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1952 Was Year
Without Parallel
In Alaska History
JUNEAU — Despite two costly
maritime tieups, Alaska in 1952
experienced a year of prosperity
and progress without parallel in
its history, according to an Alaska
Development Board summary of
the year’s industrial and business
conditions.
Employment, earnings and
bank deposits reached record
highs, while industrial develop
ments promising a new era of
stable progress were commenced
or announced.
Vying for top billing in the
year’s business news were the
start of the construction on the
$46 million plant of the Ketchi
kan Pulp Company, and the an
nouncement by the Aluminum
Company of America of inten
tions to build a $400 million alum
inum smelter near Skagway.
Good progress was made at
| Lost River on Seward Peninsula
on the lode tin mine and mill
of the United States Tin Corpor
ation.
Preliminary reports reaching
the Development Board indicated
that the value of mine production
for 1952 would total about $20
million, up 10 percent from 1951.
Gold production was slightly high
er than in 1951, according to these
early figures. **
The salmon pack although up
about 60,000 cases over the small
pack of 1951, was generally' dis
appointing. Its value was around
$80 million.
Alaska bank deposits reached
an all-time high of $124,270,
559 in June 30 as compared with
$99,873,802 the same date in 1951,
the previous record total.
Employment, based on the
number of “covered” employees
reported to the Employment Se
curity Commission, stood at
45,962 in June of this year as
compared with 42,486 in the same
momth of 1951.
Population at the beginning of
1952, according to the Develop
ment Board’s annual estimate
based on reports from transport
ation companies, stood at 153,900
and it was indicated that the to
tal number of persons in the terri
tory in December will exceed
160,000.
Enrollment in the Territorial
schools at the end of the first
week of the 1952-53 school year
totaled 18,048 as compared with
the previous record total of 14,597
at the same time a year ealier,
according to the Territorial Com
missioner of Education.
Automobiles and other vehicles
licensed in Alaska numbered
44,864 in December, as compared
with 37,039 in 1951.
Federal income tax collections
in the Territory in the 1952 fiscal
year reached an all time record
total of $41,006,579 as compared
with $36,894,861 the previous
year.
The 1952 tourist season, though
hurt by the long steamship tieup
of the summer, brought record
numbers of travelers to the Terri
tory by air and over the Alaska
Highway, the Development Board
reported. v
As the year ended, indications
were that the high level of ec
onomic activity in 1952 would be
continued into 1953, according to
the Board.
HISTORIC NEWSPAPER
EDMONTON, Canada, (JP) —
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Berlin News dated March 23,
1813. It cointains a message sign
ed by King Frederick Wilhelm
IV asking the people of Berlin
to rise against Napoleon.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued cloudy with occa
sional light snow tonight and Sat
urday. Winds easterly 10 to 15
mph. Lowest temperature expec
ted tonight -5, high Saturday 5.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
13, low 0. Max. wind 16 mph
from the NNE. Sunrise at 9:57
a.m., sunset at 2:14 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 29, low 15. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 37 in 1942,
low -34 in 1949.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -9 Part cloudy
Kotzebue -14' Part cloudy
Wales 4 Light snow
Gambell 7 Light snow
Nome 12 Light snow
Unalakleet 7 Part cloudy
Bethel ’ 4 Part cloudy
McGrath -8 Part cloudy
Anchorage 15 Part cloudy
Fairbanks -5 Light snow
Whitehorse 3 Cloudy
Edmonton 22 Part cloudy
Juneau 40 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 40 Rain
Seattle 46 Cloudy
San Francisco 52 Part cloudy
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