Bartlett Introduced 31 Alaska Bills
And Resolutions At 82nd Congress
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By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, (/P)—
Thirty-one bills and resolutions—
all dealing with Alaska problems
—were introduced in the first ses
sion of the 82nd Congress by
Territorial Delegate E. L. (Bob)
Bartlett.
Only one has become law but
three others have passed one
house, or in similar form, the
Senate.
Many of >the proposals stem
from Alaska's territorial status
and deal with subjects that nor
mally would be handled by state
or even municipal governing
bodies.
Bartlett has his own answer to
that—a bill proposing statehood
for Alaska. It has been given no
action in the House, however,
where statehood backers prefer to
await possible Senate action in
January or February. It is there
that proponents expect to con
front the major opposition.
The one Bartlett bill to be
come law this year extended for
one year the agreement permit
ting Canadian vessels to serve
Skagway, Haines and Hvder,
• Alaska.
The House passed his measures
to let the Secretary of Interior
sell 24 acres of land on the Chena
River to the Tanann Valley
Sportsmen’s Association in Fair
banks and to repeal the 1939 Act
which opened Alaska’s school
lands for mining claims.
His bill to give Alaska’s Third
Judicial Division another district
court judge was incorporated in
the omnibus judgeship bill passed
by the Senate, and now pending
in the House.
The Senate judiciary commit
tee approved a bill, similar to a
Bartlett House proposal, to waive
the statute of limitations and per
mit employes of the Alaska Road
Commission to sue the United
States for unpaid overtime com
pensation.
One of the delegate’s principal
headaches this session resulted
from efforts to eliminate the al
lowance given government em
ployes to offset Alaska’s high cost
of living. One of his three pro
posals on this subject wcruld re
move the present 20 per cent
ceiling on such allowances and
let them reflect the actual dif
ference between living costs in
Alaska and continental United
States. Bartlett believes for the
most part the difference is great
er than that presently allowed.
This proposal has gotten nowhere.
Two others, however, have re
ceived favorable department re
ports. They would direct the Bu
reau of Labor Statistics to make
periodic studies of Alaskan labor
conditions with particular em
phasis on wages and the cost of
living, and would exempt cost-of
living payments from income
taxes.
Five other Bartlett bills have
received favorable department re
ports — the customary procedure
prior to committee hearings.
They would make the Univer
sity of Alaska eligible to receive
approximately $1,500 a year un- j
der the government's program erf j
aid to agricultural colleges; per
mit the use of volcanic ash or
pumicite from Katmai National
Monument to make building ma
terials; permit Agriculture De
partment loans to fur farmers; in
crease from 60 to 80 per cent the
amount of monetary reserves
which a national bank in Alaska
may deposit in continental United
States; repeal a duplicating tax
paid by the White Pass-Yukon
Railway; and permit appointment
of territorial district judges for
life rather than the present four
year term.
Bartlett had two bills to sus
pend mining assessment work for
the duration of the national emer
gency. Both of these, along with
a somewhat similar but shorter
suspension proposal passed by the
Senate, were pigeonholed in a
House subcommittee.
Hearings were held in several
Alaska cities during the present
adjournment on his bill setting
up procedures to settle native
land claims through a special
Alaska panel within the Indians
Claims Commission.
Another bill — to transfer ad
ministration of salmon and other
Alaska fisheries from the Depart
ment of Interior to the Territorial
Government — has been opposed
by the department. It said such
action should await passage of
statehood legislation.
Twelve other Bartlett proposals
have received no action of any
kind.
U.S. and Soviet Delegates
Get White Doves of Peace
PARIS, (/P)—A white dove of
peace in a blue cage was deliv
ered to the United States dele
gation to the United Nations to
day.
The bird arrived by messenger.
The delegation said it had no
idea who sent it.
Soviet foreign minister Andrei
Y. Vishinsky was presented with
a dove last week as a symbol of
world union.
WE CARRY LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
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Russia Preparing Return
Two U. S. Icebreakers
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Russia
notified the United States that it
is preparing to return two World
WAR II lend-lease ice breakers.
The U.S. h£^ been trying for three
years to’ get them back.
A note delivered at the State
Department by Soviet embassy
counselor Boris I. Karae^ said the
two ships will leave an unnamed
Soviet port for Bremerhaven, Ger
many, this month. The ships are
the North Wind and the West
Wind.
The Russians delivered a third
wartime lend - lease icebreaker,
the South Wind, to American au
thorities at Yokosuka, Japan, two
years ago. Moscow said the other
two have been stuck in the Arc
tic ice most of the time since then.
Kodiak Navy Man and !
Wife Killed In California !
Highway Accident
SAN DIEGO, Calif., iff) — A
huge van-type truck and trailer
jack-knifed wildly across high
way 101 just north of here Fri
day night and crushed two auto
mobiles in the opposite lane of
traffic. A man and wife were
killed. t
Their automobile was crushed
between the van and detachable
truck body and the other between i
the truck and trailer.
Dead were Collins W. White,
40, Navy chief hospital corpsman,
and his wife, Catherine, 40, of the
Kodiak, Alaska, naval supply
depot. An unidentified woman in
their car was critically injured.
Ed’s Barber
Shop I
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Haircut . 1.25 .
Shave . 75
OPEN EVERY EVENING
EXCEPT SUNDAY
AND MONDAY
6:15 to 8:00 p.m.
HERBERT HAIR CUTS
HAIR—IN THE ARMY
CENTRAL FRONT, Korea, (/P)
—Pvt. Herbert Hair, Hollywood,
Fla., finally has found an ap
propriate army job.
Hair, just out of the front line,
took over as barber in a division
command post near Kumhwa.
In civilian life Hair worked in
his father’s barber shop.
Frankincense and myrrh, gifts
of the Wise Men in the Bible, *are
still listed as basic perfume in
gredients.
BABY BORN AT GARAGE
OAKLAND, Calif., (A5)—An ex
cited man ran into a garage,
shouting:
“The baby’s coming! What am
I going to dcr?” •
“Come in out of the rain,” sug
gested mechanic Thornl-ay Hogan.;
Hogan called police, then went •
to the car—as 17-year-old Mrs. ,
Vegas was giving birth to a 7
pound daughter.
“I didn’t want our first baby
born out in the rain,” Vegas said.
“I’m sorry if I scared the
mechanic.”
For That Thanksgiving Dinner
Broad-Breasted Turkey
Lots of White Meat
Long Island Duckling
Something To Talk About
Nice Plump Roasting Lhicken
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