WASHINGTON NEWS
Hearings on Set Net Legislation
Hearings on legislation design
ed to clarify the status of set nets
in Alaska waters will be held the
morning of February 8 by a sub
committee of the Senate Inter
state and Foreign Commerce
Committee with Delegate Bartlett
as the first witness, according to
an announcement made this week
by Senator Magnuson of Washing
ton, chairman of the full commit
tee.
The measure, a companion bill
to one introduced in the House by
Delegate Bartlett, would except
set nets, stake nets and anchored
gill nets from the minimum re
quirement in the law stipulating
a distance of 1800 feet between
fixed gear. In the past the Fish
and Wildlife Service, not con
sidering set nets as fixed applian
ces, has issued regulations setting
the distance between set nets at
various lengths, such as 600 feet
in the Cook Inlet area. However,
last year, Judge Folta stated his
belief that set nets are fixed gear,
and the Fish and Wildlife Service
proposed that set nets, therefore,
in the 1955 fishing regulations
would have to be 180© feet apart.
In issuing its regulations last
week, however, the agency stated
that no changes regarding set nets
in Alaska waters were included
pending congressional action on
legislation introduced by Senator
Magnuson and Delegate Bartlett
which would allow their classi
fication as movable gear.
The hearing will be held by
the Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries of the full
Senate committee.
Bills Introduced by Delegate
Bartlett
Two bills were introduced in
the House this week by Delegate
Bartlett, one relating to Alaska
Railroad leases and the other re
garding taxes paid by federal em
ployees in 1949 on cost-of-living
allowancesu
Under a law passed in 1914 no
lease of Alaska Railroad property
for such purposes as industrial
warehousing can be for a longer
period than 20 years. Delegate
Bartlett’s bill would increase the
leasing period to 50 years.
The second measure would re
quire the Internal Revenue Ser
vice to consider as timely filed
for payment or allowance of cred
it refund claims filed within one
year after the enactment of the
bill on federal income tax paid
for the 1949 taxable year on
amounts received by federal em
ployees as cost-of-living allow
ances.
Hearings will start on the joint
Hawaii-Alaska statehood bill on
the Senate side on February 7,
according to an announcement
made this week by Senator Jack
son of Washington, Chairman of
the territories subcommittee of
the Senate Interior and Insular
Affairs Committee.
Hearings on the joint House
bill have been in progress all
this week in the Interior and In
sular Affairs Committee with
Title I of the bill relating to Ha
waii statehood under considera
tion.
Senator Jackson stated that the
decision was made to hold hear
ings in the hope that they would
be limited to testimony by re
presentatives of the executive de
partments persons not previous
ly heard, and Delegate Farrington
of Hawaii and Delegate Bartlett
for the benefit of new members
of the committee. “In the interest
of efficiency in government and
in fairness to loyal American cit
izens in those strategic American
territories,” Senator Jackson stat
ed, “every effort must be made to
limit testimony, as far as possible,
to new or supplementary material
and to hold accumulative or re
petitious evidence to a minimum.”
The Senator pointed out that ap
proximately 30 volumes of pub
lished hearings comprise the Ha
waii and Alaska statehood record
already totalling more than two
million words of testimony and
exhibits.
Statehood
The House Interior and Insular
Affairs Committee by a 15 to 7
decision voted this week to by
pass the territories subcommittee
and hold full committee hearings
immediately on the combined
Hawaii-Alaska statehood bill in
troduced by committee chairman
Clair Engle of California.
States-Alaska Case
Delegate Bartlett submitted
figures to the Civil Aeronautics
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Alaska Legislation
Delegate Bartlett introduced
two bills this week, one having
to do with the cost-of-living al
lowances paid federal employees
in Alaska and other places out
side the continental United States
and the second authorizing con
veyance of title to certain lots in
Sitka.
Under terms of the Indepen
dent Offices Appropriation Act of
1949, as amended, cost-of-living
allowances were authorized for
federal employees working out
side the continental United States,
such as Hawaii and Alaska. The
ceiling was placed at 25 percent
above cost-of-living in the Dis
trict of Columbia. As a result, Al
aska federal employees have been
receiving a 25 percent differential
above their basic compensation
and those in. Hawaii a 20 percent
differential. The bill sponsored by
Delegate Bartlett would raise the
limitation of 25 percent to the
actual costs above the District of
Columbia. Similar legislation has
been introduced in the Senate.
Last year on legislation which
died with the 83rd Congress, a
number of federal departments
urged a measure, especially for
Alaska, similar to that introduced
by Delegate Bartlett this week.
The Sitka bill would grant clear
title to certain lots in Sitka, some
14 in number. Twelve of the tracts
are held by the city under so
called restricted deeds, and it is
desired by the city officials that
these, together with two others,
be conveyed without restrictions.
ROSE BAUDER AND
CLAIBORNE LEE TO
WED ON FEB. 12
In a double ring ceremony to
be performed at Moose Hall on
February 12 Rose Bauder of Sut
ton and Claiborne Lee of Palmer
will exchange marriage vows.
U. S. Commissioner Dorothy B.
Saxton will perform the cere
mony at 7 p.m. All friends of the
couple are invited to attend the
ceremony and the reception
which will follow at 8 p.m. at
Alpine Inn in Sutton.
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PALMER TEACHER
TO WED ON FEB. 12
St.- Michael’s Catholic Church
will be the scene of an afternoon
wedding on February 12 when
Miss Wanda Jean Kauffeld,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Kauffeld of Clarksville, Arkansas
will become the bride of Ser
geant Joseph V. Shively of Fort
Richardson. The double ring cere
mony will be performed by Rev.
James P. Snead at 2:30 p.m. A
reception for the couple will be
held in the church basement fol
lowing the ceremony.
The bride-to-be is a sixth grade
teacher in Central School.
Sgt. Shively is stationed in Pal
mer as vetinarian technician at
the Co-Op Creamery.
All friends of the couple are in
vited to attend the ceremony and
reception.
LOCAL MASONS ENJOY
TRIP TO CORDOVA
Several area residents enjoyed
a flight to Cordova on February
3, where they attended degree
work by the Mt. Susitna Masonic
Lodge No. 294 and the Matanuska
Valley Masonic Lodge No. 293.
Those attending from Palmer
were Mr. and Mrs. C. Ivan i
Branton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Lew Hanks,
Melvin E. Burgan, Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver Onkka, and Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Severns. C. IvaR Branton
is worthy master of the local
Masonic lodge. Wilson, Hanks,
fl. 0. T Group
To View Famous
French Film
“Diary of a Country Priest”, an
unusual French film with English
subtitles, will be shown at 8 p.m
Saturday evening m the social
room at United Protestant
Church according to members of
the Palmer A. C. T. who are spon
soring the showing of what is to
be the final film of the present
series of outstanding films bro
ught to the valley tthis past win
ter.
Essentially the story of a
French priest’s attempt to raise
the moral level of his village, the
! film shows his anguish and con
flicts as the people misinterpret
his temperament and faith. The
film is considered the best French
film of 1951 and won the Venice
Film Festival special award and
the Italian film critics’ prize for
best foreign film of the year.
and Burgan are all past-masters
of the lodge.
The visitors were treated to
some of the famous Cordova clam
chowder while visiting in the hos
pitable city. Robert M. Parkins,
worthy master of the Mt. Susitna
lodge, was in charge of arrange
ments.
There are 960,000 adult volun
teer leaders in the Boy Scouts of
America.
FEBRUARY 13
10:00 Sunday School Classes
11:00 Morning Worship
"Jesus' Year of Opposition"
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