Former FBI Men Study
Alaska Housing Projects
ANCHORAGE, iS)—Two former
FBI agents, who now are investi
gators for Senator McCarthy’s
committee on government opera
tions, arrived in Anchorage Mon
day after starting their Alaska
spadework in Juneau.
The pair, Carmine Bellino and
Herbert -Hawkins, have been in
the territorial capital since mid
November. On their arrival, Haw
kins said they were making a
study of Alaska housing projects
at the request of the Interior De
partment.
League of Alaskan Cities
Resolution Requests
Special Legislature Session
The League of Alaskan Cities,
in a resolution approved unani
mously, has requested Gov. Hein
tzleman to order and call a spec
ial session of the territorial legis
lature to meet and consider such
legislative matters as he may de
termine proper, at as early a date
as such special session can be
practically scheduled.
In another resolution the League
urged the Alaska Territorial
Legislature to “appropriate ade
quate funds for the Legislative
Council so that it may carry out
its assigned duties in an efficient
manner to the end that all people
of the Territory will benefit to
the greatest extent possible.”
The League also requested the
secretary of interior to authorize
and instruct the Alaska Ro'ad
Commission to construct arterial
highways through Alaskan muni
cipalities and to allocate funds for
this purpose.
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Byron Angashuk of Wainwright,
Originator of 4Bear’ Alaska Patch,
Working On One For The A.N.G.
Headquarters, Alaska National'
Guard — Whenever men in uni
form gather the conversation
usually includes, besides women,
mention of distinctive shoulder
patches of units past and present.
Men speak fondly of the Red Ar
row Division, the Big Red One,
The Thunderbirds. And they also
speak of the snarling polar bear
featured on Alaska’s patch. For
the bear patch is a distinctive
shoulder insignia that has carried
word of Alaska back to hundreds
of American towns.
The story of the patch goes
back to 1943 and a military camp
in the state of Washington. Byron
Angashuk, raw recruit fom Wain
wright, was drawing sketches of
the Far North for his barracks
buddies. The popularity of his
artwork increased and he found
himself leaving Company C, 297th
Infantry, for Quartermaser Corps
art work. About that time Lt.
Gen. Simon B. Buckner, CG of
the Alaska Department saw the
need for a distinctive Alaska
patch. Byron Angashuk, who had
been drawing since the age of
p
eight, promptly entered the patch
contest.
“I thought of the Alaska sol
dier, the places in Alaska, whales,
walrus, the top of the world. Then
I drew a polar bear face and a
star, that means North Star. Gen
eral Buckner saw it and said,
‘O.K.’ He liked my idea for a
regular patch. From then on I
painted big ones for service clubs
and for other soldiers, and signs.
My time in service was from 1942
to 1946. Now I am in the National
Guard at Fairbanks. I like some
things about the Army life.”
Cpl. Angashuk traces his ef
forts in art to the early encourage
ment of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
(teachers at Wainwright who are
now dead) who saw promise in
his early drawings. Now 33 years
old, the Eskimo soldier-artist mar
kets much of his artwork in the
Fairbanks area. He is employed
by the Alaska Railroad.
Presently he is working on
sketches for a distinctive Alaska
National Guard shoulder patch.
“Maybe an iceberg, or northern
lights, or an animal,” he muses.
Whatever it is, others who hope
to design the Guard patch will be
up against stiff competition from
an expert in the field who began
back in 1943, with a hand-drawn
sketch of a polar bear’s head, the
most widely - circulated polar
bear drawing in the world.
Girl Sets Record For
’Round-The-World Flight
As Air Lines Passenger
CHICAGO, (A*) — A young bru
nette flew into Chicago early
yesterday to break by eight hours
the record time for rounding the
world as a commercial air lines
passenger.
“It was the best weekend trip
I ever had,” said pretty Pamela
Martin as she stepped from a Uni
ted air liner at Chicago’s Midway
Airport. She started her trip
there at noon Friday.
She had covered the route in
90 hours and 59 minutes. She had
only 10 hours sleep along the way
but told waiting newsmen she felt
“fresh as a daisy.”
The 23-year-o'ld advertising
copywriter - artist said she was
“too excited to sleep much” and
she looks forward to making the
trip again—but with this differ
ence: next time she will take time
out “to see those cities.”
For the benefit of news photo
graphers, she kissed the pilot of
the United Air Lines DC-6B which
made up 34 minutes on the final
leg of the flight—Denver to Chic
ago.
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Alaska Air Line
Heads Differ On
Merger Proposals
WASHINGTON, ltf>—The heads
of two airlines serving Alaska
Monday made public differing
suggestions for consolidating air
transportation services in the ter
ritory.
The views of Nelson David,
president of Alaska Airlines, Inc.,
and A. G. Woodley, president of
Pacific Northern Airlines, Inc.,
were prepared for a Civil Aero
nautics Board hearing on propos
als of nine airlines to provide ad
ditional service between Alaska
and the States.
As a part of the hearing, the
board has directed exploration of
the possibility of mergers between
companies engaged in States-Al
aska and interior Alaska air ser
vices.
David proposed in his statement
that the four wholly Alaska air
carriers be integrated into Alaska
Airlines and Pacific Nortrem,
leading two systems with both
interior Alaska and stateside op
erations.
He said the operations of North
ern Consolidated and Wien, lo
cated in the general areas of Al
aska served by Alaska Airlines,
could be consolidated with Pacific
Northern, along with the opera
tions of Reeve, which extend out
the Aleutian chain from an area
already served by Pacific North
ern.
Woodley outlined a basis on
which he said Pacific Northern
would consider merging with Al
aska Airlines, if the Civil Aero
nautics Board demands such a
merger.
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Aviation Expert
Sees Fast Gowth of
Alaskan Economy
WASHINGTON, UP — An avia
tion economist testified yesterday
that the “present economy of Al
aska is one of dynamic growth
which gives all indications of con
tinuing.”
Colin H. McIntosh, Washington
aviation consultant, made the
statement at a Civil Aeronautics
Board hearing in support of the
application of Alaska Airlines,
Inc., for authority to provide addi
tional air service between Alaska
and the continental United States.
McIntosh cited Census Bureau
estimates that Alaska’s popula
tion increased from 129,000 to
182.000, or 41 percent, between
April 1950 and July 1952.
The factors stimulating this
growth, he said, are still present
and should continue to expand the
economy of the territory in the
“reasonably foreseeable future.”
Army and Air Force contracts
for construction in Alaska will to
tal 240 million dollars this year,
he said. This construction, he add
ed, is being undertaken for the
primary purpose of establishing
permanent military posts which
must be maintained and strength
ened.
Discussing need for expended
air transportation to keep pace
with population growth, McIntosh
said the “average Alaskan is 10 or
12 times more dependent upon air
transportation than the average
person in the United States.”
Thus, he said, the city of Fair
banks with a population of about
28.000, would generate air traffic
demand comparable to a city of
280,000 or more in continental
United States.
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