LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
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Senate bills (1) tightening the law
for registration of professional
nurses «2» permitting banks to in
stitute a five-day week and (3)
eliminating an anti-discrimina
tion law provision that each day a
discriminatory Sign remains post
ed by a hotel or cafe would con
stitute a separate punishable of
fense.
A unanimous vote carried Sen.
Ed Anderson’s memorial to feder
al authorities and the Alaska Road
Commission for action next sum
mer toward completing the 700
mile Rampart-to-Council road be
tween Fairbanks and Nome.
Earlier the House voted 15-7 to
eliminate cross-party voting from
the primary ballot.
It also passed unanimously and
without debate a bill to raise by
$300 the salary range for teachers
and superintendents and passed
fo ra second time a bill providing
a heavy tax on fishing sailboats
in an effort to bring pressure on
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federal authorities to allow power 1
boats in Bristol Bay. The vote was
18-4. I
An unanimous resolution was
adopted by the House last night
praising Rep. Jackson of Wash-1
ington State for supporting Alas
ka interests in Congress, citing
particularly his efforts on behalf
of Alaska shipping. It previously
passed the Senate unanimously.
A second unanimous resolution
thanked the Oregon House for its
consideration of a bill to relieve
Alaskans of non-resident tuition
I in Oregon colleges. The resolu
tion also thaunged Senator Neu
berger, sponsor of the measure.
The resolution was whipped
through three readings in five
minutes after the Governor an
i nounced he had received a letter
; from Neuberger that Alaska Leg
islative action on behalf of the
measure was desirable.
The House education commit
' tee introduced a memorial asking
the Territorial Legislature to
“urge and demand” that the board
of regents meet promptly and
consider appointment of a pres
ident of the University of Alaska
at Fairbanks.
The memorial said that with the
I retirement date of Presi dent
Charles E. Bunnell approaching,
i “we are deeply concerned over the
apparent lack of effort by the re
gents to select a new president”
of high caliber.
i The department of fisheries bill
was introduced by ep. Alfred A.
Owen, Jr., Democrat and Cook In
let 'ALF) fishermen’s union agent.
He told the House such a bill long
had been desired by fishermen
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value to them.
The vote on the bill to eliminate
cross-party voting from the pri
mary ballot was mainly on party I
lines as five Republicans and two
Democrats, eps. Andrew Hope
and James Nolan, voted against
the measure.
Proponents of Rep. Mrs. Essie
R. Dale’s bill argued that the pres - j
ent blanket ballot with a “jum- ,
bled mess” of names is breaking
down the two-party system. Re
publicans argued the people show
ed in a 1946 referendum they
wanted a free choice of primary
candidates as well as avoiding a
declaration of party affiliation.
A bill to increase aid to depend
ent children wan referred back by i
the House to the ways and means
committee.
The sailboat tax bill provides a
$400 fee to be paid by owners. Ef
fective date was delayed a year to
June, 1950. A previous bill killed
by the Senate provided $500 and
some Senators objected it might
make fishermen liable for pay
ment on company-owned sail
boats.
Voting against today’s bill were
Reps. Doris M. Barnes Nolan,
Amelia A. Gunderson and Frank
G. Johnson.
Members rejected an amend
ment by Rep. Warren A. Taylor
to halve the $250,000 appropra
tion, for the Pioneer Home pro
posal, but adopted one he propos
ed for a survey on definite need
for a home before starting the
project. A similar bill is pending
in the Senate.
Reps. Stanley McCutcheon and
Taylor introduced a bill for crea
tion of a commission to regulate
bus transportation and McCutch
eon introduced bv request a reso
lution for the Legislature to
change high school g”aduation re
quirements to make at least half
the subjects elective. The plan for
eliminating several traditionally
compulsory subjects as sponsored
by Anchorage school supt. C. C.
Caldwell.
Friday, February 25, 1949
JUNEAU, (JP)—The Territorial
House unanimously passed a Sen
ate bill yesterday, calling for
equal pay for women, but took the
edge off it. (
The House modified punitive .
sections by inserting a clause that,
an employer must “wilfully and '
knowingly” violate the provisions
before becoming liable to prose- i
cution and by eliminating a clause
for possible imprisonment.
The measure now returns to ‘ho
Senate for action on House j
amendments.
The House completed action,
also by unanimous vote, on Sen.
Victor C. Rivers’ bill broadening
lien rights for labor and materials, j
Among Senate joint memorials j
winning House approval was one ■
asking the appointment of an I
Alaskan to the first American va- I
cancy on the International Fish
eries Commission.
A new bill introduced by Rep.
G. E. Almquist, Democrat, pro
posed $1 and $2 taxes on punch
boards.
In order to answer House ques
tions over the delay in appointing
a University of Alaska president,
Sen. Andrew Nerland, chairman
of the University board of regents,
said he will ask to take the House
floor today.
He said he will assure the col
ons the regents are working ac
tively on the problem and their
insistence on finding a high-cali
ber man is delaying the decision.
He said the regents are consid
ering several applicants and sur
veying the field for capable non
applicant possibilities.
« I
He said he has called a regent’s
meeting for March 7.
Senator Nerland added the res
ignation of university president
Charles E. Bunnell is not effective
until July 1.
The women’s equal pay bill, in
troduced by Anita Garnick, only
woman Senator, was a major mea
sure among three bills and eight
memorials ground through the
House during the day.
Fen. Warren. T. Taylor led the
opposition to the strict provisions
with the assertion “we are mak
ing it a crime for every difference
of opinion between employer and
employee.”
Rep. Frank Angerman, also a
Fairbanks Democrat, charged the
opposition was “again trying to
destroy the bill, which is for la
bor’s benefit.”
One bill fell by the wayside.
Rep. C. C arlson’s measure for re
mission of all motor fuel tax re
ceipts from boats foi* a waterfront
and harbor facilities fund polled
an 11-10 vote but fell short of the
13 votes required for a full House
majority.
Among Senate joint memorials
winning House approval were
those for federal recognition of
the Territory’s need of an insane
institution; expressing opposition
to a proposed split halibut season,
and asking for bolstering of Alas
kan economy by allowing the full
est participation of Alaska firms
and labor in government construc
tion and adjustment of contracts
so they can be handled locally.
The House passed unanimously
this morning Senator Anderson’s
memorial asking for early action
for the road linking Fairbanks
and Nome. It amended the memo
l
rial however to ask for a project
between Livengood and Nome in- i
stead of Rampart to Council, after j
Bartlett Accuses
Industries Of
Delaying Statehood
WASHINGTON, </P) — Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska said today rep
resentatives of Alaskan industries
are trying to delay consideration
of the bill to give the Territory
statehood.
“Representatives of industry
opposing statehood are reported to
have asked for delay in considera
tion of the bill because it is not
convenient for them to leave Jun
eau where the legislature is in
session,” Bartlett said in a sta4e
ment.
“It was argued that the bill re
ported by the House public lands
committee last spring had not
been publicized in Alaska.
“That is not in accord with »he
facts.
“All of the amendments were
covered in press dis-ptaches.
“If Congress waited until it was
convenient for the last witness to
appear, very little legislation
would ever be enacted.”
[ Bartlett said he expected the
Territories sub-committee of the
House public land committee to
consider the bill week after next.
“It is well recognized here.” he
; said, “that those seeking postpone
ment are simply trying to err.Dloy
! delaying tactics.”
Bartlett said he wouldn’t be
surprised to hear some opponents
i of statehood argue Alaska should
not come into the Union “until the
1 world had arranged a pact to out
law war and a thousand years set
i aside to see if it would work.”
He said those opponents have a
financial stake in the Territory
but are not willing for it to have
statehood.
Alaskans, he continued, want
statehood and do not intend to be
diverted from their goal by a
group which the majority “feel do
not have the best inte ests of the
Territory at heart.”
Taylor argued neither Rampart
nor Council have road connections
at their respective ends.
House approved unanimously
Senator Jones’ memorial for bet
ter access to Unalakleet and Kal
tag. It previously passed tre Sen
ate and addressed to federal agen
cies and the Alaska road commis
sion. It asks a survey on the tea
sibility of cutting a channel across
Unalakleet river bar and the pos
sibility of a tram or road link to
Ka’tng to eliminate the six hun
dred mile up-river haul to Kaltag.
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