The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-05-25
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE

4
 thusiasm for roads. wound up by adoptfng memorials for road eXpea- ditures totaling nearly million dollars - S99S,500 To be exact Then after its million dollar prayer to the road board il proceeded loI appropriate the total sum of a5f9.- 900 for roads. or approximately hall of what it prayed for in road con struction. Divided up the customary 1 way by Division this would alol l 10 each Division s71.675 year i hardly enough to cover s99e,7oo | in road requests Even had the House figure of SsoO,00 for foaas which passed that body been ap- proved by the Senate it would hard lv be enough for the special fe- quests. let alone maintenance ana other contingencies. Fact Is the Senate Finance committee tried to cut the road appropriation to 94O0,- poo but the Senate as whole hung for S5oO.o00. Then, when the concentrations bill went 10 confer ence the House committee oI Re l nresentatives Huntly. Hantord and | McCutcheon succeeded in getuns 1 if up to the final figure of Sol9,- 0OO
 For example. Senators Ed Cof- fey and Gren Collins of the Third Division fathered Senate Joint Memorial No. 2 which prayed to the Highway Engineer and the road board that road be built from Naknek to Hot Creek where the afrfield for that community is To- cated. A laudable project, it was estimated in the memorial to cost r al least S10o. .o00, and it provided elso that the community would put m S25.0O0 Of the cost. The com munfty consists largely of the Red Salmon Canning of San Francisco and the Columbia River Packing Company.
 Now Ed and Gren want their road built. The road board has the maximum of s7LS75 a year or S143,75O for the biennium to spend in the Third Division andthey have the Edlund extension of the Palmer road. the Anchorage loop and branches. the Seuard Road, Dilling- ham-Wood river, Bull river road, ] Homer road Mccarthy road and several others not including air fields in the Third to think about on S143,750 for the biennium. An interesting sideIight is that both Coffey and Collins voted to cut the road appropriation to S4OO,OOO, af- their memorial asking for S1OO,0O0 road expenditure for Naknek had passed both houses. Just what the use for money nobody seems to use rio money nobody seems to know; or perhaps they wanted 1t paved with good intentions.
 twraeh cent W Geor naN nidES
 ####N
 Vigorous fight is continuing to stop any further waiver of the Jones law which prohibits Alaska interport travel on Canadian boats. American lines have made strong appeals to the War Shipping Ad- ministration and Maritime Commits sion, contending some of their ships are going south without full car goes. Southeast Alaska towns on the other hand, are protesting that there is not adequate service by American boats and if the Jones law is made effective again at this time it will seriously cripple the fishing industry in this area. They maintain that their storage taclll- !. ties are not of sufficient size to handle the peak loads of fish with out moving the product rapidly. Petersburg, for example, has been calling in Canadian tenders during their heavy halibut deliveries to keep facilities cleared. If the Jones law is clamped on again this serv- ice is eliminated. Alaska Trans portation Company, Alaska Steam ship Company and the Northland Transportation Company are hold ing that they are able to handle all the Alaska commercial trade and are planning to enlarge their serY- ices but won't be able to do so un- less they get all the business Therefore, they are pounding the tom-tom to eliminate the Canadian competition.
 Unfortunate fact is that the war is still on in the Pacific and the American lines cant do much about improving their service unless War Shipping Administration says so, and their boats will continue to go where VISA directs, probably until Japan is licked. Nevertheless, they have the inside track, being Ameri- can lines. and at the present time it looks like there won't be any further waiver of the Jones law after July 31 Original order for shut down on Canadian service was