Seward daily gateway., 1933-08-01
CAPITAL INTERESTS
(By Bob Bartlett)

| Just before this news letter was sent to press" announcement was made of initial allotments under the public works act. A substantial sum was allotted to Alaska out ot the first allocation of $l15,5l3,6lo. One million dollars is to be ad- vanced to the Alaska Road Com mission for construction of roads and S96,O0O for construction and improvement of air fields. In addition S210,00 is allotted for reconditioning of the Alaska Rall- road. It is expected the money Will be made available immediately and the nature of the work to be un- dertaken by the Alaska Road Com mission and by the railroad means that the greater part of every dol lar will go to labor.
 ' Delegate Dimond is sensible of the fact that all sections of the Territory will not be benefited by allOtmentS for the Road COmmlS- sion and the Railroad. His force full pleas for early money grants
 have embraced the entire range of public works in Alaska and now that funds have started to flow out of the National Treasury it is lhOped that further allOcatiOnS will , soon be made.
 , Horace M. Albright, retiring dir l ector of the National Park Ser
 vice. informed the Delegate that } there is no doubt but that $780,
 900 will soon be made available for
 extension of the M Ou n t Mckinley
 Park Road to Wonder Lake.
 Further good news came when
 Dr. w. Carson Ryan, director of !, education for the Office of In dian Affairs, announced that S115,-
 900 is included in the public works
 Sl : tiOn projects in Alaska. Fifty thou } sand dollars of that amount will be ; made immediately available. It is l. likely that the building of the : Douglas school will start at an y early date Other Indian schools
 are also to be erected.
 
 l On recommendation of Delegate l A. J. Dimond, the Post Office De- partment has appointed Guy Turn 9 bow postmaster of the fourth class l office at Richardson. in the vicin- : ity of Birch Lake, on the Richard y son Highway. The Delegate has al- { so recommended that the office be : moved for the present to the Fox F rm, owned by Mr. and Mrs
 Turnbow.
 : The Nakat Packing Corporation ] at Nakeen, Alaska, has been grant l ed by the Federal Radio Commis- l sion, a public coastal-coastal tele ?. graph license A fixed point-to- point license was granted in addi- = tion.
 f Station KGBU at Ketchikan, own ) ed by the Alaska Radio and Ser
 vice Co.,, Inc, has filed for renewal
 of license.
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 l The Anchorage Radio Club, Inc : operating KFQD, at Anchorage has applied for modification of li- cense to change frequency from 5 1230 kilocycles to 600 kilocycles. 9 < !: ;:
 ,, The night nurse in the Alaska ] Railroad hospital at Anchorage is
 one of the few employees of Uncle
 Sam who gets restoration of sal |. Iary this year, even though it is . mainly theoretical She was form ) erly paid $16O a month, $1O more : than the scale for day nurses, but t under the first economy act this . was cut to $155. The Alaska Rail f road wanted to put her salary back : to $160 and Comptroller General
 McCarl has ruled that may
 be done, because the reduction was effected by an economy measure 3 that has been repealed She must ] however, take a IS per cent cut l from her basic pay of $16O a }, month, which brings her actual } pay down to $136.