BUREAU OF MINES OFFICE
CLOSED—LACK OF FUNDS
Art Glover of the Territorial
Bureau of Mines completed pack
ing up the equipment for his de
partment which was forced to
close its office here due to lack
of funds. He stated that miners
may send their samples to the
Fairbanks office.
BESSIE SMITH
SUPERVISING PLAYFIELD
Yesterday the city playfield un
der the supervision of Bessie
Smith ha<f a turnout of over sixty
children. The supervisor states
that the playfield hours will be|
from one o’clock until three. Hours j
for pre-school children have not j
been set as yet due to the fact j
that the sand boxes are not ready..
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Discard Old Alaska
RR. Locomotives
SEATTLE, (A*) — Rusted and
worn, ancient Alaska railroad
steam locomotives which saw val
iant service through the seen;
world war now wait the melt’ng
pot.
Somewhere on the bottom pi' e
Pacific between Whittier cad
Seattle, four sister locomotive?,
weighing 70 and 90 ton , lie in the
murky depths. They got dumped
in the drink by a lashing, 73-rnk
an-hour gale, which bioke them
loose from their moorings as they
were brought south by barge a
month ago.
The old engines, once the pride
of the Alaska railroad and most of
them six-wheelers, were bought
as scrap by a salvage company
here. Their value is abou. $2J a
ton.
“They’re a sad looking lot of
choo choos and their job is about
up,” Walt Dexter, steel plant
yardmaster, said today.
“Don't think we won’t be glad
when they’re melted down and
gone. We’re getting tired of hav
ing people ask us why we’re bust
ing up perfectly good locomo
tives.”
Xmas Shopping
Completed Early
TACOMA, (/P) — Two Tacoma
sisters, Frances and Esther Saute
bin, have completed some Christ
mas shopping for a northbound
Santa Claus trek.
The two will carry Yuletide
presents by boat and airplane, to
Bethel, Alaska, so that 33 Eskimo
youngsters at the Moravian Mis
sion orphanage near there will
Speedy Spreading
! Of Gospel
SEATTLE, — Starting next
week, the Rev. Franklin J. Smith
will spread the gospel in western
Mer’ n more than IDO miles an
hou”
Early today Smith, missionary
i’h churches at Dillingham and
Ekwak on Bristol Bay was to
leave Olympia lor Alaska flying
his own plane.
He recently acquired the craft1
to speed his task of conducting
services in more than a dozen
towns and isolated villages in the
Bristol Bay area.
The craft has been equipped
with pontoons and other equip
ment essential to Alaska flying.
“With this plane I can cover in
15 minutes what it used to take
me a day to travel with a dog
team,” he said today.
Smith, a minister in the Chris
tian church, is a former sawmill
man and logger who went to Alas
ka with his wife and baby son in
1935 and built two churches, cut
ting the trees and squaring them
himself.
find a little “extra” under their
Christmas tree next December.
Their sister Constance is now
finishing her first year as a teach
er at the orphanage and when she
wrote of taking a vacation trip
north only a hint was necessary.
So now much of their 55 pounds
for the air legs of their trip con
sists of plastic toys, light weight
books, hair ribbons, dolls, bean
bags and balloons.
Frances is a USO service mem
ber and Esther a doctor’s secre
tary. They will sail tonight from
Vancouver, B. C., for Ketchikan.
Assured Of TB.
Panitorium
JUNEAU, (/P)—Don Foster, gen
eral superintendent of the Alaska
Native Service said yesterday up
on his return from Washington, D.
C., that he had obtained approval
♦rcm the federal budget bureau of
hi- supplemental request for
$750,000 to aid construction of a
tuberculosis sanitorium at the
Mount Edgecombe project, Japon
ski Island, near Sitka.
Foster also said it may not be
necessary to move the ANS head
quarters from Juneau to Sitka be
cause of the drastic cut in next j
year’s appropriations. The move
depends on whether the Senate
restores the slashed funds, he said.
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Plumbers Strike
In Anchorage
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ANCHORAGE, </P)—Forty-five
plumbers and steamfitters failed
to report for work yesterday when
the AFL plumbers union local 367
voted to stop work pending sign
ing of a new agreement.
Union spokesmen srid t --
plumbers ask $2.75 an hour with
double time to" any hhv
eight hours a day, and dou jle
time i i ur ay. '“'n. • ; '>"•
offered $2.60 an hour with time
and a half lor Saturday. The pres
ent scale is $2.25 an hoc
time a1 d a half Saturday .
Approximately 200 local mem
bers working at Fort R chardson,
and covered by a diffare.'.l c >.i
tract, are not affected by the
walkout.
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Small Tracts Of
Public Domain
May Be Purchased
WASHINGTON, UP)—The inte
rior department opened the way
for private purchase of small
tracts of federal public land in
the western states and Alaska yes
terday.
Secretary of the Interior Krug,
in a prepared statement said the
small tracts will be sold as sites
for homes, camps, cabins and
small businesses.
None of the 169,000,000 acres of
vacant lands in the United States
and 250,000,000 acres in Alaska
has yet been classified for sale,
Krug added. He said there is no
estimate of the location or amount
of land to be made available.
Classification of available land
and the determination of prices
will be left to the regional offices
of the bureau of land management
at Portland, Ore., San Francisco.
Billings, Mont., Salt Lake City,
Albuouerque. N. M., and Anchor
age, Alaska.
The bureau of land management
4’-•ore will be no direct sale
Tracts must be leased
for a year, with an option to pur
t-h ~r an-1 thr land must be used
’ ’nnroved before sale is ap
••• •'>v°d.
’"h-m ^ sale is authorized, the
ke allowed 60 days
in which to deposit one-fourth or
more of the purchase price. The
balance may be paid in equal
semi-annual installments, but the
total must be paid within two
years. Rentals paid for the lease
oeri'H will be credited against the
purchase price.
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