DEMOCRATIC RALLY ■
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oil industry* The oil industry, slut
said, "can buy the canned salmon indust
ry with its petty cash* " Only with
statehood, she reminded her listeners,
can Alaskans protect themselves from ex
ploitation,
In regard to the mental health bill,
Delegate Bartlett gave a lengthy explana
tion of his reasons for asking that bill
be killed in the last session of Con
gress«
The Delegate said that he first in-,
traduced a mental health bill in the
nd Congress, This bill, he • said, "died"
when it was objected to by a Republican
congressman,
hi hen the 83rd Congress convened in
January, 1953, he again introduced the
same bill but the Interior department
did not see fit to bring up the bill
This year the chairman of the Rouse In
sular Affairs committee changed the
bill without consulting dhe Delegate
from Alaska and introduced it under his
oitrni mane* . This bill, Bartlett said,
contained fino,ncxal committments for the
Territory and the government still had
the controls* Also, he said, the bill
stated that the contract with Morning
side could not be changed*
The Senate, the Delegate stated came
out with a version of the bill that was,
in. his opinion, even worse«
It was then that he wrote to the ap
propriate senate officers and asked that
the bill not be brought to the floor as
there had been too many changes and that
no Alaskans had been given an opportuni
ty to testify on the bill« Regardless of
this the bill was reported out of the.
Senate and failed to. pass when a Senator
objected to itRe stated that-he did
not know why it was objected to, but
that two Senators }had;, /Said that they
would not allow a bill that sent people
to a contract hospital to be passed,
Ray Plummer, •candidate'for the Mouse
of Representatives and present Democratic
Rationdl Committeeman, spoke on the unity
of the Democratic \candidates and the dis
unity which he Said existed' among the
Republican office seekers, He thanked
the people for the vote which his party
received in the primaries and pledged
support of any feasible local legislation
which the people of the area felt might
be needed.
The candidates who were'tore sent were
Delegate Bartlett,. Hugh tfade,Kinkey tan
ner., . J* hart Cooper, Jack Werner, . Al
Chten, Ray Plummer, Irene Ryan, E* G*
'•Bailey and Ken Johnson*
JIarry Hegdahl acted as master of cere
monies for the evening*
Mrs* Hegdahl and Mrs* Homer Thompson
were in charge of the dinner preparations*
HOMER SCHOOL HEWS
(The following school news note was
written for the paper by the members of
the second grade class* )
Sue Enzler brought a strange limb to
school* Tommy Tice brought some records
to school for us to hear* Mike Pate fell
and cut his hand over the weekend* Mar
vin Bellamy’s Dad got home from Moose
hunting Sunday. Dorothy Johnson’s Dad
left to go moose hunting at 5 o’clock
Monday morning* We are going to have a
new boy, in our room*
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT UP
The school enrollment is up to 214
pupils, an all-time high for the Homer
school, The increase is due to the en
rollment of the John Ost children during
the week*
HISS BASSETT BACK
Miss Madelane Bassett, commercial
teateher, was back at work Tuesday after
suffering from an attack of pneumonia,
Mrs; Dorothy Raver substituted for Hiss
Bassett during her illness«
FOUR NEK TYPEWRITERS RECEIVED
Four new typewriters have been receiv
ed by’the school. Two more are on order
and nine tables are also expected soon,
Rarer staff named - . ... '
Bill Kraniph has been named editor-in-■*
chief of Homerfs Idi-Odyssey, tkemonthly,
Paper of the school, Other members of
staff are: Bob Browning, associate edid
tar;Bill Clyde, art editor;Emery Robirts,
circulation manager.; Ray Kranich and
Dave Perry, technicians, Typists for the
paper are Punky Campbell, .Gwen Edens, Jo
Ann Willard and Marilyn Aim• Advisor for
the paper is Miss Bassett,
FRESHMEN INITIATED
Nineteen Freshmen and one upper class
man who had failed to receive the proper
initiation as a Frash, received their
due initiation last Friday night at the
school house, A dance followed the in
itiation activities•
SUBSTITUTE JANITOR
Ivan Knodel is substituting as janitor
for the school while Charlie Roehl is
out moose hunting,
{HftTHDAY GIFTS FOR KIDS?
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MARION'S APPAREL
WINNER OF THE
FREE GREASE JOB
AT Al'S GARAGE
A.S DAVIS