ates for all 1947 activities of the
Interior Department by close to
• 50 per cent, the committee re
commended the appropriation of
more money for Alaska. $7,827,828
than the Territory received dur
ing the fiscal year 1946, $5,936,745.
The committee slashed $172,113,
251 from the Bureau of the Bud
get estimates of $346,765,830 to
carry out all Interior Department
functions in 1947.
Surplus Property For Veterans
Veterans’ preference in the ac
quisition of all surplus property
Except real property has been ad
vanced to a general priority sec
ond only to that of federal agen
cies by act of Congress apDroved
ffcMay 3.
Amendment to the Surplus Pro
perty Act also provides for set
ting aside for sale to veterans
exclusively selected items in
heaviest demand in short supply
if those items are solely for per
sonal or business use.
A list of items sought most
by veterans and placed in the
set asides by the War Assets Ad
ministration for exclusive acqui
sition by veterans include cer
tain types of automotive vehicles,
tractors, construction, mining and
excavating machinery, agricultur
al machinery, medical, surgical
and dental apparatus and equip
0 ment and typewriters.
War Assets Administrator, Lt.
Gen. Edmund B. Gregory, in an
nouncing action to be taken by
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War Assets Administration to put
the new legislation into effect,
stated, “All of these items are in
extremely short supply. It fol
lows that there simply will not
be enough to meet veterans’ de
mand. But what there is in sur
plus on the set aside list will go
i to veterans and to no one else.
Our job will be to stretch these
scanty supplies as far as they
will go, with distribution among
veterans as equitable as it is hu
manly possible to make it.”
The amendment to the Surplus
Property Act above outlined will
operate in Alaska where disposal
of surplus property is under the
jurisdiction of the Surplus Pro
perty Office of the Interior De
partment.
District Engineer Office
Establishment of an Alaska
district office of army engineers,
recommended by Delegate Bart
lett, has been authorized by the
Secretary of War with headquar
ters at Anchorage.
The Alaska District, under the
Divisional Engineer in Seattle,
will have jurisdiction over all
military construction and milit
ary real estate functions for which
the Chief of Engineers has a dir
ect responsibility within the ter
1 ritorial limits of Alaska.
Civil works functions of the
Chief of Engineers in the Terri
j tory will continue to be the res
ponsibility of the Seattle District
until the plan can be broadened
; by staffing the Alaska District
with executive, administrative
and professional personnel. Gen.
Wheeler, Chief of Engineers, in
informing Delegate Bartlett of hte
; new office, stated, “Based on our
present conception of the future
act.' . in Alaska and on our
anticipated success in acquiring
suitable personnel, facilities, com
mun icy tions and materials, it is
exp •cled by this orderly process
to iriv-* within a year or so a
district in Alas*' * c-\ nhlc of com
petently discharging all functions
normally ass gned to an Engineer
District.”
Alaska Boy Writes Price Food
Essay
Donald Barry of Palmer Alaska
is the winner of a $25 U. S.
Savings Bond in the nationwide
“Food Plank For Peace” essay
contest sponsored by Pillsbury
Institute of Flour Milling History.
Entries were received from 43
states, Alaska and Hawaii, and
state and territorial finalists will
have their esseys entered into the
national contest. One-year col
lege scholarships and escorted
trips to Washington to visit Con
gress will be awarded the nat
ional winner.
Southeastern Airline Operations
Juneau “unquestionably gener
ates more air traffic than cities
in the States a hundred times
its size”, according to Raymond
W. Stough, Alaska Director of the
Civil Aeronautics Board in a re
cent report on air transport op
erations in southeastern Alaska.
Mr. Stough further revealed
that Ketchikan ranks above more
than a hundred cities in the States
as origin or destination point for
I air traffic. Most of the 192 cities
used for comparison have a pop
ulation of 100,000 or more. Other
towns in southeastern Alaska with
populations numbered in the hun
dreds compare favorably with
communities in the States whose
populations are numbered in the
thous.m is according to Mr.
Stough.
The P: esident, by executive or
der, hi discontinued the Sitka
Naval Airspace Reservation es
tab! in 1940.
It is understood the facilities
, of the Sitka Naval Air Station:
' will be turned over to the Civil
' Aeronautics Administration.
Geophysical Institute
The Houhe Committee on the
Teritories has approved Delegate
Bartlett’s bill to establish a geo
! physical institute at the Univer
sity of Alaska, and will report it
j favorably to the House.
The purpose of the bill is to *
| continue in the postwar period
geophysical research in the Arctic
physical research in the Arctic
which has been carried on since
1941 by the War and Navy De
partments, the Federal Commun
j ications Commission, the Coast and
geodetic Survey, the Weather
1 Bureau and other agencies. It
i is believed that geophysical ex
! plorations can lead to increases
I in supplies and reserves of im-1
portant minerals and can furnish
information of direct value both
for military and nonmilitary pro
jects.
The measure authorizes an ap-!
propriation of $1,000,000 for es- j
tablishment of the institute, the
facilities of which would be ex
tended to qualified members of
the federal bureaus engaged in
field work in Alaska which may
come within the province of geo
physics. The University will fur
! nish heat, light, water, electric
power and custodial services and
would staff the institute with a
director, appointed by the reg
ents of the University upon the
recommendation of the President
of the University and with the
approval of the President of the
National Academy of Sciences;
a librarian; and a secretary.
Visitors in the Capitol
John McCormick of Juneau,
Alaska Director of Selective Ser
vice, has visited Delegate Bartlett
while in Washington on a con
ference with Selective Service
National Headquarters.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Wade of
Juneau, and their three children,
are Washington visitors. Mr. Wade
Territorial Director of the Soc
ial Security Board, is in the nat
ion’s capitol on official business.
S. L. Seaton, of College, has been
in the capitol in connection with
Delegate Bartlett’s bill to estab
lish a geophysical institute at the
University of Alaska. Mr. Seaton
is observer-in-charge of the Col
lege observatory.
Mrs. Marsha Lavery and her
daughter, Mrs. L. W. Meath, both
of Fairbanks, called on Delegate
Bartlett during a trip to Wash
ington. They have visited in Ar
izona, New York and Baltimore
and will spend more time in Ariz
ona before returning to the Ter
ritory.
There is entirely too much wor
rying about unhappy marriages.
Nearly all marriages are happy.
It’s living together afterward that
causes all the trouble.
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