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Menial Health Legislation
Further consideration was giv
en this week to mental health leg
islation for Alaska by the Sen
ate Committee on Interior and
Insular Affairs which has before
it a committee print differing con
siderably in several respects from
the bill as it passed the House.
Delegate Bartlett appeared be
fore the committee and urged that
the provisions of the bill modern
ising and revising the commit
ment procedures of Alaska's
mentally ill be approved but sug
gested that the other features ef
the committee print be consider
ed only after the people of Alas
ka. including the territorial legis
lators, had had a chance to ex
amine thoroughly the provisions
and make iheir views known.
Aside from the commitment
procedures which are largely the
Same as in the House version, the
Senate committee print provides
that as of April 1, 1955, the Ter
ritory will undertake the finan
cial responsibility for the care
onrl frontmAn* Ur. Ill
with the federal government con
tinuing to care for only those
who have been committed up to
that date. The committee print
grants to the Territory ->i h
purpose of providing'for the care
and treatment of the mentally ill
of Alaska” 200,000 acres of va
cant. upappropriated and unre
served public land’s including
mineral deposits. The print specif
ically states that all sales, grants,
deeds or patents for any of the
mineral land will contain a reser
vation to the Territory of all the
minerals in the lands, together ,
with the right to prospect for, {
mine, and remove the same. Min
eral deposits in the lands could |
be leased by the Territory but I
not sold.
Senator Cordon, chairman of
the Senate committee, informed
Delegate Bartlett that he person
ally would approve an amend- j
ment to the land provision which
would permit the Territory to
I obtain complete title 'to mineral
lands for whatever disposition
might be desired.
Alarska Legislation
Seven of Delegate Bartlett’s
bills were reported to the Senate
this week, -two others passed the
House and a tenth Bartlett mea
sure was reported favorably to
the Hmise.
In addition, two other Alaska
bills were approved by the House
this week, one to allow the Terri
tory to incur bonded indebtedness
not exceeding a total of $200,000
for emergency purposes when
the legislature is .not in session,
and the other permitting until
December 31, 1056, the disposal
to the Territory of federal sur
plus personal property without
cost ox transfer of funds.
One of the seven Bartlett bills
sent to the Senate by the Com
mittee on Interior and Insular
Affairs would effect a change
in the boundary between the Sec
ond and Fourth Divisions to con
form with the natural dividing
mg ai ca. i iic i-iiCdoui t
has gone to the White House as
the Senate approved the House
version. Amendments to the six
other bills if adopted by the
Senate will require further
House consideration of the ipea
sures. These would permit sales
of small tracts of land to the Ni
nilchik Hospital Association, to
the Alaska Evangelization Socie
ty of Levelock, to the Alaska
Council of Boy Scouts for a camp
site for the Sitka troop, to the
Community Club of Chugiak, to
the Turnagain Arm Community
Club of Anchorage, and to the
Baptist Mid-Missions for a church
site at Naptowne.
North Pacific Fisheries
Convention Legislation
Legislation giving effect to the
North Pacific Fisheries Conven
tion went to the White House
this week without the amend
ment sponsored by Senator Mag- ;
nuson providing that the powers
vested by the measure in the
j Secretary of the Interior would
be effective only “as long as Al
I aska shall remain a Terrilnry.7'
The bill, which gives effect to
t ie Convention governing the con
duct of Japan, Canada and the
United States an the taking of sal
rion, herring and halibut in the
Ilorth Pacific, permits the Interi
or Department to extend its con
servation regulations over United
States citizens and United States
! vessels in waters affected with no
provision made an the event of
Alaska statehood. The Magnuson
amendment urged Iby Director
.rmderson of the Alaska Ugpart
nent of Fisheries and Delegate
Bartlett first adopted by the
! Senate would have provided that
these powers would have been
Li effect only while Alaska re
I mained a Territory. The House
deleted this amendment and when
,the bill went back to the Senate
I this week the House version was
adopted.
Director Farley of the Fish and
; Wildlife Service of the Depart
ment of the Interior, which con
f rols commercial fishing in Alas
ka, testified in opposition to the
.Magnuson amendment.
SPECIAL EASTERN STAR
MEETING AUGUST 18
There will be a special meeting
of the Matanuska Valley Chapter
No. 14, O. E. S. Wednesday night,
August 18 at Carpenters’ Hall,
for the purpose of initiation. The
meeting will begin at 8 p.m. All
visiting Eastern Star members
arc welcome to attend.
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HEALTH FOR ALL
Who Gels TB?
■Ralf a 'century -ago tuberculosis
was "a disease especially of young
people. So strong did the evi
dence seem that many older peo
ple believed they were safe from
TB laecause of their age. Now we
know that TB can strike at anv
age.
Very young children can and
do catch TB, and the disease fre
quently strikes them violently,
but modern science has made
great progress in the age group.
Between the ages of 5 and 14,
children sem to be less suscepti
ble to TB. From 15 to 24, there
are five times as many cases as
among young children.
But when we look at the next
age group we find that “the dan
gerous years” have moved ahead.
The greatest number of newly re
ported active cases of TB, accord
ing to Public Health Service
figures, are in the years from 25
to 44. There i» some drop from
45 to 64, but twice as many new
cases are reported in that group
as among the 14 to 24 year-olds.
There is still an appreciable num
ber of cases among people 65 and
over.
Young or oid, people still catch
TB in the same old way, but ex
posure to an active case ol' the
disease. Statistics seem to say
that more people are breaking
down with the disease in the |
middle years of youth.
Some of the reasons why peo
ple break down with TB are well
known. A heavy new invasion of i
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! the general level of health, and
J mental and emotional stress can |
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This column is contributed, in
the interest of better health, by
the National Tuberculosis Asso
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