The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-28
FINE REPORT E MADE BY
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Alaska Aeronaufits and Communication Commis-
 sion Details Activities

A most comprehensive and in- telligent report of the Alaska Aer- onautics and Communication Con- mission has been submitted to Gov Ernest Gruening for his transmits sion to the Sixteenth Biennial Ses- sion of the Territorial Legislature. The report was submitted by retiring Dudley L. Reynolds, Supervisor, and w. R. Nichols, incoming Supervisor. The report is brief but concise outline of the activities of the Com mission during the period beginning July 1, l941, and ending December i31. 1e42. The report, with the ex- ception of the various appendices, follows:
 Purposes
 The Alaska Aeronautics Act charges the Commission with the supervision, promotion, and devel- opment of aeronautics and com munications within the Territory. The Commission is also charged with the promulgation, adoption, and enforcement of rules, regula- tions, and orders to safeguard from accident, and to protect the safety of persons operating or using air. craft, and persons and property on the ground; provided, that such rules. regulations, and orders shall not duplicate nor conflict with the aeronautica1 and communications regulations in force by the Depart ment of Commerce of the United States, andlor the Federal Con- munications Commission, andlor the provisions of the Federal Air Commerce Act of 1926.
 Regulations
 Effective March 10, 1941, the Con- mission adopted amendments to, and placed into effect, the Alaskan Aircraft Radio Regulations. The Regulations provide that all pas senger- carrying aircraft in the Ter ritory of Alaska operating twenty five miles or more airline distance from their immediate landing fields or seaplane facilities shall have installed, and in proper operating order, two-way radio communica- ton apparatus.
 From March 10th to the outbreak of war this office endeavored to obtain the cooperation of aeronau- tical operators within the Territory requesting that they comply with all sections of the Regulations as soon as practicable. Since the out break of war the military authorf- ties have had the control of oper- ation of aircraft so well in hand, limiting the use of aircraft not having installed two-way radio, that it has been unnecessary to proceed further. Enforcement is un- necessary especially at this time as transmitting radio equipment is unavailable to aeronautical opera tors except to those holding an ex- CGptlOIldlly lu6h PbiOAipJ AoSAANo Most of the operators having such rating already have complied with the regulations by having two- way radios in their ships.
 Activities Increase
 The activities of the Civil Aeron- autics Commission, in increasing the number of airfields within the territory, predict a large volume of post war aircraft travel. Numer- ous manufacturers have recently announced planes, suitable for use by the average citizen and within the reach of his finances, to be manufactured after the war. The commission is in a position to con- trol such traffic by requiring cer- tain safety provisions be carried out thereby reducing the possibility of increased costs to the territory in the conducting of searches and other actions necessary should pro- per control not be exercised over said traffic. The Federal Govern ment does not provide for the con- trol of air traffic within a state or territory when that traffic is not