Statehood Committee
Impressed By Will Of
Alaskan People
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into their business.
Ed Baldwin, farmer and pub
lisher, told the committee more
land is needed for cultivation and
this can be done only when the
lands are released from federal
withdrawals.
Victor Rivers, former Demo
cratic senator from the Third Div
ision, pointed to what he called
the influence of the salmon indus
try in every corner of the opposi
tion to statehood, including recent
appointments to high offices.
Mrs. Justice Parks of Chugiak,
representing the Alaska Rural
Electrification Association, said
Cthe covered wagon move west
ward would be duplicated 50
times over when Alaska comes
into its birthright.
A real estate man. Jim Norene,
charged that territorial status
hampers progress in school sys
tems, zoning, planning and health
districts.
Dr. Milo Fritz, eye, ear, nose
and throat specialist, claimed that
every year children under the Al
aska Native Service, a govern
ment function, suffer “fiscal year
blues—for two months because
money appropriated has run out
and for two more months because
the new appropriations has not
been made.”
He said this condition would
not exist under self government.
Mrs. Clifford Olson of the Par
ent-Teachers Association said that
most American children grow up
“wanting to be President but I
want my children to grow up and
be able to vote for President.”
In old age a person may get
shorter because of partial disap
pearance of discs of cartilage be
tween vertebrae.
Federal Action
Urged To Save
Alaska Steam
SEATTLE, UP)—Federal action
to save the Alaska Steamship
Company’s passenger service was
urged Monday by A1 Shyman,
chairman of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce Alaska Division.
Withdrawal of Alaska Steam
passenger liners would leave most
of the territory without ocean pas
senger service, Shyman warned,
as well as shove Seattle into the
background as key port to Alaska.
The shipping firm may be
forced to discontinue passenger
service after next month, General
Manager D. E. Skinner has
warned, because of booming costs
and difficulties of the trade.
“Naturally, we hope a solution
to the problem can be found,”
Shyman said. “That, in our opin
ion, can only be done by the Mil
itary Sea Transportation Service’s
diverting some of its passenger
service to privately-owned steam
ship lines.”
Before 1940, he recalled, heavy
travel of military personnel and
their dependents on private ships
gave the Alaska Line a rich source
of revenue.
The federal government took
over this transportation with
World War II, and in recent
months Uncle Sam has denied
Alaska Steam petitions for the
right to carry dependents of mili
tary personnel aboard its ships.
Withdrawal of passenger ser
vice in Seattle, Shyman pointed
out, would weaken Seattle’s com
petitive position against the Can
adian city of Prince Rupert, B.C.
Lying 600 miles closer to Alaska
than Puget Sound, the Canadian
port now threatens serious in
roads on Seattle’s Alaska trade.
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John J. O’Shea Named
To Head Alaska’s ’54
March of Dimes
NEW YORK—John J. O’Shea,
well-known Anchorage insurance
man and community leader, has
accepted the chairmanship of the
1954 March of Dimes in Alaska,
Basil O’Connor, president of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, announced this week.
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fund-raising activities of volun
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out Alaska and will lead what
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Alaska Must Up Gas Tax
To Justify Federal Funds
For Roads, Says Senator
ANCHORAGE, (#)—Sen. Francis
S. Case (R-SD) declared here Sat
urday night that Alaska must
raise its gasoline tax to justify
further expenditure of federal
funds for highways in the terri
tory. He pointed out the Alaska
tax is two cents a gallon while
the national average is five. Case
spoke at a dinner honoring him
and the Senate Public Works and
Armed Services Joint Subcom
mittee now in Alaska. Others in
the party are Sens. Dennis Cha
vez (D-NM), Spressard Holland
(D-Fla) and John Stennis (D-Miss).
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Anchorage: Hazel Lind
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and Mrs. L. P. Hacker, H. M.
Wheatty, E. Furlong, L. E. Huns
perger, Edith Arnold, Jimmy Mil
ler, Boyd Harwood, Ralph Buth
am, Sgt. and Mrs. K. Armour,
Jeff and Shawn Armour, Noel
Fullerton, W. O. Fenton, M. P.
Springer.
From Anchorage: H. T. Dod
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C. L. Sainsbury, L. Dunbar, M.
Sharphol.
To Kotzebue: Sgt. Reiterman,
Frank Lyles, C. McGowan.
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ly cloudy Thursday. Winds WSW
10-15 mph becoming light and
variable tonight. Low temperature
expected tonight 45, high tomor
row 54.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today: high temperature
51, low 44. Maximum wind 18
mph from WSW. Sunrise at 4:28
a.m., sunset at 7:40 p.m.
A year ago today: high temper
ture 56, low 34. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 71 in 1941,
low 28 in 1916.
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