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AKA Program !
Begins to Shape Up
With the annual ARA meeting
scheduled for tomorrow evening at
the City Hall, following are some
facts about the program taken
from Sen. Gruening’s Newsletter:
With 13 projects of various kinds
already having been authorized and
30 others pending in various stages
of processing, Alaska is beginning
to benefit materially from the Area
Redevelopment Administration pro
gram, according to a summary fur
nished last week by ARA officials.
Under the training program four
projects are already going, furnish
ing training to 95 electronic me
chanics, clerks and stenographers
at Anchorage, Fairbanks and Ket
chikan at a total cost of $89,160. A
fifth training program, in elec
tronic fishing techniques, has been
proposed for 20 trainees at Ket
chikan.
Seven techincal assistance proj
ects have been authorized at Pal
mer, in the Aleutians, Nome. Kot
zebue, Unalakleet and Fairbanks
in fields ranging from sea lion
and reindeer processing to lumber
quality appraisal at a total cost of
$169,050. Seven more projects of
this kind are pending.
One commercial loan has been
approved (Alaska Hardwoods) and
19 more which would involve a
total of $6,707,070 in federal and
other financing are pending. Pro
posals include steel fabricating,
tourism, a marble and stone quar
ry, coal mining, peat moss de
velopment, crab and salmon pro
cessing, cold storage plant, saw
mill, marine repair, poultry and
egg production and ski lift.
One facility loan has been au
thorized for $1,400,000 for port and
warehousing facilities at Saxman
and three applications are pend
ing.
It used to be called a washrag.
Now it’s known as a wash cloth.
But if you want one in Britain
you ask for a “face square.”
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Congress Asked Leasing
Of Lands to Explore
For Geothermal Steam
WASHINGTON UP) — Congress
has been asked to authorize the
leasing of federal lands for explor
ation for geothermal steam.
Sen. Alan Bible, (D-Nev.), intro
duced a bill Friday to authorize
the Interior Department to lease
out public lands for exploration
and development of steam found
in the ground.
“Considerable research has been
accomplished in an effort to harness
this great resource of energy,”
Bible said. “Only recently was a
breakthrough made, so that now
we have in operation in Sonoma
County, Calif., a steam plant . . .
utilizing geothermal steam as an
energy to generate electricity.”
“This cheap source of energy will
indeed play a major part in futher
developing the western section of
our country,” Bible said. “At the
present time development of this
vast untapped source of energy
is taking place on privately owned
lands.”
Film Has Many Showings
A Bureau of Mines film entitled
“Alaska and Its Natural Resources”
had 10,765 showings during 1962,
proving to be one of the most
popular films in the bureau’s free
loan library, it was announced last
week. The film, in sound and
color, was made in cooperation
with the Richfield Oil Corp.
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\MU Concerned
riiat U of A May
Start Branch
[n Anchorage
JUNEAU W — Alaska Methodist
University expressed deep con
cern Friday over a Senate resolu
tion described by its authors as
the first step in establishing a
branch of the University of Alas
ka at Anchorage.
AMU’s position on SRI8, intro
duced by Sen. Nicholas Begich and
four others, was outlined by Dr.
Fred McGinnis, president of the
Anchorage school, in a wire to
Frank Peratrovich, president of the
Senate.
McGinnis said before AMU was
opened, assurances were given by
the University of Alaska and the
Anchorage International School
District that “neither then nor in
the foreseeable future would there
be a branch of the UA established
in Anchorage.”
“On those assurances, Alaska
Methodist University proceeded
and has invested over $4 million
in campus and buildings and plans
are underway for more substantial
development.
Even rumors of a University of
Alaska branch in Anchorage have
worked to the grave disadvantage
of Alaska Methodist University,
since all of our support must be
completely private and voluntary,
both from other states and Alaska
and not tax based.
“At present, Alaska Methodist
University could take care of about
twice the present enrollment of
250 and through academic pro
gramming we could easily relieve
the Anchorage Community College
of a substantial portion of its pre
sent enrollment load.
“For these reasons, we urge no
action by the legislature which
would impede progress for our
university.
“While studies are harmless, they
have the effect as announced of
being the initial step of opening a
competitive branch.
“Alaska Methodist University
serves the public virtually to the
same degree as the University of
Alaska, since the enrollment, staff,
faculty and instruction are abso
lutely non-sectarian.
“Again we urge the legislature
to take no steps to nullify by leg
islative directive or appropriation
measures the committments made
to Alaska Methodist University by
the University of Alaska and the
Anchorage Independent School
District prior to our opening.”
Nineteen of our 34 U.S. presi
dents had five or more brothers
and sisters. Sixteen of our presi
dents were the first-born son in
their families. No president was an
only child.
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Gold and Monetary
Policy Is Discussed
The American Mining Congress
News Bulletin, issued Jan. 4, re
ports as follows:
“In a recent peech on monetary
policy, Wm. McMartin Jr., chair
man of the Board of Govcnors of
the Federal Reserve System, said
that persistent decline in U.S. gold
holdings is harmful not only be
cause it affects the American in
ternational liquidity position, but
also because of our long-established
domestic reserve requirements, a
declining gold stock fosters un
easiness about a curtailed federal
reserve flexibility to pursue do
mestic policies otherwise regarded
as appropriate and desirable. The
gold outflow, however, cannot be
halted by means of an embargo, he
stated, since this would terminate
the convertibility of the dollar at
fixed rates.”
“If the U.S. gold stock should fall
below the 25 per cent minimum
gold certificate reserve require
ments of the Federal Reserve Act,”
he added, “the Board of Governors
would have full authority to sus
pend the Reserve Bank gold certi
ficate reserve requirements.”
“Martin also said ‘our progress
this year in rectifying our inter
national payments disequilibrium
has fallen short of our target. . .
Hence, we must now intensify our
efforts to re-establish payments
balance. And until we have re
gained equilibrium, we shall have
to be prepared to settle some part
of any deficits experienced through
sales of gold’.”
It is said that the nose of a
right-handed persons points to the
right, and the nose of a left
handed person points to the left.
Miscarriage of Justice,
Judge Sets Verdict Aside
HENDERSON, Tex. — Did
H. L. Long of Tyler, Tex., deli
berately slant his wells so as to
take oil from property leased by
the Humble Oil and Refining Co.?
A jury, returning its verdict
Friday after a trial of almost two
weeks, said “no.”
State District Judge A. Royce
Stout, banging his gavel, asserted
“this is a miscarriage of justice”
and set aside the verdict.
That means, he said, that “the
case now stands on the docket as
if it had never been tried.”
Humble filed suit last May,
charging that Long had slanted
wells he operated in the heart of
the east Texas oil field, to take
oil from adjoining leases operated
by Humble. Texaco, Inc., subse
quently joined the suit as inter
venor, alleging five wells slanted
into its leases.
The suit was one of many filed
during a statewide investigation of
oil well slanting, but was the first
to be tried.
Although judges have the per
rogative in civil cases to set aside
a jury’s verdict, court observers
said they rarely do so.
Lawyers for Long and the other
defendants filed a motion asking
Stout for a ruling based on the
jury’s findings.
If Stout refuses to render a
judgment, they said, they will ap
peal to a higher court.
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