THE NOME NUGGET
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THE BIGGEST POWER PLANT
—Rutherfordton <N.C.) News—
Work is in the finishing stages on an electric power
project on the Ohio River. And certain facts about this
project are newsworthy by any standard.
It has but one customer—an Atomic Energy Com
mission plant.
It is the largest power project ever built at one
time.
It is producing more electricity than is used by
the entire city of New York.
Its cost, when completed, will be in the neighbor
hood of $400,000,000.
Those who hear of this for the first time will
believe t is being built by the government. For, over
the long years, we have been told that only government
. is capable of undertaking the biggest and costliest
power systems.
But truth and propaganda are not always the same.
This project is being built by a group of business-man
aged, investor-owned electric companies. All of the
money is private money, voluntarily invested. There
are no taxpayer subsidies. And the project will pay
heavy taxes on whatever earnings it makes—where,
by contrast, government plants are either wholly tax
free or largely so.
The moral? No job is too big for taxpaying private
enterprise in the power field.
Alaska's Salmon Pack
Tops 1955 Total in
Bristol Bay Area
JUNEAU, W'—Alaska’s pack of
red salmon this year already has
topped the 1955 total of 313,000
cases, due mainly to an excellent
run in the Bristol Bay area, Fish
• and Wildlife Service Administra
tor Donald L. McKernan reported
Saturday.
McKernan said signs of a high
er pink salmon pack in southeast
Alaska virtually assure a total
salmon catch much above 1955.
The Bristol Bay season ends
on July 25.
"4-o»" Duplicate Receipt Books
at the Nugget
WIEN AIRLINES
To Fairbanks: H. Pitscha, John
B. Heath, Norman Farr, Cy Ran
dall, L. A. Davis, L. Sadowski, W.
Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, A. Messina,
R. E. Summerfelt, J. R. Robinson,
D. Mielke, H. Mielke, F. Kelly,
C. Davis, L. Cole, R. C. Johnson,
Don Julius, R. Arnold, N. Moore,
J. Sellars, J. B. Flower, D. Con
rady.
From Fairbanks: Andrew Bod
ner, J. R. Molsen.
From Kotzebue: Cavin Roetzel,
Daniel Sheldon, Warren T. Hany,
Mary Ann x and Barbara Tiffany,
W. Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, Dorothy
and Hilbert Mielke, Roy Dennis.
To Kotzebue: Dick Lee, Clyde
Potter.
Sen. Ralph Rivers Quits
Territorial Senate to
Run for U.S. Congress
JUNEAU, UP—Sen. Ralph fiv
ers (D Fairbanks! sent a letter of
resignation from the territorial
Senate to Gov. Heintzleman Fri
day, effective at once, because he
is running for the U.S. House
under the Alaska-Tennessee plan
for statehood.
Heintzleman immediately issued
a writ setting an August 1 dead
line for filings for the 4th Divi
sion vacancy.
Rivers’ successor will be chosen
in the Oct. 9 general election. His
unexpired term runs to 1959.
Contract Awarded for
New School at Juneau
WASHINGTON, W!—The Inter
will award an $809,000 contract
to low bidder J. B. Warrack Co.,
Seattle, for construction of a 20
room elementary school at Ju
neau.
The new school will replace the
original Talkeetna school which
burned Oct. 31, 1955.
FBI Nabs Man
In Anchorage for
Brooklyn Killing
ANCHORAGE, GD—The F B I
yesterday arrested a man wanted
in a 1949 stabbing death of a fel
low sailor in Brooklyn.
George H. Raney, 37, was ap
prehended on a downtown street
after local FBI agents received a
report he was in the area, j
Records showed Raney was in
dicted on a first degree man
slaughter charge by the Kings
County grand jury in Brooklyn
in July 1949. He was charged
with unlawful flight to avoid
prosecution Feb. 1, 1956.
Brooklyn police reported Raney
allegedly stabbed Rudolph Smith
in March 1949 while both were
crewmen aboard a Navy trans
port docked at Brooklyn. Smith
died five days later.
The stabbing allegedly climaxed
an argument over Smith’s refusal
to make Raney a piece of toast.
Raney was held here in lieu of
$50,000 bail.
Senate Group O.K.’s
Bill tq Extend Time for
Federal Surplus Property
WASHINGTON, te—A Senate
Interior subcommittee Friday ap
proved a House bill to extend
until Dec. 31, 1958, the time in
which Alaska may acquire federal
surplus personal property.
The territory is authorized by
existing law, which expires this
year, to acquire such property if
it is essential for operation of the
Alaskan government.
The subcommittee passed on to
the full committee without rec
ommendation a House-passed bill
which would authorize planning
of a port of entry on the Alaskan
side of the Alaska-Canadian bor
der, on the Alaskan Highway.
Alaskan officials had suggested
a possible ceiling of $1,200,000 for
the facilities. They would include
a government office building,
housing units, utilities and an air
strip, they said.
Sen. Jackson, presiding as sub- *
committee chairman, said that
wa& “a pretty elegant layout for
a port of entry.”
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