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Adjourns
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nard as Alaska public welfare di
rector was announced at the joint
session. The announcement, by
Senator Lyng, a member of the
public welfare board, confirmed
reports which had been current
for two weeks. i
Lyng s: id Maynard, a former |
Nome publisher, will enter private
business. Maynard’s administra
tion is known to have been, under
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fire from a special House investi
gating committee, headed by Rep
resentative Franklin, which has
been inquiring into administrative
offices.
The Senate passed the record
$13,000,000 appropriations bill
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yesterday afternoon, 12 to 4.
The upper chamber divided
consistently by an 8 to 8 vote in
beating down a steady stream of
amendments from the floor.
The major changes approved by
the Senate were there:
A $100,000 increase for Univer
sity of Alaska salaries, a $487,000
boost for aid to schools in twns
and districts, and an extra $61,000
for other schools.
Also approved was a $100,000
cut for old age pensions, and a
$50,000 reduction in relief of des
titution. The commissioner of
mines was voted a $35,000 increase
in the House bill.
An attempt to raise the contro
i versial development board figure
from a sharply reduced $80,000
back to $100,000 failed in an 8 to
8 deadlock.
Attempts by Democratic Sena
i tors Lyng of the Second Division
and McCutcheon of the Third Di
vision to insert appropriations for
liquor enforcement deputies un
der the treasurer also failed. ,
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i Yesterday afternoon the gover
nor appointed two boards and an
11-member statehood committee
created by the legislature.
, The five named to the new fish
eries board were Ira Rothwell,
Cordova; Mayor Karl Brunstad,
Kodiak; William Walton, Sitka,
i all fishermen; James Howard
Wakefield, Kodiak Island, for
I processors, and J. P. Valentine,
Ketchikan, public representative.
Members named to the state
ihood committee were Sens. Frank
] Peratrovich, Victor Rivers, An
! drew Nerland and Howard Lyng,
| and Reps. Stanley McCutcheon,
Warren Taylor, Percy Ipalook;
William Baker, of Ketchikan and
Robert Atwood, Anchorage, both
newspaper publishers: Mrs. Mil
dred Hermann, Juneau, and Lett
Bettinger, Kodiak.
Named to the board of assess
ment and equalization under the
! property tax law were: First Di
1 vision, Joseph Krause, Ketchikan;
F. G. Hanford, Wrangell; Ernest
Parson, Juneau; Second Division,
George Goshaw, Shishmaref; Aar
naut Castell, Nome; Bert Bell,
Nome; Third Division, Selwyn
Nock, Anchorage; Victor Johnson,
Palmer; Victor Ellis, Kodiak;
Fourth Division, James Mulroon
ey, Fairbanks; George Jarris, Fair
banks; T. S. Batchelder, Fair
banks.
Appointment by the governor to
existing boards included:
Mrs. Evangeline Atwood; An
chorage, public welfare board;
Ron Brosseau, Nome; veterans
board; Fred Axford, Anchorage
and Herb Hilscher, Fairbanks, de
velopment board.
,The Territorial House finally
passed a bill yesterday requiring
a non-communist oath from Terri
torial officials and employees be
fore taking jobs.
The vote for 20 to 3. Opposition
votes were cast by Democratic
representatives Abel Anderson
and G. E. Almquist of the First
Division, and Democratic Frank
Angerman of the Fourth Division.
The House refused to accept the
bill from the Senate last Saturday
night, then decided to take the
measure. But until yesterday, it
had been tide up by parliamentary
rule interpretation.
The bill was passed under a sus
pension of rules, then sent back
to the Senate for concurrence in
an amendment covering all sub
versive parties.
The statehood committee bill
provided no more than six of the
eleven members should be of the
same party. Republican appointees
besides Nerland and Mrs. Her
mann were Atwood, Bettinger and
Eskimo missionary Ipalook. Pro
posal for the unanimous confirm
ation of Atwood brought an ob
jection from Jones. Atwood was
confirmed 33 to 5. Bettinger was
confirmed by the same margin.
Munz objected to Taylor. He was
confirmed 33 to 5; Lyng confirm
ed 31 to 6 after he announced he
was resigning from the public
welfare board because he thought
Quench Gas Fire
Near Houston, Tex.
HOUSTON, Tex. i/P) — Weary
workmen smothered a rip-roaring
oli well gas fire with mud early
yesterday, more than nine hours
after it burst into flame.
The blaze shook south Houston
home late Wednesday, lighted up
the night sky and tied up traffic
in the area for hours.
The fire began in a bursting
flash shortly after 6 p.m. Witness
es called it “a heck of a startling
sight.” The bright yellow glare
could be seen more than 20 miles.
The fire was thought to have
been subdued twice, but came
roaring back to life, hissing its
way into the air.
Alice Green, missionary for the
Presbyterian Church at Savoonga
on St. Lawrence Island, passed
through Nome enroute to Fair
banks to a conference and plans to
return in a few days.
| he could give greater service on
I the statehood committee. Ipalook
1 was confirmed 33 to 4.
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