The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-06-29
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Forarunner to assistance develop ment of the Territory may receive from the Smaller War Plants cor noration will be the visit next week to Alaska of a group of SWPC ol- fieiaIs headed by Howard NC Gowan. regional director for lhe Pacific coast and Alaska area There was a possibility that MauIS Maverick former Congressman iron rom raxas now head man of SWfO' might make the trip, but as lh's ,gas written there was no eonilrnla- tion of the report. The Smaller War plants officials will arrive in Ne1en- , iban on Monday, the Second WHeI ebav will be met by Gov. Ethe9' cr,aning who is there at the Weeh .na for a meeting of the F1sherle9 I,,.na,imeptal Commission. ar y | Tnasdav morning the party will ar |, rive in Wrangell by plane piannlns | to snend the entire day Tn lhl7 ao,on9nnitv SWPC visit is no Jun l,st The officials are trying 10 I' In" ont what makes Alaska tick. Olll- mate nlan is to establish a feglohal afs;co in the Territory if conditions ,,,arrant Chairman Maverick, who bas narsonally visited the Territory bofore is a strong Alaska support ar LTe wants his SWPC to give | hand How much of hand pfopaD lv will be determined by the Flsi' of the partv arriving here on tues dov Wrangeu. as well as other towns in the Territory where the marty will call, should be prepateu to lay its business cards on the ,ahle. give SWPC a factual picture of it's current situation and poten- rial plans. While now primarily concerned with war connected lh- dnstries sWPC, according to re- no,a may broaden it's scope after final victory: become concerned with all industry.
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 Mrs. Alaska Linck, comedy gal from Fairbanks, who, among others [ represented the Fourth Division Ill E tbe last two legislatures. has brok- en into print no end, in lessen Weekly. Perhaps giving helping hand to First Division's Doc Walk CT anti-Gruening hatchet man. Al aska in a communication to Jes- sen's editor, attempts to put couple of crutches under PresldehI Ed Coffey's unadjourned Senate or tha last session. but, unfOrtunateiy' f forgot to get her facts straight or'I as the boys and girls around the | legislature say, look up the re- cord" Beating the typewriter with gusto. and obviously without couple of books at hand, Alaska de- clares as follows.
 After the smoke of battle clear ed the final road fund was found to be $575,OOO for the biennium lg45-1947. This was $175,OO0 over the original request, and $325,OOO mora than that allowed the two previous years of 1943-1945. There ! has never been a larger road fund in the history of the Territory and' together with Federal grants and appropriations, should. be ample for our needs"
 True, it was before her time in the legislature, but before going off the deep end to tell her con stituents in the Fourth that the 1945 legislature passed the largest road appropriation in the history of the Territory, Alaska would have saved a little face by looking up Hhe 1889 session laws. In that Vol1 ume. on page 89, will be found the fact that the 1889 legislature ap- propriated the sum of SSOO,OOO TOT roads. a little item of $225,OOO more than was appropriated in Al aska's 1945 largest road fund in history" session. And in l94l, II one is to believe the printed session laws of that year, (page 175, Alas ka,) it will be found that the leg islature appropriated $60O,0O0 for roads. In her little essay, Alaska appeals to what she terms the "un- informed person." Could be she was writing a little note to herself. (After all, Alaska, is it quite fair to misinform those good people in the Fourth Division? We won { dwell on some of the other inaccur- acies, but don't you think we should keep the record straight?)
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