Defense Potential
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hum » t«»f ! 4 <100 man day* ar.J
,r. domotic Mipplm* fni 20,00''
•nan davn tanned good*. tor 20
*00 man day* in retail wart house*
nd SS.000 from dotrcftu *up
pliri Meat and meat product* e>
*imiit«xj in domestic supply would
•ake care of 6,000 man day.*. in
retail warehouse*. 1 i<h>. Current
un>duction of fr«*sr tr.ilk in tl •
valley would take care of an es
timated 2(».0o0 petaon.' da.lv
H>'*pita and mi ileal facil.tn -
n the Valiev a.- lifted n the
port arc a> follows teso resident
physician* and one dentist >up
i.lemc nn d by one public health
nurse. hi»pital factlitic-.- for 17
together with additional facilities
‘hat might lx- impiovi.-ed at the
school mine-area barrack.- APA
building .>r i Eklutna Project
warehouse to provide an addi
tional 500 beds.
Telephone- communications
were reported a> rudir; vnlary in
•he Valley with tire piotection
lescribed as lx-tter organized but
hampered sn urban areas by in
adequate water supplies.
Special emphasis was attached
to the community's greatest needs
from a defense standpoint and
organized efforts being made to
.meet these needs. An adequate
water supply and distribution
-ystem- better hospital facilities,
and an improved telephone net
were listed as the greatest needs
from the standpoint •: civilian
■ .efense.
The status of community p.w
ects that should be included in
civilian defense planning were
described as follows:
New High School. Planning
phase is nearly completed. Con
struction is to begin in the next
18 months. Upon completion it
to house 50 hospital beds.
New Hospital. Plani ing p
will serve in a critical emergency
s nearly completed. Upon com
pletion within 24 months a com
pletely modern 24-bed hospital
(expandable to 35 beds) will be
available.
Water Supply. Planning is com
pleted and well has been drilled
that supplies 150 gallons per min
ute. Bids for construction of
storage and distribution facilities
are to be called for within the
next 60 days. Construction is to
be started this coming summer.
Assistance in obtaining priorities
on controlled items will assist in
expediting this work.
Telephone Net. Responsibility
for the local phone system has
been assumed by the city. Efforts
are under way to improve and
extend this system. Priorities are ,
anticipated to be a serious bottle- j
neck.
Roads. Responsibility for main- j
taining city streets has been as- :
sumed by the city, i wo heavy
road maintainers are no,, owned
oy the city, inese win »uppie- i
rrient ARC equipment during a
Territorial emergency.
Fire Prevention. Responsibility
for maintaining and operating
fire fighting equipment has been
asumed by the city. F >ur mobile
fire units are now operational.
served by a part-time fire chief
and volunteer crews.
In summarizing the defense po
tential of Palmer and the Valley,
the Council pointed out that this
area will serve as a dispersal cen
ter and a focal point during an
emergency. It will also be the re
ceiving point and distribution
center for
additional foodstocks.
of
It will serve as the center
health and medical services.
"Present medical and telephone
services must necessarily be sup
plemented to provide minimum
acceptable standards." the report
emphasizes. “Any expansion ot
this potential will require addi
tional assistance, chiefly in stock
piling food and medical supplies.
Present status can be tremen
dously improved within an esti
mated two years by assistance in
obtaining priorities for projects
now under way.’
COFFEY INSURES
EVERYTHING! REMEMBER?
World Around Us
IN SEWARD two wild goat*
a large bills and .< kid. wen put
aboard an FWS plane bound for
Kodial; recent 1> They were cap
tured by Martin Goreson of Sew
ard in response* to a standing of
fer of S350 each for as many as
can be captured to stock the is
land of Kodiak Capturing wild
goat- alive is so difficult it is
believed that this is the first
time anyone has collected on the
three-year-old offer.
Joseph Morgan. Director of the
Bureau of Reclamation for Alaska
held out hopes to Seward’s utitity
board there that Eklutna power
would be available to Seward and
the entire Kt-na: Peninsula with
in five years. It was estimated
under present usage there would
be enough power for this area
for eight years, during which
time it would be possible to con
tinue with planning ar.d construc
tion of the Crescent Lake project
proposed by Army Engineers two
rears ago
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IN BETHEL Mrs. Beatrice
Romanoff Anaruk, mother of
nine childten, has been nominat
ed as Alaskan “Mother of the
Year" by the Woman s Club there.
Mrs. Anaruk and the late Samuel
Anaruk. her husband, spent many
years in teaching at Alaska Na
tive Service schools in the Second
Division.
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IN KODIAK recently seven
property owners were issued ulti
matums by the City Council *o
dean up their property within 30
days or be subject to legal action
by the city. The action was a con
tinuation ’ of the clean up cam
paign launched three weeks ago
to rid the citv of rats.
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IN WRANGELL a million dol
lar fire wiped out more than half
oi the business district Saturday,
destroying 20 irame buildings and
a residence perched on pilings
along the water side of the town’s
main street. Eighty-five persons
were left homeless in the four
block blaze.
Bob Reeve Blasts Interior Dep ir r.en'
Continual from p.«s«' 1
rr *'«i r« * »rt at the south end
it the highway tu bo operated b>
th<- Intenoi Department
"ConKies,- hn.» already ordered
the Alaska Railroad to get rid of
two of the* white elephant*, tho
Me Kinlev Hotel and the Cum
Hotel. Re< ve *norted
The second Sand grab cited by
Reeve was the withdrawal of
land.* in the Ker.ai Peninsula in
1948 following the beginning of
road construction on the pemnsu
a designed to opt n up the land
to migrating settlers. These land*
were withdrawn and reserved
from entry “for classification and
ir. aid of pending legislation."
Tins legislation—known as the
Alaska Settlement bill has not
vet been considered by Congress.
Reeve said.
Ir. 1944 the Secretary of Interi
or withdrew lands in excess <■!
25 000 acres around lakes “which
with other lake reserves, cover ai!
lakes adjacent to existing high
ways in Alaka that offer recrea
tional opportunities."
Reeves went back beyond
Bartlett’s years as delegate to the
Roosevelt administration when
the president himself withdrew
2 500.000 acres of land from Ko
diak Island. 1.957.000 acres of
which were reserved for the use
' jf Interior and the Alaska Game
Commission as a refuge and a
breeding ground for brown bear.
Four months later the president
reserved two million acres on the
Kenai Peninsula as a breeding
ground for moose.
Added to Reeve's list of with
drawals 113 orders over 13.000.
J00 acres of public lands during
prosecution of the war, placed
• ander permanent reserve or until
otherwise ordered in 1946; the
original 1.880,000 acres of the
Katmai National Monument Re
serve created in 1918 and since
i increased by one million acres.
Matanuska Reserve
He singled out the case of the
Matanuska Valley colonization
program reserve as indicative of
Interior Department domination
as against the interests of -the
oeople who want to settle in Al
aska. Of the 240.000 acres origin
; ally reserved. Reeves said, it was
found that six-tenths of this land
! was not required or wanted by
; the Colony in connection with
: that project. Not until 12 years
l later were some 40,000 acres re
turned to the public domain, only
4-000 of these acres, however, be
: ing served by existing highways.
According to Reeve. “92,160 acre
: of the original reserve are still
held in reserve "for classifica
tion," and to date, after 15 years,
they have not been classified, al
j though there is a constant de
i mand for the privilege of settling
there.
Suggests Solution
“With knowledge that youi
present Democratic Delegate ha;
icmnnsti ;m-u nis concurrence »y
lading to fi^ht against the p*>tir\
of vast rrserm in Alaska.** Rif' i*
concluded, "do you not think n
is time to elect someone who will
at least attempt legislative action
to collect the situation and limit
the authority and control of th"
Secretarv of Interior over Alas
ka’
"The Congress should, in m>
judgment, amend the act by dele*
gating the authority to withdraw
jnd reserve public lands to the
Committee on Public Lands ->f
the Senate . . . The Congress
should revoke all executive o.
iers and public land orders af
fecting lands in Alaska and in
vestigate other withdrawals and
reserves created within the Tcr
•jtor.v since 1933 to determine1
which should he revoked- and
then restore the lands for disposal
inder the public land laws.'*
No Model Tourisi Camp
Reeve also stated that he was
ibsolutely opposed to the passage
->f any legislation that provide*
authority for the Secretary of In
terior to construct and operate
tnv tourist facilities or other
business in Alaska in competition
to private enterprise.
During his speech Reeve criti
cised the statehood bill "that
would make Alaska a bastard
state surrounded by government
reservation with two maverick
'senators in human bondage to
those tyrants, the Interior Dc
paidment" and the Jap Fishing
Treaty, "that was about the most
horrible betrayal of a representa
tive’s constituents that has ever
seen suffered by any group of
people.’’ He concluded his talk
with a point that would strike
home to almost every fanner in
the Matanuska Valley. “Your
class of people are the most stabh
of all types of Alaskans." he said
in speaking of farmers and home
steaders. “Tire food you produce
is not only badly needed in Alas
ka but is absolutely important in
case of national emergency—and
we have that right today.
Fair Prices for farmers
"The leading military men have
repeatedly advocated develop
ment of' farm areas and have
' given lip service to buying your
products. On the other hand some
minor flunky turns around and
tries to make you sell your pro
ducts at cut prices, lower than
your cost where you can make a
: go of it.
: "Friends, this is an insidious
and brutal practice that I will
not tolerate if I am elected dele
| gate. ... If the military can find
the money to build golf course;,
and recreation centers and ski
jumps and use weasels and heli
copters at government expense
and go out and kill and butcher
our bears and fish and moose and
caribou and sheep and goats—
then they sure are going to be
made to produce the funds to
give a t*rmer a fair and square
price fr.r h»s product And
further. I shall sec that there h
more h»n«i made available to ac
tual homesteaders, not merely the
-peculators, and that the old tune
Alaska resident will also hav
better rights to get land I will
watch out for our o\t n people
first I am for Alaska tir-t. la-t
and all the time "
Candidates Pre»*n!
Candidates for nomination to
the Territorial legislature also
gave short speeches at the Repub
lican dub meeting Tuesday night
Th< se included Marshall iloppin.
candidate for the Senate, and
House candidates Dorothy Prior,
M D Snodgrass. L. C Stock
Fred Williamson. and Reese To*
r< House candidate Herald Strin
ger of the Republiran Divisional
Committee acted as chairman for
the evening. Present also un
Mi Bob Reeve, who is cam
paigning with her candidate hu ■
band.
Annual Kiwanls—
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Costumes and Stage Props
The audience will not >ee the
workers behind the scene who
have worked diligently to make
this year’s production a brilliant
on- Special credit should go to
Emil Ganschow who has done a
tremendous job on props and
stage effects. The beautiful cos
tumes. most of which are new
this year, represent hours and
hours of loving labor on the part
of 25 to 30 women wiio have gath
ered over the past three weeks
in the high school sewing room
under the direction of Nancy
Dodge and Arline Day. The cos
tumes were designed by Hudock
and Algarin. Value of props and
costumes is estimated between
S4.000-S5.000.
Working in the show since last
November have been the mem
bers of the Kiwanis Minstrel
Show n-!r.i'' tin Tc •ivrr.tttri
include*. li J Hodgson chair mar
.ind public) t> d ■ re. toi Emil
Ganwhov stage pi p>* Bill Hem
pel. dw u>: I)) r> maid Cm*,
ticket and house. .<no Hugh
Johnson, profram All member.**
of Kawanis have joined thin rom
m it tee in carrying on a Kiwani
tradition of providing the best
entet tamment extravaganza o!
the Valley year in the Kiviane
Minstrel Show
Mi- Herleo S’meberg and son
Ernest left yesterday to sail to
Seattle on the Baranof They ex
peel to h« none two months, dur
inn which t ine they will seek
medical treatment.
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1' you have a gift to buy. wh>
no( make it some ot the lace
t> limned rayon crope slips and
briefs ti:.it we aie having < n sale
, Satuiday and next week0
A w< 11-known brand we can't
mention here, hut in slips “it pre
serve- what vour bra does for
you!" And the prices are a temp
tation to do your Chri.-tmas shop
pins no.. 1
i An officer in the Anchorage Ski
Club was in buying some water
repellant silk scarves Wednesday
—say me how perfect they are for
skiing. She congratulated the
local Ski Club on it's member
ship and activity. Gratifying isn't
it'.'
Several dozen Cameron blouses
have just been unpacked and the
new style- will delight you. Cam
eron stylists are finally realizing
that we like sport shirts with
Peter Pan fused collars, and
sleeveless .-tyles, even though we
do like their old standby—the
man stvle.
Pd. Adv
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