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Increased Interest In Alaskan Oil
Prompts Request For More Money
For Administration of BLM and FWS
WASHINGTON, UP) — Stepped
up interest in Alaskan oil has
prompted two government agen
cies to appeal to Congress for
supplemental appropriations dur
ing the coming year.
The Bureau of Land Manage
ment wants $270,000 to permit it
to add 32 employees to its of
fices at Anchorage and Fairbanks
in a bid to reduce the mounting
backlog of oil lease applications.
The Fish and Wildlife Service
wants $25,000 to supervise its
protective interest in wildlife on
the Kenai Peninsula where Rich
, field Oil Co. last, year struck a
900-barrel a day oil well.
BLM already had a backlog of
4,655 applications, in Alaska when
Richfield made its strike last
July. With the impetus gained
from that discovery, the backlog
stood at 12,017 as of the end of
May.
James P. Beirne, assistant BLM
director, told a House Appropria
tions Subcommittee that delay in
issuance of the leases “deprives
the territory and the United
States Treasury of revenues
which, it is estimated, will ap
proximate 10 million dollars an
nually when these lands are pro
ducing.”
Under the law, 90 per cent of
these revenues would go to
Alaska.
Beirne said the agency already
has assigned all available per
sonnel from other activities to
help out on the mounting back
log of applications. In Anchor
age alone during the last year,
he said, persons basically as
signed to other duties put in
4,200 man-hours of work on the
oil and gas lease program.
A continuation of this effort,
he said, would threaten other
bureau programs with serious
disruption.
In his testimony, Beirne said
major oil companies already have
spent upward of 15 million dol
lars in exploration work in po
tential oil producing areas of
Alaska.
“In addition to further expen
ditures of even greater amounts
in exploration,” he said, “there
will be the stabilization of year
long employment through the
erection and staffing of refineries,
pipelines, distribution agents, etc.
It is estimated that, when these
refineries have been established,
a sizable saving of one-third of
the present cost may be made
by the military in its require
ments for petroleum products.
“The economic development of
Alaska will be further enhanced
by making available to prospec
tive industry a stable source of
petroleum products at a price
they can afford to pay and at the
same time will go far to reducing
the present high costs of these
products to the general public.”
Abram V. Tunison, assistant
director of FWS’ Bureau of
Sport Fisheries and Wildlife,
said the $25,000 requested by that
agency would be used to hire two
persons to supervise operations of
the oil companies on the Kenai
moose range to see that compli
ance with refuge regulations is
maintained.
To indicate the size of the
supervisory problem, Tunison said
2,500 oil workers already are in
the area with more to come.
Public visitation also is increas
ing, he said, as the result of roads
built by the oil firms.
In addition to the two oil
caused requests, the Wildlife
Bureau asked $300,625 for admini
stration of Alaska’s game laws.
It said the money was needed
because prices for Pribilof Island
seal furs had fallen below esti
mates, and because a strike at the
Fouke Fur Co. in St. Louis had
postponed one of the fur auctions.
A share of the proceeds from the
Priblof Fishery is used for the
Alaskan program.
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Reds Not Expected
To Intervene In
Middle East
WASHINGTON, UR — The gov
ernment’s top intelligence author
ities believe Russia will wage a
campaign of violent threats and
bluster but will not intervene
militarily against American-Brit
ish forces in the explosive Middle
East.
The considered view is that
Russia will avoid even sending
what the Communists call volun
teers to reinforce rebels in Leba
non and Jordan.
In short, the prevailing opinion
is that the Kremlin will take no
action that would risk an Atomic
Hydrogen war with the West.
Two important signs demon
strate the administration’s belief
that a global war is not in the
offing: (1) no military reserves
have been called up for duty and
(2) draft calls have been kept at
the present rate of 10,000 men
per month.
President Eisenhower warned
the nation of possible serious
consequences of the sudden de
cision to rush U.S. Marines to
bolster the pro-Western govern
ment of tiny Lebanon.
But officials said Eisenhower
took this fateful step only af
ter being convinced by his ad
visers that Russia would confine
its reaction to a propaganda cam
paign, possibly with side-show
military gestures.
Eisenhower himself was des
cribed by a visitor Thursday as
calm and of good spirits.
Sen. Jacob Javits (R-NY) told
newsmen he is sure the Ameri
can people would be encouraged
if they could see the President
as Javits had done.
The estimate of Russia’s in
tentions may change depending
on the swift-moving develop
ments in the Middle East. One
of the critical questions is wheth
er the Soviets will intervene at
least with volunteers if British
and Jordanian forces move into
Iraq in a bold move to smash the
rebels who overturned the pro
Western government in Baghdad.
Russia and its Communist al
lies might stage some sort of
diversionary threat against the
West, perhaps in the Far East,
to tie up U.S. troop, fleet and Air
Force units far from the Mid
East.
This might take the form of a
threatened Chinese Communist
attack against some of the off
shore islands near Chiang Kai
Shek’s Nationalist stronghold of
Formosa. Chiang already has
alerted his armed forces against
such a possibility.
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j Russians Demonstrate
Before American
Embassy In Moscow
MOSCOW, UP — More than
2,000 banner-waving, fist-shaking
Russians demonstrated outside the
American embassy Thursday
shouting “hands off Lebanon” and
“hands off Iraq.”
A cordon of Soviet police
thrown in front of the embassy
nearly an hour after the demon
stration started kept the surg
ing crowd at bay.
The gates of the embassy itself
were barred as the first column
apoeared.
The demonstration—which ap
peared perfectly organized—was
similar to another staged outside
the American embassy on June
25.
Soviet demonstrators then said
they were protesting “hostile
provocations” against the offices
■of the Soviet delegation at the
United Nations.
Thursday’s demonstration came
less than 24 hours after the Soviet
goverment denounced the land
ing of U. S. Marines in Lebanon
as. “an act of aggression” and
warned that the Kremlin re
served the right to take any
necessary counteraction.
j Passage of Statehood Bill
Brings Renewed Interest
In Alaskan Literature
Passage of the statehood bill
by the Senate has brought a re
surgence of interest in Alaska lit
erature and with it an influx of
inquiries regarding the book
“Blazing Alaska’s Trails” by Al
fred H. Brooks, according to Prof.
Earl H. Beistline, dean of the
School of Mines at the Univer
sity of Alaska.
Dr. Brooks, at the time of his
death, was universally considered
the foremost expert in the world
on Alaska. From 1903 until his
death in 1924 he was in charge of
the Alaskan activities of the
United States Geological Survey.
His “Blazing Alaska’s Trails” is
the story of early Alaska, told by
one of its most famous trail
blazers.
This book is available at Polet’s
Store.
Coroner's Jury Terms •
Roy Okie's Dealh Accidental
A coroner’s jury brought in a
verdict of accidental death, prob
ably by drowning in the case of
Roy Okie who disappeared while
crossing the ice this spring with
two companions and whose body
washed ashore after the break-up.
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