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Action Brings Better Results ...
STARTING THE NEW YEAR by making resolutions
is one way of trying to be a better citizen but
action brings better results.
The people of Nome who really want the com
munity to prosper and tiake its place among the leading
municipalities of the state have a golden opportunity
to start the New Year by contributing their time and
efforts to one or more projects which are either now
functioning or getting under way this month. A few
dedicated people cannot do it all.
This weekend the Jayeees, sponsor the state-wide
Junior Miss Contest which gives some girl selected
from any part of Alaska a trip to Mobile, Ala., to com
pete with other high school seniors for coveted college
scholarships as well as an opportunity to meet out
standing girls from all over the United States. Support
this organization by your attendance at the Pageant
Saturday evening.
The Chamber of Commerce holds it annual meet
ing Monday to dhow appreciation to officers of that
organization who give many hours of each week for
the betterment of the community. Show YOUR appre
ciation for the good work done by attending that meet
ing on Monday evening.
Wednesday evening the organizational meeting of
the Area Redevelopment will be held. This is the
group which will- study and make application for fi
nancial assistance for needed industry and every per
manent citizen should be interested in which way ’the
town will grow and prosper. This means much to the
future of Northern Alaska.
If you are interested in preserving the past for
the benefit of future Alaskans as well as history, the
scheduled meeting on Jan. 29 for a museum should be
on YOUR calendar. One organization is planning to
be there with all its members.
Everyone can’t attend all the meetings and take
pant in all the organizations, but each person can con
tribute time to at least one community or civic project.
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Three Alaska Areas
Approved for ARA Plans
Gov. Wm. Egan announced ap
proval by the Division of State
Planning of preliminary over-all
economic development plans for
three Alaska areas.
The plans, now being forward
ed to Washington, D.C., for con
currence by Area Redevolpment
Administration officials, were sub
mitted by the Western Kenai Pen
insula Redevolpment Committee
for the area encompassed by for
mer Election District 12, the
Aleutian Redevelopment Commit
tee representing former Election
District 14, and the Area Rede
velopment Commission of Greater
Anchorage and Election District
10.
The approvals bring to five the
number of preliminary OEDP
proposals submitted and approved
by the Division of State Planning.
Previous submissions were from
the Ketchikan and Fairbanks area.
Approval of the preliminary
plans by state and federal officials
is necessary before application can
be made for grants or loans avail
able under the ARA program.
GOP Leaders Blast
President Kennedy’s
Proposed 1962 Program
WASHINGTON M — Republi
can congressional leaders yester
day blasted President Kennedy’s
1962 program as a grab for more
executive power and as a call for
ever increasing federal spending.
Senate GOP Leader Everett M.
Dirksen of Illinois told a news
conference “truly President Ken
nedy is heading us toward the
leviathian state.”
“It does not seem to occur to
the administration that the fed- ■
ieral government has already be
[come big enough — a colossus
l that touches the lives, the rights
land privileges of every American
l man, woman and child,” he said.
“It is tt> be remembered that
we, as Republicans, gave the
President a year jn which to un
veil the New Frontier. It has turn
ed out to be nothing more than
a bright ribbon wrapped around
the oldest and most discredited
political package on earth—the
centralization of power.”
House GOP Leader Charles A.
Halieck of Indiana said the pro
gram outlined in Kennedy's State
of the Union Message last week
“is the old story of more power
for the White (House, snore spend
ing, more debts and more taxes.”
The attack came at the first
Dirksen -Halieck news conference
of this session.
HIGH RADIOACTIVITY
LEVEL REPORTED IN HAW AH
HONOLULU m — Hawaiian
health officials reported Monday
that Honolulu’s atmospheric radio
activity over the weekend was 10
times higher than normal — but
still far below hazardous levels.
A spokesman emphasized that
radioactivity would have to be
thousands of times” higher than
normal to endanger health.” •
Officials attributed the in
creased radioactivity to . wind
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Capital Movement and New Ferry
System Will Be a Mighty Headache
(Editor’s Note: This is the
final story in a five-part series
on the major problems which
will confront the 1962 Legisla
ture when it meets in Juneau
Jan. 22).
—
By Ward Sims
Associated Press Sta'f Writer
JUNEAU iffi — A new capital
relocation effort and an innocent
appearing bill calling for a Con
stitutional Convention could give
the 1962 Legislature one of its
mightiest headaches.
Also present will be another
problem loaded with sectional
dynamite, the matter of the new
state ferry system, due to go into
the first phase of operation late
this coming summer.
The seat of support for capital
relocation is Anchorage, and back
ers of the move have submitted
a initiative petition calling for a
vote on the matter.
There seems little doubt that
the initiative will come under
immediate legal attack from those
who want to keep the capital at
Juneau.
The whole question of capital
relocation should receive a thor
ough airing before it gets on the
ballot, both in the Legislature
and in the courts.
The Constitutional Convention
bill, HB179, was introduced by
Rep. Bruce Kendall of Anchor
age, one of the original leaders
in the capital relocation effort.
Kendall has made no pretense
of submitting the bill for any
thing other than capital reloca
tion.
A Constitutional Convention
A Constitutional Convention
could be called by a majority of
both Mouses of the legislature,
providing Gov. Egan approved.
Thfe convention coUld then move
the capital iby a simple majority
vote.
Such procedure would erase
legal questions which might arise
by any attempt to move the capi
tal through initiative, in view of
'file fact that the Constitution does
specify Juneau as the capital
in th,e schedule of transitional
measures.
Of course, Egan is opposed to
relocation of the capital and it
seems highly unlikely that a bill
calling for a Constitutional Con
vention, particularly Kendall’s
bill, would get beyond the Gov
ernor’s desk, even if the strong
Anchorage delegation did drum
up enough support to pass such
legislation through the House and
Senate.
A strong, last-ditch fight was
promised when the state ferry
system bill was introduced last
year, but the big boom turned
into a little pop.
The ferry bill sailed through
the House on a 27-13 vote and
then whipped through the Senate
on a 17-3 count, with the bulk
of opposition coming from the An
chorage delegation.
This year, Egan is going to have
to ask the Legislature for money '
to keep the vessels going.
$2 Million Operating Expense
It appears from engineering re
ports that he is going to have to
ask some $2 million in operating
expenses. Some $1 million needed
for debt service will run the
total to about $3 million for the
ferry system for fiscal 1963.
With the Anchorage delegation
getting more muscles next year_
it jumps from eight to 14 mem
bers in the House under Egan’s
reapportionment of the lower
chamber - the big city repre
sentatives will be in a much
stronger bargaining position this
year than they were in 1961.
There could be some interesting
discussions on ferries and capitals.
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