYS
BRANDING
RED CHINA
LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 1»—(A>)—
Sponsors of a move to tag Com
munist China an aggressor decided
today to delay introduction of their
resolution until tomorrow to allow
more time for delegates to con
sult their governments.
The decision was disclosed by a
spokesman for the United States
delegation after a busy morning
of conferences between Americans,
French and British commonwealth
nations. It had been expected that
a joint resolution would be pre
sented at this afternoon’s meet
ing of the UN political committee.
The situation was further compli
cated by opposition of some coun
tries, especially from Asia and the
middle east, to any condemnation
of the Peiping regime. Representa
tives of the ten Arab-Asian coun
tries met privately in New York
this morning for more than two
hours to consider the possibility of
a new peace bid to the Chinese
Communists. They declined to say
whether they had reached an agree
ment.
NORTHWAY VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Warren R. Cyphers
and daughter of the CAA station
at Northway are guests at the Bar
anof Hotel.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Jan. 19 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%, American Can
99%, American Tel. and Tel. 154%,
Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft
106%, General Electric 52%, General
Motors 48%, Goodyear 71, Kenne
cott 78%, Libby McNeill and Libby
9%, Northern Pacific 33, Standard
Oil of California 94%, Twentieth
Century Fox 22%, U.S. Steel 45%,
Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange
95.12%.
Sales today were 3,160,000 shares,
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 246.76, rails 83.81, utilities
42.40.
BUTROVICH
FORSEES NO
NEW TAXES
| _
Fairbanks Senator Due
Here Sunday, Gives Pic
ture on Taxation
By JIM HUTCHESON
SEATTLE, Jan. 19—UB—'The Sen
| ator who Is likely to be the Repub
i lican leader In the new Alaska Le
i gislature predicted today that the
1951 session will be a no-tax session.
“I doubt seriously if any new
| taxes will be enacted,” Territorial
j Sen. John Butrovich of Fairbanks
I said. He expressed the belief there
is no need for new ones and that
! there certainly is no desire for them
on the part of the public.
The 1951 session opens at Juneau
1 Monday, with Democrats solidly in
i control of the House and an even
j eight-eight split of the two parties
l in the Senate.
Butrovich, who has been nos
pitalized here for surgical treat
ment, expects to fly to Juneau Sun
day.
“The Budget problem; I think it
Is the only real problem,” declared
the businessman who played a key
role as chairman of the 1949 Sen
j ate Finance Committee in drafting
i the budget under which the Terri-1
tory now is operating.
Butrovich said he thinks "it will j
be a very peaceful session—once we
get organized.”
He predicted the major contro
versies will be over “side issues”—
such items as the disagreements th%>
figured prominently in the election
campiagn.
But he acknowledged the organi
zation of the evenly divided Senate
might bring a lively battle to start
things off. He recalled the deadlock
of several days in electing Senate
officers when the 1949 Senate was
! evenly divided.
Possible President
Butrovich himself has been men
tioned prominently as the possible
choice for Senate President. He
declined to comment on whether he
would be interested in holding the
presiding officer’s gavel if it is
thrust in his direction. The budget
framing Finance Committee job is
his first love.
In discussing me iax pussiuimi^,
Butrovich said the only likely new j
sources would be a boost in the in
come tax or a levy of more excise
taxes on the things the public buys.
He said he doesn’t think anyone
wants either.
j The favorable phase of the taxa
' tion picture, he said, is the revenue
j from the income tax. Since it is 10
! percent of the federal income tax, it
I will automatically increase when the
federal tax goes up.
“I think it will produce $7,000,000
in the next biennium,” he asserted.
“It will more than make up for
what is lost in the general property
tax.”
The property tax, enacted by the
1949 legislature, was held Invalid
by the District Court in Alaska.
Butrovich predicted it will be tied
i up in the courts for the next bien
nium, so it can not be taken into the
revenue picture.
Cites Report
Butrovich cited a report from Tax
Commissioner M. P. Mullaney of
income tax collections of $3,302,077
for 1950. That’s a rate of $6,600,000
for the biennium, and the Senator
recalled that the 1949 Senate Fi
nance Committee estimate was only
$4,000,000 for the two-year period.
He recalled there were skeptics in
1949 who predicted the tax would
fall short of the $4,000,000 estimate.
The income tax, part of the basic
tax program long advocated by Gov
ernor Gruening, was the biggest
source of revenue, by far.
The total 1950 tax take listed by
the Tax Commissioner was $9,549,
310. The other major sources were:
raw fish tax $1,399,913; liquor ex
cise taxes $1,367,836; fuel tax for
roads $915,923; fish trap licenses
$584,050; tobacco tax $442,632; auto
license plates $278,840; non-resident
fishermen’s licenses $249,541.
In discussing the prospect of ap
propriations in the next budget,
Butrovich said he doesn’t think
services of the territory will have
to be curtailed, “but*we won’t be
able to enlarge on them. We will
have to hold the lines.”
Mike Stepovich, Fairbanks, is at
the Baranof Hotel.
LEGISLATORS
GATHER HERE
FOR SESSION
More than Half of Mem
bership Was in Juneau
by Noon Today
With only two days remaining
before the opening of the 20th
session of the Territorial Legisla
ture, members of the Senate and
House have been gathering in Ju
neau for the past week, looking
for apartments or other living
quarters and generally preparing
for the coming 60 days.
As of early this forenoon a bare
majority—21 of the 40 members—
was in Juneau. These included 10
Senators of the total of 16 and
11 Representatives of the 24 who
are due to take their seats.
Members of the 20th Senate are:
FIRST DIVISION
Elton E. Engstrom, Juneau Re
publican, serving the first session
of his first term, now in Juneau.
Anita Gamick, Juneau Republi
can, serving the second session of
her first term in the Senate, now
in Juneau.
James Nolan, Wrangell Democrat,
serving the first session of his first
Senate term, was due to arrive
from Wrangell today.
R. M. MacKenzie, Ketchikan
Democrat, serving the second ses
sion of his first term in the Sen
ate. Due to arrive before the open
ing of the session.
SECOND DIVISION
Howard Lyng, Nome Democrat
and Democratic National Commit
teeman for Alaska, is serving the
second session of his second Senate
term. He arrived in Juneau last
week after attending the Anchorage
meeting of the Alaska Statehood
Committee, of which he is a mem
ber.
Edward Anderson, Nome Demo
crat, is serving the second session
of his first Senate term. He has
not yet arrived ih Juneau.
William Beltz, Nome Democrat
and serving the first session of j
his first Senate term, arrived from
Fairbanks via PAA yesterday.
Percy Ipalook, Republican from,
Kotzebue, is serving the first ses- j
sion of his first term in the Sen
ate. He has not yet arrived in
Juneau.
THIRD DIVISION
Gerrit, "Heinie" Smder, Kepuou
can from Wasilla, is serving the
first session of his first Senate
term. He arrived from Anchorage
on Wedenesday.
Gunnard Engebreth, Anchorage
Republican, is serving the first
session of his second term in the
Senate and was Senate President
in the 19th Session. He arrived
from Anchorage yesterday.
Steve McCutcheon, Anchorage
Democrat, is serving the second
session of his second term in the
Senate. He came to Juneau from
Anchorage yesterday via PNA.
Walter Huntley, Palmer Demo
crat, is serving the second session
of his first term in the Senate. He
had not yet arrived in Juneau at
noon today.
fourth division
John Butrovich, Jr., Fairbanks
Republican, is serving the second
session of his second term in the
Senate. He was due to arrive in
Juneau from Seattle today.
Frank Barr, Fairbanks Democrat,
is serving the second session of his
first Senate term and arrived from
Fairbanks yesterday via PAA.
A. F. '‘Joe” Coble, Fairbanks Re
publican, is serving the first session
of his first Senate term and arrived
from Fairbanks yesterday.
W. L. “Dan” Lhamon, Fairbanks
Republican, is serving the first ses
sion of his first Senate term and
arrived from Seattle on Tuesday.
Members of the House of Repre
sentatives of the 20th Legislature
are:
FIRST DIVISION_
Doris M. Barnes,“Wrangell Re
publican, served in the 19th Leg
islature and arirved in Juneau on
Monday.
Waino Hendrickson, Juneau Re
publican, is serving his first term
and is now in Juneau, his home.
Vernon Metcalfe, Juneau Demo
crat, serving his first term, is in
Juneau.
J. S. “Sim MacKinnon, Juneau
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So Cold in Fairbanks that
Cold Storage Perishables
Freeze; Power Loads Heavy
___* _ _
UN PROWL
FORCE NOW
IN WONJU
No Opposition Is Mel
Thousand Reds Killed,
Others Are Routed
(By Associated Press
A United Nations prowl force re
occupied the ruined and abandoned
road-rail hub of Wonju today with
out meeting any opposition.
Two air-supporte Allied attack
regiments on another sector of the
snowclad east-central Korean bat
tlefront killed 1.000 Reds and rout
ed the remainder of their strong
force in a continuing fight.
A big Red offensive effort was
still expected to break out all across
the peninsula at any time.
Allied patrols have been entering
and leaving Wonju, the key traffic
junction in central Korea, since the
U. S. Second Division withdrew
Tuesday from a looping line two
miles south of the town.
Only civilians were on hand to
watch the reinforced patrol reenter
Wonju Friday.
Enemy force smasne*
The two UN attack regiments—
normally 6,000 men—smashed a
large enemy force seven miles
southeast of Yongwol, on the east
ern end of the war front.
"We put the enemy on the run,”
an officer said tersely.
Meantime, Communist forces ap
parently continued to shift to cen
tral and eastern sectors of the
Korean front.
After two full weeks of quiet—the
Chinese always take plenty of time
mounting offensives—the enemy
was maintaining most of his force
south of Seoul but was feeding it
to central towns leading to Taegu,
pivot point of the old Pusan line
toward which Allied forces have
been slowly withdrawing.
One captured North Korean sold
ier said his outfit had been ordered
to infiltrate Allied positions and
to reach Taegu.
Associated Press correspondent
Don Huth reported from Eighth
Army headquarters it appeared
"posibie that the long-awaited Red
offensive to drive the UN troops
from Korea may start rolling again
soon.”
DEC, QUIET FOR CG
Last December was an unusually
quiet month in the search and res
cue section of 17th U. S. Coast
Guard, headquarters reported here
today.
SAFETY MEET TODAY
A regular monthly meeting of the
Southeast Alaska Federal Safety
Council was in session at the Coast
Guard headquarters here today. The
objective of the meetings is to pro
mote safety-consciousness among
federal agencies.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature* for 24 Hour Period
ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
In Juneau—Maximum, 17;
minimum, 11.
At Airport—Maximum, 18;
minimum. —1.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Mostly fair tonight with
lowest temperature near >*'
degrees. Increasing cloudi
ness Saturday with occa
sional light snow flurries by
afternoon. Highest tempera
ture Saturday near 18 de
grees.
PRECIPITATION
(Part 24 hour* ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — Trace;
since Jan. 1 — 3.82 Inches;
since July 1—41.81 inches.
At Airport — Trace;
since Jan. 1 — 2.21 inches;
since July 1—30.21 Inches.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 19—
(jf) —Fairbanks’ steam-generating
plant was taxed to capacity today
to provide heat to combat a severe
subzero cold wave that has grip
ped interior Alaska for nearly a
week.
Merchants and hotel and apart
ment-dwellers reported Increasing
hardships as steam pressure fell
off in the face of 52-below-zero
cold.
The Fairbanks Cold Storage Co.,
retail food store and cold storage
lockers, after five days without
heat, reported heavy losses in vege
tables, eggs and canned goods. Ef
forts to save the food by using el
ectric heaters and coal oil stoves
unsuccessful.
Utilities officials said the trouble
resulted from a combination of the
bitter cpld, extra heavy power loads,
and an inferior grade of coal used
in the manufacture of steam.
The Northern Commercial Co.,
power plant was strained almost
beyond capacity, and electrical
crews worked to reduce loads. Per
mission was sought to use the boil
er in the Federal building.
Lack of steam pressure affected
downtown stores, hotels, apart- i
ments and business houses gen
erally.
Stores had exhausted their sup
plies of perishables, fresh milk,
fresh meat and eggs received in the
last commercial flight a week ago
today. There were plenty of stapler
but no fresh foods.
The temperature dropped to 82
degrees below zero last night and
the weatherman said no rellei
was in sight.
A thick fog covered the Fairbanks
area has complicated the problem
of supply. During a six-hour break
yesterday, two planes slipped In
and picked up five legislators who
were flying to the legislature at
Juneau. The fog closed in again
and last night visibility in the
streets was reduced to less than
10 feet.
Cold On Rail Belt
ANCHORAGE—(if)—Bitter cold
down to minus 68 at one point—
continues.
The report of 68 below came from
Dunbar on the Alaska Railroac
yesterday. That was four degrees
warmer than two days ago at that
interior point. It was 60 below at
Mount McKinley Park. -64 at Port
Yukon.
At Anchorage the temperature
reached 32 below at 6 a.m. yester
day. the lowest January mark on
record here.
It was 31 below Wednesday eve
ning at Palmer, lowest in 10 years.
Other points in the Matanuska
Valley reported temperatures down
to 50 below.
The cold spell hit last weekend,
after a previously mild winter.
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MAN FROM ALASKA,
DIES IN HOLLYWOOD
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 19 — —
Death has claimed Jack Holt, 62,
hard-riding cowboy of both the open
and cinema range.
He succumbed last night at the
Veterans’ hospital in West Los An
geles to coronary thrombosis. He
had suffered three severe heart at
tacks since shortly before Christ
mas.
His son. Tim. also an actor in
westerns, was with him almost con
stantly during his last illness.
Jack Holt was a former Alaskan,
in Nome, Fairbanks, also Dawson
but chiefly in Valdez. He was a
miner, prospector and previous to
going south was a dog musher out
of Valdez on the old Fairbanks
trail. He broke into the movies when
he was watching production of an
Alaska picture in Hollywood, re
sented the director’s methods, told
him he was way off and the direc
tor said, “you take over," and Holt
did and remained in the movies.
BARRS HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Prank Barr of
Fairbanks are stopping at the
Baranof Hotel. He is Territorial
Senator.
PALMER
DEAL IS
TAKEN UP
Two Applications Investi
gated - CAA Officials
Giving Testimony
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINOTON, Jan. 19 — OP) _
Members of a Senate Investigatinp
Committee are probing into what
they said appeared to be "slip
shod” and “hasty” methods of the
Civil Aeronautics Administration in
the approval of federal grants for
airports.
The subcommittee is inquiring
into purported irregularities in con
nection with the allocation of fed
eral funds for a field at Palmer,
Alaska. ,
The investigation resulted from
the Alaska Aeronautics Commis
sion's rejection of one CAA-ap
proved grant for the Palmer field
and its subsequent submission of
a second application in which the
value of the airport land was in
creased from $5,500 to $150,000
The second application also ob
tained CAA approval but no federal
funds have been transferred under
it.
Variations Noticed
The variation between the two
applications increased approved
federal participation in the Palmer
field from *94,150 to $145,125, Com
mittee counsel said.
The committee members directed
their principal questions at what
efforts had been made by the CAA
to verify land values claimed in the
applications and to check owner
ship of the land involved. CAA of
ficials called as witnesses said no
such checks had been made.
Land Involved
In its initial request the Alaska
Commission said it owned one tract
of the land involved and was nego
tiating for the second. Its later re
quest said none of the land actually
was owned by the commission and
that it would cost *150,000.
Edward O. Fisher, airways engi
neer for the CAA's Eighth Region
at Anchorage, told the committee
yesterday afternoon that he had
“apparently misunderstood the ques
tion" when he testified earlier that
it was "obvious” to him the com
mission was attempting to recover
construction costs Incurred before
any federal aid was asked when it
sublmitted its second application,
including the increased land values.
No “Subterfuge”
He said he did not consider that
any "subterfuge" was being used—
that the commission reasoned that
as long as previous construction
costs were not allowable under the
federal airport act it would put in
for the value of the land which it
had not entered in the original ap
plication.
Several CAA officials testified it
was not required under the agency's
operational procedure that an ap
plicant for funds show a holding of
title to the property involved or
that improvements had been made
until the applicant asked that the
government make an initial pay
ment on any grant.
Chris Lample, CAA Administra
tor for Alaska's public airports, tes
tified It was permissible under CAA
interpretation of the federal air
port act for an applicant to apply
for grants based on the property
value as enhanced by construction
Improvements even though it was
not permissible to include the cost
of those improvements as such.
He denied ever having talked with
any territorial official concerning
means of ‘‘getting around” the re
striction on inclusion of improve
ment costs.
Also testifying yesterday were
William Conover, Operations Offi
cer for the CAA in Washington; and
Joseph Fitzgerald, regional CAA at
torney in Anchorage.
Two territorial officials—George
Schwamm, Alaska Aeronautics Com
mission Director, and Stanley Mc
Cutcheon, Commission Counsel —
and Roland Snodgrass, Secretary of
the Palmer Aeronautics Committee,
were to testify today.
SCHWAMM TESTIFIES
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19 — —
The director of the Alaska Aero
nautics Commission told investigat
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