Evening star., 1951-10-10

Reprinted 10 appeared n
the Anchorage Alaska Daily Times and the Anchorage Daily News
names OF Anchorage mercantile firms.
The Senate Select Committee Small recently
eded exhaustive hearings the role Independent anes
nations air transportation system with the adoption of comprehensive
report including the following recommendations to the CAB
"In selecting carriers, Boards should not
consider matter Of past Of Section 2s21
which resulted from greater regularity frequency than
may have been considered allowable that time. Your
believes the Of the in this
matter has been confused and devious. Your commit
regulations But findsh itself in strong disagreement
with the Boards admitted policy Of bsnshins all large
irresuIan the grounds that they 'wiNfuI
OF q regulation that seems clearly unreasonable
"The Board should act promptly to relieve The
hadhps il is imposing Alaska through its restriction
Of flights from the United States The Board should
recognize the special need for cargo transportation
Alaska and the lack Of alternative forms Of hw-eos
passenger service"
When the CAB apparently ignored these recommendations,
chairman Of the Committee spama
declared in speech on the Senate floor August 49, 1851
"ceaIy the majority Of CAB seems bent on
ignoring the Senate. Apparently the CAB would like
its on The TO problem which was
offered by the Senate Small Business Committee and
which recognized, along with the CAB and the Of
the air industry that irregular flights by large passen-
equipment unfessbIe and uneeonomieal
Certainly such policy by this administrative
carried spite o express
committee Of Congress- and in defiance Of the economic
forces which poeny work transportation
.. today must lead this Board position all Of
its decisions. and its very will be seriously
questioned Our committee sought equitable soIu-
sion and set forth possible But yet
to action by the Board indicating is
sincerely trying to expand civil aviation with broadest
possible public service goal Instead,
inued the attitude . Bos 5 sinsenst to
will Of Congress and to the needs Of the community"
The Honorable Ernest Gruening testimony
before the Senate Small Business Committee pointed that
a" ersni an absentee bureaucracy that for
reasons OF its which have not to
penetrate began 70 clamp down N this initiative nd
enterprise and has in earded
- normal development Of the poEee. Of the
CAB in Alaska :" 3" have bend disastrous
M. the policies Of the CAB through the years
Numerically opposed to the policies Of
ion. which develop Alaska. popuIa-
zion. to make it in that far northern part o the world
and those northern laitudes right opposite Russia,
example OF the American Of ife"
With appeals the CAB exhausted Arcoaeh Transport As
oaton letter OF October 1851 Peiond
because '~~'
membership lacks the confidence IN the futureu
the diseourasins policies Of the Civil Aeonautes Board
to throw is full energies into this task" ailif mobi
izaion for national defense) and requested "eoordna
fion OF the actions Of the Civil with
the mobilization planning Of the Under Seeetav
Commerce for Transportation and h plans Of
the Department Of Defense { Joint program
which will restore confidence permit Independent non
eertihcated aiines expand, and The
TOR On adequate air lift for