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Nome, Alaska, Monday, January 29, 1951
UNJUSTIFIED REPRESENTATION
(Daily Alaska Empire)
Delegate Bartlett’s latest statehood bill makes some
radical changes in the provisions for the constitutional
convention and especially in the number and appoint
ment of delegates to that convention.
The statehood bill passed by the House of Represen
tatives a year ago provided for 26 delegates, eight from
each the First and Third Divisions, four from the Sec
ond, five from the Fourth and one at large.
Although there were no objections from Alaskans on
this section of the statehood bill, Delegate Bartlett’s
new bill gives 10 delegates to the Third Division, five to
each the First and Fourth and only two to the Second. It
provides for nine delegates-at-large.
The new bill apparently has the sanction and approv
al of the Alaska Statehood Committee since it was in
troduced by Delegate Bartlett on January 15, 1951, im
mediately following his meeting with the Statehood
at Anchorage.
The new bill makes it possible for the Third Division
to completely control the convention. By electing six of
the delegates-at-large, in addition to its own 10, the
Third Division would have 16 votes in the convention, a
majority.
No other Division could do this, even if it elected all
of the delegates-at-large. |
We do not believe, on the basis of its showings in past
elections, that the Third Division is entitled to this rep
resentation in the constitutional convention, or that "it
is entitled to a chance at getting it..
The Third Division, according to the 1950 census, has
a population of 58,300. In the election October 12, 1950,1
there were 6,707 votes cast in the Third Division.
This lack of turnout at the polls may have been a pro
test against the Territorial status of Alaska, but we
doubt it. I
Rather, it indicates to us that the Third Division has |
51,593 people who are uninterested in either our pres
ent government or our future government.
Percentagewise, the Third Division made the poorest
showing of the four. Only 11.3 per cent of the residents
went to the polls in October. i
Up in the Fourth Division, 14.0 per cent of the people ,
were voters. In the Second Division it was 14.5 per cent
and in the First Division it was 21.7 per cent.
We believe there should be a reapportionment of del-1
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TOP MEN IN US. S. MOBILIZATION PROGRAM
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CHARLES E. WILSON
Charles Edward Wilson was
President Truman’s first choice
for the man to be put in charge of
the entire economic mobilization
program.
WM. H. HARRISON
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William Henry Harrison’s job is
to see that the armed forces get
all the weapohs, airplanes, tanks
and supplies they need. His (title is
administrator of the Defense Pro
; duction Administration.
ERIC JOHNSTON
Eric A. Johnston has been
emerging triumphant from diffi- i
cult positions all his life. He has
always done it with a certain flair
and sparkle which teft friends
and admirers by the thousands in
his wake. Now he is in about the
most ticklish spot in Washington
—administrator of the Economic
Stabilization Agency. j
' M. V. DI SALLE
President Truman looked a long
time before (he could find a man
able and willing to take on <the
thorny job of director of price
stabilization. Finally he signed up
the popular, hard working young
mayor of Toledo, Ohio—Michael
V. Di Salle.
COUNCIL NEWS
Don Perkins, Correspondent
All of the townsfolk enjoyed
the holiday season.
Reverend Ost came up from
Unalakleet with Rev. Amundsen,
who made a night landing on the
river. It created quite a lot of ex
citement. Later in the week Cap
tain Lincoln Ost came out from
Nome and spent his first visit of
several years with his parents.
Julius Tutpon snowshoed to
White Mountain and spent Christ
mas with friends and relatives.
The following weekend Guy lone
and Don Perkins skied down and
spent New Years there. The prin
cipal and teachers were very hos
pitable to the visitors as well as
townsfolk.
The school program was pre
sented on the night of December
23. All of Council’s residents at
tended. Children of all ages par
ticipated. “Many gifts were ex
changed and distributed by Santa
Claus.
The Christmas Eve program of
the Covenant Mission was cli
All Wages, Prices
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similar communications, utilities,
carriers and movie theater admis
sions. Whether wages in those in
dus ries will be controlled is up to
the lawyers, already holding their
heads.
Besides the statement on ex
emptions, the wage board headed
by Cyrus C. Ching is driving to
come out with a formula*—'prob
ably on Tuesday or Wednesday—
for granting blanket approval to
increases along the lattem devel
opend last year. In major indus
tries this generally was for a 10
per cent wage bike—sometimes
with pensions and similar bene
fits.
The board may pick another
percentage, but increases in steel,
coal, electrical manufacturing and
aluminum industries helped to
mold the 10 per cent pattern.
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maxed with the congregation
singing many Christmas songs
and carols and an exchange of
presents.
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egates among the Divisions or that all delegates, should
be elected at large. This would give the people who are
sufficiently interested in their government to go to the
polls and vote a chance for true representation at the
constitutional convention.
CYRUS S. CHING
Cyrus S. Ching’s man-size job
in the mobilization effort is to
keep wages from rising too much
and at the same time to keep la
bor happy and busy. He works
through (the Wage Stabilization
| Board, of which he is chairman. 4
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LUCIUS D. CLAY
Many a time in the past 15 years
when a brain of a very special
quality was needed by the nation,
Gen. Lucius D. Clay has been
drafted. Now he is helping Charles
£. Wilson organize his Office of
Defense Mobilization (ODM). Clay
with the title of special assistant
to Wilson, director of ODM, is
concerned with the production
problems of ODM.
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SIDNEY WEINBERG
Sidney J. Weinberg pulls a big
weight in the topmost echelon of
the economic mobilization pro
gram. A partner in the New York
investment firm of Goldman,
Eachs and Co., he is one of the
two special assistants to Charles
E. Wilson, director of the Office
of Defense Mobilization. *
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Mrs. Don Hendershot wife of
Lt. Hendershot of the National*
Guard, who has (been in the
States for several weeks returned
home yesterday.