The frontiersman., 1955-01-27
lass Fiscal Year Budget

! Incomplete tabulatlOnS reveal that President Eisenhower ls seeking s61, ,487,840 in the 1956 fiscal year budget for Alaska ac- tivities of various government agencies.
 It is expected that in week or two the full amount for the Ter ritory. with the exception of funds for military public works, will be known.
 The Interior Departments share, exclusive of funds for the Fish and Wildilfe Service, totals $25, ,276, 6,979, with funds sought for the Commerce Department in the amount of $22,495, ,980 second in size. The Commerce Department figure, however, does not include funds requested for the operations of the Civil Aeronautics Board in the Territory. The Defense De- partment's budget totals $5,384,O 900 l but this does not include any pro- posed requests for military pulp lie works, a program which us- ually goes to Congress for auth orization many weeks after the Presidents budget message is submitted. The budget includes $3, ,9O2, 200 for Post Office Depart ment activities in Alaska, $1, ,556,- 9O1 for the Agriculture Depart ment excluding the program for the Rural Identification Admin istration and the Soil Conserva- ton Service), $1,342,680 for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare Exclusive of funds for the medical care of Alaska's native people, the federal respon- sibility for which was transferred by Congress in 1854 from the Bur eau of Indian Affairs in the In terior Department to the Public Health Servicel, $1,2OO,000 for the General Services Administration and $329,100 for the Judiciary. Figures for the Treasury and Jus tice Departments will be known at a later date.
 Inferior Department
 Drastically reduced from sums made available in previous years the Interior Departments budget includes $5 million for the Alaska 1 Public Works program and ST. 80O,OOO for road construction. These programs, under the juris- diction of the Office of Territor- ies, bring to total of $21,266,650 rthe money sought for this depart mental agency. Included in that figure are $4,100,000 for The Al aska Railroad, $312 million for road maintenance, $770,00O for care and cusody of Alaska's in sane and $96,650 for the Cover nor's office.
 The road program includes a $500,O00 request for a start on the proposed new highway connecting Fairbanks with Nenana but ex- cludeS funds for continuation of the highway linking Cordova with the Richardson Highway. The road total of $7,8O0,00O includes $300,000 for preparation of plans, $400,000 for the Taylor Highway now go percent complete, $2,4O0,- 900 for surfacing 75 miles of the Richardson Highway, $1,70O,OO0 'I for the Denali Highway connect y ing Mckinley Park with the ' Richardson Highway now SO per- cent complete, $l12 million for surfacing of Sterling Highway, S800,000 for reconstruction and $200,000 for local farm ard in dustrial roads, half of the $4OO,- 900 made available last year.
 The appropriation sought of $4,- 100000 would complete the recon struction work on the Seward | Portage portion of The Alaska Railroad. The budget report stat ed that a net operating profit of $719,525 occurred in 1854 with estimates of $1,974,OOO in net profits anticipated this year and the same in 1856. Tt is anticipat- ed," the report stated, that the total deficit of $13,373, 1886 as of June 30, 1854, will decrease to $9,425,386 as of June 30, 1856"
 The budget for the Bureau of Land Management totals S1.O65,- 800 with $29O,OOO going for lease, disposal and use of lands and mineral resources, $98,OO0 for for est management, $242, ,OOO for fire protection, $300,0OO for cadastral surveys, $500 for maintenance of physical facilities, $4O,O0O for construction and $9O,OOo for gen