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come to Nome to film the “Call of
the Wild ”
The secretary, A. Polet, was in
structed to send letters to the
Senators and Representatives ofj
the Second Division asking that
each of them select one part of j
Lifting The Lid
At Juneau
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and James K. Wells, (D.-Noorvik),
introduced a bill asking an ade
quate airfield st Gamble on St.
Lawrence Island.
Wednesday* February 7* 1951
JUNEAU, UP) — A controversy
appeared brewing today over a
Senate bill to eliminate all ear
marked funds and absorb them in
the general fund.
The bill, introduced by the Sen
ate finance committee, would re
vert specially earmarked school,
road, airfield and harbor funds
into the Territory’s general fund
where the legislature would have
to approve all appropriations.
Cigarette tax receipts now go
into the special school fund and
motor fuel taxes and vehicle op
erators’ license fees go into speial
funds over which the legislature
is without control.
Finance chairman John Butro
vich <R.-Fairbanks) said enact
ment would mean every school
house or airport planned by de
partments would have been in
cluded in the biennial budget for
the Legislature’s approval.
Strongest supporters for the bill
are Butrovich and Rep. James
Nolan <D.-Wrangell) who was
chairman of the House ways and
means committee last session.
Senate President Engebr e t h
said the bill “will provoke a sharp
controversy,’’ and he would have
to study it before deciding his po
sition.
Rep. Steve McCutcheon (D.-An
chorage* declared he would op
pose it on two specific angles:
First, the provision which would
end earmarking of cigarette tax
receipts for school buildings, and
second, involving earmarked avia
tion gasoline taxes for airfields.
Of the first item he said:
“The people never have object
ed to the tax as long as they knew
it was for desperately needed
schools.”
Of the second items, he said
“Many airfields were built by
such revenues and it has done so
much good for so many small
communities that I would fight
any change.”
McCutcheon has prepared an
other financial bill for introduc
tion today. He said it would pre
vent the Board of Administration
from freezing more than 50 per
cent of any specific appropriation
toy the Legislature. The Board has
followed a policy of freezing to
whatever extent it chose in fi
nancial pinches.
Governor Gruening notified the
Legislature yesterday that reap
pointment of two members of the
Territorial public welfare board—
Evangelin Atwood of Anchorage
and the Rev. G. Edgar Gallant,
Skagway—are subiect to confir
mation by the House and Senate
in ioint session. Their new term
would extend to Jan. 1, 1955.
Neither House met yesterday af
ternoon. They recessed in respect
for Joe Green, former Juneau leg
islator whose funeral was held.
the legislative program as sub
mitted by the Chamber and en
deavor to put it through during
this session.
The legislative committee sub
mitted the following resolution
on the statehood bill which fol
lows:
WHEREAS, The Statehood Bills
H.R. 1493 and Senate 50 appor
tionment of representation to the
Territorial Convention has re
duced the Second Division to two
votes out of 31 and,
WHEREAS, The application of
the population basis for distribu
tion of representation has proven
unjust and insignificant for the
Second Division and has placed
the 1st and 4th Division in a dis
advantageous position and,
WHEREAS, The Third Division
with the ten votes allotted them
and the possibility of also con
trolling the majority of the 9
votes at large, con give the 3rd
Division the control of the con
vention and,
WHEREAS, the last election
proves the fallacy of the system
and by comparing percentages of
the votes cast at the last election;
First Division case over 15%, Sec
and Division nearly 15% , and
Fourth Division a little less than
15%, but the Third Division case
only a little over 11%. This proves
that the war workers are not vot
ers and such mushroom growth is
not representative of the true nat
ural condition that the law in
tended to establish.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLV
ED, that in order to arrive at a
i more equitable and, just represen
! tation that the apportionment be
| made in accordance to the area
and not by the population rule.
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