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This paper is published ^i-weekly by
Spears and Palmer at Dillingham,
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Vol. 1 No. 15 10/28/50 -
EDITORIAL
The Dillingham Tov/n Ileeting will be pro*
sented with questions at an early date*
which will call for the endorsement of
certain prepositions confronting the
Dillingham Public Utility Board#
In the laying of plans for the civic
improvement of this community it is
essential that the P#U*D# Board should
know what improvements ,tho community
wants and how badly they want such
improvements# as well as tho order of
priority in which they wish such improve**
ments made#
Naturally the progress that can be nr.de
is limited to the fUnds available each
year for improvement purposes# Before
funds are available thoy must bo provided#
To make such provisions it i3 essential
that a tax struo'turo bo set up#
This brings tho entire problem back to
the starting point# Before : an 'intelli
gent tax pf^gyam is sot up it must bo
justified in terms of budgeted needs# and
to set up a budget it is essential that
community wants bo known and to bring suoh
wants into synchronization with tho
ability of this community to provido thorn#
Tho P#U#D# Board feels tho matter of a
wator s ystem should como high on tho
preferential list# Tho recont investiga
tion of tho condition of the local water
supply revealed an alarming condition#
Though no offioial report has been mad©
public# it has boon announced that tho
Department of Publio Health fools a moro
oxtensivo study is advisable, in view of '
tho soriousnoss of thg wator condition*
discovorcd in the preliminary study*
Aside from thg importance from tho stancU
point of sanitation there is also an
economic motivo for .placing wator high on
the "must" column# Firo insurance ratos
in Dillingham will bo reduced 42^ with
tho installation of an adoquato water
systom*
A sewor systom comosin for considora~
tion oqual to that of wator# Poor drain**
age and improper sowago disposal aro tho
contributing faotors to water pollution
in this community*
In tho matter of sower construction
Public Utility Districts of tho Territory
aro faood with a legal stumbling block*
The Act providing for tho formation of
•P*U# Districts in Alaska# the activities
in which such bodios might ongago and the
raattor of providing for sowors is not
among tho powors granted# Legislative
amendments to the Act must bo roquostod*
*•---« **NEXT COLUUN*.
It is necessary in the. cases of both
projects that the projects bo engineered*
The Territory of Alaska profides funs for
the survoy of a water supply and water
system layout *
In tho matter of a gov/er survoy it is
nocossary to delegate the job to a
commercial onginooring firm. After tho
eurvoys havo boon conplotod and the
rocommondations made* the local P.U.D.
Board will bo in a position to givo this
community a more dotailed roport on vfoat
will bo involved in tho projects mention
ed.
Stops havo alroady boon takon to
compilo the information nocossary to give
an onginooring firm tho essential data
with which to sot up .rocommondations
and to make rough draft plans for es
tablishing basic cost figures and for
programing construction.
Tho only established revenue sources
existing to the PjU#D* at tho prosent
time is the 60‘/ tako on tho business
bocause of the District.
Another possiblo source is tho Salmon
Case Tax# Secretary Truman Emborg of the
Local Board will make inquiry in this
matter onrouto to Seattle on other 4
business•' His findings will bo watchod
with intorost#
In tho matter of levying a tax
locally* no action has boon takon now*
nor will any be takon without a mandate
from tho community endorsing such a
program.
Tho proposition which tho Public
Utility District $1 of Dillingham wishes .
tq placo boforo tho Dillingham Town
Mooting is therefore what is the
policy of the Town Mooting with rofcronco
to providing wator and sower facilitios
for tho community?
TEACHERS TO TRAVEL
At a recent teachers meeting it 1tras
announced that the Cuban Government would
be host to a teacher from each state and
one from Alaska on an all paid expense
tour of Ouba# The teachers would pay
their own way to Miamif Florida and from
there they would be the guests of Ouba#
Mr# Ryan announced that a primary
teacher should be selected from each
village or town in Alaska and his or her
name forwarded to his office in Juneau#
There the names would be shuffled in a
box and one name picked at random as the
one soloctod to roprosent Alaska# Th$
odds are great but wo wish the bost of
luch to tho teachor solectod from
Dillingham#
"Underprivileged childron are always a
heartache| ovorprivilegod ohildron often
a headache#"
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