Alaska Centennial
Plans Underway
Gov. William A. Egan says he
will ask a number of prominent
Alaskans to participate on a com
mittee to lay preliminary plans
for Alaska’s Centennial celebra
tion in 1967. The year 1967 will
mark the 100th anniversary of
Alaska’s transfer from Russia to
the United States.
He made this announcement
daring a speech at the annual
Alaska Day celebration in Sitka.
“The Centennial of the Alaska
Purchase,” said the governor,
“should be cause for the largest
celebration ever held in the north
ern portion of this continent. It
should be a magnet that will draw
visitors from all parts of the
world.”
He termed the transfer of Al
aska to the United States a “dra
matic moment for our nation, one
that has had great significance
on the course of world history.”
“Had it not been for the event
that occurred in this yery com
munity (Sitka) 94 years ago,”
the governor said, “Alaska today
might still be Russian, with all
of the dangers that fact would
present to the American heritage
of freedom and to democratic in
stitutions everywhere.”
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Survey Report
Heard in Kenai
Visualizing the Kenai of the
future, John Ault, planning con
sultant for the Alaska Housing
Authority at Anchorage, present
ed the first report of his survey
when he met recently with Kenai
civic leaders.
The housing expert has been
hired by the City of Kenai to
make a study of the needs of
Kenai in the progressive stages
of its growth.
Recommendations as to future
schools, recreation areas, subdivi
sions, business and residential
zoning, and including a proposed
bridge over the Kenai River, are
included in Ault’s survey.
Hearing the first report at a
public meeting were Jay Leitzke,
chairman of the Kenai Planning
Commission; Mrs. Stan Thomp
son and Mrs. Carl Seaman, com
mission members; Francis Torkil
sen, city clerk; I>ick Morgan,
representing the City Council;
M rs. .Allan Peterson, representing
the Board of Education of Kenai
schools, and others.
Rotary Sponsors
AMU Loan Fund
the Rotary Club of Anchorage
bar established a loan fund at
Alaska Methodist University to
aid a student of junior or senior
class standing at the University.
The fund will be increased as
greater need arises from quali
fied students.
Dr. Fred McGinnis, president
of the University, said the loan
fund is available to a student on
the basis of scholarship, financial
need, character, and upper class
standing at the school.
Dr. McGinnis also announced
that the Gustav Hirsch Organi
zation has renewed its scholar
ship aid to the University.
>' E W SEA PL AN W APPROACH
Work on the $47,000 seaplane
approach and dock superstructure
at Petersburg was completed on
Oct. 18, according to Cort How
ard, director of the Alaska Divi
sion of Water and Harbors.
Howard said he had received
word from Tom Voorhies, con
struction supervisor at the proj
ect, that Berg Construction Co. of
Juneau has completed its con
tract there. He said, however,
i hat some work is still in prog
ress on the dock, but said this is
a separate project consisting of
emergency repairs to the existing
float.
I IGADA-SANDERS WEDDING
Bertha Ligada and Victor San
ders, Loth of Kenai, were married
Oct. 14 at the Joe Consiel home
in Kerai. Jess Nichols, deputy
r. agist’ate, officiated at the cere
mony.
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New Sub May Be
Named for Seward
Sen. Ei-nest Gruening has been
advised by Secretary of the Na
vy John B. Connally, Jr., that
consideration will be. given the
name of William Henry Seward,
when selecting names for new
Polaris submarines.
The senator requested that the
name of Seward—so prominent
in Alaska's history-—be given to
one of the new submarines. Sen.
Gruening has been in touch with
William J. Seward of Brooklyn,
N. Y. on the matter. He is a dis
tant cousin of the man who ne
gotiated the purchase of Alaska
from Russia.
Fund Aids 122
Alaskan Farmers
Two hundred twelve outstand
ing loans to 122 Alaskan farmers
and agricultural businesses at the
end of fiscal 1961 totaled $666,
515.54, up 18% from fiscal I960
total of $566,979.13 according to
J i m Wilson, administrator of
Alaska’s Agricultural Revolving
Loan Fund. Net gain for the
fiscal year, ending June 30, 1961,
was $16,218.94, or 2 %% net re
turn to the state on its invest
ment in the fund after deducting
all costs and reserves for uncol
lectibles.
Of the total outstanding, $364,
083.27 or 55' ^ was for long-term
farm development, $237,502.33 or
36% was for acquisition of live
stock and machinery and $64,
929.94 or 9% was for short-term
financing, usually for labor, seed
or fertilizer.
Dairying, Alaska’s major type
of farming, had 47% of the prin
cipal outstanding, followed by
21% to general farming, 20% to
potatoes and vegetables, and 6%
each to poultry, and beef and
livestock other than dairy.
The fund was set up by the
1953 legislature with a $200,000
appropriation and total authori
zation of one million dollars. Sub
sequent legislatures have increas
ed the scope of the program and
appropriations.
A total of $650,000 had been
appropriated through fiscal 1961.
An additional $200,000 was ap
propriated by the 196i legislature
becoming available July 1 for the
current fiscal year. As a result
of this additional appropriation
a total of $843,870.09 was on loan
at the end of August 1961.
Loans have been made on all
types of agricultural enterprises,
and geographical distribution of
the loans has ranged from South
eastern Alaska, Kodiak, and the
Aleutians through the K e n a i
Peninsula, Matanuska-Anchorage
area to the Tanana Valley in the
north.
Loan information and applica
tions are available at the Palmer
office of the Alaska Division of
Agriculture.
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