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when central station
electric power fails
You would be without iights, auto
matic heat, running water—your re
frigerator, freezer, milking machine,
power tools, appliances would be use
less, perhaps for days, if a storm or
accident cut off your electricity.
A stand-by Kohler plant will take
over the critical load automatically.
Chores, household activities continue
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U.S. Arms Forces
In Germany With
Guided Missiles
WASHINGTON, (UP)—1The United
States is arming its forces in Ger
many with guided missiles capa
ble of carrying atomic warheads
hundreds of miles into Red-held
territory.
The Air Force announced terse
ly Friday night that it will send
two pilotless bomber squadrons
to Germany this year. No details
were given.
This move seemed to fit into
basic U.S. strategy defined by
Secretary of State Dulles in his
New York speech Tuesday and
affirmed by President Eisenhower
at his news conference the next
day.
This strategy, Dulles said, is
based orr “massive retailiatory
power” to deter Soviet aggi'ession.
In this connection, the decision
to augment the fire power of
American forces helpings defend
Western Europe immediately
raised a question:
Would this mean fewer Ameri
can troops in Europe?
“No, not in itself,” Secretary of
Defense Charles E. Wilson told
'reporters Friday. He didn’t say
more.
The two squadrons bound for
Germany will be equipped with
B-61 Matador missiles. These have
been in mass production at the
Baltimore plant of the Glenn L.
Martin Co. for more than a year.
The Air Force did not disclose
the number of missiles in a squad
ron.
The Matador is the best offen
sive guided missile to be turned
over to a tactical unit of the Uni
ted States armed forces. Other
such missiles with greater speed
and wider range are be*ing de
signed or are undergoing tests.
Indiana Man Wins Citation
For Sending Messages To
North Pole Servicemen
WASHINGTON, (A>)—A million
and a half words of messages re
layed to servicemen in lonely
weather stations near the North
Pole won a citation Saturday for
■J. Stan Surber of Peru, Indiana.
He was designated to receive
Ger\eral Electric’s Edison Radio
Amateur Award for the outstand
ing public service of the year by
an amateur radio operator.
Surber kept family messages
going to service personnel at such
places as Ice Island T-3 in the
Arctic Ocean. Some received reg
ular mail only twice a year.
Grateful servicemen and their
families wrote from 28 states and
five foreign countries to recom
mend him.
Surber, 46, said at Peru he has
handled more than 18,000 mess
ages to the arctic since he started
his hobby in 1950.
Inadequate Appropriations Force
Cuts In Alaska Health Program;
Next Health Board Meeting Here
The Board of Public Welfare
met in Juneau Jan. 8-9. Board
members are Rev. G. Edgar Gal
lant, chairman, of the First Divi
sion; Mrs. Omie McCarthy of the
Second Division; Mrs. Evangeline
Atwood of the Third Division; and
Dr. Ivar Skarland of the Fourth
Division.
The agenda for the meeting was
presented by Henry A. Harmon,
director of the Public Welfare De
partment. In his report on the
activities and financial conditions
of the programs operated by the
Dept, of Public Welfare, it was
■pointed out that the old age as
sistance program is well financed
but that restrictions continue to
be necessary in the other pro
grams: aid to the blind, aid to
dependent children, general re
lief, and juvenile code, because of
inadequate appropriations.
In a close study of the financial
conditions of the aid to dependent
children program, which now has
in effect a 20 percent reduction
in all grants, it was determined by
the board that it was administra
tively possible and sound to
change the reduction to 10 percent
as it was recognized that the need
was greatest during the late win
Alaska Railroad Asks
$12 Million For New Work
ANCHORAGE, UP)—'The Alaska
railroad has requested 12 million
dollars for construction of a new
railroad dock at Seward and re
habilitation of the Portage-Seward
segment of the line, it was an
nounced here Friday.
F. E. Kalbaugh, general man
ager of the railroad, left here
Saturday for Washington, D.C., to
seek Congressional approval of
the appropriation.
The proposed new Seward rail
road dock would require some
82,900,000 of the funds, Kalbaugh
said, and the rehabilitation of the
Portage-Seward line will cost
about 89,094,000.
The Gulf Stream flows through
the 100-mile-wide Straits of Flor
ida at an average rate of 7,245
million gallons a second says the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti
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■ter months. There was no assur
ance that the department could
continue with this reduced cut for
the remainder of the biennium.
It was reported that the case
load in the old age assistance, aid
to the blind and juvenile code pro
grams had not fluctuated to any
degree during the past year but
that the general relief and aid to
dependent children programs had
continued to increase. General re
lief showed a definite upturn dur
ing the past two months, caused
by the unemployment conditions
in Alaska and by the poor fishing
season.
The members of the board re
viewed the fisherman’s aid pro
gram in relation to its effect on
public welfare. It was pointed out
that as a result of the poor fishing
season the public welfare load
would naturally increase as peo
ple who had previously been cared
for by families or relatives no
longer might have this support.
In discussing the Dept, of Pub
lic Welfare’s role in the territorial
civil defense program, the board
recognized that the department
had a responsibility in planning
for emergency welfare service.
The board recommended that the
staff cooperate in every way pos
sible in strengthening and devel
oping an overall civil defense plan.
The board reviewed a study of
public assistance in the United
States which compared Alaska
with the 48 states and other terri
tories. This information was re
leased by the U.S. Department of
Welfare. Statistics revealed that
the national average grant in the
old age assistance program per
month per person was $51.08 as
compared with the average grant
in Alaska of $58.13 per person.
Seventeen states paid a higher
average grant. The amount ex
pended per capita per year for
support of the old age assistance
program showed a national ex
penditure of S9.96 per capita while
I the cost in Alaska per capita was
$6.17. Thirty-nine states paid a
higher per capita cost ■‘than Alaska.
In the aid to dependent children
program, the average grant for
the nation was $23.89 per month
per person, with the Alaska aver
age payment being $25.89 per per
son. Twenty-four states paid a
higher average grant. The cost of
this program per capita per year
for the nation was $3.54 and in Al
aska it was $4.23 per capita. Six
teen states had a higher per capita
cost than Alaska.
The statistics on the aid to the
blind program rev aled that the
national average grant per month
per blind person was $55.53. Al
aska had an average- grant of
$58.29. Twenty-four states paid a
higher average grant per blind
person. The cost of the aid to the
blind program shewed the nation
al av-or/ge expenditure to be $.41
per capita per year with the cost
per capita in Alaska being $.14.
Forty-seven stiles pa,id a higher
yearly average per capita rate
than Alaska.
The general relief program
showed a national average grant
per recipient per month of $47.16,
compared with Alaska average
monthly grant of $48.18. Fifteen
slates paid a higher monthly av
erage grant.
The next board meeting is to
held in Nome on August 30,
1, and September 1, 1954.