The Nome nugget., 1933-05-13
THE - s=ssz--5zzzss.-l MUKIlK TRAIL
Washington. April. 2.

-s -esA < wire from the Fairbanks ICisy Council requested Delegate Dimond to appeal to. the Recon struction Finance Corporation in Ethe hope that ,the corporation would purchase $50,OO0 worth of the $98, GOO bond issue which Farba mks proposes to use to build school to replace the one des aoyed by fire early in the
 morning of December 4. The matter was immediately taken up with R. F. c. officials, but is was learned that the terms of the R.. F. c. act prohibit projects where the money to pay for them comes from taxation.
 However, Senator Wagner of New York has introduced a new bill, which is now in committee, providing that municipal projects lshall not have to be self-liquid- ating in order to obtain R. F. c. project might properly come with were of the opinion that if this legislation passes the Fairbanks Alaska in 1887 as a member of in it's scope. This will probably not be of much assistance where the need is for early start of con- struction.
 Employees of the Alaska Road Commission who were improper ly placed on the civil service reg ister and who have encountered delays in securing funds of the amounts they had paid in toward pensions, are now receiving their checks Several lett ters-were- writ ten to the Delegate urging him to expedite the matter. The facts were placed before the Civil Ser vice Commission and the Interior Department, with the result that it was promised the checks would be sent out in time to connect with the April 29 steamship. A caller at the Delegates of flee during the past week was Colonel W.L. Stevenson, who is thoroughly untitled to call him Iself a sourdough. Col. Stevenson, now managing director of the Canadian Exploration Syndicate, 8 lbig mining concern, was first in bill, eexempting certain specific in the Photographic and Geodetic Survey on the old survey ship. McArthur. Later, in the days of the gold rush, he returned north and was in the, Porcupine River country, the Iditarod, Portage Bay and many other sections. He resided for some time at Skagway.
 Col Stevenson left Alaska in 1916. He and his wife were in Washington briefly en route to England, to which country he makes several trips year.
 z James H. Fehse, assistant chief clerk of the railway mail service at Seattle, and George Marchand, chief of the service for southwest fern and Interior Alaska, have been in the city comforting with Ipost office department officials re- 
 lative to Alaska mail contracts. A number of star route contracts will expire before long and new bids will be called for.
 KFQD, Anchorage radio broad cast station, has filed an applic- ation with the Federal Radio Commission for permisaon td change frequency from 1230 to $50 kilocycles.
 Public hearings on the fiye-day six-hour day bill were scheduled to open this week and it is the intention of Delegate Dimond to appear before the House Labor committee to urge that the bill be amended so as to exclude Ala ska from it's terms. If that is not possible he will endeavor to obtain an amendment similar to lthe one contained in the Senate funds. Officials of the R. F. c. dustries and making 1t possible for