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Purpose of the program not only is to offer j
increased educational opportunities to young j
people of the 13 Western states but also to j
reduce over-all educational costs by sharing ;
unique and often expensive facilities among j
the states„ L
Governor Egan was advised that additional
details concerning the program and courses to!
be offered will be distributed by WICHE to • j
colleges, universities and high school ad
visors thoroughout Alaska and.other Western i
states shortly after the first of the year. ;
WISHING YOU THE BRIGHTEST JOYS OF
CHRISTMAS AND MANY BLESSINGS IN THE
NEW YEAR!
THE COPPER RIVER CURRENT AND STAFF
| STATS OF ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS
NEWS RELEASE DECEMBER 5, 1963
Prestwood Construction Co. Inc., Anchorage, ;
is the apparent low bidder on an.8.53-mile
section of the Sterling Highway, Commissioner|
| of Highways D.M. McKinnon said today. The
Prestwood bid was $972)636,85? nearly 3200,
000 under the state estimate of $1,145,309.15j
This link on the Kenai Peninsula is between !
Ninilchik and Happy Creek, and involves
grading and drainage of 8.53 miles of road
way and the construction of two welded steel !
girder bridges with concrete decks spanning ’
the Ninilchik River and Deep Creek. Work is
expected to be completed on the project by L
November-1, 1965, McKinnon said. -
THOUGHT STARTER: , ^
A truly good book teaches m-e better than to
read it, I must soon lay it dox-jn and commence
ou its hint • • * <> .'/hat I began by read
ing, I must finish by acting. •
Henry Thoreau
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+ MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
FROM ESSIE MITCHELL
GOVERNOR’S OFFICE NEWS RELEASE-DEC. 3,-1963
THE ALASKA HIGH SCHOOL junior oi senior who |
wins the 1964 “Ability Counts” contest will
be awarded $100 cash and a round trip to
Washington, D,C,, where he or she will meet I
the President personally, Governor William.A..
Egan announced today.
Entries are to submit compositions of seven i
hundred and fifty words or less on the subject,
“How Handicapped Workers in My Community are
Proving That Ability Counts.”
“This is the sexteenth annual running of the
national “Ability Counts” contest, but it is
the first year of participation by Alaskan
students-,' said Governor Egan. “This has been
made possible by the Alaska State Federation
of Labor, AFL-CIO, which is donating the
exceptionally fine first prize awards.”
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BEST WISHES FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS
HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!
AMD
The Governor added that the Alaska winner will!
also be judged for part of the $2,500 to be
shared by the top five national winners. This
is donated by .AFL-CIO State Federations and
Councils, and the Disabled American Veterans.
The contest is sponsored in Alaska by the
Governor’s Committee on Employment of the
Handicapped, of which E.L. Parsons, Fairbanks
is Chairman. National sponsor is the President*
Committee on Employment of the Handicapped.
The Governor said the contest is sanctioned b^
the National Association of Secondary School
Principals, and by the Alaska Department of
Education. Instruction kits relating to the
contest have been sent to forty-five high
schools throughout the state.
Interested students should contact their high
school principal, or write the Governor’s Co
mmittee on Employment of the Handicapped, Box
2661, Juneau, Alaska. Entries are to be sent
to the committee at that address postmarked be
fore midnight January 15, 1964, and must be
signed by the entrant’s English teacher.
Competition is open to eleventh and twelfth
grade students in all high.schools of Alaska-1
public, private, and denominational. j
NOTHING GREAT WAS EVER ACHIEVED WITHOUT
ENTHUSIASM!
EMERSON
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
DRIVE-IN MOVIE IN ALASKA OPEN FOR THE
VINTER
This time of year, drive-in theaters in many
parts of the country are closing for the wint
Speakers are moved inside, concession stands
are locked and marques post ‘'closed for the
er
season1' signs. In Alaska, things are different.
The Billiken Drive-In, Alaska's first and only
opened this fall and plans to stay that way
through the long winter in Anchorage.
Anchorage, seldom- experiences Alaska's fable
ed 60 below weather, but the mercury does dip
to a brisk minus 20 on occasion—hardly out-"
door movie weather, even in Alaska.
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