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AT JUNEAU
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ernor included:
An amendment to the new gen
eral property tax to allow fishing
boat owners to pay a reduced r^e
| based on $4 per ton on boats.
I A bill to establish a bus trans
portation commission.
A bill to allow the Ketchikan
Eagles to erect a building with a
bar within 200 feet of a church.
A bill to create a national guard
i with emphasis on Eskimo scout
units along the Bering. The Senate
concurred in a House amendment
cutting the guard appropriation
from $92,000 to $75,000.
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I Both Houses of the legislature
have recommended Territorial ex
ipenditures of $73,500 on isolated
Second Division airfields. The re
commendations are in Senate
joint memorials by Howard Lyng.
> In addition, the Senate passed a
memorial by Senator Barr of Fair
banks for $25,000 in Territorial
funds for fields at Kotzebue and
Fort Yukon. Kotzebue was includ
ed for $10,000 in one of the Lyng
joint Senate-House memorials.
The Lyng memorial suggested
Kotzebue for priority rating which
should give it top rank in consid
eration by the highway engineer
of air field projects. In the same
memorial he listed Noatak, Kiana,
Shungnak, Selawick, Wainwright,
and Point Hope. It recommended
work on those fields when funds
i become available.
In the House, Rep. Percy Ipl
look had an amendment added to
! include Wales and Shishmaref for
$5,000 each.
I Other Lyng memorials, with the
vote by which the House concur
red, proposed a total of $21,500 for
fields at Golovin, Elim, Shaktoo
lik, Mt. Village and Fortuna Ledge
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Two Students Die
Scaling Cliff
Yosemite National Park, Calif.,
l/P>—Rangers concluded two Stan
ford University students let out
too much rope to ascend a treach
erous 620-foot cliff. Their snow
covered bodies were found at the
| base of the cliff yesterday.
Cards in the youths’ clothing,
identified them as Peter B. Yea
: zell, 18, and Kenneth Alden
Haines, 19, both of Fresno, Calif,
j They had gone up some 400
feet, using 100 feet of rope to Keep
them together. Veteran climbers
said they should have used less
: for such a risky ascent toward the
ledge from which the lower Yo
semite Falls plunge.
The students were battered a*
I they struck a series of ledges.
|«Rep. Frank L. Johnson had the
House add Koyuk> and $13,500 for
1 two fields on St. Lawrence Island.
The former got a 22-1 vote and the
St. Lawrence Island measure 15-8
I after Rep. Glen Franklin of Fair
; banks protested that the series of
Lyng proposals were trying to
get too big a slice out of available
highway and airfield funds in one
bite. ,
But on the assumption that me
morials don’t carry much weight
anyhow, and that voting for them
is the common cooperative gesture
, toward another legislator’s pet
projects, the House was virtually
unanimous on two of the three
memorials. Even Franklin waived
his objections and voted for two
out of the three.
The House has approved the
! joint memorial of Senator Ander
son, Nome Democrat, for estab
lishment of an Unemployment
, Compensation division office at
Nome. It previously passed the
Senate.
The memorial to Congress and
federal agencies cited delays in
relaying business and communica
tions through the Fairbanks ub
ol’fice and then to the Juneau
headquarters.
Both Houses Pass
A Rent Control Bill
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(By Marvin L. Arrowsmiih)
WASHINGTON, (&) — Demo
cratic leaders yesterday called the
Senate-approved bill to extend
rent controls 12 to 15 months “a
pretty good job.” However, they
didn’t like a provision allowing
“home rule” decontrol any time.
The Senate passed the bill Wed
nesday night, 68 to 10. It permits
some rent increases up to 10 per
cent.
Senate action sent the bill back
to the House, which already has
approved a measure to continue
rent controls 15 months beyond
March 31, when the present rent
law expires.
The House bill differs in several
respects from the Senate's, so con
ferees from the two branches of
Congress have to work out a com
promise before the legislation can
go to the White House.
The Senate-House conference
group plans to get together tomor
row.
Twenty-three Republicans join
ed 45 Democrats in ramming the
Senate bill through. All of the 10
votes against it were cast by Re
1 publicans—including Sen. Cordon
i <Ore.>
Administration leaders succeed
| ed in batting down most amend
ments they contended would crip
ple rent control. But they came
out on the short end of a couple
of counts, too.
In one case, the Democrats de
serted President Truman in large
numbers. That was on an amend
ment by Senator M->gnuson <D.
Wash.) to continue rent controls
two years as Mr. Truman asked.
That proposal was swamped, 75
to 10. Among others, Senator Lu
cas 'D.-Ill.-, the majority leader,
voted against it. So did 3H other
Democrats and 36 Republicans.
The 10 votes for the amendment
were all by Democrats.
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