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Fire Prevention Week . * .
STARTING Oct. 8th Alaska will observe Fire Pre
vention Week with the rest of the nation.
Our Governor has urged that appropriate agen
cies .in our State and local governments as well as in
terested individuals observe Fire Prevention Week
by bringing fire safety facts effectively to the atten
tion of the public.
Most important of all is the individual who should
take time this week, now that snow has come, to check
the stoves, the flues, and the trash which has accumu
lated around the home.
We have a good fire department, composed of
volunteers who give their time faithfully to protect
our homes and businesses, but it is the duty of the in
dividual to try to the best of his knowledge not to be
negligent about those things which are the cause of
fire.
When the Fire Department advises you that you
have a hazard, that is the time to take care of the
problem not after the fire has started.
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Report Says Alaska
Forest Will Be
Utilized in 10 Years
JUNEAU UP) — A firm of econ
omic consultants has advised the
State of Alaska’s coastal forests
will be fully utilized within the
next ten years, Gov. Egan said
Thursday.
In a report on a study of Alas
ka's timber resources, the Arthur
D. Little Co. said it foresees “only
limited development” of Interior
Alaska forests during the same
period.
However, the report predicted,
“when fully developed, the in
terior forests could support a
larger forest-products industry
than the coastal region.”
The forest report was of a
series of reports dealing with
specific fields of potential econo
mic development within Alaska.
The report foresees new pulp
operations in the Juneau, Wran
gell and Whittier areas and said
existing sawmills should be link
ed more closely with the pulp
industry.
Sawmills costing some $4 mil
lion Could be established in the
Juneau, Sitka and Whittier areas,
the report said.
“Adequate timber of veneer
quality is available to support a
medium-sized plywood plant in
the Juneau or Wrangell area,” the ,
report said.
In the interior, the report fore
sees a sufficient market by 1970
to justify modernization of 10 or
12 existing sawmills to provide
an output of 25-30 million board
feet of lumber a year.
The report also suggested con
struction of a finishing mill at
Fairbanks and a birch sawmill
at Talkeetna. A small veneer
operation in connection with the
Talkeetna sawmill if forest in
ventories show a sufficient birch
supply was also suggested.
“By relaxing the primary man
ufacturing restrictions imposed
by the federal government,” the
report said, “the state would pro
vide opportunity for expansion of
logging operations to supply logs
for export.
Communist China Buys
Over 5 Million Tons oi
Grain on the World Market
WASHINGTON <*> — Com
munist China has purchased 5,
890,000 metric tons of grain on
the world market for 1961 de
livery to ease its food situation.
Informed sources reporting this
said that the Peiping regime has
indicated it will shop for large
quantities of grain also in 1962.
To pay for these purchases it
is selling gold on the London
market.
There is no mass starvation as
yet on the mainland of China,
specialists in the area said, but
the populace is suffering severely
in some provinces because of
what Peiping called natural cala
mities affecting the harvest.
Canada and Australia are Red
China's two chief supplies. The
grain consists mainly of wheat,
but some quantities of flour were
bought in France, and rice in
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The value of the 1961 purchases
is costing about $916 million, or
$340 million including transpor
tation costs.
Gov. Egan Terms Alaska’s Northwest
Coast Needs More “Military Effort”
juiNiiAU w? — uov. wm. r;gan
said Thursday he feels there
should be more of what he term
ed a “military effort” along Alas
ka’s' Northwest Coast, which is
separated by only a thin strip
of water from Soviet Siberia.
Egan, told newsmen at his reg
ular Thursday morning news con
ference:
“There should be constant re
connaissance and surveillance
along the Northwest Coast. There
should be at least one air base.
And there should be manpower
as well as airpower.”
The Governor' indicated that
he believed the military should
be alert for a sneak attack of a
type other than just a ballistic
attack.
“It is too wide open an area,”
Egan said. “We cannot just as
sume what kind of an attack
might be launched against the
United States.”
Egan said he had talked to Lt.
Gen. George W. Mundy, Chief of
all military forces in Alaska, at
Anchorage last week about the
nation’s for north defenses, but
Egan steadfastly refused to dis
close more than just the gist of
Haines and Port Chilkoot
Voters Approve Proposal
On Consolidation
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HAINES UP) — Leo Osterman
was elected Mayor of Haines
Tuesday and John Fox and L. E.
Wlyrick were named to serve
three-year terms on the City
Council.
Marty Tangs was elected to a
two-year term on the Council and
Helen Fenn was named to the
School Board.
Haines voters also approved a
proposal that the city consider
consolidation with neighboring
Port Chilkoot.
PORT CHILKOOT UP) — Phillip
Jones, Mimmi Gregg and Mil
dred Hopper were elected to the
Port Chilkoot Board of Trustees
Tuesday in this community’s mu
nicipal election.
Voters also gave their okay to
a proposal that Port Chikoot con
sider consolidating with nearby
Haines.
ms taiKs witn tMunay.
Egan said he noticed an “in
creased awareness of Northwest
ern Alaska’s exposed position”
among people of the area dur
ing a flying trip to the Northwest
Coast last week.
The Governor said Mundy had
expressed displeasure with the
lack of response to Civil Defense
by people all over the United
States, including Alaska,
“General Mundy said he feels
that with the world situation as
it is, we have to make the people
aware of survival techniques. He
said people apparently are under
the false impression that nothing
can be done.”
Egan said Mundy was starting
an active program of CM1 De
fense for military personnel and
dependents on Alaska bases and
that the instructors who will
head the program will be made
available for CD work off the
bases.
“We are going to cooperate
fully with the military in mat
ters of Civil Defense,” Egan said,
“it is my hope that in the very
near future we will have block
wardens on every block in every
city in Alaska.”
Egan said he was now consider
ing the appointment of a sucessor
to Gordon Severson, State Civil
Defense Chief who has resigned
effective Oct. 15 to return to ac
tive duty with the Army.
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