rr uch one flight u, once a week awa, and three een Truk and be increased as conducting a ing for eventual sian employees tions. ur Micronesia’s is tourism. The hotel in each ute to tourist dvertising and Passenger and aircraft comnon-scheduled d Saipan and Land Transportation Aviation Administration is now providing engineering assistance in a major revampment of the Territory’s system. Economic Opportunity agencies. The new system, to be completed by 1970, will provide high speed multiRoads channel radioteletype circuits and. Roads in the Territory range from multi-channel radiotelephone service concrete and macadam in good condifrom Headquarters to outside points tion to dirt roads whichare little more and from all districts to Headquarters, than footpaths. Road maintenance is as well as a commercial radiotelephone difficult, especially on the highislands circuit through a Saipan interconnect where heavy rainfall washes out roadto RCA Guam and worldwide points. beds. and limited budgets have made Radioteletype now is available only dilficult more than token upkeep on between Truk and Saipan, the rouds outside district centers. Limited Marshalls and Saipan, and Saipan and budgets have also kept road construcGuam; manual Morse code is used to tion at a minimum, even though the communicate with the other districts. Administration considers roads imCommercial radiotelephone service is portant links to the outlying villages in available only between Saipan and the islands where road networks are Guam. part in similar programs sponsored in some districts by the U.S. Office of Private bus companies operate in Truk, the Marshalls, Palau, Ponape, and the Marianas. The Saipan Bus Company, the largest of these comPanies, operates a fleet of six modern diesel-powered buses providing scheduled service to all points on the islan d and has a contract with the Government to provide a subsidy for student transportation. Individual participation in current economic growth is seen in the increased number of vehicles in the Territory. A breakdown ofth e number of vehicles in the Terr itory, by type, for fiscal years 1965 through 1968 is shown below. possible. During the year, three Micronesians on Government Scholarships comUlithi, Palau, pleted a 3-month course in automotive repair at the East-West Center in Hawaii. The number of pers onnel coordination studying automotive repair and rela ted 1 Administra- fields will be increased in 1969. Microprogram to nesian personnel also take part in and ground on-the-job training prog rams. This year onal aids and SIX young men studied new vehicle °s in each assembly in the central repair section of Public Works and students took A designated road system exists throughout the Territory. The construction and maintenance of primary roads are the basic responsibility of the Territory Government through the District Administration. District governments are responsible for roads designated as secondary, and municipal governments for local roads not designated as either primary or secondary. Communications 1965 1966 105 312 553 530 94 368 742 507 859 2,359 886 2,597 Number! Major communications stations in 1967 1968 130 553 832 472 182 772 1,384 623 906 2,893 967 3,928 ed vehicles cach district center form a closely integrated network, communicating with each other and with outside potnts through common are maintained ters. Each district station has facilities to communicate with aircraft, shipping, outer islands and point-to-point. All maintain a 24-hour guard on a number of frequencies including international distress frequencies. Radio beacons are a part of each station and furnish navigational assistance to ships and aircraft. VHF transmitter/receiver units provide interference-free trans- radio- missions with landing and departing aircraft in al] districts. between Two-way, single-sideband, 100-watt radio stations are now on 68 outer islands throughout the Territory. All major populated islands have now been supplied with two-way radio communications. About 75 shortrange “citizen band” stations are also in operation. These provide intra-atoll telegraph and radiotelephone networks. Twenty-four hour communicalions Direct radiotelephone service is available between Headquarters, the Liaison Office in Guam, all district centers, aircraft and ocean vessels. The Liaison Office in Guam also has direct radiotelephone service to district cen- Headquarters and district centers through a central receiving and transIttting station in Saipan. _ Rapid expansion of activities in the Territory has overtaxed the major communications system. The Federal] Fiscal Year 1968 Part VI~Economic Advanc ement * ¥ " oa 7] ee ee . aRid ee FO . ae 1 rT gO