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DID YOU KNOW ?
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SKI JACKETS
SKI PANTS
CHILDRENS SNO SUITS '6
PANTS
WOOL JACKETS
ARE BEING SOLD AT
20 7o REDUCTION
UNTIL . FEBRUARY 15
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COLONIZATION NOT PRIME
NEED. '
Alaska’s prine need to entourage settle
ment is not government sponsored coloniza
tion schemes, but a'simplification of the
existing land laws, the Alaska Development
Board has notified officials in Washington
as a result of discussions during a Board
meeting in Juneau last week.
Legislation providing for transfer of land
from federal to private ownership by simple
sale was recommended by the Board to the
Secretaries of Interior and Agriculturs,*
Persons needing land in Alaska for homes,
farms, and business and industrial purposes
should,have the right to buy suitable areas
of reasonable extent at a fair appraised,
cost and should not be subjected to lc'ig '
drawn-out and complicated land disposal
procedures, the Board resolved. Such sale
provisions should apply not only on the
public domain but also in the National For
est areas of Southeast Alaska and Prine
William Sound, the Board stated.
The Board renewed to the Secretary of the
Interior its'protest against further land
withdrawals such as those made last year
at Kenai and Dunbar for agricultural’ set
tlement purposes. The Board’s letter to
the Secretary asked assurances that no fur
ther such areas would be withdrawn at least
until after plans for development of the
Kenai'and Dunbar projects had been put in
to effect and demonstrated their worth,.
Withdrawals or reservation of land by fed
eral departments without full hearings in
Alaska was condemned by the Board, which
also renewed its suggestion that all feder
al withdrawals in'the Territory be for
limited time only, with the agency request
ing the withdrawal being required to demon
strate periodically the need for keeping
fbo land from disposal and uso by the pub
lic. / ;
Release from: Alaska Development Board.
JANET LEE STEELE FIRST
BABY OF. THE YEAR -•
little Janet Loo Stcelo arrivod at the
Valley Hospital at 3:45 a,n. January 27,
1949, and clains the honor of being tho
first baby of 1949 for the Matanuska Val
ley.
Mr. and Mrs, Bon Steele nako their hone'
at tho Goat Creek Lunbcr Mills rhere T'r,
Stoole is employed.
Tho little lady, due to the fact that she
nas tho first baby of the Hen Year for the
Valley, .nil! also be entitled to a $25,00
bond and a free ride uith' her riot her hone
from the Hospital lath gifts; fror.i Al’s
Taxi Sorvice, ov.ned and operated by A1
King of Palmer,
All people fall into tno classifications,
cither righteous or:1, unrighteous. The
dlassifying is done by the rightoous.