The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 17, 1945, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT E;élophenl BoardLevels Lobby Program at Lengthy Roster of Vital Objectives (Continued from Page One) nstructed the fes those ac- war-built may be ¢ on price par purchas sels same corded bottoms. The Development Board agreed that should operators forced to build new vessels for the Alaskan trade during the current period of continued high construc- tion costs, the ultimate result will be still higher freight en- ger tariffs, as of has be and pa Park Action Action was called for in the de- velopment Alaska's National Parks, with the board urging Con- gressional approval of plans to con- struct new and additional tourist facilities in Glacier Bay and at Mt McKinley. Pointing out that great areas of withheld land in the three Alaskan National Parks or Monuments, McKinley, Glacier Bay and Katmai, are unavailable to development, settlement or hunting and trapping, the board urged “prompt” action. Text of the letter to Congress- men and federal officials is as follows: “The Alaska Development Board, at its second annual session, de- voting - itself to the problems of post-war development of Alaska, desires to record its view and re- spectfully urges that the develop- ment of national parks and monu- ments in Alaska by the Federal Government is an indispensable step in the development of the tourist business, which the board feels offers the one best, immediate, and important prospect of improv- ing Alaska's economy. “The board desires, respectfully, to call to the attention of the members of Congress that the Fed- eral Government has set aside three large areas as national parks and monuments, namely: Mt. McKinley National Park, 1,939,200 acres, in 1917; Katmai National Monument, 2,697,500 acres, in 1918; and Glacier Bay National Monument, 2,297,456 acres, in 1926. | These areas, rich in wildlife and natural beauty, because of their being national parks and monu- ments, are taken out of use for private development, for settlement or .for hunting and trapping. It is therefore, respectfully urged that the development of at least two of these areas, Mt. McKinley National Park and Glacier Bay Monument, | be undertaken promptly and that Congress approve the appropria-. tion of the funds necessary for that purpose along the lines pro- posed by the National Park Service.| “The Alaska Development Board feels that this investment by the Federal Government will serve as| a great stimulus to private enter- prise to develop private lodges,| hotels, camps and cabins for the) accommodation of tourists if the National of YES ====a We Have and a Lot of Other Inferesting Items Comeina Flooly wreely Two Deliveries Good beer The golden grain and the sweet-scented hops brewed to perfection in OLYMPIA make good food taste better. OLYMPIA BREWING COMPANY, OLYMPIA, WASH. | | Federal Government thus leads the|of the fact that the war is over. k “ It seems probable that this may “The Alaska Development Board{represent an effort to substitute desires to point out that only in|[mineral leasing provisions for the Alaska have these national parks|private tenure of mineral lands, and monuments been allowed to re- | which is now provided by existing main so long without any action|law, a policy which is openly advo- looking toward development by the[cated by the Commissioner of the Fede Government. The National | General Land Office.” Park Service has long been eager| Further, the board declared, “un- to undertake such development, but|less it can be demonstrated that funds for this purpose have hither-|the War Department still desires to been denied for military purposes the use of the “In view of the great post-war|lands withdrawn, it would appear needs in Alaska and the necessity|that this order is being continued of taking care of thousands of re-[in effect by the General Land Of- turning servicemen, it earnestly|fice for some purpose other than hopes that the Board of Budget|that for which the order was origi- and Congress will now approve the|nally promulgated. If this is the carefully prepared plans for the|case it would seem a definite and development of at least two of|vigorous protest from the Alaska these parks: namely Mt. McKinley | Development Board is quite in Nationa) Park and Glacier Bay Na-|order. Such procedure definitely ob- tional Monument.” structs development of the re- sources of the Territory.” The Public Land Order in ques- tion embraces 48,800,000 acres of land in Northern Alaska approxi- mately 18,600,000 acres in the Al- aska Peninsula, and approximately 3,040,000 acres in the Yakataga area. Steps were also taken by the Development Board to secure the immediate removal of restrictions on maps and mining information. Reports of mineralized regions of Alaska and maps, such as prepared by the United States Geological Survey, still fall into the category of “military information,” the De- velopment Board has found. Old Wolf Plaint Alaska’s old complaint against the National Park Service policy of permitting national parks to become breeding grounds for wolves was cause for another Alaska Develop- ment Board broadside Laying their complaint at the door of the Secretary of the Interior, Harold L. Ickes, under whose Department of Interior wing ! the National Park Service i shel-| tered, the board declared: “It is the conviction of the Al- aska Development Board that it] will be impossible to preserve other | and more valuable forms of wild- life if the wolf menace is not checked.” The board went on to assert that! because of the depredations of wolves, “some scant 30,000 reindeer | remain on the mainland of Al-| aska, where herds were once esti-| mated as numbering a million or| more animals.” | Scrutinize Land Withdrawals eneral Land Office land with- drawals in Alaska, made “in con-| nection with the prosecution of the | war” under Public Land Order No.| 82, withdrawing vast areas of Al-} aska from mining or other de-| velopment, were given board| scrutiny. directly Housing Needs Desperate The Development Board session called to.the attention of Congress Alaska’s desperate need for housing and urged the inclusion of Alaska to the fullest extent possible in post-war housing legislation. Board members said: “With thousands of service men returning to civilian life, it is a tragic fact that there is little or no place for these men to live. The present situation is that any post-war de- velopment, much of which is prom- ising and of immediate prospect, is strangled by the inability of men and women to find even the most inadequate quarters in which to o Tlivet In conterring with Territorial Commissioner of Mines, B. D.| Stewart, the board learned that the | withdrawal order has embraced | one-sixth of the entire Territory, and, according to Fred W. John- son, Commissioner of the General; Land Office, “it is not anticipated that the order will be modified to| permit mining locations under the United States Mining Laws, or that the order will be vacated in its entirety in the near future.” Johnson's letter was dated Aug. 28, 1945, and was addressed to Alaska Delegate E. L. Bartlett. | Sucker raradise A Better Business Bureau for Alaska was recommended to the| Territorial Chamber of Commerce | by the board. Several complaints had been reg- istered with the board from Alaskan newspaper publishers and business imen that “fly-by-nighters” in the solicitation of advertising and busi- ness investment are taking an in- creasing amount of money out of the Territory. “A certain type of promoter has| Pchiarditia VIR C\tias atin sy GLBTR CanBCRIS Blakn, o BHGRED salesman’s paradise’,” board mem- stated policy of the General Land bars declared, adal ai Office, the Alaska Development Por> (€O Hed: SCINE sty Al Board went on record with the fol- e 8.ype .0 ¢ REQEIORE 8 4 4 working Alaska to a greater degree, lowing statement: “A very disturbing feature of the '02% than cver e e Commissioner’s tesponse to Mr. CUeSTE AT 1‘25"’“5 o Bartlett is the evident intent of Lo.opment in the Berrory tncer-) lines the necessity for Alaskan the General Land Office to con- .o } Sk o Hiel b Ghis oilir 1 offeat i it usiness mf;n organizing to protect themselves. Katalla- i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA parently just started.” It is expected that Gasser will be in the national capital for a least a month. * While in Juneau, Gasser con- ferred with officials of the Alaska| Development Board on plans to issue soon a new pamphlet of in- formation on Alaskan agriculture. | Fisheries Seat Asked 1 Alaskan representation on the International Fisheries Commission, | charged with administration of the| North Pacific Halibut Treaty, is re- quested by the board. “Almost all of the halibut taken by the fleets of the Pacific North- | west, British Columbia and Alaska are taken in Alaskan waters or on| grounds immediately adjacent,” the | board declared. “It would seem| only fair that Alaska have a fuller| share in the control of what is essentially an Alaskan industry.” | At present, the International Fisheries Commission is composed of two Americans, resident in the | United States, and two residents of the Dominion of Canada. Level At POW Labor Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- son got in the line of fire when Development Board members heard from War Manpower Commission| Alaska Area Director A. A. Hedges that Under-Secretary of War Pat- | terson was recently quoted as de- claring that any American citizen laborer could have any prisoner of war's job for the asking. The board wired Stimson: *. fifty workmen in Juneau alone currently seeking employment while 800 prisoners of war do dismantling work at abandoned base Excursion Inlet. The Alaska Development Board urgently requests that un- employed American citizens be given this employment and the prisoners of war be withdrawn.” D WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o’Clock This Mornlag e o o In Juneau—Maximum, 56; minimum, 37. At Airport—Maximum, 54; minimum, 39. e o 0 0 00 0 0 0 WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) e o o Partly cloudy and cool to- night. Sunny ‘and warm on Tuesday. 7 @0 0e0e0000000ss0000s 0 e e o0 0000 00 — .- TODD MEN IN TOWN ‘ M. F. Stockwell and Albert: An- | derson, of Todd, have arrived in town and are guests at the Baranof Hotel. - Empire Want-ads bring results! Alaskan business will be thor- oughly catalogued for the first time through a cooperative plan worked out between the Alaska Develop- ment Board and the War Man- power Commission. The survey will list every Al- askan business, from the self- employed individual to the largest industry, and will provide a clearer picture of investment and employ- ment opportunities. It is planned that the listing will be regularly brought up to date and will culminate in a business index publication to be issued at regular intervals by the offices of the Alaska Development Board. University Survey Immediate initiation of the survey for a branch of the University of Alaska in Southeast Alaska was requested of President Charles Bunnell of the Uniyersity of Alaska, and the Board of Regents. The sum of $2,500,000 was ap- propriated by the last legislature for such survey. nd See at Loan To Health Dept. Recognizing the pressing need for a survey of Alaska’s hospital fa- cilities while much military hospital equipment remains in the Terri- tory as an invitation to economic- ally initiate a program of attack on the growing health problem, the Alaska Development Board granted a loan of $3,000 to the Territorial | Department - of Health. The loan will be used to gain participating funds available | through the United States Public Health Service for such surveys. Phone 16 or 24 Tl Gasser Goes To Washington In the light of problems arising| out of a steadily increasing influx {of farmer - settlers in Alaska, the, | Development Board authorized the sending of Alaska’s Territorial Com- | missioner of Agriculture, G. W. Gasser, to Washington, D. C. Gasser, whose Alaskan farming record dates back to 1907, will seek federal cooperation in developing | a concrete plan for the agricultural | developmenit of the Territory. | “We don’t have enough money in the Territorial Department of Agriculture to begin to cope with the problem,” Gasser declared. “We need a real program of land classi- | fication, and we need an active soil testing service. We must have more technical assistance and more laboratory facilities. A great many farmers have come to Alaska in recent months and the rush i8 ap-; OO RO PHONE 704 2 P. M. Douglas Delivery—10 A. SN ing concerning the gifts of the mem- bers of the Filipino Club. Always to ibe counted upon to support a worthy {dcne itself this time, with no less et Get Your Fali Fertilizer 3-10-20 Morecrop Amoninum Phosphate Trebble Super Phosphate Muriate of Potash Juneau Deliveries—10 A. M. and Roat Orders Delivered Anytime! MORE PROGRESS FOR WAR FUND Maybe it was the weaiher—maybe it was just the natural momentum that was built up during the first week of the campaign. But, what- ever the cause, the fact is that con- tributions over the weekend to the National War Fund took a big spurt. By the middle of this afternoon the total for Juneau and Doug stood just short of the half- mark. By tonight it will be well over that figure. Reports from two divisions in par- ticular were nateworthy in toda figures. On Saturday it was pre- dicted that Douglas would surely reach its quota. But not even the most optimistic prophet would have Sy 8 anticipated that this goal would be - - exceeded by some 30-odd per cent. ENDING VISIT | Yet that is exactly what happened. g A | No less inspiring was the report| Mrs Blanche Lewis, of Fair-| i L v on visiting here | made at today’s Lions Club meet- banks. who has been visl i y with her daughter, Mrs. Tke Taylor, | to leave aboard the steamer ) Sea to visit another daugh- Mrs. Charles Lewis, at Stock- Calif. making War Fund contributions and its total reaching the splendid figure of $336.75. The Lions Clu »; undertaking thei primary responsibility for the solici- tation of campaign funds this year. The enthusiasm of the organization for its assignment must be far-| reaching, indeed. At least as fflr<‘ reaching as Washington, D. C. be-; cause a contribution has just been' received from Walt Woodall, form- er Lions Club member now residing in that city. ———————— JOYCE HOPE HERE Joyce Hope has arrived in Ju-| neau and will reside with her father, J. Raymond Hope, in the, Hope Apartments. 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