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OCTOBER 4. POLLS CLOSE
7 O'CLOCK P.M.
ARR Yards at Fairbanks Are Now on 'Home
Stretch1, Says Col. J. P. Johnson
One of the Territory’s engineer
ing phenomenons — the Alaska
Railroad’s new $7,500,000 terminal
yards at Fairbanks—is nearing the
home stretch on - its completion
schedule with most of the work on
schedule, Col. John P. Johnson,
general manager of the ARR, re
vealed.
The 100 acre terminal yard, pro
cured and constructed under the
eye of the veteran railroader, Col.
Johnson, will be virtually com
plete on Oct. 30. Some yard work
and a diesel generating plant will
not be finished until the 1950 build
ing season.
Among railroaders, the yard is
a Utopia. “It is perfectly laid out,"
Col. Johnson explains, “and every
piece of track and building is de
signed so it can be expanded.”
“If the need ever arises, that
yard can be doubled or tripled in
size,” according to the general
manager. “The terminal yard itself
is perfectly level.”
To Col. Johnson and thousands
of other Alaskans, the yard is sec
ond to none in the world. In its
sprawling 100 acres, which are as
neat as Mother Hubbard’s cup
board, the big new terminal holds,
among a few structures, an engine
repair house; a car shop; a 115
foot-50,000 gallon water tank; a
54 by 180 foot warehouse; a com
bined coal-water-sanding station;
a diesel power plant capable of
producing 900 KVA (as well as
1250 pounds of steam at 125 pounds
pressure per hour); an $83,000 yard
office; its own water pumping
1 station; 19 miles of track; storage
• facilities for 480 railroad cars; a
diesel oil storage and pumping
unit and other items.
The building and shop construc
tion work is under contract to
Morrison-Knudsen Construction Co.
of Boise, Idaho. The major facil
ities will cost the government
$3,147,777. The power plant is
worth approximately $326,000 com
pleted; the coal servicing station
is to cost $309,446.
Six freight sidings, in addition to
a scale track and runaround, can
provide storage for 480 cars. The
sidings are 42000 feet long and more
can be added, according to Col.
Johnson. The fill for three other
identical sidings is already in.
Four spur tracks serve a new in
dustrial area which has seventy
five 50 by 100 feet warehouse sites.
These sites are leased to mer
chants in Fairbanks.
Top grade steel is used in the
yard track. Heavy 115 pound steel
rail is used on 61 turnouts in the
yard while 12 other turnouts are
70 pound steel. All track in build
ings and shops is heavy rail.
The extra duty 115 steel is grad
ually replacing the lighter rails on
the mainline from Seward to Fair
banks as part of The Alaska Rail
road’s rehabilitation program.
A new “Y” track, 1000 feet long,
permits turning of the diesel
streamliner AuRoRa with 11 of its
80-foot cars. Twenty regular sized
cars of a normal train could be
turned simultaneously on the “Y”.
Completion of the new snop fa
cilities will whisk repairmen out
of the bitter Arctic cold and thus
step up efficiency. In the winter
months thirty degrees below zero
is common Fairbanks weather.
Readings of fifty below occur. Too,
the shop facilities will eliminate
the need to “deadhead” rolling
stock 356 miles back to Anchorage
for larger repair and maintenance
jobs.
Special Train Rates
To McKinley Park Ball
Gun totin’, moustache wearing
Sourdoughs will relive the “good
old days” with a "Gay Nineties”
ball at Mount McKinley Park Hotel |
Sunday, Oct. 16, during the Alaska
Railroad sponsored Alaska Day cel
ebration, Col. John P. Johnson,
general manager of the railroad,
announced.
Special trains will carry Alaskans
to the festivity from two direc
tions. A train of 80-foot luxury
coaches, the type used on the
streamer Aurora, will leave An
chorage for the celebration Satur
day, Oct. 15, at 8:30 a.m. The traih
is scheduled to arrive at McKinley
Park at 5:20 p.m.
Meanwhile, another train is to
pull out of Fairbanks at 8:30 a.m.
on the same day and will arrive
at McKinley Park at 1:40 p.m.
One-way fare tariffs will be in
effect for the round trip during
the celebration, which observes the
82nd anniversary of the transfer
of Alaska from Russia to the Unit
ed States.
The round trip fare from Anchor
age is to be $16.10. Furlough rates
for military personnel is $6.79.
From Fairbanks the special rate
is $8.45 with furlough charges be
ing $3.56.
If desired, passengers can have
their special fare tickets honored
on the southbound train Oct. 18
and the northbound tTain Oct. 19,
thus giving them an extra few
days at the hotel.
Otherwise, trains are scheduled
to carry passengers home Monday,
Oct. 17. The Anchorage train is
scheduled to leave the park at
1 p.m., arriving in town at 9:50 p.m.
The northbound train is to pull
out of McKinley station at 5:20
p.m. and is scheduled to arrive in
Fairbanks at 10:30 p.m.
The following meal rates will be
in effect during the celebration:
breakfast, $1.60; lunch, $1.75; and
dinner, $2.75.
A program is planned to com
memmorate the annual celebration
according to Col. Johnson. Top
civic, business and military leaders
from Alaska and the Northwest
,will attend the ceremony.
Sales Tax booklets are due to be
mailed to local merchants Satur
day, October 1. The books contain
the complete text of Ordinance
190-A, the Sales Tax Ordinance.
BROWNELL, FORMER MAYOR AND
TERRITORIAL SENATOR. CANDIDATE
FOR SEWARD MAYORSHIP
Last minute efforts of friends finally prevailed upon Don Carlos
Brownell, prominent and pioneer resident of Seward, to consent to
again being a candidate for the Seward Mayorship at the forthcoming
Municipal Election on October 4.
Brownell is widely known throughout the entire Territory, having
served as Mayor of the “Gateway City” for nine consecutive years from
1931 to 1939, as well as having served as Territorial Senator at four ses
sions of the Territorial Legislature at Juneau since 1940.
Brownell, while serving as Mayor of the City of Seward, has worked
tirelessly and unselfishly for the progressive growth and development
-of the “Gateway City”. It was during the years of Brownell’s former
mayorship that numerous projects of immense value to the city were
begun and completed, including the “Lagoon road fill, the Railroad
Trestle fill across the Lagoon, the present “Missing Link” Bridge across
Snow River at Mile 18, and the present public school gymnasium.
It was through Brownell’s persistent and steadfast efforts, while
serving as mayor, that the City of Seward obtained a ninety-six thousand
dollar Federal Loan and an additional grant of thirty thousand dollars
from the Federal Government with which to build and construct the
present Municipal-owned Electric system with which to furnish the
Seward Public with electric power so desperately needed at a reasonable
rate and on a dependable basis.
Small boat owners will remember that former Mayor Brownell
gave freely of his time and energy, while serving as Seward’s Mayor in
former years, whereby he prevailed upon the Chief Engineer of the
Army to build and construct the North Breakwater, in order to afford
effective and adequate protection to small boats.
It will be remembered that it was former Mayor Brownell who
was largely instrumental in prevailing upon the Federal Government
to build and construct in 1940 the Lowell Creek Flood Control Dam
Project, which was badly needed, in order to prevent the reoccurence
of annual autumn flood damage to city property owners, which damage
often times amounted to thousands of dollars each year. Brownell s
interest in this project was so sincere that he donated four acres of
his own land to the Government for use in his project.
It was Brownell, who represented the City of Seward at Washing
ton, D.C., during the years of mayorship, appearing before the various
government officials, pleading on behalf of the retention of the Seward
end of the railroad.
It was through Brownell’s tireless efforts, while serving as Terri
torial Senator in 1946, that sufficient government funds were obtained
by means of which the abandoned Army Hospital in the nearby Fort
Raymond area was converted into the present Seward Sanatorium, an
institution now caring for nearly one hundred forty patients suffering
from tuberculosis.
It was Brownell, who, as a private citizen, actively assisted and
sponsored the purchase and acquisition by the City of Seward of the
huge Marine Ways and Cold Storage Plant from the Surplus Property
Division of the Federal Government in 1948, thereby reviving a former
industry and payroll for the “Gateway City”.
It will also be remembered that Brownell, especially during the
past ten years, has been a staunch supporter of the present and current
Highway construction program, which highway system, when com
pleted, will connect Seward with the neighboring cities of Anchorage
and Homer.
Brownell has been engaged in the Theatre business in Seward for
the past twenty-four years. He first came to the Territory as a boy in
1899 in the old sailing ship days, and, since that time, he has been a
profound student of civic problems.
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I Mr. and Mrs. Forest Davis with
their children were to leave Sew
ard Friday morning aboard the SS
Aleutian for their new home in
the States. It is reported that Mel
Deck has purchased the Davis
home.
Mrs. Burt Walker and children
returned to Seward by plane last
week. Mr. Walker will arrive
later. He is driving up over the
highway.
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