TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR SEPTEMBER 20, 1955-MCKINLEY PARK PART 2 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS CLAIR ENGLE, California, Chairman WAYNE N. ASPINALL, Colorado A. L. MILLER, Nebraska LEO W.O'BRIEN, New York JOHN P. SAYLOR, Pennsylvania WALTER ROGERS, Texas J. ERNEST WHARTON, New York MRS. GRACIE PFOST, Idaho E. Y. BERRY, South Dakota JAMES A. HALEY, Florida WILLIAM A. DAWSON, Utah GEORGE A. SHUFORD, North Carolina JACK WESTLAND, Washington ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR., New York JOHN R. PILLION, New York ED EDMONDSON, Oklahoma CLIFTON YOUNG, Nevada LEE METCALF, Montana CRAIG HOSMER, California GEORGE H. CHRISTOPHER, Missouri JOHN J. RHODES, Arizona B. F. SISK, California HAMER H. BUDGE, Idaho STEWART L. UDALL, Arizona J. EDGAR CHENOWETH, Colorado JAMES B. (TT, California MRS. JOSEPH R. FARRINGTON, Hawaii E. L, BARTLETT, Alaska SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRITORIAL AND INSULAR AFFAIRS LEO W.O'BRIEX, New York, Chairman CLAIR ENGLE, California A. L. MILLER, Nebraska WAYNE N. ASPINALL, Colorado JOHN P. SAYLOR, Pennsylvania WALTER ROGERS, Texas J. ERNEST WHARTON, New York MRS. GRACIE PFOST, Idaho E. Y. BERRY, South Dakota JAMES A. HALEY, Florida WILLIAM A. DAWSON, Utah GEORGE A, SHUFORD, North Carolina JACK WESTLAND, Washington ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR., New York JOHN R. PILLION, New York ED EDMONDSON, Oklahoma CLIFTON YOUNG, Nevada LEE METCALF, Montana CRAIG HOSMER, California GEORGE H. CHRISTOPHER, Missouri JOHN J, RHODES, Arizona B. F. SISK, California HAMER H. BUDGE, Idaho STEWART L. UDALL, Arizona J. EDGAR CHENOWETH,'Colorado CHARLES C. DIGGS, JR., Michigan JAMES B. UTT, California MRS. JOSEPH R. FARRINGTON, Hawaii E. L. BARTLETT, Alaska GEORGE W. ABBOTT, Committee Counsel J. L. TAYLOR, Consultant on Territories II CONTENTS 21, 63 Mckinley Park, Alaska--September 20, 1955: Pago 3 Wayne D. Jacobs, Assistant Superinterdent, Mckinley Park, National Park Service... 1 Richard G. Prasal, park naturalist, National Park Service 1 Anchorage, Alaska-September 21, 1955: Statement of Fred Axford, member of the Anchorage Port Commission.be 28 101 8.1 Phil R. Holsworth, commissioner of mines for the Territory of Alaska, 92 Hon. Wendall P. Kay, speaker of Territorial house of representatives 111 William H. Mckinley, superintendent, municipal light and power department. 33 George W. Nichols, city comptroller, Anchorage. 38, 74 Lee Ricketts, representing North Pacific Fisheries Association.. 104 George C. Shannon, city manager, city of Anchorage_bae 20 William Stookey, president, chamber of commerce, Anchorage - 19 Mrs. Richard Stryker 56 Maynard L. Taylor, Jr., mayor, Anchorage 12 Anchorage, Alaska--September 22, 1955: Statement of -- John M. Asplund, chairman, Anchorage Chamber of Commerce 230 265 ciation, Inc., and Central Alaska Power Association, Inc.; 13", 260 195 Victor Fischer, executii e secretary, League of Alaskan Cities.. 176 Ken Hinchey, chairman, nik Arm Causeway Dam Committee, Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. 281 George D. Jackson, Anchorage Chamber of Commerce port committee 224 Bruce Kendall. 257 William J. Moran, United States Commissioner, Anchorage and Whittier Precincts, Third Division, District of Alaska; 248 A. W. Morgan, superintendent of schools, Anchorage Independent School District; accompanied by Dwight H. Newell, assistant ent of schools; and Julia H. Cato, school district tax assessor--- 121 Alfred A. Owen, Jr., member of the Alaska Senate, Third Division, Anchorage 189 Page 203 Anchorage, Alaska-September 22, 1955-Continued E. Bradford Phillips, vice president, Arctic-Alaska Travel Service and director of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce Ray Plummer, attorney at law, Anchorage.- Reginald N. Whitman, general manager, Alaska Railroad; ccompanied by John E. Manly. assistant general manager and Leland P. Draney, comptroller Elmendorf Air Base, Alaska—September 22, 1955: Lt. Gen. J. H. Atkinson, United States Air Force Commander in Chief, Alaska Command; accompanied by Brig. Gen. Thomas R. Stoughton, United States Army Chief of Staff, Alaska Command; and Col. Carl Y. Farrell, district engineer, Alaska Anchorage, Alaska-September 23, 1955: George E. M, Gustafson, Anchorage. Joseph Hong, board of Directors, Operation Statehood -- Milton Lightwood, member of the board of directors, Operation Terrence G. Mackle, Anchorage - Alfred A. Owen, Jr., member of the Territorial senate. Ancil Payne, chairman, National Affairs Committee for Operation Robert Retherford, member, board of directors, Operation State- hood. Irene E. Ryan, member of the Alaska Legislature Virgil Seiser, Anchorage.. Barrie White, president, Operation Statehood. [Note.-See subject index at end of volume.) 321 320 336 305 Tony ile :10 ALASKA, 1955 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1955 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, McKinley Park, Alaska. 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. |