\\ eather Strands
legislators
Weather stranded Legislators in
many parts of the Territory today
as they attempted to make their
way to Juneau for the* special ses
sion of the Alaska Legisla ure
convening tomorrow.
Among those sweating out
ransportation is Alaska Governor
Gruening, who along with James
McCutcheon of the Associated
Press, who will cover the sessions,
landed last night at Whitehorse.
They plan to travel to Skagway
by train where a coast guard cut
tei is to pick them up and take
them to Juneau.
A coating of ice on the Juneau
Airport kept them from coming in
• >y plane.
Stranded at Annette Island af
tera flight from Fairbanks were
six members of the Fourth Divi
sion’s nine-man delegation and
tour of the Second Division's six
solons. Also at Annette were 12
Fairbanks delegates to the AFL
•convention at Sitka this week.
All of the First Division’s legis
lators were already on hand in
Juneau along with five from the
Third Division and two from the
Second Division.
GRUENING WANTS TO "GET
SACK TO ALASKA"'
0
SEATTLE, i/P) — Governor Er
nest. Gruening said yesterday he
wanted to “get back to Alaska”
For further work on the message
md recommendations he will
make at opening of the Territori
al Legislature on Thursday.
He and Mrs. Gruening and Rep.
Clarence Keating of Anchorage
riew north yesterday morning to
Annette Island.
Buttle For Negev
To Be Resinned
CAIRO, Egypt, (>P>— Egyptian
statements indicated today a re
vival of the battle for control of
the Negev desert area and Pleas
tine’s southern const.
The government announced Is
raeli troops struck at midnight
Monday against forward positions
toward Dafa after week-end bom
bardment of Gaza and Khan Yu
nis. two Egyptian-held cities with
in the Palestine coastal sailient
which the United Nations allotted
to the Arabs.
The first thrust toward Rafa. an
Egyptian air base on the Palestine
frontier three miles from the Med
iterranean, was repulsed, but the
battle is continuing, the war min
istry announced. Egyptian war
planes strafed 45 Israeli armored |
vehicles, it said, and burned a ma- I
jority of them.
Foreign Minister Dessouki Aba
za Pasha reported fighting in the
Negev desert, which adjoins the
coastal strip, increased in weight
yesterday. He said the Egyptian
position is satisfactory. The Negev
situation had appeared to ease last1
week after a sharp exchange of
blows.
The governor said he had been j
away from Alaska “quite a while’’1
and did not wish to discuss his;
planned message. He came south
several weeks ago and spent some
time in Mexico where Eskimo
craftsmen are studying at a spe-1
cial school and later went to1
Washington, D. C.
James Hutcheson, Seattle (£*)
editor, accompanied him on his
flight north and will cover the
coming session of the Legislature.
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Truman Asks Many
Things In Message
To Congress
'Continued from Page One'
ly by taxing corporations, but also
by boosting estate and gift taxes;
give consideration to increasing
income taxes for the middle and
upper pay brackets.
LABOR
Repeal the Taft-Hartley act and
re-enact the old Wagner act—but
with bans against jurisdictional
strik.es and unjustifiable second
ary boycotts and some provision
for avoiding strikes in vital indus
tries. Strengthen the labor depart
ment. Boost the minimum wage to
75 cents an hour <it is now 40
cents'.
BUSINESS
Streng hen anti-trust laws by.
“closing those loopholes that per
mit monopolistic mergers and con
solidations.” (At another point,
Mr. Truman suggested that busi- ,
ness should seek “ways to increase
its output, lower its prices, and
avoid the vices of monopoly and
restriction.”)
I
' RESOURCES !
j
Push power, irrigation, flood
control and navigation projects on ,
the rivers. Pass St. Lawrence Sea
way legislation. Extend soil, for
est and mineral development and
conservation. Keep tideland oli for ;
the federal government. Continue '
public power projects.
HEALTH AND SECURITY
Extend the coverage and raise j
the benefits of social security. Set
up a system of prepaid medical
insurance. Give Federal financial 1
aid to state education systems. ■
Place federal administration of'
these projects under a full cabinet
officer.
HOUSING
Raise present public housing i
goals to 1,000,000 low-rent units,
over the next seven years. Induce I
builders to cut costs and erect
more low-priced housing.
CIVIL RIGHTS
Pass the same civil rights pro
posals requested of the 80th Con
gress. (They included anti-lynch, i
and anti-poll tax legislation and a i
fair emplyoment practice law.). '
" I
FOREIGN
I
Restore the full effectiveness of 1
the reciprocal trade agreements!
act whittled down by Congress
last year. “Open our doors to dis- i
placed persons without unfair dis- i
crimination.”
MILITARY
Maintain armed forces “suffi
cient to deter aggregression.” Pass
universal training legislation.
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Alaska Housing
Authority Prepares
Housing Program
The Board of Commissioners of
‘he Alaska Housing Authority will
hold its next meeting in Juneau,
February 15, and at that time will
be available to the legislature for
reports regarding the critical
housing problem of the Territory,
it was announced today by E. Glen
Wilder, executive director. At
tending the sessions will be Father
Paul C. O’Connor of Hooper Bay,
Chairman; Jake* Cropley of Jun
eau, vice-chairman; Commission
er Louise Weaver-Miller of Ketch
ikan; Commissioner Z. J. Loussac
of Anchorage; Commissioner Har
old A. Byrd of Flat; and Wilder.
The Alaska Housing Authority
has prepared a housing program
which will be presented to the
Legislature. The basic purposes of
the proposed legislation will be to
first offer as much assistance as
possible to private home builders
and secondly to consrtuct housing
projects where private home con
struction is not adequately meet
ing the housing needs of the ever
incrasing demand, according to
Wilder. The Territorial program
has been drafted to act in conjunc
tion with a federal program which
Delegate E. L. Bartlett will pre
sent to Congress during the com
ing session. “Support for both pro
grams has been offered through
out Alaska,” Wilder said. “We are
aware of the heavy burdens of
the Territory at this time, but we
are also aware that the serious
housing shortage has reached a
stage where we must act rather
than just talk about our housing
ills, or Alaska will be stymied in
its efforts to develop and expand
into a new state, regardless of any
other factors which could increase
SOME TEACHERS NEVER
GET TOO OLD TO LEARN
RECIFE. Pernambuco, f/P>—\
(iO-year-old teacher at a public
school in Recife submitted a re
quest to the government asking
for a three-month leave.
Gov. Barbosa Lima, after read
ing the request wrote: “Taking
into account the age of the profes
sor, I grant the request, accom
panied with my best wishes that
the vacation may be useful to her
for acquiring some elementary no
tions of Portuguese spelling and
grammar.”
our development. Both the federal
and Territorial governments must
assume their proportionate share
o fthe burden.” He further point
ed out that “the housing program,
once ‘put on its feet,’ would be
revenue producing and self-liqui
dating.”
Aids will be sought to financial
ly assist private builders with
loans. Studies should be made of
natural resources and encourage
ment given to the production of
sutable local buliding m iterials.
In most localities of Alaska the
high costs of building a home
eliminate the average person from
meeting the problem with home
ownership. These costs vary from
fifty to one-hundred per cent
higher than they do in the Pacific
Northwest, the highest cost area in
the States. As a result, private en
terprise doesn’t build the needed
housing and a large portion of the
population of Alaska is either
doubled up with other families or
otherwise are forced in o extreme
ly inadequate quarters. Untold
thousands more are unable to find
satisfactory homes and are forced
to love the Territory.
“With the cooperation of private
and government home construc
tion this obstacle to progress will
be and must be overcome, if Alas
ka is to grow',” Wilder declared.
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