Sunny Skies Predicted fori
Apple Blossom Festival
WINCHESTER, Va., UP) — Fav
orable weather was forecast today
for the Shenandoah Valley’s an
nual extravaganza — the Apple
Blossom Festival.
A throng of between 175,000 and
200,000 persons is expected for
the two-day blowout, which be
gins official tomorrow.
Elaine Atwood of Anchorage,
daughter of a newspaper execu
tve, and queen of this year’s fes
tival, was due to arrive today to
take part in the annual apple pie
cutting ceremonies and attend a
luncheon and dress rehearsal of
the festival pageant.
She will be crowned at 2:30
p.m. tomorrow on the steps of
Handley High School.
In addition to pleasant weather,
this year’s festival will be graced
by an abundance of apple blos
soms.
Star Pitcher Loses Mother
Just Before PCL Game
PHOENIX, Ariz., UR — Young
Don Hyman sat alone in the
Phoenix dressing room before
Tuesday night’s Pacific Coast
League game with Vancouver, his
head on his chest.
“Are you all right, son?” asked
manager Red Davis.
“Yeh,” the 23-year-old former
University of Arizona star mut
tered, “I’m all right.”
Then Hyman tok the mound
against the Mounties and pitched
to four men before he was re
lieved.
Later Davis learned the -pitch
" er’s mother had been killed ear
lier in the day in an auto acci
dent near Fort Wayne, Ind.
Hyman knew it before he went
out to pitch.
A son was born last evening at
the hospital to Mr. and Mrs.
Tommy Johnson.
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N.W.A. Chamber
Prepares for State
Meeting in Nome
By RUTH McLEAN
President Jerry Manning ad
vised the N.W.A. Chamber at the
Monday luncheon meeting that
each Chamber in Alaska has been
urged to send a delegate to the
May 21st meeting in Nome, of
the State Chamber Executive
Board. Pearse Walsh was asked
to act as chairman of a special
committee to make plans for the
three-day meeting with this im
portant group.
The New York City aquarium is
interested in buying healthy live
seal pups this summer, Roy Walk
er announced. Mr. Walker has de
tailed information. Also President
Manning said that a Fairbanks
group is interested in a live seal
pup. /
Mr. Walker, as chairman of the
membership committee, stated
that the N.W.A. Chamber now has
over 100 paid-up members.
The C.AjP is now selecting an
outstanding Nome CA.P. girl
Cadet to send to Anchorage irf
June to compete for the Alaska
Drill Team, Dusty Rhode told the
Chamber. The Alaska team will
go to Washington, D. C., in Aug
ust, for national competition, and
the national winner will go to
Canada for further competition,
according to Mr. Rhode.
Representative Bob Blodgett of
Teller spoke briefly to the Cham
ber members about legislation
acted upon recently in Juneau.
Guests at the Monday meeting
included Mrs. Blodgett and son
from Teller, Rev. Arthur French
of Gambell, and Lloyd E. Fuers
tenau, chief of the B.P.R. regional
personnel section. While in Nome,
Mr. Fuerstenau awarded a pin to
Don Lyle for 15 years or more of
government service. He also is
president of the Douglas Lions
Club, and extended an invitation
to Nomeites to vist the club when
in Juneau.
The Chamber Member of the
Week is Miss Esther McCoy, who
has operated the L.W.Y. Commu
nity Center in Nome for almost
10 years.
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Federal Airport
Program Seeks
Bids on 2 Projects
ANCHORAGE—Bids are being
invited by the Department of Avi
ation for the construction of air
ports at Hooper Bay and Shish
maref. These two airports are
being constructed under the Fed
eral Aid Airport Program. The
work is scheduled for the con
struction season of 1959.
The project proposed for Hoop
er Bay consists of the construction
of a 4,000-foot landing strip and
parking area together with 8,000
feet of access roadway connect
ing the village with the airport
site. The site is located on sand
dunes parallel to the Bering Sea
coast. The airport will be stabi
lized with an emulsified asphalt
surface. Quantities of work in
volved include 42,000 cubic yards
of excavation and embankment,
62,000 square yards of 3-inch sur
face stabilization, 62,000 square
yards of 6-inch stabilized surfac
ing, and 314,000 gallons of emul
sified asphalt.
As an alternate, in lieu of sur
face stabilization of the central 100
] feet of the runway, bidders are
| invited to submit quotations for
a select borrow surface. The gra
vel material for this is to be im
ported from Cape Romanzof, 10
miles north of the site. Under the
alternate, the quantities of work
would involve 35,700 cubic yards
of excavation and embankment,
15.700 square yards of 3-inch sur
face stabilization, 15,700 gallons
of emulsified asphalt, and 27,700
cubic yards of select borrow.
Contract time of 150 calendar
days is called for in the bid
schedule.
The project at Shishmaref con
sists of the construction of 2,200
feet of runway. Construction of
this bush type facility will be
nearly identical to the proposal
for Hooper Bay. The quantities
include 14,700 cubic yards of ex
cavation and embankment, 19,000
square yards of 3-inch surface
stabilization, 18,400 square yards
of 6-inch stabilized surfacing, and
92.700 gallons of emulsified as
phalt.
The contract time of 120 calen
dar days is called for in the bid
schedule with the work to be com
pleted in the summer construc
tion season of 1959.
Hooper Bay is located 75 miles
northwest of Bethel on the Ber
ing Sea Coast.
Shishmaref is located north of'
Nome on the Seward Peninsula:
The bid opening for both of the
projects is scheduled for 2 p.m.
on May 15, 1959, in the offices of
the Department of Aviation, Glov
er Building, Anchorage. Specifi
cations and plans are available
from the offices in the Glover
Building, and can be viewed in
addition to that office at Alaska
General Contractors in Anchor
age and Seattle, states Eugene G.'
Roguszka, Director of Aeronau
tics, Department of Aviation.
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To Eschew Control
Of Alaska Airports
WASHINGTON, UPi — Alaskans
received reaffirmation yesterday
of Administration determination
to transfer government-owned air
ports at Anchorage and Fairbanks
to the new state.
The restatement of Administra
tion position came at a meeting
attended by James T. Pyle, deputy
administrator of the Federal Avia
tion Agency, Robert Atwood, An
chorage publisher; Ray Peterson
of Anchorage, and Ed Rusing of
Fairbanks, each a representative
of his city’s Chamber of Com
merce aviation committee; and
Sen. Bob Bartlett.
Bartlett said the meeting re
sulted in reiteration of Adminis
tration opposition to any plan for
the government’s retaining control
of the two airports.
This position was set forth in a
letter from E. R. Quesada, F.A.A.
administrator.
Quesada cited the President’s
statement that programs, which in
other states are the responsibility
of state and local governments or
of private enterprise, should not
be carried on in Alaska by the
federal government.
Quesada said that between the
Alaska omnibus bill, which pro
vides financial grants for Alaska,
the legislation extending the fed
eral aid airport program “it ap
pears that sufficient federal funds
will be made available to the state
to prepare these airports for jet
operations.”
On the basis of this firm plan
ning”, he continued, “no request
for funds is being made of Con
gress for our agency’s continued
operation of the airports.”
“Furthermore, if directly oper
ated by the federal government,
the revenues of something over
one million dollars could not be
used for operational expense of
capital improvements but would
be deposited into the United States
Treasury.” he said.
“With revenues at these airports
exceeding operational costs, and
the forecast increased volume of
activity and greater revenues,” he
said, “the non-federal financing of
these facilities could not conceiv
ably be a problem.”
Quesada also rejected conten
tions that the two Alaska airports
might be considered federal re
sponsibilities on grounds they are
operated primarily as intermediate
stops on international air routes.
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I Put Into Labor Bill
| WASHINGTON, W — President
Eisenhower told Republican Con
gressional leaders Tuesday he
wants a better labor regulation
bill than the one approved by the
Senate.
The leaders reported, this after
a 2%-hour conference with the
President.
House GOP chief Charles A.
Halleck of Indiana called the
Senate measure “grossly inade
quate.”
The party’s Senate leader, Ev
erett M. Dirksen of Illinois re
ferred to the measure as a wat
ered-down version of what is
needed to stamp out racketeering
in the labor field.
Both Halleck and Dirksen pre
dicted that Eisenhower at his
news conference Wednesday would
express the hope the House will
I strengthen the Senate bill.
Action in' the House is not
likely before June.
The Senate measure, sponsored
by Sen. John Kennedy, was ap
proved overwhelmingly last week.
The vote was 90-1, but some sen
ators who voted for it made it
clear they feel the bill is in
adequate.
Halleck said he plans to try
to write into the House version
provisions to deal with what he
termed blackmail extortionate
picketing. He added he also wants
| to close loopholes in the secon
dary boycott situation.
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