The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-05-02
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As Mrs. Margaret Harrais, one or the No 1 ciuztns oI aIuez and us oue-wonan onamUer or Jo n- merce, so neaJly pnraseu IL - you cant s,reten Iour-Ioot DIanEet 10 cover siA-loot man, Boara ,I t.ubnc Wel1are meeting in Juneau Past week found tnat after consI l. eraDle pulIng ana uuggIng Is couId not be done eIlner. WIJh one eye on Oscar UIson's slightly bent Ter ritorial treasury. a pat on the pack to Tax Collector MaUr MuIlaney O go out and collect what there 4s. and just a dirty look TOT the 4e ceased 10th LtglsIatpre, the Boa dI ordered sharp curqaIIment ill &eg-I rare activities rlgnt down the nue. It had found that dollar today buys only about hait us much sery-I lee as it did a couple Of years ago ana acted accordingly. Relrencn- ment was Sne Crder Tor Old Age Assistance, deneral Keller, Aid to Dependent Children, care for child Ten committed under the juvenitc laws as well as administrative ex- pense. Seytn persons will be elim- mated from the administrative staGf and all paIE-time agents vii. De discontinued. The Nome fled office was ordered closed as of the end of April aud those remaining open under the retrenchment pro gram will be at Hetchikan, Jun eau, Anchorage and Fairbanks.
 Int Board found it had I4l5 persons receiving old age assistance at an average ot S54.10 a month per person. This level could not be maintained for the next two years under it's appropriation of S75V,-I 0U0, thus it lowered it's standard to bare necessities - food, shaI- ter, fuel and clothing and ora cred a complete review of all cases. It found there were 59O children receiving assistance at an average grant of SIS per month per child. That couldn't continue against al appropriation of $75,00O so the bare necessity policy was put iuto effect in that program too, with monthly payments shaved down to around SIS month. It would mean hardship for some aged ana needy persons as well as depend- ent children but there was no al- formative. After all, the four-foot blanket just wouldn't cover the aix-fOot man.
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 In the Alaska newspaper fratern~ ity things weIe abgewing this week. Spence and Ann DeLong, ex- Wrangell and ex-Sentinel Wra buying the Alaska Press in Juneau from Bill and Elizabeh Evans. Tae latter were going Outside for a while and Bill has his eye on a newspaper plans in Chehalis, Wash. Spence and Ann have been in Fair banks the last couple of years where Spence Was with the News Miner for time and more recently with Jessen's Weekly. Their youag son David, is a candidate for West Point. Also with the Press now Is Jay Byrd, who was long with Tie Sentinel before becoming OPA chief in Ketchikan during the war. t'- aska's oldest continuously publish ed newspaper had graduated quite an alumni.
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 Southeast Alaska got a look at it's General this week. Two-s IT Central Howard A. Craig, Com mander of the Alaskan DepartmeaL u was a guest of the Veterans of For eign Wars at their annual encamp- ment in Juneau. The man who rose from a doughfoot to a top spot in the U. s. Army gave the vets some revealing facts on Alaska's place il. the national defense picture. In the next war, and he hoped there would never be another, eyes would be turned toward the polar basin," he reminded the ex-sold- iers. With air travel speeded up to what it is, the attack from anoIl.er continent would come over tbe pole. the shortest and quickest route to strike g devastating blow at the United States. Alaska would be on the front line, but it would not be undefended as it was pr'ur to World War H. There was feel ing of security about General Craig. Alaskans could have confid- ence that their military situatio Il ir the north was in very able hands. There was a good soldier on the job.
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