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WASHINGTON NEWSLETTER
By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Barrelary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett. Alaska's Delegate to Congreat
mi ROUND UP
An ftll-timr record of (271.078.
273 in congressional appropria
tions for both civilian and mili
tary programs in Alaska was
reached this week when a final
determination was made by the
Department of Defense on allocri
tion of military public work funds
for Alaska for the 1952 fiscal
year.
Alaskan Appropriations
The total represents civilian
appropriations of $115,098,873
granted by Congress this year for
federal activities in the Territory,
plus $155 979.400 for Army. Navy
and Air Force construction. Au
thorization for the military pub
lic works program for the Terri
tory was granted during the first
session of the 82nd Congress in
the amount of $337 717,430 and
the money made available to car
ry out the authorization repre
sents a sum just short of half the
authorization with additional
money to be sought in future fis
cal years.
The Navy program amounts to
$15,914,300 with $2,810 000 to be
spent at the Naval Station at
Adak. $6,977,800 at the Naval Op
erating Base at Kodiak. $1,936,
500 at the Naval Air Station. Ko
diak, and $7 million at the Naval
Communication Station, Kodiak.
The Air Force contemplates the
expenditure of $101,429,000 in Al
aska, the largest segment going
to Elmendorf Air Force Base in
the amount of $47,081,000, with
$29,496,000 earmarked for Eiel
son Air Force Base, ^jy.zuz.uuu
for Ladd Air Force Base. $2,450,
000 each for Shemya and Thorn
brough (Cold Bay) Air Force
bases and $750,000 for the Nak
nek Air Force Auxiliary Field.
Delegate Bartlett has been in
formed that the Army expects to
have approximately $38,636,100
available for Army projects, in
cluding funds for Big Delta, Ladd
Air Force Base, Fort Richardson
and an oil pipeline from Haines
to Ladd. A breakdown is not yet
available of the separate Army
allocations.
The Interior Department re
ceived the greatest amount of
money from the total $115,098,873
allowed for civilian projects in
the sum of $52,079,070, with the
Commerce Department allotted
$22,414,664. Activities of the U.S.
Treasury Department came third
with $6,670,000 and the rest of the
total figure was divided among
the Agriculture Department, $5,
292,810: the Post Office Depart
ment, $6,104,000; the Defense De
partment, $6,052,200; the Public
Health Service, $1,211,129; and
supplemental appropriations to
talling $15,275,000.
The $52,079,070 appropriation
for the Interior Department in
cludes $688,165 for the Bureau of
Land Management; $6,004,400 for
the Bureau of Reclamation, of
which $5,761,400 is to be applied
to the Eklutna hydroelectric pro>
ject; $2,181-300 for the Geological
Survey; $377,040 for the Bureau
of Mines; $1,791,668 for the Fish
and Wildlife Service; $268,509 for
the National Park Service; $8,
268,473 for the Bureau of Indian
Affairs; $9,194 for the Alaska ac
tivities of the Office of the Sec
retary of the Interior; $20 million
for road construction; $2 million
for Alaska Railroad construction;
$7 million for the Alaska public
works program; $2,900,000 for the
maintenance of roads; $88,180 for
the Governor’s office and $502,
141 for the care and custody of
Alaska’s insane.
The road funds contemplate
construction and/or surfacing on
the Eagle-40-Mile-Alaska High
way road, Richardson Highway,
Alaska Highway, the Richardson
Highway- Mt. McKinley Road
and the Tok Cutoff with recon
struction funds for the Tok Cut
off and improvement of existing
roads and bridges. Reconstruction
and paving of the Seward-An
chorage Highway is included with
new construction planned for the
Naknek Airport-Naknek Village
road, the Kodiak-Kodiak Naval
Station road and preliminary
work on the Cordova-Richard
son Highway.
The Department of Commerce
appropriations totalling $22,414.
ing to a total *6 670 000 granted
to the Treasury Department.
Airmail Mar route and pov.cr
boat sprvief under the Post Of
fice Department will l>e allotted
$6,104,000 for Alaska activities.
The Agricultures Department's
$5-292.610 Alaska program in
664 represent $325.000 for the op
eration of the Fairbanks and An
chorage airports. $10,760,500 for
salaries and operation. $1,135,000
for establishment of air naviga
tion facilities and $225,000 for th •
Federal Aid Airport Program, all
under the Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration. The Civil Aeronai^i
tics Board will have approxi
mately $120,000 for its Alaska op
erations; the Coast and Geodetic
Survey, $2,763,000; the Weather
Bureau. $1,830,161; and the Bu
reau of Public Roads, $5,256,003,
including $3 'l- million for roads
in the Tongass National Forest
and $1,756-003 for forest liign
ways. A supplemental appropria
tion of $3'a million brought to
$7 million the total allowed by
Congress for the special Tongass
road program.
The Coast Guard for the oper
ation of the Alaska District and
other activities in Alaska will
have $6,359,000 for the 1952 fis
cal year; the Bureau of Customs,
$203,500; and the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue, $107,500, bring
cludes $56,740 for the Extension
Service, $91,795 for Experiment
Station work, $250,000 for the ag
ricultural research program,
$553,930 for the Forest Service,
$93,345 for the Soil Conservation
Service, $50,000 for Production
and Marketing, $197,000 for pro
grams of the Farmers Home Ad
ministration and $4 million for
the estimated Rural Electrifica
tion Administration loan pro
gram.
Funds earmarked for the De
partment of Defense, exclusive
of the public works program, to
tal $6,052,200, to be applied as fol
lows: $5,576,000 for Alaska Com
munication System operation,
maintenance and construction,
$247,000 for the continued dredg
ing of Wrangell Narrows and
$229,200 for the National Guard.
The Public Health disease and
sanitation control program, op
erated in conjunction with the
Territorial Department of Health
will continue with $1,211,129 ap
propriated by Congress for this
activity.
The supplemental appropria
tions amounting to $15,275,000 in
clude $3 Vi million for the Ton
gass National Forest roads, $3 Vi
million for a hospital at Bethel.
$4 million for rebuilding burned
shop facilities of The Alaska Rail
road, $3,875,000 to supplement the
Alaska Housing Authority re
volving fund and $400,000 for a
federal jail at Anchorage.
Other Legislation Affecting
Alaska
The Senate received its In
terior and Insular Affairs Com
mittee’s favorable report on Al
aska statehood in a companion
bill to Delegate Bartlett’s meas
ure pending in the House. The
bill, sponsored by 19 Democratic
and Republican Senators, is listed
as a major piece of legislation for
consideration during the second
session of the 82nd Congress con
vening in January.
Bills enacted into law in 1951
of especial interest to Alaskans
included Delegate Bartlett’s mea
sure permitting until June of next
year the carriage of passengers
on Canadian vessels between
Haines and Skagway and other
ports in Alaska and the carriage
of freight and passengers between
Hyder and Alaska ports and
points in the continental United
States. Other measures included
legislation to allow lease of prop
erty on the Anchorage and Fair
banks airports for 20-year peri
ods instead of 10-year periods as
an encouragement to the private
construction of hangars, a law
providing continuation until June
30, 1953, of the direct loan pro
gram for veteran housing, and
pay raises to federal employees.
Alaska’s difficult housing prob
lems were recognized with spe
cial benefits accruing to the Ter
ritory in the Defense Housing
Act.
Several bills received approval
Vm one house apd are now pend
; ing Jn the other. Legislation was
p&KM-d by the Senate and i bated
the Houae Armed Service* Com
mittee allowing a special formula
for civil defenae purpose* in Al*
i aska whereby Alaska would not
■ be requued to put up on a maten*
I me-fund bast* so much money a*
i the State* and other territories
1 The House approved Delegate
| Bartlett's bill to permit the sale
* of 24 acres of land on the Chena
| River to the Tanana Valley
i Sportsmen's Association of Fair*
I bank*.
Congress adopted Delegate
I Bartlett’s amendment excluding
I Alaska and the other territories
! from parcel post weight and size
limitations.
Legislation waiving the statute
of limitations so that Alaska Road
Commission employees could sue
i m the Court of Claims for over
! time compensation was reported
| favorably to the Senate, a com
i panion bill to Delegate Bartlett's
House measure. During the yea \
the test case brought in behalf of
| Alaska Railroad employees for
overtime compensation was wo.i
in the Court of Claims, and the
first check in the amount of $10.
506.18 was paid to the test case
plaintiff, George Poggas.
An additional District Judge
for the Third Division of Alaska
was approved by the Senate Ju
diciary Committee in reporting
out an omnibus bill creating a
number of new judgeships thru
out the country.
The Merchant Marine and Fish
eries Committee filed a resolution
in the House allowing until Feb
ruary 15 of next year shipment
of explosives to Hawaii and Al
I aska under certain safety pre
cautions ana proviaing iocai au
thorities would agree.
Anchorage, FairDanks and Ko
diak were named as critical
housing areas, thus making them
eligible to apply for community
facility assistance under the De
fense Housing Act.
Pelican was designated as a
port of entry during the year.
Delegate Bartlett was active in
a number of matters which re
sulted in elimination of the threat
to take away the 25 percent dif
ferential paid to federal employes
hired within territories to work
in those territories, exclusion of
Alaska Veterans Administration
contact offices from closing or
ders affecting many offices in the
States, cancellation of proposed
Alaska Railroad freight rate in
creases, lifting of price control
on sawmill logs sold and pur
chased in Alaska, and revoking
| of the salmon concentration plan
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Pastor
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
(Meeting in Carpenters' Hall)
Sunday School. 10 AM.
Sunday morning. 11:00
“10521"
7:15 pjn.—“The Lore of God’’
| for the I92>1 fishing *»a*r*n. plus
abandonment of the proponed
withdrawal of 772 WO acre* of
land near Gulkana as an artillery
' range
Hearing* by a subcommittee of
the House Interior and Insular
Affairs Committer were held in
Alaska in the fall on Delega*»
Bartlett's bill setting up a pro
cedure for settlement of land
claims in Alaska.
Allotment of funds were made
to Palmer and Anchorage for
-ch<*ol operating expenses, for a
new general hospital to cost
$400,000 at Palmer, and mon’V
was allotted under the Alaska
public works program for Sel
dovia. Juneau, Ketchikan. Fair
banks. Petersburg, Hoonah. Ko
diak. Wrangell. Seward, Palmer,
the University of Alaska. Valdez,
Sitka. Anchorage and Sand Point.
Funds were transferred by the
Department of Defense to the
Interior Department for winter
operation of Thompson Pass.
Early entrance of a pulp indu;
try into southeastern Alaska w is
assured when final arrangements
were made with the Forest Ser
vice and the Defense Productior
Administration for a pulp plant
near Ketchikan.
Action long sought by fur-far
mers, processors and dealers was
taken in prohibiting the import
of certain furs from Russia.
The Civil Aeronautics Board
allowed a five-year exemption
from certain CAB regulations un-;
til December 31. 1956, to pilot-!
owners in Alaska.
The existence of a 30-million
to 100 million-barrel oil field at'
Umiak was confirmed by the Do-1
partment of the Navy, with a]
900 billion cubic foot natural gas
reserve confirmed at Gubic. The
Secretary of the Navy received
a favorable report from a special
committee appointed to advise
him on the conduct of the explor
ation program of Naval Petrole
um Reserve No. 4 in the Terri
tory recommending continuation
of the program during the 1952
calendar year and an appropria
tion of $8 Vs million for the fiscal
year 1953 to support the 1953 cal
endar year exploration program.
It is understood a supplemental
appropriation of $6,100,000 will
be sought for the 1952 program.
Carpenters, Remember!
Carpenters Local 2251
Meets 2nd and 4th Wednesday
Each Month
ALASKA
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COMPANY
PASSENGER LINERS
From Seward
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Thurs., Jan. 10 Thurs., Jan. 17
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Petersburg Ketchikan
Wrangell Seattle
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FREIGHTER SERVICE
From Seattle
FREIGHTERS
M.V. SUS1TNA
Leaving Seattle, January 9.
calling at Sitka, Seward,
Valdez and Cordova.
S. S. JOHN QUICK
Leaving Seattle, January lb,
calling at Valdez and Sew
ard.
FOR INFORMATION
T. J. MALONEY, Agent
Phone 22001
Office: Westward Hotel
Anchorage. Alaska
ALASKA
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