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VOL. 3.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA, APRIL, 12, 1929
NO. 39
New School Law
Political iiili
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Was presented in the Terri
torial Senate a
general revision of the sehoo.
laws of tire uuii
Ol S O i
of legislation are sen .tors Bi
mono and Dunn.
Here are excerpts id am i _e
lav/ propo sed i
poiients of Hem
The pub he sj.it’
be administered . j uie . . . -
ing authorities, _’iie Ter
ritoriai Bo: tu c an,
territorial o. nm.
cation, and ax ... moi ,u ....
The Territ .
cation shall eons!si. 01 me
ernor of Alaska, who shall a :
ex-officio President, and six
other citizens of the Ter.itory |
of Alaska. :w HO
POINTED BY 'ills Ge vE..tNOA j
thereof by and
and consent of tl
They shall be pan re a annuls
necessary expense
salary.
The Board shall meet about
the time of each Legislature
special meetings ...
“at such time and place as the
Governor of the
designate. Said Board shall ap -
point at $5,000 per annum a Ter
ritorial Commissioner ol Educe: -
tion and other ex:
employees as necessary.
Said board shall be final court
of appeals in all educational con
troversies.
This Board shall 1 ave p<
to dismiss the Co
"o Education “whenever in its jede
*3 ment the best interest of me
public schools require his re
moval. (And in event he re fa.
to be a political
’ the federal brigade.)
When any vacancy occur
the office of Commisioner of
ucation, either by death, red 7
nation. OR OTHERWISE
Governor SHALL H dS, Td
POWER to fill said vacancy b
APPOINTMENT and
pointee shall hold office intll
the next meeting of th. Board.
jCiiien scnooi ciioi-icr ovgsr
under the provisions of thi
shall have elected five mem er
who shall ha,ve exclusive n
agement and control of
school subject to law, regula
tions of the Commissioner an.
with approval of the Governor.
This board shall have powe"
and “it shall be their duty to
appoint from their number, or
from among the residents ofthe
incorporated district, an asser
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Rhetorical Contest
On Monday Night
The local rhetoi ntest be
tween students of the High
School students is to be h
Monday the 15th at the Mac
Gregor Theater. This was kind-1
ly donated the school by the
management as being most con- ]
venient and suitable for such a |
contest. An admission charge of j
twenty-five cents will be charged.
adults to help take care of the j
expenses of the winner who will j
go to Juneau to take part in the j
Divisional contest on the 20tli. j
The contestants this year are •
Irene Runstad, Josie Wasvick (
Paul Tveten, Matt Raynor. Dav- .
id Morgan, Herbert Mjorud.
William L. Paul, Jr., of Ke
kan will represent the First Ci
at this meet.
Installation of the Piggly Wig
3y equipment in the Hogue and
Tveten store will commence very
soon.
Work on the Variety Theatre
is fast coming to a close. The
men are putting in the big new
curtain in front of the screen.
Ray Wheeler and George Case
returned to Wrangell last week
after spending a couple of days
here.
Brothers in Misery
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Cracks Whip
Those citizens cl Petersburg
i v, - 'j are cew. p ; c -
jng me fum Unit i.xie city is with
I ouu lights at night and not very
. nil. 2*1 moi e daring me day, may
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er towns are having wo.. ries or
• a. . ov. i. diong me same line.
Vi a.. ietciiikan has not the
". sa.orte.gs as here, still it
..o tnoug-i for some of them to
. o •' t.. ta>vG.,ii a ciiis has
to shat down operations un~
. , time as the angels weep
-o ' bless these com
munities otherwise, now out of
' e C e. delegates who went
a during the past week
arc ■ r - o -.vding their way to
... ai homes.
WTmani L. Paul, attorney of
' eter an, is expected in town
m the next few days.
Delegate Dan A. Sutherland
has been confined to his bed and ’
under medical care the past sev
eral weeks. He is again back
t his lest: in Washington, but
< ill not overly strong.
oo t Rdod er St a s
It is being reported that the
Quartermaster General's depart
ment of the TJrdted S ates Army
is seriously considering a propos- |
al for adding reindeer meat to !
\rmy rations. Increased cost of :
oeef, canned, jerked, frozen or I
canned going up to prohibitive
figures being said to be the rea ■
son for the Army’s action.
It is iw.-'hm thought that this:
diet will cut down the percent
age of desertions.
ersoneli of hue officers of the
ourt of Honor which is meeting
.omorraw are as x allows: Pre
-iding Judge, Mr. Harold F.
D:,wes; Associate J udges, jj. 3.
Jdinelius and C. M Arhcbold;
Mark, Frederick R. Nelson, Her
:d, f\. B. Holt, Orderlies, Trygvie
otrom and Henry Hasbrouck;
jourt Associates, The Rev. J. W,
-•-«s-'iill Hi. OWailbUIl, !
Mayor, Earl N Ohmer, President !
Commercial Club; C. C. Clausen, !
U. S. Commissioner; F. R. Hav- i1
2ns, U. 6. Customs Officer; J. |
Otness, U. S .Postmaster; C. H..I
Bowman, Principal City Schools, i
J. W. Schoettier, Editor Press, |
L F. Paul, Editor, Alaskan; T. S. j'
L;.,. more, Banker; W. A. Dunkle- ^
merger. Commander American
egion.
The Court of Honor will con
’ : e at the Sons of Norway Hall :
at 8 p.m. Saturday the 13th. The
City Band will give several num
bers and the Scouts will demon
mule First Aid in emergency
cases. At the close of the Honor
set si on, the Scouts will have a
Fish pond for the kiddies—big
little. During the evening
■ beautiful bronze, electric table
la mu, now on display at The
Men’s,Shop, will be raffled off
and presented to the lucky per
on whose number is drawn.
MOBILIZATION OF SCOUTS
When three taps are sounded
on the Fire Bell, it will be the
call for the Scouts to assemble
at the Cloy Hall. Fifteen min
utes after the mobilization call,
a Scout from each of the four
patrols will take a message to
m citizen summoning them
to the City Hall and all who de
sire so to do may come and see
the Scouts render First Aid to
several supposed to have been
injured by the collapse of a
grand stand.
This MOBILIZATION stunt
has been observed all over Am
erica in association this week
with Anniversary week, to de
monstrate how quickly the
Scouts can mobolize and render
hem in case of real accidents,
storms, calamities, etc. Much
vital assistance has been render
ed in great flood disasters in
various places in America by the
Scouts, for which they have re
ceived high commendation.
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The House Committee report
ed out the Senate Board oi' Con
trol Bill this wee v with mun^
oral Brigade Party.
The principal amendments be
ing the placing oi executive Ter
ritorial powers largely with the
)Federal governor; giving him
{power to appem* the Commis
• sioner of Education and taking
j that power away from the Board
| of Education which at present is
j composed of the four Senior
| Senators, one from each Division
i and the Governor. It is also re
quired under the amendments
jail confirmations shall be by
both Houses instead of only the
| Senate.
j The bill as amended will pass
| the House but the Senate will
'refuse to concur. The bill will
then go into conference commit
tee and tree committees but un
less satisfactory agreements are
made to retain the principles of
self-government other bills and
appropriations will not receive
the sanction of the Senate.
Delinquent Home for Minors
Representative Ziegler has in
I troduced a bill in the House pro
viding for an appropriation for
a home for delinquent children
in the territory. No location for
such an institution has been
named while it is ? ;/,pc d i ll t
such a location is in view. I he
bill provides for the temporary
leasing of suitable quarters to
the home end for ru..intern:.. ,ej
nd operation.
Pass Pc or Convict Law
The Poor Convict Law p.. d
the House, providing that p -
oners sentenced to 'T1 and*>■
may after se- ving -then w if.pT1 >
and a stated period in j ail to
work out fine, take the p nc
oath and be permitted to leave
l heir co ■ • niiement.
Pass ■ 'o:! -g> wo* •' Ton
The Home oa • w t ce flaska
College ip] :
I rolling Season
men>.:me nm mime cr the Esc
for Closed
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Henry O'Malley, Commissioner!
of Fisheries in a letter to the
Alaska Trailers’ Association said
that his reason for instituting
the winter closed season on pow
r trolling was that tagging op
erations showed that a large per
ge of c
tags belonged to the Columbia
River area; and that as deple
tion in that area (in spite of the
muchly lauded hatchery system)
was becoming most pronounced,
steps had to be taken to rebuild
that fishery.
Now come Dr. W. A. Clemons,
of the Canadian Bureau of Fish
eries who stated in Seattle re
cently that 60 per cent of the j
salmon bask in Canadian waters
on the west side of Vancouver
Island, and eventually return to
the mouth of the Columbia Riv
er.
Will the Czar of Alaska fisher-1
ies ask the Canadians to cut out
their trolling along with Alaska
to build up the Columbia River
Fisheries?
Will Select School
This Summer
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Jo re.than H. Wagner, Chief
of the !aska Division of the U.
S. B - u of Education recent
ly re • ned from Washington, D.
C., w instructions to pick suit
able x tion for an industrial
school or this Division. This
will be the fourth industrial
school in the territory for the;
permanent population of Aias-;
ka.
It is reported that initial an
propriation for this plant will be
$200,000. #
One thing is definite—site for
the school will be picked this
summer, if not already done so.
| of $135,000. This is a cut from
Dr. Runners original request of
282,000 and the introduced bill
•frying appropriation for $162,
0. Further cuts are expected
lo be made in the Senate. Dr.
: Runnel is still in Juneau lobby
J ing for this bill.
Minor Sills Introduced
! Representative Fisher has in
troduced a literary qualification
mg the federal law to
hcipai school elections,
rkmen’s Compensation Is
Fast by Senate
The Senate passed the Work
1 s Compensation law without
change. This was
i - .7 written by the big mining
and is one of the
poorest in the country.
Fish Hearings
Hearings on Senator Benja
min's fish bill began yesterday
ad will continue through to
v. This bill provides a tax of
n resident trollers op- '
its 20 foot and under;
0 on operators of boats over
e :g: i. He is making an
I to incornoratp in thp
a v , of $50 on non-resident
v : b' ; lias too much opposi- I
'i to hope for its incorpora-i
tion.
ental Board Measure 1
senate passed a dental j
3 ire to govern that;
profession. I
.benjamin and Rep-j
McCain introduced a I
o )erty bill. This j
manhood on an
u with the men in j
er of community pro-1
'erty interests.
’'torn, from Jaunt
ive committee re
•ne ' ‘ om inspection of the
Home at Sitka. This
‘ e is the largest that ev- |
that trip. Whether any
be derived by
trij remt ins io be seen.
Ar ler y Out?
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h Sealed bids will be received
by the Undersigned up to and in
ing th day of March
1 9 at the hour of 5 o’clock p.
-U., and then publicly opened at
he office of the District Super
intendent Bureau of Education,
' ichorage, Alaska for the EX -
CLUSIVE fishine: nrivileeres on »*
the Maquakie Reservation for
a period of one year, beginning
wicfi the date of aceptance of
hM. The right to reject all bids
is hereby reserved.
2. The bidder must agree to
•onstruet one hand or beach
trap, and to supply 25 king sal
mon gill nets and 25 red salmon
gill nets for the use of the na
tives on the" reservation, togeth
er with the necessary dories, an
chors, scows, and other fish
ing gear required.
3. The bidder shall also state
the price to be paid for king sal
mon and Arctic red salmon and
hall name a minimum sum to
he guaranteed to the reserva
’ n and shall furnish a surety
company bond in the sum of not
less than $5,000 for the faithful
performance of the contract to
be entered into between the bid
der and the reservation, a draft
of such proposed contract to be
i bmitted with the bid, such
<h’r'f4- of such contract to set
forth clearly the terms and con
ditions upon which fishing shall
be carried on and the class and
quality of the gear furnished.
4. Payment for fish caught
shall be made on the 10th day
of July for all fish caught up to
and including the 30th day of
June and for all fish caught
thereafter on the 15th day of
August; it being understood that
if the value of the fish taken
from the reservation shall at
any time exceed the amount of
the bond given, then settlement
for such excess shall be made
immediately upon demand.
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Proposal B
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“KICKED A DEAD DEER”
A number of years ago, we were out hunting
for deer. Coming down a dead fall in a big gulch,
we scared up a deer from under the root of the
dead fall. We “shot from the hip” and the deer
dropped dead. We laid our gun down, took out
our knife .opened the blade and began to rip the
deer open preparatory to packing him out. Just
as we dug the knife into the skin of the deer, it
gav an almighty kick, knocked us over on our
back and then it ran away. We grabbed our gun
and this time put a chunk of lead into Mr. deer
so that there was no mistake about its being dead.
Isn’t that what happened to Commissioner of
Education Lester D. Henderson? His party won
a partial victory in the last election by his betray
al of his supposed Republican party and his sup
port of the Democrats. There was still a kick left
in the “dead” deer to put the finish to this poli
tician who has played politics through territorial
institutions for several years. Were he elected by
by the people, complaints there would be none for
it would be because of the people that he held
office.
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Commissioner Henry O’Malley
has been petitioned by the vari
ous chambers of commerce of
the Territory and the Alaska
Trollers’ Association to allow re
strictions to be removed from
the killing of sea lion as they are
destructive to salmon.
He replies to the Seward
Chamber of Commerce as fol
lows:
“While it is undoubtedly true
that sea lions feed upon fishes
there is no reason for believing
that they are especially destruc
tive to those used for human
consumption. They may do as
much good as harm and there is
no certainty that they do not
assist in maintaining a balance
in nature and that their des
truction would be detrimental
rather than beneficial. They
feed upon and keep down the
supply of other forms of life
which prey upon food fishes and
consume their food. Until their
relations that exist between the
sea lions and other forms of life
of more immediate use, are bet
ter known, the sea lion should
not be exterminated.”
Rev. Edward Marsden, of Ket
chikan, Rev. Faulkner of Ket
chikan and Rev. Sam G. Davis of
Kasaan will be returning to their
homes from Kake on the mail
boat Estebeth.
Cadraa n-Feeler Concert
Very i leasing
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The concert by Charles Wake
field Cadman and Madame Beel
er, in the MacGregor Theatre
last week was all that could be
desired and more than could be
| hoped for in Petersburg.
Mr. Cadman and Madame
Beeler were both very generous
in response to encores.
Madame Beeler’s voice was
rich and full and her personal
ity pleasing. She charmed her
audience with her interpretation
of Mr. Cadman’s music and her
singing of Norwegian songs was
as by one born to the language.
Mr. Cadman’s success as a
composer is without question,
j and his interpretation of his own
music and American Indian
music such that it cannot but
be understood and liked.
Petersburg was most fortun
ate in having these musicians
come here.
Secretary of Interior Wilbur
has announced cancellation of
1,223 permits to prospect for oil
and gas on the public domain.
To show cause why their per
mits should not be cancelled, 1,
' 250 holders of such permits were
• called upon to show cause why
they should not be cancelled.
Hoover in his policy seems
bent on keeping the oily toga
of the Harding-Coolidge admin
istration off of his administra
tion.