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MRS. KEN SLY VISITS
PARENTS IN NOME
Mrs. Ken Sly, formerly Alice
Martin of Nome arrived Saturday
evening for a short visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mar
tin of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Sly
have been making their home in
Fairbanks for the past three years
and are now being transferred to
another station.
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Lillian Martin, another daughter
of the Martins, is enroute by air
to Texas, where she will be mar
ried to a boy formerly stationed
in Nome.
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Hospital Notes
Edward Maloney, Mrs. Mary
Love and baby, and Mrs. Mar
cella Johnson and baby have been
dismissed from the Maynard-Co
lumbus Hospital.
Patients admitted have been:
Elliott O’Lanna, Bessie Moto of
Deering Flora Dalilak of Solomon,
Mercy Jones of Deering, A1 Allo
cheok, Gus Erickson and Walter
Gammell.
Mrs. Mary Croell gave birth to
a baby girl on May 26.
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WASHINGTON j
NEWS-LETTER j
By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS
BILL REPORTED TO HOUSE
The $39,000,000 eliminated from
the budget estimates for the In- j
terior Department Appropriations
! bill for 1946 by the House Appro-!
j priations Committee includes
! $1,386,205 denied by the commit
tee for Alaska items.
The bulk of the decrease in
! items for the Territory is repre
sented by a sum of $1,072,600
which the Interior Department re
quested for use by the General
Land Office, Geological Survey
and Fish and Wildlife Service in
the development of Alaska but
' which the House committee de
nied because “the committee is of
the opinion that the testimony
presented as to the purposes for
which funds were required did not
justify approval of the item.”
Development of Alaska. $1,072,600
j Forest management and
protection (fire control).. 175,000
Education of Natives. 1,482,250
Medical relief for Natives 866,500
Reinder Service . 85,000
Investigation of Mineral
Resources of Alaska. 157,500
Alaska Fisheries . 650,000
Alaska Game Law En
forcement . 147,000
Government in the Territory
Salaries and expenses.... 44,000
Public schools (receipt
limitation) . 50,000
Care of Insane . 290,000
Construction and repair
of roads, trails, etc. (Re
ceipt limitation) . 152,500
Repair and maintenance
of roads, bridges and
trails . 1,077,800
Richardson Highway .... 1,250,000
Mr. Bartlett stated on the floor
of the House when the bill came
up for consideration that he be
lieved it was up to Congress to in
crease the scope of the Federal
agencies now represented in the
Territory to prepare for the rush
to Alaska after the war “knowing
full well the development on the
grand scale of the last great Amer
ican frontier is hard upon us,” and
further stating that Alaskans are
“anxious to direct and assist in
that development so the greatest
good will accrue to the Nation.”
Compromise Reached In Appropri
ation For Alaska Experiment
Station Work
The conferees for the Agricul
ture Appropriation bill of the Sen
ate and House reached a compro
mise on the appropriation for Ex
periment Station work in Alaska,
agreeing to the additional sum of
$5,000 over last year’s appropria
tion.
The budget for the fiscal year
1946 recommended by authorized
Bartlett To Inspect
Surplus Property Disposal
WASHINGTON, May 28-^P)—
Nine members of the House Mili
tary Affairs Committee will leave
Tuesday for Europe and the Mid
dle East to look over the Army
surplus property disposal program
and troop deployment operations.
Delegate “Bob” Bartlett of
Alaska will be included in the
committee.
appropriation of $32,500 for this
work, but this amount was re
duced by the House to $22,500.
Upon representations made by
Delegate Bartlett, the Senate
amended this portion of the bill
voting favorably on the sum of
$32,500. The compromise agrees to
$27,500, representing an increase
over the $22,500 originally voted
by the House.
War Department
Approves Flag
(Jse of the veterans honorable
discharge emblem on the World
War II Employment Flag (shown
above) has been approved by the
War Department Similar to the
| Service Flag showing the number
of former employees in the armed
forces. the Employment Flag
designates the number of returned
World War II veterans being em
ployed. Display of an Employment
Flag was originally proposed last
year by the Disabled American
V'eterans, and since that time DAV
Chapters throughout the nation
have been urging industry to dis
play the new Employment Flag
The emblem is gold on a white
background, edged in blue
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