$50 Million Earmarked for Alaska
In President Kennedy’s Budget for ’62
WASHINGTON <*> — More than
$50 million is earmarked for
Alaska, including $12,290,000 for
a post office and court house at
Juneau in President Kennedy’s
budget for the year starting July
1.
The budget, containing the Pres
ident’s requests for appropriations,
went to Congress Thursday. ~
A $3 million transitional grant,
the maximum authorized for the
year under the Alaska Omnibus
Act, was asked for continuing the
change-over to Statehood. Con
gress has authorized a total of $28
million for this purpose through
1984. So far $22.5 million has been
appropriated. —
For water projects of the Army
Engineers the budget asks $1,
531,700, including <$315,000 for
studies of the Rampart Dam
project.
For the Alaska program of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, $4,
388,000 is asked for 17 construc
tion projects, mainly school facili
ties.
'For the Bureau of Reclamation
$350,000 is asked for various in
vestigations and $305,135 for
operation and maintenance of the
Eklutna project.
The National Park Service is
listed for $514,600 for construc
tion.
For the Alaska CammunicatJrtns
System the budg<
$6,900,000. The bu
significant expansi
tem is planned”
transfer to private ownership.
Alaska subsidy operations of the
Civil Aeronautics Board are esti
mated to require $7,801,000.
For operations of the Alaska
railroad, the budget recommends
$14 million.
Alaska’s payment from' Pribilof
Island seal operations is estimated
at $622,000. For administration of
the islands, $1,998,000 is asked.
The budget requests also include
$15,000 for filming and indexing
of Russian Orthodox Greek Cath
olic Church records of Alaska by
the Library of Congress.
Some of a $4,490,000 appropria
tion asked for the Bureau of Land
Management for cadastral sur
veys would go to Alaska, although
no amount is specified. The total
would be $014,600 more than the
| appropriation for the current
year, and the budget said the in
crease would provide for addi
tional surveys in the Western
States and Alaska. Federal land
in Alaska must" be surveyed be
fore the new state can select its
land grant entitlement.
Bureau of Indian Affairs proj
ects include:
Barrow u t i 1 i t i e 9, $540,000;
Hooper Bay School, 90 additional
spaces, 120 replacements, $519,-1
000; Kiana School, 60 adidtional I
spaces, 60 replacements, $387,000;
Scammon Bay School, 30 addi
tional, 30 replacement spaces,
$196,000; Stebbins School, 60 re
placements, $192,000.
Sen. Ernest Gruening reports
that President Kennedy’s budget
submitted to Congress Thursday
contains $59,000 for operation and
maintenance of Nome Harbor.
Spice used to be the variety ol
death. The ancient Egyptians cus
Mr. and Mrs. R. Romig
Of Anchorage Pass Away
Three Days Apart
ANCHORAGE UB— Mrs. Louise
Romig, 66, died yesterday after
noon at Providence Hospital, four
days after her husband, Robert,
died from a heart attack.
Double funeral services for the
wel known pioneer couple will
be held tomorrow at 2 at First
Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Romig had been in ill
health and was in Providence
Hospital for treatment when her
husband, pioneer local business
man, was found dead in his apart
ment Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Romig was released from
the hospital after her husband’s
death but was returned there
Wednesday when her condition
worsened.
Romig was born in Bethel in
1897, the son of the famous ‘‘Dog
Team Doctor,” J. H. Romig, and
Ella Mae Romig, medical mission
aries on the lower Kuskokwim at
the turn of the century.
Romig started one of the first
insurance agencies in Anchorage
in 1922 and still operated it at
the time of his death. For years
he was active in the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce and was
active in the development of this
city.
Former Welk Orchestra Violinist,
Richard Kesner, Dies in Accident
RESEDA, Calif MP) — Ail auto
mobile accident has claimed the
life of Richard Lowell Kesner, 46,
concert violinist formerly featur
ed with 'Lawrence Welk’s or
chestra.
Kesner may have suffered a
j heart attack while driving in this
1 Los Angeles suburb Thursday,
l police said. His car hurtled into
1 a group of construction workers,
killing one of them, James Ken
• nedy, 56.
» When two, conceited peopl«
meet it’s strictly an I for an I
ARA Organizational
Meeting Next Week
By Don • Hoover
With the Area Redevelopment
organizational meeting less than
a week away, it is felt that a re
cap of possible projects for our
area would be helpful. As has
been stated before, almost any
type of business or industry that
will utilize natural resources and
will provide new jobs can be
eligible under the act for loan
funds. This may be done by' the
creation of new businesses or in
dustries, or by the expansion
of those that may exist now. It
must be remembered that AiRA
funds are not available for work
ing capital loans nor are they
available for the relocation of an
I existing business.
A loan application that has been
approved by the local Redevelop
ment Board, by the State Area
Redevelopment director, and * fay
the Federal Redevelopment di
rector, will then find it possible
to borrow up to 65 per cent of the
amount needed from the AIRA for
as long a time as 25 years if need
be. Another 10 per cent of the
needed amount may be obtained
from the state, which leaves only
25 per cent of the needed capital
to be raised by the applicant from
other sources.
These other sources may be
funds the applicant has on hand
or may be able to get from other
financing agencies. The Area Re
development Act does not provide
for grants except in special cir
cumstances, but it does provide
[money at low interest rates and
on easy repayment terms that
\ have not been available in our II
\ area prior to this tune. In other \!
| words v the Area Redevolpment
' Act makes it possible to obtain!
\ the amount and kind of leans that \
lwill make it possible to develop
e our natural resources so that we
• / in this area can develop the
NOME HIGH SCHOOL
HONOR ROLL
Seniors
B Students: Robert Baldwin,
Beverly Bohrer, Curtis Chunri,
Gail Croell, Ann Chambers, Larry
Schmidt.
Juniors
A Students: Jeanette Amundsen.
B Students: Richard Arnold,
Pamela Mulvihill.
Sophomores
A Students: Alice Arnold.
B Students: JoAnn Croell, Lin
da Doyle, Richard Foster, June
Oman, Oscar Swanson, Pauline
Tocktoo.
Freshmen
B Students: Alice Atuk, James
Giliis, Homer Hoogendorn, Ruth
Okitkon, Richard Young. %
economy on the lasting and
' expanding basis that we need so
badly.
Be sure to attend the meeting
in Nome on Jan. 24 and support
the organization of your Area Re
development Board.
OUR SAVIOR'S I
LUTHERAN CHURCH
John L. Maakesiad. Pastor
S U N D AY
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00-aon.
Luther League Committee
Meeting 2:00 pan.
Evening Service 7:30 pan.
TUESDAY
Confirmation Class 7:00 pan.
WEDNESDAY
Mid-Week Meeting 7:30 pan.
Eskimo Service
THURSDAY
Kindergarten 10:00 eon.
I l-nUter League 7:00 pan.
FRIDAY
. Women of the. Church
Circles 2:00 & 7:30 pan.
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