The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-07-14

IeTumeut guarantee Aoau up Nu fs2. 900 for either buying or building Ia home, providing that is 50 per Ieent of the total loan, and that the lending agency lbank, mortgage Ieompany. or even personal lender) lis satisfied with the 50 per cent collateral
 This means that a veteran can borrow up to S4,OO0 with a gov-I ernment guarantee for $2,000 of it, land no interest for the first year, provided he can convince any lend-I ing agency that his security credit Tor general experience is good forI at least half that amount.
 This augurs a lot of building and lrepairing, and has given the build ing industry and trades reason for much ofs their optimism about post war prospects.
 Virtaully the same limits apply toI veterans who will want to start their own businesses. The key will be whether they can convince lend ing agencies or personal creditors and the government that they haveI fair chance of succeeding.
 What few polls have been taken of men in the service about their post war plans indicate that priv ate enterprise and small businesses are in for big upswing. The boys have had enough of being bossed and want to go on their own asi soon as they get back into multi.
 Second, most important to theI youngsters back from the wars is the assurance that they will be giY- en every opportunity and financial aid to equip themselves for the battle of economic survival.
 The provisions for education and vocational training should make it l possible for any earnest young man either to pick up where he left off or launch into new fields. In many instances these fields will be those to which his military training has introduced him.
 For those qualified the govern ment will pay up to $500 year tuition, fees and books; $50 month additional for living ex- penses and $25 more if he has wife or dependents.
 Veterans under 25 when they en- tered the service may return to school even though their education was not interrupted by entering the service. Those over 25 must show their education was interrupted by entering the service. However, re- fresher courses for a year may be had by veterans of any age.
 POst-War Aviation
 The Civil Aeronautics Board has made two announcements recently the results of which may sooner than anticipated determine the pat tern for our participation in post war world aviation.
 The first was an outline, subject ito revision, of course, of what the international air routes of tomorrow will be. The second was the an- that in July, CAB will start hearings on the more than 100 for international air routes now on file.
 In outlining the world plan CAB told of the nations interest in in- ternational airlanes and landing fields.
 The proposed routes cover 14O,- 900 airline miles, touching more than 50 countries. Of these, 60,009 miles are over new routes. It would be impossible to describe these world airlanes here. but certain points are significant. If CABS routes are followed, the jumping off cities for world travel will be New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Miami, New Orleans, Brownsville, Charleston. Chicago and the Twin Cities, with one other point in the southeastern United States.
 Alaska to be CrOssroad
 Alaska would become a great crossroads between Chicago and Seattle here, and Tokyo, Vladivos- tok, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Out of New York, Newfoundland would be the point of departure for Lon don, Berlin, Rome and Cairo; as well as for Stockholm, Leningrad, Moscow and Teheran. The southern cities would be the feeders for Mex ico and South America, as we'll as for the southern route to the Medl- 1 terranean.
 State department officials say | clearing the routes will entail an enormous amount of work, but by | no means is it an insurmountable | task. Many of the lanes cross coun- tries where we already have agree ments. Since our policy is to estab-