I NEWS LETTER
' By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Secretary to E. L. (B' b) Bartlett, Delegate to Congress from Alaska
and $66,692 for urban roads.
The operation and regulation
functions of the Civil Aeronau
tics Administration comes to an
estimated $17,100,198 out of the
$31,144,608 allocated to the CAA
in the Territory. Also included is
$11,644,410 for air navigation aids
and air traffic control (including
$1,112,500 for rehabilitation of the
Nome Airport).
The $1,350,000 Federal Aid Air
port Program includes airport
work at Hooper Bay,'$187,500; Ki
valina, $60,000; Kobuk, $37,500;
Marshall, $112,500; Noatak, $45,
000; Russian Mission, $75,000;
Teller, $150,000, and Tulaksak,
$75,000.
Defense Department
The Army National Guard pro
gram for Alaska totaling $3,
112,000, among many others for
the whole country, was approved,
but the selection of projects was
left to administrative decision,
since enough funds for all the
projects were not appropriated.
The Alaska projects include ar
mory facilities for Fairbanks, Be
thel, Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, 42
Scout armories, and Nome, plus
non-armory facilities at Anchor
age. The National Guard has re
leased the funds for Nome and
part of the Anchorage non-armory
facilities.
The Congress at Delegate Bart
lett’s request added close to $lVfc
million for river and harbor pro
jects in Alaska, including $46,000
for Nome.
Interior Department
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
total of $8,935,373 includes $4,632,
282 for education, $960,175 for wel
fare, $27,000 for maintenance of
law and order, $151,694 for relo
cation services, $14,000 for forest j
The Mysterious Skin Disease
C .. . erson out of every fifty in the United States is an. with
an incurable disease which makes the skin red, blotchy and scaly.
Called psoriasis, this disease has been known since Biblical times,
but little more is known today of its basic cause than when it was
called “lepra alphos.”
luxe many sum conditions, pso
riasis- is not even mildly conta
gious, and never fatal. Most
psoriasis victims get the disease
between the ages of fifteen and
thirty - five, which means that
they must live with it for from
twenty-five to fifty years. Small
children and older people seldom
get psoriasis.
While the death toll from psor
iasis is negligible, its costs in
human misery and emotional up
set is tremendous. The scaling off
of the skin and the disfiguring
red blotches lead some patients
to shun society.
Psoriasis has inspired many
theories as to cause and many
remedies, both internal and ex
ternal. X-rays, hormones, vita
mins, special diets, extracts of
other body organs and hundreds
of creams, lotions, and greases
have been used in its treatment.
Some have been successful but
only for a time. In many cases of
psoriasis the disease subsides and
flares up again for no apparent
reason.
Recently scientists at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania have
been concentrating their research
on the skin itself, particularly
the scales and underlying
blotches in the skin areas af
fected by psoriasis. Several strik
ing abnormalities have been
found by Dr. Peter Flesch and
his co»workers, and a new reme
dy for psoriasis has emerged
from their work.
The researchers found that an
old drug—known for its wound
healing capabilities but never
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tried against psoriasis — could,
when combined with a special
form of coal tar, help eliminate
the scales of psoriasis and act to
restore the underlying skin to a
more normal condition. The
wound-healing compound, called
allantoin, is formulated with^the
coal tar in a lotion called Al-*
phosyl, which was then tested by
skin specialists on more than one
hundred cases of psoriasis.
The doctors recently reported
that Alphosyl brought relief to
most of these patients,even those
who were resistant to every other
known treatment.
Psoriasis still remains, a medi
cal,, riddle, but the work at Pen
sylvania indicates that its cause
may yet be identified. This should
lead to a really curative drug. In
the meantime, many psoriasis pa
tients who had given up hope
have been given a new chance for
effective treatment.
U. W. Regents Vote
Funds for Arctic Research
SEATTLE, UP) — University of
Washington regents acted Friday
to assure University participation
in important weather-research
projects.
Regents approved two research
contracts totaling more than
$250,000 under which the Univer
sity’s Department of Meteorology
and Climatology will continue and
expand Arctic research now being
conducted for the International
Geophysical Year.
Dr. Phil E. Church, department
head, said one contract for $205,
1700 provides for research at the
present IGY station Alpha on
drifting floe ice in the Arctic
Ocean. The other contract will
support a study on the drift of
sea ice.
and range lands, $30,683 for agri
cultural and industrial assistance,
$20,000 for development of arts
and crafts, $620,000 for repair and
maintenance of buildings, $64,261
for management of Indian trust
property, $103,278 for general ad
ministration and $2,312,000 for
construction and major repairs
and improvements. This last fig
ure for school construction in
cludes $492,000 for Alakanuk,
$228,000 for Napakiak, $5425,000
for Noorvik, and $167,000 for
Unalakleet.
OTHER LAWS ENACTED
Other laws enacted during the
85th Congress of interest to the
whole country including Alaska,
would increase Social Security
payments by seven percent; give
pay raises to federal classified
and postal workers; extend the
special milk program for three
years, and the Hill-Burton hospital
construction program for five
years; make permanent the Small
Business Administrati<?n and to
create a Small Business Invest
ment program to provide long
term equity capital for small busi
nesses; and increase the fishery
loan program authorization from
$10 million to $20 million. In
making permanent the Small
Business loan program, the Con
gress raised the ceiling on loans
from $250,000 to $350,000, and re
duced the interest rate from 6 per
cent to 5V£ per cent.
Banker’s Estate Receives
Half Million Insurance
NEW YORK, Iff) — A Chicago
insurance firm has paid a half
million dollars to the estate of
Harvey Schwamm, New York
banker killed in * an airplane
crash.
The Continental Casualty Co.,
announcing this last Friday, said
the payment was the largest ever
made by a domestic insurance
firm under an individual travel
accident policy.
Schwamm was killed Aug. 15 in
the crash of a Northeast Airlines
plane on Nantucket Island, off
the doast of Massachusetts.
WISHES TO BE SINGLE AGAIN
MEXICO, Mo., Iff) — Henry
Brooks was granted a divorce
from Anna Lee Brooks last Fri
day on the ground of desertion.
Brooks said his wife left him
for another man in 1917.
Soviets Mum On Fate
Of 11 U. S. Airmen
Downed In Armenia
MOSCOW, .UP) — The Soviet
government has denied any know
ledge of what happened to 11
crewmen missing from a U. S.
Air Force plane that crashed in
Soviet Armenia.
A Soviet note made public Sat
urday said a TJ. S. statement that
Russian fighters intercepted the
plane was “provocatory in na
ture.” The Kremlih accused N
Washington of trying to justify
an “intentional violation” of the
Soviet border.
The unartned Cl 30 Hercules
transport plane crashed Sept. 2
after disappearing on a flight, in
side Turkey adjacent to Armenia.
The Soviet government said ear
lier six bodies were found in the
wreckage, but gave no indication
of what happened to the other 11
men aboard.
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i ALASKA APPROPRIATIONS
Appropriations made available
by Congress for operations of fed
eral agencies in Alaska for the fis
cal year starting July 1 of this
year and ending June 30 of next,
totaled $170,456,935, according to
statistics compiled by Delegate
Bartlett.
A third of this total was ear
marked for the Commerce Depart
ment in the amount of $57,350,361,
with $36,095,300 made available
for the Defense Department,
$25,551,359 for the Interior De
‘ partment, $19,495,364 for the Ag
riculture Department, $19,238,102
for the Department of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare, $6,314,719
for Treasury, $4,283,000 for the
Post Office Department, $1,572,
185 for Justice, $476,545 for the
Judiciary, and $40,000 each for
the Small Business Administration
and the Alaska International Rail
and Highway Commission.
Commerce Department
The Bureau of Public Roads
program for the 1959 fiscal year
totals $23,096,353 for Alaska, in
cluding $3,087,822 for forest high
ways and $20,008,531 for the reg
ular apportionment under the
Federal Aid Highway Program ex
tended to Alaska to be used for
primary, secondary and urban
roads, Alaska received a special
apportionment of $6,178,599 to be
used as desired on the three
types of roads with projects to be
under contract by December of
this year. In addition, the Terri
tory was permitted to borrow
$381,824 for matching the special
apportionment to be repaid from
Alaska’s apportionment in 1961
and 1962. The regular $13 million
plus apportionment, is divided into
$7,991,933 for primary roads,
$5,389,478 for secondary roads,
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