Vast Construction
Program Planned
For Alaska
WASHINGTON, (jP)—The fed
eral works agency, in its latest
“program of need” for public
buildings, has outlined proposals
for more than $15,000000 con
struction in Alaska, the office of
Delegate Bartlett (D.-Alaska) dis
closed today.
Before such construction could
begin, Congress would first have
to authorize it and then appropri
ate funds for the work.
Projects proposed for Alaska
for the time when extensive fed
eral building is again undertaken,
included:
Anchorage, federal office build
ing, $4,440,000; Fairbanks, post
office and court house, $920,000;
Fairbanks, public health labora
tory, $4,009,000; Juneau, remodel
ing and extension of federal of
fice building, $2,100,000; Ketch
ikan, remodeling and extension
of federal office building, $1,260,
000; Kodiak, post office and fed
eral office building, $655,000; Pal
mer, post office, $540,000; Peters
i U.S.-Canada May
Build Joint
Radar Network
OTTAWA, (/P)—Informed Ca
nadian sources said last night
Canada and the United States
are considering building a radar
network across Alaska and the
Canadian northland.
They were unable to say whe
ther the $250,000,000 estimate of
cost reported by a' Washington
newspaper was correct, but one
source said it “would cost a lot of
money to build a thing like that,
even to scout out the sites.”
A northern radar network has
long been considered a virtual ne
cessity by the Dominion’s defense
experts, but their hopes have
been dimmed by its cost in com
parison with Canada’s defense
budget.
The cost estimated by the news
paper, the Times-Herald, is
I roughly equivalent to this year’s
1 entire Canadian defense budget.
burg, post office and federal of
fice building, $710,000; Seward,
post office and court house, $1,
120,000.
iSeries Of Plane
Mishaps Around
The World
(Continued from Page One*
bers. The plane was destroyed.
A Continental Airline DC-3 was
i forced down at Great Bend, Kas.,
last night after a severe wind
storm damaged its mechanism.
None of the 12 occupants was in
jured. The plane was en route
from Denver to Tulsa.
The navy reported a four-en
gine navy Privateer with a crew
of nine and two aerologists miss
ing on a weather reconnaissance
flight 450 miles west of Guam
yesterday. Meanwhile, search
I continued for two planes reported
missing in Canada’s nojthland.
I Edmonton, Alta., reported one
! plane with a pilot and a passenger
i missing from Bathurst Inlet on
the Arctic Circle, about 900 miles
north of Edmonton. The passen
ger was a Miss Oldenburg, geolo
gist from the University of Minn
l esota. In the other missing plane
was V. B. Murray, of Washing
ton, D. C., who disappeared Sat
| urday about 250 miles northwest
• of Edmonton.
NEW HOSPITAL
GOING UP FAST
In an interview today .with su
i perintendent Ed Bomersheim, of
! the Carson Construction Co.,
| builders of the Maynard-McDou
gall Memorial Hospital, now un
der construction on West D street,
(he stated that the concrete foot
ings, foundation and foundation
! walls were nearly completed and
that the forms were ready for the
pouring of the upper section of
'the lower wall.
| He stated that under the ad
verse conditions, foreign to the
usual experiences of the company,
they were getting along with the
construction exceedingly well, in
spite of such handicaps as having
to fly materials and equipment to
! the job; and holdups for lack of
electrical power to run the tools
( and equipment necessary to speed
up the work.
Bomersheim said he was ex
pecting several additional tons of
cement and much steel on the
next boat and that they will be
' ready for it on arrival here.
i The Hawaiian Islands and New
Zealand have lost a great portion
1 of their native fauna.
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Scientific Research
At Barrow
POINT BARROW, (^—Every
thing under the sun—which sets
for only a few minutes each day—
is being checked by some of the
United States’ top scientists at
this top of the world village.
The experiments are being car
ried out at the two-story round
top building that houses the Arc
tic Institute, sponsored by the of
fice of naval research.
But the research is not military.
For example: One scientist
took a casual evening stroll across
the marshy tundra and returned
with six species of mushroom
never before recorded in these
latitudes.
Dr. Carl J. Henkelmann of Lin
coln, Nebr., a dentist is spending
the summer making impressions
of Eskimos’ teeth. The work will
form the basis for conclusions
about Eskimo diet and its effect
on their teeth.
Two zoologists Dr. Donald R.
Griffin and Raymond J. Hock of
Cornell university, are banding
birds and releasing them far from
their nests to determine how long
it takes them to return home. The
i birds return quicker the second
| time, indicating they are capable
(of “learning” landmarks rather
! than possessed of a “magnetic
j sense” of navigation, the two men
I report.
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