The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-08-22
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Back last winter when Alaska S
lawmakers authorized its public
morals committee TO dig UP 5000 to
defray the expenses OF a COMMITTEES
OF the House and Senate TO inspect
the Pioneers Home at Sitka no one
suspected the Nays morals ultim-
ately would be affected. Such is the
reported case. Dope is that the Nav
will take over Goddard Hot Springs,
which had been acquired by the 1888
Legislature for the Territory TO be
operated as part OF the Home, and
will use il as recreation center for
the Navy lads. Meanwhile, the
Board OF Administration which was
a little concerned about finding
$4,000, appropriated by the last
Legislature for an addition TO the
Home at Sitka, is going ahead with
spending the money for the addition,
while Goddard, the sour grape of
the 1899 session, is turning out to
be a nice ripe plum.
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Navy is planning a good many
things in Alaska in connection with
naval defense. Navy officials have
their eyes on Wrangel Institute as
a possible naval base in this vicinity
when defense development reaches
that point. Navy men inspecting pos
sible sites in the Southeast area al
ready have turned in a favorable re-
port that the Institute is a natural
for their needs. You'll see a lot of
things before this defense program is
over.
Your Periscoper recently report
ed the work of the old Alaska Plan
ming Council which went out of
business for lack of appropriation,
would be carried on through an ag-
ency, financed by Federal money,
working through the Governors Of
flee. Seems there was some kind of a
faint to that old Planning Council.
At any rate, we're told faint SO,
that the old ape is not even a
distant, poor relative of the new
planning set up. This is what we are
informed from headquarters:
THE National Resources Plan
ming Board, a regional office of
which was recently established in
juneau, is in no sense a substitute
for OF successor to the Alaska Plan
ming Council. In fact, the matter of
adding Alaska as a new tenth re-
gion was under consideration by the
Board long before the Legislature, by
falling to make an appropriation,
brought the work of the Alaska
Planning Council to an end The
National Resources Planning Board
is a purely Federal agency and is
part of the Executive Office of the
President of the United States. It's
responsibility is to Washington and
the directions to field offices are re-
ceived from Washington. We hope
to be able to work in cooperation
with the Governor and with all other
Federal officials in Alaska. Mr..
James C. Rettie, whom you will re-
member for his earlier work in Al
aska, has been transferred here
from the Portland office to be in
charge. We feel that spreading OF
the impression that this office is a
reincarnation of the Alaska Plan
ming Council would be prejudicial to
our effective operation"
Periscoper stands corrected. We
knew the old Planning Council was
dead but we never suspected it left
such an order. BY way of explain
alton, Mr.. Kettle was in Alaska two
or three years ago for the National
Resources Board and worked in con-
junction with the old Alaska Plan
ming Council In fact, the Resources
Board was instrumental in getting
the old Council functioning and IL
was from it's inspiration that apo
was started in the first place. Kettle
rates among the best in planning
work.
Best war story we've heard re-
Gently: Jack Stinnett, Associated
Press political reporter, met a Jap
anese friend coming out of a bank
in Washington the day before U. s.
froze japanese credits.
WELL" Stinnett, said, 81 guess
you have been cleaning out your &C.