George W. Porter
Sought by Tacoma Sister
Flora Hartman of Tacoma,
Wash., is seeking information on
her brother, George W. Porter,
whom she has not heard from for
37 years. %
Mrs. Hartman was born in
Nome, and her father was Cap
tain George Porter. She was
raised by Mrs. Cowden, after her
mother died, until she was put
in the Indian School in Tacoma.
Her brother remained with his
father in Alaska. '
Mrs. Hartman has heard two
conflicting stories about her
brother — one states that he died
in an airplane crash, and the
other states that he lived in Point
Barrow.
Any information may be turned
over to Sgt. Gene Morris of the
State Police Department here.
Britain Lifts Ban On
Fresh Fish Imports
WASHINGTON, UPi — The Brit
ish Board of Trade has lifted all
restrictions on dollar imports of
fresh and frozen fish, the State
Department notifed Rep. Thor
Tollefson CR-Wash) yesterday.
Tollefson said the action would
open British markets to North
Pacific halibut products. He and
other Washington Congressmen
long have urged removal of the
restrictions.
Egan Asks for
Funds to Handle
New Functions
JUNEAU, Ufi — Governor Wil
liam Egan asked the Alaska Legis
lature for $881,935 in supplemen
tal appropriations Wednesday and
said he would request another
$1,100,000 soon.
The Governor sent the law
makers three bills calling for ap
propriations to cover expenses
needed for the fiscal year ending
June 30.
One would provide $356,285 for
prisoner care, adult parole, pro
bation expenses and costs of
process serving. The state did not
handle thesq functions when the
1959 Legislature met.
Another calls for $357,250 to re
imburse school districts for school
operations under a formula set
by the lawmakers in 1959.
The third would appropriate
$168,200, including $116,000 to
cover increased costs of caring
for Alaska’s mental patients at
Morningside Hospital in Port
land.
Egan said the fourth bill would
cover operation of the Interna
tional Airports at Anchorage and
Fairbanks. He said receipts would
more than offset the cost.
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KNOW YOUR CIVIL AIR PATROL
Released by F. S. RHODE. C.A.P. Commander
NOTE: This is sixth in a series
of articles covering the missions
and accomplishments of the Civil
Air Patrol.
CAP MISSION:
Communications Training
The emergency communications
service provided by the CAP was
highlighted in the fifth of this
series.
To assure effective emergency
communications, training and
practice are mandatory. To assure
a high level of effectiveness,
local CAP Squadrons conduct
classes in communications opera
tions and maintenance. For those
particularly interested in the op
eration of the stations, the classes
cover the technique of relaying
and receiving message traffic;
distributing incoming traffic; col
lecting and preparing outgoing
traffic, and the other details of
station operations.
For personnel interested in the
Immigration Service
Warns Aliens to Register
ANCHORAGE — Aliens in
Alaska were reminded this week
by B. R. Oates, District Director,
Immigration and Naturalization
Service, that they have only until
the end of this month to report
their address to the government.
Aliens may go to the nearest
post office or to the Immigration
Service office to file the required
reports. Failure to comply with
this federal regulation carries
penalties which include a fine and
deportation.
POSTMASTER NOMINATIONS
UNDER CONSIDERATION
Four nominations for the posi
tions of postmaster in communi
ties in Alaska are now under
consideration by the Senate Com
mittee on Post Office and Civil
Service. They are: Virginia L. Si
monds, Annette, to replace G. A.
Cobb, resigned; Alice P. Harris,
McGrath, in place of O. S. Felm
ley, resigned; Norma L. King, Mc
Kinley Park, in place of Elvira
Hehr, resigned, and Hardy A.
Peters, Tanana, in place of W. H.
Thompson, resigned.
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Arctic Sanitarv
Service
technical aspects of the station
equipment, classes in communi
cations equipment maintenance
are organized and conducted, and
those finishing these courses pro
vide the maintenance support
needed to assure the readiness of
the equipment.
Considerable administra
t i v e communications between
Squadrons and other headquarters
organizations are necessary to
carry out the organizational func
tions of the CAP. To reduce the
costs of administration, and sim
ultaneously to provide operating
trailing for communicators, the
CAP depends primarily upon its
radio network for all routine ad
ministrative communications.
Our own Alaska Wing operates
two weekly schedules, Tuesday
and Friday evenings, on which all
stations participate. Most of the
Alaska CAP stations arrange ex
tended listening watches on the
network frequency, and are pre
pared to respond with two-way
communications within a very
short time upon call.
The Nome Squadron is now en
gaged in the planning of a North
western Alaska area network,
which will eventually include
most outlying villages, providing
emergency communications into
every area possible. To complete
such a network plan, however,
the cooperation of individuals in
each location is a mandatory
requirement.
As individuals in the North
western area interest and affiliate
themselves with the closest CAP
Squadron, planning and equipping
of stations will follow, to expand
the system into more and more
localities.
As in the case of all voluntary
community services, the success
of the entire project depends upon
the interest, effort and support
of individuals in each community.
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Hawaii, Alaska
Senators Want lst
Class Mail Flown In
WASHINGTON, UFl — A bill to
authorize air transportation of
first class mail between the
United States mainland and Ha
waii and Alaska was introduced
in Congress yesterday by Senators
Gruening and Hiram Fong (R
Hawaii).
Airmail, carrying a higher post
age rate, would continue to have
priority, but the Postmaster Gen
eral would be authorized to con
tract for special rates with the
airlines for hauling additional
volumes of first class mail when
space is available.
Fong said enactment of the
measure would assist in bringing
the two new states as close to
the mainland as technological ad
vances will permit.
Meantime, proposals to speed
mail service to Alaska by truck
rather than ship were rejected for
two major reasons, a Post Office
Department spokesman explained.
The department completely- ex
plored the idea of over-the-road
hauling of mail to Alaska, the
spokesman said, but found that
in view of present appropriations,
the cost of trucking would be
prohibitive and road conditions
for year-round operation are
uncertain.
He noted a mail contract with
the Alaska Steamship Co. has
been renewed for four years, ef
fective January 1, with sailings
increase from two to three a week.
The spokesman also pointed out
proposals for air transportation of
all Alaska first class mail is under
consideration.
9en. Gruening had asked Post
master General Summerfield to
explain why the trucking proposal
did not go into effect.
Gruening said the trucking pro
posal, as explained to him last
April by a Post Office official,
included daily dispatching of mail
by train from Seattle, to Dawson
Creek, B. C., and from there by
daily truck to Fairbanks and An
ohorage. ,
Gruening said he understood
the plan “would result in a sav
ing of at least two days and in
many cases as much as 10 days in
the time required to get mail to
Alaska.”
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