against it.
Under the rules procedure, the
legislators who are ac t u a 1 1 y
against the tax bill could switch ;
their votes to the prevailing if it
looked as if the bill was going 4o
pass. Then the president could
name two members who are actu- '
ally against the bill or major parts
of it to serve on the conference
committee as upporters of it.
The conference committee can
rewrite 1he bills for re-su’omiss b’
to both Houses.
If the committee fails to reach
an agreement satisfactory to both
Houses, a committee with power
of free conference will be named.
Olga Hay. daughter of Mr. and
Mis. Ole Hay who has been vaca
tioning in Seattle as :he gue-t of
Mr. an l Mrs. A. M .Hartford, re
turned home yesterday. Eric Hay
uid Paul McCarthy, who are at
tending the Washington State Ccl
| lege were also guests at the Hart
ford home during the holidays.
Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Tucker an 1
1 lighter left for Arizona where
1 Mrs. Tucker, who is in poor
health* will make her home.
i Then it reports back to he House
and Senate its rport must be ac
cented or rejected in toto without
amendment.
BASKETBALL GAME TONIGHT
AT HIGH SCHOOL
A basketball game is scheduled
for this evening at eight o’clock in
the High School gymnasium be
tween Nome High School and U.
S. Merc. Teams.
The game is a benefit game and
the funds derived will be used to
send the High School team to An
chorage for the All-Alaska meet
in February.
This is a wonderful opportunity
for the boys on the team as well
as good experience and the school
sponsors feel the team stands a
good chance to make a good show
ing.
U.S. Commissioner's Court
At the hearing .n the U. S. Com
missioner’s Court for the final set
tlement of the estate of Gus Cre
midas it was found by the probate
court that Marie Cremidas Tate
was the solo heir to the estate.
Judge J. Kehoe and wife, who
left last week for.a few months in
the States have been in Fairbanks
where Judge Kehoe has been at
the St. Joseph’s hospital.
The average American made
301 telephone calls in 1947.
Under way...
Once AGAIN "Full speed ahead!"
The facilities of the Alaska Steamship
Company are humming busily as another
year of service to the Territory begins.
Granting good faith in the agreements
with which shipping service was restored,
The Alaska Line is determined to provide
continuous service to all Alaska for years
tfo come.
This new beginning, coming as it does
near the start of a new year, gives us an
appropriate opportunity to restate our
objectives.
Alaska Steamship Company hopes
that residents of the Territory—who look
to The Alaska Line a^ the main artery of
the North — will recognize our sincere
desire to assist Alaska in realizing the full
promise of her great future.
The Alaska Steamship Company’s first
objective, therefore, is to provide the best
freight and passenger service possible at
rates that will promote territorial growth
and prosperity.
Our second aim is to encourage indus
trial development in Alaska.
And our third aim is to accept our
responsibility as good neighbors and be
a force for civic good throughout the
areas in which we operate.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Stwbtf j4U rtitufa
Alaska Capable
Of Producing
Much Electricity
*
"/P> Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, i/P. — Develop
ment of electrical energy is the
key to Alaska’s industry, assistant
secretary of the interior William
E. Warne said late Saturday.
Within the past six months, he
said, enough power sites have
been found in Alaska to multiply
the Territory’s electrical output
1,500 times.
Warne, writing in the bureau of
reclamation’s magazine, ‘The Re
clamation Era,” said the bureau
started investigating Alaska n
power and irrigation project pos
sibilities last July after Congress
provided SI50,000 for that pur
pose.
Although engineers have sur
veyed only the major r vers,
Warne sad;, they already have
found hydroelectric power sites
which would produce more than
50,000,000,000 kilowatt-hours an
nually.
This represents about one-fifth
the electric power output of United
States utilities in 1947, he added.
Alaska’s power output last year
was only 34,500,000 kilowatt
hours.
The reclamation bureau’s Jun
eau office already has submitted
to the interior department its re
port on the proposed Eklutna pro
ject near Anchorage. Warne said.
He added:
“At the present time it appears
that the next development in the
railbelt area would be in Devil
Canyon on the Susitna River, 125
miles north of Anchorage and only
10 miles from the Alaska Railroad.
“The Devil Canyon project
would serve not only the Anchor
age area but also several large
new industries projected for the
railbelt. Initial installed power
plant capacity would be more than
100,000 kilowatts.
“All in all, I am told there are
30 major }>otential hydroelectric
power sites in Southeast Alaska
alone, which could have a contin
uous capacity of more than 300,
000 kilowatts. Investigations are
now being conducted on major
sites near Juneau, Sitka and
Ketchikan.’’
Warne said the federal govern
ment’s inter-agency committee on
Alaskan development, organized
last year, “feels that if we can de
velop hydroelectric power in
Alaska, the edge can be knocked
off the high cost of energy.”
“Some industries will be attrac
ted,” he said.
“This would also reduce the size
of the requirement for capital in
putting small industries into the
Territory and thereby knock down
thje high cost of living.
“Without a new source of ener
gy, a town like Anchorage will
have to stop growing. Without a
lower-cost source of energy, the
same town will have no develop
ment of business or basic indus
try to support it in the long run.’*
Three basketball stars are play
ing their last season for George
I Washington U. They are Maynard
Haithcock, Dave Shapiro and Bill
Cantwell.
Tallest player on the Villanova
College basketball squad is John
Holland, six feet seven inches.
D. C. Wilcutt, flashy ace of the
1948 St. Louis U. Five, is playing
for the St. Louis Bombers in the
Basketball Association of Amer