Senate Eliminates
Housing Funds
Voted For Alaska
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(Continued from Page One*
to the Seatte Post-Intelligencer
said the Alaska housing funds, at
which the Senate balked, had pre
viously been authorized by both
Houses. They had not been spe
cifically appropriated, however.
The group visiting Alaska
would include agency personnel,
not Congressmen.
The dispatch said Senator Mag
nuson commented bitterly:
“This means housing in Alaska
is dead for another year. I con
ceed that this is a good time of
year to visit i\laska, but why
send a junket up there to re-eval
uate what they already know.”
Magnuson said Raymond M.
Foley, housing and home finance
administrator, had “sold” the Sen
ate committee on the idea of an
investigating trip by his aides af
ter Foley had previously endorsed
the program in hearings before
House and Senate committees. He
said full details of the program
had been presented at those hear
g ings.
“Now they want to send a small
group up there Vo check on their
own testimony,” Magnuson con
tinued. “This is the worst thing I
have ever seen. Because the hous
ing agency wants to go ove’- the
ground it has already covered, the
appropriations committee refuses
to abide by the will of Congiess
^ in its authorization of the pro
gram.”
The Alaska legislature passed
housing legislation last February
in anticipation of receiving the
$15,000,000 federal revolving fund
from which loans could be made
through the Alaska Housin' Au
thority. The legislature appropri
ated $250,000.
Truman’s “Must”
List Includes His
Whole Program !
(Continued from Page One)
might not be necessary. It is def- (
initely not in the works for Octo- j
her or November, he told another j
questioner.
How about next year? He smil
ed and said next year will take
care of itself.
Asked if he and party leaders
have added any more “musts" to
the legislative agenda, the Presi
dent replied the must list includes I
the recommendations in his thror?
main messages—on the State of
the Union, the budget and econo
mics.
When a reporter said Congress
is showing no sign of carrying out
most of his program, the President
admonished that no such conclu
sion can be reached until Con
gress has finished its work.
On other questions the Presi
dent said het
Opposes any export-import
I bank loan to Spain for purchase of
American cotton and tobacco.
Has several women under con
! sideration for diplomatic posts but
| is not ready to make any choices.
Supposes the question whether
Curtis Calder, utilities executive,
will be named secretary of the
| army is still open.
Will decline when the question
reaches him whether to accept or
reject any compromise bill on
state or federal control of tide
lands. gdouse speaker Rayburn has
been working on such a proposal.
Will be unable to attend the
Democratic party’s farm confer
ence at Des Moines June 12-13.
Would not comment on Bri
tain’s release of Gerhart Eisler.
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Says AEC Had
“Incredible
Mismanagement”
WASHINGTON, pP; — Senator
Hickenlooper (R.-Iowa> got spe
cific yesterday about his charge
of “incredible mismanagement” in
the atomic energy commision.
He said the commission allowed1
3,280 persons to work around se-,
cret projects, or have access to;
atomic information, without
checks by the FBI on their loyal
ty.
That, Hickenlooper said, was!
violating the atomic energy law
with “brazen effrontery.”
Commission chairman David E.
Lilienthal. principal target of I
Hickenlooper’s criticism, replied
that all the persons granted emer- j
gency clearance for secret work
had undergone some kind of
“screening” by the FBI.
“Our judgment was neither ar
bitrary nor whimsical,” the chair
man said. “We believe it to have
been sound.”
The exchange took place before
the Senate-House atomic energy
committee, which is looking into
Hickenlooper’s charges. Hicken
looper is a member and former
chairman ,of the group.
There was talk yesterday that
the committee might go back into
the time when the army’s “Man
hattan District” ran the atomic
project, before civilian control.;
One Senator said that Maj. Gen.
Leslie Groves, who headed the
Manhattan district, might be call
ed for testimony.
Wednesday Senator Hicken-!
looper centered his accusations!
largely on the turnover of person
nel in the AEC, which he claimed
was excessively large, he blamed
this on “mismanagement.”
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SEATTLE, </P) — The well
known old La Merced, bald-head
ed four-masted 280-foot schtxmer,
is on her way to False Pass and
Port Moller on the Alaska penin
sula for the Peninsula Packing
company.
Time was when she used her
mainsails to help her two little
diesels—which put out 800 horse
power—make like they were go
ing like mad with a snappy six
knots.
But today it is actually faster to
take her up the inside passage,
where sail would be a detriment
and hindrance to maneuvering,
than to take her outside to spread
her wings. And it is illegal to
raise them on Puget Sound.
E. A. Rutherford of San Juan
Fish and Packing company, an af
filiate of the packing company op
erating her, explained so much
packing now is done in South
eastern Alaska that the inside pas
sage is used exclusively now, She
annually cans from 40,000 to 50.
000 cases.
She came out. of Todd Shipyard
Sunday, where a section of her
wooden keel was replaced after
having been damaged last season.
(Japt. Lathrop Sells
Bunk Of Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, (B) — Capt. Aus
tin E. Lathrop yesterday announc
ed the sale of the Bank of Fair
banks to 23 local business people.
Lathrop has owned the bank
since* the year after it opened in
1940. The amount of money in
volved in the sale was not dis
closed.
Philip A. Johnson, present
manager, succeeded Lathrop as
president. Leslie Norland, furni
ture store owner, becomes chair
man of the board of directors.
Lathrop said his plans to erect
a new building were shelved be
cause of ‘Tiigh building costs and
generally unsettled political con
ditions.” He added the latter fac
tor influenced his decision to sell
! the bank.
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