Sen. Charles Jones Has Gleam in Eye
For Alaska Oil and Gas Prospects
B & R of Kotzbue Gets
Contract To Operate
R.R. Boats On Yukon
ANCHORAGE, Apr. 15, UP>—
The B & R Tug and Barge Co. of
Kotzebue has been awarded a
contract for operation of the Alas
ka Railroad’s Yukon and Tanana
riverboats, officials of the rail
road said today.
The firm is owned by Jack Bul
lock, president, of Kotzebue and
Arthur Peterson and Fred Good
win of Fairbanks.
It will operate the railroad’s
fleet of one steamer, two motor
vessels or tugs, and 10 barges
under the name of Yutana Barge
Line. Under terms of the contract,
the railroad will receive 10 per
cent of the gross revenues as
rental.
Transfer of the riverboat opera
tions from the railroad to private
hands marks the end of a 20-year
era of government management of
the facility which handled freight
hauls from Tanana north to Fort
Yukon and south to Marshall.
Former railroad manager Frank
Kalbaugh said the operation had
been a money-losing proposition
for the railroad, but he expected
that experienced riverboat people
would be able to make it finan
cially successful.
House Passes Bill to
Let Officers Keep
$1,683,189 in Subsistence
WASHINGTON, IA*—The House
Monday passed and sent to the
Senate a bill to let 1,737 Army,
Navy and Air Force officers keep
$1,683,189 in subsistence pay
ments received while on duty in
Alaska.
The payments were made to the
officers between Feb. 1, 1949, and
Oct. 12, 1950, while they were sta
tioned at Elmendorf Air Force u
Base and Ft. Richardson.
The General Accounting Office
subsequently ruled the payments
invalid.
The Budget Bureau recom
mended enactment of the forgiv
ing legislation, saying that to re
quire refund of the money now
“would appear to impose an un
due financial hardship.”
The bill also provides for re
imbursement of officers who pre
viously made refunds based on
the General Accounting Office
ruling.
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> SEATTLE, UP>—A lifetime ir
quest of Lady Luck in the sole
country, 80-yesir-old Sen. Charle;
Jones of Nome has a gleam in his
eye for the oil prospects of Alaska
Actually, the veteran legisla
tor’s partial switch of affections
is symbolic of the feeling of the
times in Alaska, where hopes are
riding high for development oi
an oil and gas industry.
'Jones and his oil optimism were
the subject of a lengthy story in a
Seattle newspaper Tuesday after
he had, in a letter, taken the edi
tor to task for what he contended
was the newspaper’s failure to
recognize Alaska’s new gas and
oil potential and give sufficient
attention to it.
Jones, the oldest member of the
Territorial Legislature, came to
Seattle after the recent legislative
session on what he described as
a combination business and pleas
ure trip.
In an interview with a reporter,
the man who served in the first
Alaska legislature in 1913 and
was president of the 1953 Senate
spoke as enthusiastically about oil
prospects as he would have about
gold when he went to Nome 55
years ago in the hope of striking
a rich gold streak.
“There’s an area up there twice
the size of the State of Pennsyl
vania that I want to stake for oil,”
he declared, “just as soon as I can
get an ‘oil shark’ (engineer) to fly
over it for me and tell me where
to stake it.”
He added that “from seepages,
I know there are good possibili
ties up there.”
But the old-timer from Nome
hasn’t lost his zest for mining yet,
either. Not only does the gold
fever still run deep, but he is
hopeful about his prospects for
strategic metals that in this era
may be worth more than gold.
He has ore samples with him
for a check with mining interests
here.
And the veteran home-spun
philosopher added:
“I’m going to keep at it until I
die. I’d rather drop dead working
than to die sleeping in the best
bed ever made.”
Piper Laurie, in N.Y.,
Denies Planning to Wed
NEW YORK, l/Pi—Movie Actress
Piper Laurie had nothing to add
Monday night to her previous de
nials that she plans to marry Ar
my Pvt. G. David Schine. She ar
rived by plane for a New York
TV date.
When asked if she planned to
go to Alaska, she said that her
flight from West Coast to the East
Coast “didn’t look like it.”
Schine, wealthy former investi
gator for Sen. McCarthy’s Senate
committee, is stationed at An
chorage.
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Jerome Trigg
, Hurt in Blast
At Marine Base
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., I*
, —A dud artillery shell exploded
’ in a mess line at this Marine
Corps training base Monday, in
juring 33 enlisted men, one crit
ically, and shattering windows in
the mess hall.
One of the injured was Pvt.
Jerome J. Trigg of Nome.
An unidentified Marine, who
arrived at the scene, in the 5th
Marine Regiment area, said one
of the injured had a gaping
wound in the back.
“I’m surprised none was killed,”
he said. “I saw a lot of men lying
on the ground, with other Marines
giving them first aid. It looked
like a major blast had occurred.
Marine officers said about 12 of
the injured were kept at the camp
hospital for X rays and treatment
but were not seriously injured.
The dud artillery shell was be
lieved to have been picked up by
one of the Marines for a souvenir.
“He was showing it to his bud
dy in the mess line,” a spokesman
for the 1st Marine Division said,
“when he dropped it and it ex
ploded.” The spokesman said the
exact nature of the shell had not
been determined but it was of
small caliber. A board of inquiry
has been called.
All of the 33 injured were at
tached to the 5th Marine Regi
ment of the 1st Marine Division.
The regiment returned to San
Diego from Korea last month.
Chou En-Lai Claims
China Being Subverted
By United States
BANDUNG, Indonesia, (if)—Red
China’s Premier Chou En-lail yes
terday told the Asian - African
Conference his country is not in
terested in “subversive activities”
but instead is being “subverted
by the United States of America.”
“If you do not believe this,” he
told the delegates, “then you can
send representatives to China to
take a look. You are all welcome.”
Chou continued: “We do not
hide the fact that we believe in
Communism. But this is not a
meeting to discuss ideologies but
to seek a common ground and not
great divergencies.”
Communist China, he said, had
come to Bandung ready to com
ply with the decisions of the
sponsoring nations, and not to (
raise other queitions.
“We have no proposals,” Chou
asserted. “China could raise the
question of the liberation of Tai
wan (Formosa) and the neighbor
ing islands. We could have made
criticism of the unfair treatment
of China in the United Nations
but we are not going to do that.” |
Aside from the charge of U.S.
subversion, most of Chou’s speech
followed a conciliatory line.
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Lincoln Engineering Co. Greasing Equipment
Mallory . Blocks
Onan ./. Light Plants
Owatonna Tool Co. Hand Tools
Power Machinery Co. . Power Saws
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Smith Welding Equip. Corp. Welding Tools
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Golf Course & Clubs
Taken From Prisoners
BOSTON {JP>—The golfers among
Massachusetts State Prison in
mates yesterday had their “se
cret” golf course and their golf j
clubs taken away from them.
In addition, Deputy Warden
Albert Thompson and Guard Vic
tor Anchukiatis were suspended
Tuesday for lowering four golf
clubs from the wall to the prison
ers on March 31.
Acting Warden Perley S. Vance
said he had no knowledge of any
golf course within the prison
walls.
An emploj'e of the corrections
department said, however, that
some of the prisoners who work
in the foundry built a miniature
course in the yard outside
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