The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-09-13
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERTSCOPE

Further effort 10 ct more ade- quate air transportation for Alaska is being made by Attorney General Ralph J. Rivers in behalf of the Territory Recent Civil Aeronautics Board decision giving Northwest Airlines a route from Chicago to Anchorage and also up the coast from Seattle while helpful is not enough service to handle the Al- aska trade. Tn petitioning CAB for additional service, Rivers asked ex- tension of Pan American to An chorage: asked the right for Pa cific Northern to fly from Anchor age all the way to Seattle via Ju- neau; asked that Alaska airlines be given a route from Fairbanks to Chicago, a service which also would include Nome.
 Fact is that getting in and out of Alaska by air right now is major problem due to lack of suf- ficient planes to handle the traf- fic. By next summer it will be worse unless additional service is cked by CAB. With the steamship service in turmoil, adequate air transportation is needed more than ever if Alaska development is to go forward. An example of how peo- pie are heading north is the report from Canada that some 60,000 re- quests have geen received for per mission to travel over the Alaska Highway, the old Alcan, next sum- mer As an example of how tough it is to get out of the Territory. the Attorney General can offer his own experience. It was his plan to fly to Washington to personally present the Territory's petition for r.Ore air service and appear before CAB. Effort to get out via Seattle was hopeless due to backlog of pas sengers waiting their turn. An at- tempt to get out of Whitehorse via Canadian airlines was equally futile In order to make the dead line set for filing petitions, he had to mail it.
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 were able to do a little slaking this week as they got service from s14-dollar-a-day bartenders follow irg settlement of the Labor Day week end strike. Drink mixers were getting SIP. wanted s15 ii ally compromised at s14. Probably one of the factors which brought an agreement was the visit to Ju- neau of the Canadian navy vessels Uganda and Crescent With ap-l prOximately 1000 officers and men aboard eager to give Juneau a whirl, even a bartender's heart was bound to soften. Incidentally, itl was the first time Juneaus famed Baranof hotel had been actually blacked out since it opened in 1899. Bartenders' picket line kept other employees out and Manager Jack Fletcher was forced to put notices under the doors which in effect said, so sorry, but you'll have to yacate, no help.
 *& ** Another Alaska strike in the mak ing is at Anchorage where theI carpenters have made demands which are now before the Wage Adjustment Board. Unless the board acts favorably before Sept. 27. constructor involving around five million dollars may be help un in the Westward city, including 6 lot of Army and Federal housing building.
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 fs predictnd in The Sentinel last week Gn0rg, Sundborg, ax- Alaskan. was this week appointed General Manager of the Alaska De- elopment Board, succeeding Henry W. Clerk, exWrangell man, who has resigned to go with the Pacif- ic Coast Waterfront Employers Association as labor relations ex-
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