OVER $5,000 FROM
FORESTRY RECEIPTS
GIVEN TO TERRITORY
A warrant for $5,605.02 is being
sent to the Treasurer of Alaska
covering the Territory’s share of
National Forest Receipts for fiscal
year 1950, according to B. Frank
Heintzlenran. National Forester, U.
S'. Forest Service.
This sum represents 25 percent of
the total receipts from the Tongass
and Chugach National Forests in
Alaska except for timber sold on
the Tongass Forests. Such pay- j
ments are made in lieu of taxes j
each year by the federal govern- j
ment to judicial divisions having j
national forests within their boun- I
daries. The federal law provide ;|
that the money is to be used for
roads and schools in the First and
Third Judicial Divisions where the
FROM WHITEHORSE
—
Mrs. to. Steegle and Mrs. I. Gert
sen of Whitehorse are guests at the
Baranof Hotel.
(ALL FOR BIDS ON
GRADING 17 MILES,
SEWARD HIGHWAY
A call for bids was iet yesterday
by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
for grading of 17 miles of the Sew
ard-Anchorage Highway from Mill
33 to Mile 50. The bids will be
opened February 8 in the Juneau
headquarters office of II. A. Steel
dart, Division Engineer for the V.i'K
The estimates for grading the
road will include drainage struc
tures and construction of a sub-base
for future surfacing and paving.
Contract for the grading of the
road from Mile 33 to Mile 50 is the
third of four to be awarded for
completion of the road work on the
highway from Seward to connect
with the Turnagain Arm highway.
Two contracts have previously been
awarded. The bids for the fourth
section of roadwork will be callea
in about two weeks, Stoddart said
teday.
two national forests are locatea.
Public Law 385, 80th Congress,
approved August 8, 1947, authorised
the Secretary of Agriculture to sell
timber from the Tongass National
Forest. It provided that the receipts
be held in the U. S. Treasury until
Indian rights to the land and tim
ber are finally determined. The re
ceipts so deposited during fiscal
year 1950 amounted to $77,148.04.
The total from the date of the
Act is $340,767.45.
In addition to the 25 percent re
ceived by the Territory, 10 percent
of the national forest receipts is
made available to the Forest Ser
vice for use on forest roads and
trails. This amounted to $2,242.01
for fiscal year 1950.
The amount received by the Ter
ritory since 1908 for its 25 percent
share of National Forest receipts
totals $758,853.36. The amount re
ceived by the Forest Service for
use on roads and trails, represent
ing 10 percent of Forest receipts
since 1908, totals $295,495.63.
ONE BRACKET PRICE IS
PROMISED FISHERMEN
BY OIL COMPANIES
Favorable action for oil prices
on smaller fishing craft was prom
ised by representatives of oil com
panies meeting here with officials
of the United Trollers of Alaska.
Beginning yesterday the bracket
on oil prices which had been ap
plied on fishermen and other con
sumers, ranging irom 41 to 199 gal
lons, is taken off and will now be
one price. Bracket for 41 to 399
gallons will amount a half cent per
gallon across the board, in other
words, one bracket, Andy Barlow,
executive secretary of the Trollers,
explained today.
Both Standard Oil and Union Oil
Companies have been w'orking in
conjunction with the Trollers to
avoid any hardship on the smaller
boats that do not allow the benefit
of bracket prices enjoyed by the
larger craft.
MISS RAKESTRAW SECRETARY
TO FS REGIONAL FORESTER
Miss Claribel Rakestraw has re
joined the staff of the L.S. Forest
Service local office to be secretary
to the Regirr.ai Forester, if was an
nounced today.
Miss Rakestraw was previously
with the Forest Service in the Di
vision of Recreation, Lands and Op
erations. For the past two years she
has been secretary to the Alaska
representative of the U.S. Depart
ment of Labor.
FWS SKI PLANE IS
DAMAGED LANDING
AT PILOT POINT
Considerable damage was done
to the Fish and Wildlife Service
single engine Cessna ski plane as
the result of a sideways landing
yesterday at Pilot Point near Uga
shik on the Alaska Peninsula, ac
cording to advices received in Ju
neau by W. E. Elkins, Acting Re
gional Director, from the FWS Air
craft Supervisor at Anchorage.
The pilot Jay Hammond and his
passenger. Bob Mahaffey, FWS En
forcement Agent were uninjured,
the advices to Elkins said.
No details of the accident have
yet been reported to the Juneau
office but Elkins said it is conjec
tured a strong wind must have
struck the plane.
Damages to the plane included
the total loss of the right landing
gear and major damage to the right
wing, tip of the fuselage and a
propellor.
Elkins said today an aircraft me
chanic is being sent from the An
chorage office to Pilot Point to
determine whether the plane can
be repaired.
Hammond and Mahaffey were
on an assignment of work on the
caribou herds on the Alaska penin
sula at the time of the accident. ,
Beside his duties as a pilot Ham
mond is also a predator control
agent in the Alaska Peninsula dis
trict.* He and Mahaffey maintain
their headquarters at Dillingham.
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LOS ANGELES RELATIVES
VISITING LOCKRIDGE FAMILY
Making a surprise visit to their
son and brother. Eugene Lockridge
and his family. Mrs. Doris Lock
ridge and Milford Lockridge and the
latter’s wife, arrived in Juneau
Wednesday on the Pan American
Airways clipper. Their home is in
Los Angeles.
The visitors will be here about
a week. They are delighted to be
with Mr. and Mrs. Lockridge and
to see Alaska in the wintertime
but most of all their interest is in
tneir little grandaughter and niece
three and one half year old Linda
Lockridge.
JOE COBLE HERE
Joe Coble of Fairbanks is at the
Bai snof Hotel.
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