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Historical Sports: 1949 Short Shorts

...vice president John T. Tanaher arrived from Seattle to begin a car-ferry survey of Southeastern Alaska for the Alaska Road Commission. The proposed ferry system for trucks and passenger automobiles would serve coastal towns in links starting at...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2012-10-28/historical-sports-1949-short-shorts
Sports
Historical Sports: 1921-22 DHS Huskies

...Juneau City Team 22-11 for the Championship of Southeastern Alaska for their season finale.During 1921 the Alaska Road Commission announced the completion of the branch road from Glacier Highway to Mendenhall Glacier on August 4. The branch...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2012-11-04/historical-sports-1921-22-dhs-huskies
Sports
Accumulated Fragments: A modest future build on graves

...allocated funds for a bridge. The Alaska Road Commission contracted in 1934 with Alfred Dishaw...first concrete girders built for an Alaska Road Commission bridge.In 1935 the Alaska Road Commission hired its first bridge engineer, O...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2012-03-18/accumulated-fragments-modest-future
Neighbors | 100 Anniversary
Jack Marshall's Accumulated Fragments: Historically speaking, Alaska girls have always kicked butt

...State of Alaska, Department of Transportation and Public Facilities; Jeffery C. Ottesen, Andrew N. Hughes.? Alaska Road Commission Historical Narrative, Naske, Claus M. - Jun-1983 A history from 1905 ? 1956.? Alaska Historical Collections...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2011-12-18/historically-speaking-alaska-girls-
Neighbors
Donald Frank Bolton

...as a bridge engineer for the State of California. In 1953, he accepted a position in Juneau, Alaska with the Alaska Road Commission. When Alaska became a state, he joined the Federal Highway Administration. After 22 years in Alaska, he transferred...

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Barbara Ann DeBoff Rountree

...1951 she moved from Virginia to join her family who had been posted in Juneau with Ellery's position with the Alaska Road Commission. She went to work as an administrative Assistant for the Territorial Civil Defense agency. On Nov. 5, 1955...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000153634585
This Day in History

In Alaska In 1949, the American President Lines and the Alaska Road Commission met to discuss a proposed ferry system linking Prince Rupert, British Columbia, with Southeast Alaska. In 1988, Gov. Steve...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/051905/sta_20050519010.shtml
News
This Day in History

In Alaska Sound off on the important issues at In 1949, the American President Lines and the Alaska Road Commission met to discuss a proposed ferry system linking Prince Rupert, British Columbia, with Southeast Alaska. In 1988, an Anchorage...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/051906/sta_20060519014.shtml
News
My Turn: Alaska is long overdue in building a highway system

...construction was a first priority. The majority of our meager road system was constructed before statehood by the Alaska Road Commission (ARC). The ARC constructed all of Alaska's major highways including the Seward, Sterling, Glenn, Richardson...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/102802/opi_myt2.shtml
Opinion
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...returned to Juneau. She met and married Jerry Nottingham in 1942 and raised a family in Juneau. She worked for the Alaska Road Commission in the 1950s. She moved to Bellingham in 1960, and returned to Alaska in 1967 and served as an administrator...

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