This Is How Gulliver Felt ~j
A PINT-SIZED AMERICAN tourist inspects one of Britain’s diminu
tive attractions, Bekonscot Village, complete With moated castle and
manor house. Sightseers among the younger set will help swell Brit
ain’s visitors from the States to the record number of 280,000 this
year. And that country is well organized to take care of the globe
trotting tots. By writing to the British Travel Association, 336 Madi
son Avenue,. New York, parents planning to take moppets abroad can
obtain at -no charge lists describing the places of special interest, such
as the Queen’s Doll House at Windsor Castle and the Royal Mews on
Buckingham Palace Road where a child may view the royal horses.
Regular Hospital Appropriations to
Alaska Not Applicable to New
Mental Health Construction Plans
WASHINGTON lift—Alaska will
not be able to supplement Con
gressional appropriations with
Hill-Burton funds in its forth
coming mental hospital construc
tion program.
Under the Hill-Burion program,
Alaska receives the minimum
$200,000 a year for hospital con
struction. It must match this on
an equal basis.
In the 10 years since Congress
set up the program, Alaska has
received $1,499,000 in federal
funds toward construction of 10
hospitals with a total cost of $4,
346,000.
Four of these—at Fairbanks,
No Restrictions
On Gold Trading
Seen for Canada
MONTREAL, lift—The lifting of
all restrictions on gold trading in
Canada is predicted in the cur
rent issue of the Bank of Montreal
Business Review.
“Gradual relaxation” of the
past few years suggests freeing
of restrictions “may be considered
a logical, if sudden, culmination,”
the Review says.
While pointing out that the
freeing of gold was one of the
few surprises of the budget
speech last march, the bank says
the move appears to have been
justified by the profound changes
that have occurred in the inter
national patterns of both supply
and distribution of gold.
On the supply side, the review
says, there has been a significant
increase in South African in the
quantity of gold available to the
non-Communist world, while at
the same time there appears to
have been a decline in the de
mand from private sources.
The bank points out that in
1949 gold prices on the free mar
ket had risen to more than $50 a
fine ounce, but by 1954 the price
had slipped to where it was just
nominally aoove the official price
of $35.
Cordova, Kake and McGrath—
are now under construction. Com
pleted in previous years were hos
pital projects at Nome, Fairbanks,
Juneau, Palmer. Seward and
Sitka.
The Department of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare, after a study
of the Alaska Mental Health Bill
passed by the last Congress, con
cluded the Hill-Burton money
could not be obtained for the pro
gram.
Ted Bechtel, of the Public
Health Service’s division of hos
pital- and medical facilities, said
the ruling was based on language
of the bill which provided that
the $6‘/i million appropriation it
authorized would be the total
federal contribution for construc
tion.
Bechtel said the question arose
when Alaskans inquired whether
ft would be possible to use Hill
Burton funds to add a psychiatric
ward or similar facilities to ex
isting hospitals. No formal appli
cation has been received for such
a purpose.
Little Old Lady
Catches Up With Man
After 3,000-Mile Trip
DETROIT, Ut—A frail little
woman from Alaska says she fi
nally caught up with her mrfn
after a 3,000-mile journey from
Ketchikan to Detroit.
Mrs. Rena Millard, 56, told cir
cuit judge Victor Targonski yes
terday it took her 3V4 years to
catch up with her husband, Law
rence, 48. She said he abandoned
her and her son or. tiny GavinS
Island near Ketchikan, Alaska,
in 1952.
Learning her husband was in
Detroit, Mrs. Millard flew here
Sept. 17 and located him after
checking telephone directories
and tracking down several old
addresses.
Millard, a truck driver, was ar
rested for nonsuppori and ordered
by Judge Targonski to pay his
wife $25 a week.
New Ship for
Geodetic Survey
To Be Ready in ’58
SEATTLE, (M—The $3,700,000
successor to the veteran Coast and
Geodetice Survey ship Surveyor
should be completed in time for
duty out of Seattle in the 1958
season, the survey’s director an
nounced here Monday.
In Seattle on a five-day inspec
tion trip, Rear Adm. H. Arnold
Karo said bids on the new SS Sur
veyor should be put out early next
year and be completed in 420
days.
With a 46-foot beam and a
length of more than 280 feet, the
new Surveyor will be 100 feet I
longer than the old Surveyor,
which was scrapped last year af
ter 38 years’ service. The new ship
also will be the largest, altho not
the longest, ship in the Geodetic
Survey's fleet.
Preliminary plans call for her
to carry a helicopter platform and !
the latest electronic equipment. !
Adm. Karo also said the Survey j
has checked possibility that the
SS Washington Mail rammed an
uncharted pinnacle in the North
Pacific last March. As. the Path
finder came home from Alaska
this year, she took depth readings
on a 1,400-square-mile area
southeast of Kodiak. The Path
finder’s skipper, Capt. John Bow
ie, found no depths there less than
1,900 fathoms (2.2 miles).
HUGE PAPER FACTORY
OPENED ON LULU I.
VANCOUVER, B.C. m—A new,
$4,500,000 paper converting aqd
box factory was officially opened
by Crown Zellerbaeh of Canada
Ltd. on Liilu Island, 10 miles
south of here yesterday.
The huge plant, spread out over
nine and a half acres of land, will
employ some 600 persons in the
manufacture of corrugated card
board boxes, gummed tape, ffuit
and bread wrapping paper, bags,
towels and napkins.
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GOOD NEWS FOR FISH EATERS!
Before you throw this paper in the waste
paper basket you’d better put your wastepaper
basket in the safe because this is just like
money in the hank. That’s right! We have a niee
supply of Dry Salmon and you can leave your
order at Munz Airways or write to' us directly.
TELLER COMMERCIAL CO.
TELLER, ALASKA
The town with faith jn the future
PUBLIC NOTICE
by
Territorial Board of Public Accountancy
Notice is hereby given of forthcoming examination as follows:
For certification of "Certified Public Accountant"
November 7, 8, & 9, 1956.
Anyone wishing to take the above examination
should make application to A. van Seventer,
Secretary of the Board. P.O. Box 859. Anchor
age, Alaska on or before October 10, 1956.
VOTE FOR
James A.
von tier Heydt
DEMOCRAT
A Qualified Candidate
House of
Representatives
★
VOTE DEMOCRATIC
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