Alaska Legislation
First Session
(The last in the series of three
articles on Alaska Legislation,
First Session, written by Mary Lee
Council, Delegate to E. L. Bartlett)
Hope for concrete aid early next
session for the overburdened
school districts throughout the
United States, including Alaska,
was strengthened through passage
by the Senate of a bill which
would authorize grants for survey- j
ing needs for elementary and sec- j
ondary school facilities and for
planning programs for school con- j
struction. The bill also authorizes
grants for emergency school con
struction to school districts over
burdened with enrollmens result
ing from defense and other federal
activities with the provision that
emergency funds may be advanc- I
ed by the Reconstruction Finance,
Corporation.
Appropriations for Alaska
With the first session of hte 81st
Congress now a matter of history,
the record show Congressional al
lowance of money for expenditure I
in Alaska at a new high of $248,- i
159,708.
The appropriations represent an
increase of $34 million above
tnose made last year.
The sum provided in excess of
$103 million for military and na-1
val construction was the largest j
single appropriation, followed by I
money allowed for activities in
Alaska of the Intcr or Department,
the Commerce Department and
the Housing and Home Finance ■
Agency.
The all-time high for the Interi
or Department amounted to $58,
762,000 in cash and $8 million con
tract for Alaska’s roads; $17 mil
i lion cash and the same amount in
contract authority for The Alaska i
Railroad; a $500,000 revolving In
dian credit fund; $643,095 for the
Bureau of Land Management in
cluding an extra $75,000 for pub- j
lie survey work; $5,350,000 for ed
ucation, welfare and conservation i
of health under the Alaska Native i
$2,404,108 for the Fish and Wild
life Service, including $250,900
for enforcement of the Alaska
Game law; and other allowances
for construction of Indian Service
buildings, the Bureau of Recla
mation, the Geological Survey, the
Bureau of Mines, the National
Park Service and the Division of
Territories and Island Possessions.
Besides the special $96,186,922
appropriation made in cash and
contract authority for the Army,
Navy, and Air Force construction
program in Alaska, Congress al
lowed an additional $3,905,000 for
the Territory in the regular 1950
appropriation bill for the Depart
ment of National Defense, bring
ing the total to $103,091,922. This
money is broken down to $150,000
for Air Force planning and $3,
755,-000 for Navy communication
construction at Adak. The Naval
Petroleum Reserve program in
northern Alaska was supplement
ed with a $3 million appropriation.
The Commerce Department will
have $21,504,000 for its Civil Aero
nautics Administration operation
in Alaska with $2 million for the
Coast and Geodetic Survey -activi
ties in the Territory. Included in
the CAA program are $5,800,000
for the Anchorage and Farbanks
airports and $4,478,000 for estab
lishment of air navigation facili
ties, with the final total reflecting
$11,226,000 for salaries and oper
tion expenses.
Maintenance dredging at Wran
gell Narrows, Cordova, Valdez,
Seward and Juneau, new dredg
ing of Wrangell Narrows, storm
protection at Nome and operation
funds for the Alaska Communica
tion System bring the appropria
tion for the civil functions of the
Army Department to $4,334,000.
The agriculture research pro
gram for Alaska was bolstered
with a $675,000 appropriation with
other activities of the Agriculture
Department bringing that depart
ment’s allowances for Alaska to
$1,278,998. This total includes
$66,048 for Experiment Station
work. $23,950 for Extension Serv
ice work^ *$315,000 for protection
and management of Alaska’s na
tional forests, $47,000 for forest
research and $152,000 for minor
forest road development.
The Geophysical Institute at the
University of Alaska can be com
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Victor Mature i
Sued For Divorce 1
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—The third
Mrs. Victor Mature, accusing her
actor husband of threatening to
burn their house down, is suing
him for divorce.
Mrs. Mature, the former Doro
thy Berry, contends in her com
plaint filed Friday that ever since
their 1948 Yuma, Ariz., marriage,
the big actor had caused her great
suffering. Listing his salary as
$2750 a week, she asked $1000
monthly alimony and a division of
extensive community property.
She also filed an affidavit stat
ing Mature had threatened to set
their $25,000 home ablaze if she
asked for property.
i
Mature, about 36, was divorced |
by two previous wives, actress j
Frances Charles and Martha Ste- I
phenson Hemp, widow of band
leader Hal Kemp. Mrs. Mature,
28, was married once before.
pleted with the appropriation of
$875,000 and the Alaska public
works program can be inaugurat- j
ed with the $1 million in cash and
$4 million in contract authority
1
granted. The total amount for the
General Services Administration j
lion in contract authority is made
of $3,375,000 in cash plus 34 m d- .
; up with the additional aoprouri
ation of $1,500,000 for construc
tion and maintneance of highways '
within the Chugach and Tongass
National Forests.
The Coast Guard for the opera
tion of the Alaska District and
! other activities in the Territory
will have $4,170,470 to spend in
!
j the 1950 fiscal years and the other
Treasury Department agency op
I erating in Alaska, the Bureau of
Customs, will have $190,000 to
carry on its 1950 operations, bring
ing to $4,360,470 the money al
lotted for the department.
The public health program for
| Alaska will continue with the
$1,300,000 appropriated by Con
gress for the Federal Security j
Agency.
The Post Office Department will
j have $5,296,412 to spend in the ,
Territory for transportation of
mail by air. for the regular star 1
route sevice, for emergency air- j
mail service, for power ‘boat serv- i
ice and for adjustment of airmail
rates to airlines in Alaska.
The appropriations deta i 1 e d
, above bring to $236,126,150 the j
I money granted by Congress for:
! federal activities in Alaska during
| the 1950 fiscal year. The first ses-j
sion also .saw passed three defi- i
ciencv bills for the 1949 fiscal
year which contained $12,033,548
for Alaska bringing to a grand to
tal of $248,159,708 the money ac
tually allowed by members of the
first session. Those deficiency
measures include $10 million for i
I
a revolving fund for the Alaska
Housing Authority, plus $75,000
for expanding activities of the
federal Housing and Home Fi
nance Agency under the special
Alaska housing program. The Post
Office Department received $1,
118,048 in deficiencies for aljust
ment of airmail contracts with air
carriers in Alaska, the Depart
ment of Interior received $40,500
for the care and custody of Alas
ka’s insane and $500,000 for con
version of the “Coastal Rider” to
replace the old “North Star,” and
the Agriculture Department re
ceived a deficiency of $300,000 for
liquidation of contract authority
for buildings at Palmer and Fair
banks under the Alaska agricul
tural research program.
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Many Beaten-Up
In High School
Foot Iml I Fracas
DETROIT, (TP) — A thousand
howling, fist-swinging fans poured
from the stands Friday night and
broke up a hotly contested high
school football game with a riot
in which three persons were
knifed.
Two football players were
knocked unconscious. A policeman
Was slightly injured. Scores were
battered and bruised.
Fighting between players in the
final minutes of the game between
Melvindale and River Rouge
schools set off the riot.
Passions had risen to fever pitch
as Melvindale struggled to over
come a one-tounchdown advantage
held by its old rival. Both teams
were unbeaten.
After the fighting broke up in
the stadium, other battles broke
out in the streets.
Although the game was never
completed, River Rouge was
awarded a 7-0 victory.
Police Lt. Anton Hill said more
than 1,000 of the 5,000 fans en
gaged in the fighting.
It took 10 minutes for the eight
Flood Waters May
Oust (void Seekers
At Fishwheel
FAIRBANKS, (7P>—Rising wa
ters behind an ice jam Saturday
imperiled the die-hard remnants
of the Fishwheel “gold rush”
camp.
The Yukon River, now in the
process of freezing tight for the
winter, has been jammed by float
ice about three miles beiow the
prospectors’ camp. There sdill are
about 50 miners at the tent camp,
despite discouraging findings and
the pouring of cold w’ater by of
ficials on the gold prospects.
The tents themselves are high
and dry. 10 feet above the backing
water. Rapidly falling 'empera
tures might stop the overflow. The
mercury is falling below zero in
the area.
Ed Steger, an airline pilot, re
ported a core drill taken to Fish
wheel Tuesday was standing in
about two feet of water. The drill
ing test was stopped after reach
ing a depth of 15 fee*. Drilling
will continue when flood waters
recede, it was reported.
policemen at the stadium to get
the mob under control.
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