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18 Whales Killed By
Barrovvites This Spring
POINT BARROW. UP — There’s
plenty of whale in the larder here
this summer.
The final Eskimo Nalaktook
(whale feast) has just been held,
v celebrating the end of a success
ful whaling season at this most
northern Alaska community.
Hunters killed 18 whales on the
Arctic Ocean fronting their
homes.
The ceebration was a colorful
one, with the usual blanket toss
and native dancing, and was the
, best attended in many years.
• “Women of the village must
have had a busy time sewing, for
almost everyone had on a bright
new parka,” Roland Heathering
ton, head of the Coast and Geo
detic Survey here, said.
U.S. Airlines Set New
Safety Record In 1952
CHICAGO, UP — The National
Safety Council reported yesterday
that U.S. air lines set a new safety
record for domestic operations in
1952.
The rate was only .35 deaths
per 100-million passenger-miles.
The best previous rate was 1.1 in
1950.
There were five fatal acci
dents in domestic operations dur
ing the year resulting in 67 deaths
—46 passengers, 6 crew members
and 15 others. International and
territorial operations o'f U.S. flag
carriers resulted in four other
accidents and 107 deaths.
The Council named 42 U.S. air
lines winners of its Aviation
Safety Award in recognition of
their contribution to safe air
transportation.
The winners either completed
the calendar year without a pas
senger or crew fatality or flew 2
billion or more consecutive pas
senger miles beore the safety rec
ord was terminated by a fatal
accident.
Pan American and Alaska Air
lines were included in the winners
list.
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j 15 National Firms Testify
, In Favor of Barge Service
St. Louis to West Goast
ST. LOUIS, W—Fifteen nation
al firms, including several with
headquarters here testified yes
terday in favor of barge service
between St. Louis and West Coast
ports at an Interstate Commerce
Commission hearing.
The firm seeking permission to
operate the service, Alaska
Freight Lines, Inc., has started
towboat-barge service between St.
Louis and Alaska but needs ICC
permission to make West Coast
stops.
Those favoring the proposal
stressed that through water ser
vice down the Mississippi Rver,
across the Gulf of Mexico to the
Panama Canal and into the Pac
ific Ocean would reduce shipping
costs between the distant points.
A marine surveyor, Capt. C. L.
Perry of Seattle, said the equip
ment of the firm was seaworthy
and that the plan was practical.
Spokesmen for several rail
roads opened testimony in oppo
sition to the plan.
The proposal also is opposed by'
the Luckenbach Gulf Steamship
Company. •
Oil Lease Applications
Filed On 224,780 Acres
On Kenai Penisula
ANCHORAGE, l# — Another
flurry of interest in Alaska oil
prospects appeared this week.
A group of 17 Californians filed
lease applications covering close
to a quarter million acres on the
Kenai Peninsula.
Checks totaling $59,685 accom
panied the applications to the An
chorage land office. The checks
cover filing fees of $900 on 99
applications and 25 cents an acre
for 224,780 acres.
The area filed on extends along
Cook Inlet from the village of
Kenai south to Homer. Much of
the acreage is on patented home
stead lands.
13,000 Chinese Reds Hit
South Korean Positions
SEOUL, UP) — At least 13,000
Chinese Reds hit Allied lines on
both ends of the Korean battle
front today, but hard - fighting
South Koreans hurled, back most
of 10,000 Communists who attack
ed eight strategic ontposts in the
west.
U.S. Sabre jets shot down two
Communist MIG' jets and dam
aged one in air battles over North
Korea this afternoon.
The big-scale Red assaults op
ened the fourth year of war on
this battered peninsula.
The Eighth Army said the new
attacks left U.S. and other foreign
troops virtually untouched and
j concentrated on ROK positions.
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No Layoffs Of
Aircraft Workers
Expected at Kaiser
DETROIT, UP) — Kaiser Motor
Corporation employees continued
work on schedule at the firm’s
big Willow Run plant Thursday
despite Air Force cancellation of
two contracts totaling $205,000,000
for C-119 and C-123 aircraft.
Corporation spokesmen said no
layoffs of some 12,000 aircraft
workers were contemplated at this
time. In Washington, Corporation
President Henry J. Kaiser said
any layoffs made would be in an
orderly manner.
Work continues at the plant
since there has been no formal no
tice of cancellations.
While company officials and
leaders of the CIO United Auto
Workers protested vehemently
against the cancellation, plant em
ployees took matters into their
own hands last night.
They circulated a petiticfn,
starting with night shift workers,
offering to work 30 days without
pay to help Kaiser begin civilian
plane production to replace Air
Force contracts.
Yesterday’s cancellation ended
the firm’s airplane activity for the
time being. But some sources hint
ed the Kaiser firm might still find
ways to stay in the airplane build
ing business.
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