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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8, 1944
HELP FROM
THE SOUTH
JDaily Alaska Empire)
The board of directors of
the California State Hotel
Association, powerful sun
ny state organization, has
petitioned the Congress
of the United -States to
bend effors toward secur
ing adequate highway fac
ilities from the west coast
to_poins in Alaska.
Among other arguments
the resolution calls atten
ion of Congress to the fol
lowing:
The present Alcan High
way is approximately 1500
miles from Seattle, requir
ing a total of 3,000 miles
of travel by automobile for
the person residing on the
west coast and who wishes
to go by auto to Alaska.
The present highway, if
used after the war, will do
much damage to the future
commercial, as well as re
creational activities of the
people of the southwest and
Pacific coast areas in the
continental United States.
The Canadian govemmen
has agreed to provide two
thirds of the money necess
ary for building a road a
long the coast from Seattle
north to a junction with the
Alaska Highway, if the
United States puts up he
remaining third.
Such a road is vial to the
continuation of close com
mercial and social activi
ties between the west coast
and Alaska Which have ex
ised since the days of the
purchase.
The association urges
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appropriation of the nec
essary funds to link Seat
tle with a point near Wat
son Lake, going through
Prince George—or, more
important to southeast
Alaska, a ferry system
through the inside passage
to Haines and all the way
to Fairbanks.
The associaion does not
express favor of one sys
tem over the other.
TEACHER SHORTAGE
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The National Education
Association has reported a
teacher shortage of about
70,000, the greatest in our
history, and has also re
galed that 170,000 teachers
were new to the job last
year, many of them with in
sufficient training.
This situation is serious
but certainly not surpris
ing. It was to be expec
ted that he armed forces
would take many teachers
and it has—to the number
of 100,000 in the past two
years. But in the same per
iod abou twice that number
have left teaching for bet
ter paying jobs. Unless
something is done, our ed
ication system will get only
a fraction of them back.
The remedy is apparent.
The average teacher’s pay
has always been such that
those who entered the pro
profession had to possess a
large share of selflessness
and idealism. Today,
with taxes and living costs
zooming, teachers have
been among the most un
fortunate of the wage-fro
zen whitecollar workers.
High taxes and high liv
ing costs are likely to con
tinue for some time. So will
the teacher shortage, un
less salaries, retirement
pay and job security are
generally improved. Once
teachers have tasted the
fruits of a decent living
wage, it’s going to take
more than a red apple to
lure them back to the class
room.
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| O’LEARYS MOVE
TO SEATTLE
Christian O’Leary, who for the
past few years has been connected
with the Marshal’s office here,
has tendered his resignation as
chief jailer, to take effect on the
lOt h.o fNovember.
Mr. O’Leary recently sold his
! home to Mr and Mrs. Edgar
| Tweet of Teller, Alaska.
! The O’Learys will make their
home in Seattle.
MISS LEAKE
GOES TO KAKE
Miss Bertha Leake,well-known
government nurse who spent the
winter at Wainwright, has been
transferred to Kake, Alaska.
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