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EDITORIAL
Federal Funds
For Alaska Roads
Alaska’s long struggle for
jnueh needed local roads to serve
existing and prospective mining
areas and centers of varied act
ivities gains promise of fulfill
ment with new conditions grow
mg out of dii> nse and other
new projects. Interior arterial sys
terns and trunk lines are visioned
as immediate needs.
The huge outlays necessary,
call for funds far beyond what
may be expected from customary
sources of the past. Now comes
the important memorial, father
ed in the Alaska legislature by
Representative Shattuck asking
that the Federal Highways Act
be extended to include Alaska.
If the prayer set out in the mem
orial be granted, Alaska should
benefit immeasurably. Comment
ing on the subject the Juneau Em
pire says;
“The Federal Highway Act pro
vides that F deral aid upon ap
proved projects shall not exceed ;
50 percent of the estimated cost,
except where unappropriated
public lands in the State or Terri
lory total more than five percent
of the area of all lands in the
State, in which case the Federal
contribution may be increased by
•a percentage equal to one-half
the percentag of such unappro
priated public lands.
“As unappropriated public
lands in Alaska total about 99 per
cent of its area, this would mean
'that the Federal aid on each pro
. jeet under the act would amount
to 50 percent plus 49*2 percent
it) all. We do not, of course, -Ex
pect any such gift.
“But we do expect .and are en
titled to receive, a great deal
more than we have been getting.
Hess suggests that Alaska could
well use about two million dol
lars a year for highway mainten
ance and much needed new con
struction. Maintenace cn our pre
sent 2,335 miles of vehicular roads
he figures at $309 per mile per
y-£ar.
“Und r his plan of an orderly
expansion program, maintenance
would c m about $800,000 per
year, due to constantly increas
ing mileage. He sugge-ts a 12
year program, with new work
each year Jo amount to about
twice the cost of maintenance.
“Such a program would giv
us almost $20,000,000 worth of
new highways in the 12 years,
and would maintain roads, all a'
a cost of about $2,150,000 per
year. Toward this Alaska would
contribute 15 percent, or $322.50"
per year This appears fair, based
j
How Poland
Suffers Under
The Gestapo
Tlis Gestapo rules in Poland
with barbaric severity. Starving,
driven from their homes, heavy
prison sentences on trumped-up
charges, the Poles face annihila
tion.
The German Press announced
a new series of executions. Litz
ma ns tad or Zeitung reports five
year prison sentences for two
Poles charged with listening to
radio b; oadcasts from London.
Mittledeutscher Zeitung tells
how the Polish proprietor of a
restaurant was fined 50 marks
for serving a drink to a Pole.
Food rations in Poland are al
most twice as great for Germans
as for Poles. In the Pomerania
district, sale of fruit to Poles is
forbidden. In the Lodz, Poles
may not buy linens. The Al'n n
steinrr Zeitung prints an order
by Prussian authorities whereby
Poles are required to have spec
ial permits to enter church on
Sundays and holidays. Clergy
conducting mass fer Polish peo
ple are obliged to inform the
German polic. at least three days
prior to the mass.
Three thousand Polish priests
are reported to be in concentra
tion camps. Confiscation of Polish
homes and lands continue. While
Poks hunger, Germany exports
ftood* from Poland to feed her
armi s. Yet the spirit of revolt is
broad. Hire and there, through
out the occupied area, Polish pea
;an;s are beginning to resist. Kra
kauer Zeitung published bv the
German authorities reports a
death sentence passed on a Polish
peasant because he offered resist
ence to German police sent to
requisition his only cow.
The above is based in n^aterial
supplied by th; Polish Ministry
of Information. "•
—
The death rate of babi- s under
a year old has declined in Ger
many from 20 percent at the be
ginning of the century to 4 per
cent.
as it is, both upon Alaska’s legiti
mate needs in highways and the!
Territory’s ability to pay.
"Road construction is the out
standing need of Alaska without
which it can n ver grow or pros-!
per,’ Hcs.e says, adding that ‘we
can never hope to have a large!
permanent population until we
have more highways, nor can we
hop ' Tor expanding industrial de
vclopment.’
“Th.re is no reason why the
benefits of the Federal Highway
Act, intended for all the States
and Territories, should be with
held for Alaska. Let’s have it for
the North, and soon.”
RECORD CREW REPAIRS PROPELLOR
. _•_
These workmen at Plget Sound Navy Yard .where a record force
«:f 12.C00 men is rushing ship maintenance and constiaction work,
are repairing a 17-ton bronze propeller. When taken from an air
ttaft carrier it was pitted with corrosion and bent from hitting a
log. Three shifts work day and night in the big yard at Bremerton.
Soy Bean
’’Slew" Used In
Plastic Auto
DFARBORN, Mich. — Mix straw,
soft southern pine, soy beans and
synthetic resin, add some acids.
Stir to taste, stew gently, pour
in*o molds, press very hard and
you have—no, not a new dish for
the gourmet, but the body of a
new and up-to-date automobil- .
It's not as simple as that, but
it approximates the newest won
der which is coming out of Hen
ry Ford's $5,000,000 experimental
1"'-oratory here. Satisfied with
th results. Ford is now planning
mass production of car bodies
made of plastics, probably within
a year.
Ford some years ago gave his
chemists orders to soak a tough
pla tic which could compete with
steel. They finally found it. Un
like most commercial plastics,
this new one resembles polished
si el, but weighs just about half
what steel does.
The test panels ar mode of
30 percent soy bean resin binder
and 70 percent cellulose fiber.
The la.ter is mad_ of 50 percent
sou.hern pine wood, 30 percent
field cereal straw, ten percent
ramie, which is a vegetabl fiber
tougher than hemp. Bv themselv
es none of these various ingred:
ients is very hard, but properly
tr ated and blended and then
molded together under heat in a
huge hyraulic press, they form
a mr-terial that is reported to be
better than steel in everyihing
but tensile strength.
Recen ly Ford had before him
,
“Marge”
!la<iiis Fame
At 29
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ffNCiLEWOOD, N. J.—“Marge”
n °f5l life Mr.-. Pit r Fick. 29,
member of the radio team of
Myrt and Marge, died last week
in childbirth. The baby, a boy,
survived.
She was on the air as usual
the day before her death.
Marge married Peter Fick, Ol
ympic champion swimmer and
her third husband, a year ago.
two panels, one of steel and one
mad: of his new plastic. He
swung the axe with all his might;
against the two panels. The blow ,
at the steel panel caused the axe j
blade to cut clear through the
metal, b nding the edges around
the cut and denting a wide area
in the surrounding surface. The
plastic panel was undented and
th finish unmarred by the blow.
Ford was so satisfied with his
own test and the laboratory tests:
that he has authorize:! an order |
f~r a complete set of dies for the:
first road model.
A weld d. tubular steel frame,
plus the, plastic body, wil make
a very much lighter car and thus
enable the user to get more mile-,
age p-r gallon of gasoline. It
may b a year or more before
the Ford Motor company will
start mass production of this;
plastic-bodied car.
Ford is confident that hi? new
plan will be of great benefit to
the growers of cotton, and other
agricultural products.
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ROUGH AND READY BUT MOSTLY ROUG H—Two of the new “blitz buggies” being built by Henry Ford bounce
along at Detroit. They’re U. S. army scout cars, with overall length of 127(4 inches, and speed of 57 m.p.h. Other features: t.ickout
lamps front and rear; hand grips on outside enabling crew to lift machine: straps and railings inside car for safety in ’-ough cross-coun«
try riding. Car is small enough to be concealed in a field in quantities and light enough (2,100 lbs.) to be carried in a bomber,
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