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84-1-H Iglal pt. 2

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HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

TERRITORIAL AND INSULAR AFFAIRS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

PURSUANT TO

H. Res. 30

TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR
AFFAIRS TO MAKE INVESTIGATIONS INTO ANY MATTER
WITHIN ITS JURISDICTION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SEPTEMBER 20, 1955-MCKINLEY PARK
SEPTEMBER 21, 22, AND 23, 1955-ANCHORAGE
SEPTEMBER 22, 1955-ELMENDORF AIRBASE

PART 2

Printed for the use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

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Garner B. Hanson, manager, McKinley Park Hotel

Wayne D. Jacobs, Assistant Superintendent, McKinley Park,
National Park Service.

Richard G. Prasal, park naturalist, National Park Service

Anchorage, Alaska-September 21, 1955:

Statement of-

Fred Axford, member of the Anchorage Port Commission. --...
W. H. Chipperfield, Territorial land commissioner '. [L. -
Col. Carl Y. Farrell, district engineer, Corps of Engineers,
United States Army, Anchorage.

Phil R. Holsworth, commissioner of mines for the Territory of
Alaska

Hon. Wendall P. Kay, speaker of Territorial house of repre-
sentatives

William H. McKinley, superintendent, municipal light and
power department.

George Matkin, city engineer, Anchorage.

George W. Nichols, city comptroller, Anchorage.

Lee Ricketts, representing North Pacific Fisheries Association__
George C. Shannon, city manager, city of Anchorage L.
William Stookey, president, chamber of commerce, Anchorage_
Mrs. Richard Stryker.

Maynard L. Taylor, Jr., mayor, Anchorage.

Statement of

Anchorage, Alaska-September 22, 1955:

John M. Asplund, chairman, Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
Trade Development Committee -

Robert B. Atwood, chairman of the Alaska Statehood Committee.
Pobert A. Baker, meniber, Anchorage Chamber of Commerce.
William E. Bittner..

Edgar Paul Boyko, corporation counsel, Chugach Electric Asso-
ciation, Inc., and Central Alaska Power Association, Inc.:
accompanied by Marlin S. Stewart, manager, Chugach
Electric Association, Inc., and acting manager, Central Alaska
Power Association, Inc., and Robert W. Retherford, consulting
engineer..

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John E. Croul. Jr., manager of the Anchorage Chamber of
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Victor Fischer, executi, e secretary, League of Alaskan Cities..
Ken Hinchey, chairman, Knik Arm Causeway Dam Committee,
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce.

George D. Jackson, Anchorage Chamber of Commerce port committee

Bruce Kendall.

William J. Moran, United States Commissioner, Anchorage and Whittier Precincts, Third Division, District of Alaska; accompanied by Mr. Parsons. Alaska Department of Public Health.. A. W. Morgan, superintendent of schools, Anchorage Independent School District; accompanied by Dwight H. Newell, assistant superintendent of schools; Don E. Fridley, assistant superintendent of schools; and Julia H. Cato, school district tax assessor_ Alfred A. Owen, Jr., member of the Alaska Senate, Third Division, Anchorage.

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ALASKA, 1955

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1955

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRITORIAL AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS,

McKinley Park, Alaska.

The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 1:10 p. m., in the lobby, McKinley Park Hotel, Hon. Leo W. O'Brien (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.

Mr. O'BRIEN. The hearing will come to order.

Will you identify yourself for the record, your full name and title, please.

STATEMENTS OF RICHARD G. PRASAL, PARK NATURALIST, AND
WAYNE D. JACOBS, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT, MCKINLEY
NATIONAL PARK, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Mr. PRASAL. Richard G. Prasal, park naturalist.
Mr. ABBOTT. What is your capacity?

Mr. PRASAL. Park naturalist.

Mr. ABBOTT. And you, Mr. Jacobs, are assistant superintendent?
Mr. JACOBS. Yes. Wayne D. Jacobs.

Mr. ABBOTT. Now the purpose of the subcommittee's stop at McKinley National Park is certainly multifold. The staff members and some of the subcommittee members have consulted with Conrad Wirth, the Director of the National Park Service, from time to time. He asked particularly that if it were possible we stop at the park and look over the hotel facility; having the advantage of consultation with the people in the area office at San Francisco, those problems were somewhat pointed up.

I wonder if either or both of you gentlemen would just describe for the record and for the subcommittee members a little of the history of McKinley National Park, with particular reference to its operations, the attractions, and the visitor load as you have seen it. Then we will come, I am sure, as questions occur to the members, to some of the problems you have here. If you wish to include some comments on any proposed boundary changes, that would be quite in order. You can proceed in your own way.

Mr. PRASAL. As far as the history of the area is concerned, McKinley is relatively a new park, and even the knowledge of the mountain is a relatively recent thing, for actually the mountain was not known until about the mid-1800's. The Russians at that time reported it from the seacoast. Soon prospectors started venturing toward the interior of Alaska, and, interested in gold, they did not publish too much about the great mountain.

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