The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-11-29
NATIVE SERVICE SUBMITS BUDGET
 OF S5,511,000
Alaska Native Service Will Increase Health, Eduld-
 lion Program 1948-49

The Alaska Native Service has requested over five and half mil lion dollars from the Federal Gov ernment to spend on various Alas ka projects in the fiscal year begin ming July l, 1948. This was reveal ed today by Don c. Foster, ANS General Superintendent, who re- turned here Thursday via PAA from Washington, D. C., where he had been conferring with Bureau of the Budget and superior off cials on budget plans and other ANS matters.
 During his Washington visit, Eos ter was called on by Department of the Interior officials to assist in various developments pertaining to the Alaska Indian situation. He was called into conferences regarding the Alaska pulp timber problem, the Rake and Kasaan villages con- tracts with a New York timber con- cern the establishment of reserva- tions to settle aboriginal claims and the sale or lease of the An nette Island airport by the Metla- katla Indians to the Federal Gov ernment.
 Normal Budget
 On the subject of the 1949 ANS Budget, Foster revealed that he had requested the normal amount of S4,0o0,O0O plus supplementary budget of S1,511, ,000 The four mil lion dollar figure, he said, would permit the Native Service to reop- en it's day schools which have been closed this year but only in locali- ties where there are not any Terri torlal schools.
 His normal budget, Foster also stated, will permit filling the pre- sent l5 vacant nursing positions and will provide for an increase in the ANS private disqualification pro- gram which has been discontinued. It will also, he said, increase the number of beds for tuberculosis pa tients by 50 at the Mount Edge cumbe SanatOrium.
 Supplemental Budget
 The supplemental budget of S1,- 5l1 GOO, Foster said, will include the first year portion of a five year AlacEa reha hilitoticp r,roora,,, r,ro posed by Interior Secretary Julius A. Krug It will consist of $720,000 to be spent on the construction of 20 new school buildings Ten of these will be erected where there are now no schools and the other 10 will be built to replace existing buildings.
 Another SAFE, ,O00, said Foster, will be used to construct new tubercu- losis sanatorium at Mount Edge cumbe and S176,000 more will be spent to help support the Seward Sanatorium. The sum of S105,000 has been requested, he said, to full fill the ANS share for various fees and architectural and other plans for a cooperative development at Anchorage where proposed 700 bed hospital may be constructed.
 PHS Hospital
 The Anchorage project, explain ed Foster, will contain 400 beds for use by ANS patients with the other 300 apportioned to various Federal government employees including the Alaska Railroad, Civil Aeron- autics Authority and the US Mari time Commission for use of sailors. He said that the Federal Hospital Board has already approved the ANS part of the hospital but has not yet reached a decision pertain ing to it's use by other government agencies. If the hospital is approv- ed, it has been proposed that the U. s. Public Health Service handle it's operation and supervision with funds being contributed by the var ious governmental agencies involv- ed.
 The supplemental budget request also contains S25,000 as the ANS share in the operation of the Terri torial Health Dept. vessel M. s. Hygiene; $5,000 as its share in the operation of trailer unit and an- Continued on Page Six)