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NEWS IN BRIEF
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SALEM, (P)—Alaska residents
would be allowed to attend Ore
gon state institutions of higher
learning without having to pay
non-resident tuition under a bill
passed unanimously Friday by the
Senate and sent to the House.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (P) — Po
lice commissioner Allen Mandy
recently ordered that every park
ing meter violator—no exceptions
—be given a ticket.
Commissioner Mandy appeared
in police court Saturday, a park
ing ticket in one hand and a dol
lar bill in the other.
As he left, he met police chief
B. A. Hershey, in one hand a dol
lar bill and in the other a parking
ticket.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Twenty-five
years ago today Carl Ben Eilson
made a 300-mile flight between
Fairbanks and McGrath to deliver
the first air mail in Alaska, Pan
American World Airways an
nounced.
Eilson made the trip in two
hours, 50 minutes. He carried 164
pounds of mail.
Pan American Clippers now
cover the 2,200 miles between
Seattle and Nome and carry an
averoge of a ton of mail a day,
a spokesman said.
SALT LAKE CITY, '(/P)—Tink
ling glass sounded a curfew last
night for Charles Baris. Patrol
man Don G. Ferguson said Mrs.
Baris objected to her husband’s
plan to go out for the evening in
the family car.
And she emphasized her objec
tions by smashing out the auto
windows with an axe.
Ferguson estimated damage to
the vehicle at $200.
CHICAGO, '(jP)—Tucker corpo
ration, the new automobile firm
beset by organization and finan
cial troubles, today announced a
sweeping reshuffle of its board of
directors.
Preston Tucker, Jr., remains as
president of the firm, along with
two other members of the former
seven-man board. Four members
resigned. Twelve new members
have been named, all of them
Tucker dealers or distributors.
The remaining members of the
old board are Fred Rockelman,
executive vice-president, and Al
fred N. Anderson.
JUNEAU, (/P) — Some 70 dele
gates are expected for the Alaska
Pioneers .Grand Igloo one-day
convention here tomorrow.
JUNEAU, (^P) — Twelve ships
which took part in the navy’s cold
weather maneuver, “operation
icicle,” are enroute to Seattle to
day.
Under command of Ctp. M. M.
Riker, the task group had a 22
hour stopover here.
TUSTIN, Aex. iff) — Anti-trust
suits were filed against 10 major
oil companies in 98th district court
today by attorney general price
Daniel.
The suits alleged that the refin
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Dr. Ryan Outlines
Needs For School
Building Program
(By James McCutcheon)
JUNEAU, (/lb — With a vivid
description of rural school build
ings cracking open and snow drift
ing into the worst rooms, Educa
tion Commissioner Jarnec C.
Ryan told the House of Represen
tatives:
“I can’t paint you a dark
enough picture of the rural sit
uation.”
He presented the bleak picture
when he was summoned before
• the House of Representatives in
i connection with its vote to re
quest Congress to authorize the
Territory to issue $15,000,000 in
, bonds for school building pur
poses.
But he refused to be pinned
down for a specific recommenda
tion by him or the board of edu
cation as to the bond issue idea for
an immediate big scale building
j plan as an alternative to appro
priations of a few millions by
each legislature.
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“The board only instructed me
to advise you in the strongest
manner of the schools’ plight,” he
said. “It is the legislature’s respon
sibility to decide whether it should
be approached gradually or as a
lump project.”
He said 14 schools have been
placed on the top priority list,
with 11 of them in the Third Divi
J sion, where he said the situation
| is far more acute than in any
other. The three outside the Third
Division are Ruby and Fort Yu
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| Alaska Contains
Critical Minerals
In a recent talk given to busi
ness men in Juneau, John C. Reed,
staff geologist of the Geological
Survey that the evidence of criti
cal minerals in Alaska is signifi
cant not only to Alaskans but to
the U. S. A.
Reed cited such minerals as j
platinum, zinc, tungsten, graphite
and chromite, which he said, occur
in Alaska in substantial amounts
to be of definite importance.
Alaska has the only deposit of
metallurgical chromite that occurs I
within the U. S. in an significant!
amount. Crystalline graphi t c ,
which is particularly critical, has
been discovered in the Saw Tooth'
Mountains north of Nome, and al- j
so here in southeast Alaska. Tung
sten has been found in the south
east, as has been evidence of zinc
deposits.
Mercury has been discovered in
what is believed to be very sub
stantial deposits in the Kusko
kwim district, he said, adding that
mercury as a high priced product
for a low unit could be particularly
adapted to Alaska’s transportation
problem.
Reed also mentioned platinum
resources, incidence of industrial
sapphire in the Kobuk area, iron
ore deposits which could be of im
portance to the Territory, and
spent several minutes discussing
the oil prospecting in the Naval
Petroleum Reserve No. 4.
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LIFTING THE LID
| AT JUNEAU
Monday. February 21. 1949
JUNEAU, (JP)—'The Alaska leg
islature moves to the halfway
mark of its regular session this
week with emphasis still on taxa
tion measures.
With income and general prop
erty taxes already enacted, the
legislative leaders predict more
taxes to come despite the appar
ent stiffening of Senate resist
ance, as shown by the defeat of
the motor fuels tax increase.
The only remaining measure of
the governor’s three-pronged ba
sic tax program is the uniform li
cense tax bill calling for a basic
$25 license and one half per cent
of gross income over $20,000.
It passed the House and is now
in the Senate taxation committee,
where chairman Victor Rivers
says the rate will be reduced to
one quarter per cent above $100,
000.
Rivers emphasized the measure
is to bring all business and pr-'
fessions under the uniform rate
now paid by many.
The laws, if passed, however
would not be effective until Con
gress repeals the act under which
the so-called “hodge-podge” tax
schedule is now collected.
Rivers predicts passage of a
three-cent-a-pack cigarette tax
and possibly a 10 per cent admis
sions tax bills along with the bus’
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1 Internationl News
At A Glance —
Saturday. February 19. 1949
(By The Associated Press*
Informants in Budapest said to
day Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
has urged Hungary’s Catholic
bishops to “come to an agreement”
with the communist-controlled
Hungarian government.
The suggestion was said to have
been contained in a letter the Car
dinal sent the bishops after he
was convicted Feb. 8 on charges
of treason, espionage and black
market money dealings and sen
tenced to life imprisonment.
The bishops met privately yes
terday, the source said, but ad
journed without reaching a deci
sion on the letter. Some of the
bishops were reported to feel that
they cannot act without the pre
vious consent of the Vatican. Oth
ers were said to believe that Car
dinal Mindszenty should write di
rectly to the Holy See instead of to
the bench of bishops.
It was stated that the govern
ment would welcome peaceful re
lations between the church and
state provided the church ac
knowledged the regime and its in
stitutions. At the same time, the
government issued a “black book”
—a 186-page trial record of the
Cardinal Mindszenty case, pur
porting to contain a transcript of
the testimony of the three-day
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U. S. Will Aid Pact
Signers In Case
Of Attack
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The pro
posed North Atlarttic pact will
give its members strong assur
ances that the United States will
not stand idly by in case of attack,
it was learned today.
An official source whose name
may not be used said the military
clause of the pact will not com
mit this country automatically to
war. But he said, it will carry as
•urances so strong that none will
mistake this nation’s intention to
resist aggression.
It is understood secretary of
i state Acheson will negotiate with
j representatives of the pact-making
! countries on the basis of this new
understanding reached with the
Senate foreign relations commit
tee.
Acheson and the Senate com
, mittee are reported in agreement
on the military commitments that
can be made.
Both chairman Connally (D.
Tex.’ and Sen. Vandenberg
(Mich.), top Republican on the
committee, are said to be satisfied
with this new approach to the
problem of giving treaty members
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Haylift Claims
Second Victim
| SALT LAKE CITY, f/P)—West
ern airlift operations claimed
’their second victim yesterday
when a bale of hay dropped from
a plane struck and killed a Utah
j sheepherder.
The victim was identified as
Willard Peacock, about 60, of Sa
lina, Utah.
The first such fatality occurred
earlier this month when a Navaja
; woman succumbed after being
i struck by a package tossed from
! a plane carrying supplies to snow
I bound Arizona Indians,
i After making their drop observ
! ers in one of the two C-47’s saw
the words “Think man dead help
help” hastily shoveled or stomped
in the snow-A radio call brought
Ben Hillman, manager of the Mil
ford airport ,to the camp in a
i light ski-equipped plane.
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Kodiak Bests Nome
For Class B Title
ANCHORAGE, (A>) — Seward,
edging out Palmer 32-28 in a
thrill packed basketball game FVi
c'ay night, won the right to meet
Anchorage Saturday night in the
finals of the class A “Fur Ren
dezvous” tournament.
Kodiak defeated Cordova for
the second time in the tournament
Friday night 38 to 24.
Saturday night the midget sized
Kodiak team upset Nome 39-35.
Charles Jerling. Kodiak captain
led the winner with 18 points.
Harold Bell was leader for
Nome.
Anchorage won the Class A t»
tile, beating Seward 39-34.
ANCHORAGE </p)—The Kodiak.
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