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Letter to the Ed iter
Dear Sir:
The letter by Eudora Preston
which appeared in your issue of
June 18, 1960 is true as far as it
goes. There is, however, much
more to this ©lection code.
This election code passed by our
first state legislature is more than
an “act to codify and revise the
law relating to state elections.” It
is a law that, in the opinion of
many Alaskans, restricts the rights
of the people in this state guaran
teed to them under the Federal
and Alaska Constitutions.
There are quite naturally misun
derstandings about any form of
legislation that might be passed
and this law is certainly no excep
tion. But there can be no misunder
standing that this law is basically
unsound and unfair to a far greater
amount of people in Alaska than
our legislators thought.
Explaining the functions of a
straight party vote still does not
eliminate the evil itself. The vot
ing of a straight party ticket is
provided for in this law and its
sole reason for being included was
to permit further party machine
control. There can be no misunder
standing about this. What other
reason is there?
The retaining of the unpopular
semi-closed primary is another ex
ample of ignoring the wishes of
many Alaskans. Now we are forced
to vote only in one party primary
even though we are independent
and wish to vote in the general
election for candidates of more
than one party. Eudora Preston
‘ mentions that everyone, if they
wish, can enter the Democratic
party primary and vote for those
they wish, especially there in
Kodiak where there appears to
be a hot contest in that party. But
this is one of the evils of the law.
If people are encouraged to vote
in only one party primary, then
the other party will wither and
die for lack of interest.
This law further has placed the
operation of our election in rne
hands of the political party in
power, in this case the Democratic
"•arty. No longer will we have the
benefit of the judiciary running
0"r election. Now we will have a
political party run it for us.
Further there can be no mis
understanding that this law has
“legislated” the Alaska party from
the election ballot. This party was
legitimate and had contested the
last general election gaining a re
spectable vote. But this party did
not run a candidate for governor
in 1958 and thus was declared not
to be a political party by our legis
lators.
I am most familiar with this last
point as I filed for the U. S. Sen
ate on the Alaska Party ticket only
to have my filing rejected by this
law. I have since filed for nomina
tion in the Republican primary of
August 9, 1980. I am taking this
election code as an issue in this
coming election as a good example
of the poor legislation that we
receive for our tax dollar; as well
as another freedom lost by our
people for the benefit of efficient
party government.
it appears now we will not
secure the necessary signatures to
our petition to have this election
code placed on the November 8th
ejection ballot. But this does not
mean that we will be compelled
to live under this law. We have a
new legislature to be elected this
November. I would request that
each voter in the thirteenth elec
tion distriot question the candi
dates regarding their views on this
law. The law can easily be amend
ed to cpmply more with the wishes
of the people of this state. What
we need now are the legislators
that will do it.
I should like to take this oppor
tunity to thank Mrs. Marie Chand
ler for her efforts and time in cir
culating our referendum petition.
Her only motive in doing this was
to further her wish for good gov
ernment and this is very much
appreciated by the referendum
committee. I would like further to
thank every one of the people in
the Kodiak area who signed this
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petition. They have attempted to
make it possible for the people of
our state to vote on an issue that
is of great importance to us all.
Sincerely,
Lawrence M. Brayton
To Co-ordinate
Alaska Studies
Alaska Governor William A.
Egan and Senator Warren G. Mag
nuson, Chairman of the Alaska
International Rail and Highway
Commission, today announced they
. had established the basis for co
ordinating two programs desired
. to expedite Alaska’s economic de
I velopment.
Data on natural resources of
’ Northwest America developed for
1 the Commssion by Battelle Memor
ial Institute of Columbus, Ohio,
. will be made available to Arthur
D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts, recently awarded a
contract by the State of Alaska
for an economic development pro
gram. In this program Little is
to identify specific investment op
portunities in the new State and
assist in attracting capital for their
development.
The Battelle Institute for some
months has been conducting for
the Commission a broad study of
the natural reasources of Alaska
and Western Canada in relation
to the needs for new or improved
transportation facilities and to the
benefits which would be derived
from adequate rail and highway
connections.
Births
A daughter, Elizabeth Diane,
weighing 8 lbs. 4 ozs., was born on
June 18 to Sylvia and John
Boucher.
Police Arrest 7
Howard Catterlin was'booked on
a charge of serving liquor to a
minor. Arraigned before the Dep
uty Magistrate, he -was fined $100,
which was suspended.
A $25 fine, which was suspended,
was given Keith Boone, when he
was charged with operating a mo
tor vehicle while intoxicated. His
driver’s license was suspended for
30 days.
Five others were booked on
drunk charges. These included Al
bert J. Gonsalves, released on $25
bail, which was forfeited; Victor B.
Snell, $25 fine with $10 suspended.
He was sentenced to five days, any
part of which would be suspended
if he left the city; Bertha Robin
son, minor intoxicated, sentenced
to 30 days but sentence suspended
if she left the city; Walter Bur
dick, released on $50 bail, which
was forfeited, when booked on a
drunk and disorderly charge; and
George Nekeferoff was fined $300
and sentenced to 30 days.
Library Board
Meets Monday
A meeting of the Kodiak Public
Library Board will be held Monday
afternoon, June 27, at the library.
This is an annual meeting. All
holders of membership cards are
welcome to attend.
Incumbent Is
A Candidate
The name of Rep. Peter Deveau
was inadvertently left off of the
list of candidates running for the
State legislature, as mentioned in
the letter to the editor from Mrs.
Eudora Preston, which appeared
in last week’s issue of the Kodiak
Mirror.
Rep. Deveau is a candidate for
a seat in the legislature, and the
article should have read “Pete
Deveau. Chuck Weir, Gil Jarvella
and Eudora Preston,” as it appear
ed in the original letter from Mrs.
Preston.
Bears Best Braves in League Tilt
The Kodiak Bears, sponsored by
the Merchants of Kodiak, had their
fourth win in seven games, Friday
evening, at the Little League field
in town, racking up a score of 11
runs against the visiting team from
the Base, the Braves, who scored
three runs.
The Bears, rallying behind their
pitcher, Russel! Thorsheim, who
gave up only three hits and walked
none, came from behind in the
fourth when Roger King slid home
on a wild pitch.
Leading the hitters was Ralph
Lon "mire, who had 3 for 3 and a
season average of .500.
Lokken, on the mound for the
Braves, held the Bears hitless for
two innings. In the bottom of the
third, Kenny Lester laid the wood
to Lokken’s first pitch for a single.
From then on, the Bears would
not be denied.
'I'tling for the Braves were
Thurman, McDuffie and Hansen
with a single each.
There’s action galore in the
Little League games played be
tween rainy nights, as seen in the
accompanying pictures. Occasion
ally, plays rivaling those in the big
leagues are made. Little Leaguers
in the pictures, shot by Mirror
cameraman, George Ameigh, were
unidentified.
No Stock Summary
Stock market summaries will
not be published in the Kodiak
Mirror, as previously announced.
Insufficient interest was evident
from the lack of response to the
idea as outlined in the June 11
issue of the Kodiak Mirror.
Read the classifieds for profit,
use them for results.
IS YOUR MONEY GOING...
OR GROWING?
Does money just seem to ‘‘slip through your
fingers?” Open a savings account—with a con
venient amount—make deposits regularly and
watch your savings GROW instead of GO. You’ll
be amazed to see how fast figures in your
passbook increase when you save REGULARLY
out of income. Your savings here are insured
to $10,000 by Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation.
Kodiak Branch
NATIONAL BANK OF ALASKA
Member F. D. I. C. and Federal Reserve System