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NOME WELCOMES LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Nome is host this week to the Territorial Leg
islative Council which is meeting here for the first
time, giving people of this area the same privilege
as other areas in being heard on matters applicable
to Northwestern Alaska.
This permanent interim committee has won the
approval of the people of Alaska by its conscientous
work and involved study on the big and little prob
lems confronting the governing bodies of Alaska.
The wisdom of the creation of such a group in 1953
was -proven in the last meeting of the legislature.
The committee has been open minded to all
opinions coming before them during their hearings
here and with their trained professional staff will be
well orepared to give valuable assistance in the next
regular or special session of the legislature.
We will welcome them back again when our turn
comes around again.
Legislative.. Council . . .
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League of Alaskan Cities; for
mer territorial senator Charles
D. Jones of Nome, opposed to
property tax on mines; Louis
Dischner, vice-president of the
Alaska Territorial Federation of
Labor; Ed Rusing, Fairbanks and
Nome banker, appearing on his
own behalf; August F. Reetz,
vice-president of the Anchorage
Businessmen’s Association who
stated that his group is opposed
to the gross sales business tax
and recommended a net sales
tax for small business; and Opal
Calten, uperintendent of MMM
Hospital appearing for an adult
health education program for this
area.
Russell Hermann, U. S. Dis
trict Attorney at Nome, appeared
before the Council to recommend
certain changes in the territorial
criminal code, particularly in
juvenile and liquor laws. Other
observers during the sessions
were A. M. Brooks of the Ketch
ikan Pulp Company, Dan Doz
well of the Alaska Pulp Com
pany at Sitka, and H. L. Faulkner,
TUESDAY BALL SCORES
National League
Chicago 9, Milwaukee 6
Pittsburgh 5, San Francisco 4
Philadelphia 3, Los Angeles 2
American League
Cleveland 10, Baltimore 2
Chicago 5-2, Washington 4-5
Pacific Coast League
Vancouver 1, Seattle 0
Salt Lake City 10, Phoenix 6
San Diego 9, Sacramento 7
Portland 4, Spokane 3
Juneau attorney, and several
residents of Nome.
Six of the eight Council mem
bers were able to attend the
sessions. Rep. Seaborn *T. Bucka
iew of Anchorage is presiding as
chairman in the absence of Sen.
Ralph Moody who was detained
in Anchorage on court business.
Others present are Senators vJohn
McNees of Nome, Frank Peratro
vich of Klawock, and Victor C.
Rivers of Anchorage; and Rep
resentatives George McNabb of
Fairbanks and James A. von der
Heydt of Nome. Sen. Paul B.
Haggland of Fairbanks was un
able to attend.
! Mostest & Bestest
Modern Alaska
Travel Talk
By Pacific Northwesi Airlines
Besides boasting of the big
gest mountains, greatest tides,
longest coastline, and when
statehood comes—being the larg
est state,—Alaska is also the
most air-minded, its people the
most talkative, and the citizens
of its largest city owners of more
automobiles per capita than any
spot on the globe. I
Most Phone Calls
Alaskans by nature are friend
ly and talkative and as a result
make more telephone calls than
any other peoples in the world,
according to the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Co., aver
aging 630 calls per person per
year. The second most talka
tive group, the Hawaiians, make
an average of 531 calls each per
year. The United States’ aveV
age is “only” 426. The world
average is 51 calls per person.
Like To Fly
Next to talking, Alaskans like
to fly, as is well illustrated by
the fact that Pacific Northern
alone, during a 12-month period,
boarded or deplaned 7,025 pas
sengers, or nine times the total
population of the town of Kenai
at that community’s airport. At
Yakutat, a community of 300
persons, 2199 passengers or seven
times the population, arrived or
departed by PNA aircraft dur
the 12-month '.period. Kodiak,
with a population of 2500 handled
15,182 passengers, or six times
the population.
The two airports at Anchorage,
the Territory’s largest city, have
a combined operation (landings
and takeoffs) greater than any
of America’s cities except New
York (LaGuardia and Idlewild
I airports) and Chicago (O’Hare
and Midway), according to the
Civil Aeronautics Administration
figures
More Automobiles
Automobiles, too, are of im
portance to travel-conscious Alas
kans with Anchorage having the
largest per-capita ownership of
cars in the world, according to
the city manager of that city,
‘ with one car for every 2.1 per
! sons, including children. Los An
geles is second with one vehicle
for each 2.2 persons.
Although Alaska’s population
! figures might have to be
stretched a bit to bring them to
the quarter-million mark, Alaska
■ is the fastest growing area
(state or territory) under the
American flag, boasting of an
increase of 77.4 percent for the
last 10-year census period. Cali
fornia is second with a 53.3 per
cent increase.
Highest Mountain
It has the highest mountain on
the North American continent,
Mt. McKinley which towers 20,320
; feet into the sky, rising from a
plain that is only 2000-3000 feet
above sea-level, making it the
largest and most spectacular sin
gle mountain mass in the world.
Biggest Glacier
Besides its mountains, Alaska
is a land of sunshine and ever
greens, but also a land of many
glaciers. Largest is Malaspina,
which covers 1,500 square miles,
an area larger than the State of
Rhode Island. Most colorful and
l spectacular of the Territory’s
1 glaciers are located in Glacier
Bay area in Southeastern Alaska.
■ Some are dormant, while others
! are very active, moving as much
• as 20 to 30 feet a day.
. Two From Anchorage Drown
l When Boat Overturns
ANCHORAGE, UP> — An Army
i search party has located the
- body of one of two Anchorage
. men who drowned in a boating
• mishap in the swirling waters of
E Six Mile Creek Saturday night.
The two men lost were James
. H Owens, 40, and Gerald Arm
- strong, 20, both of the District
Engineers in Anchorage.
MacMillan Feels World
Peace Can Be Made
“Little By Little”
BALTIMORE, W — British
Prime Minister Harold MacMil
lan called Tuesday for a start
toward building world peace
through a “little by little” ap
proach to discarding all big
weapons—atomic and others.
MacMillan’s speech was deliv
ered at commencement exercises
at Johns Hopkins University
where President Eisenhower in
troduced him as “a great free
world leader.” Both were given"
honorary degrees by the school
MacMillan said the Western
world alliance has served its
purpose well and must be con
tinued as a shield against Commu
nist aggression.
“But I am not without hope,”
he said, “that we may succeed
little by little, if not all at once,
in making some progress toward
the relaxation of tensions.”
MacMillan said it would be
foolish to expect any Summit
meeting to bridge the gap be
tween East and West.
He added, however, that “if
conditions are favorable^ and if
the will is there they might make,
first, a little progress here, and
then a little there and so bring
us out of a condition of stalemate
into one of negotiation.”
But he said it can be done
“only if both sides are willing.
We on our side certainly are
willingly.”
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Production Of
Autos Down One
Million Units
i DETROIT, UP) — The auto in
dustry’s passenger car production
now is more than a million units
behind the year ago level.
Through last week U. S. fac
tories had built 1,979,179 cars
this year compared with 3,000,323
in the same 1957 period. Last
week’s volume totaled 74,492
against 66,574 in the preceding
holiday shortened week. In the
week ended June 8 last year car
assemblies numbered 128,517.
Former Juneau Resident
Crushed To Death By Truck
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, UP) —
The driver of a station wagon
died under the wheels of a heavy
truck Monday night after the
two vehicles collided.
The accident near this East
Idaho town killed Robert C. Ya
don, 43, a construction worker
who moved to Idaho Falls earlier
this year from Juneau, Alaska.
The impact threw Yadon from
his station wagon beneath the
truck wheels. The truck’s dri
ver was not hurt.
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