Anchorage Air
Traffic Third
Highest In U. S.
Anchorage had the third great
est volume of air traffic of all
cities in the U. S. during 1957,
according to the annual record
published by the Civil Aero
nautics Administration.
Counting aircraft takeoffs and
landings at its two airports and
the seaplane base at Lake Hood,
which is considered a part of its
International Airport, Anchorage
totaled 427,244 operations. Chi
cago, with both O’Hare and Mid
way airport figures combined,
had 618,013, and New York,
counting both LaGuardia and
Idlewild had 502,558. An oper
ation is a takeoff or a landing,
and is the count by which the
CAA measures how busy an air
port is for purposes of planning
its various services to air trans
portation.
Among individual airports at
which CAA operates the air
traffic control tower, Merrill
Field, Anchorage’s busiest field
was 19th with 225,805 operations,
and International had 121,464.
Hood seaplane base, the most
active seaplane operating base in
the world, accounted for 79,996
operations. The CAA operates
towers at all three fields.
NOTICE
T!'& Nome Light and Power
Utilities office will be open in its
new location, at the former Pan
American Airways office on Mon
day, May 26ih.
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Cost of Living
Index Rises
Again In April
WASHINGTON, UP* — Another
record high in housewives’ gro
cery costs sent the government’s
living‘cost index to a new peak
in April.
However, Ewan Clague, Labor
Department Statistics Commis
sioner, told a news conference
that “in a broad general way
I’d say the index has shot its
bolt—-there’s no question about
it, the big rises are now over.”
The government index rose
two-tenths of one per cent be
tween March and April, reaching
123.5 per cent of the 1947-49
base period.
The April rise was wholly due
to higher food prices, particularly
fresh fruits and vegetables.
The April living cost level was
3.5 per cent above April 1957.
It represented the 18th increase
in the past 20 months. It has de
clined only once in the past 28
months, despite the business re
cession.
NOTICE
Effective Monday, May 26th
the Alaska Tel. and Tel. office
will be open from 1:00 p.m. to
5 p.m. Mcnday through Friday
and closed all day Saturday.
Maintenance will be carried on
as in the past
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GAMBELL
News Letter
BY CLARENCE IRRIGOO
Spring, 1958
New Citizens in 1958
We did not see any storks
around but 12 babies, 8 girls and
4 boys were born here between
January 20 and May 17.
More*New Citizens for 1958
June 3, 1942 was a day when
the village of Gambell was evac
uated;—when the people of the
‘land of the rising sun’ landed on
our Alaskan shores in World
War II.
June 3, 1958—16 years later
will bring before us an en
tirely different picture. On that
day six persons will receive
citizenship from Judge Walter
Hodge of Nome. They are Mil
dred Irrigoo, Jane Antoghame,
Fred Angi, John Walunga, Thom
as and Pauline Apassingok. The
seventh person will not be able
to appear for hearing. She is
Doris Uglowook, a TB patient in
ANS Hospital in Anchorage.
There were more than six who
made their home permanently
in Gambell. Other members of
the families died on the Ameri
can soil. They too would seek
naturalization but death ruled
rather too early on them.
One out of these aliens is now
living in Seward. He obtained
his citizenship some years ear
lier in that area. He is Fihnk
Walunga. He begat children be
fore moving to Seward. When his
first wife died, he met his’ pres
ent wife in Seward, where they
are now making their home.
'They begat more children and
now the are a big family.
Chicago Men Seek Walrus Piciure
Two men flew out here from
Chicago to make movies of a
walrus for Adventure Films.
Enroute they had checked with
the Fish and Wild Life official
to make sure they will not miss
Mr. and Mrs. Wally on their
annual northward trip. They
stayed for a whole week but did
not get a live walrus picture.
The day they returned to Nome,
there was walrus everywhere.
Mr. Ole Oogrook will be happy
to learn that his picture will be
the leading role in the Adventure
Films.
Wrong Color
School season encfs this month
—but the Gambell children had
quit school not long after the
New Years. The teachers for
this season were colored people
from Texas with three children.
They seemed to get along very
nicely at first but something
went wrong in a hurry and they
had to leave. As far as the
writer is concerned, there was
nothing wrong with the teaching
staff and teaching spirits. What
is to blame may have been
justa “Wrong Color”.
* * »
Attention ye meat market deal
ers and merchants. Fresh Ber
ing Sea walrus and origruk meat
is now available. Mmmm-m-m,
that real good vitamin-laden liv
er, heart and flippers. If you
are tired of that reindeer meat
stored for months, why not try
something fresh out of the Bering
Sea?
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House Approves Recent
Investigation Of
Morningside Hospital
WASHINGTON, UP) — A House
Government Operations Subcom
mittee has approved a report on
its investigations of the Morning
side Hospital at Portland, Ore.,
it was learned Thursday.
The hospital has a contract
with the Terriotry of Alaska for
the care of Alaska insane.
An investigation of its opera
tions was held at Portland last
year by the subcommittee, then
headed by Rep. Earl Chudoff
(D-Penn), Rep. Robert E, Jones
(D-Ala) is now chairman.
The subcommittee’s report will
not be made public until May 28.
Mosquitoes and Flies
Don’t be chewed to bits by these blood
thirsty pests. Just, burn a litUe BUHACH
wherever you want peace and comfort.
rluet, BUHACH
—Safe—Easy To Use—Economical—
Bill Introduced
To Ban Japanese
Salmon Imports
SEATTLE, UP) — The Washing
ton congressional delegation
agreed Wednesday to push a ban
on the import of Japanese sal
mon from the North Pacific.
At a meeting in Washington,
D. C., Sens. Warren G. Magnu
son and Henry M. Jackson and
Reps. Thomas M. Pelly, Thor
Tollefson and Don Magnuson
tabbed such legislation as the
only hope for saving America’s
North Pacific fisheries.
A bill to ban Japanese salmon
imports has been introduced in
the Senate by -Magnuson and in
the House of Representatives by
Pelly.
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Philip Brown, Frank Gillespie,
Jacob Ahwinona.
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