PNA Charges Alaska Airlines Seeks
To Take Over Their Firm Through
Denial of Certificate By The CAB
WASHINGTON, Wt—The Civil*
Aeronautics Board denied Friday
the request of renewal of States
Alaska air service certificates.
Alaska Airlines had asked for
the delay so merger discussions
could be carried on with Pacific
Northern Airlines.
The arguments are set for Oct.
12. Exploratory discussions be
tween Pacific Northern and Alas
ka are scheduled for Oct. 5.
However, after a PNA vice
president in Seattle labeled the
merger proposal terms Friday as
“ridiculous,” A. G. Woodley, PNA
president, disclosed a letter here
rejecting the financial computa
tions proposed by Alaska. Wood
ley sent the letter to H. W. Rob
inson of Alaska Airlines shortly
before the CAB announced its de
nial of the delay.
PNA has opposed any delay in
CAB proceedings.
The board said it was denying
the request “in view of the im
portance of the issues” and be
cause of the need for an early de
cision. It added, however, its ac
tion was not to be considered an
indication of any lessening in the
board’s interest in a possible mer
ger of the two carriers.
The Oct. 12 argument was called
on findings by Francis W. Brown,
CAB chief examiner, that Paci
fic’s rights to fly between Seattle
and Anchorage should be renewed
for seven years but that “public
convenience and necessity do not
require renewal of Alaska Air
lines’ authority to operate be
tween Fairbanks and Seattle
Portland.”
He recommended additionally
an interchange of equipment be
tween the two carriers at Anchor
age to facilitate traffic to Fair
banks during peak periods and
found that “an integration of the
Pacific Northern and Alaska Air
lines systems would be in the
public interest.”
In rejecting Robinson’s sugges
ted basis for the merger discus
sions, Woodley said he “cannot
agree” that Alaska’s assets have
a value of $3,298,544 as Robinson
had asserted.
Asserting that “As I see it, this
is the area of negotiation,” Wood
ley said Alaska should be pre
pared when discussions are held
next Tuesday “tor evaluate your
assets based on a realistic analy
sis .. . ”
Woodley said he was “greatly
distressed at the completely un
cooperative attitude which you
have demonstrated in your uni
lateral attempt to delay decision
in the States-Alaska case . . .”
and added:
“From your actions, I am com
peled to conclude that your real
purpose in these negotiations . . .
is not to arrive at a voluntary
consolidation, but to procure some
action from the CAB which will
have the effect of delaying or pre
venting any issuance of a renewed
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States-Alaska certificate to PNA,
except on the condition that Pa
cific Northern agrees to rescue
Alaska Airlines from its economic
dilemma.”
PNA attorney Gerald O’Grady
said Alaska was seeking “to ob
tain some action which will in
effect constitute a refusal on the
part of the board to renew PNA’s
certificate unless PNA shall
merge with Alaska Airlines.” If
successful, he said, this “would
immeasurably strengthen its hand
in negotiating with PNA. In fact,
Alaska Airlines would then be in
a position to dictate the terms and
conditions of consolidation.”
01’ Pete, Fort Worth’s
Wandering Python, Comes
Home To Hero’s Welcome
FORT WORTH, Tex., UP) — Ol’
Pete — he came back from his
wanderings to find himself a hero.
Fort Worth welcomed her long
lost python as if he were a prodi
gal son come home. The welcome
wasn’t tarnished even when Pete
bit his keeper.
Fifteen days Pete had been
gone, and then suddenly there he
appeared at teh Forest Park zoo
yesterday morning about 4 a.m.
amid the blood-curdling screams
of the chimpanzees. The whole
zoo awoke. The elephants trump
eted, the hyena screamed, the
cats roared.
Owner Marry Jackson and
nightwatchman Ed Barker caught
Ol’ Pete with a snake catcher—a
loop of rope coming out of a pipe
—and put him in his cage at the
zoo.
Sunday Pete lay in his cage. All
18 feet and 150 pounds of him lay
twined and inter-twined pretzel
like in his comer, undulating
every now and then. Finally Ol’
Pete flopped his head out of the
mass and lay there—a cold snake
eye cocked on the python watch
ers outside his cage.
“That’s him—that’s Ol’ Pete,”
said the people.
They came toy the hundreds to
Forest Park Zoo to see Pete as if
he were a long-lost friend.
Acknowledgment Made To Ray
Tveter for Sunday School Service
A very appropriate acknowl
edgement of the faithful service
of Ray Tveter as superintendent
of The Community Methodist
Church Sunday School during the
past five years was made at the
Rally Day session yesterday.
Expressions of appreciation were
given by members of each of the
classes and gifts were presented.
Niagara’s Canadian falls have
retreated upriver at the rate of
two to four feet a year for 100
years, says the National Geo
graphic Society.
Letter-Siie File Folders For
Sale At The Nome Nugget Office,
Board of Directors of AVA
To Meet In Anchorage
Tuesday and Wednesday
JUNEAU — The 1955 advertis
ing and Promotional program will
be the top item on the agenda of
the Board of 'Directors of the Al
aska Visitors Association at its
meeting scheduled for October 5
and 6, at Anchorage.
Among the features to be em
phasized in the new series of ad
vertisements will be the exten
sion of the tourist season. The
theme “See Alaska—May through
September” will be highlighted.
Another important subject to
be considered by the Board will
be the formulation of a budget to
be presented to the Territorial
legislature. At the present time
the Association receives $80,000
for national advertising for the
biennial period. This money is
made available if matched by
$40,000, subscribed by private
contribution.
AVA’s president Edward D.
Coffey extends an invitation to all
those interested in thet tourist
business to attend the meeting in
Anchorage. He emphasized that
although it was a Board meeting,
it was open to the public.
The meeting wil be held in the
KENI studios of the Midnight
Sun Broadcasting Co., second
floor, Fourth Avenue Theater
Building, and will start at 10 a.m.
on Tuesday.
A. Polet, Nome representative
on the board of directors, left
today to attend the meeting.
MAY BALE EXPORTING
SHEELITE FROM ROCKY MT.
May Bale, who is working on
her mining property at Rocky
Mountain Creek, has been in town
on business and reports that they
have been busy getting out a
shipment of sheelite. She states
that she intends to winter at the
camp this year.
May Bale recently sold the Po
laris Hotel, which she built and
operated for several years.
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French Police Arrest
“Third Man” In Chain
Leaking Info To Reds
PARIS, Cfl — Police arrested
Andre Baranes, the Communist
“third man” in the chain leaking
French official secrets, in the vil
lage of Pierre-Qui-Vire in north
central France today.
Baranes had been hiding out
since he was questioned through
out the night of Sept. 21 by
counterespionage agents about
how top French defense secrets
found their way into the hands
of the Communist party’s high
command.
An order went out to police
forces all over France: “Get Bar
anes at all costs,” after he failed
to answer a summons to appear
before the military investigating
magistrate in Paris last Thursday.
He was believed to have been
making for the Swiss frontier
when caught.
Earlier Saturday, the govern
ment suspended Jean Mons, army
general, following charges that
two of his main aides leaked high
level secret information.
NATO Commander Says
Russia Would Be Beaten
If Europe Attacked Now
DENVER, (*)—-Gen. Alfred M.
Gruenther, supreme Allied com
mander of North Atlantic Defense
Forces, said Saturday Russia
would “be beaten very badly” in
the long run if it were to launch
an all-out attack on Western Eu
rope at this time.
Gruenther, here foT a confer
ence with President Eisenhower,
also told a news conference that
within the next three or four
years—given West German troops
and atomic weapons—the West
ern allies would stand a "reason
ably good chance” to top any So
viet onslaught at the outset.
He said the Allies’ air super
iority gives them “a tremendous
bulge.”
He foresaw, however the pos
sibility of Russia developing a
long range bomber similar to the
U.S. B-47 during the next few
years and declined to speculate
on what might happen to the cur
rent advantage of the Allies under
those circumstances.
THE NOME LIQUOR STORE
WE CARRY A LARGE ASSORTMENT
OF FINE LIQUOR, BEER AND WINE
OUT-OF-TOWN ORDERS CAREFULLY HANDLED
FALL SCHEDULE
Effective October 11
FLIGHTS
MONDAY and FRIDAY
FAIRBANKS - KOTZEBUE - NOME
ARRIVE NOME 11:50 A.M.
DEPART NOME 12:20 P.M.
TUESDAY and SATURDAY
FAIRBANKS - NOME - KOTZEBUE
ARRIVE NOME 10:15 A.M.
DEPART NOME 10:45 A.M.
RE-ELECT
HENRY A. BENSON
Commissioner of Labor
A friend of the people in this district as proven hy his record in office
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