NEWS LETTER
By Mary Lee Council
Secretary to E. L. Bartlett,
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
ASSESSMENT WORK
Attempts to change the mining
assessment year at the present
time failed when the first session
of the 83rd Congress adjourned.
The legislation passed the Sen
ate but the House took no action
on the amended House committee
bill.
Both versions of the bill pro
vided for an assessment year from
one October 1 to the next rather
than the present span from July 1
to the next July 1. The law pro
vides that within this period ev
ery year a claimant must perform
or make improvements in the
amount of $100 on each unpatent
ed mining claim in the continental
United States and Alaska.
ALASKA PUBLIC WORKS
A final determination has not
been made as to the allocation of
funds made available in the In
terior Department appropriation
bill for the Alaska Public Works
program, according to information
given Delegate Bartlett last week
by officials of the Interior Dept.
President Truman had asked for
$15 million for the program, the
revised Eisenhower budget called
for $10 million and the Congress
allowed $12 million. Twelve pro
jects were outlined under the $10
million Eisenhower budget as con
trasted with 21 in the $15 million
Truman budget. The 12 - project
list included three Alaska Hous
ing Authority applications, one
for utilities as Turnagain Homes
near Anchorage, one providing
utilities for Lloyd Homes adja
cent to Ketchikan, and the third
water, sewer and street improve
ments for Grandview Homes,
Fairbanks, and Parkway Homes
and Anchor Park, near Anchor
age; a high school for the Kodiak
Independent School District; a
school for Cordova; health cen
ters for the territory; a school for
the Anchorage Independent School
District; waterfront arterial addi
tion for Ketchikan; water and
sewer for Fairbanks; a school ad
dition at Sitka; water system at
Valdez; and a school addition for
the Fairbanks Indepenednt School
District.
The addition of $2 million to
the Eisenhower budget by the
Congress will be applied to some
of the nine projects which in ad
dition to the above had been re
quested under the Truman budget
of $15 million, but the final de
cision has not been made. These
nine projects are: A school for
Ruby; a school for Ft. Yukon; a
school for the Fairbanks Inde
pendent School District; street
improvements for Juneau; utili
ties and a Food Service Building
for the University of Alaska; a
high school at Seward; water,
streets and sewer at Petersburg;
apd a school addition at Skagway.
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St. Laurent Returned To
Office In Canada With
Record Landslide Vote
TORONTO, Wi—Canadians still
swear toy Prime Minister Louis ;St.
Laurent and will have none—or
very little—of his detractors. They
made that clear in the national
elections with a big tide of votes
rolling the liberal party to an un
precedented fifth term.
The vote Monday returned the
liberals to power with a House
o'f Commons majority just short
of the record margin they ran up
in the landslide St. Laurent engi
neered in 1949.
There were 265 Commons seats
at stake. The Liberals needed 133
to maintain a majority able to
back a government. They won
171.
St. Laurent hailed the result as
showing Canada has the kind of
government it wants. He called
the returns “a heartening expres
sion of confidence.”
Summer heat in the United
States often surpasses the warmth
of the tropics, says the National
Geographic Society.
Police Break Up Riot At
Chicago Housing Project
Protesting Negro Tenant
CHICAGO, UP) — Some 300 pol
icemen early Tuesday drove an
estimated 1,000 persons from a 26
acre south side housing project
which had admitted its first Negro
tenant.
In breaking up the jeering as
sembly, police occasionally were
showered with bricks and bottles
which they said were thrown by
teen agers.
Five persons were injured, none
seriously, as roving bands stoned
autos of Negroes who drove near
the scene.
Twelve persons reportedly were
seized by police after one group
smashed windows of a neighbor
hood tavern which served Ne
groes.
The apartment of Donal How
ard, a mail carrier and the first
Negro resident of the Chicago
Housing Authority’s Trumbull
Park homes project, was the tar
get of the crowd. Windows in the
apartment, which Howard occu
pied last week, were smashed.
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