Mr. ROONEY. It is quite sparse, is it not? As a matter of fact, most of the pilots of the Alaskan planes fly them without scientific aids, is that not so? They know every tree and mark along the way. Mr. LEE. A lot of the small aircraft operated by bush pilots operate under contact conditions. Mr. ROONEY. So when you talk of this very substantial item of four-million-some-thousand dollars, it is the fact that it principally concerns an outfit like Alaska Airlines on trips from, we will say, Anchorage to Juneau, or Anchorage to Fairbanks. Mr. LEE. Alaska Airlines. There are scheduled trips, of course, by Northwest and Pan American, and there is a considerable volume of nonscheduled, irregular and cargo business up from the States into Alaska. BREAK-DOWN OF INTRA-ALASKA AERONAUTICAL ACTIVITY Mr. ROONEY. Do you have some figures on that which you can furnish for the record? Mr. LEE. Yes, sir. Mr. ROONEY. I will be surprised if they are large enough to warrant an expenditure of $4,478,088. Mr. LEE. We will be glad to furnish figures. (The table referred to is as follows:) Intra-Alaska aeronautical activity-Calendar year 1948-Continued 1 Number of words transmitted over CAA point-to-point communications network. BREAK-DOWN OF ESTIMATE FOR 1950 Mr. ROONEY. Will you also insert at this point in the record the break-down of the figure, $4,478,088? (Information requested follows:) Distance measuring equipment at 11 locations: (Anchorage, Annette Airways beacons, and obstruction lights between Gustavus and Instrument-landing systems at 4 locations, (Anchorage, Fairbanks, Precision approach radar at Fairbanks. Airport surveillance radar at Juneau and Naknek. Very high frequency air-ground communications services at 12 loca- Housing (locations indicated in subsequent table). Total... Amount $407, 000 95, 218 560, 000 225,000 570, 000 124, 320 2, 300, 000 196, 550 4, 478, 088 Although listed as an air-traffic control tower, this facility is a remote sector of the Anchorage air route traffic-control center. PACIFIC OCEAN ISLANDS PROGRAM Mr. ROONEY. The third and final subdivision of the general appropriation entitled "Establishment of air navigation facilities, in Pacific Ocean islands airways system," $352,000. What is the purpose of that? Mr. KLINE. This is for the completion of 1948. The costs exceeded the amounts that were appropriated, and we will require that amount to complete the improvements to the Wake overseas aeronautical communications station. We want $218,296 for that, $41,985 for the Wake runway strip improvements, and $91,719 for completion of living quarters at Wake Island and Upolu Point, Hawaii. Mr. ROONEY. It does not do us much good to project these things a couple of years in advance, does it? Mr. KLINE. Well, when you stop to consider increases in labor and everything else that has taken place since 1947, I think our estimate was Mr. ROONEY. Don't you really think you could figure better on a year-to-year basis than projecting them a couple of years in advance such as you do? Mr. KLINE. I would like to say, Mr. Chairman, that our figures are not always acceptable. Mr. ROONEY. Are there any questions? Mr. STEFAN. I have some questions. ALASKA PROGRAM LOCATION OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWERS Mr. Kline, on the item, "Development of Alaskan airways system, $4,478,088," where are those six air traffic control towers where you are planning to install some VHF? Mr. KLINE. The air-traffic control facilities? Mr. STEFAN. The justification reads as follows: $124,320 for establishment of VHF traffic air-ground communication services at six principal aeronautical communications stations and at six air-traffic control towers. Mr. KLINE. I am sorry, I do not have those locations. I will furnish those. Mr. STEFAN. Do we operate six air-control towers there? Mr. PorЕ. Yes, sir. Mr. STEFAN. Where are they and what was the cost of the equipment, or was the equipment left there by the Army? Mr. POFE. They are included in this list. We can pick them out. Mr. STEFAN. Are they in there? Mr. POFE. Yes. Mr. STEFAN. Never mind, just put them in the record, will you please? Mr. KLINE. We will furnish those for the record. (The information requested follows:) ALASKA AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWERS Annette, Naknek, Yakutat, Juneau: The CAA assumed operation of these towers which had been installed originally by Army. Of these two, Yakutat and Juneau, required modernization accomplished with EANF funds appropriated during the fiscal year 1947 for the air-traffic control tower program. No establishment expenditures were incurred for Annette and Naknek. The estimated modernization costs for Yakutat and Juneau are $25,400 each. Anchorage, Fairbanks: Installed by CAA under fiscal year 1942 appropriation at a total cost of approximately $31,000 each. Mr. STEFAN. Is anything at the Chena Ridge airport at Fairbanks? Mr. KLINE. Yes. Mr. STEFAN. Is that the Chena Ridge airport? Mr. KLINE. There is only one airport there, civil airport. Mr. STEFAN. You are constructing a new airport? Mr. KLINE. At Fairbanks. Mr. HOLDEN. That is under the Alaska airports bill. ALASKAN HOUSING Mr. STEFAN. That $2,300,000 to build houses and living quarters, what does that go into, cost per house, and where are they? Mr. KLINE. I have those here. Mr. STEFAN. Would you please give that to us. houses are you building? What kind of Mr. KLINE. We are building four-unit apartments. In Alaska it is much more desirable to have the apartment type of room, because you have one heating plant, and heating is quite an item. So we build four-unit apartments. They are being furnished at Annette, Cordova, Gulkana, Haines, Homer, Iliamna, Kodiak, Middleton Island, Naknek, Port Heiden, Sheep Mountain, Summit, Talkeetna, Yakutat, and Gustavus. Mr. STFFAN. Will you put that table in the record. Mr. KLINE. Yes, sir. (The table referred to follows:) |