Aviation Dept.
Accepts Grants
Four Grant Offers by the Fed
eral Government have been ac
cepted by the Territory of Alaska,
Department o{ Aviation, complet
ing another step towards the con
struction of airports at Arctic Vil
lage, Beaver, Hooper Bay and Ki
valina. These Grant Offers were
made under the Federal Aid Air
port Program wherein the Fed
eral Government shares in the
project costs in the amount of 75
percent, and the sponsor shares
in the amount of 25 percent. Un
der normal circumstances, the
Grant Offer is made following ac
ceptance of construction plans and
specifications. However, because
of the urgency to allocate funds
which otherwise would be lost
to Alaska prior to the proclama
tion of Statehood, the require
ments of final plans were waived.
These proqects were approved
tentatively on the preliminary
plans and specifications. No con
struction can proceed until the
final plans have been formally ap
proved by the Federal Govern
ment. The Grant Offers must be
finalized no later than May 1,
1959. The projects themselves are
included in the budget of the De
partment of Aviation for fiscal
year 1960, which begins July 1,
1959.
The total amount of these pro
jects is estimated at $835,000.
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thanks for your patronage throughout the year. May you
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Salmon Pack Totals
12 Million Cases
NEW YORK, UPt — The salmon
pack of the canned fish industry
for 1958 should total 3,588,000
cases, for a value of $94,890,000,
I Sam Rubinstein, president of Gill
netter’s estimated last week.
The head of the packing firm
said slightly more than 12 mil
lion cases of tuna were packed,
totaling $376,860,000 in value.
Rubinstein forecast 1959 will
see increased supplies of salmon
and tuna off American waters.
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Lewis
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Opera Star
Says Margaret
Was Off Key
NEW YORK, UP)—Soprano Helen
Traubel says she could never keep
Margaret Truman on key when
acting as singing adviser to the
former President’s daughter.
Miss Traubel says she quit after
three years.
“I think her great fault was
that she could not hear herself
sing,” Miss Traubel comments.
“She never knew what a real
amateur she was — an honor
able designation in any way of
life
She failed because she had no
gift for self-criticism.”
In a pre-publication condensa
tion of her memoirs appearing in
the January issue of the Ladies’
Home Journal, the former Metro
politan Opera star says her three
years as Miss Truman’s adviser
cost her stature “in the eyes of
the musical world for ever hav
ing my name connected with such
a musical aspirant.”
Miss Traubel wrote that she
consented to the adviser role in
1948 when Miss Truman asked
for help. Her voice then was “in
experienced and rather bad,’’
Miss Traube says, adding:
“My first, greatest and uncon
querable difficulty with Margar
et’s voice was simply keeping her
on key.
“There simply was not enough
of everything — or of anything —
to make her really a concert or
light-opera singer.”
Miss Truman is now the wife
of Clifton Daniel, a New York
newspaperman. She said she had
not read the article, did not plan
to, and would have no comment.
Truman, who is visiting his
daughter for the holidays said to
day that he hadn’t read the ar
ticle “and I don’t intend to. Prima
Donnas have their own views and
must have their fun.”
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Who have shown such Friendliness
And made this year so enjoyable —
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a wish for
a Christmas
richly blessed
with cherished peace
and radiant joy.
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