CONSTRUCTION NEWS
From The
Alaska District, Corps of Engineers
Many Contracts Awarded
New contracts totaling $8,845,204
for defense construction for the
Air Force and Army were awarded
by the Alaska District Corps of
Engineers during the last week in
June.
This brings the total of contracts
awarded by the Alaska District in
June alone to more than $16,680,000.
Work on all projects will start at
the earliest possible date and be
pushed full speed during the pres
ent construction season.
Largest contract total, in June
was for work at Fort Richardson—
$5,784,715. June contracts for work
at Fort Greely totaled $2,568,61 .
New contracts for Ladd amounted
to $1,737,389.
Contracts awarded in late June
were:
Fort Richardson: Patti-MacDon
ald, St. Louis, Mo., $1,919,765. for
construction of POL terminal stor
age facilities—Invitation 56-24.
Pacific Alaska Contractors, Inc.,
Tacoma, Wash., $909,419 for paving
and street improvements—Invita
tion 56-39.
Lease Co., Inc., Seattle, $1,916,355.
construction of hanger and NCO
open mess with utilities, standby
wells, improvements to buildings
and electrical distribution—56-38.
Matanuska Plumbing & Heating
and Magnuson Electric Co., Anchor
age. $244,908, improvements to 142
family quarters, themostatic con
trols and modification of steam
heating system—Invitation 56-38.
Awarded earlier in June were
contracts totaling $794,268.
Ladd Air Force Base: Fairbanks
Builders, Inc., Fairbanks, $434,120,
for construction of warehouse for
flammables, gasoline dispensing sta
tion. grading, paving and walks, ex
terior paintings.—Invitation 56-40.
Morrison-Knudsen, Anchorage,
$1,273,269 for construction of apron
paving and $30,000 for construction
of Navigational aid building—Invi
tation 56-51.
Eielson Air Force Base: Chris
Berg, Inc., Seattle $580,600, for con
struction of maintenance shop with
heated vehicle storage—Invitation
56-40.
Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline: Meta]
Products Inc., Anchorage, $23,843
for ventilation of pipeline pump
houses—Invitation 56-40.
Gambell: Reed & Martin. Inc.,
1 Fairbanks, $148,185, construction ol
j quonset units on St. Lawrence Is
| land—Invitation 56-60.
Fort Greely: Peter Kiewit Sons
! Co., Seattle, $278,618 for construc
tion NCO open mess with outside
utilities—Invitation 56-41.
Contracts awarded earlier in June
brought the total for the month
to $2,568,617.
Kenai: Maynard R. Smith, Anch
orage, $814,118, construction of com
munity center and PX building,
dormitory addition to fire house,
| civilian bachelor quarters, TACAN
facility and family quarters—Invi
tation 56-45. CONTRACTS—3.
Middleton Island: American Ser
vice, Inc., Spenard. $298,606, Pri
mary transmission line, additional
power generation facilities, tower
generation facilities, tower founda
tion and erection—Invitation 56-53.
White Alice: Awarded earlier in
June were White Alice contracts
at Sparrevohn, Kodiak, Fort Yu
kon, Kotzebue and Homer totaling
$4,727,122.
COL. CARR RESIGNS POST
WITH CIVIL AIR PATROL
Col Jessee R. Carr, long time Al
askan aviator, has resigned as com
mander of the Civil Air Patrol Al
aska Wing, according to Col. How
ard Freeman, Pacific region com
mander of the CAP.
Colonel Carr requested relief
from his post due to business and
family commitments which will take
him away from Alaska for a lengthy
period of time. He had been wdng
commander for the past eight years.
Lt. Col. Harry E. Stiver, com
mandant of cadets, has been named
by Colonel Freeman to assume im
mediate duties as acting commander
of the wing. Stiver is an Anchor
age newspaper executive.
Good printing of all kinds and
at reasonable prices, at Jessen’s
Weekly.
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UNION DIRECTORY
FAIRBANKS
CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL
Meets at
Culinary Union Ilall
809 1st Ave.
First Thursday, 7:30 P.M.
Louis Walker, President
Ed 'Orbeck, Secretary
315 5th Ave. Dial 4584
CONSTRUCTION AND
GENERAL LABORS
Local 942, A F of L
Edmund N. Orbeck, President
Joel Wiegert
Secretary-Treasurer
315 Fifth Ave.
Meetings Every 2nd Friday
7:30 P.M.
Carpenter’s Hall—315 5th
Dial 4584
HOTEL AND RESTAURANT
EMPLOYEES
Fairbanks Local No. 879
Meetings—2nd Wednesday,
10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Culinary Workers Hall
A1 Thomgren
Financial Sec’y & Bus. Agent
Box 623 Dial 2332
BARTENDERS UNION
Fairbanks Local No. 877
Meets Every 2nd and 4th Sunday
President, M A. Wier
Financial Sec’y, Frank P. John
FAIRBANKS BUILDING
TRADES COUNCIL
Meetings First Wednesday
Carpenter’s Hall, 315 Fifth
Joel Wiegert, President
Lewis Dischner, Jr., Sec.-Treas.
PLUMBERS AND
STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 375
Meeting First and Third Monday
of Every Month at Carpenters’
Hall — Office at 307 5th
Dial 4156
UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS
Local No. 1243
315 FIFTH AVENUE
Meetings: Second and Fourth Tuesdays at Carpenters’ Hall
Joseph W. Anderson, Financial Secretary
Louis M. Dishner, Jr., Business Agent
ROOFERS DAMP AND WATERPROOF
WORKERS INTERNATIONAL ASSOC.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
UNION 238
HOWARD P. BROWN, Trustee
Box 1524 Phone 3864 Fairbanks, Alaska
ESC Reports An
Increase In Tax
Receipts In June
The Alaska Employment Secur- |
ity Commission reports an increase
in tax receipts for the fiscal year |
ending June 30, 1956. For the same j
period a decrease in benefit pay
ments was noted.
Tax receipts from employers and j
employees for the fiscal year i
amounted to $4,268,000. Benefit pay
ments during the same period to- !
taled $5,061,000. In the previous fis
i cal year tax receipts amounted to
| $3,260,000 and benefit payments
; were $8,015,000.
The overall economic conditions
! which led to the increase in receipts
and decrease in payments are now
undergoing study by the statistical
branch of the agency.
ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
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volumes which analyze the contents
of books and articles of the Arctic
and Antarctic, has just had its sixth
volume completed.
The series is published by the
Government Printing Office and
lists and summarizes over 5,000 pub
lications, mostly from the years 1950
to 1954. Compilation of the volumes
is done by the Arctic Institute of
1 North America.
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