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pass through the Congressional
mill.
Rehabilitation work will con
sist of four chief projects: <1» a
new right of way with properly
ballasted tracks; (2) 115-pound
rail to replace worn 70-pound
steel; (3) a new working plant and
(4> fleet new rolling stock.
An increase in traffic and rising
‘costs kept adding to the rehabili
tation bill causing engineers to
change plans to include new and
.larger facilities than planned or
iginally.
The work includes laying of 101
miles of track from Cantwell to
Curry. This is in addition to about
50 miles to be laid under last
year’s contract.
Work on 144 miles will be di
vided into six sections, planned
according to priorities. In order of
priority they follow:
Colorado to Cantwell, 26.1
miles; Curry to Canyon, 21.4
miles; Chulitna to Colorado. 21
miles; Healy to Clear, 35.3 miles;
Wasilla to Willow 27.4 miles; Pot
ter to Anchorage, 12.9 miles.
Also in the 1949 plan is the
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in the Kenai Peninsula’s highway
system, connecting with Anchor
age and the rest of the Alaska
road network.
The job involves putting in a
12-mile long bench for both rail
road and highway to share from
Indian to Potter. Jt means “tip
toeing” along the base of the
mountains between land and sea,
and involves moving 1,800,000 cu
bic yards of solid rock, supplying
12 miles of track and ballast, and
building 12 miles of highway.
A part of last year’s program
still to be completed is finishing
of the maintenance building out
side of army hangars.
Also to be done is bridge work
in Nenana canyon, finishing of 14
buildings, and laying 15 miles of
track in the Fairbanks terminal
yards.
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Gen. Ralph Rivers to testify
lengthily.
Rivers declared the bill was an
attempt to tighten liquor law en-;
forcement and "where I cut down
on apparently stringent terms of
the present law, it leaves way for
more practical enforcement."
Rivers added: "This is my last
attempt in office to improve the
liquor enforcement law."
The House adjourned at 11 pm.
after Rivers concluded, without
bringing the bill to a vote.
Rep. Warren A. Taylor, Demo
crat, who introduced the bill, also
disputed press reports that the bill
was a liberalization of the present
law. Both Taylor and Rivers said
in regard to published reports that
the bill would exempt beer and
wine from the election day ban on
i liquor sales that striking the two
beverages from the election day
section was merely a matter of le
i gal procedure to eliminate unnec
essary verbiage; that beer and
wine were listed as intoxicating
beverages in another section of
the liquor law, so it would be re
dundant to reiterate "including
beer and wine” in reference to
, election day ban on intoxicants.
One major change proposed by
the bill would put liquor licensing
in the hands of district court
I clerks instead of judges.
Rivers said District Judges ex
pressed a desire to get away from
the licensing duty which they felt
! put them in an undesirable posi
tion as administrative officials as
I well as judicial. He said appeals
; from clerks’ licensing would go to
I the judges.
Other changes in the proposed
law include:
Women under 21 could patron
; ize bars if accompanied by a
! spouse of legal age; the $2,500
bond for licensees eliminated; the
law would be clarified to elimin
j ate language which could prevent
I liquor sales in the rest of the Ter
ritory when an election was being
held in any city; local city council
would have authority to waive a
regulation requiring liquor dis
pensaries be at least 200 feet from
schools or churches; penalties not
exceeding 45 days’ license suspen
sion for first violation and not
over 90 for second, instead of the
mandatory 45 and 90; doubling of
license fee to $1,000 for bars adja
cent to cities.
Rivers declared the combination
of bond forfeitures, fines and li
cense suspensions amounted to
such stiff penalties for oftimes
minor infractions that he found, as
former district attorney, that con
victions and guilty pleas were al
most impossible to get.
Wednesday. March 9. 1949
JUNEAU, {A*}—An Alaskan li
quor bill, twice labeled a ‘‘hot po
tato” during debate, stymied the
Territorial House again last night
after two nights and a day of con
sideration.
After an afternoon flood of
amendments and an evening flood
of arguments, death for the bill by
i n d e f i nite postponement was
averted by a single vote.
The bill was due to return to I
the floor today on speaker Mc
Cutcheon’s motion to reconsider
the vote on Dale’s rejected amend
ment.
This would have provided that
10 per cent of the Territory’s li
quor revenues go toward rehabili
tation of homes and hospitals for
alcoholics.
The provision which drew the
most fire would transfer license
issuance from district judges to
court clerk. Opponents charged
the bill weakened enforcement
while supporters led by sponsor
Warren Taylor, contended it
would make the liquor* laws more
enforceable by reducing the strin- j
gent penalties which juries con
sistently refuse to impose for mi- 1
nor offenses.
The vote was 12 to 11 for post
ponement, but 13 “ayes” were
needed. Votes for postponement
were cast by Angerman, Barnes,
Egan, Franklin, Gundersen, Hope,
Jensen, Frank L. Johnson, Ipa
look, Miscovich, Rydeen and Tay
lor. The latter switched his vote
to be in position to move for re
consideration if the motion car
ried.
Amendments adopted during
yesterday’s afternoon session in
cluded:
Prohibition against minors be
ing in a liquor dispensary, even
with parents; a provision that a
lodge or club could get a license
for a bar even if near a church
but not within 200 feet of a school;
deletion of the provision allowing
city councils to waive the 200-foot
rule.
The Senate finance committee
prepared a unanimous recommen
dation for enactment of a tobacco
tax levying three cents on a stand
ard cigarette pack. The commit
tee divided, two Democrats for
and two Republicans against, on
passage of the raw fish and can
ned salmon percentage tax.
A Memorial was introduced by
Senators Daws, Rivers and Jones
for the interior department to in
vestigate government financing of
a $20,000,000 custom smelter in
Southeastern Alaska. It was be
lieved such a smelter would de
velop Alaska mining and elimin
ate the long haul of ore to Tacoma
or California smelters. The memo
rial was addrsesed to the Presi
dent, Congress and the secretary
of the interior.
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