Truman Budget ,
Includes Record
Alaskan Grants
(By Mary Lee Council)
WASHINGTON—A record 1949
Alaska budget was placed before
the House on January 12 by Pres
ident Truman in calling for a de
velopment program in the Terri
tory which more than doubles the
outlay for 1948.
Available figures indicate that
close to $45,000,000 has been re
quested to implement the pro
gram, with the Interior Depart
ment’s request of $38,000,000 top
ping department appropriations
^r this year by more than $22,
000,000.
A sum of $7,926,100 is asked
for surveys, new roads and recon
struction in Alaska and $1,841,300
for maintenance and improve
ment of existing roads, or $6,017.
000 more than the $3,750,000
which was appropriated for this
fiscal year. The department is
also seeking contract authoriza
tion of $6,944,000 to be applied to
the road system in the Territory.
Construction of the Geophysics
Institute at the University of
Alaska would be guaranteed
should the request for $100,000
asked by the public buildings ad
ministration be approved. The
appropriation would carry into ef
fect Delegate Bartlett’s authoriza
tion bill. The agency has also
asked for contract authorization
of $875,000 so that no delay will
be met in drawing up plans and
laying foundations for the com
pletion of the project which has
had the strong backing of the De
partments of the army, navy, in
terior, the weather bureau, fed
eral communications commission
and many private scientists.
The possibility that the interna
tional airport at Anchorage and
the airport for Fairbanks, both of
which would be constructed by
the civil aeronautics administra
tion at a total cost of $13,000,000,
would get under way this year
was strengthened by a request in
the budget for a direct appropria
tion of $2,200,000 and contract au-|
thorization of $10,800,000. Both
items are contingent upon pas
sage of authorization bills now be
fore the House calling for $8,000,-!
000 to be applied to the Anchor
age airport and $5,000,000 to the.
airport at Fairbanks.
The Alaska Communicat ions
System would receive money in
the same amount as that appro-1
priated for 1948, $1,804,000.
It is hoped that approximately
16 rural schools of the Alaska Na
tive Service will be reopened and
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that the construction of a 400-bed
hospital for tuberculous patients
will be started.
Almost a million dollars would
be available for investigation re
specting food fish in the Territory
with a request calling for $998,500
for this activity as compared with
$146,500 this fiscal year.
Of the $900,000 earmarked for
work of the geological survey in
Alaska, a considerable increase
over the 1948 figure of $127,000,
$120,000 would be utilized for
classification of lands, $150,000
for gauging streams and $230,000
for topographic work. These ac
tivities would be in addition to
the expenditure of $400,000 lor
mineral resources.
The office of Indian Affairs has
come forward with the request for
$1,205,800 for construction of
schools and hospitals in Alaska. In
addition the secretary of the inte
rior would be able to enter into
contracts not to exceed $6,400,000.
A direct appropriation of $75,000
is sought for the construction of
the 400-bed hospital for tubercu
lar patients with contract author
ization sought in the amount of
$5,925,000. It is hoped that
through this progi'am new con
struction, replacement of equip
ment and new school rooms will
result in White Mountain Kolig
nik, Stony River, Fort Yukon,
Rampart, Old Igloo, Mekoryuk,
Scamon Bay, Pedro Bay, Mum
trak, Kaltag, Solomon, Teller Mis
sion, Pilot Point, Nikolski, Hooper
Bay, Shatoolik, Northway, Pai
mute, Kasiluk, Kivalina and Kar
luk. The rest of the money sough!
would go to school and headquar
ters construction, hospital quar
ters and major repairs.
The Alaska Native Service seeks
$4,759,700 for its operation in
Alaska in 1949 as compared with
$3,676000 appropriated in 1948.
Included in this request are:
$1,742,555 for education of Aleuts,
Eskimos and Indians; health, $1,
745,000: welfare, $235,342; re
source development, $241,615; op
eration of vessels, $192,760. Other
items such as general administra
tion, maintenance of buidlings and
operation and management of the
activities at Mt. Edgecumbe make
up the difference. It is hoped that
the rural schools at Alitak, Bea
ver, Chalyitak, Eagle, Elephant
Point Fort Yukon, Kanakanak,
Nikolski, Nondalton, Nunichuk,
Pedro Bay, Salmon Bay, Solomon;
Stevens Village, Venetie and Yak
utate may be reopened.
Other requests made in the bud
get call for appropriation of $448,
000 for the care and custody of the
insane, as compared with $334,700
available this year; legislative ex
penses $48,000; operation of the
offices of the Governor and Sec
retary, $69,000; and a new pro
gram to be inaugurated for engin
eering and economic investiga
tions and reports relating to pro
jects for development and utiliza
tion of water-power resources of
Alaska in the amount of $150,000,
with especial reference to the de
velopment of Lake Eklutna near
Anchorage.
Statehood
Preliminary consideration has
been given to Delegate Bartlett’s
statehood for Alaska bill, H. R.
206, by the members of the sub
committee on Territorial and In
sular Possession of the House pub
lic lands committee.
The discussion was largely based
i>pon the findings of the members
>f the subcommittee who went to
Alaska last summer. The proposi
tion will be considered and dis
cussed further in the near future.
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Speculated In
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WASHINGTON VP)—A Senator
an ambassador and the newly-ap
pointed assistant director of the
budget were listed by the agricul
ture department yesterday as
! traders in commodity markets
since Jan. 1, 1946.
A new list of speculators made
public by secretary Anderson in
cluded the names of:
I Frank Pace, Jr., who has yet to
' take the oath as assistant budget
director.
James Bruce, ambassador to Ar
gentina.
j Senator Elmer Thomas <D.
1 Okla).
i Mrs. Edith Thomas, his wife.
Miss Beth Gage, his secretary.
! Harry C. Westphal, secretary to
j Senator Bushfield (R.-S. D.».
i Walter S. Salant, an economist
with the President’s council of
economic advisers.
| His brother, William A. Salant,
assistant chief of economic affairs
for the state department.
Their mother, Mrs. Josephine
S. Salant, New York,
j Winthrop G. Brown, chief of
the division of commercial policy
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Stocks for Europe
NEWARK, N. J., (/F)—A coast
to-coast “drug train” to collect
medical supplies for Europe was
planned Wednesday night by the
New Jersey Pharmaceutical asso
ciation.
The group, in mid-winter con
vention, adopted a resolution pro
posing the nation’s pharmacies be
come depots for collections of
drugs and medicines needed over
seas.
If approved nationally, the plan
would work this way:
The general public would con
tribute by donating 25 cents or
more in collection boxes set up in
p h a r m a c ies. Wholesale drug
houses would supply the drugs at
cost and turn them over to a na
tional collection group, probably
the American pharmaceutical as
sociation.
of the state department and a for
i mer lend-lease official.
The list was released lor publi
cation a few hours after the agri
culture department announced
that it^has suspended three of its
, own employees for speculating in
commodities and is investigating
about 20 others.
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