The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-28
MAYOR TO BOOST JUNEAU AS SITE FOR
 METHODIST COLLEGE

Juneau will be represented by Mayor Waino Hendrickson when the Methodist Board of Missions meets in Columbus, O., April 17 to decide upon site for the proposed Methodist college for Alaska.
 The decision to send Mayor Hen drickson to the Ohio meeting was made at the special Council session held last night in the City Hall. It followed serious discussion by the council during which it weighed the estimated cost of the trip (about S400) against the advantages to be gained by the city if Juneau is picked as the site.
 Representatives of several Alaska cities are expected to be on hand to argue in favor of establishment Of the college within their boundaries.
 Mayor Hendrickson will be joined at the meeting by H. L. Faulkner, prominent Juneau attorney, who will represent the local Chamber Of Commerce.
 The Methodist Board of Missions has promised that the site for the school will definitely be decided upon at the meeting.
 For Fire Hall
 At the council session last night, Mayor Hendrickson suggested that the council consider whether or not plans for a new municipal building should include fire hall.
 Sooner or later our fire fighting equipment will have to include a ladder truck" he said. Tt would be a tough proposition to squeeze q large fire hall into a new municipal building"
 He suggested that it might be possible to obtain land as site for a new fire hall on Army Dock property.
 Action concerning either a new municipal building or a new lire hall cannot be taken until city vot- CTS decide whether or not the city shall grant the Arctic Brotherhood Hall property and sell the City Hall property to the Territory. The de- cision will be made April 20 at q special election. A new municipal building, if constructed, would take advantage of Federal funds provided through the Public Works Bill for Alaska.
 Public Works Plan
 A letter to Mayor Hendrickson from Delegate E. L. Bartlett asked information regarding Juneau's pro- jects planned for construction under the Public Works bill, the method the city plans to employ to raise the money to repay half of the Federal funds granted, and justification of the projects.
 Delegate Bartlett stated that he needed the information to use as ammunition before the Senate Ap- propriati tions Committee next week, at which time he will urge restora- ton of the money sought by the budget.
 The House Committee on Appro- priations slashed the $25 million cash and contract authority budget requests to $9 million in cash, S4 million of which was to pay for liquidation of last years contract authority in that amount. Delegate Bartlett wrote that he will also urge deletion of the re- quirement which would make ne- cessary certification by the Secre- tary of Defense that each project approved under the program was needed in the interest of national defense.
 Bartlett stated that his appear ance before the Senate committee will also be to convince members that when the S70 million public works program was authorized last year by Congress it was clearly re- cognlzed that there was a. great need, other than national defense, for modernization of community fa- cilities throughout Alaska D
 Future Plans Mayor Hendrickson was autho- rized to send Delegate Bartlett the information he requested.
 Projects planned by the city for the near future under the Public Works grants are sewer extensions and repairs (s30,OOO was approved for this project yesterday by the General Services Administration | street and sidewalk paving, a muni- cipal building, and library build- ing.
 Matching funds for sewer and paving work is on hand in the city treasury, Mayor Hendrickson said. The library fund is now only sev- eral thousand dollars short of the