Legislation Introduced Creating a
Public School Foundation Program
JUNEAU l/Pl — Legislation cre
ating a Public School Foundation
program, as recommended by the
State Board of Education, was
introduced by the House Rules
Committee Tuesday at the request
of Gov. Wm. Egan.
The comprehensive measure,
Egan said, “should be a consider
able aid to school districts, the
Commissioner of Education, the
Governor’s Budget Committee and
the Legislature in computing and
allocating state aid to local dis
I tricts.
“More important,” Egan ad
vised the Legislature in a letter
of transmittal, “the bill is design
ed to equalize the tax support re
quired of residents in the various
city independent and incorporated
school districts.”
The bill provides that the
“basic need” for financing schools
in each district shall be the sum
of a teachers’ salary allotment, an
average daily membership allot
ment and an attendance center
allotment.
The teachers’ salary allotment
would be, essentially, the product
of the number of teachers allowed
each district by state law times
the average of the teachers’
salaries in the two years prior to
the year for which the Public
Dr. Milo Fritz Is Lincoln
Day Speaker at Homer
Dr. and Mrs. Milo H. Fritz
spent a recent weekend in Homer
where Dr. Fritz, a Republican
candidate for governor, was the
speaker at the Lincoln Day din
ner.
Dr. and Mrs. Fritz also attend
ed the Lincoln Day dinner in
Cordova.
Highlights of his address in
cluded the statement that there
is need for change in Alaskan
administration because of so-called
balanced budgets that do not in
clude $4 million “mistakes,” a
! $4 million deficiency appropriation
and an $8.7 million dollar debt to
the federal government.
Speaking against the Rampart
Dam, he said: “It does not re
quire the flooding of one-tenth
of our great state with waters of
the mighty Yukon. It will not take
ten years to get the first kilowatt
of power out of it Like the Model
T Ford of 1903, it is just a hint
of what we will be able to enjoy
a decade, or even less, from now.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you
atomic power.”
“Already spreading from New
England across our mighty na
tion and even through Rig Delta
in Alaska we have at the last
eount 18 atomic energy reactors,
five of which produce electric
current.”
School Foundation is being com
puted.
The average daily membership
allotment would be $140 times
the average daily membership of
a school district in the Southeast
Senate District, $150 in the
Southcentral Senate District and
$160 in the Central and North
west Districts and that portion
of the Southcentral District west
of the 152nd Meridian.
The attendance center allot
ment would be the product of
$1,000 times the number of at
tendance centers in each district.
As a first step in determining
how much state aid would be
required by each district, the dis
tricts would have to furnish them
selves an amount equal to a tax
of four mills on the full and true
values of all taxable real and
personal property within the
district.
The difference between this
local tax effort and the “basic
need” as computed from the three
allotments would be made up by
the State.
The Governor said the proposed
statute would replace the present
complex system of State aid which
requires the Department of Edu
cation to review closely many
individual items of school district
budgets and make decision ap
proving or disapproving individ
ual expenditures.
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"ine lormuia provides a greater
degree of freedom to districts in
planning their budgets,” Egan
said. “They will be able to com
pute in advance the amount of
j State aid they will receive, and
will no longer have to justify
each item of their budgets to the
Alaska Department of Education.
“ft would also serve to under
write a part of the basic needs of
every districts’ educational pro
gram and still leave it free to
enrich the level of education by
using its own tax resources.”
Egan noted that the bill would
make additional State monies
available to those districts which
make an effort beyond the
minimum required, although this
phase of the bill would not be
come effective until fiscal 1965.
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A NEW APPROACH
rpHE GOVERNOR’S ADVISORY COMMITTEE on
JL Economic Development has prepared a resolution
for presentation to the Alaska State Legislature. The
resolution is very important to the residents of this
area and sums up and defines what should be done
about the proposed atomic blast at Cape Thompson
and Project Chariot. We believe the resolution ex
presses clearly what most Alaskans want and believe. ,
The resolution states: It is recognized that the President of t
the United States must now decide the question as to whether
or not a proposed excavation project using nuclear explosives ^
will be carried out by the United States Atomic Energy Com
mission at the mouth of Ogotoruk Creek in northwestern Alaska,
which would provide the United States with extremely valuable £
scientific information along the lines of peaceful application 1
of atomic energy. r
That such a nuclear explosion at this particular site would «
be of tremendous economic value to Alaska, providing as it ,
would a ship harbor along the shallow-water Arctic coastline. j
Thus, a “door to the sea” for Alaska’s unlimited natural re- s
sources would be unlocked within this vast, Arctic storehouse. t
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It is recognized that "outside forces are mamtested in the
mounting objections to Project Chariot by a number of organ
ized groups who are in sympathy with the plight of the three
Eskimo villages of Kivalina, Noatak and Pt. Hope. The Associ- f
ation on American Indian Affairs, Inc., 475 Riverside Drive,
New York 27, N.Y., through Dr. Carl Muschenheim, Chairman, +
Executive Subcommittee on Indian Health, felt that such a ship *
harbor “is not needed (in Alaska) and would be allowed to silt g
in after it has been excavated.” His committee objects to Project ^
Chariot because of its “possible hazards to the Eskimo popu
lation, both physical and psychological.”
The Eskimo people themselves, in their own Outline for <
Social and Economic Development, presented at the Inupiat
Paitot, requested both a program for better housing and a
means to obtain more employment for themselves. Other projects <
of improved health conditions and a more adequate food supply J
would logically follow after the accomplishment of the first two.
It has long been recognized that housing is a key problem f
in improving both the health and the standard of living of the
Alaska Eskimo, that lack of sufficient funds or a forceful public f
incentive have together held back the development of any truiy
beneficial program for them, although the Arctic Health fte- c
search Center of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and 8
Welfare, undertook a limited ?tudy of Alaska native housing in %
195€, and built four experimental houses in as many locations. r
With these findings and the fund of information concerning
low-cost housing utilizing native materials and native labor, now '
on hand in the Anchorage offices of the Alaska Housing Author- c
ity, the Housing and Home Finance Agency and the Arctic y
Health 'Research Center, it is believed that the time is at hand
when a full-scale housing project for the approximately 700 J
villagers of Pt. Hope, Kivalina and Noatak could be undertaken *
for a modest sum, utilizing a program of state and federal r
government participation. g
It is recognized that if the approximately 700 villagers of
Pt. Hope, Kivalina and Noatak were moved to a center of *
Eskimo population, either at Kotzebue or at Nome, into a model c
housing project prior to the atomic blast of Project Chariot, A
with the understanding that they would remain there not less 1
than one year and for no longer a period after that to be . ■
determined by the Atomic Energy Commission. With the danger
period over, then a brand new village, patterned after the first, '
would be built at the site of the blast on the banks of Ogotoruk (
Creek to take advantage of the economic asset of a ship harbor.
The approximately 700 residents would be returned to the coast
to their new, combined village, and residents of the Eskimo
population of Kotzbue or Nome would quickly move in to
occupy the vacated quarters. Hence, two model Arctic villages
would be created and a possible source of great revenue for
Eskimos of the Arctic created through the AEC Project Chariot’s
new ship harbor.
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Officer Tells of
Lack of Control
JUNEAU UFI — The Division of
Highways knew' on July 1, 1960,
it would have to seek a supple
mental appropriation, probably
this year, the agency’s chief ac
:ountant testified Monday night.
L. A. Woodman told the Senate
highways Investigating Commit
;ee, however, that the exact
imount wasn’t known until last
ran. 13, four days before Public
Works Commissioner Richard A.
Downing announced that a sup
Dlemental appropriation of $4,
)08,333 would be sought.
“We were aware something like
his was coming on July 1, i960,”
Woodman said while being ques
ioned by Sen. Vance Phillips.
“There was nothing in the bud
jet for a ferry system, yet we
lad a ferry system. There was
lothing for scale house operators,
ret we had a scale house opera
ors, too.
“There was nothing anyone
ould do about it. We didn’t even
:now what actually would be
leeded eventually.”
Later, Woodman was asked by
ien. John Coghill why the Di
ision didn’t ask for additional
unds last year, if it was known
ome would be required, rather
han waiting until this year.
>idn'l Know How Much
Woodman said the Division
imply didn’t know how much
imds actually would be needed.
He told Sen. Lester Bronson
he $4 million supplemental ap
iropriation was needed because
tate matching funds were spent
or non-reimburseable items.
Woodman told Phillips he be
ieved Sherard had handled his
iuties in an efficient manner, but
he said he believed personally
-hat the Highways Division itself
:ould operate more efficiently as
i separate department.
Coghill questioned W. L. Bid
lle, chief fiscal officer for Pub
ic Works, and Woodman closely
bout the disposition of $25,500
i federal transitional funds left
ver a!ter the Legislature, in 1060,
ppropriated $3,074,600 to high
ways from a grant totaling $4
million.
Both said they did not know
where the $25,500 went pr where
loghill could find out where it
went. Woodman said it was his
nderstanding, however, that the
loney went to the Division of
Communications for radio equip
ment for the Highways Division.
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Coghill then started a long
eries of questions about fiscal
ontrols in the Division of High
ways, the Public Works Depart
nent and the Department of Gen
ral Administration.
Assured that there were fiscal
:ontrols in all three agencies,
-oghill then asked:
“Getting back to the supple
mental appropriation, why weren’t
the controls working? How can
this happen if we have fiscal
controls in all three agencies?”
Woodman replied that the ap
propriation was never overspent.
"If there was no money appro
priated for ferries, how did re
quests for funds for the ferries go
through?” Coghill asked. “Doesn’t
this show lack of fiscal control?”
“It was a matter of necessity,”
Riddle answered. “We had to have
money to operate the ferries.
Everyone went in with their eyes
wide open.”
Sep. Howard $radshaw asked
Woodman if he felt be had fiscal
control of highways in his office.
“No, it’s beyond me,” Wood
man answered. “I have no au
thority to go to any section chief
and tell him to cut down. As far
as I am concerned, there is no one
in highways who has complete
liscal control.”