Letter to Editor
August 5, 1963
Juneau, Alaska
Dear Sir:
You are doing a superb job with
the Tundra Times. I find it an in
valuable source in my work. I can
follow current events — as they
relate to the native people and their
problems — with much greater ac
curacy and completeness. Keep up
the good work!
Sincerely,
Dr. Richard A. Cooley
Consulting Economist
Doubts ...
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supporting and to raise from pov
erty and hand to mouth living.”
“Our problem is probably as great
as the Tibetans,” he said.
Dr. Wood said he was personally
sympathetic to the refugee problem
but it was “very complex problem
when a government is asked to set
aside its immigration laws.”
He said the Tibetan plan had
some elements of special interest to
Alaska but also some “highly un
usual difficulties.”
Among them he said was the fact
that “Alaska does not have a present
need for additional people to fill
jobs. It needs more jobs for the
people already here.
This is true, he said, for the U.S.
as a whole.
He pointed out the automation
problem and the need for creating
jobs at an accelerated rate.
“We do not have the same situa
tion as when we welcomed the Irish,
Poles, Swedes, Germans, Greeks,
Italians, and so on.”
“I think the plan ought to be
studied carefully by very competent
people,” Dr. Wood said.
If Madison Avenue is taking the
brunt of all our troubles, there is
a silver lining to the situation.
Madison Avenue has taken Wall
Street off the hook.—Harry Golden
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Anaktuvuk . . .
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maximum permissible amount set
by the International Committee on
Radiation Protection is 3,000 nano
curies although persons are allowed
to continue working in radiation
plants in the lower states until they
receive 30,000 nanocuries.
The whole life of the village cen
ters around caribou, which popu
late the area in great numbers.
They use it for 90 per cent of their
diet. They utilize nearly every part
of the caribout for something—for
food, for making clothing to wear
or sell, or in making handicraft
items.
Every home has a rack for drying
caribou and nearly every family
has a dog team. In the summer the
dogs saddle pack caribou meat to
the village.
The importance of the caribou
was very evident here. Men came
in infrequently from caribou hunt
ing. Women in their sod igloo and
tent homes are cooking caribou
meat. Caribou skins are being pre
pared. Some young boys were mak
ing caribou skin masks.
Skylights in many of the sod
igloos are made from caribou. There
are caribou parkas, mittens, muk
luks, even babies’ booties.
Paneak said it was not known if
any Anaktuvuk Pass person had
shown signs of radiation illness,
but he said a few people had be
come sick with a strange fever and
the people wondered if it had any
thing to do with the radiation prob
lem.
“The only way for us to change
our diet is for the government to
send food,” Paneak said. “It would
cost a lot of money for the govern
ment to feed us but it would be the
only way.”
Experience has shown, and a true
philosophy will always show, that
a vast, perhaps the larger portion
of the truth arises from the seem
ingly irrelevent.—Edgar Allen Poe
Significant Development at U of A...
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looked at the University as an in
vestment in the future whereas be
fore they considered it an added
burden of expense,” he said.
Dr. Wood went on to outline the
projected growth which even now
includes five large research build
ings on the University’s West Ridge.
Matching Funds
Some of the huge buildings in
the multi-million dollar complex
will be wholly or partially built by
federal grants. Just how large some
of the institutes will be will de
pend on the size of federal match
ing money.
To link the West Ridge Complex
with the main campus will be a
3-quarter mile $900,000 walk
through utilidor system which is
being constructed this summer.
One of the first buildings of the
complex will be the $3,500,000 En
vironmental Sciences Building, a
project that has already been au
thorized. It is to be completed a
year from next September.
Arctic Research
Located in the building will be
the Institute of Arctic Biology. Its
program will be carried on and fi
nanced, not by the state, but by
the federal government. The federal
government will provide a quarter
million dollars a year for personnel
and equipment for the program.
But the federal government does
not provide the facility.
Last year with the arrival of Dr.
Lawrence Irving the University got
its first unit of personnel to eventu
ally be housed in the Institute of
Arctic Biology. About 8 persons in
volved in the work are now tem
porarily housed in the basement of
the Engineering Building.
According to Dr. Wood, the Uni
versity is now in the process of
I hiring a director for this large insti
tute and he should be named in
about a week.
Health Research
Another unit in the West Ridge
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Numerous sizes of stoves
2 oil burner white enamel cook stoves
3 agitator electric washing machines,
very reasonable .
4 copper water coils for cook stoves—
square and round
3 sizes of doors for drum stoves—
going fast—only 34 total left
Cast iron tops and ovens for
Yukon stoves
Between room registers and floor
registers in all sizes. Also
dust filters for same
Only 5 bucket-a-day water heaters
left in stock
300 sheets galvanized iron in all gauges.
One half sheet stainless steel
10 oil burners—three sizes
Bathroom fixtures—of all descriptions
Several pumps and motors, together or
separate. Four Fairbanks-Morse pump
kits left.
Many stove dampers
Stove pine and elbows, black or
galvanized in all sizes
Copper tubing—2 sizes
Eve spouting In 2 sizes
3 coal palls left
Plumbing of any kind as well as
stove pipe for your cess pools
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Research Complex will be a water
population control laboratory.
The U. S. Public Health Service
has definitely announced plans to
construct the $2,500,000 laboratory
but Congressional approval is be
ing awaited. The House of Repre
sentatives deleted the amount from
its budget but it was voted into the
Senate budget almost unanimously.
Assurances have been strong that
it will be approved in conference
committee.
“One thing that makes us confi
dent that it will be passed.” said
Dr. Wood, “is that in the House
Appropriations Bill there is in
cluded $500,000 for planning the
second unit of the laboratory.”
Air Pollution
The third building in the 5
pronged complex is an ail pollution I
research laboratory. The U. S. Pub- ,
lie Health Service has indicated in
terest in such a laboratory which
would be concerned with radiation
| and such things as ice fog.
Need Expansion
Other buildings planned for fu
' ture construction included Earth
Sciences Building containing new
and expanded facilities for the
Geophysical Institute.
“We must find a means of fi
nancing a new Geophysical Insti
tute because we have outgrown the
old one here,” Dr. Wood said.
The present Geophysical Institute
was built 12 years ago by the fed
eral government for $1,000,000 and
now houses 3 times *he personnel
it was designed to accommodate.
Dr. Wood said the University had
5 times as many people working on
Geophysical projects as the insti
tute could accommodate and that
many of them were scattered in
other buildings across the campus.
The new Geophysical Institute
which will have to be built chiefly
through federal and foundation
grants will be about 5 times the
present one in size and cost about
$5,000,000.
In the very early planning stages
' is a Social Sciences Laboratory for
the West Ridge Arctic Research
Center.
Terrific Pace
To indicate somewhat the terrific
' pace of the University expansion,
here is a list of the 11 major con
struction projects at the University
this summer:
1. Completion of the Forestry
Sciences Research Laboratory built
by the U. S. Government at a cost |
j of $350,000.
2. Construction of a $1,200,000
Dining Commons. Final inspection j
j held Friday.
Construction of a $2,250,000
Health. Recreation, and Physical
Education facility. Final inspection
held Friday.
4. Construction of a $3,900,000
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Heating Plant scheduled for com
pletion in early October.
5. Warehouse and Maintenance
Building costing roughly $300,000.
6. Fire Protection Facility costing
about $175,000.
7. Utilidor System connecting the
new West Ridge campus with the
academic campus coating about
$1,000,000.
8. New dormitory for women,
costing $1.75 million.
9. New married student apart
ment building costing $1,000,000.
(To replace the old trailer court
which is being liquidated. The
trailer court has been deemed un
safe and inadequate for student
living. Two or three lives have al
most been lost by fire.)
10. A $1,800,000 Math and Physi
cal Sciences and Engineering Build
ing.
11. A utilidor system costing
about $400,000 connecting the new
heating plant with the new ware
house and maintenance shop.
Last year University dedicated
the $750,000 Lathrop Residence for
Men and completed $950,000 in Uni
versity housing.
There are many other projects ifl
the six-year expansion program:
1. $260,000 for advance planning
of a fine arts and library building.
2. $120,000 for main campus park
ing, roadways, sidewalks, landscap
ing, etc.
3. A $33,600 building for dairy
feed and materials storage at Mata
nuska.
4. A $2.800 000 student dormitory
dining complex for 450 students.
5. Remodeling the old gymnasium
for a museum. $40,000.
6. A $3,500,000 Biological and Re
newable Resources building.
j 7. $283,900 for additions to Mata
: nuska Exneriment Station.
| 8. $30,000 for a Nursery School
Demonstration Unit.
j 9. A $7.500.000 library, humani
I ties and fine arts building,
j 10. $2,000,000 for married students
and faculty housing.
11. A $2,500,000 student center,
12. Social Sciences classrooms and
office building. $2,750,000.
Also plans are being laid for a
new museum costing about $3,000,
000 to be financed by private do
nations to the University.
Roughly the breakdown of fi
nancing the six-year $41,000,000
program is thus:
$3,150,000 for general fund ap
propriations: $22,550,000 in general
obligations bonds yet to be author
ized: $5,000,000 in revenue bonds
already authorized; $8,000,000 in
revenue bonds to be authorized:
and in private donations.
Right Spot, Right Time
Asked why at this particular time
the University is experiencing such
an expansion in the field of re
search. Dr. Wood answered:
“We happen to be at the right
spot at the right time. This is a
point in history when men must
seek answers to questions that must
be answered—of things that must be
studied in the high latitudes of the
Far North.”
State Attacks . :
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RESEARCH—Chairman. Dr. John
G. Tryon. University of Alaska.
College; Robert C. Schick, Federal
Aviation Agency, Nome; William
E. Davis. Anchorage; S. E. Hazel
quist, Ketchikan Pulp Company.
LEGISLATIVE-PUBLIC RELA
TIONS—Chairman, James Simpson.
Ketchikan; Ferrall Campbell, Ju
neau; John B. Foley. Anchorage:
J. A. Kornfeind, Fairbanks; Dr.
John G. Tryon. College.
No man practices so well as he
writes. I have, all my life long, been
lying till noon. Yet I tell all young
men . . . with great sincerity, that
nobody who does not rise early will
ever do any good.—Samuel Johnson