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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1944
OUR NEIGHBOR S VIEWPOINT
There is much in the following editorial from the
Vancouver Sun with which we might take issue. The
complacency with which it ignores American shipping
lines to Alaska, the manner in which it ignores Seattle
in the airline picture of tomorrow, and the bland as
surance with which it names Whitehorse as the future
metropolis of the entire North country are a bit annoy
ing. We reprint it because the viewpoint of our neigh
bor is both interesting and worthy of our consideration:
“Decision of the U. S. government to build the
Alaskan Highway across northwest Canada was born
of a fear of Japanese invasion.
“When the Nips took Kiska, Attu, etc., the steam
er transport line, Vancouver to Skagwav, was directly
threatened. An overland route bad to be devised and
the highway running from Edmondton to Whitehorse
was the quickly available one, safe from threat from
Japanese ships and planes.
“But in recent weeks the situation has undergone
a fundamental change. The Japanese have been driven
out of Kiska and there is today no chance of an enemy
invasion of this coast based on the outer islands of
Alaska. The steamship route—Seattle-Vancouver
Skagway—is comparatively as safe as it was before
the war.
“How well this fact is realized is shown by new
trends of transport. Huge quantities of freight are now
being handled by way of the costal route through
Skagwav, then by rail to Whitehorse. Far less is go
ing over the Alaska Highway by truck. Great mili
tary and commercial developments of Alaska are go
ing ahead, out to Fairbanks and Nome, supported bv
materials and machines conveyed north by the coast
route.
A reflection of all this changed situation is seen
in the gradual withdrawal of U. S. forces from Edmon
ton. Some offices are being closed there and various
construction activities curtailed. U.S. government has
undertaken to keep the highway in repair until the end
of the war and for six months thereafter, but miost of
[he business will be done over the water and railway
route, which is cheaper and more efficient than trucks
over muskeg.
“Development trends show that Alaska is today
depending less on Edmonton, vastly more on the other
Canadian center of Whitehorse. In the Yukon city
are today 30.000 people building fuel depots, bringing
the airport into large-scale perfection and installing
sewer and water services for a large permanent com
munity. Airplane travel will continue to expand, via
Watson Lake and Fort St. John—then to Edmonton
and Winnipeg or else swinging south to Vancouver and
San Francisco. But freight will be routed via Skag
way and Vancouver or Seattle. What is greatly need
ed is a better customs arrangement at Skagway for
handling the Canadian end of the business, which will
continue to be large. In any event, Whitehorse prom
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kon, but also in relation to all of Alaska as well.
"With the stimulus of government operation of
highway traffic removed probably in the near future,
the question of the permanent tourist routes to Alaska
will all come up for reconsideration. There will be
great advantages in a route from Prince George north
along the Rocky Mounta'n trench, joining the present
Alaska Highway at a point half way along from Ed
monton to Whitehorse. Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle
and San Francisco trade and tourist organizations will
be taking new stock of the changed situation. —The
Alaskan Weekly.
KITCHENWARE ON THE WAY BACK
Easing of raw materials is noted in the States
which is bound to have its effect in Alaska. Accord
ing to the December monthly bank letter of the Na
tional City Bank of New York, the production of virgin
aluminum has been exceeding needs and scrap alu
minum is glutting the market. Contracts have been
cancelled for building three large aluminum fabrica
tion plants.
The War Production Board has listed zinc, alum
inum, magnesium and the ferro-alloys as sufficient for
all war and essential civilian needs. Copper will soon
be added to the list. Rolling of brass for war use is ex
pected to be curtailed in January. The steel supply
situation is said to be easing. Mercury and antimony
are available for non-essential civilian use and imports
are being cut back sharply. The board policy is to dis
courage further extension of high-cost metal produc
tion and stop extending foreign purchases.
War production in war aggregate, however con
tinues to call on the country’s resources to an extent
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which will restrict civilian production drastically un
til at least one of the two wars end. The effect of cut
ting back war procurement in some directions will be
to permit a greater concentration of effort in- others.
Meanwhile, the Office of Civilian Requirements
has a program calling for the manufacture of 2 milion
electric irons and substantial quantities of electric re
frigerators, washing machines and portable lamps.
Aluminum kitchenware is soon to reappear, and cop
per wire for lighting equipment will be available.
Larger quotas have been announced for railway equip
ment, farm equipment, motor trucks and food process
ing machinery.
These promises are backed by expectation that
more steel will be allotted, but manufacturers can in
crease their production only to the extent that they
can get the necessary labor and essential parts.
At any rate it is evident that certain shortages
which have thus far caused no Alaskan any real hard
ship, are now easing up.—Jessen’s Weekly.
ALLEN LEE IN NOME
ON BUSINESS
Allen Lee, manager of the Ler>
Brothers’ Airplane Co. in Fair
banks, is in Nome this week on
business for the company.
RETURNS TO NOME
Mrs. Jack Bullock arrived
back in Nome late last nigh*
aboard the Pan-American Air
ways plane. Mrs. Bullock has
been spending the past couple of
weeks in Anchorage with her
husbands
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