New Financial Aid
Offered Alaskans
Through RAD
Rural Area Development—what
is it? What <loes it mean to
people in Alaska? How does !t
affect me and what should I do
about it? These are all common
questions around the state. Dean
Arthur S. Busweli, director of
the Cooperative Extension Serv
ice and dean of the Division of
Statewide Services at the Univer
sity of Alaska, offered some f
the answers after touring the
state with John A. Baker, federal
chairman of the Rural Areas De
velopment Board of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, and
George E. Bradley, western area
coordinator of the new program.
During meetings at Fairbanks,
Palmer and Homer, Baker ex
plained that the Rural Area De
velopment (RAD) office was es
tablished about five weeks ago to
expand and accelerate the econ
omy of rural areas. The Secre
tary of Agriculture has directed
all U. S. Department of Agricul
ture agencies.to use all available
program resources to help RAD
committees with their plans
whereever they may be needed.
He went on to explain that a
basic requirement to any area
development program is local
action, and that he and Bradley
were here “because of the en
thusiasm and initiative of the
Fairbanks RAD committee and
other Alaskans in their letters
and communications to their con
gressmen.”
Baker pointed out that under
new legislation and by better use
of present legislative authorized
loan funds, grants and other
types of technical and financial
assistance can be made available
to small business and others. For
Alaska, RAD could contribute to
long needed development of fa
cilities for processing agricul
tural commodities, timber re
sources, recreational and tourist
facilities, housing and other en
terprises in the economy.
The RAD program hopes to
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Peninsula Included
In Area Redevelopment
Five Alaska areas have be.*n
added to Anchorage as schedule^
for special attention under the
area redevelopment program, it
was learned this week from Sec
retary of Commerce Luther H.
Hodges, who designated a num
ber of irural counties (or areas,
in Alaska) and Indian reserva
tions as “redevelopment areas”
which are thus eligible for as
sistance under the area redevel
opment act.
Named for such assistance in
the “rural” category was Kenai,
presumably including all of the
Kenai Peninsula since there are
no county boundaries in connec
tion with the name. Kenai was
coordinate new and old legisla
tion, and with the help of all
government agencies, aid local
RAD committees with develop
ment programs.
Both Baker and Bradley em
phasized that RAD can only be
as effective as the local people
make it. “No one in Washington
can initiate the program, the
local people must decide what
they want, plan it, and carry it
out. Government agencies can
help with the last step,” Bradley
said. “We can designate an area
so that certain loan funds will be
available, but it is up to the
local people to carry out the ob
jectives with technical help from
local government agencies.”
According to Dr. Buswell, any
one interested should contact
their local Extension Agent who
will help with organizing a com
mittee. Technical panels made up
of personnel from federal agen
cies will be available to assist
RAD committees with organiza
tion and application of the pro
gram. However, Buswell added,
federal personnel will participate
only to the extent requested.
This is a program for local peo
ple, and operated by local people.
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the Department of Agriculture.
Under “reservations” are listed
the Bristol Bay area, Norton
Sound area, Cook Inlet area and
the Southeast area. An explana
tory note in the announcement
states that “there are no Indian
reservations as such in Alaska,”
a reference to the fact that while
many native villages in Alaska
are on reserved lands in order to
preserve them for the village
sites, they are not administered
as tribal communities as are the
vast reservations in the south
west part of the nation, for ex
ample.
John Horne, administrator of
the Small Business Administra
tion, yesterday directed SBA field
officers to give “first priority”
to urban artd rural redevelopment
operations delegated to SBA by
Secretary Hodges, under the act.
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The SBA will thus process appli
cations for loans from a revolv
ing fund of $200 million that the
act authorized for industrial and
rural projects. It also will pro
vide redevelopment-area agencies
technical information,, advice and
assistance in preparation of over
all economic development pro
grams and plans for individual
redevelopment projects, accord
ing to Horne.
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