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Permanent Office Needed Here
OME IS THE HUB of the most mineralized area of Alaska.
It is also the center of the richest mineral land in North Amer
ica. With the growing importance of certain strategic minerals
already known to be here, people arrive from all parts of the
world only to learn that the necessary land records and documents
are not kept in Nome.
" : "Representatives of large companies can afford to hop an
other plane and search out the records. However, many individuals
who might be interested in prospecting on a small scale, or smaii
organizations interested in investing find this an expensive
hurdle, and alv? time wasting and frustrating.
If Northwestern Alaska is to be given a fair chance to improve
its economic climate it must have the help of governmental agen
cies on the same basis given other parts of the state far less
mineralized.
It is time for the Land Office to return the records taken from
this area back to Nome. It is time that the U.S. Geological Survey
and die U.S. Bureau of Mines establish permanent offices and
give the service which their name embodies.
We are now surrounded by off-shore leases. Staking and pros
pecting is under way for beryllium. Much interest is shown in tin
deposits. Some planning by the agencies concerned should be
done now.
PALMETTO, FLA., SUNCOAST NEWS: "If the grass looks
greener on the other side of the fence, maybe you need to better
water the spot where you now stand.”
SENATE-OKEHS $6,900,000
FOR OPERATION OF ACS
The Defense Department bill
providing appropriations for the
1963 fiscal year passed the Senate
this week containing $6,900,000
for operation and maintenance of
the Alaska Communication Sys
tem, the same amount allowed by
the House in acting in April on the
measure.
Included in the program of the
ACS, which is to be transferred on
July 1 from the Army to the Air
Force, are $525,000 for civilian pay
and $120,000 for communication
projects, including replacement of
the manual switchboard operation
with toll dialing exchange facilities
at King Salmon and Nome, and six
additional switchboard positions at
Anchorage and three-at Juneau.
Actual deposits made into the
U.S. Treasury from commercial
sales amounted to $3,427,827 in
1959, $3,940,912 in 1960, $5,549,357
in 1961, an estimated $6 million
in 1962 and prospects look toward
$6,600,000 in the 1963 fiscal year.
WILD GOOSE CHASE . . .
SCITUATE, Mass. MB — A radio
ed report of. a sinking submarine
sent the Coast Guard and Navy off
on a wild goose — or whale —
chase late Monday.
The report was considered yes
terday to have been either a hoax
or a series of errors.
Before that could be determined
Monday night, however, air and
sea units of the Coast Guard and
Navy searched an area off the
Massachusetts coast for four hours.
The unofficial estimate: It most
likely was a spouting white whale.
The Coast Guard said it re
ceived a garbled radio call on an
emergency distress frequency, re
porting that a vessel was burning
some 20 miles at sea. That report
grew quickly and in minutes the
Coast Guard said it was checking
a report the Navy submarine USS
Argonaut was sinking near Fara
ham Hock buoy.
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More Money for
Rampart Study
Runs Into Trouble
By Fritz Wilii
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON OP — A request
for more money for a study of the
proposed Rampart Canyon Dam
in Alaska may run into trouble, the
record of a closed congressional
hearing indicated Tuesday.
The Army Engineers have spent
$624,000 on a study of the proposed
hydro-electric power development
on the Yukon River. They seek
$315,000 to continue the study
through the year starting July 1.
Doubt as to the wisdom of spend
ing more study money and about
the project itself was expressed
by two Republican members of
the House Public Works Appropri
ations Subcommittee, the transcript
of the hearing showed.
The project would cost an esti
mated $1.3 billion and be the
largest hydro-electric development
in the United States, Brig. Gen.
William W. Lapsley, North Pacific
Division Army Engineer, told the
subcommittee.
Asked by Rep. H. Carl Ander
sen, (R-Minn.), “what conceivable
use” there would be for such great
power production in Alaska, Laps
ley suggested the aluminum in
dustry might locate there if cheap
power were available.
“How would you correlate that
with the known fact that alumi
num production in the northwest
ern part of the United States has
fallen off because of the fact it is
so far from the market?” Ander
sen asked.
“I believe,” Lapsley replied, “the
conditions 25 years from now will
be different than they are now “
Rep. John Pillion, (R-N.Y.),
commented that in the circum
stances he could see no harm in
deferring the project for a year.
“Wouldn’t it be perhaps well,”
asked Andersen, “to just pause for
a year and try to get some analy
sis of what you hive decided
through that $624,000 before put
ting into this study something
worth five times the value of my
farm in Minnesota just for one
year’s further study on this, which
looks to me to, be a fantasy?”
Lapsley said he considered any
delay would be a mistake, adding:
“I think the project should be con
tinued until the point is reached
where wc either can go ahead
with the project planning for it, or
know that we do not have a feasi
ble project”
“You cannot do anything very
efficiently by jerks and starts in
planning a project of this size,” he
said.
«ep. uon Magnuson, lu-wnj,
commented: “We have sunk half
of the projected cost of this (study)
project and its seems to me the
decision was mad& probably two
or three years ago and we are sort
of stuck with it whether we like it
or not. I don’t see where we are
going to gain anything by stopping
for a year.”
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| CHAMBER TAKES STRONG
! STAND ON DELAY OF
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
The Nome Chamber of Com
merce took a strong stand on the
delay in the building of the State
Vocational School as voted by the
people.
In writing, they expressed their
feeling on the continual delays
stating that the school was voted
for at the same time of the South
eastern Alaska ferries. The ferries
have been approved and one has
been built and still the bonds for
the Nome school have not been put
up for sale.
The state blames the BIA be
cause they have not sanctioned
a boarding facility for Eskimo
children and the BIA apparently
is waiting for the state to make
an overall educational plan before
committing themselves.
The Chamber of Commerce
urges that the state proceed with
the school so that materials may
be on the last boat this fall for con
tractors and then worry about the
boarding facility, and if necessary
start the school with private home
housing if necessary.
MORE TIME TO REPAY
ESC (REED) FUND
WASHINGTON M — Alaska
employers would be given more
time to repay a federal loan for
unemployment compensation pay
ments under a bill passed by the
House Monday and sent to the
Senate.
The bill by Rep. Ralph Rivers
concerns repayment of some $8.7
million borrowed by the Alaska
unemployment security system
from the federal unemployment ac
count (Reed Fund) to make unem
ployment payments.
Under the existing loan agree
ment, state employers would have
to make a 1962 payment of about
$500,000 but the bill would defer
payment nf about half that amount
for a year, Rivers said.
TWO COAST GUARD MEN
INJURED IN COPTER CRASH
JUNEAU \Bh — A Coast Guard
helicopter stationed on the cutter
Storis crashed shortly after take
; off near Nikolski Bay in the Aleu
tians Monday, injuring two crew
men.
Headquarters of the 17th Coast
Guard District said Thomas L. Fa
tillo, of Pittsburgh. Pa., received
1 rib fractures and possible internal
; injuries. The pilot, Lt. Ernest C.
' Allen, received hand lacerations
and injuries. His home was listed
only as Florida.
Both men were taken to the Ko
■ diak Naval Station Hospital for
: treatment
Cause of the crash has not been
; determined. A Coast Guard in
vestigation was ordered.
! & was George Santayana who
observed, "There is no cure for
birth or death save to enjoy the
interval.”
Khrushchev Sees
No Reason For
War Over Berlin
BUCHAREST, Romania UP —
Premier Khrushchev said yester
day he sees no reason to go to
war over Berlin and he sets no
deadline for a settlement. But one
way or another, he declared, the
Western occupation of West Berlin
will be ended.
The Soviet leader again said he
believes Americans will fall under
Communism, but admitted they now
live better than the Russians.
Khrushchev, who arrived in Ro
mania Monday for a week’s visit,
said:
“The United States threatened us
with war over Berlin, but I didn’t
seen any reason to go to war.”
“Those who talk about war had
better remember that if they push
ed the button it would boomer
ang against them.
“We do not give any deadline,
but as soon as the matter is ripe
we will solve the problem.”
“I am convinced that tomorrow
the Red flag will fly over the
United States. But we will not fly
the flag. It will be the American
people themselves.”
4,200 ACRES RELEASED
TO PUBLIC DOMAIN
IN NOME AREA
Some 4,200 acres in the Kateel
River meridian area, near Nome,
have been released to the public
domain, according to a notice pub
lished this week in the Federal
Register. The action is a result of a
partial cancellation of a power site
dsssifwation.
The lands are near the Kruz
gamepa River from the confluence
of Crater Creek upstream to Sal
mon Lake and elsewhere in the
vicinity.
The State of AL.aka has the pre
ferred right of selection until Sept
5. Further details may be obtained
by inquiry to the Fairbanks Land
Office, Bureau of Land Manage
ment. Some 6,674 acres — less than
500 feet in elevation — are still
reserved and classified as a power
site.
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