RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE
NORTHWESTERN ALASKA
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR 1954
TO ALASKA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
A. ROADS
1. To urge the start of construction on the proposed road from
Nome to the Interior in the immediate future.
2. To obtain additional funds for the Nome River Road to the
Kougarok, to ultimately connect with the proposed road from
Nome to the Interior.
3. To endorse the recommendation of the Territorial Board of
Road Commissioners to the Governor August 1953.
a. That the Territorial Police appropriation be transferred
from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund to the General Fund and
that all monies spent on the Highway Patrol and Territorial
Police in this biennium be refunded to the Motor Fuel Tax
Fund account.
b. That an appropriation of three million dollars from the
surplus in the Territorial Treasury be made to the Terri
torial Board of Road Commissioners to be spent on roads
and harbors in order to hasten the development of the Terri
tory.
c. That the tax on Motor Fuel for vehicles be increased to .04<
per gallon, this increase to be earmarked for the Motor Fuel
Tax Fund to be spent on Territorial roads.
d. That a special session of the Legislature be recommended
to the Governor and that the Legislators be requested to
consider all of the foregoing recommendations.
B. AVIATION
1. To urge the Federal Matching Funds to again be made avail
able for airport construction.
2. To request funds for the completion of the airfield at Lost
River, at present one-half completed.
3. To request funds for the following fields already planned:
a. Selawik. c. Wales.
b. Hooper Bay. d. Mountain Village.
C. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. To recommend the immediate investigation of coal deposits
near Nome, with the possibility of exporting coal from Point
Lay and Cape Lisbourne to Japan.
2. To advise the need of continuing Federal fund grants for
prose ring and :he developing of tin and o.her mineral
deposits.
3. To r 'quest the Bureau of Mines to prospect the iron prospects
near Cripple River in the Nome vicinity along w.di their other
exploratory drillings in this area.
4. To recommend, to the Secretary of Interior to change and
amend present regulations relative to the ownership of rein
deer, so as to permit white ownership, so that the Reindeer
Industry may be built up to supply the much-needed meat
for food, and hides for clothing and footwear.
5. To exempt gross gold tax for three years to encourage and
help new companies to get established in this area.
6. Request that A.N.S. provide adequate funds for care of native
patients at the M.M.M. Hospital, Nome.
D. LEGISLATIVE AND TAX ACTIVITY
1. Territorial. v
a. To urge the need of sufficient funds for the APW for the
building of the Nome Public School addition.
b. To recommend the continuation of the Alaska Public Works
program.
c. To advise the Legislature to enact laws covering the import
of cigarettes and tobacco to Alaska, that now escape Terri
torial taxes.
d. To recommend to the Legislature that motor fuel taxes be
increased; to exempt stationary angines as an aid to mining
from this motor fuel tax.
e. To exempt miners from motor fuel tax.
f. To consider a tax incentive for gold miners.
g. To recommend that motor fuel taxes, now appropriated for
the Territorial Police Force be refunded to the Gene-ral
Fund, and that such taxes be used only for the construc
tion of roads and highways.
2. Federal.
a. To advise the Secretary of Interior to discontinue operating
the government-owned ship, North Star, to ports already
serviced by private enterprise.
b. To urge the- reactivation of the Nome Air Base, to improve,
repair, and maintain the present airfield.
c. To request a Federal appropriation for constructing a new
Court House and Federal building in Nome.
d. To request the re-establishing of a Land Office in Nome, if
ncessary to be handled by the Clerk of the Court, as in the
past, before a separate Land Office was established.
e. To advocate the following Government offices to be opened
in Nome:
1. Federal Land Office.
2. U.S. Coast Guard station.
3. Fish and Wildlife Service, for further investigation be
made relative to fresh and salt water fish within this
Second Division.
f. To take a positive stand on statehood for Alaska.
E. TOURISTS
1. To advise Legislature to make appropriations for Tourist pro
motions, as in the past of handling all funds for expenditure
at one office, but to allot a certain percentage of such funds
for stateside advertising and remaining funds to be divided to
the four Divisions, so that Divisional tourist office can be pro
perly staffed to handle and promote all tourist activities within
respective divisions.
LARRY GALVIN, Chairman of Committee
M. B. (Ben) YOUNG
Report Describes
Vast Asbestos
Reserves In B.C.
VANCOUVER, B. C„ UP)—Vast
British Columbia asbestos re
sources were described here last
week in the second annual report
of the Cassiar Asbestos Corpora
tion, Ltd.
The report said exploration of
British Columbia’s “A sbestos
Mountain,” 70 miles south of the
Yukon border, has uncovered an
estimated 7,000,000 tons of asbes
tos ore—“enough to supply a 500
ton mill for 40 years.”
The mine, on McDame Moun
tain, near Lower Post, B.C., was
described as “one of North Amer
ica’s biggest sources of long fibre
asbestos.”
Cassiar, in its report, said it
was building a permanent mill to
handle 500 tons of ore daily and
expected it to be in production by
June. A temporary mill, in opera
tion more than a year, has been
shipping the product by truck
over the Alaska Highway.
Meantime, Dr. Henry V. War
ren, president of the B.C. and
Yukon Chamber of Mines, repor
ted 1954 may be a big year for
the mining industry in British
Columbia. Prospectors and scouts
for big- mining companies brought
in favorable reports in 1953.
Interest is growing in prospect
ing and development of uncom
mon minerals such as nickel, ura
nium, iron, chrome, manganese,
asbestos, fluorite and others.
"JUST TELL HER YOU'RE
AT THE OFFICE-"
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., UP)—An
Albuquerque bar owner, cbnsid
erate of his customers’ conscienc
es, has changed the name of his
establishment from “The Alibi”
to “The Office.”
His advertising campaign is
based on the slogan: “Just tell her
you’re at the office!”
Seven Die, 20 Injured In
Japanese Movie Fire
OTARU, Japan, —At least
seven persons, including three
children, died Saturday in a fire
which destroyed a motion picture
theater here, Kyodo News Service
reported.
More than 20 persons were list
ed as injured.
Alaska Hydro Project
Gets 24 - Month Permit
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Power j
Commission Friday issued a 24
month preliminary permit to the
Grant Lake hydroelectric project
on Grant Creek and Grant Lake
in Alaska.
The ultimate installed capacity
of 4,000 horsepower would be
marketed in the areas of Moose
Pass, Seward, the Rail Belt south
of Anchorage and Kenai.
Big Four Will Meet In
East And West Berlin
BERLIN, UR—'The three Allied
commandants reopened talks with
the Russians Saturday on what
buildings in divided Berlin will be
used for the Jan. 25 Big Four
foreign ministers’ conference.
Two locations appeared certain to
be chosen—one in the Allied west
sector and the other in the Rus
sian-run east.
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McGuire Asks Eisenhower
To Withdraw His Nomination
For Second Division Judge
WASHINGTON, UB—Andrew T.<
McGuire of New London, Conn.,
has asked President *Eisnehower
to withdraw his nomination to be
judge of the Second Division U.S.
District Court for Alaska.
But there wasn’t any nomina
tion—it had died when Congress
recessed last summer and would
have had to be resubmitted to
the Senate.
McGuire, a legal resident of
New London, Conn., said he was
aware of that and what he meant
by requesting withdrawal was
that he didn’t want to be consid
ered for the job.
In a letter to President Eisen
hower he said that since the Sen
ate adjorned last year without
acting on the nomination, he has
taken another job as general
counsel to the War Claims Com
mission.
The war claims job pays about
$10,000; the Alaskan judgeship
India's’ Holiest Of Holies
Propose Big Four Meet
In Nude On Himalayas
ALLAHABAD, India, UPl—T h e
holiest of India’s holy men sug
gested Saturday that the world’s
Big Four leaders assemble nude
on Himalayan heights and there
seek peace for the people of the
troubled earth.
They believe India’s Premier
Nehru — also nude — should pre
side at this proposed meeting of
President Eisenhower, Prime Min
ister Churchill, Premier Malenkov
and Mao Tze-Tung.
And if the lofty Himalayas are
impractical they suggested an al
ternative—the burning Ghats of
Benares City where Hindu bodies
are cremated.
The proposal came from the
holy men known as Nagu Sadhus,
who are regarded as having at
tained human perfection by dis
carding all earthly desires and
possessions, including clothes.
They are here to lead some
5 or 10 million pilgrims in the
month-long Mela period of bath
ing at the confluence of the sacred
Ganges and Jumna Rivers.
This is not the first nude con
ference to be suggested by the
Naga Sadhus. Three years ago a
leader suggested that Truman and
Stalin should meet naked in the
Himalayas—also to talk peace.
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$15,000 a year. The judgeship job
would have lasted for only four
years instead of the lifetime ten
ure that usually applies to federal
judgeships.
Among . those reported under
consideration for the post are
Walter Hodge, Cordova, and Ai
mer J. Peterson of Anchorage.
The McGuire nomination previ
ously turned out to be a matter of
some chagrin to the Republican
Party for two reasons:
1. Alaskans didn’t relish the
idea of an outsider getting a
judgeship in the territory, and
2. A news reporter’s checkup
brought the disclosure that Mc
Guire’s main Alaska acquain
tanceship Was in ex-Governor
Gruening’s Democratic camp.
Reports from reliable sources
were that McGuire got the nomi
nation through Connecticut poli
tical ties.
His letter to President Eisen
hower thanked him for the “ex
treme confidence you have re
posed in me.”
He cited the recent naming of
three new members to the War
Claims Commission and added:
“I have been asked, because of
my familiarity with the back
ground and problems peculiar to
the commission, to remain in the
capacity of general counsel.
“After serious reflection, and
with the hope that in so doing I
may in some small measure aid
in the implementation of your ad
ministrative program, I have ac
ceded to this request, and have
undertaken to carry out these
functions.”
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