Easing Payments for
Delinquent Cities Gets
House Committee Nod
JUNEAU OP) — A bill designed
to ease the financial burden on
Alaska cities unable to meet re
payment schedules on projects
constructed under the Alaska Pub
lic Works Act was approved by the
House Interior and Insular Affairs
Committee Wednesday.
The Alaska Public Works Act,
passed in 1949. was designed to
finance a program of useful public
works in Alaskan communities and
at the same time overcome mili
tary and federal impacts upon the
communities.
Under provisions of the act, un
der which 172 projects valued at
more than $(59 million were com
pleted before it expired in 1962,
communities were required to re
pay 50 per cent of the cost of
each project.
In all but three cases, involving
Skagway, Hoonah and Valdez, the
benefitted communities were able
to meet their installment repay
ment schedules.
Rep. Ralph J. Rivers, sponsor
of the bill approved Wednesday,
told the Associated Press in a wire
from Washington that the three
communities which defaulted en
countered unexpected deteriora
tion of their projects or other ob
stacles.
Rivers’ bill authorizes the Secre
tary of the Interior to consider the
plight of these communities and, in
his discretion, to compromise the
amount owed or to release the com
munity from the repayment.
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State Plans to Promote Alaska at
YY. Fair with Sale of Eskimo Pies
I ho director of the Alaska Trav
el Division described as “coming
along nicely’’ the progress of the
Alaska Exhibit at the New York
World’s Fair.
The big circular modern building
is well under construction, he ad
vised, and is expected to be com
pleted by December 31. The fair
will run April 22 through mid
October in both 1964 and 1965.
Fair-goers will note several sim
ilarities between Alaska’s New
York presentation and the one
which the 49th State introduced
in Seattle. Reproduction of the
northern lights — one of the big
hits of the entire Seattle World’s !
Fair — will once more climax the !
northland show. However, Ford
reported, improved techniques and
the experience gained at Seattle
will allow an even more authentic
and dynamic reproduction.
The 25 per cent larger size of
the new building plus layout
changes will allow 30 per cent
more spectator traffic than in Se
attle. In all, Alaskans expect more
than five and a half million per
sons to visit the Alaska pavilion
during the two year show.
“We coudn’t have picked a bet
ter location,” said Ford. “Our
building is directly across from the
New York State exhibit which fea
tures a giant pylon rising 225 feet
high into the air — the largest
point on the fair grounds. Eleva
tors will carry- spectators to the
top, and just as this feature at the
Space Needle drew almost all the
visitors at Seattle, so this pylon
ride should draw most of the folks
at New York.”
“Being next door to the Space
Needle in Seattle brought tens of
thousands of visitors to our ex
hibit. Being across the street from
the pylon will do the same thing
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Flanking the Alaska exhibit will
be the State of Missouri Exhibit
and the Westinghou.se Time Cap
sule.
Again utilizing the technique of
a rising ramp, with exhibits along
the way, the Alaska exhibit will
show the history, culture, econom
ics, wildlife, charm, and the op
portunities which Alaska possesses.
! A brand new feature will be
the sale of Eskimo Pie ice cream
bars on the Alaska grounds. This
product, said Ford, represents not
only an opportunity for revenue
i but an additional publicity oppor
' tunity as well. The Eskimo Pie or
! ganization has pledged their sup
| port in nationally publicizing their
i tie-in with Alaska at the fair.
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In what amounted roughly to a
preview of the Eskimo Pie promo
tion, the Alaska delegation at the
recent national convention of the
American Society of Travel Agents
distributed more than 4,000 ice
cream bars. The reaction among
the other delegates was unani
mously favorable.
Cooperation of the various in
dustries within Alaska has been
very gratifying, said Ford who is
presently canvassing various firms,
cities and organizations not only
for exhibit material but for cash
donations to the project as well.
Personnel of the Eastman Ko
dak Company have offered to as
sist Alaska in lighting, layout and
proper utilization of photos
throughout the exhibit to the i
greatest possible advantage. Ford
sees this offer as especially val- j
uable in presenting the Alaska con
cept of a modern state through :
photos of industry, modern homes, j
schools, and cultural pursuits.
‘‘There’s no doubt in my mind,” ;
Ford said, ‘‘the Alaska exhibit will
be one all Alaskans will enjoy and
that all Alaskans can take pride I
in. We may not have the biggest
exhibit at the fair, but we have
the biggest story to tell. I feel
we’re going to tell it well.”
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courage to make an early start.
The fellow who sits still and does
just what he is told will never be
told to do big things.” —Charles
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