STATE OF ALASKA
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS .
NEWS RELEASE > .
'Morris on-Knudsen Go. Inc. Seattle, Wash
was the apparent low bidder on a multi
million dollar highway ..and .bridge, project -
in the Nome area, Acting highways Commission
er Robert E. Sharp said today. The M-K bid
was $3,322,309,90. :■
Plans on the project call for construct
ion of 20.877 miles of - new roadway and aix
new bridges on the Nome- Teller Road. The ,
new bridges, all welded steel girder'stru
ures with concrete decks, will span the
Sinuk, Tisu^:, Feather and Blues tone rivers,
and Eldorado and Gold Run creeks. This proj
ect will be the final linkin construction
of the Nome-Teller Road.
Other bidders for the work were William
/U Smith Contracting Co. Inc., Kansas City,
Kan., 3,475,928,50j a .joint venture bid of*.
Alcan-Pacific, Rivers and Ghemm Construction
Co., Fairbanks, $,476,764.75; Central Con
struction Go**;-3>59lv990;84r arid" G^een Con-' ."
struction Co., Des Moines, Iowa, $3,853,938
50. ‘
All bids a re being studied, Sharp'said.
The next Highway Department bid opening
will be held next Thursday when proposals
will be considered on two jobs —4 placing ......
50,895 tons of rock slope protection on
the^Copper River Bank near Gakona, and
paving of 10,281 miles of roadway between -
Shrine and Yankee Cove on the Glacier High
way near Juneay and paving of. the indiam Po
int ferry terminal holding area.
A«G >S ♦ NEWS . _ Bob Minton
Winter is surely, but not two slowly
decending upon "Ye "Olds AGS Station", this
past week sawlarger marker post go up by
our driveway so we can tell where the grass
and drainage ditches are after the snow.
New headbolt heater lines have been installed
and checked out. These lettel items sure wo
rk wonders for vehicles that have to be park
ed outside during the winter months.
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GOVERNOR OFFICE NEWS RELEASE
Baseball fans, the world, around soon will
be reading about Alaska,
' This was disclosed today in a letter
received b Governor William A,. Egan from
Raymond D^m^gt, president of the National
Baseball ongress. .
Dumont said the 1964 Official Baseball
Annual will have a special section devoted
to the annual Midnight Sun Baseball series
at • Fiarbanks and will also ’’bring out the
meritS of'■ the fine Alaska Gqldpanners and
their outstanding manager.”
The baseball official told Governor Egan
the Goldpanners ”again proved the most pop
ular -team in-the-recent National tournament
and expressed the conviction that their sho
wing of the last two years' ”has placed Alaskc
on a competitive basis with the other states
In baseball
' By yirtue of their third place finish in
the national tournament, the Goldpanners
qualified'for automati entry in the 1964
tournament, Dmnont said, without regardto
how they may finish in the Alaska qualifying
rounds .•: . . . ' .. ..
Dumont continueds
MThere is no doubt that the fine publicity
-/that the Goldpanners have given your state
throughout the nation has added prestige to
the 49th state and no doubt will indirectly
j aid in more persons wanting to visit yo. '
state than ever before*
uThe Goldpanners not only shoed plenty
of hustle and sparkling baseball, but were
fine sportsmen and certainly represented
Alaska capably in the recent National tour
nament* ' ’
In RedBoucher, the Alaska team undoub
■tedlj. has one .of the most outstanding mana
gers in baseball and that goes to also for
"kk® P.pss in the-professional ranks. M
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Recant permission has been granted by the
Federal Communications Commission in Washing
;ton,D.C.,for the Central Alaskan Missions S
line., to construct a radio station, according
ito the Rev. Vincent#. Joy,_(Con't )