MARITIME BOARD 'MITES
ON MEIGHT RATES
(Cent, from Page 3)
Big Delta, Copper Center,
Glen Allen, Gulkana, Tok,
Tam cross and Northway, Alas
ka via Valdez in connection
with Garrison Fast Freight,
Inc*,an Alaska mot*r carrier*
The Board has accepted these
rates for filing because Al
aska Steamship Company over
which- it has jurisdiction as
sumes full responsibility for
shipments from origin to des
tination, Garrison Fast
Freight, Inc», acting only as
the highway on-carrier under
contract with Alaska Steam
ship Company and issuing no
bills of lading of its own on
the shipments*
We believe that your prob
lem of securing the .estab
lishment of proportional or
through water-truck rates via
Homer is a matter that should
be discussed by you with the
traffic officials, of Alaska
Steamship Company and the
trucking firms operating over
the Alaska highways that
might be willing to serve
Homer under such arrangements
if made* The Board has no
authority to order the estab
lishment of rates by motor
carriers operating in .alaska*
Very truly yours,
L* Tibbett
Chief, Regulation Office
library board to meet
The board of directors of
the Homer library will meet
tonight (Thursday) at 8 p.m.
at the library, according to
Ruth Newman, president.
SALMON INDUSTRY TO OPPOSE
TERRITORIAL 'BORROWING
Delegate E. L, (Bob) Bart
lett last week expressed as
tonishment that' the Alaska
Salmon Industry, Inc,, has
announced Intention to oppose
bills before Congress which
would permit the Territory
of Alaska to replenish its
unemployment compensation
treasury by borrowing from
the federal government,
. Bills to permit the Ter
ritory to borrow money under
the provisions of the employ
ment 3e cur it y Admini st rot ive
Financing Act of 1954 have
been introduced in the Senate
by Senator Henry M, Jackson
of Washington and in the
House by Delegate Bartlett,
Their introduction followed a
ruling by Attorney General
Brownell that the provisions
of Alaska’s Organic Act of
1912 against incurring in
debtedness act to prevent
participation in the national
program without special leg
islation, The Attorney Gen
eral’s opinion runs counter
to one previously written by
the Acting Solicitor of the
Interior Department,
"I have not been notified
directly of the Alaska Salmon
Industry’s position,” Bart
lett said, ”but have been in
formed that W, C, Arnold,
Managing director of the In
dustry, has written to the
Chief Clerk of the House Com
mittee on Interior and Insu
lar Affairs stating, are
opposed to it and would like
an opportunity to be beard
against it,”
In another letter written
to Representative Leo 1
O’Brien, chairman of the In
terior and Insular Affairs*
subcommittee on territories,
^rnold attacked the new un
employment compensation bill
recently enacted by the ter
ritorial legislature and
which became law without Gov
ernor Heintzleman’s' signature,
"The fact Is that the Al
aska Salmon Industry worked
very diligently during the
legislative session to secure
passage of a bill different
in essential respects from
that which was finally pas
sed,” Bartlett said* "I have
been told that it would have
been more restrictive in re
spect to benefits to industry
workers than the one actually
enacted. However that may
be, the views of the Industry
did not prevail, Entirely
aside from the virtues or de
fects of the territorial leg
islature’s action, an intol
erable situation would be,
created if an industry could
now come before the Congress
and prevent passage of ur
gently, needed legislation
simply because it does not
like the territorial law. If
the opinion of the Acting
Solicitor of the Interior De
partment had been followed,
there ^ould bo no need for
action now on tfco part of the
Congress, Since I assume the
conclusions of the Attorney
General will prevail, federal
legislation is necessary, and
it ill becomes the Salmon In
dustry to seek to block tlie
will of the>people of Alaska
as expressed through their
legislature. For one, 1 pro
pose to do everything I can
to have, the Congress act
promptly. I hope hearings on
this bill Trill be held in the
House during the week of Ap
ril 24."
SCHOOL HONOR ROLL AND
ATTENDANCE RECORDS LISTED
The Hone r Territorial high
school honor roll posted last
week contains the names of
the following students •
Dorene HoLtis. Robert
Browning, Laura Lcfgren, and
Phillip Nichols9
Perfect attendance records
wore made by Leo Ost, Ted Ro
birts, Myrtle Sibson, Marilyn
Aim, Robert Browning, James
Seljevoldj Joann • Willard,
Laura Lofgrcn, George Jenson,
Erling , Kvasnikoff, Phillip
Nichols, Ruth Nielson, Roy
O’Connor, Leo Browning and
Dave Perry.
GOOD CROWD OPENS
HOMER CLUB
A good crowd of local res
idents was on hand last Fri
day night to re-open, the Hom
er Club which had been closed
for a few days for xe-decora~
tion by the new owners, Har
old and Electa Billups.
PUD BOARD *T0 MEET
AT 8 P.M. TONIGHT
The board »f directors
will meet tonight (Thursday)
to swear in the new members,
Mrs. Margaret Anderson and
Henning Johnson, and to elect
officers for the caning year.
THE HOMER NEWS IS
1* The newspaper with the largest circulation on the Kenai Peninsula#
2# A newspaper with an editor who thinks for himself and keeps his
opinions whore they belong—in the editorial columns•
3# A newspaper that is operated as a business with two purposes
in mind.—“keeping the public informed and providing the main
support for the publisher and his family#
4# A newspaper published by experienced and qualified newspaper
people.
5# A newspaper that will grow with the comunity#
wE believe
"The press is good or evil according to
the character of those^rho direct it*—
It is a mill that grinds all that is
put into its hopper.—Fill the hopper
rith poisoned grain and it rill grind
it to meal but there is death in the
bread."
William Cullen Bryant