THE NOME NUGGET
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PRIVILEGE....THEIR HOPE
Alaska Steam
Pledges Modern
Services & Rates
SEATTLE, UP) — The president
of the Alaska Steamship Company
pledged Wednesday night to pro
vide the 49th State with an ex
panding, modern service.
H e predicted comparatively
lower cargo rates as Alaska de
velops.
In an address before the Pro
peller Club of Maritime Men in
Seattle, Alaska Steam president
D. E. Skinner credited his com
pany’s pioneering investment in
•container cargo shipments with
providing greater advantage to
Alaska and lower rates the past
10 years than would have been
•possible under old-style methods.
“Containerization” — the pack
- mg of cargo in various types of
vans and crates — was adopted by
Alaska Steam, Skinner said, as “a
means of survival in the face of
chaotic operating conditions, po
litical pressures and the develop
ment of new competition.”
He credited the program with
having speeded service and cut
ship turn-around time for the
Alaska Steam fleet.
In discussing the future of the
trade, the Alaska Steam presi
dent said:
“The present need of Alaska
carriers is for a year-around sus
tained two-way haul. That may
-well come tomorrow with the in
dustrialization that Alaska should
receive. Then it will be our happy
privilege to adjust our rate level
to that which is appropriate under
such impoyed circumstances.”
NO PARKING
Effective immediaiely, there
will be No Parking from 4 am.
to 8 am. on Front Street from B
Street to East City limits, on B
Street and 3rd Ave. West to Air
Field. This will allow for main
tenance and snow removal during
the winter months on the thru
streets.
NOME CITY COUNCIL
by ROBERT F. SCOTT.
City Clerk.
Nov. 17, 19, 21, 24, 26, 28. !
RESTRICTIVE STAKING
LAWS IN ALASKA
NEED CHANGING
(From Nov. TDM Bulletin)
There is an Alaskan mining
law which prohibits any one per
son from staking more than two
placer claims per calendar month
in any one recording precinct. We
are wondering whether it might
be time to have this law repealed.
This law was passed back in
the days when staking rushes
from one placer camp to the next
were still occasionally part of the
Alaskan mining picture. As we
understand it, the purpose of the
law was to prevent the first
comers to a new creek from stak
ing the whole creek. In those
days, one man, or several men,
could make good money for sev
eral seasons on one good placer
claim.
Now, placer gold rushes are a
thing of the past. The modern
mining picture includes important
large iron, limestone, and other i
types of deposits which often
should be staked as placers, but
which must be covered toy large
groups of claims, and quickly, if
they are to be of any value to
anyone as possible mining opera
tions. “Nuisance” or “fringe” stak
ers seldom make any money for
themselves and nearly always de
lay developments. So we are
thinking that perhaps the first
State Legislature might be pre
vailed upon to repeal the law, if
our readers approve. We would
like to have opinions on the
question.
(Inquiries or correspondence
should toe addressed to P. O. Box
1391, Juneau, Alaska.)
PIONEER
WATER
DELIVERY
MAIN 14
Ted Grotha
Ralph Rivers
Confers With
Village Leaders
Mr. Ralph Rivers, Democratic
candidate for Alaska’s seat in the
U. S. House of Representatives,
left Thursday, after spending some
time in the Nome Area. He re
turned to Fairbanks by way of
Kotzebue where he was meeting
With local leaders.
On Wednesday, Mr. Rivers flew
to Unaakleet, stopping at several
of the villages along the way. Dur
ing his time here he has consulted
with local people on problems and
needs in Northwestern Alaska. On
Wednesday night he attended the
Pioneer meeting as he is a mem
ber of the Pioneers of Alaska, be
longing to Igloo No. 4 in Fair
banks.
Prior to going to the Pioneer
meeting, he made an appearance
on KNOM-TV, in behalf of his
candidacy, where he discussed
problems and his program for
meeting them, if elected. The need
for roads, particularly a connect
ing road to Fairbanks under the
Defense Highway Act, in view of
the military importance of this
area, and the need for a renewal
of the Alaska Public Works Pro
gram were stressed. These, to
gether with an equitable increase
in the price of newly mined gold,
were programs that would receive
early and vigorous action on his
part, Mr. Rivers stated.
Although it was necessary for
him to return earlier than anti
cipated to Fairbanks, Mr. Rivers
stated that he was in touch with
leaders in various places in North
western Alaska, and stressed the
importance of a large turnout at
the polls on November 25th. Mr.
Rivers plans on visiting villages
to the north of Fairbanks between
now and election day, and being
in Fairbanks for the election on
next Tuesday.
Sheriff’s Hunt For
Missing Airman
Called Off In Utah
OGDEN Utah, te — Civilian
patrols gave up the hunt for the
missing navigator of a Cl 19 trans
port plane, hut Air Force ground
parties searched again today in
the mountain country east of here.
Sheriff Leroy Hadley called off
the civilian volunteers, saying
there was no hope of finding
Capt. Donald Liggett alive. Lig
gett, 40, of Indianapolis, bailed
out of the crippled plane into a
snowstorm last Friday with seven
companions.
Three of the men died in a
weekend 'blizzard and four were
rescued.
OES POTLUCK DINNER
The members of the Order of
Eastern Star, Masonic bodies and
Shriners with their wives or es
corts. have announced a Polluck
Dinner for Saturday evening at
the Masonic Temple at 7 p.m.,
followed by varied entertainment.
Visiting members of any of
these groups are included in the
party, with their escorts or wives.
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U. S. Health Serice Reports Air Of
Anchorage Is Dirtiest In The Nation
WASHINGON, (* — Tentative
studies indicate Anchorage has
the nation’s dirtiest air.
A nationwide air sampling con
ducted by the U. S. Public Health
Service lists Anchorage as the city
with the highest amount of air
pollution.
Charleston, W. Va., and East
Chicago, Ind., ranked closely be
hind.
Health service experts reported
on some aspects of the survey at
the National Conference on Air
Pollution.
The survey is the first compre
hensive study of air pollution ever
undertaken on a nationwide basis.
However, health service officials
emphasized extreme caution in in
terpreting the results.
They said the figures for the
various cities studied are tenta
tive and subject to considerable
variance because of different
sampling methods.
Public Health Service engineers
said one explanation of the high
figure for Anchorage would be
that it starts with a relatively high
base because all coastal cities
have large quantities of salt from
sea sprays in their air.
They emphasized that their
samplings of particles in the air
measure quantity and not quality.
A city with a much lower reading
might have a more serious con
tamination problem than a city
with a higher figure if the pollu
tants in the former’s air were
more dangerous, they said.
In compiling the following list
of cities highest in air pollution
the concentration of atmospheric
pollutant is expressed in micro
grams per cubic meter of air. The
data measures all pollutants ex
cept radiation.
The list (with the number of
years for which data is available
for each city):
Anhorage (5) 269; Charleston
(5) 261; East Chicago (3) 252;
Phoenix, Ariz. (1) 246; Los An
geles <4) 238; San Bernardino,
Calif. (1) 235; Chicago (4) 234;
Philadelphia (5) 227; Buffalo,
N. Y. (1) 220; Detroit (5), St. Louis
(3) and El Paso (2) — all three
with 215.
The health service is using the
data to define the general dimen
sions of the air contamination
problem. But it does not contend
that the various ratings of the ci
ties are 100 per cent accurate.
FOr instance, in some cities a
number of sites were used in the
sampling, in others only one. In
some cases data for only one year
was available, in others for as
much as five years.
There also were differences in
the type of sampling equipment
used in the survey foe tween ci
ties and, in some instances, be
tween years in the same city.
Whoa — Boy '
iPAMPA, Tex., (ff) — This West
Texas city’s first experiment with
the downtown mall-streets from
which autos are barred — was not
a complete succes.
A teen-aged driver, whom police
did not identify, crashed through
a barrier Thursday, struck a dis
played 1959 car, and rammed into
four other automobiles on display.
A spectator, Clyde Jones, suf
fered a broken leg when he was
pinned between two of the
scrambled autos.
Police, who said damage was be
tween $1,000 and $2,000. quoted
the' 17-year-old driver as saying
his brakes were locked.
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