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ANOTHER OF HISTORY’S TRAGEDIES
A Job Well Done
During the fourteen years that wm.
Angell has been associated with the school system
of Nome as superintendent, the School has tripled in
•size and enrollment. This has involved many adminis
trative problems, all of which have been capably and
efficiently handled by him.
The welfare and development of the youth in the
community have benefited from his years of experi
ence, and he can leave Nome this week well satisfied
with a job well done.
He leaves Nome to assume lighter responsibilities
in a smaller school at Elmendorf for a year, after which
he plans to retire. The good wishes of the commu
nity and his many former students go with him.
Pays To Be Good
(From Ihe Yucaipa, Calif., Messenger)
AS OF MAY 1, virtue ceases to be its own reward
for safe drivers in California.
Under the revolutionary new plan announced
recently by the insurance industry, about half of the
six million automobile owners in California will get a
20 per cent reduction in their insurance rates. These
are the good guys who have driven three years with
neither an accident nor a moving traffic vioation.
Bad guys, on the other hand, will pay through
the nose — up to 100 per cent more for those with five
accidents or five moving traffic violation convictions
in three years.
Most drivers — because most drivers are safe
drivers — will welcome this sensible plan, which
should have the added value of providing incentive to
habitually careless drivers to mend their ways.
Just one mild hitch comes to mind: an accident
will be counted against a driver whether it’s his fault
or not. This has to be, apparently, because the insur
ance companies say# the cost of determining blame
would be prohibitive. But it’s a safe bet it will cause
tempers to flare even higher when fenders scrape.
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FAA Appropriations
The House of Representatives
took a dim view of the request of
the Federal Aviation Agency for
an expenditure of $656,160 for
nine housing units in Alaska, and
cut the request to $360,000 in pass
ing the I960 fiscal year Indepen
dent Offices Appropriations act.
The FAA had sought an aver
age of $72,900 for each three-bed
room unit to be located at Biorka,
Duncan Canal, Nome, Talkeetna
and Unalakleet, but the House cut
the figure to $40,000 for each
unit.
In addition to this $296,160 cut,
the House also eliminated the re
quest of $257,200 for. garages and
storage buildings at Annette, Cold
Bay, Iliamna, Talkeetna and Una
lakleet, and dock facilities at
Swan Island.
Tin Bill
Legislation to stimulate explor
ation and production of tin in
Alaska was introduced this week
by Senator Bartlett and co-spon
sored by Senators Gruening and
Murray.
Although applicable to other
areas of the U. S., the purchase
program outlined in the bill de
signed to provide a stable market
price would have practical appli
cation only to Alaska, where the
only domestic tin deposits are
known to exist in the Seward
Peninsula.
The world market price of tin
fluctuates widely, with the cur
rent price around $1.02 a pound.
Under the terms of the measure
sponsored by the Alaska Senators
and Senator Murray of Montana,
chairman of the Senate Interior
and Insular Affairs Committee,
wnich would consider the legisla
tion, the Secretary of the Interior
would be authorized to establish
the program and designate one or
more delivery points within the
states, including one at Seattle,
for accepting delivery of metallic
tin in concentrates either until
not more than 10,000 long tons
were delivered or for a period of
not more than 10 years, which
ever would come sooner. A base
price of $1.40 a pound, c.i.f. deliv
ery point, for metallic tin in con
centrates produced from lode
mining operations and a base
price of $1.25 a pound, c.i.f. deliv
ery points, for tin produced from
placer-mining operations would be
provided under the terms of the
measure.
Similar bills sponsored by Sen
ator Bartlett when delegate in
Congress from Alaska have been
considered, but no final action
was ever taken.
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N. W. Orient Tokyo
Service from N. Y.
Cut Nine Hours
NEW YORK, W) — Northwest
Orient Airlines will cut nine hours
off flying time from New York
to Tokyo through a -new non-stop
New York-Alaska flight.
Gordon Bain, NWA vice presi
dent, said yesterday the weekly
flight will be inaugurated June 5.
“It will be almost nine hours
faster than any competitive New
York-Tokyo service,” he said.
The flights will be operated
with long-range Douglas DC7Cs.
They will follow Northwest’s
Great Circle Route across North
western Canada and the North
Pacific beyond Anchorage.
The scheduled flying times are
13 hours from New York to An
chorage and 12 hours from An
chorage -to Tokyo.
From the Orient, the schedules
call for 11 hours, 35 minutes Tok
yo-Anchorage and 11 hours, 20
minutes Anchorage-New York.
Texaco Oil Co. Working
For Heavy Oil Shipping
From Alaska Sources
SEATTLE, UP) — Plans for full
scale entry of Texaco, Inc., into
the Alaska market were an
nounced here today by A. G. Dau
bert, division sales manager. Tex
aco is now the only oil company'
marketing its products in all 49
states, Daubert added.
A new waterfront sales termi
nal at Seward, on which construc
tion started last month, will be
completed in July.
Gasoline and other products
will be shipped to Seward in 45,
000 barrel barges from Texaco’s
new Anacortes refinery. From
Seward products will be shipped
by the Alaska Railroad to An
chorage and Fairbanks, where
bulk plants are being established.
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Living Costs Soar
To 1958 Peaks
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WASHINGTON, UPl — Living
! costs rose in April, climbing back
j to the record high reached in
J July and November of last year.
I The government index went up
to two-tenths of one per cent from
March to 123.9 per cent of the
1947-49 base. This matched the
peak recorded in two months last
year.
The Labor Department said that
rising state and local taxes helped
shove up the livng-cost level.
Costs of transportation, medical
care, recreation and personal care
items all were up also.
Food, however, declined one
tenth of one per cent continuing
a nine-months drop interrupted
only in January.
Spendable earnings of factory
workers — their pay less federal
tax deductions — also set a rec- .
ord in April.
Factory worker take-home pay
averaged $80.68 per week for the
worker with three dependents
and $73.14 for the single worker.
Spendable earnings of factory
workers are now up about 10 per
cent over the level last year.
Most of IV2 millon workers
whose pay rates are geared for a
quarterly living cost adjustment
based on the government index
will receive no change in pay
because the change for the three
month period was too small. This
includes nearly a million workers
in the auto and auto parts in
dustry.
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WEDNESDAY BASEBALL
American League
Cleveland 5, Washington 3.
Chicago 5, Baltimore 2.
Detroit 13, New York 6.
Kansas City 8, Boston 2.
National League
San Fi'ancisco 6, Milwaukee 3.
I,os Angeles 8-5, Cincinnati 4-7.
Chicago 7, Philadelphia 5.
St. Louis 11, Pittsburgh 1.
Pacific Coast League
Portland 5, Seattle 4.
Sacramento 2, Salt Lake City 0.
I Vancouver 6, Spokane 3.
Constance Erickson. teacher,
will be spending the summer at
her home in Missoula, Montana,
to return in the fall.
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