IFAA Reports
Gain in Alaska
Air Traffic
In Alaska air carrier depar
tures for 1960 increased to 107,
238 over the previous year’s 97,
386, according to a report just
released by the Federal Aviation
Agency. Similar gains were
shown in mail and cargo tons for
the 49th state while passenger
count dropped from 353,877 in
1959 to 347,677 in 1960.
Similar significant increases
were also shown for the rest of
the United States, coupled with
a drop in the number of flights,
the FA A reported.
This report on U. S. scheduled
domestic and international air
lines is contained in a 52-page
booklet, Air Commerce Traffic
Pattern for calendar year 1980,
on sale at the Superintendent of
Documents, U. S. Government
Printing Office, Washington 25,
D. C, for 35 cents.
The number of passengers
boarding domestic trunk and lo
cal service flights in the 48 con
tiguous states rose to 50,584,135
in i960 from 49,357,870 in 1959.
Mail tons increased from 164,
216.2 in 1959 to 183,663.1 in 1960.
and cargo tons rose to 510,402 5
over the previous year’s 501,713.6.
Aircraft departures dropped from
3,420,682 in 1959 to 3,343,989 in
1960.
In international operations, the
number of passengers boarding
U. S. air carriers at overseas
points reached an unprecedented
2,802,207, an increase of 10 per
cent over the 2,553,560 recorded
for 1959. Mail tons increased 16
per cent from 10,354 in 1959 to
12,024 in 1960, while cargo tons
rose to 45,215 over the previous
years’s 42,894.5, a 5 per cent in
crease.
The report carriers percent
ages of the national total of en
planed passengers for each air
port served by air carriers. In
‘continental U. S. these airports
.are divided ih hub groups. Twen
ky-three communities are listed
as large hub's with 34,134,482
‘enplaning passengers or 67.5 tp
, of the U. S. total; 38 are medium
bubs with 9,295,873 enplaning
passengers or 18.4% of the U. S.
total; and 91 are small hubs with
4,895,290 enplaning passengers or
9.7% of the U. S. total.
Passenger figures reported de
not include duplications by any
airline transfer pointe; hOw
ever, duplication of passenger
counts between airlines has not
been eliminated.
The five-year National Airport
Tlan issued earlier this year by
tile Federal Aviation Agency es
timated Alaska’s required airport
development at $29,692,000, ex
clusive of certain needs which
arose after the plan was vtrittfen,
or $27,298,000 for so-called air
carrier airports . and $2,394,000
f®f general aviation airports
^smaller commercial and private
planes).
■i ' The air carrier airport total is
' broken .down into $461,000 for
- land acquisition, $16,162,000 for
Bite preparation, $7,438,600 for
paving, $1,093,000 for lighting,
$1,016,000 for control towers, $1
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The new Alaskan documentary film, “Adaq, King of Alaskan
Seas, produced by Lowell Thomas, Jr., is now available for free
showing to schools, clubs, churches and other organisations in
Alaska, according to Lowell Wakefield, president of Wakefield
Fisheries. “Alaska is most fortunate to have Lowell Thomas,
Jr., become a resident of our new state, and to dedicate himself
to the making of a number Of documentary films that will sell
the life and economy of the 49th state to our nation and to the
world,” Wakefield said. “The new film on the frozen King Crab
industry is in color, runs 3# minutes, and for the first time
contains Aleut music and legend as recorded at Hie village of
Akutan. Copies of the film have been sent to the European film
festivals,” Wakefield stated. Any organization desiring to show
this film should write to Lowell Wakefield, Port Wakefield,
Alaska.
Riley Named
Alaska Field
Committee Head
Appointment of Burke Riley
ai chaiftnan of the-Alaska Field
Committee has been announced
by Secretary of the -Interior Stew
art L, Udall. Riley will succeed
Waino Hendriokson. The commit
tee is made up of the heads of
Interior Department 'agencies in
Alaska.
Riley, 47, has lived in Alaska
since the 1930> ‘When he moved
to Fairbanks. After the war he
moved to Juneau and served in
several territorial positions be
fore being appointed secretary Of
Alaska, the No. 2 executive posi
tion in the then territory, when
Senator Gryening was the gov
ernor. He later practiced law at
Haines and served in the House
of Representatives of the Terri
torial Legislature and as a defe
cate to the Alaska Constitutional
Convention.
Since Alaska attained state
hood Ril# has been executive
assistant to Governor William A.
Egan.
million for public use facilities
and $149,000 for miscellaneous
costs. _
The general aviation airport
total includes- $258,0(10. for land
acquisition, $1,985,000 - for i site
preparation, $75,000. for lightings
nothing for .paving, control tow
ers or public use facilities, and
$78,000 for miscellaneous costs.
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Mrs. Willard Steinauer, a 12
year resident of Anchorage, has
left her position as administra
tive assistant at Alaska Metho
dist University to move to a nehv
home she and-her husband built
near Kenai, Alaska. Mrs. Stein -
suer left AMU - and Anchorage
July 38 after a small farewell
gathering at the university.
Better known as Peggie to her
many friends, Mrs. Steinauer has
been a long time Alaskan resi
dent and ardent supporter hf
Alaska Methodist University.
She initially came to AMU as
the first office secretary in 1954
for the yet to be established
university; when the office wbs
located in the Anchorage Hotel.
At that time the university was
in "the steering committee stage
and Mrs. Steinauer found much
additional time apart from her
regular duties with the university
and home life to promote the
cause of the university at her
every opportunity. Much credit
foe the initial success of this
first private institution of higher
education in Alaska mast be
given to Peggie.
In 1955 she served as offite
manager for the Alaska Metho
dist Uhiversity fund drive; after
which she was appointed execu
tive' scv.-rcts.ry t© the president
in 1958 and has currently be«n
serving as administrative assist
ant for the university.
The Steinauers have lived In
Alaska for the past 12 years,
JPter moving here from Los. Aft
elea, Calif.*- and Beattie, Warn.
Mr. Steinaner worked for North
ern Consolidated Airlines and is
a well known guide in the, many
hunting and fishing areas of
Alaska. On “Vacations” Peggie
accompanied her hysband pn
guiding trips and pitched m bs
a hostess and chef for the gu:dpd
parties. The Steinauers are both,
excellent hunters in their own
rights and have a very impressive
collection of trophies from the
past 12 years. One of Peggie’s
prises is a prime Alaska broWn
bear from the Chiginigak Bay
Area Of the Alaska Peninsula.
# On their most recent vacation
Hie Steinauers took their-fifth
trip-over- the Alaska Highway to
OaHfanxi*, and viSyfcid many of
tytit nine grandchildren. “The
- Alaska Highway gets better All
th«tin<e,”-thejr said.
The closing of another chapter
hi their full lives isn’t a stopping
s-£o»it fot th* Steeitmnars^lfsmb
Cohoe Couple
Now Interested
In Skin Diving
Laura and Reginald Hendricks
of Clam Gulch have transferred
their interests from newspaper
editing, radio and television work
to homesteading, set netting and
skin diving “And love every min
ute of it,” they say.
The Hendricks are homestead
ing six miles from Clam Gulch.
They do set net commercial fish
ing and earlier this year, while
on a jaunt to Mexico, became in
trested in skin diving. They be
came ardent fans of the sport,
which can be lucrative as well as
interesting, they pointed out.
They currently are Alaska dis
tributor for “Seal Skin” diving
equipment.
Laura formerly was editor of
the Morro Bay (Calif.) weekly
newspaper. Reggie was photogra
pher on the same paper. She also
was fashion coordinator for a
radio station in Anchorage ami
had a show “Living Alaska” on
KENI. Previously she was radio
and television editor in Florida
for the St. Petersburg Times
and the Tampa Times. She plans
other beginning. They have some
property north of Kenai on the
Peninsula, and are busily home
making. Both are great lovers of
nature and have seemingly limit
less resources of natural lore to
relate. This includes considerable
knowledge of the abundant Alas
kan wildflowers and berries, of
which Peggie is quite adept at
preserving and preparing into
favorite recipes. -
Mrs, Steinaraer has been active
in the Tumagain Community
Church over the years as w6l\ as
in other community affairs.
Stamp Proposed
The proposal advanced by Gov
ernor Egan and Senator Bartlett
for a 1S67 stamp to commemmoi -
ate the 100th anniversary of the
purchase of Alaska from Russja
“will be given full consideration
when the 1S67 stamp program i
formulated,’’ according to a Post
Office Department spokesman.
to attend Community College In
Anchorage this fall.
Laura and Reggie were accom
panied by Jack Cheney when they
stopped briefly in Soldatna en
route to Mt. McKinley Park and
the Tangle Lake area. They ex
pected to go caribou hunting in
that area and later to go moo-t
hunting.
Gunsmithing
and
Machine Work
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* Reloaders
* Slocking
* Rebarreling
Harold
FULLER’S
Gim & Machine Shop 3
Cooper’s Landing
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