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Vol. 1,Moose Pass, Alaska January 12, 1940.
No. 41
PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL BUDGET ASKS
INCREASES ALASKA APPROPRIATIONS
President Roosevelt's annual budget
message to Congress recommends increases
over last year in Alaska appropriations
for fisheries, game and law enforcement,
relief, maintenance of roads, trails and
bridges.
He asked for $570,000 for mountain
roads, trails, bridges which is $10,000
more than last year; $281,660 for the
fisheries service compared with $268,200
last year; $135,000 for game and. law en
forcement, increased by $5,000; $30,000
for relief, an increase of $10,000.
The 3um of $75,300 is asked for main
tenance of the Alaska reindeer service and
to purchase more reindeer;$75,000 for the
care and management of buildings, cabins
and expenses and maintenance of employees
of the reindeer service.
The budget asks for $40,000 for the in
ternational Pacific salmon fisheries com
mission; $25,003 for the Agriculture Exper
iment station;$23,918 for Agricultural Ex
tension service; $140,000 for star route
mail services.
Other recommendations induced $197,992
for Signal Corps maintenance, Alaska Com- :
munications system, compared with $200,00Cj
last year.
The message asked for $2,775,000 from
The Alaska Railroad special fund, compared
with $2,625,000 and $11,900 from income
taxes paid by the railroads on business in
the Territory to provide one percent pay
ment to the Treasurer of the Territory.
(Ed. note: Will somebody please explai
the above paragraph to us?)
No provision was made for continuing
the Alaska International Highway commis
sion which received $62,000 as its last
appropriation; the commission virtually
completed its job during the current year.
LO: THE POOR INDIAN 1
The Bureau of Indian Affairs budget
carries $912,250 for educational work
among Alaska natives and $494,950 for
their medical relief.
The fourth annual Fur Rendezvous will
be held at Anchorage from February 17 to
21. These sales were started in 1937 and
the total of sales amounted to less than
$200. Last year furs were taken or sent
to the Rendezvous from all sections of
Alaska - the Arctic coast, far out on the
Alaska peninsula, the Yukon and a large
shipment from the Alaska Game Commission,
totaling $38,000 in value. A queen will
be crowned end the five-day program will
include a fur style show, trappers' ball,
contests, dog races and. ski jumping by the
best jumpers in Alaska.
CHRISTMAS AT HOPE
The snowstorm on Christmas Eve complete
ly isolated the settlement of Hope,Alaska.
Hope, washed by the Japan current, enjoyed
mild temperature but the six snowslides
onto the highway between Moose Pass and
Hope, absolutely separated Hope from the
world.
But before the storm got in its nefar
ious work, Mr. and Mrs. George Roll im
ported five huge turkeys and gave them to
Hope for a community Christmas dinner, Mrs,
Roll being busy at the store, five Hope
housewives roasted the turkeys, made dres
sing and gravy and the inspiring result
was a Christmas dinner at the town hall
participated in by every resident of Hope.
The bachelors of the settlement erected
the tables and benches for the feast and
decorated the hall with hemlock boughs,
evergreen, Christmas bells and crepe paper
streamers in Christmas colors.
The housewives who didn't roast turkeys
■made potato salad, macaroni salad, fruit
salads, rolls, pies, cakes and brought
jellies, preserves and pickles from their
winter stores. From somewhere, Mr, Roll
produced fresh asparagus. Mashed potatoes
other vegetables, the asparagus and coffee
were prepared at the hall. Everyone
brought his or her own table service,More
than 70 men, women anc children shared the
bountiful dinner.
After dinner, Mrs. Walter Bixler played
piano accordion numbers, Bob La France,
guitar} Kent King harmonica} Denny McCart,
violin. Then they all played for the
dancers.
In the dark dawn of Christmas morning,
a band of Hope girls rolled out of their
warm beds and sang Christmas carols before
every home at Hope.
A new Alaska mimeographed publication
is The Alaskan, published from Juneau by a
CCC unit. However The Alaskan is not to
be its permanent name as they are running
a voting contest on suggested names to be
decided January 31. The opening editor
ial announces " . .to paraphrase an old
saying, this is a publication 'of the CCC,
for the CCC, and by the CCC.' "
The stencil and mimeograph work is beau
tifully done and the paper is illustrated
with real art work and cartoons,
Fsychiatrists are clever. They have
discovered that when a fellow does some
thing wrong there is something wrong with
him. - - - Alaska Miner
You'll have a big time if you attend
the dance next Saturday night at Hielo's.