Volume 1 - 10 Glennallei 9 /la ska #ifci October 25p 1962
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PRESS RSLEAS 1
A State Department of H .ghways design
for a bridge crossing the, Ne lana River at
Rex was used as the basis for a technical
article in the September 4 i >sue of Engine
ering-News Re cord , one of tie foremost
eehnical journals for construction and en
gineering in i'mericae
. . Raymond Archibald,. reti -ed chief bridge
engineer, and Harvey Golub, avssistant chief
oridge engineer, co»authored the article
which presented a ne ? concept in bridge de
sign that gives grer ter assurance for safety
of vehicles with ov> rlcads*
* The design, wh ch was complex ed be
fore Archibald retired in February, can be
used -on bridges more than 250 feet in
length© It is now a .Department of High
ways policy .for majo'- structures I
In an ordinary bridge« the main truss
structure carries the weight of the" bridge
while the -floor syt tern- supports the traffic
loado In this ?!Balanced Design51 concept
material has been taken from the main truss
. aid added to.,the floor system,, thereby re
ducing the dead weight and providing, for
an overall heavier traffic loado This de
• sign also provides the most economical'
method for structures in Alaska,?Golub
said, by using high tensile strength steels«
Archibald is the former chief bridge
design engineei- for the Ua S* Department
of Commerce,,.;.B^oreau of Public Roads, and
has been rated as one of the top ten
bridge design engineers in the world- He
came to Alaska in I960 on a temporary basis
to establish the bridge design section for
the Department of Highways,, He retired
to Kalispell* Montana 3 . •
COPPER RIVER BASIN
CIVIL DEFENSE ORGANIZE
A Civil Defense meet ng was held
;ctobe r 23 o ' Mr,'Ge orge A j hoy ? GXennsllen
J1striot Direotor;^appointed the following
Deputy Directors who "will' "he in charge of
the respective areas $ 'Neeley9 Ohisto~
china; Anne Sundt; Gakona; "Fred Ewan*
Gulkana Village; Ed Klopp;, ‘F’A,A3; Stanley
Brown; Paxson; Father Fallert9 Copper
Valley School; GU Geppor Gor,ter|' "
s id George Peters on j,. Qlennailen <»
The Deputy Director will, appoint 1
. staff to assist in the various duties
i“the areas« The only advice offered
hy our District Director at this time
is that it would be well to begin a
i took of. food, water end emergency riteins:,
in your home to cover at least 2. weeks
in the event that transportation is .nut.
offo You will be notified of further';' \ "
events as sooi as. our District Director '
has the informationc
KENNY LAKE NOTES ;! ; :,j
The poles of the new power line keep
’jumping up off the ground and going ka~
tunk into their -round holes be bine the
growling earth herer over our way these
days * Brown pegs driven in the ground
and tied together with silver^ wire * that
so the places they connect worJt float
away sometime when people aren7 i l3okd?3gc
Survey work was being a one at Kenny :
Lake by Central Alaskan Missions last weeko
A five acre parcel of land was donated by
Tom Ross, one of the homesteaders here.
for a new chapel-and parsonageanother
step forward for the areac
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