Seward seaport record., 1954-09-17

SOM w EhCE OEFAH MEN
 The bulk of the appropriations of $16,547 ,236 to the Commerce Depart ment for it's Alaska activities goes to the Civil Aeronautics Admins tration for salaries and expenses in the amount of $10,4S7 ,136, $S45,- 100 for air navigation aids, $225,000 for tn federal aid airport program and $600,000 for operation and main tenance of the Anchorage and Fair banks airports.
 The remaining Commerce funds are earmarked for the Civil Aeron- autics Board in the amount of $50,- 000; the Bureau of Public Roads for forest highways. $1.300,00O; the Coast and Geodetic Survey ,$1,214,- 900; and the Weather Bureau, $1,- S26.OO0.
 HEALTH, EDUCATION
 A total amount of $1,347,3SO will be available for health purposes in Alaska through appropriations made available to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The major portion will go to the disease and sanitation control pro- gram in the sum of SLIPS, ,000. The remaining funds are divided be- tween the Children's Bureau for maternal and child health, $72,647; crippled children, $65,759; child welfare, $36,474; and( the tuber- culosis control grant of $47,5OO.
 ALASKA LEGISLATION
 Of the 23 acts approved by the Congress, nine are so-called public bills and IA are private measures. The first category includes legis- lation permitting appointment of deputy United States Commission CTS in Alaska. changing the bound ary between the Second and Fourth Divisions to conform with natural boundary lines; extending the Fed eral Declaratory Judgments Act to Alaska; permitting the regis tration of judments in or from the the District Court for the Territory of Alaska; liberalizing the Small Tract Act; extending the Alaska Public Works program for an add itional four years until June 30, 1859.
 Other legislation affecting AL aska enacted into law during the S2rd Copprocc ;pcludad h;lI t, t,oon fer Indian hospitals from the h. terion Department to the Public Health Service: to allow the Terri tory of Alaska to acquire federal surplus personal property until Dec ember 31, 1856, without cost or transfer of funds; to increase to 10O,0 acres in Alaska the amount Of public land which any one per son or association may hold under oil and gas leases, to increase the amount which may be held under oil and gas option to 100000 acres and to enlarge the time that such option may extend to three years; to authorize the payment of ex- penses of round trip travel and transportation for civilian govern ment employees and their families between tour of duty overseas for the nurpose of taking leave: and to allow nOn-profit organizations in the Territory and its political sub- divisions to purchase or lease up to 64O acres for public purposes.
 In addition, the Congress passed an omnibus navigation and flood control bill authorizing construc- tion of projects throughout the country including II for Alaska in the authorized total of S7,420, 400. These include a flood control pro- Ject for Gold Creek at Juneau, and navigation projects at Seward. Val. dez. Sitka, Kodiak. Dry Pass, Neva Strait, Petersburg, Pelican, Ketchi- kan and Rocky Pass.
 Through representations made by the Defense Department and Dele gate Bartlett, the Congress restored the station allowances for subsis- tence and quarters for residents of the territories serving in their home territories with the armed forces Such allowances had been denied such persons in 1853 while continuing them for non-residents serving in the territories.
 In passing the omnibus bill crea- ting additional federal judgeships throughout the country, the Con- gress failed to include the long sought second federal judgeship for the Third Division in Alaska
 Alaska Statehood was approved by the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee in June of last year and by the Senate companion committee on February "A of this year. However. the House measure was locked up in the Rules Com mittee On April the Senate com bined the Alaska and Hawaii state hood bills into one measure, assign ed to it the Hawaii House number and sent it back to the lower house