P,419,OQO Allotted
For Alaskan
Public Works
JUNEAU—Allotment of funds
for 18 Alaska Public Works proj
ects totalling $9,419,900 from the
1955 budget recently approved by
Congress was announced last
week by Gov. B. Frank Heintzle
man and James W. Huston, di
rector of Alaska Public Works.
Each of the allotments designed
to bring needed public improve
ments to Alaska communities has
been approved by Secretary of
the Interior Douglas McKay.
The following projects are in
cluded in the allotment:
City of Juneau, $397,450, con
struction and repair of streets and
sidewalks and retaining walls, re
construction and modernization of
city fire alarm system and con
struction of additional ^torm
sewers.
Juneau Independent School Dis
trict: $2,000,000, to construct a
two-story reinforced concrete high
school building and remodel the
existing 5th Street High School
and 5th Street Grade School.
City of Skagway: $258,000, to
construct a two-story reinforced
concrete addition to an existing
school.
City of Valdez: $460,000 to con
struct and equip a 16-bed hospi
tal. Building to be of reinforced
concrete and to include facilities
which could serve a future nearly
double expanded bed capacity.
City of Petersburg $506,700, to
imnrove and rehabilitate streets
and sewer and water systems.
City of Anchorage: $793,200, to
construct additional sewers and
outfall serving the Government
Hill area.
Anchorage Independent School
District: $372,000, to construct a
reinforced concrete addition to the
Woodland Park Grade School.
University of Alaska: $567,500,
to rehabilitate and expand basic
utilities, including utilidors, fire
protection, electrical distribution
and steam and water mains.
City of Fairbanks: $500,000, to
construct sewage treatment plant
and extend sewers in new resi
dential areas.
Pioneers’ Home addition, Sitka:
$800,000.
Alaska territorial schools at:
Fort Yukon $446,250
Anvik 148,500
City and school district schools
at:
Nome $619,000
Kake 269,300
Nenana 381,000
Seldovia 400,000
Haines 501,000
Bid Date Postponed
For Highway Paving
JUNEAU, UP)—1The Alaska Road
Commission Friday postponed
from Aug. 24 to Aug. 31 bid open
ing on a reconstruction job to
ready for blacktopping 45 miles of
the Alaska Highway from North
was to the Canadian boundary.
It is the last section of Alaska’s
major highway system to be re
constructed for paving.
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Congress Passes Bill to Liberalize
And Extend Social Security System;
Additional 10 Million Covered
WASHINGTON, VPI—Congress*
has given President Eisenhower a
farewell bouquet in the form of a
bill liberalizing and extending the
social security system just about
as he wanted.
The measure aroused some pre
ad,iournment bickering, but both
House and Senate shouted ap
proval of a compromise version
late Friday and the bill—final
major legislation of the 83rd Con
gress—went to Eisenhower for his
expected signature.
It will increase present and fu
ture benefits to retired persons
and survivors, -boost taxes to fi
nance the higher payments and
bring an additional 10 million per
sons under the 20-year-old sys
tem.
The bill will extend social
security coverage to nearly all
working people in America,
whether they are employed -by
others or are self-employed.
Low Cost Power
Available in Alaska
For Chemical Industry
JUNEAU, VP)—-Low cost indus
trial power is available in Alaska
in sufficient quantities for estab
lishment of a chemical industry,
a group of officials agreed here
Thursday.
Top Alaska power officials met
with Dr. Charles C. Concannon,
chief chemist for the Department
o'f Commerce, and with the Alas
ka Development Board staff.
Power resources are available
at less than five mills per kilowatt
in both Southeast Alaska and the
Kenai Peninsula.
The main purpose of the meet
ing was to determine whether suf
ficient power would be available
to establish an ammonium nitrate
industry so farmers would not be
dependent cm imports of the es
sential plant food.
It was pointed out that Iceland
has established such an industry
by utilitzing its water resources.
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Pacific Coast Salmon
Catch Increased 18%
SEATTLE, VP)—The 1953 Pacific
Coast pack of canned salmon,
most of it from canneries in
Washington State, amounted to
more than a million cases with a
value of $24,067,839.
This was reported Friday by the
Fish and Wildlife Service. The
figures represented an increase of
18 percent in volume and 10 per
cent in value as compared with
1952.
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The biggest new group brought
into the system comprises 3,600,
000 farmers and 2,100,000 addi
tional farm hands.
Here are the main provisions in
the bill as it went to Eisenhower:
Benefits—Five million retired
persons now on the rolls will get
increases of at least $5 a month,
with an average boost of $6. New
average payments to' these per
sons will be about $57. One and
one-half million survivors and de
pendents on the rolls will get pro
portionate increases. Persons re
tiring in the future will receive
much larger increases by changes
in all benefit formulas. For in
stance, maximum payment for an
individual will go up from $85 to
$108.50, for a couple from $127.50
to $162.75.
Taxes—Effective next Jan. 1,
the tax base will go up from
$3,600 to $4,200. Thus an individ
ual earning $4,200 or more a year
adn his employer each will have
to pay $12 more in 1955. The tax
rate of 2 percent does not change
until 1960. The self-employed rate
likewise remains at 3 percent
until 1960.
Coverage— Compulsory cover
age is extended to' 3,600,000 farm
operators; 2,100,000 farm hands;
100,000 engineers, architects, ac
countants and undertakers; 250,
000 domestic workers; 100,000
home workers and 50,000 persons
in the fishing industry. Coverage
is extended on a voluntary basis
to 3,600,000 state and local gov
ernment employes, 260,000 minis
ters and Christian Science practi
tioners, and 100,000 American
citizens employed outside the Uni
ted States by foreign subsidiaries
of American companies.
Disability freeze—Periods of
disability Will be disregarded in
computing an individual's retire
ment benefits, so that his pay
ment will not be decreased be
cause of the time in which he had
no earnings.
State Assistance Programs—Ex
tends for two years, to Sept. 30,
1957, the 1952 law increasing the
federal share of state assistance
payments to the aged, blind, total
ly disabled and dependent chil
dren.
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