' ACS Program Will
Give Better Phone
Service To States
WASHINGTON, Iff)—1The Alas
ka Communications System plans
a $7,004,449 construction program
during the coming, year to add 12
additional telephone channels be
tween Anchorage and Prince Ru
pert, British Columbia.
Details of the project were dis
closed in published testimony by
Maj. Gen. George I. Back, chief
signal officer for the Army, before
the House Appropriations Com
mittee.
Only 11 telephone channels be
tween Alaska and the United
States are now available, Back
said, and the additional lines are
badly needed. Lines from Prince
Rupert to Seattle would be leased
from the Canadian government.
Present service, he said, is “to
tally inadequate . . . reflected in
service delays and an inordinate
number of long-distance call can
cellations.”
Back said the communications
system plans to place additional
wires between Tok Junction and
Haines, and between Anchorage
and Tok Junction; to install a
submarine coaxial cable between
Haines and Prince Rupert with 12
voice channels which would be
extended to Seattle via Prince
George and Vancouver, B.C.
The additional channels, Back
said, still will not guarantee tele
phone service of commercial stan
dards but “will ameliorate the
present unsatisfactory situation.”
He estimated that revenues from
their use would pay off project
costs within 10 years.
In addition, Back said, ACS
plans to replace a control cable at
Sitka ($9,818), install semiauto
matic teletype equipment at An
chorage and Fairbanks ($216,254);
protect submarine cables on the
beach at Whittier ($5,378);. and
move the communication center
at Juneau “to a location which
provides adequate security and
better operation of equipment.”
The seven million dollars for
ANCHORAGE VOTERS
DOWN PROPOSAL FOR FISCAL
INDEPENDENCE OF SCHOOLS
ANCHORAGE, UP — Two An
chorage bond issues totaling
$1,700,000 won approval last
week in a special election that
drew a total of only 445 votes.
At the same time, they rejected
269 to 176 a proposal to give the
School Board complete fiscal in
dependence from the city council.
The school vote was almost a re
versal of the 1949 referendum vote
in the school district, asking the
legislature for a law to' permit
fiscal independence. Officials ex
pressed belief the vote reflected
criticism of the law that was
rushed through the legislature in
its final days after an Anchorage
school fire.
Girdles and Corsets
Handicap Weight-Guesser
NEW YORK, UP)—If Hy Malik
had his way, women would not be
allowed to wear corsets or girdles
to amusement parks. Hy explains
that these garments are an ob
stacle to his chosen profession—
weight guesser at a New Jersey
amusement park (Palisades).
Malik said that “on a good day’’
he can guess men’s weights cor
rectly almost 70 percent of the
time. On the other hand, if he
can break 50 percent with the
women, he considers himself
lucky. If he doesn’t guess a per
son’s weight within three pounds
the individual wins a prize.
Malik says that he is always
running into people who are eager
to outwit him. “One day,’’ Hy re
calls, “a young man got on the
scale with about 10 pounds of
rocks under his coat.
Malik says that people on the
average are fatter today than they
were when he started out in busi
ness nearly 40 years ago.
construction is part of, a request
for $11,185,000 for operation and
maintenance of the system. In ad
dition, there is pending before
Congress a bill to authorize ex
penditure of another five million
dollars for various building re
quirements.
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