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(BY K. L BARTLKTT)
WASHINGTON, July 15, —Just
tefcre this news letter “was sent
to press" announcement was made
of initial allotments under (the
public works act.
A substantial sum was alloted
to Alaska out of the first alloc
ation of $115,513,610.
One million dollars is to be ad
vanced to the Alaska Road Com
mission for construction of roads
and $96,000 for construction and
Improvement of air fields.
In addition, $210,008 is allotted
for reconditioning the Alaska Rail
road.
It is expected the money will be
made available and the nature of
the work to be undertaken by the
A. R. C. and by the railroad means
that the greater pa^t o& every dol-j
lar expended will go to labor.
Delegate Dimond is highly pleas-.
ed that Alaska was Included in ■
the political sub-division receiving
initial grants His efforts to that
end have been unremitting. Nat
urally he would have desired ’the
allotments made earlier consider
ing the shortness of the Alaska
working season but while the pub- I
lie works administration set-up was .
being perfected it was impossible to '
secure consideration for the Terr
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SEPTEMBER 9
SEPTEMBER 23
OCTOBER 7
OCTOBER* 21
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NOVEMBER 18
DECEMBER 9
DECEMBER 23
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itory ahead of other parts of the
country. This allocation, however,
comes as splendid news at a tims
when it was feaerd aportionment
would be made at such late date
that no work could be commenced
iu Alaska this season.
Delegate Dimond is very sens
ible .of the fact that all sections of
the Territory will not be benefited
by allotments for the A.. R. C. and
the railroad. '
His forceful pleas for early mon
ey grants have embraced the en
tire range of public works in Ala
ska and now that funds have
started to flow out of the national
treasury it is hoped that further
[allocation will soon be made.
Horace M. Albright, retiring di
rector of the iNational Park Ser
vice, informed Delegate Dimond
that there is no doubt but that
$250,000 will soon be made avail
able for extension of that Mt. Mc
Kinley Park road to Wonder Lake.
Further good news came this
morning when Dr. W. Carson
Ryan, director of education for
■the Office of Indian Affairs, ann
ounced at this time for construc
tion projects in Alaska. Fifty
thousand dollars of that amount
will be made immediately avail
able. it is likely that buildings1
of the Douglas school will start
at a very early date. Other Ind
ian schools are also to he erected.
I)r. Philip S. Smith, chief of the
Alaska branch of ,the U.S. Geolog
ical Survey, plans to leave Wash
ington tonight on his annual trip
to Alaska.
| On recommendation of Delegate
Dimond, the Post' Office Depart
ment has appointed Guy Turnbow
postmaster ot the fourth class of
fice at Richardson, in the vicinity
of Birch Lake on the Richardson
highway. The ’ Delegate also re
commended jtha't itfie office bfij 1
moved to the ForFarm, owned by
Mr. and Mrs. Turnbow, and a few
miles north of Richardson. No
one could be found at Richardson
willing to accept appointment and
if removal to the Fox Fairm had
not been urged the district would
have been without post office fac
ilities.
The Anchorage Radio Club, Inc ,
operating KKQD, "The Voice of
the (lolden North.’’ at Anchorage
has applied for modification of lic
ense to change frequency fr'm
1230 kilocycles to 600 kilocycles.
The night nurse in the Alaska
Railroad hospital at Anch-orage is
one of the few employees of Uncle
Sam who gets a restoration of
salary this year, even though it is
mainly theoretical. She was form
erly paid 9160 a month. $10 more
Ithan the scale for day nurses, but
under the first economy act this
was cut to |115. The Alaska
Railroad wanted to put her salary
back to SI 60 and Com ptro lied
■ General MoCarl has ruled that
may be done, because the reduct
ion was effected by an economy
measure that has been repealed.
She must, however, take a 16
per cent cut from her basic pay
of |160 a month, which brings
the actual pay down to 113 6.
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A NEWSY LETTER
FROM ALASKA (OILBGB
College, Alaska
July 21, 1933
Many of whom.^thls statement
comes have matriculated at jsome
institution of higher learning in
the States; others were graduated
at the annua) High School Com
mencements in the Territory this
year, hut whether you have at
tended college. Intend to attend,
or at present are undecided. I
trust that you and those most
concerned about your ' education
will take time to give due consid
eration to the Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Minea.
The Alaska College will begin
its twelfth year September 16,
with a faculty exceptionally well
qualified boh by scholastic attain
ments and by teaching experience
to present the several courses off
ered. iFor this reason I emphasise
the fact that a small institution
splendidly equipped with the latest
and best labratory equipment ad
equate library facilities, and the
advantage of individual attention
in class-room work presents the
'best kind of an opportunity for a
young man or a young woman to
secure an education.
Quite recently we were con
fronted with the statement that
the college was esentlally a mining
school for men a1 have inadequate
facilities for women students. Six
ty have been graduated from this
institution. Of this number twen
ty-five are from the School of
Mines; Thirty-five are from other
departments; there are fourteen
woman graduates. If one will
take time to scan the list of grad-1
uates to be found on pages 85 and
86 of the 1833-1934 catalogue to
gether with the list of seniors on
page 87, nine of whom were grad
uated this year, he will find recoTd
ed there young men and women
who made good in college and
who are making good out of col
lege. Of the sixty graduates forty
•>’r. are domiciled in the Terri'ory
and occupy responsible positions,
/besides the Arts and Gathers iOu.se
leading to the degree of Bachelor
of Arts, courses leading io the Ja
grt-e of Bachelor of S'-ienca
offered in Agriculture, Business Ad
ministration, Chemistry. Civil En
gineering, General Science, Gear
logy. Home Economics. Metallurgy
and Mining Engineering.
Of special advantage and inter
est in connection with this “Far
thest North" College are the re
search projects upon which it is
engaged: Palaeontology with the
American Museum if Natural His
tory. study of the Aurora under
grant from the Rockefeller Found
ation. second International-""'Polar
Year Commission, and Archaeolog
ical work on St. iL«awrence Island.
In addition th«| United States Bur
eau of Mines and the Biolagical
Survey have stations at the Col
lege. Under the provsious of the
| Hatch Act the College operates
both the Fairbanks and Matanuska
Agricultural Experimental Stations.
The SmitlnLevor Act provides
funds for co-operative work in ag
riculture and borne economics.
Located in a section of Alaska
where mining operations are being
conducted on a large scale the
student in the School of Mines has
the unusual advantage of being
able to combine theoretical train
ing in the classroom with prac
tical work In the field.
It Is not always easy to decide
in favor of efficiency. Sometimes
evsn ln Alaska it is difficult to un
derstand that ali mat slitters is
not gold. It is believed that those
who enter college for the first
time will find the email institut
ion of special advantage. To be
be well known both by students
and professors la a safeguard
worth considering during the first
two years of college life when the
foundation of a career is being
established.
In tbi* day of financial stress it
is- exceedingly important that all
of us undertake to eliminate ex
travagance and for the dollar ex
pended securs a dollar's worth of
value. The Alaska College has re
duced the coat of a year’s work
at the College to a minimum.
There is no tuition. Board and
room have been .reduced from $55.
00 to 950.00 per month. Books
and supplies are sold at practically
laid down wholesale cost Young
men and women who attend this
institution have no occasion to
throw away money. It is not in
good form'and there are no expen
sive traditions. Then, too, ^the
Alaska Steamship Company and
the Alaska Railroad sell to the stu
dents attending the college a
round trip ticket 'for a single fare.
They are making Interior Alaska
close to the coast both in time
and cost.
Alaska needs its own young men !
and women to build up this Em
pire of the North. Its broad ex
panses, Its unlimited resources, its
strategic position with reference to
the Orient both by land and by
air, together with the fact that it
is the Nation’s p.reafest natural
scenic playground, its unexplored
valleys, its unfrequented ranges
present problems for a pioneer
people to solve and having solved
them to reap the benefits thereof.
Alaska today offers to its home
folks advantages and opportunities
they can hardly hope to find else
where.
Charles fiunnel.
President.
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