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j Hydrofoil 70-Knot
Carriers Suggested
| For Alaska Run
SEATTLE, OP) A request that
the federal government study the
possibility of-providing passenger
service to Alaska by hydrofoil
! ships was made Saturday by Rep
• resentative Thomas M. Pelly (D
Wash).
Hydrofoil ships are vessels
equipped with underwater wings,
or hydrofoils, which lift the hull
out of the water at high speeds.
In a letter to John J. Allen,
] Jr., Undersecretary of Commerce
for Transportation, Pelley asked
j that Allen consider recommending
| “federal assistance and encourage
I ment in order to study the possi
j bilities of utilizing the principle
| of hydrofoil on the Alaska trade.”
“As I understand,” Pelley said,
! “already tests have been success
| ful for transporting up to 150
passengers.
“Furthermore, I believe speeds
up to 70 knots are practical and
on this basis by the Inland Water
way, daylight passenger service
; could be established between
i Seattle and Ketchikan, where the
distance is 600 miles.
“Accelerated tourist business
i could be an economic godsend to
! Alaska and I know of no area
1 where the need and advantages
i of sea travel would be more de
; sirable.” ,
[■ “It could well be that federal
interest in the transportation
problem of Alaska could avoid
what is apparently happening,
namely, foreign ships are taking
over in this field, esecially the
Japanese,” Pelley added.
“The United States needs the
pulp and mineral resources of
Alaska and unless we extend our
water transportation to Alaska we
are going to find that industry
and resources there are taken over
by foreign countries.”
Pelley called attention to in
terest taken by labor organiza
tions in passenger-ship service.
“The King County Labor Coun
cil recently adopted a resolution
urging unions to encourage Amer
ican ship owners to restore pas
senger service,” Pelley wrote.
'NO SENSE IN IT!'
FINDLAY, Ohio, UPl — Ida
Deidrick, 99 years old today, ob
served: “I don’t see any sense in
living so long.”
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Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Russell Hermann, President
A LASKA CHAPTER NO 1 .
Order of Eastern Star
Doris Wilke
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
rt and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
HERB JENKS. W.M.
Norv.n V. Lewis, Sec
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ash Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER, President
VESTA SUNDSTROM, Secty.
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