LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
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candidate receiving the highest
vole be given the vacancy. By Rep
Steve McCutcheon, <D.-3rd', to
amend the law so as to compel po
lice officers be under bond.
A memorial by Edward Ander
son <D.-2nd>, asking th« road com
mission highway engineer to
spend $1,200 to make building; a
Serpentine Hot Springs available
for occupancy.
Houses pass House Joint Me
morials asking for two judges fo
the Third Div sion; applications
for private communications net
work; repealing the law against
fast driving over bridges—the
present law says faster than a
walk; Asking that Alaska veterans
be granted up to 160 acres of lan ’
each; Asking that $100,000 be
spent on road at Ketchikan; build
ing a road from Yakutat to Situk
River.
JUNEAU* Feb. 15, 5:45 p.m.—
Sen. N. R. Walker, <D.-lst>, intro
duced bill increasing motor fuel
tax from one to three cents per
gallon and directs the proceed?
into the fund for highways, air
fields and water facilities, to be
expended equally among the four
Divisions.
Rep. Gerrit Snider, 'R.-8’d* in
troduced a bill to provide that th^
retail seller of any article or com
modity shal lnot charge the veter
ans tax to any purchaser, nor add
the amount of tax directly or in
directly require purchaser to pay
such tax.
W. W. Laws, <R.-2nd), introduc
ed bill to appropriate $8,000 for
the purpose of each of four mar
shals for use in prosecuting the
duties of their office.
Sen. N. R. Walker <D-lst\ to re
imburse Comdr Chester $428 in
curred while solving the recent
shipping problems in Seattle.
California has 12 mountains more
than 14,000 feet high.
Justice Jackson
Flays Colleagues
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Supreme
Court Justice Jackson took his |
colleagues to task today for their !
sue and somewhat unpredict
able interpretations” of the wage
hour law, one of them the portal
pay case.
In an opinion he declared the
court’s decisions have made col
lective bargaining agreements in
some cases not “worth the paper”
written on and necessitated “im
mediate litigation.”
The portal pay decision was
handed down by the court las4
summer when Jackson was in Eu
rope prosecuting Nazi war crim
inals. It has led to suits for nearly '
five billion dollars in back portal;
pay and to moves in Congress to
outlaw such suits.
Jackson made his comments in
a concurring opinion in a case
where the court held unani- j
mously that certain trainees for j
railroad jobs were not covered by :
the wage-hour law.
FIRE GUTS BUILDING
EARLY MONDAY MORNING
The fire department was called i
out early this morning to the Joe
Felder residence on 1st Ave., two
doo"s east of the Road Commission
Garage. The call was made bv
Marion G ay who saw the smoke
from her apartment in the Hoven
apartments next door.
Joe Felder, owner of the prop
erty was not home at the time, but
his son and Georgiana Lott es
caped by jumping through a win
dow.
The# Nome Fire Department,
who came to town immediately
after the alarm was given, were
able to keep the building from
bursting into flames, which would j
have endangered the rest of the
block, as there was a strong east- j
eryl wind. Occupants of the Hoven
apartments were asked to move l
as a precaution. The building was
entirely gutted and nothing was
saved.
WE HAVE
Gold Filled Framed
RAY BAN an-I
WILLSON i n:
SUN and SNOW
GLASSES
also
NEW INDIVIDUAL GIFTS
and
INEXPENSIVE LADIES WATCHES
at
THE NEW REMODELED
POLAR CURIO
SHOP
Senate Votes To
Aholish Develop
ment Board
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engineer as chairman, the membei
from the First Division to be some
one definitely interested in forest
ry, the member from the Second
someone in mining industry, mem
ber from Third Division identi
fied with fishing and the member
from the Fourth Division identi
f ed with agriculture. It is an ap
parent attempt to reorganize the
Board to get rid of the present
members.
Definite antagonism aga inst
Polet was implied by Munz in his
speech and charge of domination
of all members by the Governor
was made.
Sundborg on the stand made a
fine witness, though hectored foi
further orders by Coffey, Cochran,
and others. He was accused oi
having inspired all wires sent out
favoring the Board’s retention,
which he denied. He also denied
that the Governor had made any
attempts to influence him in his
work and denied further that
Clark had resigned because ot
trouble between him and the
Hoard. He said Clark suggested
that he apply for the job long be
fore he announced his own deci
sion to resign and told him he was
resigning to take a better job and
because his wife-to-be did not de
sire to live in Alaska.
It is generally conceded the
House will kill the bill, but the
Board will have trouble when the
appropriation bill is passed.
Walker switched to the regular
six to give the seventh vote against
the measure. 'Evidently getting in
right with the voters in his Divi
sion who had given it such un
qualified support.)
The Senate in executive session
all Day Saturday with all report
ers and general public barred. It
is believed to be trying to get set
to launch an inquiry into some
thing or other, but your guess is
as good as mine on what it is.
The House finished amending
the administrator general bill Sat
urday. It will probably not come
up for vote until late in the week
as the House had a very long cal
endar in second reading and is
not moving its business very fast.
Opponents of the bill believe it
will be defeated by a 13 to 11 vote.
The same bill in the Senate ;s be
ing held in abeyance pending the
outcome of the House bill.
Oil Workers
Threaten Strike
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—A strike
of 20,000 CIO oil workers which
would shut down oil refineries in
five western sattes, curtail natu
ral gas service to millions and
hamper automobile and airplane
travel, was delayed another 48
hours today.
International president O. A.
Knight of the oil workers interna
tional union, announcing a post
ponement from the 10 a.m. deadline
today until the same hour Wed
nesday, said the action was occa
sioned “in view of last-minute
wage offers made by several major
companies during the past few
hours.
OLE BAHR APPOINTED TO
ANCHORAGE POLICE FORCE
Ole Bahr, formerly of Nome and
Unalakleet has been appointed to
the Anchorage police force by
Chief of Police Elmer Johansen.
House Slashes First
Money Request
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The Re
publican-controlled House appro
priations committee swung a legis
lative meat axe today at President
Truman’s first money request for
1947—chopping it more than in
two: from $315,546,000 to $139,
360,000.
Of the entire 56 per cent reduc
tion of $176,106,000 recommended
by the committee in the first sup
p*y bill sent to the House floor
since Republicans won control of
Congress, $175,683,500 was applied
to the Veterans Administration.
The committee promised, however,
to review that agency’s detailed
needs later.
Today’s action is not related di
rectly to the proposed six billion
dollar slash in the President’s
$37,500,000,000 budget for the com
ing fiscal year. The bill deals only
with deficiencies in funds already
appropriated for the current fis
cal year ending June 30.
Coupled with the measure were
recommendations for the cancella
tion of $706,148,579 in appropria
tions already merle and for liqui
dation of the civilian production
administration by June 30 instead
of December 31.
TELLERITE VTSITINC
IN NOME
Miss Bertha Sted.ie from the
Teller Lutheran Mission, arrived
last Friday and is visiting with
Miss Dorothy Russell. She plans
to return hame early this week.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
ISSUED
A marriage licenses has been is
sued to Ernest Ball and Catherine
Apodruk on Feb. 15.
Also on February 15 a marriage
license was issued to William T.
Adams and Jennie Corrigal.
WORLD DAY OF
PRAYER SERVICE
Friday, February 21, is known
throughout the Christian world as
World Day of Prayer. Friday eve
ning at eight o’clock in the F’ed
eated Church the Ladies Aid of
that church are sponsoring a serv
ice so that Nome may have a part
in this worldwide fellowship of
prayer. The people of Nome, es
pecially the women are invited and
urged to attend.
The World Way of Prayer will
be observed first in the Fiji Ls
lands and New Zealand, since Fri
day dawns there while we are
leeping Thursday night. As the
sun moves eastward, new groups
in many countries will join in the
same universal service of worship
—dusky women from distant coral
strands and steaming jungle trails;
peasant women fqom the fields;
East Indian believers in pictur
esque saris; veiled sisters from
harems; Chinese in blue trousers;
Japanese in kimonos; Germans,
Norwegians, Hollanders now join
publicly instead of secretly,
until late at night when the rev
erent observers will be held by
fur-elad Eskimos on Little Dio
mede Island off the coast of Alas
ka, thirty miles from the Arctic
Circle—the whole family of the*
whole Church in the whole world
remembering one another with
’ ve; inter-racially, international
ly; interdenominationally!
FRED HYDE SERIOUSLY
INJURED IN ACCIDENT
Fred Hyde, business partner of
Straub and Towner was seriously
injured last Friday noon. An acci
dently swinging door held him in
the way of a heavy sled which a
tractor was backing into the build
ing. He was rushed to the hospital
and at present is in better condi
tion than at first was thought pos
sible. There are no broken bones.
PIONEER WATER DELIVERY
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Dancing every Saturday and Sunday Night
HYDE S ORCHESTRA
Bridge Every Tuesday Night
All Bridge Players Invited
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