VISITING BISHOPS TO ENJOY
ALASKA PICNIC SUNDAY
Members of the Seward Meth
odist Church will have an old
fashioned family picnic Sunday,
July 5, honoring Bishop Grant
and Dr. Elliot Fisher, who will
speak to the congregation at the
regular service at 11 a m.
The picnickers will gather at
Little Bear Lake at 1 o'clock.
Transportation will be furnished
for all needing it by calling
Delia Gabriel.
I
Roberta and Eleanor Henrick
son are visiting with Mr. and
Mrs. Vic Graham in Spenard.
They are the daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Henrickson.
Rev. and Mrs. B. I. Carpenter
and daughter visited in Anchor
age from Monday to Wednesday
this week. Helen Ruth, the
daughter, will remain over the
week end as guest of Rev. and
Mrs. Felton Griffin in Anchor
age.
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Delegate Bartlett has urged
complete restoration of funds
originally sought in the Truman
budget for rehabilitation of the
Seward-Portage section of The
Alaska Railroad and for full
scale continuation of the Copper
River Highway as immediate
steps which should and can be
taken to assist in the transpor
tation problems resulting from
the recent fire at the military
port of Whittier.
In addition, in representations
made to Secretary of the Inter
ior McKay and Secretary of
Defense Wilson, Delegate Bart
lett called for a thorough inves
tigation as to advisability of re
building Whittier as contrasted
with developing other ports of
entry in the Territory. "Whittier
facilities should not be rebuilt,"
he stated, "pending a thorough
reexamination of the advantages
and disadvantages of such ac
tion. In the past there has been
military testimony that an
enemy strike at the tunnels
leading from Whittier might re
sult in a crippling blow at any
U.S. military effort in Alaska.
The fire now raging demon
strates that the peculiar geo
graphic situation at Whittier will
always cause ;t to be vulner
able" even in peacetime.
In conversations held with
Defense Department officials.
Delegate Bartlett was informed
that military cargo shipments
via Valdez, Anchorage and Sew
ard would be largely increased
with substantial additions in
tonnage to the Interior by way
of the Richardson Highway. An
ticipated appropriations for the
maintenance of roads in Alaska
for the next fiscal year have
assured winter maintenance of
this highway. “These past in
vestments in appropriations for
the Richardson Highway,” Dele
gate Bartlett declared, “will
now pay off in a big way since
Valdez is a natural port of entry
to Interior Alaska points." It is
expected, according to military
officials, that cargo destined for
the Interior will be segregated
at Seattle rather than at Whit
tier and that freight for air
force bases adjacent to Fair
banks w ill be channelled to a
greater extent over the highway.
Ip ’■ecommending executive
action by the Departments of the
Irter-or and Defense in support
of the total appropriations
sought in the Truman budget
but trimmed in the revised Ei
senhower budget for Cordova
and Seward. Delegate Bartlett
urged that the Congress be re
quested by the administration
to grant the full amounts in
view of the disastrous Whittier
fire.
This is the background on the
two items: President Truman's
budget submitted to the Con
gress prior to change of admin
istration on January 20 included
$2,400,000 for the continuation
of the Copper River Highway
joining Cordova with the Rich
ardson Highway and $13,502,000
for dock facilities at Seward
and rehabilitation of the Seward
Portage section of The Alaska
Railroad. The revised budget
submitted by the new adminis
tration eliminated these funds
entirely. The House in passing
the Interior Department appro
priation bill for the 1954 fiscal
year went along with the ad
ministration's budget and did
not appropriate a single dollar
for these projects. Interior De
partment support for at least
partial appropriations for the
railroad rehabilitation project
was not gained until Under Sec
retary of the Interior Tudor re
cently marie a trip to the Ter
ritory following which repre
sentations were made to the
Senate Appropriations Commit
tee for an appropriation of
$6,535,000 for the rehabilitation
work, exclusive of dock facili
ties. Mayor Russell Painter,
Tormod Bie and Kenneth Baker,
all of Seward, and Delegate
Bartlett urged the full appro
priation submitted in the Tru
man budget of $13,592,000. In
reporting the Interior Depart
ment bill to the Senate prior
to the Whittier fire, the Senate
committee approved the appro
priaion of $5,535,000, of which,
it is understood, some $282,000
would be applied to engineer
ing and drilling for dock fa
cilities. It is the full $13,592,000
for which Delegate Bartlett is
seeking departmental support
following the Whittier fire.
In urging the Interior De
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partment to seek increased ap
propriations in the Interior De
partment appropriation bill now
on its way to congressional com
pletion, Delegate Bartlett stated,
“I should like to recommend
that the Interior Department,
in cooperation with other con
cerned departments, should now
give affirmative consideration to
the immediate presentation of
a program to the Congress which
would go far to prevent a re
currence of such a transporta
tion emergency as now con
fronts us.”
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