Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday October 8 2003 — A5 D Norton ' I p " i : Alaskans ready to spend oil checks WH sfcmatar’s money Pawn shops offer to cash checks in the hope that pepple will drop some of their money there Huge blinking signs advertise PFD specials at car dealerships in Anchorage Travel companies offer special tours to Mexico and Europe A clothing stope is running a newspaper ad of a buxom blond in black lingerie encouraging readers to have "some PFD fun” The first dividend check was issued in 1982 This year’s check is hundreds of dollars less than foe $154076 paid last year and well below ANCHORAGE Alaska (AP) — Robert Lague fingered die price tags on the guitars in the pawn shop as he fantasized about what he will do with his check for $110756 in free money laborer Lague a from Chugiak said that even though he is not working now he is going to “spend it on junk on fun stuff kind of using it as mad money” ' In what may seem incon- ceivable to people in the Lower 48 practically every man woman and child in Alaska receives a check every of $196386 the record-hig- h year just for living here The in 2000 money is from the Alaska PerThe amount is calculated manent Fund an investment account created in 'according to tire fund’s five-ye- ar 1976 after crude was discovaverage return on its stock bond and real estate ered on Alaska’s North Slope ' investments And several Beginning Wednesday a total of $6632 million will be times this year the fund was battered so badly by the slump handed out to close to 600000 ' Alaskans in foe stock market that Alaskans were told there In the days before the checks go out Alaskans are might be no dividend at all That would put a damper on inundated with offers from Alaska’s economy particular- businesses competing for the AP phOtO Matthew Tennant holds an umbrella for his daughter Kaira as they stand in the rain waiting for the Permanent Fund Dividend car sale to begin at noon at a used car dealer in Anchorage Alaska on Friday Tennant was staking his claim to a 1988 Chevrolet truck oil-roya- WASHINGTON (AP) —A downtown street beside a major hospital was set ablaze by a gas fire Tuesday snarling traffic for blocks and leading to a partial evacuation of the Bear expert one of two fatally mauled ANCHORAGE Alaska bear (AP) — A self-stylexpert who once called Alas- ka’s brown bears harmless party animals was (me of two people fatally mauled in a bear attack jn Katmai National Park and Presave — foe first known bear killings in the 47 park money “The distribution has been built into the Alaska economy for quite some time After 20 - hospital ' ed e years I’d call it an integral part of the Alaska economy” said Robert Storer executive director of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp which manages the more than $25 billion account Gas fire threatens DC hospital in brief million-acr- ly at this time of year when businesses have come to expect the influx of PFD ' ' The street runs between the new George Washington Uni-versity Hospital building and the old hospital which is bang demolished A gas line serving the old building apparently was nip' tuned during foe work r The old building about a ' half mile from the White House is where President Reagan was taken after he was The bodies of Timothy Treadwell 46 and Amie Huguenard 37 both of Mai- ibu Calif were found near Kaflia Bay oh Monday when a shot in 1981 pilot with Andrew Airways ' The new hospital building arrived to pick them up and opened about a year ago take them to Kodiak Alaska “The fires were tracking State Troopers said The park ' across thejnoadway the whole is on the Alaska Peninsula - area was engulfed in flames” of Treadwell said Paul Stabler 43 an irriGrizzlies: Living “Among gation contractor from With Wild Bears in Alaska” Gaithersburg Md spent more than a dozen sum- Officials suggested that a Katmai with mas living alone car driving by had provided bears and videotaping them Information on Huguenard the spark for the fire The driwas not immediately avail- - ' ver who came to the emer- ' able gency room had minor The Andrew Airways pilot injuries and was taken to contacted troopers in Kodiak another hospital foe officials and the National Park Service said in King Salmon after he saw a Hospital staff ordered brown bear' possibly on top of nonessential personnel and a body in the camp Monday afternoon Katmai park Ranger Joel Ellis said two officers stood by with shotguns as he fired : 1 1 times with a handgun before foe animal fell 12 feet away ' visitors out of the complex Patients from intensive care were moved to an area of foe hospital farthest from the flames However operations under way at the time continued including a patient having ment ' Mrs Gregg then was told to drive to a local Wachovia Bank branch and withdraw money police said After receiving the cash the men fled in a silver Chevrolet Monte Carlo with Virginia license platesShe was not harmed but “her life was threatened dnd it was a terrifying experience” according to Gregg’s Senate office Sgt Jeff Gossett of the Fair- - 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