WASHINGTON NEWS-LETTER
By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, Alaska's Delegate to Congress
(Editorial note by the sub
editor: This will be the last regu
lar issue of the News-Letter for
the first session of the 82nd Con
gress. Later in the winter a
"round-up" edition will be pub
lished and there may be special
editions. Accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. Virginia S. Counsil,
former Cordovan, Miss Council.
News-Letter editor, left Washing
ton last week for her first real
vacation in three years. She wiil
be gone a month.)
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Commerce Department
Appropriations
The House and Senate con
ferees, on agreeing to the appro
priation bill to run the State. Jus
tice, Commerce and Judiciary De
partments during the 1952 fiscal
year, reconciled their differences
on two Alaska items in dispute
and allowed a total appropriation
of $3,825,000.
The money will go to the Bu
reau of Public Roads in amount
of $3 1/2 million for roads in the
Tongass National Forest and to
the Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration in the. amount of $325,000
for maintenance of the Fairbanks
and Anchorage airports. The
House had allowed the full am
ount for the roads but the Senate
had cut the sum to $3,480,000. The
$325,000 for maintenance of the
airports wras a compromise be
tween the House allowance of
$225,000 and the Senate allow
ance of $350,000.
Additional Third Division Judge
A second federal judge for the
Third Division of Alaska v.as ap
proved by the Senate last week
when it passed the omnibus
judgeship bill creating 17 new
district judgeships and three cir
cuit judgeships.
The bill now goes to the House
Judiciary Committee where Dele
gate Bartlett’s bill seeking a sec
ond district judge for the Third
Div’^ion is now pending.
Native Land Claims
Hearings on Delegate Bartlett’s
bill providing means for settle
ment of land claims by Alaska
natives will be held in Alaska
starting November 5.
The hearings, to be conducted
by the House Subcommittee on
Indian Affairs of the Interior and
Insular Affairs Committee, were
urged by Delegate Bartlett fol
lowing preliminary hearings held
in Washington, D. C., on the leg
islation in August.
The hearings will start in An
chorage on the morning of No
vember 5 with hearings at Fair
banks the evening of the same
day. The group, of which Dele
gate Bartlett is a member, will
hold hearings at Kotzebue and
Nome on the 6th and on the 7th
will fly to Kodiak for a hearing
that day. On the 8th the group
will fly to Juneau for a hearing
and on the 9th will hold a hear
ing at Sitka. On the 10th hearings
will start at Ketchikan and will
continue beyond that date if
necessary.
‘‘Admittedly, this is a very tight
schedule,” Delegate Bartlett said,
"but some of the members of the
subcommittee are taking time for
the Alaska trip, so that hearings
may be held on the land bill, that
they had planned to devote to
other missions. Some of the mem
bers have committments in the
States almost immediately after
November 10 and that is why the
Ketchikan hearing will take place
immediately prior to the Alaska
Native Brotherhood and Alaska
Native Sisterhood convention. It
is hoped that some members of
the subcommittee wall be able to
stay over in Ketchikan for part
of the convention week.”
Airport Leases
The President has signed into
law the bill permitting 20-year
leases of real estate on the CAA
airports at Anchorage and Fair
banks.
The statute was passed by Con
gress to encourage private inter
I ests to provide adequate hangar
facilities at the twro airports. Pre
1 vious authority allowed only 10
year leases at the airports.
Hi-way Engineer
Speaks at AAAS Meet
Here Tomorrow Night
“Applied Science in Highway
Engineering” will be the title ot
the paper given at the meeting of
the Cook Inlet Chapter of the
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science tomorrow
night at 8 p.m. in the Experiment
Station building here in Palmer.
The speaker will be Arthur
Jess, head of the Anchorage of
fice engineering section of the
Alaska Road Commission.
Most of the monthly meetings
i of the Cook Inlet Chapter are
held in Anchorage, but two or
three times a year, members from
the Anchorage area travel to Pal
mer for them. Anyone interested
in these science meetings is in
vited by President Don L. Irw'in
to attend the Friday night meet
ing.
COFFEY INSURES
EVERYTHING. REMEMBER?
TIME TO CLEAN
THOSE SNOWSUITS
AND WINTER
CLOTHES!
Won't be long before
your youngsters will
be braving the first
snowfall with warm
winter clothes. Don't
be caught short—send
their winter things—
and yours—to us now
for cleaning.
BROWN'S SHOP
COACH CRITES NAMES
BASKETBALL TEAM
FOR PALMER HIGH
Basketball season is just around
the corner and Coach Bob Crites
is ready for it; he has chosen his
top ten players for the Varsity
team.
The boys chosen are Gus Klem,
Chuck Milles, Wesley Eckert,
percent moisture content. Valley
Dick Geiwitz. Bob Lacher, Ver
non Fridley. John Brown and Jim
Colberg. Only four of these boys
have played varsity ball in pre
vious years.
The second practice game was
played last Friday night with
Servicemen from the 42nd Squad
ron, 39th Wing, Elmendorf AFB.
Palmer lost by the narrow mar
gin of 55 to 58. Milles was high
point man, scoring 22 points for
Palmer.
The third practice game will
be played at the school gymnas
ium November 16 with an Army
team.
The boys are practicing every
night after school and will be in
top shape for the first school
game in December, according to
Coach Crites.
LEAVING EKLUTNA PROJECT
Edwin L. Stewart and his wife
Audrey, left Palmer and the
Eklutna Project last week end
to return to the Bureau of Rec
lamation headquarters in Juneau.
The Ladies’ Aid of the United
Protestant Church will have pot
luck lunch at the meeting to be
held at the home of Mrs. Harold
Thuma Wednesday, November 7.
PASSENGER LINERS
From Seward
S.S. BARANOF S.S. DENALI
Thurs.. Nov. 8—'Thurs., Nov. 15
Sitka
Juneau
Ketchikan
Seattle
Valdez
Juneau
Petersburg
Wrangell
Ketchikan
Seattle
FREIGHTER SERVICE
From Seattle
FREIGHTERS
M. V. SUSITNA
Leaving Seattle November 7—
Calling at Sitka, Whittier.
Seward and Valdez.
S. S. JOHN QUICK
Leaving Seattle November 12
Calling at Valdez and
Seward.
FOR INFORMATION
T. J. MALONEY, Agent
Phone 22001
Office: Westward Hotel
Anchorage, Alaska
Chemical Agents for
Preserving Grain
Being Tested Here
Relatively new on the market
are chemical agents for preserv
ing grain and forage.
Untried as yet in Alaska, two
dealers have supplied Experiment
Station technicians with test sam
ples. According to Ivan Branton.
agricultural engineer, these ma
terials are now being tested for
preserving oats in bins. If favor
able results are obtained this ex
perimentation will be extended
to forage materials.
Branton pointed out that the
manufacturers recommend these
chemical agents for grain up to 13
percent mointure content. Valley
grain runs as high as 20-22 per
cent when harvested, so it is not
certain that the agents will work
successfully on Alaskan grains.
COFFEY INSURES
EVERYTHING. REMEMBER?
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Moose Make Report on
Junior Ball Teams
Don Ingalls, athletic director
for the Palmer Moose lodge, pre
sented a financial report and a
summary of the past year's activi
ties. at the regular meeting held
October 23.
He praised the work done by
Coaches Jack Leek. Bob Bettine
and Joe Curtis, the generosity of
the businessmen and townspeople
and expressed the hope that next
year’s Junior baseball program
would be greatly enlarged.
A-balance of $54.88 was turned
over to Jack Leek to be used as
a base for building next year's
fund of an estimated $400. Do
nations this past season totalled
$167.75. Equipment and general
expenses used $112.87. A large
part of next year’s fund will go
toward the purchase of baseball
uniforms for the Junior teams.
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