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tion in the establishment of job
bing centers.
They see no difficulty in raising
the money needed, and after legal
and other problems have been set
tled, it is believed that the new
company will be able to begin op
erations in from six to eight
months.
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Interesting also, is a report from
Sen. Gruening (D-Alaska) on Nor
way, where he is travelling at pres
ent, when he notes the striking
similarity between that country
and Alaska. Norway, he observed,
lies in the same altitudes, has a
similar climate, almost identical
topography and some of the same
resources as Alaska—fisheries, tim
ber, power and scenery. If any
thing, the senator noted, Alaska is
more richly endowed, as Norway
has no oil, coal or natural gas and
lesser reserves of many metallic
minerals.
“Yet Norway,” Sen. Gruening ob
served, “supports 3.6 million peo
ple on a high standard of living in
a land less than one-fourth that of
Alaska. The important assets which
Norway has utilized to build a
strong economy are hydroelectric
power, low cost water transporta
tion and the wonderful, industrious
Norwegian people.”
Less than 4 per cent of the coun
try is arable . . . yet, 293,000 are
employed productively in farming.
Utilization of power, he says, is
mainly responsible for 374,000 be
ing employed in manufacturing
and mining. Power used is hydro
electric, produced for an average
of 2% mills per kilowatt hour. His
contention is that Alaska could
produce it for about the same, and
in almost as great quantities. “Nor
r
way,” he says, is a splendid exam
ple of what Alaska, with similal
wise utilization of its resources,
can become.”
* * *
From a press release earlier this
week, we learn that Alaska has
realized $23,496,112 in less than
three years from her oil, gas and
coal resources. No dreamy predic
tion this, but hard, cold cash.
* * *
Returning now to the home
front. What does a merchant do
when he receives an out-of-town
order for a couple of those thing
a-ma-jigs a lady wears in front,
when she doesn’t give her name?
Kraft’s Drygoods were confronted
with this problem when a lady
wrote in asking for two brassiers,
size 34, C-cup size, giving her ad
dress as Larsen Bay, but didn’t give
her name. The store would gladly
supply the items, but who to send
them to is the question.
• * *
Dr. von Braun, the scientist re
sponsible for much of America’s
recent space successes, including
the flight of Commander Alan
Shepard, will be in Anchorage to
night. He will be honored there as
elsewhere for his successes in de
veloping liquid fuel rockets; and
theV-2 rocket, for which the first
successful launching was in Oc
tober 1942. He has engaged in
rocketry research and theory for
over three decades, showing his
first interest as a boy in Wirsitz,
Germany.
ak * *
How High Can You Get In The
Sky? Joseph Newkirk, flying from
Chicago to Los Angeles, ia a jet,
became enraged when a stewardess
took away his bottle of whiskey.
Later he threatened two persons
with a pocket knife.
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But it seems he can’t be prose
cuted. Who has jurisdiction? There
are no federal statutes covering as
sault up there. This raised another
question: Whether a person might
commit murder on an interstate
flight and get away with it unless
the state over whose territory the
crime occurred wanted to prose
cute.
* * *
Just when we were about to apply
for that $11,000 a year meter read
ing job in Anchorage, they settled
the strike. We’ll just have to stick
with our underpaid, overworked
job of editing a newspaper until
another opportunity like that
comes along.
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tional parks site, it was learned at
the meeting. Various members
met with Mr. Snell, representative
of the National Parks Service, who
was in Kodiak while on a fact-find
ing tour of Alaska as regards na
tional parks.
Snell inspected the site, and said
it had a good chance of becoming
an historical site and later a Na
tional Parks site. Should that hap
pen, according to Dr. Bob Johnson,
who met with him, it would be
maintained by the Federal govern
ment.
The Chamber of Commerce en
dorsed the Naval Station proposal
to run a bus for service personnel
into Kodiak.
Purchase of the land in the Aber
combie area by the city was dis
cussed, opinion being voiced that it
involved too much land. Mayor
Coon stated this same opinion was
expressed by the majority of the
councilmen.
Hiring of personnel from the sta
tion was also discussed as was the
removing of the trees on Mill Bay
Road as recommended by the Plan
ning Commission.
Outgoing President Dr. Bob
Johnson presented a detailed type
written report on the financial
standing of the Chamber, and the
activities of the group this past
year.
General funds showed a balance
of $2,797 and Festival funds $2,000.
Present at the meeting were a
number of guests, Rev. Hugh Hall,
Yoshida Utomuro, Dr. McHugh and
Forrest McConnell. Jay Molletti
was reinstated as a member.
Noted Scientist
To Arrive In
Anchorage Tonight
Dr. Wernher von Braun, Direc
tor of the George C. Marshall Space
Flight Center, National Aeronau
tics and Space Administration,
Huntsville, Alabama, will arrive in
Anchorage at 9:35 p. m. tonight.
von Braun, America’s most dis
tinguished missile scientist and
man who led the development of
the Jupiter C. rocket which orbited
the first U. S. satellite, will spend
several days in the city and deliver
four key addresses to local groups
before leaving for a visit to the
Fairbanks and Point Barrow areas.
He will also visit elements of the
Alaskan Air Command as a guest
of Major General Necrason.
Federal Electric
Awarded Contract
The Air Force has entered into
a $37,130,467 contract with Federal
Electric Corporation of Paramus,
New Jersey, for the operation,
maintenance and support of the
Dew Line in Alaska and Canada,
according to an announcement
made this week.
The negotiated contract covering
the 1962 fiscal year is $3% million
less than the $40,763,711 contract
the Air Force had with the Federal
Electric for the 1961 fiscal year.
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The nation’s independent
businessmen, voting through
the National Federation of In
dependent Business, have for
some time opposed the imposi
tion of new taxes on gasoline,
tires and recapping rubber to
finance the national super high
way system.
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This mam
moth project
was started
on estimates
prepared five
years ahead
of the time
actual work
began, and at
the present
time, nobody, c. W. Harder
but nobody, knows how many
extra billions of dollars will
be needed to complete the en
tire ambitious project.
• * *
Naturally, independent busi
ness, so largely dependent upon
automotive transportation, is
concerned with extra taxes.
* * *
It now develops there are
other complications.
It appears that the Bureau of
Public Roads officials are now
conceding that instead of the
$5 billion estimated to secure
rights-of-way, it will now cost
at least $7 billion with one of
the bureaus top brass express
ing the belief that even the $7
billion figure is conservative.
* * *
Congressman Ed Edmondson
points to some facts dug out of
just one state by a special
committee investigating federal
highway program headed by
Rep. John Blatnik.
* * *
In one project of the federal
highway development in Miami,
Florida, it was learned that the
Florida Road Department paid
$32,000 to have buildings re
moved from a right-of-way,
and a sub-contractor netted
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more than $100,000 from the
sale of part of them.
* * *
The Federal government pay*
90% of these costs.
* * *
Actually, the committee esti
mates that more than $300,000
could have been realized from
the sales of these buildings.
* * •
In Orlando, Florida, the state
only paid $100 for removal of
buildings. The contractor sold
them for $24,500.
* * *
And so it goes, ad infinitum.
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Russia has a system on mat
ters of this nature. The official,
or officials, responsible often
find a pistol slug in the back of
their head. And by a curious
twist of mind, there seems to
be little distinction in Russian
viewpoint whether error was
caused by graft or stupidity.
The end result Is the same.
Of course, in America there
exists a slight aversion toward
shooting bureaucrats. And there
seems little likelihood that this
viewpoint will ever be changed
so radically that a cry will go
through the land “bullets for
bureaucrats.” It is so messy.
* * *
Yet the fact remains that the
taxpayer deserves protection.
Thus, it would be very well if
at any time a legislative body
be asked for more tax money to
carry on a project, that before
more money is shelled out
hurly burly, that a court of in
quiry be convened to examine
minutely what has caused this
need for fresh money. If It is
found need has been caused by
bureaucrats in charge “goofing
°®»” then those bureaucrats
should be summarily fired and
blacklisted for all time from
ever holding any kind of a gov
ernment job again. After all,
taxpaying public should have
some protection against idiots.