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— 24-HOUR WRECKER SERVICE —
Phone Main 196 Nome, Alaska Box. 112
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Wien Alaska Airlines, Inc.
SCHEDULE - Effective Jan. 24, 1954
TUESDAY (Freight Only)
Fairbanks - Nome - Kotzebue
DEPARTURE FROM FAIRBANKS CONNECTING
WITH PAA FREIGHT FLIGHT FROM SEATTLE
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
(Passengers)
Arrive Nome 11:50 A.M.
Depart Nome 12:20 P.M.
THURSDAY
(Passengers)
Arrive Nome 10:15 A.M.
• Depart Nome 10:45 A.M.
Alaska Railroad Manager Discloses
Over 700 Dropped From Payroll
And Line Is Now Out Of The Red
WASHINGTON, UP) — General -
Manager Frank E. Kaldaugh of
the Alaska Railroad expressed op
timism Thursday that a House
Appropriations subcommittee will
approve $11,994,000 for the rail
road for the year starting July 1.
At the same time he disclosed
more than 700 persons have been
dropped from the railroad payroll
in the last five months.
Kalbaugh has been here appear
ing at closed hearings of the com
mittee. The railroad is seeking the
$11,994,000 to complete a dock
started at Seward last year and
to rehabilitate the 64-mile link
between Seward and Portage.
“Complete that work and I
hope the railroad will be on a
self-sustaining basis from then on,
if good management practices are
followed,” Kalbaugh told news
men."
He said the railroad is now
operating “substantially in the
black” after having had annual
operating losses each year at least
f NOW! so Much Valuel
for So Little Money!
Hagen’s
Jewelry Store
since 1948. Asked how the line
had been put on a profitable basis,
Kalbaugh replied:
“By placing stateside railroad
policies and operations in effect
up there. The traffic volume is
slightly less than it was last year
and revenues are slightly less, but
too many pepple had jobs on the
railroad.”
Kalbaugh, who was superinten
dent of the Salt Lake division of
the Southern Pacific Co. when he
was named to head the Alaska
Railroad last August, said that
when he took over on Sept. 1 the
railroad has 2,376 employes.
“We have 1,658 now,” he said,
“and are approaching our first
goal of a reduction to approxi
mately 1,500. When we get there,
we will look things over and see
where we can go.”
He said the saving in personnel
costs runs into dollars fast in
Alaska, “when you consider the
average wage on the railroad is
about $6,000 a year.” On that basis
the discharges would have re
duced the annual payroll by more
than $4,200,000.
Kalbaugh said he and his wife,
who came here with him, have
fallen in lo'we with Alaska and the
people up there.”
The railroad runs from the ports
of Seward and Whittier inland
through Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Former Craig Pastor
Files Libel Suit Against
Ketchikan Chronicle
KETCHIKAN, UR—Edward Da
vison, former pastor of the Pres
byterian Church at Craig, filed a
libel suit in federal court Thurs
day against the Ketchikan Chron
icle, asking $12,500.
Davison charged he “has been
greatly injured in his good name,
fame and reputation” by an article
carried in the Feb. 5 issue of the
paper. Specifically, the suit names
as defendants William L. Baker,
editor and publisher, and the
Journal Printing Co., which pub
lishes the Chronicle.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau ,
Partly cloudy tonight and Sat
urday. Winds occasionally NE, 10
to 15 mph. Colder tonight. Lowest
temperature expected tonight -15,
high Saturday 10.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
20, low -3. Max. wind 5 mph from
the NNW. Sunrise 8:09 a.m., sun
set 4:20 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 30, low 25. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 41 in 1927,
low -33 in 1919.
Beach Denies Withdrawal
Plans For Delegate Race
JUNEAU, <#)—Ray Beach, sec
retary of the Alaska Republican
Central Committee, has denied
published predictions that he
would withdraw from the primary
election race for Congressional
delegate.
“I am not withdrawing under
any circumstances,” he said in
reference to the withdrawal pre
diction published at Anchorage.
Beach and Rep. Barbara Dim
ock, a legislator from Anchorage,
are the two candidates for the
Republican nomination. Beach is
Juneau’s city tax assessor.
18,000/MO. DRAFT CALL
WASHINGTON, UPt—‘The April
draft call, announced Wednesday
by the Army, is for 18,000—the
same as the February and March
quotas.
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Bronson
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Is Softened and Tempered
by the
Northwest Water
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Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
MEETS
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
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