Valloy Frontiortman
WASHINGTON NEWSLETTER
By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Secretary to E. L. tBob) Bartlotl. Alaska's Doleyat* to Conyron
The House Appropriations
Committee approved funds pro*
viding for 25 additional deputy
marshals n Alasaa when it r?
ported the State. Justice, Com
merce. Judiciary appropriations
bill for 1953 last week to the
House
The same appropriation bill
also contains $12,865,519 for the
activities of the Civil Aeronautics
in Alaska, including $11,230,263
for salaries and expenses. $1,070
000 for air navigation facilities.
$435,000 for the operation of the
Anchorage and Fairbanks air
ports and $150,256 for the federal
aid airport program. The opera
tion funds for the two airports
were reduced $35,000 by the com
mittee from the budget request
of $470,000.
Fifty additional positions for
the marshals' offices in Alaska
had been requested in the Presi
dent’s budget but the committee
expressed doubt "whether even
that number (25) of competent of
ficers can be recruited during the
next fiscal year.”
Until this appropriation bill
finally is enacted, it will not be
known what the total allotments
will be for the Alaska activities
of the Justice Department and the
other agencies of the Commerce
Department aside from the CAA
allotments. The budget requests
sought $113.000 for the Civil Aer
onautics Board. $2,707,700 for the
Coast and Geodetic Service. $1
754.000 for the Bureau of Public i
Roads and $1,802,888 for the
Weather Bureau, all within the
Commerce Department. The Jus
tice Department asked for $1,
285.000 for it Alaska activities,
including $735,000 for United
States Attorneys and Marshals
(including the request for 50 ad
ditional deputy marshals), $50,000
for witness fees and $500,000 for
support of prisoners. Delegate
Bartlett has been informed that
the House allowance would per
mit the full request of S264.909
for the operation of the Judiciary
in Alaska for such items as Dis
trict Judges, clerks, commissioner
fees, jurors fees, miscellaneous
expenses, court reporters and ref
eree salaries and expenses.
Commissioner Fees
United States Commissioners
in Alaska would be allowed to
retain as annual compensation
S7.500 in net fees instead of the
present S5.000 ceiling under
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Delegate Bartlett'i bill approved
last week by the Subcommittee
on Territories
The bill, which will be reported
favorably to the full House Inter
ior and Insular Affairs Commit
tee. amends a law passed in 1948
which raised the limit from $3,000
to $3000. In 1931 the Judicial
Conference adopted a recom
mendation to raise the limit to
$7,500 on the net fees which com
missioners in the Territory may
retain.
At the present time the bill if ■
enacted would affect seven Uni
ted States Commissioners in
.Alaska who collect fees in excess
of $5,000.
Anchorage Bonds
Preliminary consideration was
given this v.eek by the Subcom
mittee on Territories to Delegate
Bartlett's bill to allow the City
of Anchorage to issue and sell
general obligation bonds totai
lmg $124 million for construction
and improvement of public
works.
In 1946 Anchorage was permit
ted by the Congress to issue and
sell such bonds in an amount not
to exceed S5 million. Action by
Congress is necessary as the Or
ganic Act of Alaska provides that
no general obligation bonds may
be issued by an Alaska commun
ity in excess of 10 percent of the
assessed valuation of the city.
Federal Judgeship
The bill creating a fifth federal
judgeship in Alaska will be de
bated in the House following the
Easter congressional recess.
The measure, approved by the
Senate last October, provides for
the appointment by the President
of 3 circuit judges, 16 permanent
district judges, including one in
Alaska, 4 temporary district judg
es, totalling 23 additional judge
ships.
The creation of the -Alaska
judgeship for the Third Division,
recommended by the territorial
legislature, the Judicial Confer
ence of the Ninth Circuit and by
the Judicial Conference of the
United States, has long been
sought by Delegate Bartlett. The
purpose of legislation sponsored
by him and approved by the
House in the 81st Congress was
later incorporated in the omnibus
judgeship bill.
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PALMER ENTERS
NEW ERA OF
AIR TRANSPORTATION
Monday morning promptly at
8 IS a m. a Northern Consolidated
DC 3 landed at the Palmer Air
port and was quickly loaded with
a ton of oats 400 pounds of grass
sefrd from the Co-Op as Virgil
Eckert. Bill Kucera. Holland
Snodgrass. Ralph Bradley. Gene
Gyuriak. and Clair Stock looked i
on
It was a payload from Palmer
bound for Dillingham, where the
oats and gras will be used to com
bat erosion on the airport run-!
ways. It was a historic flight in
that it was one of the first com
mercial hauls out of Palmer to I
towns that cannot be reached by
the highway.
Tony Schwamm. Director of
Territorial Aeronautics envision
ed this as the beginning of regu
lar delivery service between
Alaskan cities, with Palmer right
on the main line.
Schwamm said he hoped the
local airport would be improved
for use by commercial and pri
vate aircraft in the very near
future. Hi expects to have estab
lished direct communication be
tween Merrill Field and the Pal
mer Airport so tnat a pilot want
ing to land in Palmer can radio j
Merrill field regarding airport
conditions and have his answer j
CARL RASMUSSEN
EXPECTED IN PALMER
TO SELL FARM
Carl Rasmussen. former man
ager of MVFCA i* expected in
Palmer today to consummate tht
sale of his farm to George Crow
ther of the Alaska Department of
Agriculture
The flight back to Alaska inter
rupts a vacation in California and
the mid-west begun by Rasmus
sen and his wife about ten weeks
ago.
Living on the Rasmussen farm
now are the Emmet Ellingtons,
who have a lease until the mid
dle of August.
back in a couple of minutes.
The other improvement will be
noticed at the airport by the end
of summer at the latest. Sch
wamm said. New lights for the
airport have been ordered, and
delivery is expected in 30-60
days. They will be installed by
the Department of Aviation this
summer.
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