The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-10
MAINE VOTERS RIVERS ASKS SHAKE COP TO REVISION OF
 SPRINT START CAB FINDING
Need of More Service Is Stressed in Move 10 Re-
 Open No. Pacific Case

! In position to cite personal eX-
 perience to back up his demand to the Civil Aeronautics Board for
 more Alaska air service, Attorney
 Ralph J. Rivers has air mailed tt 1 the Board a statement on behal of the Territory asking revision O. 1 the CABS decision in the North
 Pacific coS-.
 l Rivers started out last week
 bound for Washington, D, C., to ap- pear before the CAB Sept. g. He
 left here the afternoon of Septem- Der 2. Unable to secure a south 1 bound plane seat, Rivers PAAed tc Whitehorse where he believed he could connect to the Midwest by Canadian Pacific Airways. However when he landed at Whitehorse. the Attorney General found solid book ! ing there also and could not get East in time for his CAB appear
 ance
 1 Rivers, therefor, returned to Ju- neau via the highway to Haines arriving back here September 4 l From here, he air-mailed his state
 ment.
 Much Has Happened
 In asking re-opening of the North Pacific Case, the Attorney General stresses that the CABS decision
 though not published until August Il, was reached on June 20 and was approved by the President on July .31. Since the making of the de 11t.sioa nideA naS Happened wnitn was largely unpredictable as early
 as June," he points out.
 Citing that the CAB promised an additional carrier and more ser vice when needed, and that peti- ,tions have been filed by the City of Fairbanks and Alaska Airlines for reconsideration and that num- ;erous officials and organizations are urging inmedite revision of the de- lcision "in the light of the situa- tion as it exists today" Rivers pre- lsents facts to show that appropriate
 steps are necessary now, and con- cludes with these suggested revis-
 ions designed to meet Alaska's ail
 service needs:
 l Suggested Revisi0ns
 Authorization of Alaska Air lines to operate between Fairbanks and Chicago, with Whitehorse as an intermediate stop.
 2-Certification of Pacific North Tern Airlines to extend it's present Anchorage-Juneau operation all the iway to Seattle.
 i 3-Permit Pan American Airways to call at Anchorage, either as an intermediate stop on it's Fairbanks Iroute as a co-terminal.
 In support of these suggestions iRivers lists the following facts: 1 (a) The postwar air traffic gen |erated this summer has greately !exceeded previous expectations and imports an acceleration of the same 'trend next summer.
 l tb) Water shipping is getting progressively worse.
 i Co The Army's postwar con- lstruction program imports larger postwar military personnel in Alaska ithan planned at the wars end. T (d) Interior Secretary Krug's jnew policy of generally opening ur ithe Territory for settlement and development means more traffic. II (e) Present indications are that the demand by tourists will exceed 'all previous estimates.
 l f) Reduction of airmail postage
 may double the airmail load.
 i (g) National defense calls fol
 dropping of cautious restriction: land expansion of service compatible with development of Alaska. (h) If additional service is auth orized as soon as possible, opera
 tional arrangements will have beer made by next spring and a critica situation partially forestalled. Added Service Advantages In expanding upon his three sug- igestions for additional service auth orizations, Attorney General River: submits there conclusions: 1-Authorizing Alaska Airlines tt operate between Fairbanks ane Chicago would give the people O
 Fairbanks and Nome and satellite areas needed direct service to thu East instead of forcing them tt : connect at Anchorage or use thu Seattle gateway and would suppl, short route to the East for gov ernment officials and others a Juneau. It would also comply witt
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