336 Persons in
2nd Division Get
Social Security
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JUNEAU—At the end of 1956
336 persons in the Second Divi
sion were receiving social secur
ity insurance payments totalling
$11,009 monthly. The figures were
announced this week by James G.
Browne, district manager of the
Juneau social security office.
The number of beneficiaries
increased by 70 over 1955 and the
total monthly benefits being paid
in the division at the close of the
year was 2,335 over the total be
ing paid the year before, accord
ing to Browne.
The number of social security
insurance payments to retired
workers, wives, widows and chil
dren in the Sceond Division rose
26 percent during 1956, as com
pared with a 10 percent increase
for Alaska as a whole.
Browne noted that the benefi
ciary increases are mainly due to
expansion of social security cov
erage, the lowering of retirement
age for women to 62, and an in
creasing public understanding of
the types of benefits payable.
Benefits now being paid in the
Second Division are as follows,
with the number of beneficiaries
and monthly payments for each
group:
Retired workers 92 $5,084
Wives and widows 23 578
Mothers with children 36 1,044
Children 185 4,303
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
DEPARTMENT OF AVIATION
ALASKA AERONAUTICS AND
COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Invitation for Bids
lCONSTRUCTION CONTRACT)
Anchorage. Alaska
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
i Place i Department of Aviation
(Date) July 8. 1957
SEALED BIDS, in duplicate copy sub
ject to the conditions contained here
in. will be received until August 16. 1957,
then publicly opened, for furnishing all
labor and materials and performing all
work for construction of an Airport
Landing Strip located near Seldovia,
Plans, Specifications, and Project Doc
uments may be obtained from the Di
rector of Aeronautics. Alaska Aeronau
tics and Communications Commission.
Room 202, Glover Bldg., Anchorage, Alas
ka. upon deposit of $25.00.
Bids will be publicly opened in the
office of the Director of Aeronautics,
Room 202, Glover Bldg.. Anchorage.
Alaska, at 10:00 A.M., A.S.T., on August
15, 1957.
Where copies of plans are requested,
a deposit of $25.00 will be required to
insure theii return.
Guarantee will be required with each
bid as follows: Ten Percent (10% >.
(See Paragraph 7 of Instructions to
Bidder. (
Performance bond will be required
for an amount not less than 50% of the
contract.
Payment bond will be required for an
amount not less than 50 % of the contract.
Liquidated damages for delay will be
as stipulated 'in the General Contract
Provisions for Airport Construction
Specifications.
Partial payments will be made monthly.
Minimum wage rates applicable tc
the contract shall be as listed in the
Special Contract Provisions.
Bids must be submitted upon Proposal
Form and the successful bidder will be
required to execute the Standard Form
of Contract for Construction.
The right is reserved, as the interest
of the Territory of Alaska may require,
to reject any and all bids, to waive any
informality in bids received, and to ac
cept or reject any items of any bid.
unless such bid is qualified by specific
limitation.
Envelopes containing bids must be
sealed, marked and addressed as follows:
Bid for Seldovia Municipal Airport
Project No. 9-50-004-02
To be opened at 2:00 P.M., A.S.T..
Date: Aug. 16, 1957
Bidder: -
Address: _
Publ. July 29. Aug. 2, 5, 9. 12. 1957.
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1956 Was Banner Year for
Alaska Transportation With
293,771 Entering or Leaving
The year 1956 was a banner
year for Alaska transportation
when a new all-time record was
set with the number of passen
gers traveling either to or from
Alaska amounting to 293,771 per
sons. This represents a gain of
39,181 travelers over the 1955
total.
These figures are contained in
the annual Passenger Traffic Sur
vey published each year by the
Alaska Resource Development
Board. This survey was released
Tuesday by A1 Anderson, execu
tive director.
During 1956, 143,600 persons
came into Alaska by air, car and
boat. In the same year 150,171
left the territory, so that a net
migration loss of 6,571 persons
occurred during 1956.
Insignificant Loss
This net migration loss is not
considered statistically signifi
cant, according to Anderson, who
said that he believed the excess
of births over deaths during the
period would about make up for
the loss.
The airlines serving Alaska
carried a lion’s share of the total
traffic with 59.8 percent; the
\laska Highway 32.7 percent, and
the remaining 7.5 percent by wa
ter carrier.
Seven Serving Airlines
The five American and two Ca
nadian airlines serving Alaska
and Canada carried a total of
175,790 passengers in and out of
Alaska. This represents an in
crease of 17,188 passengers over
1955 or a gain of 11 percent. The
peak air traffic for inbound pas
sengers occurred in June of 1956
when 12,231 persons arrived.
Average monthly air traffic
into Alaska amounted to 6,834
people, while average outbound
traffic was 7,815. Airlines brought
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82,013 persons to Alaska and took
out 93,772.
Record Highway Traffic
Alaska’s highway traffic also
reached an all-time high during
1956 when 96,052 persons entered
or left Alaska, or an increase of
21,109 persons. In 1956 49,798
people came to Alaska by high
way and 46,254 left. They came
in 16,841 vehicles and departed
in 15,104.
Steamship traffic to Alaska,
with no American flag steamers
operating during the year, suf
fered a slight decrease. A total of
' 21,921 passengers were carried to
and from Alaska by steamship in
1956. “It is interesting to note,”
Anderson said, “that 11,052 pas
| sengers, or better than half, were
carried to and from the territory
by the Military Sea Transporta
tion Service.”
West Point Graduates’
Resignations From
Military Are Increasing
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Army
is taking steps to combat increas
ing resignations by recent West
Point Military Academy gradu
ates.
One effort to emphasize the
career benefits of remaining in
the service will be a pamphlet
pointing out reasons why young
officers should retain their com
missions instead of resigning soon
after graduation.
The Army produced figures
Friday showing that 21 percent
of its share of the West Point
class of 1952 already has resigned.
In the class of ’53, 22.4 percent
have turned in their commissions
and in the class of ’54 nearly 11
percent resigned as soon as they
had served the minimum three
years.
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