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ASSOCIATION
ALASKA
GAR
FERRY
THE
KETCHIKAN
CHRONICLE
j
makes
no
bones
about
the
fact
that
it
believes,
unless
something
radical
occurs
in
the
coastwise
shipping-picture,
the
Territory
of
Alaska
should
go
into
the
business
of
operating
a
car
ferry
some
time
next
year.
It
is
writing
this
explanation
of
the
proposal
so
the
public
will
know
about
the
plan
and
can
address
to
candidates
for
the
territorial
legislature
a
question
as
to
how
they
feel
about
it.
These
in
brief
are
the
reasons
the
Chronicle
favors
Alaska
operating
such
a
service
for
a
few
year
until
its
feasibility
can
be
proved
or
disproved
:
1.
The
Haines
highway
into
interior
Alaska
from
Haines
will
be
maintained.
We
have
the
word
of
Secretary
Krug
that
this
is
a
virtual
certainty,
for
defense
and
development
reasons.
By
the
time
the
legislature
meets
in
January,
the
Haines
road
will
be
a
settled
fact,
one
way
.or
the
other.
The
Skeena
river
highway
and
the
Cariboo
trail,
connecting
Vancouver
with
Prince
Rupert
over
a
scenic
and
inviting
1000-n)ile
frontier
road,
also
will
be
maintained
and
improved,
bringing
tourists
to
within
10
or
50
miles
of
the
Alaska
border.
2.
That
means
that
all
Alaska
needs
to
make
the
Skeena
and
Haines
highways
serve
as
great
tourist
attractions
for
the
thousands
who
want
to
drive
north
is
a
ferry
to
close
the
420-mile
gap
from
Rupert
to
Haines.
In
the
States
a
state
highway
commission
wpujd
operate
such
a
ferry,
collect
tolls
from
ajl
tourists
putting
their
cars
aboard,
niake
up
the
deficit
if
any
from
the
fuel
tax
(Alaska
will
have
about
$600,000
collected
in
its
fuel
tax
by
the
end
of
this
vear)
and
clean
up
from
the
$8
to
$10
per
day
each
tourist
spends
while
visiting
in
the
state.
This
figure
qf
expenditures
is
from
the
sta,te
of
Oregon,
whose
advertising
budget
for
tourists
runs
upward
from
$100,-000
per
year,
a
fund
expended
by
Harold
13.
Say,
whose
salary
is
$8800
per
year.
3.
Woimagine
the
tourist
dollars
would
make
up
any
operating;
loss
on
the
ferries,
since
their
piii'chases
in
Alaska
would
be
considerable.
But
if
they
didn't,
the
saving
to
"Southeastern
Alaska
citizens
in
freight
charges
would
certainly
make
up
any
such
loss,
because
the
ferry
would
be
equipped
to
handle
railway
cars
on
one
.deck
along
with
automobiles.
Since
the
three
coastal
steamer
lines
threaten
to
raise
rates
next
year
or
go
out
of
business
in
Alaska,
the
saving
on
freight
could
be
considerable;'
jnore
so
if
these
three
operators
werp
to
double
their
charges,
as
they
propose.
4.
The
ferry
would
serve
the
Thjnl
and
Fourth
divisions,
and
even
the
Second
division'
to
some
extent,
because
it
would
connect
with
the
Al-can
highway
which
in
turn
is
linked
with
Anchorage,
Fairbanks
and
Val-dez.
Thus
about
1500
miles
of
beautiful
highway
in
the
interior
would
be
macjq
available
to
tourists.
Bus
lines
could
bring
southbound
Alaskans
to
Haines
to
meet
the
ferry,
if
they
did
not
care
to
drive
their
own
cars.
But
the
ferry
would
allow
.
Alaskans
to
drive
outside
and
back
again,
visiting
Southeastern
Alasjca
towns
going
each
way.
5.
The
ferry
would
benefit
old
and
new
industries
in
Southeastern
Alaska,
including
those
paper
mills
we
are
hoping
to
land
here.
It
would
make,
practical
the
investment
of
considerable
njoney
in
lodges,
cafes
and
service
stations
between
Rupert
and
Circle
hot
springs.
It
would
provide
a
beautiful
loop
trip
by
use
of
the
Alcan
highway
going
one
way
and
the
Haines-Rupert
tieup
the
NORTHWEST
CONSTRUCTION
LTD,
Expert
Foundation
Work
and
Interior
Alterations
CONTRACTS
LARGE
OR
SMALL
Planning
and
Designing
Estimates
other
way.
Continued
use
of
the
Alcan
road
is
a
military
inevitability
and
tourists
have
been
promised
use
of
the
road
as
soon
as
facilities
can
be
built
to
care
for
them
as
they
go
north.
It
would
be
ti
shame
to
let
a
420-mile
wajer
link
bottleneck
the
most
picturesque
loop
trip
in
North
America.
6.
If
Alaska
operated
this
ferry,
British
Columbia
probably
can
be
induced
to
improved
the
Skeena
and
Cariboo
roads
and
to
turn
over
right
of
way
on
the
Haines
cutoff.
An
idea
of
the
travel
over
the
ferry
and
highways
can
be
gained
from
the
fact
that
over
a
million
autos
tried
to
get
onto
the
Alcan
road
this
last
summer
and
were
refused
permission.
Jf
each
of
them
came
north
with
three
persons
aboard
and
each
person
spent
$10
per
day
he
spends
elsewhere,
the
total
money
released
in
Alaska
and
Canada
would
be
considerable.
If
it
took
three
weeks
for
the
round
trip
of
said
three
million
persons,
total
spending
on
the
trip
would
be
approximately
$030,000,000.
And
yet
we
Alaskans
think
the
$50,000,000
Uncle
Sam
is
spending
for
Alaskan
defense
in
the
next
two
years
is
a
lot
of
money.
7.
Southeastern
Alaska
tradition-
,
ally
gets
the
short
end
of
legislative
spending
on
roads
because
it
has
few
roads.
This
is
its
chance
to
catch,
up,
yet
benefit
the
rest
of
Alaska.
The
combined
road
and
water
trip,
through
the
totemlands,
evergreen
forests
and
glacier
area
of
Southeastern
Alaska
and
the
frontier
road-land
tp
the
Midnight
sun
and
the
Yukon
has
tremendous
pulling
power
for
the
tourists.
Tourists
are
repeat
business.
They
take
no
raw
materials
from
the
soil
and
it
costs
little
to
harvest
their
annual
crop.
Yet
once
this
ferry
and
road
route
were
opened,
all
the
northwest
would
start
boasting
that
it
was
the
gateway
to
Alaska.
Wealthy
associations
like
the
Evergreen
Playground
association,
the
Redwood
Empire
highway
association,
the
Pacific
Coast
Highway
association,
the
Oregon
Coast
Highway
association,
the
Lincoln
Highway
association,
the
oil
company
travel
and
map
agencies,
the
American
Automobile
association
and
others
would
begin
routing
tourists
to
Alaska.
Our
investment
in
hotels,
airlines,
cafes,
auto
courts
and
resorts
would
begin
to
zoom.
We
know
of
ope
small
county,
Lincoln,
on
the
Oregon
coast
whose
assessed
valuation
went
up
$4,000,000
the
first
year
qfter
the
Oregon
Coast
highway
was
paved.
Its
resort
construction
mushroomed
again
this
year
on
the
strength
of
the
first
season
of
postwar
travel.
8.
We
propose
that
a
committee
of
citizens
such
as
the
Alaska
Development
board
operate
the
ferry
system
directly
or
on
contact
as
a
highway
commission
would
in
the
states,
paying
so
much
per
trip
made,
buying
surplus
military
equipment
where
available
for
conversion,
contracting
with
companies
or
individuals
to
operate.
the
ships,
and
possibly
agreeing
to
get
out
of
business
whenever
private
capital
wished
to
take
over.
However,
the
Territory
might
wish
to
continue
in
the
business,
since
it
should
be
operated
at
low
cost
to
encourage
travel
and
bring
in
tourist
money
and
the
resultant
deyelopment.
9.
Local
corporations
might
have
to
be
formed
to
handle
loading
and
unloading
of
railroad
cars,
construction
of
slips
and
operation
of
feeder
barges.
These
defajls
could
be
worked
but
later.
The
important
thing
is
to
assure
tourists
a
through
route,
to
assure
Alaska
cheap
rates
on
imports
and
exports,
and
to
encourage
development
of
a
great
'new
tourist
industry.
JOHN
H.
BULGER
OPTOMETRIST
John
Bulger
Ltd.
Third
Avenue
"A
Wagon
Road"
From
The
Victoria
Colonist
A
seconc
auzomooile
has
succeeded
in
crossing
Canada,
from
Halifax
to
Prince
Rupert,
on
Canadian
roads.
The
trip
earned
CPO.
Leslie
Paige
and
his
wife
a
gold
medal,
,
presented
by
the
Prince
Rupert
Public
Relations
Council
and
j
it
was"
worth
a
gold
medal,
as
!
was
the
first
trip
which
ended
!
in
Victoria
not
long
ago.
Looking
the
other
way
along
the
,
transit,
however,
s
this
not
an
outrageous
state
of
affairs
after
the
hundreds
of
millions
of
dollars
that
nine
provinces
and
the
Dominion
have
'
been
spending
on
highways
since
Confederation?
Why
must
it
be
hailed
as
a
feat
taxing
the
limit
0f
human
endurance
to
drive
an
automobile
across
Canada
on
public
highways?
1$
there
none
not
even
the
"Trans-Canada
Highway"
which
does
cross
Canada
in
a
passable
condition
and
in
one
piece?
Six
blowouts
and
two
flat
tires
were
mended
during
the
Paige
Expedition,
ir
w,e
may
call
it
so.
Gasoline
consumption,
with
oil,
was
$100
for
the
trip,
so
the
car
was
in
good
shape
if
the
roads
were
not.
British
Columbia
was
promised
"a
wajon
road"
across
Canada
when
this
province
entered
Confederation
in
1871.
Two
trans-rontlnental
railway
systems,
the
rudiments
of
a
transcontinental
airway
route,
and
much
else
has
been
achieved
since,
but
we
still
are
lacking
".he
wagon
road"
it
would
srem.
How
else
would
it
be
worth
a
pold
medal
to
cross
Canada
once
on
Canadian
roads
from
Halifax
to
Prince
Rupert,
with
six
blowouts
and
t
two.
flat
tires?
Every
Public
j
Works
Department
in
the
country
should
ask
Itself
this
j
question,
because
Confederation
was
a
long.
Jong
time
ago.
20
YEARS
AGO
September
21,
1926
Several
fishing
boats
near
Haysport
and
at
the
Skeena
moutl)
were
sunk
during
a
fierce
gale
which
lashed
the
north
coast
during
the
night.
At
Canoe
P3s
a
restaurant
on
a
scow
was
driven
ashore
and
several
small
boats
were
reported
in
trouble.
A.
C.
R.
Yu.ill
Vancouver
elep
?.
trlcaj
engineer
arrived
In
the
city
from
p.rinca.
George
to
investigate
the
taking
over-
of
the
.city
IJaht
and
power
facilities
bv
the
International
Utilities
Ltd.
of
New
York.
Unsorted
o.re
from
the
Patterson
mine
on
Porcher
Island
assayed
$55
a
ton,
and
.the
owners
were
reported
to
be
planning
further
development.
However,
a
lcjc
of.
blasting
powder
handicapped
operations,
the
owners
said.
BOTHA
STATUE
UNVEILED
CAPETOWN
(f
A
statue
of
General
Louis
Botha,
South
Africa's
first
prime
minister,
was
unveiled
here
rcepntly
by
his
daughter,
Mrs.
Helen
de
Waal.
1-11
I
Iff
in
this
Prince
Rupert
by
BIDDEE
JINKS
Whenever
I
think
of
the
USS
Tucson
there
immediately
comes
to
mind
the
tragedy
she
vainly
tried
to
avert
the
pity
of
trie
"Skeena
Queen"
winging
above
her
in
an
impenetrable
fog
to
sink
a
few
moments
later
beneath
the
weight
of
fathoms
of
water.
Tragedy
and
death
were
not
a
new
thing
to
many
of
the
boys
who
walked
the
decks
of
the
Tucson
or
made
such
a
familiar
sight
walking
Jauntily
along
our
strees
flipping
rhythmically
the
loose,
sloppy
trous-er-wldth
that
narrowed
Into
impeccable
neatness
over
slim
hips.
Some
bore
marks
of
many
months,
or
years,
of
service
at
sea
(although
the
Tucson
herself
was
used
solely
for
training),
but
othf)s
seemed
stjll
to
carry
traces
of
fuzz
on
their
fresh
ruddy
chpeks.
Talking
to
one
of
this
number,
I
expected
to
head
what
some
had
already
said:
"This
is
my
first
trip,
Ma'am.
I've
just
been
in
six
months"
this
being
said
with
inflections
and
variations,
depending
chiefly
on
whether
'home'
was
Ohio,
Arizona,
Loulsanna,-
Texas
or
the
Bronx!
The
lad
In
question
was
from
Washington.
'The
lad'
had
been
Just
three
years
in
the
Merchant
Marine.
At
seventeen,
he
had
literally
seen
the
world
and,
to
him,
the
names
of
these
distant
places
where
wo
would
like
to
travel
are
merely
pjrts
of
call.
He
told
of
starving,
cold
groups
huddled
on
the
wharfs.
Of
coming
back
to
shin
with
Just
enough
clothes
to
cover
"ncckedness"
but
at
other
times
they
returned
only
barefootl
Shoes?
People
would
give
nearly
anything
they
possessed
for
them.
But
not
in
Russia.
"Well
now,
maybe
they
would
have,"
he
added,
"but
we
didn't
get
to
see.
There
were
so
many
restriction
and
guards
that
we
never
left
ship
in
Russian
harbors,"
hp
explained.
"Were
you
in
the
South
Pacific
"
I
asked,
hoping
somehow
Xhut,
lie
hadn't.
"Yes,
I
was
In
part
.of
that
tut
never
got
a
scratch."
'
You
mean
you
were
raided
and
all
that?"
trying
to
choose
words
that
would
carefully
conceal
how
little
I
really
knew
of
what
he
might
have
encountered.
"Yeah.
They
would
sound
the
airom
and
each
of
us
would
take
our
post.
We'd
really
move.
Smoke
screens
would
bz
laid,
but
Gosh!
our
highest
gun
turrets
always
seemed
to
poke
through!"
He
laughed
at
that
one
now.
"Were
you
ever
frightened?"
"Scared?
I'll
say
I
was.
So
was.
everyone
I
bet.
Some
missed
it
once
but
got
it
next
time.
Ya
never
knew
when!"
He
knd
.of
moved
his
shoulders.
"I'll
neyer
forget
the
sound
of
those
bombers."
"Not
likely
you
will,
kid,"
I
said
tbmyself,
trying
lyxrd
to
think
back,
to
Imagine
what
it
might
feel
like
to
be
seventeen
Mavwe
fillyonr
prescription!
ETSi
Hit!
your
prescription
In
the
skilled
hinds
ol
i
Nyal
Druggist,
and
rectiva
j
.
B
l
professional
can
and
axacjjng
standards,
that
the
Nyal
Druggists
I
d
Canada
hava
maintained
lor
out
Ihite
generations.
Fer
satisfaction
I
mtmmmmrmmmmi
m
mm
mm
ml
mrmmmmK"
McCUTCHEON
PHARMACY
LIMITED
m
m
or
eighteen
or
ye
gods!
any
age
out
in
the
South
Pacific
on
a
floating
cache
of
destruction,
fighting
for
ypur
life,
but
all
the
same,
the
target
of
those
screaming,
diving,
dealers
of
death.
I
couldn't.
"It
must
have
been
a
happy
day
the
day
yon
got
home,"
said
I,
knowing
that
the
Joy
of
that
reunion
wfcs
also
freyond
my
comprehension.
He
grinned:
"I'll
tell
the
cock-eyed
world!
It
sure
looked
good
to
me.
The
country
and
all."
We
were
standing
on
the
Tucson
and
his
glance
swept
from
Tycks
Inlet
to
the
MetlaliatU
Passage.
"I
sure
like
It
up
ht're
though,"
he
said.
"D'ya
know,
I
think
I'd
like
to
live
here."
Which
saying
voiced
the
opinion
of
nearly
everyone
on
board.
Said
In
different
ways,
for
the
aforementioned
reason
It
would
come:
"This
is
a
great
country.
First
time
I've
been
up
this
coast"
or
"Helluva
good
country
you've
got
up
here"
but
they
all
concluded
in
one
way
or
another
with
the
same
phrase
"Ah'm
athlnkin'
Ah'd
like
V
live
up
liea
li!"
One
found
one
disadvantage.
He
even
mentioned
it
but
then,
he
didn't
know
what
lie
was
talking
about.
I
mean,
he
didn't
know
whether
it
was
,n
fly,
a
mosquito,
or
an
especially
healthy
wasp
that
struck
occa-
I
slonally.
He
did
know
that
'they
shore
can
sting.
Look
ut
iny
neck
and
he
pointed
to
a
distinctly
inflamed
area.
"Oh
that!".
I
tittered
care-,
lessly.
"That
must
have
been
a
black
fly
that
nipped
you.
We
get
used
to
them,"
I
lied,
glad
I
had
worn
slacks
to
cover
my
swollen
legs,
He
may
have
believed
rne.
Or
maybe
he
knew
that
my
lnteri-
j
lions
were
good.
As
good
as
is
the
relationship
between
our
Iwo
nations:
cordial
and
willing
to
be
blind
to
the
odd
'fly
bite.
'
In
this
present
world,
rife
with
!
hatred
and
prejudice,
that
Is
no
small
thing.
The
USS
Tucson
lay
inchored
at
our
docks
one
week;
the
HMCS
Charlottetown,
the
next.
Some
of
those
on
each
know
how
to
flgltf.
They
have
been
taught
to
fight
but
for
a
common
'cause.
Wisdom
And
friendship
has
long
moved
the
banner
extending
across
our
borders.
In
large
lettering
it
reads:
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ways
are
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of
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