Alaska And The Nation
By Delegate Dimond
Budget
In considering the Interior
Department Appropriation Bill,
the Senate restored substantial
ly all Budget estimates for items
concerning Alaska, including
$10,000 for relief of destitution
among the natives of Alaska,
$1200 for communications ser
vice, $9320 for Indian medical
service, $1000 for prevention
and suppression of fires on the
public domain, $10,000 for rein
deer service, $124,365 for min
eral resources in Alaska, $11,000
for protection of seal, sea otter,
and other fisheries of Alaska,
$22,0C*Q for the enforcement of
the Alaska game law, and $100,
000 for the investigation of wild
life resources of the Territory.
Residents
On June 16, I introduced in
the House the bill, H. R 2977,
"To forbid the appointment of
any person but a resident of the i
Territory of Alaska to the office
of judge of the District Court of
Alaska, to the office of United
States marshal for Alaska”. This
measure is in harmony with the
bill requiring three years prior
residence for Governors of
Alaska. The Hawaiian Organic
Act itself contains a provision
that no one may be appointed
Governor who has not resided
for three year in that Territory.
The Juneau Bar Association re
cently adopted a resolution re
questing such legislation with
respect to judges, district attor.
neys and marshals.
Highway
In the hearings on the bill re
cently passed by the House ap-1
proximately appropriating 872,-:
000,000.000 for the War Depart- j
ment activities for the fiscal
year cnmmancing July 1, 1943
Lt Gen B elson Somervell,
Commanding General. Aimyj
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Service Forces, made on extend
ed statement about the various
activities of the Department in
cluding the Alaska Highway.
This is what General Somervell
said about the Highway:
“During the past winter, traf
fic has traveled this road, car
rying supplies to Alaska over
the frozen ground and tem
porary bridges. Since the
spring thaws, it is temporarily
out of use until October or
November when traffic will be
resumed Construction is pro
gressing on schedule, and the
road should b« completed dur
ing the fiscal year 1944. For
this purpose, $10,500,000 is
carried in the estimates.”
It is simply astounding to
anyone familiar with Alaska to
be informed that the highway
will not be available for use un
til October or November. What
is to be done in the meantime is
I completely a mystery so for as
I the hearings show This state
ment, if correct, is further proof
of the tragic mistake that was
made in selecting the route of
the highway between Dawson
Creek and Whitehorse instead
of the route from Prince George
to Whitehorse which was un
animously recommended by the
Alaska International Highway
Commission, and, in fact, by
practically all Alaskans. The
cost of the highway has never
been revealed. Probably General
Somervell or some other Army
officer has presented the facts to
the House and Senate Appropri
ations committees but if so no
statement has been made of the
testimony. The only information
we have is that, according to
General Somervell iiOtMl),
000 for the road is carried in the
Appropriation Bill just passed
by the House, but how much
was appropriated before is still
secret Unofficial estimates have
been made, the most c -inmon of
which is 8100,000,000. Before
the war it seemed certain that
the job could be done for not
more than 825,000,000 which
shows the advantage of under
taking construction in peace- (
time rather than under war]
conditions.
Statehood
Id considering the question of
statehood for Alaska, it is wor
thy of comment that several
states were admitted to the
Union having at the time of ad
mission (ewer inhabitants than
now permanently reside in the
Territory of Alaska. Below is
given a list of several states
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showing the date of admission of
each to the Union and the total
population at time of admission:
Illinois 1818 55,211
Missouri 1821 66,586
Oregon 1859 52,288
Nevada 1864 6,857
Wyoming 1890 62,249
When we consider that at the
time of admission Nevada had a
total population of 6,857
—though probably Indians
were not counted since they
were then not citizens—the pop
ulation of Alaska at the present
time seems almost stupendous.
To Mail
City Tax Bills
Tax due notices for the cur
rent year will be mailed Tues-'
day, City Clerk C Blankenburgj
announced this week, and are to
be paid to City Treasurer Oscar
Torgerson at the Bank of
Kodiak.
If paid in full on or before
Friday, August 13, there is a 2
per cent discount.
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DANCING EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT
Returns After Trip
Mrs. Pat Helsel, of the Helsel
Photo company, arrived here
Wednesday after an extended
vis t in San Francisco. She stop
ped over in Homer on the way,
where the Helsel’s have a home
stead.
Beautician Arrives
Gradelle Leigh, of Denver,
arrived this week and will be
employed at Dellas Beauty
Cabin as soon as equipment
arrives necessary to opening the
shop. For the present she will i
do finger waves, shampoos and
some Cold Wave permanents at
No 10 Taylor apariments.
The new beauty shop will be
the first in Alaska to feature ihe
new Cold Wave method perma
neats, Della Kinports, owner,
announced.
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