INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
COMPLETES FIRST PUBLIC
WORKS PROJECT IN ALASKA
Secretary of the Interior Oscar L.
Chapman June 1 announced com
pletion of the first public works
project in Alaska since the pro
gram was initiated under Public
Law 264, 81st Congress. This pro
gram was transferred to the De
partment of the Interior from Gen
eral Services Administration on
May 24. 1950.
The completed construction, in
the current $9,000,000 Alaskan pro
gram for which funds have been
approved by the Congress, includes
2.600 feet of sewers and gravelled
streets in Juneau. A deed has been
executed transferring the Govern
ment’s right, title and interest in
the project to the city of Juneau
which will pay one-half of the total
cost of $23,544 in accordance with a
proviso of the Alaska Public Works
Act.
A total of 14 projects is now be
ing constructed in Alaska under the
Public Works Program. Architec
tural or engineering plans are in
preparation for 15 additional pro
jects. Secretary Chapman said.
Allotments for the work under
construction total S4.036.600. These
projects include a city library at
Juneau, schools at Fairbanks, Nak
nek, Chugiak, Ninilchik, Peters
burg and Anchorage, an addition to
the Eielson building at the Univer
sity of Alaska, equipment repair
and storage buildings at Anchorage,
sewers and streets in Ketchikan,
sewers and watermains in Skagway
and Douglas, streets in Anchorage,
PASSENGER SERVICE
from Seward
SS DENALI
Wednesday
June 13
Juneau
Wrangell
Ketchikan
Seattle
SS BARANOF
Thursday
June 7
Sitka
Juneau
Ketchikan
Seattle
FREIGHTER SERVICE
from Seattle
SS VICTORIA
June 2
Seward
SS DIAMOND CEMENT
June 3
Seward
For Information
PHONF. MAIN 125
W. W. Sipprell. Gen. Agt.
and sewers for a new housing area
in Fairbanks.
Construction of five-story rein
forced concrete Territorial Office
Building in Juneau, for which a
$1,058,390 contract has just been
awarded, will start in the near fu
ture.
Estimated costs total $3,366,950
for the 15 projects for which archi
tecture or engineering plans are in
preparation. These projects will in
clude schools at Wrangell, Dilling
ham and Homer, additional utilities
including steam and electric gen
erating units and distribution lines
at the University of Alaska, coal
handling facilities at the Fairbanks
Municipal power plant and im
provement of certain streets in
Ketchikan.
Also included in the above 15
projects will be construction of ex
tensions and improvements to the
existing sewerage system and ad
ditions and improvements to the
municipal water system at Anchor
age; water supply development and
a distribution system at Fairbanks;
water system additions and im
provements at Cordova; improve
ment of the water sytsems at Hoo
nah, Petersburg and Seldovia; a
new sewerage system and water
supply improvements at Haines;
and sewerage and water supply ex
tensions and improvements at
Kodiak to serve the site of a new
400 unit housing addition.
The law providing for the Alaska
Public Works program authorized
the expenditure of $70,000,000 over
a period of five years starting in
fiscal year 1950. Under it, the De
partment of the Interior is author
ized to accept applications for con
struction of public and community
facilities to be sold to the public
body applicants on completion. The
law requires that the sale return to
the Federal Government approxi
mately 50 per cent of the total cost
of the program.
Secretary Chapman declared that
the Department of the Interior has
every hope of accomplishing what
the Congress has provided for,
namely, to bring to the present
population of Alaska additional
educational, cultural and health fa
cilities, to assist in improving the
environment for satisfactory living,
and through these to stimulate the
growth of the population of the
territory. Population increase is de
sirable in Alaska, he said, not only
from an economic standpoint but
for security and defense reasons.
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Aviation Safety
Discussions
D. M. Grelzer
for
The Office of Aviation Safely
MISPLACED PILOTS
Twice, this season, there have
been major searching operations
for the man who wasn’t there. One
pilot became lost on a forty mile
flight. He was finally found walk
ing “home” a hundred and eighty
miles from his starting point, and
ninety degrees off course. His air
plane had no radio.
The other pilot was forced off
course by the weather. His airplane
ran out of gas about sixty miles
from bis destination, and about
forty-five miles off course. His air
plane had a two-way radio.
SEARCHING
It was known to the searching
parties that the airplane had a two
way radio, but no transmission had
been heard during his flight. This
cau-'ed a concentration of searching
within the mountain areas; because
naturally his failure to use his
radio indicated a sudden accident
with no chance to use it. or else
he was in the mountains when he
tried to put out an emergency call,
and his signals were blocked by
the hills.
WHY RADIO
Actually the pilot never even
tried to use his transmitter during
the flight. About the last five or
ten minutes in the air, he flew
around looking for a handy spot
for running out of gas.
Even then he didn't think of call
ing out his tale of woe. He was so
close to a CAA radio station, he
would have blasted the communi
cator right out of his sequences if
he had said a few brief words.
A week of futile searching was
called off when the pilot and his
passengers made their way to a
camp, and then to town.
SUGGESTIONS
1. The pilot should stay on the
flight plan route unless able to let
others know of the change of
course.
2. It is cheaper for the pilot, and
far cheaper for his searchers, if he
turns hack in bad weather instead
of pushing through it, or detouring
from known plans.
3. The pilot should make full use
of two-way radio by making fre
quent position and progress reports.
CITY RECEIVES BOOST IN
NEW GUIDE TO ALASKA
Seward, especially the Mi.
Marathon Race, received a big
boost in the 1951 edition of the
Guide to Alaska, just off the
press. Every advertisement from
Seward carries the added line:
“Mt. Marathon Race—In all the
world, no race like this, Sew
ard, Alaska, July 4th.”
Lou Jacobin gave 12 pages to
Seward this year, beginning
with a new photograph of
Marathon.
PASSENGER LIST
The following Seward passen
gers were booked Northbound
on the SS BARANOF, Voyage
68, sailing from Pier 42, Seattle,
4:00 P. M. June 1.
Mrs. J. Vic Brown, Mrs. J.
Laurie, Milton Drexler and wife
and two children, Laurence
Hettinger and wife and child,
Mrs. Bert Starin, Mrs. Leonard
Thomas, Mrs. T. W. Turner, Mrs.
Margaret Baker, Earl G. Myers
and wife, Aldon L. Hair and
wife, H. J. McArdle.
M. A. Horner, Capt. Clay Ley
ser, James Mullen and wife, J.
Morrow, Mrs. Lola C. Pierson,
Harlene E. Pierson, Mrs. Rich
ard Babler, Linda Babler, Bon
nie Babler, Mrs. Elwin Mathews,
Cecil Mathews, Jerry Mathews,
Paul Mathews, Mrs. W. R. Frank
lin and infant, Mrs. L. C. Frank
lin, Roger Franklin, Mrs. Belle
Guyer, Mrs. Edna F. Shreiner,
Lauris Hicks, Mrs. A. A. Rob
erts, Barbara Ward, A. R. Mc
Phee, I. H. Wood, Mrs. R. Berto
son and infant, Joan Bertoson,
W. E. Brown, C. J. Starkovisch,
C. A. Berg and wife.
Larry Grounds, Larry Barton,
Frances Garcia, Eleanor Thomp
son. Mrs. D. M. Kantola, Donna
Kantola, Susan Kantola, Mrs.
N. M. Martin. Anna M. Page,
Alice Page, Mary Page, Tom
Reiss and wife.
Patronize Home Industry
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When in Seward It’s - -
The New Seward Hotel
Oscar Dahl, owner
Anchorage - Seward
SUMMER TRAIN SCHEDULE
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Effective June 15
EACH FRIDAY
Depart Seward for Anchorage .8:30
EACH SATURDAY
Depart Anchorage for Seward .
EACH MONDAY
Depart Seward for Anchorage
Depart Anchorage for Seward
3:00 P.M.
3:30 P.M.
EACH THURSDAY
Depart Seward 2 hours after passenger boat docks
Depart Anchorage for Seward .3:30
For Passenger Train Service Prior to June 15.
Telephone ARR Agent at Main 153
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
"Mt. McKinley Park Route"
Meets 2nd and 4ih Mondays
I.O.O.F. Hall > Adams Si.
N. G.. Art McKeough
V. G., George Kipsgard
Sec., Tom Jones
SEWARD POST
No. 5
Meets
lst-3rd Wed. of Month
Legion Log Cabin
SEWARD
B. P. O. ELKS
Meet 2nd & 4th Wed. of Month
OPEN DAILY 5:00 P. M.
United Brotherhood of
CARPENTERS and JOINERS
Seward Carpenters' Union 2304
Meetings at Lutheran Church
Affiliated With A F. of L.
Meeting 2nd Tuesday of Month
W. <S. Knaok — President
R. M. Bevan - Fin.-Sec. & Bus. A^t,
International Longshoremen's
and Warehousemen's Union
Local 39
Meets First Tuesday of Each Month
7 p.m.‘— Union Hall
President — John Rose
Westinghouse
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Telephone Polk 186
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