Map 260,000 Square
Miles Of Alaska
WASHINGTON. (&) — The air
force’s 72nd strategic reconnais
. nice squadron is returning from
Alaska after photo-mapping 260,
000 square miles of desolate areas
in the last three years.
In making the announcement,!
the air force said yesterday that
the squadron will be based at
Mountain Home air force base, |
Idaho.
The 7th photographic technical*
unit, attached to the 72nd squad-1
1 on at Fairbanks, Alaska, is com-1
ing back also and will likewise be j
stationed at Mountain Home.
About 550 officers and men are
being withdrawn from the Alas
kan command in this movement
of the two units set for the last of
this month.
The squadron was assigned the |
task of photo-m-apping the Alas
kan area for strategic locations of
defense units. It was also to ob- 1
tain information necessary to es
tablishment of regular schedules
of air transport services.
In addition, one of its jobs was
Girl Srout News
The Girl Scouts are going to be
busy planning for Scout camp,
which is going to start July fifth
and continue for two weeks.
There will be two picnics; on
the 26th of June and the 3rd of
July. Everyone who is interested
may come and bring their own
lunch. This will be a WORK pic
nic—that is working on the camp
and repairing if for the Scouts.
The parents permits for Girl
Scouts attending camp must be
signed and turned in by June 22
to Mrs. Staudenmayer.
Alice Miller, Scribe.
Jane Sniffen of Special Service
at Marks Air Force Base reports
that a carnival was held at the
Service Club last Sunday for the
benefit of the Alaska Crippled
Children's Assn., and netted $43.25
cents.
to aid the navy in determining the
distance of possible oil formations.
In cooperation with the navy, it
mapped more than 100,000 square
miles.
Congress Votes
Govt. Revamping
Power To Truman
WASHINGTON, </P>—Congress
completed -action yesterday on a
bill giving President Truman
broad powers to streamline the
executive branch of the govern
ment.
The Senate, by a voice vote
with no opposition, approved a
compromise version of the bill
which was worked out by a Sen
ate-House committee Wednesday.
Tht? House passed it a few min
utes earlier.
Senate action sent\the measure
on its way to the White House af
ter a month of bitter wrangling.
Just before Congress acted
President Truman said that he
would go ahead with reorganiza
tion plans as soon as Congress
finished with the legislation.
House and Senate conferees fi- j
nally got together on a compro
mise that would let a vote of a ma
jority of the whole membership
of either House stop a reorganiza
tion proposal.
Mr. Truman would not com
ment on a proposal that a special
Seabees Store lee
In Modern Fashion
SEATTLE, (JP) — Navy Seabees
have beaten the northernmost
Alaskan Eskimos at their own
#
game—putting in the annual ice
supply.
Since time immemorial, the Es
kimos have “harvested” ice as a
source of their winter water sup
ply at Point Barrow.
They cut it with a handsaw and
drag the blocks out with a leather
thong.
The navy oifice here said yes
terday the Seabees thought they
could improve on the old tech
nique. They adapted a motor
driver, circular blade timber saw
on wheels. They used a “weasel”
(snow tractor)) to pull the chunks
from the water and bent-pipe
skids to haul them ashore.
The navy said the result was hO
tons in storage in an eight-hour
day—more than an industrious
Eskimo could cut and store in 80
days.
session of Congress be called for
Oct. 1 to enact reorganization leg
islation.
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[Interior Report
Brings Agitation
For Statehood
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tomorrow it could belong to the
world.”
•*N onsense” commented Rep.
Taber of New York, top Republi
can on the House appropriations
committee.
“Never,” said Rep. Bolton <R.
Ohio', a member of the House for
eign affairs committee.
“Alaska should become the 49th
State of the Union, not the first
state of a World Union,” said E. L.
Bartlett. Alaska’s Delegate to the
House of Representatives.
Bartlett told reporters the inte
rior department’s observations,
contained in a reclamation bureau
survey of Alaska resources, point
ed up the urgency of ‘admitting
Alaska to Statehood.
“Why should we give Alaska to
the United Nations or to anyone
else?” Bartlett asked. “It is one of
our most valuable possessions
from any standpoint.”
Bartlett suggested, and Repre
sentatives Taber and Bolton
agreed, that “suitable” foreigners
be invited to settle in Alaska and
help populate and develop it.
“But they should be required to
become United States citizens and
take an oath of allegiance to this
country,” Bartlett said. “In that
way, we can develop Alaska for
the United States by Americans.”
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