The Wrangell sentinel., 1956-05-11
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Information About the Road

pumping 1t out Of the inner narDOr and pouring it into the reclaimed area and the halibut boats rigging their gear for the first trip of the season, everything is kind of booming in this historic old town. Probably one of the greatest springs for sidewalk superintendents' in modern history. Business is okay up and down the street, too.
 With this activity visible to any boLy who wants to look, it might be apropos to take a verbal view of some future activity which is ex- pected to get underway this sum mer, namely, the road.
 we've been hearing from the Bureau of Public Roads which has been uuing a very fine job of talk ing care of Zimovia Highway over the years. That agency, under dir ection of District Engineer Chris Wyller and his highway engineer Robert V. Killewich, are planning to re-grade and repair the road this year with an eye to aiding in ,trial development and meet the demands of growing traffic. Asked Engineer Killewich about it cou- pie of weeks ago when he was ill town to look the situation over. Said they'd come up with something on the BPR program, including Wrangell, and here it is:
 AS you know, Alaska receives a proportionate share of the Forest l4snway appropriation, which for the past several years has been in a total amount of 2,500,000 and Alaska's share has been slightly in excess of S1,9O0,000. After making que allowances for maintenance Ot Forest Highways $500,000, surveys S,5.0OO, administration and con- tingent reserve $150,O00, there is left about $1,2OO,OO0 that can be applied to construction and recon struction projects. When this mount is held up in the light of the highway needs of the area 1t must minister to, it shrinks rapidly to rather insignificant sum. How ever, occasional extra or special ap SuSA SlS LlG Fp'Os GOO special Tungass money provid- ed by Congress in 1951-52 aided immeasurably in catching up some of the backlog of essential work. A : ailar request for $9,000,O 1000 in special funds is being considered
 presentation to Congress, which if realized. will provide means for improving and expanding the roads in areas of greatest need, such as the sites of the proposed pulp mills and related industrial improve ments.
 The funds provided for the 1857 fiscal year enabled the pro- gramming of two construction pro jeyts, an IS mile paving job on the Kenai Peninsula and reconstruc- tion of the Wrangell Highway from the city limits to Shoemaker Bay, about six miles of grading.
 The plans for the Wrangeu pro ject- are complete and acquisition of the necessary rights-of-way need only to be accomplished before the project can be advertised for bids. We are not in a position to predict when this will be done since there is some conflict of opinion regard ing acquisition of rights-of-way for highway purposes between the Territory and Federal Government which needs to be resolved. It is hoped this will be done soon so that the proposed project can be started this year"
 Information About Dynamite
 Some time ago Campbell Bros. a- bandoned the old powder house out in the north end and turned it over to the city. North end resi- dents protested its nearness to some of their homes with the result that Ed Garnick, of the Territorial De- partment of Labor, came down. made an inspection and advised the City what to do to make the pow der house meet safety require ments.
 Meanwhile, we've been hearing from Mrs. John Byrd, north end resident. on the subject by way of information. Here's what she has to say:
 For your information, since the letter we received from the office of the Commissioner of Labor in dicated that a copy was being sent to you, I enclose a copy of our re- ply.
 ITO bring you up to date on the dynamite feud - believe your re- porter was at the meeting last month when some of the people north of town protested the use of the old Campbell Bros. storage house. At that time it was men tioned that the building might be moved to the site of the garbage dump. Those who were there -indi- cated that we felt this would only move the danger slightly further from some houses, but closer to
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