SSI NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 62 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1956 Per Copy—15^
Munz Airways Certificate Threatened
By Proposal in Intra-Alaska Case
The Civil Aeronautics Board is scheduled to begin
a hearing Monday at Anchorage, on what is generally
known as the Intra-Alaska Case.
The CAB has indicated that the general problem
to be decided at the hearing is “how best to revise the
air route pattern (within Alaska) to take account of
the changing conditions (within the territory) and at
the same time how to most effectively improve the
service to the public, lower fares, eliminate unneces
sary duplication, reduce subsidies and encourage the
carriers to get equipment more suited to the needs of
their routes and traffic.”
Munz Airways has held a Certificate of Conven
ience and Necessity for 18 years and has served the
Kougarok and other mining camps on Seward Penin
sula with a reliable service. Now it is proposed to sus
pend all irregular route certificates, which would put
this firm out of business.
Alaska is a growing country and needs more, not
less, air service.
Individuals should be encouraged, not discouraged,
to develop transportation routes and engage in starting
new routes as the country opens up. Private industry
and competition should not be stifled if we arc to devel
op, nor handicapped when it tries to expand.
The Chamber of Commerce has taken action by
sending the following telegram to the CAB hearing
examiner in Anchorage:
“Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce
prays that the certificate of Munz Airways be retained.
To date no certificated airline is able to serve all Sew
ard Peninsula. We ask that the CAB make a personal
survey to really understand the airlines problems; that
the brief filed for Munz Airways by J. P. Jack Whaley
be carefully studied so that you may understand North
western Alaska Chamber of Commerce interest in Munz
Airways certificate and the service so needed for Sew
ard Peninsula.
(Signed) N.W.A. Chamber of Commerce”
Individuals and mining operators served by Munz
Airways are urged to express their views immediately
in support of the continuance of this established air
service by wiring Herbert Bryan, Hearing Examiner,
CAB, Loussac Sogn Bldg., Anchorage._
Russia May Invite
U.S. Joint Chiefs
For Moscow Visit
WASHINGTON, <*>—Officials
here cocked an eye on the post
man today to see if he would
bring an invitation to the Joint
Chiefs of Staff to visit Moscow.
In what appeared on the sur
face to be a hint for such an invi
tation, the White House and the
Pentagon said yesterday none had
been received but if one was
forthcoming without too many re
striction, the nation’s top military
men probably would accept.
That left the next move up to
the Russians, who had suggested
they would welcome two or three
Air Force officers to Aviation Day
ceremonies in Moscow on June 24.
There was no official word,
however, that they had in mind
the top uniformed officials of the
Army, Navy and Air Force and
Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Long Spell Without Rain
Brings F ire and Floods
To British Columbia
VANCOUVER, B.C., Iff)—A spell
of hot, rainless weather—nearing
50 days with only a small amount
of precipitation—has brought tire
and Roods to British Columbia.
Almost 2,000 acres of forest on
the Sechelt Peninsula, 50 miles
northwest of Vancouver, have
been destroyed by fire.
D. B. Taylor, chief forester,
said the fire is “the worst . . . this
year, and there’s every indication
it will increase in size.”
The tinder-dry condition of the
woods prompted Ray Williston,
lands and forests minister, to
clamp a restricted closure on the
Vancouver forest district.
“A steadily advancing threat of
floods, due to the spring runoff,
endangered other sections of the
province as diking crews and pa
trols kept on the job around the
clock.1
Funds Alotled
For Di •ainage
Of Nome Field
The Chamber of Commerce,
which as been working unceas
ingly for repair of the Nome Air
port, is in recipt of a message
from H. L. Newman, acting re
gional administrator of the CAA
at Anchorage which advises the
Chamber that an allotment of
funds has been made to improve
drainage of Nome Field this sum
mer. This is the first step, New
man stated, in effecting perman
ent repairs. This early notification
should permit accomplishment be
fore the freeze-up.
The Chamber also received a
message from Governor Heintzle
man congratulating the members
for their alertness and activity in
pressing the needs of this field
and in attaining this goal, which
should be the first step in a com
prehensive repair project.
Hawaiian Statehood Still
Among High Points Of
Administration’s Program
WASHINGTON, OR—'The White
House said today President Eisen
hower continues to keep Hawaiian
statehood among the “high points”
of his legislative program. There
was no mention of Alaska state
hood.
Assistant White House Press
Secretary Murray Snyder made
the remark in announcing the
President has nearly 20 items of
legislation he would like to have
Congress adopt before it adjourns
in July.
Snyder said the President has a
list of pending legislation in the
international, national security,
government, economic, welfare
and related fields.
The national security legisla
tion. Snyder said, involves mili
tary career incentives, including
medical care for dependents of
men in the service and benefits
to survivors.
[Eisenhower Says Communism Is
'Gigantic Failure’; Calls for a
Free United States of Europe
WACO, Texas, ufl—President
Eisenhower, terming Communism
essentially “a gigantic failure,”
urged America’s great universi
ties today to help provide needy
free nations with modem science
education centers in a “dynamic”
move to promote world peace.
The President also sounded a
strong new appeal for a European
union. He declared it “seems
nearer today than at any time in
centuries” and would amount to
“a mighty pillar of free strength
in the modem world.” He added:
“A free United States of Europe
would be strong in the skills of its
people, adequately endowed with
material resources, and rich in
their common cultural and artis
tic heritage. It would be a highly
prosperous community.”
In a major foreign policy ad
dress in connection with Baylor
University commencement exer
cises, Eisenhower hammered at
the idea of need for free world
cooperation in the struggle against
Communism—and at the idea of
need for the United States to play
a leading role in providing help.
In what seemed to be a plea for
congressional enactment of the
administration’s foreign aid pro
gram of $4,908,000,000, the Presi
dent spoke out against being
“penny wise” in that field, saying
it could lead “only to greater risk
and greater cost.”
Speaking in his native state, the
President said in a nationally tel
evised address (CBS':
“Today a militant, aggressive
Communistic doctrine is dominant
over much of the world’s surface
and over hundreds of millions of
the world’s people.”
He called Communism “cruel,
intolerant, atheistic . . . commit
ted to conquest by lure, intimida
tion and force,” and added it
“poses a threat from which even
this might} nation is not immune.”
Alaska Cities, Groups Asked to Help
Put Over New York TV Program With
Nome Youth Advertising Territory
Alaska, America’s Last Fron
tier, is to be televised by the Col
umbia Broadcasting System in
New York City on Friday, June 29.
Three children from Nome have
been invited to appear on the pro
gram, which will be seen from
New York to Florida and as far
west as Chicago. The time donated
by CBS is the “Good Morning
Show,” emceed by Will Rogers Jr.,
and is in conjunction with a drive
to build a youth center in Nome.
Police Chief Carl Webb has
worked diligently with Harvey
Olestel, producer of the show, and
Frank Whaley of the Alaska Visi
tors Assn, to make this show pos
sible.
The program will present an
Alaskan theme of Eskimo life,
activities, and entertainment
which can be enjoyed while in
Alaska Along with the children’s
talent, a series of films on Alaska
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West Coast to London
Flying Time of 8 Hours
Predicted for 1959
SAN FRANCISCO, (^-Ameri
ca’s commercial aviation industry
expects to fly to London from the
Pacific Coast's principal cities in
little more than eight hours by
1959.
Alvin P. Adams, vice president
of Pan American World Aii-ways,
made this estimate yesterday at
a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing
into applications of Pan Am and
Trans World Airlines to institute
daily service to Europe from Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Portland
and Seattle over the polar ice cap.
Adams said that by 1959 the Se
attle-London flight could be down
to 9Vi hours and from San P'ran
cisco to London to 11 hours. By
existing routes it takes 23 hours
and 10 minutes to reach London.
will be shown.
There is, however, one barrier
to participation in the program.
That is the transportation cost
from Nome to New York and
back. A Nome committee is spon
soring a dance, a raffle and sever
al other activities to raise funds,
for this purpose.
With the program presenting
the Alaskan theme, Alaska cities,
chambers of commerce, civic or
ganizations, travel agencies and
individuals should see the oppor
tunity to bring tourist trade to
Alaska. Therefore the Nome com
mittee is asking for help to send
the Nome group to New York.
Any civil organization or indi
vidual in the territory who would
like to donate to this cause should
send the contribution to: Youth
Center, c/o Police Chief Carl.
Webb, Nome, Alaska.
The Nome Youth Center will
be managed and controlled by a
committee of members from local
civic organizations and the city.
This group is making an all-out
| effort to send Alaska to the East
| Coast via CBS television.
Road Board’s
Decision Opens Up
New Country
The meeting of the Board of
Road Commissioners held in Fair
banks last week resulted in pro
gress in several directions in all
parts of the territory, opening up
new country.
For the first time in several
years emphasis was placed on new
road construction instead of pav
ing already established roads.
First priority went to the un
built portion of U.S. Route No. 97,
the Fairbanks-Nome-Cape Prince
of Wales Road; second was the
Copper River Highway, and third
was the Fairbanks-Nenana-Mc
Kinley Park Road.
It was decided to postpone un
dertaking any work within city
limits until the upcoming Legisla
ture can more clearly define the
intent of the law creating the
Highway Act.
The Board awarded the bid for
construction of a new ferry to
servdce the ports of Tee Harbor
•Juneau*, Port Chilkoot (Haines),
and Skagway.
Dewey Goodrich, Second Divi
sion member of the Board, states
that the next meeting of the
Board will be held in Nome in
September at which time they can
review the progress of the summer
road-building in this area.
Northeast U.S. Suffers
Millions in Crop Damage
By the Assoc iated Press
Record breaking low tempera
tures accompanied by frost in
flicted millions of dollars of dam
age today to spring crops in the
northeastern part of the country.
Massachusetts’ crop damage was
estimated at five million dollars
—half of it to apple orchards.
Throughout the northeast area
j damage to such crops as tomatoes,
| beans, squash, sweet corn and
j cucumbers was reported.