The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 15, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR | D nl Al A E . | aid of $94,750 against total estimated cost of complet- aily Alaska Empire .. vove s o soom Publishied evers evening except Sunday by the | Project application submitted on January 9, 1950, EMEIRE FHINY! Lol ity |upon receipt of advice that Palmer Airport included 17 ets, Juneau, Alaska Second and Main HELEN TROY MONSEN ~ . - - - President|in CAA allotment and estimate ral sha DOROTHY TROY LINGO = = = _ Vice-President 54 d Federal hboe. K5 DY oD NGO " T . " Mawneme Eaitor | costs reflected as $94,750, same as In prrevious re- Batered In the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class Matter, | Quests for aid 4 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Federal aid authorization of this j £CE Delivered by carrier in Juncan and Douglas for S1.50 per month; | fofds st et S ! six months, $8.00; one year, S15.00 by Alaskan officials under date March 15, 1950, onel® . By mail, posthge paid, at the following rates: 5 - 2 % > ~TVOr One yeds. in advance: 11500, six months, in advance, $7.50: month after CAA authorized grant agreement. New [ s A Y“I“”‘,mui i one month, n advance, $1.50. project application submitted Mar 50, W Edward J. Glova Subscribers will Conter & favor if they will promptly notity | P ooo. OF : h o, 1059) WRREEII] 0 . btrioin Diane Waltee ™K :u Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery | estimated Federal share is $145125, while sponsors’| J D s 7 Jewett their papers. " o & onna Jean Jewe . Telephones Bustness Office, 374. | share would be $148,375. N Bonnie L. Wagner: : “te - e Total estimated cost was shown as $202,500, or |, Jii Chéasntt e The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for | $163,500 more than January 1950 application. Increase rthur o republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- H Rrfhur L. AHSIEONE ;4 Wise credited in this paper and also the local news published | U¢ to alleged error in that Territory did: not own|e Mrs. Irene Taylor . herein. land at Palmer Airport until April 11, 1950, when check | ® . $ @ o o o 0o e-. 0 ° 0 ¢ NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | issued to Palmer Airport Associaion for $150,000. Pal- e e W mer Airport Association returned $145,000 to Territo Territory to grant Association the right to reacquire and thered the airport and donat it to the town sit of Palmer DUB“( CRED"ED when and if Palmer became incorporated. me!' actuall} cost Palmer Airport Association approxi- FOR p 0 SERV!(E mately $10,000, but no deed or written agreement ox-l s ecuted by original owners to anyone until April 1950 ( after . Deed prepared not legally proper nor HRISIMAS MA“. ever recorded S Three friendly appraisals submitted report to| The splendid cooperation of the Schwamm, valuing property from $155,00 to $171,000, | Public is credited by Postmaster Crystal Jenne for the fact that the Corps of Enginers appraisal of identical acreage is $27,620. Balance of funds to credit of Division of rush of Christmas mail is mov~ ing smoothly and with dispatch Friday, December 15, 1950 b, $147,569.14. i year, THE SENATE INVESTIGATES THE McCutcheon confessed he did not know wln!; Well wrapped and plainly add- N JA sta ts appeared in project applications submitted j ressed y ges, and cards and let- PRELIMIN A statemen i P oy DE[;IIE(I)‘RIER“ INARY |/ AA in January 1950 and in Match 1950, notwith- | ters plainly addressed has con= standing fact he certified to legal accuracy of state- | ributed inno small amount to fac- ments made. Stated he may have certified that he|litating the work of dispatching was giving the Territory back to the Russians. i,’]‘f‘ ’““'””‘:i:‘ :’:’;:}'““I“qik““lg 'f‘“;g McCutcheon caused Palmer Airport Associannn'”“‘ postoffice as soon as notifica- officials to place a value of $150,000 on the airport land | tjon of arrival has been received in order that Territory could receive 25 per cent|has also been of great aid to the thereof credit in matching funds, $37,500. | staff. Roland Snodgrass, secretary of Palmer Airport| Next Tuesday's boat, the Bar- Association admitted “selling” three friendly appraisers | 200f, will have the big mail before Christmas and it will be appregiat~ ed by the postoffice staff if packag- es now being held can be taken out before that date. " c You have heard before about the “Palmer Airport deal.” It has been well publicized throughout Alaska by The Empire and other newspapers and on the floors of the Senate where the Palmer plan to estab- lish a fictitious land value for the airport site of $150,000 in order to get an additonal $37,500 from the Federal Government lead to a request through a Resolution introduced by Senator Butler for an in- vestigation by the Committee on Expenditures in the|©°" idea that land was worth at least $150,000. Gov- Executive Department of the Government. ernor of Alaska in touch with Chris Lample, of CAA, The Palmer transaction has entered the picturein effort to get-Federal aid for funds spent by Ter- again, this time in the course of the discussions in | ritory prior to passage of enabling act. Tha pavkel ) thst - windott Rl the Senate relative to statehood for Alaska. Lample hand carried both 1)!'0](‘::1‘ application \l;bo open on Satur December 17 Senator Hoey, North Carolina, chairman of the Washington, D. C., in order to expedite and answer!,, . pecember 23 from the hours of . Senate committee in charge of the Palmer investiga- |any questions which might be raised by Washington!1g am. to 5 pm. for the conveni- tion, during the discussions -on November 30, said “I CAA officials. Local officials not as yet contacted. |ence of the public. sent to Alaska a representative of our staff, an attorney, Schwamm admitted Territory did not intend to! Pufll)m‘:t("r Jenne said today that and an investigator. They went into the matter rather pay out any of its funds in completing Palmer Airport | the s:l;wrvlsm'» nnd‘ clerks on the fully. Of course, the inyestigation was simply a pre- | t© No. 3 status. Advised no appropriation approved !)y;:ft:»?’ln;{lc:c 1:;““ hl:)z“dc“ -ban;:u h;a:d; liminary one. Their investigation disclosed, however, C(‘)mn\lssl()l)el% for vox}?f'lldl‘\xx'(‘ of f\lnds Ov“. .(Pilrlmcr:n‘]-l;“ ‘c(om‘m;;dnble ‘i‘nnm‘\er uti the methods adopted by some of those who are now An-pux:l in 1950. Nevertheless, prior .h.Jvmu.s 1|,,‘n.1<m‘ fisa hesn DacHols proceeding to fry to bring about statehood for Alaska by thi subcummnu-x‘*, Schwamm advertised and en-, she pointed out, in consideratiot in their efforts to obtain money from the Federal tered into contract with low bidder to complete mrpnrl‘;vr the amount of mail which must Government.” at cost of $121,277.70, and, in view of contract, Terri- | be handled in limited facilities and This is the preliminary report, as taken from tory obliged to spend funds to meet payment, Not-| the long hours which have been page 16126 of the Congressiona} Record for November | Withstanding fact that no appropriation made therefor.| necessary to carry out the work. 30, 1950 Schwamm has attempted to collect 75 per cent of con- | Night arrival of mail has been Alagsam p¥iskels migPiwisangol Arconautics plan- expended in 1950, but payment of | taken care of immediately on® ark ned to collect, retroactively, funds from the CAA in struction cost i s s Federal funds held up pending completion of instant | T requiring e services S it Ll ] al members of the staff until the order tp reimburse itself for moneys spent on the Palmer| Aiport prior to the passage of the required investigation. Also noted that William Lavery, mem- {early morning hour ber of Aeronautical Commission, was told by 'Schwamm ' 7o postmaster wishes to extend emblink act, which act became effective on June 1, | c 1949. Territory of Alaska had spent approximately |appointed in his place for “expired” term. This ac-|the people of Juneau for their co~ ! tion taken before end of term and without obtaining | operation in following suggestions entitled® to any Federal matching funds until after |his resignation. Tt acrvice. a0 Lo, the. Dally grant agreement negotiated. On November 23, 1949, Following Senator Hoey's report on the Fnlmm!Alflflkn Empire and radio station and Stanley McCutcheon, attorney (also member of |transaction, and his defense will be published to- | guainting the public with informa- Territorial legislature), submitted request for Federal jmorrow. tion to this end. T that Frank Barr (a member of the Territorial Senate) { ner expression of appreciation ‘to X rior to June, 1949. Territory not legall « s 4 ¥ offered by her office to insure Georze Schwamm, Director of Division of Aeronautics, | Airport, Senator Anderson, New Mexico, defended the | gyNy for their services in ac- Sog — | T cent conference, were discussing the follows the traditional Soviet tac-' use of the A-Bomb in Korea, the | tics of massing the men and means | chief advocate was Gen. James M. to do a job regardless of losses.; &= Gavin, vfurmer c_om_mander of the Tk?e bomb is the tactical answer 10 . pery) B, Michaelson, a medi- 82nd AirBorne Division, and now a this problem whenever it is possible z o e i i § "€ cal officer at the Alaska Native member of the Weapons Evaluation to deliver it profitably. This will group for the Secretary of Defense. | radically revolutionize land war- to justify shortages or to sanction' Goeral Gavin 3 fare.” bital at Kanakanak. Dr. E 3 proposed using s ANS hospital at Kanakanak. X the deterioration of America’s Pow- 1o now relatively old-fashioned gl _Gmm resommended, e Michaelson wil be stationed at Kan- er,” the report adds angrily. i i ) 5 Y T-Bomb as the ideal weapon for 2 < 4 { Hiroshima bomb, not against civil-| oo against troops that massed fcr!akanak while Dr. John E. Libby The xeport also comes up With|jan populations as at Hiroshima, i " " N iis on annual leave for approximat- 5 f a night or river crossing or who! A some ideas about the Agriculture . sse . tro i 9 3 but against massed enemy troops. | were moving on the offensive. vaely six “,U“.k\ B. F. MICHAELSON fhe Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) | Service Mt. Edgecumbe Sanator- jum, is in town enroute to the De) ent’s huge stocks of surplus i S rop- — — m:jam nt's huge stocks ol Plus | He e?t}mated Lk}avl t(lins l;umh].’dlyup enemy troops are sheltered for Hasl g e . : ped from an altitude of only 2,000§ gonse yse of the tactical A-Bomb jthe point of view of a hardboiled “Food supplies are fuel for any;feet, could wipe out one whole di- i 10l effective. | militarist’s measurement of %cost, he | endurable struggle, and the struggle ' vision of enemy troops. Further- He estimated that the Hiroshima|says: “With a limited stockpile, it between the west and east today|more he estimated that the radio-| . o'yomb is the equivalent of 20,-| would be highly unecoomical to may well be decided by the endur-]acnvity in the wake of the bomb} ;45 44,4 of TNT, and would affect expend a hundred bomus for the | ance of the competing economies,” | would linger only a mater of mm',zm area from three to five miles | purpose of destroying a ground di- points out the Senate report. “Con- | utes, thus troops could come Iur-;wm_ '\-man that costs a huidred million sidergd with caution and utilized| ward in only & short time. General Gavin wrote his A-|dollars, if there were other divi- with prudence, our agricultural sur-§ Those who opposed General Ga-|pomb study before Chinese troops | sigas available ay replacements. pluses might well be of €normous|yin's argument pointed out that|came into Korea in great numbers|But if a single bomb could render benefit to the endurance of OUr| Ryssia, which now possesses the|ang apparently he had some doubt]one division ineffective, it would Aeronautics at time, $150.000; check issued was only:through the Juneau Post Office this y proficient, ENROUTE TO KANAKANAK THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIREJUNEAU, ALASKA and the mid-winter vacation ex! re-opening January 5. i | | John Recl and Doorkeeper, August Anderson. surplus wa expenses were 53.86 cents per ton. 1 fra-pa, first A as in ASK unstress | syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Stra passage of water). ht ;a\l‘l less, unsophisticated. increase our CREDIBLE; worthy of belief: when he presents his evidence. | for strictly formal correspondence. moon trip? | to her friends. over the telephone? ANSWERS: 1. In 1895. | 2. New York and Penn: 3. The lettrs “f” and “s.” 4. The Methodist. 5. It has no tail THE EMPI DECEMBER 15, 1930 The local receipts of the Juneau Chapter of Cross for the Roll Call for this year had r by Wellman Holbrook, General Roll Ca mained to be heard from. Haines, Angoon and Kake. At sundown this day the open season for migratory wild throughout the Territory. It was generally Local hunters reported wild fowl here, par apparently more plentiful during the current years. No casualties marred the hunting season. i Superintendent of Schools W. K. Keller announced that ti _Ipublic schools would close Friday, Dec | \d over the New Year with the Officers elected for the 1930-31 year for the Pioneers o Igloo No. 6 were Presidene, John T. Spickett; Vi Thomas Hansen; Second Vice-President, Secretary, Elmer Reed; Trustee, L. | G. Fagerson; Sergeant-at-Arms, E. F. Rodenberg; William™ Stéfinbe In the role of Santa Claus ship for the Pribilof the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries motorship Penguin son, arrived in port enroute to the westward. The Alaska Juneau mine continued its fine | November when its total output grossed 500, according to the monthly results made public from the San Francisco offices of The recovery value of he ore aggregated 92.04 c Weather: High, 43; low, 39; cloudy. (frozen mixture SYNONYMS: Straightforward, direct, | WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times an ulary by mastering one word ea rustworthy. | MODERN ETIQUETTE Q.. Are: correspondence cards in good. fas A. Yes; they are very popular and in |informal kind of note. It is becoming |men and women to use these cards. However, they | Q. What form should a bride and bridegroom use | invitations to a reception, after they have returned A. They may eitherf mail the engraved kind of I the affair is an informal one, the bride may telephone her i Q. Should a woman, after the death of her hu as “Mrs. Mary Gilbert” or as “Mrs. Thomas Gilbert” A. The death of her husband in no g the woman is known. She continues to be ‘Mrs. Thomas 't LOOK and LEARN A. C. GORD | 1. In what year was the first motion picture pub 2. Which are the two wealthiest States of the U. S.? 3. Which are considered the most difficult letters 4. Which is the largest church body in the United S 5. What is the distinguishing characteristics of a Manx cat? econgmy in the present struggle.” The John subcommittee recom- mends feeding the armed services from our surpluses and also trading food for strategic materials from other countries. Double-buying of Butter A-Bomb, could be expected to re- taliate against American cities, now a long way from being ready for A-Bomb attack. Also the effect of European public opinion would be disastrous. General Gavin also estimated {that one T-Bomb, which is the “The Department of Defense IS| apyy designation of the Hiroshima presently contemplating purchase) ype s equal to 8,000 medium ar- of about 10 million pounds of SU-} ijjery shells per square mile. He plus butter,” the subcommittee Dot-{ pac also worked out for the Joint es. “If this purchase is consummat-{ opjefs a survey showing what one ed, the Commodity Credit COrpor-{a¢omic bomb of this type would ation will still have on hand 170} paye done in the battle of Okinawa. mfllfim pounds of butter—OVer a1y, this pattle he points out the two-year supply for an armed force} ypjteq States had 36 ships sunk, of approximately three million men. | gge ships damaked, 736 planes lost CCCis stocks of dried eges, dried]ang 45095 battle casualties. These milk, cheese ang beans are far i e ne estimates, could have been excess of the armed forces’ CON-{.yiiGeq by one atomic bomb. templated needs for the next sever- al years. 1 “This makes. it imperative, we believe, that the closest cooperation be maintained between the Defense and 'Agriculture agencies,” the re- port continues. “While this coop- eralic < in some aspects been good; cport declares: “The Munitions Board failed to heed th warnings of the Department of Ag- riculture. . .The board neither stockpiled wool nor listed wool as a strategic material. . We hope suf- ficiept wool may yet be acquired to overcome the folly of the Muni- tions Board’s improvident course.” The report also criticizes the board for not stockpiling cotton lntess, long-staple cotton and var-! jous Nuval stores. That A-Bomb For Korea When President Truman and P Meanwhile it is no longer a secret | that atomic bombs, presumably of this type, have been sent to Ameri- can bases in the Far East and Europe, and that knowledge of thic fact, coupled with President Tru- man’s statement that we were con- sidering using the bomb was what e 1 disturbed the British. General Gavin has published in the combat forces journal his views for using the atomic bomb as a tac- tical weapon in Korea. He states: “The most powerful tactical air weapon is the atomic bomb. Its delivery by our air bases would ! contribute greatly to the common battle of achievement. It is hard to| think of anything that would add more to the effectiveness of Unifed | Nations forces, Here was an enemy forced to mass his means 1or cross- hoth becar of our defense, regarding the usc of A-bombs where | probably be a worth-while one- a huge land army is engaged. From j bomb investment.” Crossword Puzzle ACROSS Roman officials 1. Evil 35. Off 4. Strong, short. 36. Common legged horse flower ‘ 38. Small Fus 0 M lenlclosul’. Saluta Mimic i $0 Colorless liquid 5. Pistol case 4. Puts off Medium of 11 ey “’eh:h‘t exohang! §. Floor suppor 18, Efachange . 5o Quick to 19 imitate 21 Mountain ridge gle unit 23. Gamin d‘x)’(nl‘(‘ 3t Yidh ro. Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 9] Cut of uided D DOWN 2. Sun-dried Household pet layer 1. Arabian unit bric] . D Easy chair of welght 3. Deals out [ severel, . : y partic matter pupll e part with b er ), short HARRIET BERG as a paid-ap subscriber to THE VAILY ALASEA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "MRS. MIKE" Federal Tax—12c¢ Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO.—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! o wene Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1850 The B. M. 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