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Pena Nena Henash The Land Speaks
Tlingit
Aim Ut kah neek Informing and Reporting
Aleut
Unungang Toonooktakuks The Aleuts Speak
Vol. 1, No. 22 Monday, Aug. 19, 1963 Fairbanks, Alaska
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Modern Dial Telephones
For Top of World Town
Communication will soon take a
big step forward in Alaska as tele
phones become a household item at
the lop-of-the-world town of Bar
row.
Around September 5, Tundra Tele
phone Co. of Anchorage will start
installing a modern $125,000 auto
matic dial telephone system link
ing the farthest north U.S. settle
ment, Barrow, with the farthest
south U.S. settlement, Key West,
Florida.
James Ditto, president of Tun
dra Telephone Co., in an exclusive
interview with Tundra Times today,
said the installation of the modern
telephone system at Barrow would
be only one of many such communi
Gruelling Hits
Stewart Udall,
Not Pautzke
United States Senate
Washington. D. C.
August 8. 1963
Dear Editor:
I have only one criticism and
amendment to make of your other
wise correct report of my inter
view on the subject of ducks for
food. You say:
“Gruening criticized the policy of
Clarence Pautzke, commissioner of
tile U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.”
I am quite positive that I never
mentioned the name of Clarence
Pautzke and never criticized him.
He is subject to the orders of those
above him. All my communications
on the subject of making a new re
gulation validating what I believe
to be the Eskimo's right to take
ducks for food when no other food
is available were written to the
Secretary of the Interior, Stewart
Udall.
It is true that it was Fish and Wild
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f cation developments in the years
ahead.
Specifically. Ditto predicted
that almost every village in Alaska
would have a dependable 24-hour
telephone system within the next
five years.
Tundra Telephone already has
automatic systems in operation at
Bethel and McGrath and another of
its systems will start operating at
Unalakleet tomorrow.
Long Term Financing
The systems, which have greatly
expanded communication in the
state, have been made possible by
long term financing from Auto
matic Electric Sales Corporation,
North Lake, Illinois.
About 150 telephones, including
service to government agencies,
will be included in the Barrow tel
ephone system to be installed this
fall.
At present there are less than 10
phones in Barrow operated through
a switchboard of Wien Alaska Aii
lines. The switchboard is not op
erated between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m.
except in emergencies.
Why Feasible
Ditto said that two things chiefly
contributed toward making the tele
phone system at Barrow economic
ally feasible:
1. Golden Valley Electric Asso
ciation is constructing a power net
work at Barrow and his company
will be able to use the same poles
for telephone lines.
2. The automatic dial system elim
| inates the need for employees ex
I ccpt for a person to handle the
maintenance of the system.
Rates varying from $9 to $20 ac
cording to service will be posted
] prior to installation at Barrow,
j Ditto said, and will be in line with
' general rates in Alaska governed
| by the new Public Utilities Commis
sion. The installation of the system
has been approved by the Barrow
city council.
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RCA GRADUATES REPORT—Standing underneath the giant 85-ft_ parabolic dish of the National Aero
nautics Space Administration Ulaska Data Acquisition Facility at Fox are eight of ten Alaska native
young men graduated from the RCA Institute at Los Angeles, California. The men recently reported
for work with RCA at the station. Left to right, Harold Haldane, Metlakatla; Albert Morgan, Vern Mil
ler, Fairbanks; Gerald Evans, Betties Field; Albert Adams, Kotzebue; Lawrence Petersen, Fort Yukon;
Morris Thompson, Tanana, and Roy Snyder Jr., of Nome. Not present when the picture was taken: Vitus
Jack, of Stebbins, and Paul Rookok, of Savoonga. —Tundra Times Photo
Eskimos to Lose
No DEWline Jobs
No Eskimos in Alaska will lose
their jobs on the Distant Early
Warning line (DEW Line) because
of the recently revised manning re
quirements and the closure of in
termediate or gap-filler stations.
This was the official word from
J. W. Gnilfoyle. president of Federal
Electric Corporation, Paramus, New
Jersey, in a recent letter to Alaska
senator, E. L. (Bob) Bartlett.
Gnilfoyle said although the num
ber of Alaskan Arctic Coast hires
would be reduced in 1964 from 27 to
24. that the difference would be ab
sorbed by normal attrition of em
ployees.
“Since there is always a fair
amount of turnover in this group,
there is no need of lay off any of
those employees, but rather only
not to replace those who leave FEC
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Ketzler Says Moving Natives
To Minto Would Be Unrealistic
By Alfred R. Ketzler
Chairman, Dena Mena Henasli |
Interior Indian Organization
The report to the Valdez Cham- 1
ber of Commerce that the natives
in the proposed Rampart Dam area
have agree to be moved into the
1 Minto area is entirely erroneous.
The only mention I know of about
the matter is that Chief Richard
Frank of Minto has stated some of
his relatives in the proposed Ram
part Dam area could come to Minto
to live if they wished.
This was by no means a blanket
invitation to all.
The majority of the people would
rather remain in their own villages,
but if Rampart Dam were to become
an actuality, they would probably
prefer to move to areas of their own
choosing around the borders of the
lake that would be formed.
The relocation and moving of
people in the villages affected would
be much more difficult than what
Mr. Thomas Paskvan suggests.
His comment that there would be
no conflict and the people would
live off the land is a most unrealistic
view. With the present game regu
lations and the low price of furs,
living off the land is becoming im
practicable and impossible. Natives
are gradually transferring to a cash
economy and as was brought out at
the Tanana Indian conference, the
people should be trained for jobs
involved in the construction of the
dam and should receive preference
in hiring.