Gruening Assured |
Govt. Will Finance
Alaska Mortgages
By FRITZ WITTI
WASHINGTON, UP! — Sen. Er
nest Gruening said Friday it ap
pears likely federal funds to buy
home mortgage loans will be
available in Alaska while the
need exists.
Gruening said he received a
leter from Norman P. Mason, ad
ministrator of the Housing and
Home Finance Agency, saying he
would recommend to the Presi
dent that additional special as
sistance funds be made available
for purchase of Alaska mort
gages by the Federal National
Mortgage Assn.
Late last year the President ap
proved 10 million dollars for this
fund to buy Federal Housing Ad
ministration home mortgages in
Alaska but indicated that would
be the last allocation.
There were protests from Alas
kans, claiming there was virtually
no private market there for FHA
approved loans. They said that
without federal mortgage funds,
home building in the state would
stop when the 10 million dollar
allocation ran out about next
June.
Mason told Gruening that after
reviewing a special report on the
situation from Gov. William Egan,
he decided to recommend to the
President that additional federal
funds be made available on the
same basis as at present.
Mason told Gruening he hopes
a satisfactory private mortgage
market will develop in Alaska
because he said, special assistance
funds under the FNMA program
cannot continue indefinitely.
However, Gruening said he was
assured by Mason that until such
a market develops he will rec- I
ommend that funds be allocated j
for the program in Alaska.
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Halibut Commission
Sets Regulations for
1960 Fishing Seasons
SEATTLE. UP! — The Interna- !
tional Pacifc Halibut Commission,
composed of United States and
Canadian fisheries experts, Fri
day established for 1960 the same
fishing area that existed last
year.
The commission, concluding its
36th annual meeting, also dis
closed that the total halibut catch
in waters under its jurisdiction
last year amounted to 71V£ mil
lion pounds, worth nearly 13 mil
lion dollars to the fishermen.
The commission established the
following areas for the 1960
season:
Area 1A: South to Heceta Head,
Ore.
Area IB: The waters between
Heceta Head and Willapa Bay,
Wash.
Area 3A: The waters between
Cape Spencer and the Shumagin
Islands.
Area 3B: The waters west of
Area 3A, including the Bering
Sea.
The commission also estab
lished the following halibut fish
ing regulations for the 1960
season:
All areas except Area 3B shall
open for fishing at 6 a.m. May 1.
Area 3B shall open at 6 a.m.,
April 1
There will be one fishing sea
son in Area 1A, without catch
limit, extending from May 1 to
6 a.m. Oct. 16, or to the closure
of Area 3A, whichever is later.
There will be one season in
Area 3A, with a catch limit of
30 million pounds, starting May
and continuing until the catch
limit is attained
There will be one season, without
catch limit, extending from April
1 to Oct. 16, or to the closure of
Area 3A, whichever is later.
There shall be two fishing sea
sons throughout Area 2, the first
season ending when 26Vi million
pounds are caught and the sec
ond starting at 6 a.m. Sept. 11 and
extending seven days without
catch limit.
The commission scheduled its
1961 meeting for Prince Rupert,
B C., the dates to be set later.
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Battle Over Bush
Routes Legislation
JUNEAU, UP) — The fate of a
controversial bill dealing with
intra-Alaska air carrier opera
tions was in the hands of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee Satur
day after spirited public hearing.
Representatives of nonsched
uled air carriers and the state’s
certified carriers were present in
force Friday when the Senate
committee called a public hearing
on the measure.
Wendell Kay, an Alaska attor
ney representing a group calling
itself the Committee to Restrict
the Bush Operations of the State's
Certificated Air Carriers, said:
‘The scheduled carriers do not
want their routes tampered with.
I think this thing has to go both
ways.”
The scheduled airlines, in a
brief signed by Juneau attorney
Robert Annis, told the committee
the proposals made by Kay’s
group, “could raise havoc with
the existing a i r pattern in
Alaska.”
Kay told the committee the bush
operations of scheduled lines
should be restricted to “casual,
occasional and infrequent” trips.
Sen. John Coghill (R-Nenana)
asked Kay if members of his
group might not fear competition
from larger air contract carriers,
who fly aircraft larger than other
members of the group Kay rep
resents. Kay said there was no
concern in his group on that score.
Annis said Kay’s proposal
would have the effect of creating
a special class of carrier involv
ing contract carriers who fly large
planes.
Under present Civil Aeronau
tics Board regulations, these
large aircraft are restricted to
either contract work or scheduled
carrier operations.
Annis said if the suggestions of
Kay’s group were followed, a new
class of contract carriers, “com
pletely without economic opera
tion,” would be created.
He said both certificated air
lines and air taxi operators would
be affected by what he said
would be special treatment of the
contract pilots.
Annis said he represented
Alaska Airlines, Alaska Coastal
Airlines, Cordova Airlines, Ellis
Airlines, Pacific Northern Air
lines, Northern Consolidated Air
lines, Reeve Aleutian Airlines
and Wien Alaska Airlines.
THE HARD WAY . , .
LOS ANGELES, I* — George
Fotinos kept his appointment with
the doctor — the hard way.
Fotinos, 47, his broken right
foot in a plaster cast, was drivng
his car with his left foot only. As
he tried to park outside the clinic
Friday, his foot slipped.
The new car roared through
the clinic’s wall and right into
the examination room. Fotinos
was uninjured, but his car was
wrecked.
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Local Clubs Invited
To Join In Search for
‘All-American Family’
The Second Nationwide All
American Family Search is now
being launched to select 51 fam
ilies representing each state and
the District of Columbia, which
best embody the most desirable
features of family life and indi
vidual development. Spurred by
the precept of “Family Unity —
for a Better Community,” the na
tionwide search will culminate in
the Aill-American Family Con
ference and National Finals at
Lehigh Acres, Fla., in June of
1960, with 51 “All-American”
families in attendance. The All
American Family of 1960 will re
ceive a Westinghouse Total Elec
tric Gold Medallion Home in Flo
rida, among other awards of
honor.
Members and affiliates of Nome
clubs and organizations are in
vited to help in the nomination
of deserving families, and to serve
as judges on the State Commit
tees. Among cooperating organi
zations are the General Federa
tion of Woman’s Clubs, Girls’
Clubs of America, Kiwanis Inter
tional, National Conference of
Christians and Jews, the National
Recreation Association, and the
Advertising Bureau of the Amer
ican Newspaper Publishers Asso
ciation. The Search will be con
ducted by the Grolier Society,
publishers of the Book of Know
ledge. The committee of volun
tary organizations will act in an
advisory capacity, and assist in
the nomination and selection of
candidate families on national,
state and local levels.
The All-American Family
Search is open to all American
families with children (their own
or adopted! living under one roof,
and nomination forms are avail
able from Emily Boucher at The
Nugget, or from the All-American
Family Search Committee at 575
Lexington Ave., New York 22,
New York.
Nome’s Westinghouse dealer,
Morgan & Son, expects to have
forms, also.
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City Council
Meeting Notes
The Nome City Council, at a
special meeting on Friday eve
ning met with the new attorney,
Virgil Vochoska and conferred on
several matters pending before
the city at this time. <
A new contract was received
from the State Juvenile Depart
ment but was rejected inasmuch
that Judge Hubert Gilbert has
ruled the Federal Jail premises
unfit for detention of juveniles.
Correspondence was received
from the Department of Revenue
that the refunds from liquor lic
enses would not be as high as
expected as the increase in the
license fees would go to the State
and not to the City.
A letter was read from Super
intendent Conrad Potter asking
for a raise in wages for teachers
based on the cost of living. The
letter was referred to the School
Board.
A bill from the Modern Paint
Store for $250 was presented. This
was for painting the back of the
City Hall Building which was
painted last summer without au
thorization. The Council voted to
settle the matter by splitting the
difference and paying $125.
The Council also accepted a
memorandum agreement with the
State Court System which will
provide a magistrate for handling
city matters.
The first month’s payroll for the
new City jail system was ap
proved.
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