Development Board
Asks Half Million
JUNEAU—A budget request for
$500,000 for the next biennium has
been filed by the Alaska Develop
ment Board with the Territorial
Board of Budget for consideration
by the legislature which meets in
January.
Decision to outline a half million
dollar program to spur develop
ment in the important two years
immediately ahead was a unani
mous one by Development Board
members representing all four ju
dicial divisions of Alaska. These
are J. A. Talbot of Ketchikan, A.
Polet of Nome, Fred W. Axford of
Anchorage and Herb Hilscher of
Fairbanks. Governor Gruening is
chairman of the Board. •
“With financial needs of the
Territory greater than ever before
and with the budget requests of
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Territorial agencies at an all-time
high,” said a statement from the
Board’s Juneau office which ac
companied the funds request, "it
is only good business sense for the
Territory to make a substantial in
vestment in attracting new eco
nomic activities to Alaska.”
Budget requests of Territorial
agencies are reported to total ap
proximately 16 and one-half mil
lion dollars for the next biennium.
The Board pointed out that the
soundest manner in which to meet
increasing governmental responsi
bilities in education, health, wel
fare and similar services and to
contribute to the general well
being of Alaska residents is by
bringing to the Territory new pay
rolls and a better balanced year
around economy.
“Having shown what can be
done by well-directed effort, hav
ing maintained faith with the peo
ple of Alaska through the present
biennium and having kept the
cause of Alaska development alive
through this trying period, the
Board recommends most strongly
to the legislature that the Terri
tory in 1948-51 embark on a real
development program," the Board's
statement continued.
The 1947 legislature voted the
Development Board no appropria
tion whatever. A move in that ses
sion to abolish the Board was,
however, unsuccessful. The Board
has operated in the current bien
nium on a small fund which it it
self had saved, by prudent man
agement, out of its original 1945
appropriation.
Emphasizing that the decision to
underwrite a real program of ac
tive promotion of new industries,
the tourist trade and Alaska busi
ness in general, is after all one
which has to be made by the peo
ple of Alaska through their legisla
ture, the Board stated it was mak-1
ing its 1949-51 proposals public at ;
this time so they could be sub- I
jected to full discussion well in
advance of the legislative session.
Progress made toward the-estab*!
lishment of the pulp and paper in
dustry in Alaska was cited as
alone justifying many times over
the total expenditures of the !
Board since 1945.
“The half-million dollar request
for two years of development work
of all kinds actually amounts to
less than 20 days’ payroll in the
pulp and paper plants which can
be brought to Alaska by continued
effort; it amounts to less than one
half of the saving which Alaskans
can realize in a single year from
reduced construction costs result
ing from establishment of an Alas
ka cement plant; it amounts to
only a small fraction of the
amount Alaskans already have
saved in ocean transportation costs
as a result of the Board’s success
—
in fighting steamship rate in
creases in 1945 and 1946," the state
ment continued.
"Forty-five states and the terri
tories of Hawaii and Puerto Rico
have found it good business to
establish well-financed develop
ment agencies,” the Board de
clared. “In Alaska's relatively un
developed state and with the Ter
ritory’s abundance of both oppor
tunities and problems, it is even
better business here.”
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