• CITY COUNCIL NEWS HIGHLIGHTS •
The Fairbanks City Council Mon
day night fixed Ihe City's share of
the 1962-63 school budget at $997.
000 and placed in first reading
Ordinance 1152. establishing the to
tal tax levy for the year at 19.9
mills.
The action on the school budget
followed a long session last week
in which the council had refused to
grand the school board's request
for $1,078,000.
A move by Councilman Tom Rob
erts to again set the City’s share at
$1,078,000 was swiftly defeated.
Following the establishment of the
City's share, Councilman Darrell
Brewington stated that the City had
trimmed its budget all it could, and
now the school board was going to
have to trim their budget, as their
proposed budget would have placed
too great a burden on the Fairbanks
taxpayers.
Dr. Charles Lafferty, superinten
dent of schools informed the Coun
cil that their action would hurt the
children, as the cut would have to
come out of a part of the educa
tion program, such as books, or
special courses. He went on to say
he felt this was the most conserva
tive school board he had ever
worked with in his 25 years in edu
cation, and that the budget had al
ready been pared to the absolute
minimum.
He pointed out that the Fairbanks
school system has the lowest libra
ry budget per student of all the
schools in the State, and-the Coun
cil’s cut would stop any attempt
at trying to raise the library bud
get to place it on a par with other
schools.
“It's too bad we can’t put the
school and city budgets side by side
and let the people vote on them,”
he remarked.
Following action on the school
budget, the tax levy for 1962 was
Swimming Unsafe
In Local Waters
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Gravel pits, rivers and sloughs
in the immediate Fairbanks vicini
ty are not considered safe public
bathing places. Local streams con
tain varying degrees of contamina
tion from domestic sewage.
The high sedimentation and river
silt present in some streams also
pose additional hazards to swim
mers by obstructing visibility in the
water for safety purpose.
Gravel pits and small bodies of
water may contain schistosoma. The
presence of this organism, where
fresh-water snails are found, causes
a skin irritation commonly known
as “swimmer’s itch.”
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set at 19.9 mills; 13 mills for the
school system and 6.9 mills for the
City.
An ordinance which would per
mit the City to sell 33 acres of the
hospital reserve land on Airport
Way to the Sisters of Charity for a
hospital site met with stiff opposi
tion from members of the Fairbanks
Community Hospital Association.
Lloyd White, president of the as
sociation, urged the Council not to
make the transaction. He stated a
"hasty sale” was bad business.
White went on to point out that
the hospital would not be taxable,
as it was a non-profit corporation,
so the City would derive no reve
nue from the land. He then told the
Council the City could receive a
great deal of revenue from the
land by subdividing it and selling
it off.
He also stated that as yet the
Sisters of Charity have not applied
for Hill-Burton Funds through the
State, but the Community Hospital
has its application on file.
R. S. McNealy. attorney for the
Sisters, urged passage of the ordi
nance. stating that its passage would
mean millions would be spent in
the City. He pointed out that the
land was already set up as a hospi
tal reserve, and stated that the Sis
ters’ hospital was not “a dream.”
and that work would begin on it
Highway Chief :
Slates Prohe Of
Route To Nome
Commissioner of Highways. D. A.
McKinnon, announces an agreement
has been executed with the Uni
versity of Alaska, Institute for Busi
ness, Economic and Government Re
search, to study economic factors
relating to the selection of a high
way route between Central and
Western Alaska.
McKinnon said the route is on the
Federal-Aid Highway System with
termini at Nome and Fairbanks, and
the purpose of the study will be to
provide data for the selection of in
termediate points along the route.
Basic economic data will be sought
concerning natural resources, tdut^
ism and recreational attraction^,
and population trends. Each of these
sets of data will be analyzed as to
past and present status, potentials
for future development in relation
to State and World Markets and
population trends, and the role of
highway transportation in effecting
desirable changes.
The study is being finnced with
highway planning funds.
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almost immediately.
Elmer Ga'gnon of AHA supported
McNealy's stand, stating, “1 defin
itely object to a Community Hospi
tal. They just don’t pay for them
selves.” Gagnon also skoffed at the
associations proposal to start a
medical school at the Community
Hospital, stating “There aren't
enough people in Alaska to support
a medical school.”
White then countered with a
charge that the drawing exhibited
to the Council as a plan of the Sis
ters’ hospital was ‘.just a Stored
Heart school that was doctored up."
Councilman Red Boucher pointed
out that the Sisters would pay for
i the land in 60 days and would start
[ construction almost immediately.
Councilman Brewington objected
to being forced to make a decision
between the two hospitals.
Following more discussion, the
I ordinance was postponed for two
j weeks.
Harvey Marlin, Jack Wilbur, and
Harold Babcrl were appointed to
an advisory board to study the
merger of the City and School Tax
Assessors' offices.
The meeting was recessed at
12:45 a.m.
Geologic Survey
Reports Released
The Geological Survey is releas
ing in open files the following re
ports. Copies as listed:
Geologic map of the Chandalar
quadrangle. Alaska, by W. P. Bros
ge and H. N. Reiser. 1 map and sec
tion. On file at Brooks Memorial
Bldg.. College. Alaska.
Preliminary map of geology of
part of the lower Yukon-Norton
Sound region, Alaska, by J. M
Hoare and W. H. Condon. 14 p., 1
map. On file at Brooks Memorial
Bldg.. College, AJaska.
Preliminary geologic map of part
of the Charley River quadrangle,
east central Alaska, by Earl Brabb.
1 map. On file at Brooks Memorial
Bldg., College. Alaska.
Preliminary results of a survey
for thick high-calcium limestone
deposits in the United States, by
ft. E. Davis. W. P. Williams, R. B.
Johnston, and W. L. Ernerick. with
3 section on Possible Alaskan sites
for nuclear reaction experiment in
limestone; by R. E. Davis (TEI-780K
Brooks Memorial Bldg., College,
Alaska.
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MR. AND MRS. RICHARD J. GREUEL — Mr. and Mrs. Richard,
J. Greuel were married in a Saturday morning ceremony at the
Immaculate Conception Church. Following the ceremony, the couple
left for a wedding trip via the Alaska Railroad. Greuel is editor
of Jessen’s Weekly.
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I Also accepting bids for
Removal of Church Building
Located at 521 4th A venue
Pursuant to the requirements of Chapter zO, SLA 1961,
notice is-hereby given that the Commissioner of Public
Works for the State of Alaska has determined that it is :
notTfeasible for the staff of the Department to perform
certain engineering work associated with many of the
future construction projects at or near the following lo
cations: Anchorage, Angoon, Baranof, Bethel, Craig, Dil
lingham, Fairbanks, Funter Bay, Gambell, Hawk Inlet,
Homer (Beluga Lake), Hoonah, Kake, Kasaan, Kotzebue,
Lake Hoed, McCarthy, Noatak, Ouzinkie, Pelican, Sand
Point, and Wrangell. It is intended that any engineering
contracts entered into with private engineering firms
shall be done on a negotiated basis.
The construction projects are part of future pro
gramming for the Division ot Aviation, 523 Eighth Ave
nue, Anchorage, Alaska, which office will handle the ne
gotiations.
Eugene G. Roguszka
Eugene G. Roguszka
Division of Aviation