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Communication
Juneau, Alaska,
July 28, 1948,
Howard Lyng, Member Territorial
Board of Public Welfare
Nome, Alaska.
Under new federal fund match-1
ing provision effective October 1
the National Social Security
Board will contribute $30.00 of
every old age assistant grant
(pension) up., to $50.00. This in
creased federal participation will
make possible additional use of
released Territorial funds for this
program. Records now indicate
that with $6,000.00 Territorial
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Old Age Assistance funds month
ly over and above present expen
ditures, the Department could re
instate, effective September first,
former standard and budget used
prior to Board Public Welfare
meeting of April, 1947.
With the increased federal
money and consequent release of
| additional Territorial funds under
proposed revision, sufficient
funds would be available until
March 31, 1949.
It is estimated that with these
additional funds together with the
j revision of budgetary standard,
j the average grant (pension) will
; increase from $45.00 to between
$59.00 and $60.00 per month.
Revised federal participation is
j also available under Aid to De
i pendent Children program,, but
Territorial funds are wholly in
sufficient to meet long waiting
lists of applicants, therefore not
possible to revise policy on this
program until next session of
I Legislature.
In order to comply legally with
Board of Public Welfare’s defini
tion of policy covering proposed
increases in Old Age Assistance
grants < pensions) I must have
your approval which wire me at
your earliest convenience.
Russell G. Maynard,
Director, Dept. Public Welfare
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Nome, Alaska,
July 29. 194d
Russell G. Mayqnard, Director
Territorial Dept. Public Welfare.
Juneau. Alaska.
Herewith convoy to you au
thority to reinstate, effective Sep
tember first, 194B, the former
standard and budget used prior
to th April, 1947 board meeting
as applicable to the Old Age As
sistance program. This re-!n
statement, made possible by in
creased federal participation in
our O.A.A. program, will remedy
to some extent the deplorable
status of our aged citizens whose
standard of living has been
forced lower and lower each time
the cost of living has risen since
the abolition of O.P.A.
Howard Lyng, Member
Terr. Board of Public Welfare
ALASKA MUST DEVEL
OP OWN RESOURCES
JUNEAU, (/P)—A high govern
ment official declared, yesterday
that federal spending in Alaska
“Can’t last forever.’’ He urged the
Territory to develop its own per
manent economy.
The official, James P. Davis,
director of territories and insular
possessions for the department of
the interior, said small industries
should be developed to turn out
products for local use.
Davis said private interests also
should take the lead in furthering
mining and timbering. He added
that the federal government can
be counted on to act as a partner.
Davis, who has also visited
Fairbanks and Anchorage, will
remain here until Sunday as a
guest of Governor Ernest Gruen
ing. ^
Truman Asks
Power To Cut.
Many Prices
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slashing “ceilings” must take into
account rises since then in costs,
and other factors.
Paul Porter, former OPA ad
ministrator, took a draft of pro
posed legislation to the House
banking committee. He argued to
the committee — as President
Truman did in his message to the
special Congress session on Tues
day—that without inflation curbs
the nation is flirting with a pos
sible economic collapse.
But Porter said that even with
the controls proposed he would
not expect an immediate reduc
tion of price* levels. He added:
“We do expect them to end the
upward march of prices and to
j reduce, so far as is possible at this
late date, the threat of future
; collapse.”
i The bill proposes also limited
powers between now and June
30, 1950:
I 1. To ration a few products in
short supply.
2. Some authority over wages
in the manufacture of items put
under price control.
3. Restoration of war time con
trols over consumer credit, such
as restraints on installment buy
ing.
4. Direct authority to regulate
speculation on commodity ex
changes. .
5. Authority to regulate bank
credit.
1 6. Strengthening of rent con
NAVY VESSELS ANCHORED
IN NOME ROADSTEAD
Three Navy Vessels, the USS
Burton Island, an icea breaker,
and two LST’s the USS 1146 and
USS 1110, composing an Arctic
task force, are lying in harbor in
the Nome roadstead, having ar
rived here last night from Seattle
enroute to Barrow.
Aboard the USS Burton Island,
the flagship of the task force, is
task force Commodore, Capt. R.
M. Scruggs, and ship commander,
Capt. E. A. McDonald.
Word received from the vessels
stated they will proceed on their
northward journey Saturday af
ternoon, to a rendezvous with
other task forces, thence contin
uing on to specified beaches on
the Arctic Oceon near Barrow,
nearly nine hundred miles north
of Nome. The vessels are loaded
with equipment and supplies for
the navy operations at and near
Barrow, on the rim of the world.
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trol with the administration to
bring de-controlled housing units
back under rent ceilings if it
deems it necessary .
7. Inventory control of scarce
commodities which basically el
fect the essential industrial pro
duction. or the cost of living, and
the right to ration them to indus
tries.
Porter told reporters that a sep
arate bill will be sent to Congress
, proposing the restoration of the
war time excess profits taxes.
Even before the program wa;
i presented. Republican leaders had
' dclared they would not approv •
such controls. Some said it would
mean a “police state.”
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now SEAT 1 UK is a SUBURB OF Nome
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Anchorage - Seattle
EFFECTIVE JULY 5
MONDAY - WEDNESDAY
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Lv. Moses Point (Flag Stop)
Lv. Unalakleet 12:35 p.m. BST.
Lv. McGrath 2:15 p.m. BST.
Lv. Farewell (Flag Stop)
| Ar. Anchorage 3:50 p.m. BST.
I Lv. Anchorage 5:00 p.m. BST.
Ar. Seattle 12:30 a.m. BST.
Via Northwest Airlines
FRIDAY
Lv. Nome 11:25 a.m. BST.
Lv. Moses Point (Flag Sto~)
Lv. Unalakleet 12:35 p.m. BS'\
Lv. McGrath 2:15 p.m. BS~\
Lv. Farewell (Flag Sto**)
Ar. Anchorage 3:50 p.m. BS~.
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