MAJOR SHAKEUP REVEALED IN
INFORMATION OFFICE OF CAA
WASHINGTON, (A—A majdr
shakeup in th& public informa
tion officer of the Civil Aeronau
tics Administration was disclosed
Friday night.
James T. Pyle, CAA adminis
trator, ordered a series of changes,
spokesmen said, because he felt
there could have been a greater
effort towaVcf presenting CAA ac
tivities the public.
The CAA is responsible for the
esta&f&iUtight of cfvii airways,
landing areas, air navigation aids,
snakes provision for the control
and pfdtfecfttm of air traffic mov
ing ih fflf cohmiefce.
It also enforces safety standards
set up by the Civil Aeronautics
Boafd.
•Preble Staver, acting director
of information, said these were
the changes to be effective in mid
January:
Raymond W. Nathan, director
of information, offered transfer to
Kansas City at $600 reduction in
annual pay. Turned down trains
ter and resigned.
Charles E. Planck, assistant di
rector of information, accepted
transfer to Anchorage, where he
will open first CAA regional of
fice there.
iLevings S. Willis, information
specialist, job abolished.
Gladys Piez, information spe
cialist; Ira L. Smith, director of
publications, and George Mathieu,
motion picture section director—
assigned to comparable jobs in
CAA in Washington but not in its
office of public information.
Willis, Who received a formal
30-day notice Dec. 9 that his job
was abolished, was recently hon
, ored by Pyle for his work in the
Civil Aeronautics Administration.
Willis said he received a De
partment of Commerce Special
Service Award, plus a $250 check,
on Nov. 12 for “appreciation of
distinguished service in perform
ance of official duties.”
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Alaska Air Command
Relinquishes 12,000 Acres
On Gape Newenham
ANCHORAGE—T h e Alaskan
Air Command announced last
week a pair of land relinquish
ments totaling 14,389 acres.
Larger of the two tracts, both
of which have been returned to
Bureau of Land Management
control, is located in the vicinity
of the Cape Newenham Air Force
station. Cape Newehham is on a
peninsula which separates Bristol
Bay and' Kuskokwim Bay.
Originally a 14,285-acre reser
vation, the station has been re
duced to 2,296 acres. The 11,989
acre tract relinquished is no long
er needed for Air Force opera
tions in the area.
The other tract released, 2,400
acres, was a part of the Tatalina
Air Force station in the McGrath
area.
Former Slave Dies at 106
COLUMBUS, Ohio lft—-Mathew
Carter, who was bom a slave in
Alabama 106 years ago, died yes
terday at his home here.
He leaves 72 descendants—seven
children, 27 grandchildren, and 38
great-grandchildren.
One businessman to another:
“How are things?”
“Rotten. Honestly, if they keep
on like this, it looks as tho my
last income tax report will be just
about correct.”
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WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional snow
tonight and Tuesday. Low tem
perature expected tonight 5 to 10
degrees below ti&to. Tito BftgH tilth
morrow 5 to 10 above.
Nome data Ihst 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest temperature
10, lowest 3. Max. wind 13 ntph
from the east. Sunrise at 9:5ft
a.m., sunset $t 1:56 p.m.
A year ago today: high tem
perature 12, low -10. Extremes
on this date sirtcfe 1907: highest
36 in 1945, lowest -26 ih 1635.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL
MUNICIPAL ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that a
Special Municipal Election will be
held Tuesday* January 14, 1958,
in the City Hall for the purpose of
submitting Ordinance No. 881 for
ratification.
Ordinance No. 861 .is entitled:
“An ordinance of the City of
Nome, Alaska, granting to the
Nome Telephone Company, Inc* a
franchise to operate a system of
telephone exchange, to erect pdas,
lay conduit, and other privileges,
within the said City of Nome, to
provide certain services to the
City of Nome, to establish a basis
for use by the said Nome Tele
phone Company of the streets and
alleys of said City, to determine
the length of said franchise peri
od, to provide for a ratification
election, and for other purposes."
A qualified voter must be twen
ty-one (21) years of age; a ciiixen
of the United States; a resident of
Alaska for one year, and of the
City of Nome for thirty (30) days
prior to election.
Polls will be open at 8:00 o'clock
a.m. and close at 6:00 o'clock p.m.
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
Publ. Dec. 11, 13 16, 18, 1957
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P.O. Box 558
Entire Village of
1,100 Destroyed in
Iran Earthquake
TEHRAN. Iran, UWThe MiiHfr
t*y of Post and Telegraph report
ed Satueday an entire) village was
destroyed by tile earthquake* that
rooked western Iran Friday cold
its 1,100 'inhabitants are considered
dead.
The ministry said the ove*>all
death toll in the quake area was
1,287.
The village—Farsan—was not
far from the center of the quake.
Truckloads of food, medicine
and tents were rushed into , the
mountainous area where the two
minute quake struck before dawn
Friday. It was described as equal
in violence to one that killed an
estimated 2,000 persons last July ^
on Iran’s Caspian Sea coast.
An Iranian newspaper said 500
persons were killed in Farsan g,
near the small town of Sehneh,
which was officially reported to
have been at the center of the
quake. Sehnen is on the 7,240-foot
Shah Pass 240 miles southwest of
Tehran.
The government announced this
morning that disaster workers
have found 952 bodies in the de
bris left by earthquakes.
A new temblor rocked at least -
| 17 villages Sunday in the Ker
manshah area.
* * •
Athens and nearby areas of
Greece were hit Friday by a sharp
quake but no casualties were re
ported.
There were no reports of any
shocks in Turkey, which lies be
tween Iran and Greece.
* * *
The Soviet Tass news agency
meanwhile reported a quake on
Defi. 5 hit Outer Mongolia with
catastrophic force and landslides
are continuing. Casualties were
not reported.
The Mongolian quake was re
ported centered in one of the
world’s most desolate areas near
the junction of Mongolia and Chi
na’s Sinkiang Province.
One Tokyo reading indicated
the quake was equal to one that
killed 44,000 persons in the Jap
anese capital in 1923. '
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
I will not be held responsible
for any claims, bills, or debit
against myself, unless affixed
with my signature.
—Philip Pector
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon
JIM WALSH, President
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