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United Action Called For
Never has the power of the CAB been felt so
keenly as it is today with the threat that Alaska
Airlines might be eliminated from the Alaska-States
run.
Never has Alaska needed its airlines more than
it does today. With the loss of steamship passenger
service, a severe blow has been dealt to the territory.
Existing airlines will have problems enough taxing
their services to the utmost to fill the gap created
in the tourist industry without any curtailment.
Northern Alaska depends entirely on air travel
during the winter months for its food supplies — its
very existence, and for its security. Progress depends
on connected routes both through Anchorage and Fair
banks. Competitive service should not be curtailed
at this crucial time.
We urge all civic groups as well as individuals
to voice their protests in writing to the Civil Aero
nautics Board, Washington, D.C., as other parts of
the territory are doing, for only by united effort can
this powerful gVoup be awakened to the disaster they
would inflict on the people of Alaska.
N.Y. Longshoremen Ratify
Contract Guaranteeing
No Striking For 2 Years
NEW YORK, (#}—Port of New
York longshoremen have voted to
ratify a New, York contract con
taining a no-strike clause and de
signed to bring at least two years
of labor peace to the waterfront.
■Members of 31 New York and
New Jersey locals of the Interna
tional Longshoremen’s Assn, (ind)
voted 11,572 to 4,222 in favor of
the new two-year contract.
The new contract also grants a
wage-welfare-pension package of
17 cents an hour, with 13 cents of
it consisting of pay. The old dock
wage was $2.35 an hour, with the
employers paying an additional
7 cents an hour for welfare and
5 cents for pensions.
FRESH TROUT AT U.S. MERC
NEWLAND, WEST COAST
SPORTS WRITER, DIES AT 54
j SAN FRANCISCO, W—Russ
| Newland, 54, Associated Press
| sports writer who had made the
| West Coast his beat Tor 30 years,
| died early Thursday of a heart
attack. He had been seriously ill
since early December.
MINER'S CREW RESCUED
NEW YORK, tfV-The liner
Queen of Bermuda, battling high
winds and heavy seas Thursday
rescued the entire crew of 10 men
from a foundering fishing vessel
north of Bermuda.
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KOYUK NEWS
By Ed Kimokloak
Jan. 1, 1955
All the village people of Koyuk
are happy to see that 1954 Christ
mas has passed. Happiest ones
were the children of Koyuk. They
received lots of Christmas toys
and candy, and apples and or
anges. We thank everyone that
gave these things to our chil
dren. It is more blessed to give
than to receive.
On New Year’s Eve, 12:01 a.m.,
every man that had rifle or shot
gun and could spare shells, they
shoot the old year away.
On New Year’s Day the men of
the village held annual dog race.
The distance was six miles one
way, 12 miles round trip. There
were 9 teams entered the race and
each paid $2.50 entry fee.
Winner was Willie Tatuk with
1 hour, 1 minute 15 seconds; 2nd
was Alfred Adams 71 min. 15
sec.; 3rd Ralph Ivanof 72:5; 4th
Oscar A., 73:50; Abraham A.,
77:55; John Charlie 80:30; Clar
ence D., 85^5; and Archie Henry
was booby with 86:10.
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
Venus and Saturn are the two
morning stai's which have shown
considerable changes in position
within the last two weeks. Be
cause they move about in the
sky, the ancients properly called
them planets, which means wan
derers.
Because of its size, the bright
planet Venus, shining brightly in
the southeastern sky during the
morning hours has been called the
twin sister to the earth. It does
not have a moon revolving around
it and being closer to the sun the
planet receives more heat.
The Greeks were mistaken con
cerning Venus because when it
was a morning star they called
it Phosphorus and when it was
an evening star, Hesperus. They
did not recognize the same planet
which had merely moved about in
its own orbit.
Like the planet Mercury it
presents different phases like the
moon when seen through a tele
scope.
Blind musicians are seeking to
develop an international system
of musical notation for the blind.
NOTICE
Pursuant to an order of court
entered on the 28th day of Decem
ber, A.D. 1954, notice is hereby
given that a general term of the
District Court, Second Division,
District of Alaska, will be held in
the Court House at Nome in said
district and division, commencing
at the hour of 10 o'clock A.M. on
Tuesday, February 1, 1955, and to
continue thereafter according to
the further orders of the court.
Given under my hand and with
the court's seal affixed this 29th
day of December, A.D. 1954.
Norvin W. Lewis,
Clerk of the United States
District Court for the Dis
trict of Alaska, 2nd Division.
Publ. Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28, 1955.
ARCTIC SANITARY
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Canadians Start Winter
Test Firing of U.S. Army’s
1500-mph Nike Projectile
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, W—The
Canadians have started sub-zero:
weather test firing of the U.S.
Army’s 1,500-mile-an-hour anti- !
aircraft Nike projectile.
A small Defense Department
advertisement in Winnepeg news
papers this week announced the !
test, Operation Frost Jet, would 1
continue until March 31 at the!
newly completed Ft. Churchill j
launching site, on Hudson Bay
610 miles north of Winnipeg.
Press and radio are barred from
the exercise. An Army spokesman
said results “will be withheld
from publication until released by
Army headquarters at Ottawa.”
The advertisements defined the
range as a rectangular area of the
frozen bay 40 by 20 miles, its
western limits only a few miles
from the town of Churchill.
The pencil-shaped Nike missile
has a range of 30 to 50 miles and
an effective altitude of 60,000
feet. Launched from a steel and
concrete base, its aim is locked on
the approaching aircraft by the
means of ground-controlled auto
matic instruments.
7th ARMY CLAIMS VICTORY
IN OPEATION PAPER CHASE
STUTTGART, Germany, — j
The U.S. 7th Army claimed a vic
tory Thursday in its two-month
war on excess paper work.
Since the start of “Operation
Paper Chase,” it said, it has elim
inated 1,597 duplicate files and
2,338 feet of records and emptied
out 165 filing cabinets, 33 book
shelves and 17 field safes.
NOTICE
Sealed bids for furnace and j
stove oil by the gallon, for the
City of Nome, on a calendar year [
basis, are requested to be in the
City Clerk's Office by 5:00 p.m.
January 10, 1955. The City re
serves the right to reject any and
all bids.
City of Nome
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Pub. Dec. 31, Jan. 5, 7.
Bandit Wishes Tacoma
Bank Happy New Year
After Taking $67,055
TACOMA, (jP>—A bandit who
called “Happy New Year” in a
“harsh, strong, deep” voice as he
left a suburban Tacoma bank with
$67,055 stuffed in a brown paper
bag was sought by law enforce
ment officers throughout the Paci
fic Northwest today.
The FBI worked with state and
local agencies in the search for
the gunman who entered the
Parkland branch of the National
Bank of Washington shortly after
noon Wednesday, herded some 40
employes and customers ipto a
corner, and left on foot after forc
ing an employe to load the paper
bag with the bank’s currency.
JACK BENNY IN HOSPITAL
HOLLYWOOD, Jack Benny
was in a hospital bed instead of
playing golf Wednesday.
He had planned to participate
in a pre-celebrity 18-hole round
of golf but entered Cedars of Leb
anon Hospital instead, suffering
from a mild virus attack.
It’s wrong to harpoon a right
whale. This species is protected
by international agreement.
WHITEFISH AT U.S.. MERC
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