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CAB Overrules Protest By
ATA, Awards Northwest
Airlines Mail Subsidy
WASHINGTON, (#) — A com
plaint that Northwest Airlines’
operating practices are unecon
omical and inefficient” is not
borne out by the record,” the
Civil Aeronautics Board said Wed
nesday in an order establishing
final mail rates for the airline.
Overruling a protest by Air
Transport Associates of Seattle,
the board held Northwest is en
titled to $16,048,000 in back mail
pay up to May 1, 1952, and after
that date a rate which would pro
duce $5,750,000 mail pay annually.
Of the total, $4,714,850 would
be subsidy and $1,035,150 would
be repayment of actual costs.
Air Transport Associates, a non
scheduled airline which competes
with Northwest for passengers
and property traffic between the
Pacific Northwest and Alaska, j
had protested the proposed mail
rates on grounds they would sub
sidize “wasteful operations” to the
financial prejudice of ATA.
ATA also complained of North
west’s use of the 75 - passenger
Boeing Stratocruiser, describing
the double-deck plane as an “un- ;
economical aircraft.”
The Board, noting the Strato
cruiser fare between Seattle and
Anchorage is S106 compared with 1
ATA’s tourist fare of $66, de-1
dined to go into economics of j
the huge plane.
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Engineers’ Chief Suggests
Alaska UtilizeConstruction
Materials at End of Boom
JUNEAU, UP)—The Army Engi
neers’ chief in Alaska predicted
at the All-Alaska Chamber of
Commerce session here Wednes
day that the military construction
program in the Territory will
last “at least another two years.”
Col. Lewis Foote told the group
that 300 million dollars already
has been appropriated for Alaska
defense construction. He sug
gested that Alaskans could utilize
the available construction equip
ment, manpower and materials at
the end of the defense boom to
build for private industry.
A. F. Ghiglione, head of the
Alaska Hoad Commission, told the
delegates:
“Alaskans should work out a j
graduated tax base for heavy ;
duty trucks on the highways so j
they can show Congress they are
helping themselves when they
ask for aid. Until there is a
broad system of good highways,
Alaska cannot expand as fast as
possible.”
A panel discussion of the tour
ist business brought criticism of:
putting promotion ahead of pre
parations.. Speakersy^ emphasized
that a determination of what
tourists want to see should come
first; then accommodations should
be developed; then promotion.
They said an influx of tourists
before provisions are made for
them would be detrimental in the
long run.
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In 1952 about 11 million people
worked on U.S. farms which is
estimated to be about 300,000 less
than in 1951.
Going to be a Nurse?
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With the ever increasing need for
•rained professional services this
luestion is asked at all ages. There
has seldom been a little girl who
didn’t enjoy putting her dolls to bed
ind playing nurse. This little pa
tient at Cook County Hospital in
Chicago is no exception. She is tell
ing her favorite nurse “I want to be
just like you”.
Favorite places for duty in the
.400 bed hospital are the children’s
wards and the child development
playroom; and in the three years it
takes to achieve her diploma every
student has the opportunity to learn
the care of children.
Because statistics prove that the
graduate nurse also makes a won
derful wife and mother, and is in
variably a leader in her community,
the University of Ulinois-Cook
County School of Nursing has
adopted the slogan “Your Nursing
Education is Never Wasted”.
Hundreds of young women —
young men too — find student life
stimulating in Chicago’s great
Medical Center, and its recreational
life a duplicate of what their own
home towns would offer. A four and
a half year course will also lead to
a Bachelor of Science Degree in
nursing from the University.
Beef did not become important
in the American diet until after
the Civil War, says the National
Geographic Society.
44.27 Acres Allotted For
400 New Kodiak Homes
WASHINGTON, W> — The gov
ernment transferred 44.27 acres of
land in Kodiak, Alaska, to the
Alaska Housing Authority Friday
for use as sites for 400 homes.
The new housing in the city’s
“bowl” area will double the num
ber of homes here. The houses
will be rented primarily to civ
ilian and Navy personnel from
the Kodiak Naval Base.
The Interior Dept, said that the
Kodiak housing project, which
has been set up by the Alaska
Housing Authority,* has been ad
vanced four million dollars by
the Housing and Home Finance
Agency on a construction loan
and by the Federal Housing Ad
ministration in insured loans.
The homes will be constructed by
a private company.
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British Arrest Former
Nazis, Charging Plot To
Regain Power in Germany
BONN, Germany, (A*)—In a sur
prise midnight swoop, British po
lice, Wednesday night arrested six
former Nazis and accused them of
plotting to regain power in West
ern Germany.
• A British Foreign Office an
nouncement, issued in London,
said the plotters promoted anti
Western views and propaganda
which threatened the West Ger
main federal government as well
as Allied policies. The statement
added that investigation would
continue of the group’s activities
and “contacts within and without
the federal republic.”
Among the men seized were Dr.
Werner Naumann and Dr. Gustav
Scheel, both nominated in Hitler’s
will for high posts in what he en
visioned as a continuing Nazi
Germany.
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Alaska Chamber Cites
As Aim Full-Time
Lobbyist In Washington
JUNEAU, MB—The acting presi
dent of .the All-Alaska Chamber
of Commerce says reports that the
chamber seeks to take over duties
of the Alaska Development Board
and the Alaska Visitors Associa
tion are untrue.
Jack Anderson of Anchorage,
the president of the All - Alaska
organization that was born last
year, said it will work with the
older agencies.
Anderson cited as specific aims
of the organization:
An eventual full-time lobbyist
in Washington; a $100,000 budget
at the least; to send a group to
Washington next month to advise
congressional committees deliber
ating on legislation affecting the
territory; constant hammering for
return to the cities of withdrawn
land within city limits and for a
mile around; settling of aboriginal
rights.
Herb Rowland, secretary of the «
Juneau Chamber, decried what he
termed “the tendency of this
group to look to Washington for
development.
“We seem to have the idea we
will become a super - lobbying
agency in Washington. There has
been too much looking to Uncle
Sam for handouts. That’s the type
of thing we voted out in Novem
ber. Now we must do things for
ourselves. By depending on Wash
ington we are going along with
Socialism.”
WARNING
There will be firing on fhe
20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd of Jan
uary at Submarine, west of the
Army Dump, into the Bering
Sea.
Hunters and residents are
warned to stay out of the area
on these days.
Major George G. Tanner,
Commanding
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Thursday Luncheon
Boyd Harwood, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
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ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Boyd C. Harwood, W.M.
Karl F. Dewey, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month.
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meet*
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Larry Galvin, President
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