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Matanuska Valley -armor’s Cooperating Assn.
Problems to be d’iscussod: agriculturo
Land cloaring-farm loans-gold and gold
mining-game laws.
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ALASKA HIGHWAY IIAY GST REGULAR POSTAL
SERVICE
A call for bids for carrying the U.S.
’fail from Fairbanks to Border Trading
Post has indicated the extension of mail
service on the Richardson and Alcan high
ways as far as the Canadian border.
?hc route would cover 292 miles and back,
once per week all year, carrying all mail
offered, on a schedule approved by the
Postoffice Denartment; the contractor to
deliver and collect mail at bodes along
the route and rro-”-idc service between the
mail vohiclo and.the post office at each
station.
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JOB SEEKERS RETURN TO STATES
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According to vord from Tort St. John,B.C.
r.any Alaska-bound Americans aro return i\g
to ho states broke and disappointed.
Host of them had the sane story of exor
bitant prices, ovcrcrovTdcd living condi
tions and bad roads.
Some of thnm had intended to honestoad
in the iiatanuska Volley but found the "best
j sections had already beer, homesteaded.
L'any are coming North on the understanding
that they will be employed either at
Anchorage or Ladd Field, Fairbanks, In
many cases there are more applicants than
jobs available.
7IrtS7 HITCi: HIKER C733 ALCAN
The first hitch-hiker over the Alaska
highway was Janes II. McCormick of Richmond,
Virginia, Ho is a frcc-lanec writer doing
photographic and nr it ing assigtgmonts foi^
several magazines and newspapers. Hitch
hiking over the Canadian section of tho
read is forbidden so McCormick arr nge'd
with Ottawa for nexmission to travel the
new road. He was provided official pane??
authorizing hitch-hiking because ho choso
that nothod of travel to do an authentic
article on the highway.
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ALASKA SHIPPING
Delegate Bartlett was the first witness
to ’oo heard by tho special subcommittee of
the House 1'crchant Marine and Eishcrio®
Committee appointed to make a study of tnc
Alaska shipping situation in preliminary
hearings held recently, Hie committee i
headed by Congressman Allen of Californ
Urging that it was incumbent upon tho spo
cial subcommittee and the Congress to nro
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