Gov. Signs 3 Bills
JUNEAU, UP) — Acting Gov.
Waino Hendrickson signed two
House bills and one Senate bill
Friday.
He signed a House bill provid
ing expenditure of $98,000 to pay
school bus transportation costs
through, the remaining part of the
present biennium, ending this
coming June.
The acting governor also signed
the so-called “shoplifter’s bill,”
which now gives merchants the
right to require that customers
keep all goods in plain sight while
shopping in a store.
The Senate bill which the act
ing Governor signed makes it pos
sible for a Candle school teacher
and janitor, Solveig Xavier, to
collect $360 in salary that the
Territory owes him.
Pigeon Prefers Pilot
ATHENS, Ga., Iffl — Yesterday
being Valentine’s Day, it’s a good
time to disclose that a certain
pigeon is “that way” about V. A.
Knudegard, a Southern Airilnes
pilot from Atlanta.
This bird started the affair
about a week ago when it began
flying alongside the air liner as
Knudegard brought it in for a
landing on the 8:15 morning flight
from Charlotte, N. C. It’s still
at it.
In adition to accompanying
Knudegard on his approach, the
-pigeon also circles around the
cockpit as he taxis the plane into
its takeoff run, peerimg fondly in
at the pilot until the plane out
speeds the feathery flier.
Yesterday, the pigeon perched
on the plane’s wing in the spell
between landing and takeoff.
In a note to Seattle friends
from “Spaghetti Dan” Alvich
and his wife, they said they have
frequent Nome callers at their
apartment at 517 Bay St., San
Francisco. Alvich ran the Holly
wood Grill in Nome before the
’34 fire, and was known all over
the Seward Peninsula for his
good meals.
Loss of DEWline Contract Causes
Wien Cut in Arctic Radio Services
Wien Alaska Airlines today an
nounced a curtailment of its radio
operations along Arctic air lanes
as a result of the concern’s loss
of a contract* to supply DEWline
outposts.
Sig Wien, president of Wien
Alaska Airlines, said that Wien’s
24 - hour - a - day communication
system extending £3 far north as
Pt. Barrow would be curtailed to
an operation of about eight hours
daily, with operating hours timed
to coincide with scheduled Wien
flights. In other words, the radio
network will operate only when
Wien planes are fling the routes.
The Wien president also an
nounced that it would be neces
sary to “seriously” cutback the
scope of Wien’s operation here,
reducing payrolls and expenses
as a result of the loss of the DEW
line business.
“We have no other alternative,”
Sig Wien said. “The expenses of
operating an airline are heavy.
Once the revenue is seriously re
duced, it is necessary to quickly
adjust the expenses to meet the
new situation.”
In past years, Wien and Interior
Airways have divided the busi
ness in the north under separate
contracts. Wien has provided all
essential radio communications to
both concerns as well as provid
ing radio communications for
Air Force planes flying in north
ern Alaska and on “Ptarmigan
flights” to the North Pole
The Wien concern, pioneer air
line on the Arctic routes, has sup
plied these services without com
pensation in most cases.
Uses of Wildlife
Preserves Spelled
Out by Seaton
WASHINGTON, UPl — Interior
Secretary Seaton discussed the
controversial subject of multiple
use of wildlife refuges, such as
for oil production, in his annual
report to President Eisenhower
today. Seaton said:
Congress has provided for mul
tiple use of our wildlife areas
where this is compatible with
primary wildlife values. There
are some areas, however, upon
which economic uses are not per
mitted unless such uses contrib
ute directly to wildlife values.
These areas are principally those
which provide habitat for rare
and endangered species and
where non-wildlife use would be
detrimental to the primary
values.”
Turning to partnership in con
servation, the Secretary said:
“Sound conservation, success
fully achieved, requires a real
istic partnership shared by all!
Americans.
“The several levels of govern
ment, federal, state, and local,
necessarily assume leadership in
this endeavor; but the role of the
private individual and groups of
individuals should not be min
imized. Governmental leadership
should not be construed either as
domination by government or as
a device to relieve private initia
tive from carrying out its right
ful share of responsibility in fur
thering resource conservation.”
Hammered! Gold
Nude Gets Cuban
Artist Hammered
PALM BEACH, Fla., UP) — Ex
paratrooper Anthony Steel says
he still isn’t through with Joseph
Dubrony, the sculptor who fa
shioneq a nude golden statue of
Steel’s wife, actress Anita Ekberg.
‘‘I knocked him down twice—
but unfortunately I was in my
cups a bit and the punches
weren’t as satisfactory as I
wanted them to be” Steel de
clared.
The altercation occurred St.
Valentine’s night at a charity ball
presided over by Mrs. Horace
Dodge II, whom the Steels are
visiting.
Steel said he was mad at Du
brony “because he took advan
tage of my wife.”
The Cuban sculptor hammered
out the small metal statue several
months ago. Pictures of it have
been wiedly distributed.
Friday night police were called
to the Dodge mansion because
the caller, Mrs. J. Hamlin, re
ported she thought Steel was
about to engage in another fight.
The police officers said they
did not know the name of the
proposed opponent. They were
told everything was quiet when
they arrived at the Dodge resi
dence. They reported Dodge and
his wife and Miss Ekberg were
on the scene but that they did not
see Steel.
NEWS OF
NOMEITES
By LULU FAIRBANKS
Miss Frances Ross has returned
to Stanford University after a
visit with her parents, “Capt.”
and Mrs. Tom Ross, 1266 Alki
Ave., Seattle 6 <AV. 3481). She
is working on her Master’s De
gree iin anthropology and enjoy
ing the many “surprises” she
finds on research trips to long
forgotten burial grounds of the
ancients in surrounding areas.
One of her classmates is Land
Lindbergh, a sen of “Lindy,” the
first airman to cross the Atlantic,
in 1927. She also frequently visits
Father Hubbard -of Santa Clara
College, at San Jose. He is much
improved from a recent illness.
“Capt.” Ross was with the U. S.
Coast Guard in the Nome district
for many years.
* * *
D. E. “Dave” Griffith of Seattle
is at the San Carlos Hotel in Los
Angeles for a while where he will
visit the Jack Roberts, Shel Wet
tach, Mabel White, Gertrude Eis
ner, Tom Watsons, Dick Racine,
Mrs. Nesta Sale and Billy Mc
Conn. Later 'he’ll leave for
Phoenix, Ariz. '
* * *
William (Billy) Huson, who took
the first piano over the Chilcoot
Trail and had am orchestra in
Dawson for many years, died in
Sumner, Wash., on .January 5 at
'the age of 95. He was in Juneau
in 1893. His wife, Lena, was one
of the three lady members of the
i Dawson Fire Department, having
beem given a medal for heroic
service during the big fire and
keeping a coffee line going to the
boys as they fought flames. Casey
Moran signed the resolution
which was passed in their honor.
* * *
Mrs. Lillian (Osborne) Crosson
is home from a trip of a month
to the islands of the Carribeam
Sea in behalf of the Lake City
Travel Agency of which she is a
part owner. She also visited the
parents of her late husband, Joe
Crosson, at Burlingame, Calif.
• * *
Jim Webber and Pegge Erick
son, respective presidents of the
Cordova Igloo and its Auxiliary,
were installed by Dr. W. H.
Chase. Other officers include
Richard Davis, Louis Giske, Nor
man Swanson, Frank L. Hoover,
Ole Strom, Tony Thomas, Gus
sie Halverson, Anita Shellbom,
Marie Logan, Kathryn Gragen, ,
Leona Pennanen, Simone King,
Emma Samuelson and Agnes
Roth.
If You Want To Rent
A House or Apartment
The Man to See Is . . .
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P.O. Box 123, Nome, Alaska
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Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
JIM WALSH, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets 1st & 3rd Monday of each month
Lillie Lewis
Worthy Matron
Helen. Dunbar
Secretary
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Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
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Secretary ,
Wednesday Lunfcheop
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