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Five Per Cent
School Funds
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JUNEAU, (^—Alaska’s 26 in
corporated school districts may
lose out on at east five per cent
of their expet d funds for the
next school y r.
Education « nmissioner James
C. Ryan said hangs on whether
the 1951 leg ature approves a
deficiency a\ opriation of more
than $104,000 to meet the bill.
The shortage is in sight in the
refunds granted each district by
the Territory for operation of its
schools. It ranges from 75 to 85
per cent of the total cost.
Dr. Ryan said the addiitonal
money is needed if schools are to
continue operation on the basis
planned when the budget was
made out. If the legislature does
not approve the added money, he
said, each district will have to cut
expenses by about five percent or
dig up the money locally.
He said the 1949 legislature had
appropriated all the money that
was asked, but that there are
three reasons for the shortage:
1—Costs have risen beyond ex
pectations.
2—Increased enrollment.
3—Several communities have
incorporated since the legislature
met and weer not included in the
budget.
Dr. Ryan said the school trans
portation fund has run into the
same trouble. A great influx of
families close to towns and added
costs in bus contracts are blamed.
He said the legislature provided
$300,000 for the two-year period
but contract costs in the first year
alone were $178,035. He expects a
$58,000 transportation deficit this
year, as a result.
SEATTLE, (;P) — Famed global
explorer Lowell Thomas left here
Monday for Juneau, Alaska.
He said he would meet with
Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and
commander of Arctic Rescue
squadron 10, but declined to dis
cuss the purpose of his expedition.
“We are off on another junket,”
Thomas said, “but I can’t say ex
actly where we are going on what
we have in mind.
“We do know we aren’t using
Yaks this time,” he added.
He was referring to his near-fa
tal injury on a recent expedition
to Tibet. His cameraman, John
Roberts, is accompanying him to
Alaska.
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JUNEAU — Working on a spe
I cial assignment to organize an
Alaska travel association, George
T. Armitage of Honolulu, Hawaii,
will arrive in Alaska August 6 to
assist the Alaska Development
Board in a long-range effort tq
systematize and promote tourist
travel to the Territory.
Armitage, a recognized author
ity in the travel industry, was ex
ecutive secretary of the Hawaii
Tourist Bureau (now Hawaii Visi
tors Bureau) for 22 years and saw
that organization develop into a
model of community promotion
and publicity methods that has
brought remarkable growth in
travel to Hawaii.
The Alaska Development Board
has been laying the groundwork
for formation of a similar organ
ization in this Territory. George
Sundborg, consultant to the board,
I will travel with Armitage to vir
tually every community in Alaska
| in the next month to confer with
leaders of the business commun
ity and enlist Territory-wide sup
j port for the proposed organiza
I tion. •
Armitage will be making his
i second visit to Alaska, he having
come here first in 1948. He is a
former newspaperman, serv e d
with the A. E. F. in Siberia in
World War I, and has travelled
extensively on the United States
mainland, in Canada and around
thq Pacific in the interests of Ha
waii’s tourist trade. He originated
Hawaiian Tourfax, the Hawaii
Come-back Club, Hawaii Unltd.,
and the Hawaiian Fall Festival,
and initiated the program of color
advertising for Hawaii in nation
al magazines. Since 1942 he has
been the head of a publishing
business in Honojulu.
Cooperating with the Alaska
Development Board and Armitage
in this effort are the major trans
portation companies serving the
Territory, hotel men, travel
agents, and chambers of com
merce.
Bov Scouts Leave
Sunday For Camo
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Troop 666, Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, will go on their annual camp
ing trip at the Scout Camp at
Dexter next Sunday with Scout
msater John Fults in charge. The
group of about 12 boys is made
up of 1st and 2nd class Scouts
who will be directed in the regu
lar camp program set out by the
national organization.
One of the interesting features
of the trip will be that the menus
will be prepared by the boys and
all cooking will be done by the
Scouts themselves under super
vision.
Assisting Scoutmaster Fults
will be Rev. Jordan Detzer and
Frank Bingham. The boys will re-r
turn home Saturday, August 12.
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Harry Asks Speed
On Four Billion
Arms-Aid Bill
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ism.
It did this by writing into a
$34,765,000,000 one-package ap
propriations bill power for the
President to cut off economic re
covery funds from any country
that refuses help for the United
Nations fight in Korea.
There were also rising demands
for aid to nations outside the At
lantic Pact.
There are many Senators who
want, for instance, to help Spain.
The four billions Mr. Truman
asked would be in addition to the
$1,222,500,000 already authorized
for the second year of the foreign
arms aid program.'
Most of the new money would
be spent to strengthen Western
Europe.
Mr. Truman gave this break
down of the proposed spending in
his letter to Rayburn:
$3,504,000,000 “for strengthen
ing the security of the North At
lantic area.”
“The security of this area is of
paramount importance to the
strength of the entire free world,”
he said.
$193,000,000 “to accelerate and
increase the important programs
of military assistance to Greece,
Turkey and Iran.”
$303,000,000 “to increase and
accelerate military assistance to
the republic of the Philippines
and to other nations in southern
and eastern Asia.”
The National Geographic Soci
ty says there is evidence the Nor
wegians occupied parts of the
Shetland Islands in A.D. 700.
Marines Have
Landed, “Will Give
’Em Best We Got” ' 1
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a beachhead shrinking under the
armored blows of the North Kore
ans.
“We figure this will be tougher
than anything we have had be
fore,” the sergeant said.
The brass band on the dock *
, played two stirring Leatherneck
airs, “From the Halls of Monte
zuma” and “Semper Fidelis.”
The Marines came loaded for
heavy combat.
They will go into battle behind
Pershing M-26 tanks, weighing 45
tons and mounting a 90 mm. gun. *
There’s been nothing like that on *
the American side so far. Russian
! made T-34’s consistently have
j outgunned the American medium
tanks.
Flame throwers and the new
tank-killer super-bazookas also
were in the marine equipment.
“We feel fine and hot to go,”
said Staff Sgt. Claude Bricker of
Kansas City.
“No pain ,no strain. We just
want to get this over,” said Staff
Sgt. Leonard Libby of Granite
City, 111.
They came from the Caroline
hills, the streets of New York and
the plains of the Midwest. They
were a cross-section of America.
They had been 20 days crossing
the Pacific and had been expected
two days earlier.
An advance party of Leather
neck administrative person n e 1
was flown here from the United
States several days ago to prepare
for the arrival of the fighting
forces.
The fighting Marines landed
some 40 miles from the battle
front in Southeastern Korea.
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