Feud With Dental
Board Aired At
Legislative Group
ANCHORAGE, UP) — A long
standing feud between Lee L. Mc
Kinley, Anchorage dentist, and
the territory’s Dental Examining
Board received an airing over the
weekend during sessions of the
Legislative and Investigating
Committee.
Although the official press re
lease of the committee meeting
made no .mention of it, Hoveland,
a member of the board, confirmed
a report he spent about two hours
“talking things over” with the leg
islators.
Dr. Frank Dorsey, president of
the Territorial Dental Assn., also
participated in the session, Hove
land said.
The board has been under fire
from McKinley for alleged bias in
its conduct to admit new dentists
to practice in the territory.
It was also understood that Mc
Kinley also appeared before the
committee in a private session and
that some men who failed to pass
the last dental examination were
also questioned.
The committee said it had re
ceived reports of investigations of
the Alaska Housing Authority, the
Alaska Aeronautics and Commu
nications Commission and the Al
aska Merit System by paid inves
tigators.
The reports will not be made
public until officials of the de
partments concerned have an op
portunity to answer criticisms or
“make such statements as they
desire” at executive sessions to be
held later here and at Juneau.
Besides Stringer, committee
members who attended the meet
ing included Sens. Mike Stepovich
of Fairbanks; Howard Lyng of
Nome; and Reps. William Board
man, Ketchikan; and Alden Wil
bur, Fairbanks.
Sen. Howard Lyng, who re
turned to Nome yesterday, states
that another meeting will be held
Nov. 20-21 in Juneau and Nov.
24-25 in Anchorage, where terri
torial department heads will be
investigated and interrogated.
Personal and Legal Size File
Folders on Sale at the' Nugget.
Nome Merchants Stress
Importance Of Airplane
Transportation To Area
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Nome, because of approxiamtely
only 100 days working season (in
mining) a week, a breakdown
means approximately 1/16 of a
year or 22 working days, com
pared to working schedules else
where.
“One-sixteenth of a year any
where could be disastrous, but in
the mining business, especially
gold mining, struggling along, try
ing to break even or make a profit
on a product that was pegged at a
■definite price, through the years,
it is disastrous.
“I stress this particularly, that
with our isolated position and
with our short season, daily,
through service from the States
could mean the difference be
tween getting by and bankruptcy.”
Larry Galvin in his remarks
stated:
“We must depend upon air ser
vice for all emergency repair parts
for refrigeration and heating sys
tems. Without daily contact to the
States it means a great loss when
merchandise must be stored for
many months in advance.
“The U.S. government has de
scribed the Seward Peninsula as
being one of the most highly min
eralized sections on the North
American continent. Almost ev
ery mineral known, we are told,
occurs in Seward Peninsula in
one form or another. Those facts
are gaining the recognition they
merit from private industry.”
Boyd Harwood, as the only
pharmacist in the Second Divi
sion, stated that Nome needs over
night daily service from Seattle
to protect life and health in this
area.
He said, “it is impossible to
carry all the drugs or to order a
supply that would carry through
for six months at a time. I am un
able to say when an epidemic of
some nature will break out and
what supplies I should have on
hand at that time.
“This plea is not being made
for a personal gain, but for the
welfare of mankind. From a mon
etary standpoint, a well and
healthy individual is worth more
to me than a sick or unhealthy
one, and I am sure this applies to
all mankind.”
The representatives also stated
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Tickets $1.25 Time 6:30 p.m.
NOTICE
Rebekahs will hold a regular
meeting in the hall, Wednesday,
Oct. 28, 8 p.m. All members are
urged to be present.
Lennie Mae Nerland, D.D.P.
NOTICE
Bids will be accepted until the
2nd day of November, 1953, 2:00
p.m., on Lot 16, Block 30. Infor
mation as to size of lot can be
obtained at the City Clerk's office.
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Lester D. Bronson Box 598
NOTICE
Sales tax reports on retail sales
and services for the quarter end
ing September 30. 1953, must be
in the City Clerk's office by Octo
ber 30, 1953.
Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Publ. Oct. 21, 26 28, 1953.
that a community such as Nome
always gets better service when
there are a number of airlines
competing in serving a commu
nity. If the number of airlines op
erating between the States and
Alaska is reduced, it is safe to say
that the standard of service would
fall because the airlines would
no longer have the same competi
tive drive.
Nome now has one carrier (Pan
American) serving it directly from
the States. If Alaska Airlines were
also able to serve Nome directly
via Anchorage, the air service to
Nome would be improved im
measurably.
At the conclusion of the hearing
Nelson David, president of Alaska
Airlines, pledged full support of
Alaska Airlines to Nome, regard
less of the outcome of the States
Alaska case.
Walter Smith, news writer from
Juneau, who has spent the sum
mer at Lost River, was a guest
of the Chamber and expressed his
interest in this part of Alaska,
which is the only part of Alaska
that can be called the frontier.
Bill Strandberg, well known
mining authority from Fairbanks,
stated that the future in mining
lies in this division and he pro
phecied that this area is the up
and coming part of development
without a doubt.
Ray Halin, French photograph
er, and companion, told of the
wonderful experiences they are
having here and the wealth of
picture stories they will take back
for publication in Paris and Can
ada to tell about the wonders of
Alaska.
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Russians Removed
Big Diomeders>
Says Pilot Tosch
ANCHORAGE, (ff)— A veteran
Alaska bush pilot says the Rus
sians apparently have removed a
village of native inhabitants from
Soviet-owned Big Diomede Island
in the Bering Sea.
The Anchorage Time’s Juneau
correspondent identified the flier
as Orville Tosch, who recently vis
ited the territorial capital with a
planeload of Eskimo children en
route to the Alaska Native Service
vocational school at Mt. Edge
cumbe, near Sitka.
Tosch said that on numerous
flights this year over the 214-mile
strip of water separating Big Dio
mede and U.S.-owned Little Dio
mede Island, he saw no sign of the
villagers who formerly lived on
the Soviet Island. The villagers,
closely related to Eskimos, are
known as Chukchis.
On one flight this year, Tosch
said, he saw a single man in a
white parka patrolling the shore
of Big Diomede. He said it was
shortly after Cecil Stoner, a fugi
tive from the United States and a
professed Communist sympathiz
er, paddled across the water be
tween Little Diomede and Big
Diomede, and disappeared behind
the Iron Curtain.
Tosch said he had seen no Sov
iet planes on any of his airline ex
cursion trips near Big Diomede.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
Administration Program
For Livestock Industry
Failed, Cattlemen Say
WASHINGTON, UP) — A “cara
van” of 350 cattlemen declared
Tuesday the Eisenhower adminis
tration’s program for dealing with
a “desperate situation” in the live
stock industry has failed.
The cattlemen urgently peti
tioned President Eisenhower and
Secretary of Agriculture Benson
for immediate government guar
antees on livestock prices.
These sentiments were voiced
in a resolution prepared by the
caravan for presentation in a sec
ond meeting with Benson.
Benson’s reaction left little hope
among leaders in the caravan that
he would yield to their pleas for
prompt action to put a govern
ment floor under livestock prices.
Looking beyond their meetings
with Benson, however, the cattle
men foresaw a heated fight over
the issue when Congress recon
venes in January and possibly
growing support for their stand.
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