CAB Gets Bitter Criticism From
Alaska Bush Pilots on Restrictions
WASHINGTON, UPl — Bush'5
pilots in Alaska, a rugged lot,
have some definite ideas about
what should be done to improve
air service in the territory.
The Civil Aeronautics Board,
looking for such improvement, in
vited comment from pilots who
own and fly planes for hire in
Alaska. Replies show the pilot
owners are bitter about regula
tions which prohibit them from
competing with airlines and from
hiring other pilots to fly their
planes.
Thor Skulstad of Wrangell
wrote: “Yes, there are a lot of
issues relating to the pilot-own
ers that should be revised to
conform to the needs of the public
instead of the monopoly that
exists here in Alaska.
“ . . . here in Southeastern
Alaska the public cannot get on
a train or a bus and in most cases
cannot use a boat. This leaves
only one mode of transportation,
the airplane.
“ . . . the restriction keeping
us from hiring pilots belongs in
• Russia and not Alaska . . . run
ning Alaska from a desk in Wash
ington, D.C., is one of the reasons
it is being sold down the drain.
I will say, come to Alaska and
see what the score is, as you cer
tainly don’t know back there, j
What little you know is one
sided.”
Daniel L. Smith of McGrath
wrote: “I don’t think it is fair to
give a subsidized airline an iron
clad monopoly on all the traffic.
I’m not afraid of competition.
But it certainly isn’t in line with
the American way of life to have
to give up without a struggle and
let an outfit like Alaska Airlines
take over completely.
“I fail to see the reasoning be
hind the regulation stating that
the pilot-owner must do his own
flying in his own airplanes.
Taking the rule literally means
that as soon as the pilot-owner
can’t pass his annual physical he
may as well die since there is no
possible way to stay in business.”
Nelson Walker of Kotzebue
said he wanted to bid on a bush
mail run as would have been per
mitted “years ago before the
Communist form of government
came and tried to take the bush
pilot’s bread out of his mouth.”
He added:
“If the Post Office Department j
and a few more, including your- j
self, were on the ball the bush '
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pilots alone could save the terri
tory of Alaska about 2 million a
year” (presumably by eliminating
mail subsidies).
Paul Hansen of Pacific Pali
sades, Calif., said he would return
to aviation in Alaska if it were
possible to “operate without
hounding by complaints originat
ing because of” regulations.
Hawley Evans of Fairbanks
said “air taxi operators are need
ed and badly in Alaska.
“The air taxis could fly the
bush mail runs in a much more
businesslike manner than the
present operations,” he said. “The
pilot-owner is granted nothing . . .
there is no enforcement agency to
protect the pilot-owner from ei
ther the greed of the airliner or
the uncertificated pilots.”
R. K. Dyment of Fairbanks de
clared that “present regulations
strangle our operations to the
point where it is absolutely im
possible to make a bare living
without violating some one of the
many regulations that surround
us.”
As to hearings planned in the
investigation, Dyment said: “I
fully realize that our small indi
vidual voices will be lost in the
forthcoming hassle. The airlines
will have batteries of attorneys
with bulging brief cases contain
ing stacks of statistics proving
to their own satisfaction that we
should be further restricted in
stead of given more freedom.”
Japan To Build Two Luxury
Transpacific Passenger Ships
TOKYO, — Japan’s biggest
pre-war shipping firm today an
nounced plans to build two trans
pacific luxury passenger liners
next year with Japanese govern
ment funds.
Nippon Yusen Kaisha said the
two 20,000-ton liners would be
government - owned but leased to
NYK. Construction costs are set
at 12V£ million dollars each.
LIVING UP TO THEIR NAMES
DES MOINES, Iowa, (^—Traf
fic policemen nabbed a Des
Moines motorist Friday when a
radar device recorded his car go
ing 40 miles an hour in a ?.0-mile
zone. His name: Forrest K. Good
speed.
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LOS ANGELES, (*»—'The police,
citation which J. Walker signed
charged him with—what, c-lse?—
jaywalking.
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Oil Prospecting
Picks Up Speed
In Alaska
TULSA, Okla., —Leasing for
oil operations in Alaska has sub
sided but actual drilling is picking
up speed and petroleum explorers
are infiltrating the territory in
ever increasing numbers.
That’s the report of the Oil and
Gas Journal, which described ge
ologists, seismograph crews and
drillers working there this sum
mer as the forerunners of a “small
army” of technicians who in the
next few years will test the area’s
possibilities.
In the past four years, the mag
azine said, oil companies and indi
viduals have claimed more than
five million acres, mostly in the
Katala-Yakataka district along the
east coast of the Gulf of Alaska,
on the Kenai Peninsula around
Cook Inlet and on parts of the Al
aska Peninsula.
Lesser activity has put acreage
in central Alaska north of the
Yukon and on the Canadian bor
der under lease.
Phillips Petroleum Co. the prin
cipal leaseholder, has drilled two
tests in the Katala-Yakataka area.
One was abandoned as dry. The
other, the Journal said, " found
good oil sands at about 8,700 feet
but they were not considered to
be commercial. Phillips is prepar
ing a third test.
Other big companies with leases
include Standard Oil Co. of Cali
fornia, Richfield Oil Corp., Union
Oil Co., Standard Oil Co. of Ohio,
Shell Oil Co., General Petroleum
Corp., and Sunray Mid-Coniment
Oil Co.
SOME LITTER!
FAIR LAWN, N.J., (^ — Some
body litered up the automobile of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mondelli
while they attended a picnic
here yesterday.
Some litter! It was $297 in
bills, scattered around inside and
outside the car.
The Mondellis, who live in Mid
land Park, turned the “debris”
over to police.
“Let them figure it out,” said
Mondelli.
JAIL IS HABIT
BALTIMORE, UF>—A n t h o n y
Ritchie spends a lot of time in
jail, but in small doses.
Ritchie, who is 57, was back in
city jail again today for another
60 days. Police said it was his
144th arrest in the last four years
for drunk and disorderly conduct.
They said that in those four
years, he has spent a total of three
in jail.
At the time of the American
Revolution, the American Mer
chant Marine numbered around i
2,400 ocean-going ships with an
aggregate of 400,000 gross tons—
more than half as much as Great
Britain’s.
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