• CONSTRUCTION AROUND ALASKA •
Morrison-Knudson Company, con
tractors, were the apparent low bid
ders with $1,545,640. to surface the
Farmers’ Loop Road, according to
local highway officials.
The bid calls for the grading,
drainage, and bituminous treatment
of the 8.8 mile road, which extends
from the Stecse Highway to Col
lege Road.
Four contracts totaling $1,005,689
have been awarded for projects at
Eielson AFB. Alaska National Guard
Base at Anchorage. King Salmon
Airport and Cape Newenham AFS.
Alaska, according to the U.S. Army
Engineer District.
Wendamar Corporation of Fair
banks was awarded a $63,465 con
tract for construction of a security
fence and guardhouse at Eielson
Air Force Base.
Sandland Construction Company,
Inc., and Walter L. Wilson, Spen
ard, were awarded a $388,158 con
tract for a combination auto main
tenance and crash truck station and
operational Apron for Kulis Alaska
National Guard Base, Anchorage.
A joint venture, Premier Gear &
Machine Works, Inc., and H&K Con
structors, Inc. of Anchorage have
been awarded a $410,766 contract for
high intensity runway lighting and
construction of an addition to
AC&W operations building at King
Salmon Airport.
A $143,300 contract has been
awarded to Chris Berg, Inc., Seat
tle, for water supply and storage
facilities at Cape Newenham AFS.
Pruhs and Fivey, Inc., of Fair
banks submitted the apparent low
bid of S108.358 for the construction
of a dormitory addition at Campion
Air Force Station. Eight sealed bids
were opened publicly on the project
on May 24 by the U.S. Army En
gineer District.
Sealed bids for the construction
of a three-classroom elemen' '.ry
school at Salcha will be opened at
the Juneau offices of the Commis
sioner of the Alaska Department
of Public Works.
Plans cal] for the Salcha Area
Elementary School to include a
boiler room, office and lavatories in
addition to the classrooms.
A Fairbanks and an Anchorage
firm have been awarded contracts
amounting to $663,000 for radar
‘‘tower construction at Kotzebue,
Bethel and Unalakleet Air Force
Stations.
Nordin Construction, Inc., of Fair
banks was awarded a $198,489 con
tract for the Kotzebue project and
a $241,511 contract for construction
at Bethel. Alta Construction Com
pany of Anchorage was awarded a
$193,000 contract for construction at
Unalakleet Air Force Station.
The firms were lowest of 10 sub
mitting bids on the projects (Inv.
62-41) which were publicly opened
on May 15 by the U.S. Army En
gineer District.
The Department of Highways has
awarded a contract, amounting to
$144,364.24, for the construction of
the Matanuska Bridge Approach
Relocation and the Clark-Wolverine
Huntley Road to the firm of Rlvers
Prestwood »f Anchorage.
A notice has been issued stating
that bids are being asked for an
estimated $1,000,000 small boat basin
dredging project at Juneau.
The proposed work will be ac
complished under a contract super
vised by the U.S. Army Engineer
District. Sealed bids will be opened
on the project during the middle
part of June and as specified in the
Invitation for Bids.
Cole and Paddock of Jnneau has
been awarded the contract for con
structing 1200 square feet of floats
at Entrance Island for $5040.
Northern Corporation of Anchor
age is the apparent low bidder with
a bid of $419,511 for construction of
j a dormitory at Sparrevohn Air
Force Station, Alaska.
Plans to construct a Vortac Fa
cility, living quarters, garage and
shop building, and related work at
Big Lake have been announced by
the Federal Aviation Agency. Bids
will be received on the project at
FAA's procurement section at An
, chorage until June 19 when they
will be opened.
Bids will be opened June 20 for
installing a new roof on the Aniak
School, the Alaska Department of
Public Works at Juneau announces.
A boiler plant will be constructed
at Glenallen ACS at an estimated
cost of $200,000, the U.S. Army En
gineer District announced. Sealed
bids will be opened on the project
at a date to be set in June and as
specified in the Invitation for Bids.
An alternate bid. which would in
crease the number of passenger
cabins on the Southwest Ferry if
prices are favorable, has resulted
in a 13-day postponement of the fer
ry's bid opening date.
B. E. Lewellen, Director of the
Alaska Division of Marine Trans
portation, said notification cf the
June 13 bid opening and of the new
alternate bid was sent out to all
interested parties.
Bids will be opened June 14 for
the installation of hardwood floor
ing at the recently-constructed
Fairbanks National Guard Armory.
The project will include marking
the floor with regulation basket
ball and volley ball baselines
Arndt Brothers of Homer, Alas
ka submitted the apparent low bid
of $273,211 for a construction project
at Tin City Air Force Station,
Alaska.
Ten sealed bids were opened pub
licly on the project on May 22 by
the U.S. Army Engineer District,
Alaska. The government estimated
construction costs at $349,472.
The Sandland Construction Com
pany of Spemard was low bidder at
$256,210, for an addition to the Tok
Junction School.
The addition will include a science
room, a home economics room, a
library, two general purpose class
rooms. lavatory, mechanical rooms.
; and related facilities.
Shriners Sending
Alice McGee To
Portland Hospital
Alice McGee, 11 %, of Chena Hot
Springs Road, left today via Pan
American Airlines for two years of
treatment at the Shrine Crippled
Children’s Hospital in Portland, Ore.
Alice, whose treatment is being
sponsored by the Farthest North
Shrine Club of Fairbanks, will un
dergo treatment and surgery to cor
rect a curvature of the spine and
one short limb. She will be ac
companied south by a Noble of the
; local Shrine Club.
Alice's treatment is just one of
the many cases undertaken each
year by the local Shriners with
proceeds from various functions
such as the Shrine Circus which
will be presented in Fairbanks on
June 22-27.
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SUMMERTIME TRADE SHOW
What's new for summer activities?
Well, to find the answer, come
out to the 1962 Fairbanks Trade
Show June 8, 9, and 10, at the Tana
na Valley Fairgrounds.
The show will feature the latest
word in new products for summer
time home improvements, recreation
equipment and games.
The show, which is sponsored by
the Tanana Valley Fair Associa
tion, is designed to present sum
mertime products which are almost
out of season by Tanana Valley Fair
time.
New ideas in home remodeling,
redecorating, and landscaping will
be featured for the ambitious home
owner.
New types of farm machinery,
and new methods in fencing and
land clearing will also be displayed.
Airport Runway
Is ‘Cooked > Out*
A sticky seal-coat on the 10,000
foot runway of the Fairbanks Inter
national Airport is being “cooked
out" by a piece of equipment pur
chased by the State of Alaska and
flown to the airport by the Alaska
Air National Guard. The new equip
ment is a specially-geared truck,
equipped with an eight-foot-wide
propane burner which “force cures”
bituminous surfacing.
along with new developments in ex
cavation and road surfacing.
Various rides and amusements
will be operating during the three
day show.
The show will be open from noon
to 10 p.m. on each of the three days.
Every evening at 9:30 p.m., attend
ance prizes will be awarded to
various individuals on the grounds.
Show manager Glen Buchanan
urged all Fairbanks area residents
to support and attend the show.
FAA Asking For
Land Withdraival
The Federal Aviation Agency has
asked for the withdrawal of 358
acres of land near Unalakleet, it was
announced by Roger R. Robinson,
State Directqr, Bureau of Land
Management.
According to Federal Aviation
Agency officials, the land is needed
to install a VORTAC facility which
is essentially a radio aid to air navi
gation which permites the pilot of
an aircraft to determine his position
on the airway. Plans are being made
to install the VORTAC facility dur
ing the 1962 construction season.
Comments or protests ^itOlild be
addressed to Roger R. Robinson,
State Director, Bureau of Land
Management. 6th and Cordova
Street. Anchorage.
In the homeland on the farm
you need hot water...
lots of it-fast, economically, automatically!
Elettric Water Heaters are tops in efficiency. *United States Department
•f Agriculture tests prove that ELECTRIC WATER HEATERS ARE MORE
EFFICIENT THAN IP GAS WATER HEATERS, by ratios of from 1.6 to 1,
to 2 to *..
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To get all the hot woter you want—where you waht it,
when you want it, and as you need it, *, YOUR REST
BET IS AN ELECTRIC WATER HEATER.
Electric Water Heaters are clean, safe, dependable»
They are so economical because they're so efficient,, *
use fewer heat units than comparable bottled gas
water heaters to do the same jobs.
Only ELECTRIC WATER HEATERS can be installed ANY.
WHERE YOU WANT THEM ... in the house ... in the
milk house . . . in the barn. They need no long pipe
runs, so heat losses are minimized.
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