ritory less than 650 farms, possibly
one-fourth of which are fur farms.
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VISITORS
Lowell M. Puckett of Anchorage
has been a Washington visitor on j
official business in connection,
with his duties with the land of- J
fice.
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Walter Freeman of Valdez has
called on Delegate Bartlett while
in Washington. Mr. Freeman
teaches school at Valdez and plans
to start a newspaper there at an
early date.
Dick Forsgren, who mines near
Deering, was a recent visitor to |
Delegate Bartlett’s office during a j
vacation trip in the east. Mr. Fors-1
gren lives in Everett, Washington,;
in the winter.
Michael J. Haas, in charge oi
Department of Labor activities in
Alaska with headquarters at Jun
eau, is in Washington for confer
ences with Labor Department of-;
ficials.
W. JUDISH RETURNING
TO WHITE MOUNTAIN
VW. Judish, of the White Moun
tain School made a business trip
to Nome this week. He is return
ing to White Mountain with a bull- |
dozer and hopes to take advantage
of the mild weather.
Vets And Families
Exeeed Civilians
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Chairman
Bridges <R.-N. H.>, of the Senate
appropriations committee said to
day the 18,000,000 World War II
veterans and their immediate fam
ilies probably outnumber the rest
of the population.
“I think it would be a healthy
thing for the country to-know the
facts about this,” Bridges told a
newsman.
The question came up during a
discussion in the committee yester
day of a request by the Veterans
Administration for a $30,000,000
supplementary appropriation to
cover operations for the next two
months. VA already has received
$135,000,000 for administrative ex
penses during the current fiscal
year. v
“We have 18,000,000 veterans
today,” Gen. Omar Bradley, the
veterans administrator, told the!
committee, “and before long we
will have another 2,000,000 eligi
ble to veterans legislation.”
He said the VA figures each has
an average of three relatives,
which would make 60,000,000 rela
tives in all. The nation’s popula
tion is around 145,000,000.
Bradley promised to dig up the
latest figures for the committee,
plus estimates of how the number
will vary five and ten years hence.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Development
Board Report Lists
Activities
All activities of the Alaska De
velopment Board in the past two
years, including successful oppo
sition to greatly increased ship
ping rates, have been accomplish
ed with the expenditure of only
about half the funds appropriated
for the board’s use, it :s revealed
in ‘he Board’s biennial report sub
mitted to the Legislature in Jun
eau ‘his week.
Total expenditures of the Terri
torial development agency up to
January 15 were $59,155.68, the
report shows. The 1945 Legisla
ture appropriated $120,000 for the
Alaska Development Board.
The Board’s report, prepared by
General Manager George Sund
borg, lists accomplishments of the
agency toward developing forest
products industries, a creosoting
Plant, brick factories, a cement
plant, coalfields and other mining
operations, fisheries enterprises,
tourist resorts, a petroleum trans
portation business, and numerous
other industries and businesses.
Specific results obtained in
“trouble shooting” for Alaska en
terprises which encountered diffi
culties during the biennium are
detailed in the report. These serv
ices included such varied activi
ties as obtaining the removal of an
embargo on a shipment of brick
making machinery to an Anchor
age factory, finding commercial
outlets for salmon “Leather” prod
ucts, prevailing on the Coast
Guard to stop in at one of the
Aleutian Islands to pick up the
season’s wool clip of a lonely sheep
ranch, arranging for the negotia
ted sale of an oil tanker to three
World War II veterans, arranging
Alaska distibutorships for various
manufacturers, clearing the way
for RFC loans to worthy enterprises
and assisting in the removal of a
state sale tax improperly chargeci
against Alaskans taking delivery
of automobiles in Seattle.
“Most of the results of any de
velopment agency are long-term
results,” the board states in the in
troduction to its report. “But the.
accomplishments of the Alaska De- |
velopment Board, even in its first
biennium, have been substantial.
It has been an action agency. It h i
justifying the vision of the Alas
kans who called for its creation
and the people’s representatives
who created it. It is making real
progress toward that more pros
perous and stable Alaska for which
we all strive.”
Work which the Board has done,
to assist several concerns contem- ■
plating locating pulp mills in Alas
ka is described in the report, which
says in summing up progress on
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Picket Square Knot
At Juneau
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ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Coi. James
D. Lang, district army engineer,
said today CIO longshoremen have
thrown a picket line around the
freighter Square Knot at Juneau.
Union officials informed him, he
said, the ship was tied up because {
the longshoremen “were locked
out by Alaska Steamship company I
and deprived of their rightful job’
of loading the ship.”
About 300,000 board feet of lum
ber had been loaded aboard the:
vessel when 22 longshoremen i
threw up the picket line. Onej
hatch was being manned by the
sailors union of the Pacific <AFL>
and the other three by war depart
ment civilian employees, he said.
The vessel is owned by the Mar
itime commission and operated by
the Alaska Steamship Company on
charter to the Seattle Port of Em
barkation.
Lang asserted the union’s claim !
of a lockout by the steamship
company was groundless.
“The company has nothing to
say” regarding the ship’s opera
tions, he explained.
The vessel docked in Juneau to
load government-owned lumber
with war department civilian em
ployees.
“This is exactly the same pro
cedure as has been followed for
the past five years,” Lang declar
ed.
Union officials said they would
continue the picket line pending
instructions from head officers in
Seattle and San Francisco.
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this point, “We have every hope
and expectation that by continued
effort conditions can be made such
that Alaska will soon see a start j
made on construction of at least
one pulp and paper mill.”
The report shows that 11,700
copies have been distributed of the
six pamphlets so far published by
the Board on various development
subjects.
Members of the Board are J. A.
Talbot of Ketchikan, A. Polet of
Nome, Wilbur Wester of Anchor-1
age, Leslie Nerland of Fairbanks|
and Governor Ernest Gruening,
Chairman.
Photostat! your Discharge Papers.
Task Force to Trek
Over Tundra
Headquarters, Task Force Fri
gid, Fairbanks. (/P)—"Task Force
Frigidette,” of 200 men and 70
vehicles, was being organized here
today to test men and machinery
in a trek over the treacherous
tundra and muskeg "badiaa i " of
the Arctic.
It will pursue the same 15.') re -
route negotiated by 14 men .a
five vehicles of the 505th para
chute infantry regiment last v c ..
This party, commander by (.'apt.
Charles E. Lachausee, Alexandria,
Va., covered the route in three
days—two less than anticipated—
despite the dunking of one of the
motorized “weasels” in Clear
Creek, some 75 miles from here1
and a delay of several hours when
one of the machines cast its track, j
“Frigidette” will comprise men
and machines of all army ground
forces branches of service engaged,
in the test of army equipment in
the northland. It will be command
ed by Lt. Col. Walter J. Preston,
Jr., of Fayetteville, N. C., task
force Frigid’s test executive.
Radio contact will be maintained
between headquarters and the
“sub-task force.”
CHAMBER DISCUSSES
TRANSPORTATION
The Nome Chamber of Com
merce yesterday held a regular
luncheon meeting in the Nevada
Lounge.
James Caravello, reporte rfor
the Oregon Journal, of Portland,
Oregon, gave the chamber a little
previous information on a George
Henderson, who is to arrive on the
Alaska Airlines plane from An
chorage on Wednesday.
Caravello stated that Mr. Hen
derson was a representative of the
Portland business men and would
seek information regarding the
possibility of a direct route from
Portland to Nome for shipping
during the open season of naviga
tion.
A report of the basketball com
mittee showed the receipt of over
$1000 for expenses entailed in
sending the Nome High School
basketball team to Anchorage for
the All-Alaska tournament.
Notes From
Antarctica
(By Alton L. Blakeslee)
U/P) Correspondent representing
the combined American Press.)
Aboard the U.S.S. Mt. Olympus,
OP)—The icebreaker Burton Island
rammed through the last great
stretches of the ice pack today and
was expected to rendezvous to
w.th the Mt. Olympus at
t e outer edge of the frigid Antarc
tic moat.
Rear Admirals Byrd and R. H.
Cruzen, together with many of the
197 men who lived at Little Amer
ica for 39 days, are expected to
transfer immediately to this ship
if the .sea is calm enough. The ice
breaker Northwind is due to join
the other two ships shortly there
after.
The three vessels, winding up
the central group activities of the
4,000-man expedition, then will
sail to New Zealand, where they
are due to arrive March 7, or pos
sibly earlier, for a six-day holiday.
The eastern task group today
reached the largely unexplored
Weddell Sea area, but the weather
was unfavorable for flights. The
eastern task group, which was off
MacRobertson and Enderby Land,
eported that the weather was
good and that it hoped to launch
an exploratory plane.
VISITS MINNIE FIELD
HOME IN JUNEAU
Representative Ludwig Ost
| sends an interesting letter from
Juneau telling of a visit to the
Minnie Field Home in Juneau.
Minnie Field, who was cook and
matron at the federal jail in Jun
eau for seventeen years saw so
many homes broken that she de
cided to start a home for the un
forunate children left when par
ents were cast in jail. Out of her
own funds she has supported and
cared for these children and now
has 47 with her.
The Territory has supplied two
teachers and the children are
taught to work and become good
Christians. Her wonderful work is
highly praised by the people of
Juneau and the members of the
legislature who called were amaz
ed with what she has accom
plished.
Surpl s Trucks
FOR SALE ON A SEALED BID BASIS AT FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
1—14 ton COMMAND CAR 1—111 ton TANK TRUCK
1— l/2 to PICKUP..TRUCK 4—214 ton TRACTOR TRUCKS
2— 14 ton WEAPON CARRIERS 3—4 ton CARGO TRUCKS
12—11/2 ton CARGO TRUCKS 2—4 to 5 ton TRACTOR TRUCKS
28—111. ton DUMP TRUCKS 3 CARGO CARRIERS
21—21/2 ton CARGO TRUCKS 1 CRAWLER TRACTOR TRUCK
1—14 ton COMMAND CAR for PARTS ONLY
Bids on any or all of the trucks will be opened at 2:00 P.M. on March
28, 1947, and should be mailed to War Assets Administration
Region No. 37
. Box 2466, Anchorage
War A sscts Ad ministration
(Formerly Surplus Property Office, Dept, of the Interior)
Office Hours
Box 2466, Anchorage, phone Army 3101 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Box 1107, Fairbanks, phone East 690 Monday .thru Friday