THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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LARGE EXPECTATIONS
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CAP’s 19lh Anniversary
VI/7HEN THE NEED FOR civilian air support arose
▼ » 19 years ago just before the “day of infamy” at
Pearl Harbor, Civil Air Patrol was formed almost
overnight to meet the emergency. Predictions were
that it would die just as quickly, when hostilities
ceased.
The exact opposite came true.
There were too many ardent, aviation - minded
men and women of considerable stature to allow such
a history-making, heroically-proved organization like
CAP to drift into limbo.
It was Gen. H.H. “Hap” Arnold, Army Air Forces
wartime commander, who spearheaded the move to
incorporate CAP, and this was done by public law
on July 1, 1946; it became a benevolent, nonprofit
organization under Federal charter without financial
assistance from the Air Force.
December 1, 1960 — CAP’s 19th anniversary
—finds this Air Force auxiliary a substantial, dues
paying volunteer flying organization in over 1,900
communities with 70,000 adults and teen-agers in 52
wings, in each state, the District of Columbia and
Puerto Rico. Daily, somewhere in the vastness of the
continent and islands, search and rescue and emer
gency missions in the air and on the ground are in
progress and each uniformed member is studying to
advance his aerospace knowledge.
As this is being written, the CAP, with volun
teer members from Galena, Moses Point, Unalakleet,
and Nome are searching for a plane with three pas
sengers, lost between Galena and Moses Point, exem
plifying what CAP means to Northwestern Alaska.
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FAA Streamlines
Baggage Weighing
Procedures
WASHINGTON, OP) — The air
lines announced today a stream
lined procedure for figuring bag
gage weight on international
flights.
The Federal Aviation Agency
has authorized them to use aver
ages — instead of individual
weight figures — based upon an
Air Transport Association analy
sis of 4,000 international flights
involving more than 125,000 pas
sengers.
The new ruling was announced
by ATA, speaking for domestic
airlines, but the FAA said it ap
plies to foreign airlines serving
this country as well.
Under the new formula, each
suitcase checked by a passenger
on a transatlantic flights, or on
a transpacific flight between the
U. S. and Manila, Tokyo, Hong
Kong or Australia, is assumed to
weigh 26Vt> pounds.
On flights between the main
land and Hawaii or Alaska, the
average for each checked suitcase
will be 23V6 pounds.
This is the same weight aver
age that has been used, with FAA
permission on domestic flights
since July, 1959.
In addition, five pounds will be
added to the weight of each pas
senger as the average of the items
he carries with him on the plane.
The only luggage that will
have to be weighed at the ticket
counter individually, and record
ed precisely, is that which ex
ceeds the free baggage allowance
of 40 pounds domestically and 66
pounds on international trips.
For many years this average
weight system has been applied
to airline passengers, so that they
would not have tc be weighed
individually.
Under this practice, the aver
age weight assigned to a dom
estic passenger is 160 pounds in
summer and 165 pounds in win
ter. The average for an interna
tional traveler is 165 pounds in
summer, 170 in winter.
Under the new procedure, bag
gage would be placed on the
scales as it is checked in, merely
to determine whether it exceeds
the allowable free weight. For
airplane weight calculation pur
poses, the average weight figure
— multiplied by the number of
suitcases—would be used, rather
than listing the exact weight of
each case and adding up the total.
The new procedure would im
prove passengers service by elim
inating time - consuming calcula
tions at the ticket counter, and by
simplifying and speeding up the
pre-flight figuring of aircraft
weight and balance.
Protestants Spend $170 Million
On Overseas Missions In 1959
NEW YORK, UP) — American
Protestants gave about $170 mil
lion to support their overseas
missions in 146 countries and
territories in 1959, the National
Council of Churches reports.
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|Eisenh' \ver Gives Nixon
i Recognition As Leader
Of Republican Party
WASHINGTON, (fl— President
Eisenhower has given Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon public re
cognition as the new leader of
the Republican party, in sharp
disagreement with the stand of
New York’s Gov. Nelson Rocke
feller.
The White House said that
Eisenhower, in a toast at a White
House dinner Wednesday night,
remarked that Nixon will be re
cognized as head of the party for
the next four years, and will have
Eisenhower’s support and the
support of all those present.
Whether so intended or not, the
President’s comments amounted
to a rejoinder to Rockefeller, who
spoke at an Albany news con
ference only the day before.
Rockefeller, once a competitor
against Nixon for this year’s Re
publican nomination for the pre
sidency, said a party without a
president in office is without an
actual head except perhaps for
the national chairman.
The governor did say Nixon has
a “tremendous important part to
play in uniting and strengthening
the party.”
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Charges Vote
Frauds Are
National Disgrace
WASHINGTON, W — Republi
can chairman Thruston B. Mor
ton, charging that vote frauds in
the Nov. 8 election amounted to
a national disgrace, announced
yesterday he will conduct a wide
investigation.
He set up a “national recount
and fair elections committee”
with these announced purposes:
“1. To demand an honest count
of this election in every suspicious
state.
“2. To investigate and track
down the irregularities and
frauds wherever they exist.”
Morton put Illinois and Texas
at the head of his list of sus
picious states.
Asked whether he thought the
Democrats had stolen the elec
tion, Morton said, “There is so
much smoke I must investigate
to see if there is any fire.”
Sen. Henry M. Jackson, the
Democratic National Committee
chairman, in advance of the Mor
ton news conference, declined
comment on GOP statements but
suggested “it might be well to
probe into the question of whet
ther dilatory tactics are being
employed” by the Republicans.
Morton said chances certainly
were that the inauguration would
be held in January as scheduled
and that most people certainly
think that the new president will
be John F. Kennedy.
“I can say unequivocablv that
there have been shocking irregu
larities and fraud in this election
which constitute a national dis
grace,” Morton said.
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