THE NOME NUGGET
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TRIBUTE TO A RED TAPE CUTTER
(The Juneau Independent)
Although he is out of office as a result of action by
the new Aeronautics and Communications Commission,
Tony Schwamm has left a mark on the Territory of
Alaska as its first director of aviation which will not
be erased by either men or time.
Tony was one of those public servants who,
throughout his four-year tenure of office, conceived
his mission to be one of getting results. He hadn’t
heard, or didn’t care, that the safe and sane way to
perpetuate oneself in a public job was to keep out of
sight, avoid controversies and remain inconspicuous.
An old Hollywood stunt flyer, Tony flew right at
the job in sometimes spectacular fashion. That he was
a doer was probably his undoing. But somehow we
think Tony would rather have it that way.
He had a lot to overcome right from the beginning.
A Territorial Department of Aviation should have
been established in 1947, and would have been, had
not that turned out to be either the worst or the
second worst legislature in the territory’s history. We
were left at the end of that session, because of legisla
tive fumbling, with no enabling act which would permit
Alaska to take advantage of the Federal Airport Aid
Act passed in 1946.
So we had already lost two years when the 1949
legislature established a Department of Aviation. The
only mistake that session’s legislation had made, it
turned out afterwards, was that the salary of the dir
ector, who had to have all sorts of special qualifications,
was left too low, at $7,000 a year. When the commission
met it could find no qualified man to take the iob. Joe
Crosson said he would take it at $10,000 though not at
57,000, but the law was specific..
Tony Schwamm, Alaska bush pilot who had been
invalided out of service with lead poisoning from octane
gas, was persuaded in the summer of 1949 to take the
position. He proved to be a credit to the commission
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and to the Territory of Alaska from that time forward.
Times change and an old order passes. New mem
bers are appointed by new administrations, and com
missions respond to the political geeing and hawing
of the day.
Tony Schwamm’s record, though, has been written
in the more than 100 airports and seaplane facilities
constructed or enlarged and improved during his four
years in oofice. As his coming was a great gain to
Alaska, his going is a great loss. His reward is the
satisfaction of substantial accomplishment. May Alaska
be blessed with other able public servants like Tony
Schwamm!
Rene Coyt Installed As
President Of France
PARIS, Iff!—Rene Coty, a 71
year-old lawmaker from Le Havre,
was installed Saturday as new
President of the French republic.
Coty, an attorney who has been
in French Parliaments since 1923,
was elected by Parliament on
December 23.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: John Cooley, Jr., Sig
fried Larson and Edna Nelson.
Discharged: Tick Esenituk.
PFORZHEIM, Germany, (A —
Pfortzheim, after nearly, nine
years, is again the jewelry manu
facturing center of this country.
Yet much of the ruins still remain
from the devastating raid of Feb.
23, 1945, by British bombers. Of
Pl'ortzheim’s 79,000 citizens, 17,
600 were killed in 20 minutes. One
large cross near the center of the
city stands as a memorial to all.
Despite whole blocks still lev
eled, new factories, homes and
stores are being erected every
where.
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RESCUED FLYER GRATEFUL: At Point Barrow yesterday—
Jeul Thebedeau, who was rescued Monday after spending
a week on the Arctic ice pack near Point Barrow where his
plane was forced down, thanked his rescuer, George Thiele,
pilot, of Wien Alaska Airlines. Thebedeau forced himself
to stay awake through the week, fearing he would freeze in
the 50-below-zero weather.—A. P. wirephoto.
DOUBLE JOY: At Point Barrow yesterday—Mrs. Jeul The
bedeau smiled over her twins, a boy and girl, born while
her husband was missing on the Arctic ice pack. She and
the twins were in the Barrow Hospital when her husband
was brought in. Thebedeau will be hospitalized a few
days, nursing frozen fingers, toes, cheeks and ears. Mrs.
Thebedeau is an Eskimo.—A. P. wirephoto.
President Confers
With Top Officials
On Atomic Energy
WASHINGTON, (fl— President
Eisenhower conferred for an hour
today with six government offi
cials and military experts inter
ested in atomic power in war and
peace.
There was no immediate com
ment from either the White House
or the participants as to what
specifically was discussed, but
the meeting presumably dealt
with the President’s proposed in
ternational pool of atomic energy
for peaceful uses.
Attending the meeting were
Secretary of State Dulles, Roger
M. Kyes, deputy secretary of de
fense who substituted for Secre
tary Wilson; Chairman Lewis J.
Strauss of the Atomic Energy
Commission; Vice Adm. Arthur C.
Davis, director of the Office of
Foreign Military Affairs at the
Pentagon; Walter Bedell Smith,
undersecretary of state, and C. D.
Jackson, White House specialist
on psychological warfare.
Marilyn Monroe And
Joe Di Maggio Leave
On Honeymoon
HOLLYWOOD, <&!—Marilyn
Monroe and Joe Di Maggio were
on their honeymoon Saturday but
nobody knew where.
They left Paso Robles, about
half way from San Francisco, on
Friday afternoon after spending
their wedding night in a motel
there.
Neither did anyone know when
Marilyn would return to her stu
dio, where she was suspended 12
days ago when she failed to start
work on “Pink Tights.”
The civil ceremony, and the fact
that the former New York Yankee
center fielder was divorced from
Actress Dorothy Arnold, brought
Di Maggio excommunication from
the Roman Catholic Church.
The Rev. Leo Maher, secretary
to Archbishop John J. Mitty of
San Francisco, said no formal ac
tion will be taken by the church,
but that Di Maggio is automatic
ally barred from its sacraments so
long as his present marital rela
tionship continues.
Marilyn also was previously
married and divorced.
New England States
Shiver In Coldest Weather
(By the x\350ciat^d Pees-'
The brunt of an Arctic cola
wave shifted from the ' Midwest
to the Northeastern states today,
bringing New England its most
severe subzero weather in two
years.
The frigid seizure lost some of
its bite in the North Central re
gion, but the temperatures below
zero mark were still general in
all the Canadian border states
from Montana eastward.
The cold pushed freezing tem
peratures south through North
Carolina & into Alabama, Missis
sippi, Arkansas, Texas and New
Mexico.
Overnight lows in the northeast
area included 31 below at Saranac
Lake, N.Y., -28 at Lebanon, N.H.,
-24 at Houlton, Me., -23 at Hart
ford, Conn., -22 at Poughkeepsie
N.Y., -17 at Albany, and -10 at
West Point.
More snow and continued cold
was the prospect Monday for the
weather-weary Pacific Northwest.
British railways report that
more than a million dollars worth
of vegetables were raised in 195?
on tiny plots beside the tracks or
their rights of way.