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It never caught on in the United States
because many early experimenters failed
to fully comprehend its basic operating
principles. Ziemer feels that it is with
blocks of up to 10 feet of head that the
steeppass fishway will have its greatest
application and that the 33 feet lift in
four steps at Frazer Falls approaches its
upper limits of economic usefulness.
Ziemer does not intend the steeppass to be
a substitute for more conventional fish
ladders such as those employed on the
Columbia River. It was developed by the
Department as an effective solution for
installation at the host of low control
barriers in wilderness areas where convent
ional construction would be difficult and
expensive. Such projects are in line with '
the Sate's program of enhancing our
fisheries resources by improving and
extending the habitat for our salmon thus
providing more fish for the future,
Commissioner waiter Kirkness stated.
x rtOC L t ii'.'i aTI ON
wHEREAS, to pay homage to Mrs Eleanor
Roosevelt, a world-respected citizen, the
Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation was
established by Congress on ^pril.23, 1963,
as a charitable and educational organization
concerned with the furtherance of inter
national good willm human welfare and health
and
WHEREAS, the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial
Foundation has set as it’s immediate goal
support of those npressing needs” to which
Mrs. Roosevelt had been devoting herself at
the time of her death;
Advancement of human ri ;hts and equality
of opportunity for all people, regardless
of race or religion.
Support of organizations furthering under
standing of the United Nations as a force
for peace.
Expansion of a model school for under
privki&ged, emotionally-troubled children;
and
..rUj.ivE.iS-, the Eleanor Roosevelt memorial
Foundation has designated the period betweer
October, 11, her birthday, and November 7,
the anniversary of her death as
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL MONTH
throughout the United States!
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM A.. EGAN, Govern
or of the State of Alaska, do hereby endorse
the principles of the Eleanor I oosevelt
Memorial Foundation and urge all Alaskans
to use this opportunity to familiarize
themselves with the aims, hopes, and
achievements of a Great American—
Eleanor Roosevelt. 'j
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set myj
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hand and caused the Seal of Alaska to be
affixed, this first day of October in the
year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty
three .
/s/ hILLIAM A. LGAh
GOVERNOR
(S L A L)
ATTEST; /s/ HUGH J.
SECRETARY OF STaTE
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.vLASKA TRAVEL DIVISION ■ NEWS
Not too long ago, you didn't hear much
about the wintertime when you talked to an I
A laskan. Not that Northlanders don't enjoy I
that season--far from it, they love every !
cool minute. But there was a feeling some- >
how that people already had too strong a
misconception of the 49th State as a land
of year-round ice and snow,
The theory went something like this; If you
admitted the presence of frigid temperatures
during one season o'f the year, the feeling
might get around that the state never did '
warm up.
Suddenly, all that has changed. Maybe it's
because so many thousands of past summer
visitors can now testify to Alaska's'warm
summer climate. Or maybe it's simply because
there's just too much fun to be had in Alaska
in winter. At any rate ^laskans are touting
their state as a winter playground as never
before.
Even the carriers--or rather, especially the
carriers—are doing it. Tacific Northern
Airlines, previously the only operator in the
winter tours field, again this year offers
a SHAKE GOES GOOD
..i'i'n A BOnGER
urn's
an entire brochure-fullipf winter tours and
destinations including a tour to the Arctic.
Too, the airline offers a ski-Alaska folder
listing every ski resort in the 49th.state.
Alaska Airlines dramatically enters the
winter-tour competition with daily overnight
excursions to Nome as well as Kotzebue, north
of the Arctic Circle. Ice fishing, dog sled
rides, and ^skimo games and dancing are only
a few of the frigid-but-fun attractions in
this package.
Alaska's senior airline and one long famous
for it's Tolar-zone tours, Lien Alaska Air
lines will introduce .it's own "Eskimoland
Snowtime Tour" next April with daily over
night tours to Kotzebue. Of particular interest
to parka-clad visitors (theparkas being
furnished by lien) will be % visit to a
genuine ice-block igloo and a chance to fish
through the ice of the Arctic Ocean.
A surface carrier offering a winter operation
for the first time will be Alaska Hyway Tours
(Gray Line of Anchorage & Fairbanks). This
bus firm predicts its sightseeing tours out
of Anchorage and Fairbanks will fully equal the
summer program--if not in visitor number volume
then at least in visitor fun and satisfaction
Out of Juneau, Gray Line, too, has offered
winter visits to nearby Mendenhall Glacier_
whose lake in winter becomes one of the nation's
largest skating rinks.
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