Egan Awaits Reply
From Legislators on
Century 21 Offer
JUNEAU UP) — Gov. Wm. Egan
said Thursday 32 members of the
Legislature have replied to his
question as to whether they would
support an appropriation of up
to $175,000 to permit Alaska to
take part in Seattle's Century 21
exposition.
Egan polled the members of
the Legislature after the National
Bank of Commerce, Seattle, of
fered the state free of charge the
use of 3,000 square feet of space
in a building the bank is con
structing on the exposition
grounds.
The state appropriation would
be needed to equip and staff the
Alaska exhibit.
Egan said earlier this week he
planned to advise the bank Mon
day whether Alaska would be able
to accept the offer.
Of the 32 replies, Egan said, 11
were from members of the Sen
ate and 21 were from members of
the House of Representatives.
“Those Who haven’t answered
apparently do not want to com
mit themselves prior to the leg
islative session,” Egan said.
“I realized this was a possibility
when I decided to take this un
usual step and ask them, in effect,
how they would vote, but miti
gating circumstances demanded
that the problem be handled in
this manner.”
Egan said the bank deserved a
definite answer quickly so it
could make other plans if Alaska
were unable to take pan in C21
under NBC’s offer.
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74 Army Recruits
Die in Flaming
Plane Crash
RICHMOND, Va. Ufi — Federal
investigators disclosed Thursday
the pilot of a stricken airliner
carrying 74 young Army recruits
and a crew of five messaged sec
onds ibefore the plane plunged to
earth and burned Wednesday
night:
“I can’t get my landing gear
down and I am losing another
engine.”
All the young servicemen, main
ly from Pennsylvania, New Jer
sey and Maryland, and three of
the crew died in the crash. The
pilot was Ronald Conway, 29, of
West Hollywood, Fla.
The big four-engine Imperial
Airlines Constellation was striving
desperately to reach the safety
of Byrd Airport with two engines
out. It made one unsuccessful
pass at 'the field and circled for
another try.
Suddenly, an airport observer
reported, the plane "dropped
straight down. A ball of fire shot
up. It must have gone 300 feet
in the air.” Explosions echoed
through the cold, starry night as
rescuers raced to the scene in a
marshy woodland.
The crash was the second worst
single plane disaster in the United
States. The recorded toll fpr a
single plane occurred Sept. 1 when
a Trans World Airways Con
stellation plunged into a cornfield
near Chicago, killing all 78
aboard.
Only a few hours before, most
of the young Army recruits had
been in a gay mood as they board
ed the aircraft in New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Maryland on I
their way to basic training at Ft.
Jackson, S.C.
For various reasons, six of them
were not inducted and returned
home, missing death by a whim
of fate.
Only the pilot and the flight
engineer of the plane survived
the crash. Neither was critically
hurt.
Then began the grim task of
trying to identify the charred and
broken bodies of the 77 victims.
! A Civil Air Patrol officer at
the scene, Lt. Col. Alfred Nowit
sky, said identifications might
never be completed.
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Ghost Town to
Be Revamped
As Resort Area
SEWAiRD (W — The ghost town
of Latouche, once a copper min
ing boom town, has been sold to
Anchorage commercial fisherman
and developer James Sumpter.
Announcement of the sale of
Kennecott Copper Corp. Interests
on Latouche Island was made
Wednesday by O. E. Darling,
Alaska agent for Kennecott. No
price was announced for purchase
of the 400-acre parcel of land con
taining homes, office buildings, a
mill, recreation hall, dock and all
the facilities once needed to main
tain operation of the mining cen
ter.
Darling said Sumpter, a veteran
resort operator as well as.a com
mercial fisherman, announced
plans to develop the site as a re
sort area and to install other fa
cilities to be used in connection
with his fishing interests.
The project includes installa
tion of a runway, marina and ma
rine railway, conversion of a rec
reation hall to a hotel, construc
tion of a sportsman’s club and
night club, and planning travel
to the resort area, which would
cater mainly to Anchorage people
and to tourists.
The resort portion of the proj
ect is expected to be completed
and ready for business early next
spring.
At present the island is acces
sible only by water and by float
planes. The plans for runway de
velopment would allow direct air
travel to the island from Anchor
age and would also provide air
facilities in case of emergencies.
Latouche is located about 65
miles east of Seward and is close 1
to Montague Island, a favorite
hunting ground for many Anchor
age sportsmen.
Latouche once was a thriving
mining town of 500 citizens. The
Kennecott Corp. shut down the
copper mill in 1930 and Latouche
gradually 'became a ghost town.
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[Soviet Trade Proves Very Inferior..»
Editor’s Note: Soviet trade
— second of two articles.
By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press News Analyst
The Soviet Union once shipped
6,000 tons of coal to Japan which
contained pieces of electric wire,
steel scrap, wooden blocks and
even detonators.
Soviet coking coal bought by
the city of Cairo refused the
coke.
Soviet jeeps sold to Indonesia
had distorted windshields, in
ferior tires and defective rubber
connections. Some of them had
to be cannibalized in order to put
the others in running shape.
Those are examples of the im
pression the Communists have
been creating in many places with
the vaunted production and trade
by which they have threatened to
“bury” the Western economic
system. The examples are from a
recent worldwide survey.
Coupled with her practice of
trying to force nationalization of
business and industry through cre
ation of disturbances in the pro
duction of countries where she
has supplied technical aid, this
sort of thing leads to a measure
ment of Soviet economic height
as considerably under the nine
feet to which she pretends.
Want* to Play Santa in Moscow
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. UP) —
Businessman Robert I. Home says
he has asked the State Depart
ment for clearance to fly to Mos
cow with 5,000 ‘pounds of goodies
to play Santa Claus to some So
viet children. He said he merely
wants to show how American
children celebrate Christmas.
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Since making her sugar deal
with Cuba, she has sometimes
shipped her own inferior sugar
in payment for her barter trades
only to have other countries find
it unfit for sale to consumers.
Dried egg powder from Red
China put 85 people in Vienna
hospitals last year.
So-called Soviet wheat, ana
lyzed in Egypt, turned out to be
animal fodder. “Mutton” from
Red China was identified as dog
meat.
Western Europe finds repairs
necessary even before Communist
machine tools can be put to work.
Spare parts often are unobtain
able.
Egypt had serious trouble with
Hungarian locomotives. A joint
Hungarian investigating commis
sion even agreed with Yugoslav
complaints that locomotives were
defective in engineering, mater
ials and workmanship.
A year’s supply of sugar cane
for a sugar mill in Indonesia was
lost because of slow repairs to
a new plant.
It is a demonstrable fact that
the Communist sphere, in the
time alloted to it, has not made
anywhere near the progress made
by Japan in a similar length of
time after the country’s emer
gence.
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