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of military offenses involving
violation of city ordinances. After
listening to Bouwens’ assurances
of co-operation from military of
ficials. the following policy was
decided upon: In cases where
servicemen are picked up on mi
nor charges such as being drunk
or disorderly, the police chief w ill
place them in the city jail only
until military authorities can take
them into custody. In cases in
volving more serious offenses,
such as the case in point, service
men will be taken into city cus
tody and held for trial the same
as any other citizen.
Skinner’s trial wras set for ten
o’clock Monday morning, and
Bouwens assured the Council
that the serviceman would be
there.
DEADLINE SATURDAY
ON RETURNS FROM
OCTOBER SALES TAX
October city sales tax re
turns are due by Saturday, No
vember 10, City Clerk William
Head reminded today.
Head said that the returns
were coming in very slowly
this month. Although no penal
ties were invoked for late re
turns last month, this leniency
will not be extended this
month.
Under a resolution passed by
the City Council last night all
sales tax returns are to be
handled as confidential rec
ords. They will not be open to
public scrutiny.
Emergency Police
At the request of Bouwens, the
Council decided also last night to
erect three signal lights at select
ed locations within the city for
emergency use when the police
chief is needed. The signal lights
would probably be controlled at
present by the telephone opera
tor on duty.
Punch Board Cut Offered
Lyle E. Bolton of Anchorage
proposed a plan under which the
city would share in the revenue
from his punch board operations
within the town. He claimed that
his boards were of the better type
and were perfectly fair. He ap
parently wanted a monopoly on
the business. He pointed to bene
fits acquired by the city of An
chorage when the Council there
had participated in such a plan.
City Attorney Harold Butchei
asked him why he no longer haa
his boards in Anchorage and Bol
ton admitted that the U. S. Mar
shall didn’t make it easy for hin5
to do business there. With that
wedge, Butcher drew from Bol
ton the admission that the U. S.
Marshal’s office considered punch
boards gambling devices. As sucn
they would be prohibited by Ter
ritorial law. Bolton stated, how
ever, that this was a matter for
interpretation on the part of the
Marshall. He said there was an
other law taxing punch boards.
Council members tabled the re
quest pending advisement from
the new U. S. Marshal, Walter
Huntley.
City Bond Election
Nearly two months after the
city was notified of a $500,000
APW allotment for the Palmer
water system, a letter was re
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ucation. In her letter to Rev.
Hughes, she said that the Terri
torial Law does not prohibit re
leased time for religious instruc
tion, but it makes no mention of
the possibility.
Section 14 (37-1-14) ACLA.
dealing with the public schools
of the Territory states:
“No books, papers, tracts, oi
documents of a partisan, sectarian
or denominational character shall
be introduced in any public
school; and any and every par
tisan, sectarian, or denomination
al doctrines are hereby expressly
forbidden to be taught therein;
and no teacher or school board
shall receive any public money
for the maintenance of schools
which have not been conducted
in accordance with the provisions
of this section.”
School Board members are re
ferring the request to the Com
missioner of Education and the
Attorney General for opinions.
Building Funds Unfrozen
Other business taken up by the
Board last night included approv
al of the preliminary plans for
the new high school, certification
that matching funds are on de
posit for Territorial building
funds appropriated by the legis
lature in its 1949 session and now
available, and further discussion
of several site possibilities for the
new school.
Construction funds for public
schools appropriated by the 1949
legislature and subsequently fro
zen amounted to $28,846 for Pal
mer. Matching funds of half that
amount were requested from the
local community. The Board cer
tified that the required matching
funds were on deposit in the Mat
anuska Valley Bank.
The plans approved by the
Board for the new high school
call for reinforced concrete out
side walls with interior insula
tion (possibly cork), all fire proof
walls extending to the roof,
doublepane windows throughout,
and frame partitions between the
classrooms.
ceived by Mayor Meier from Don
Wilson of APW advising that the
voters would have to authorize
the Council to incur a bonded in
debtedness of $300,000. This was
a surprise. Before such a bond
election is called, however, the
Council will study its utility
needs to determine how much
money would be needed for bond
authorization for the total.
Ordinances
Further reading of the proposed
Public Health Ordinance was
postponed at last night’s meeting
to permit further study by the
city attorney.
Ordinance Number 17 wa6 ad
opted after its third reading. This
ordinance requires that liquor li
cense applicants be of good mor
al character, not having been pre
viously denied a liquor license
within the Territory in any city
or court action. Applicants must
be certified by the police chie£
and/or the health officer and
must submit two photographs of
each applicant. All bartenders
and other employees working in
such establishments must have
photographs and finger prints on
file.
City Planning
The next meeting, Wednesday,
November 14, will be set aside by
the City Council for a meeting
with the City Planning Commis
sion.
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want statehood for Alaska; al
most every nation-wide organiz- i
ation and many of smaller di- 1
mensions are committed to state- 1
hood for Alaska; President Tru
man is interested in having Al
aska become a state during his
present term of office; the people
of Alaska voted three to two for
statehood in ’46.
Still, Bartlett complained, out
side interests have stymied at
tempts to get the statehood biU
adopted. Passed over this year
because of the press of emergency
legislation, sponsors are confident
that the bill will be brought up
for early consideration v,hen
Congress reconvenes in January.
This time the bill will be intro
duced first in the Senate where
it suffered defeat in 1950, follow
ing passage by the House.
"I am confident”, Bartlett said,
“that if the bill is brought up for
a vote in the Senate next year,
it will pass.”
He was a little more dubious
about House action, but he was
still confident that if passed by
the Senate, the bill would have a
good chance of passage.
Statehood for Alaska would
immediately divest over 99 per
cent of our land resources from
the federal government. Bartlett
expressed the opinion that some
of these resources should be
promptly released for private
ownership.
Statehood would lift a heavy
load of Alaska bills from the slow
processes of congressional action
and give responsibility for them
to the Alaskan legislature, where
it belongs. Delegate Bartlett
submitted over 100 bills in Con
gress this past year and the re
cent recess left 46 of them with
out action taken. Thirty of these
46 neglected bills, according to
Bartlett, should have been the
responsibility of the State legis
lature—if Alaska had been a
state.
“Congress is too busy to act on
them,” Bartlett asserted.
Questions Answered ,
Besides the deplorable road
situation in the Valley, local resi
dents called attention to the need
for a land survey in the immedi
ate area, more medical facilities
for natives, and development of
extractive industries in Alaska.
"What are chances for a federal
building in Palmer?”, the dele
gate was asked.
For the federal building, no
chance. No federal buildings are
being approved during the dura
tion of the emergency.
The land survey question was
answered by Hurley, who advised
local residents awaiting title to
lands along the highway that the
new Interior Department order
on withdrawals and easements
along highways and feeder roads
had cleared the way to issuance
of patents.
‘‘The long awaited patents
should be issued within a very
few weeks”, he said.
Regarding the need for native
care and the implied suggestion
that existing facilities were not
being utilized to their best ad
vantage, Bartlett said he would
make inquiries of the Alaska Na
tive Service He pointed to the
increased facilities for the care ox
tuberculosis natives at Seward,
Mt. Edgecombe, and Anchorage.
‘‘Just a few years ago we had
only a hundred beds for their
care”, Bartlett reminded.
The greatest hope in the de
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the Valley road needs by the
Chamber board of directors. Ho
told members present that some
thing would have to be done
quickly to get funds for road
maintenance. Oliver Onkka. he
said, is out of funds for any road
work. including snow removal,
in the Valley. The board was to
meet last night to make plans for
the survey.
Betty Mears showed her first
sketch of a proposed sportsmen’s
map of the Valley which shows
the points of interest from Big
Lake to Sheep Mountain to Chu
giak. It v.as suggested that the
best fishing and hunting spots ue
indicated by appropriate sym
bols. The Chamber will under
write the publication of the large
black and white map which will
be offered for sale in local es
tablishments.
C. Ivan Branton presented a
sketch for an attractive sign
marking the city’s limits on the
highway. The plan called for a
reinforced concrete structure con
sisting of supporting foundation,
pillar, and catilever beam from
which several signs could be sus
pended. Branton, Betty Mears,
velopment of Alaskan industry;
according to Bartlett, lies in the
utilization of our hydro-electric
potential. Calling attention to the
power shortages confronting in
dustry all over the country, he
remarked, "Our potentials are
such that industries are going to
have to come up here and bring
their raw materials. Then we will
have a broad, strong industrial
base’’. That development of Al
aska’s attractive industries would
follow was Bartlett’s axiomatic
implication.
Climaxing the discussion of
Alaskan problems in general and
Valley problems in particular,
Delegate and Mrs. Bartlett were
given a tour of the Valley’s bum
py roads so that they could get
the "feel” of the problem first
hand.
LEGAL NOTICE
UNITED STATES DEPART
MENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF LAND MAN
AGEMENT.
Land Office,
Anchorage, Alaska,
October 17, 1951.
Notice for Publication.
Notice is hereby given that
Charles Willis Sutter and William
A. Brown, have made application
for a trade and manufacturing
site under the Act of May 14, 1893
(30 Stat.413; 48 U. S. C.461) Sec
tion 10, Anchorage Serial 012550
for a tract of land situated on the
south side of the Glenn Highway
156 miles from Anchorage, Alas
ka, Plat of U. S. Survey No. 3024,
containing 2.38 acres, latitude 62
degrees 04 minutes 00 seconds N.
(approximate) longitude 146 de
grees 27 minutes 00 seconds W.
(approximate) at U. S. L. M. No.
2887, and it is now in the files of
the Land Office, Anchorage, Al
aska.
Any and all persons claiming
adversely any of the above men
tioned land should file their ad
verse claim in the local land of
fice, Anchorage, within the pe
riod of publication or thirty days
thereafter, or they will be barred
by the provisions of the statutes.
GEORGE A. LINGO, Manager.
Published: Nov. 8, 15, 21, 29, and
Dec. 6, 13, 20, 27, 1951, and
Jan. 3, 1952.
and Lucille Mick were Riven the
job of contacting service and fra
ternal organizations to find out
how many would want signs and
then to figure some means of ap
portioning the cost.
The parking problem around
Recreation Hall was brought up
for Chamber solution by Jack
Maze. He declared that the mud
holes of varying depths around
the building were shameful haz
ards for residents and guests
alike who must brave them *o
order to get to the city’s only
meeting place. Everybody agreed
meeting place. The Chamber de
cided to look into the possibility
of having a new parking area
provided.
LEGAL NOTICE
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE
INTERIOR, BUREAU OF LAND MAN
AGEMENT LAND OFFICE. ANCHOR
AGE. ALASKA
October 2. 1351
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice Is ereby given that Orlando L By
ers, entryman, together with his witnesses
Aaron E. Combs, and Vincent Smith, all of
Wasilla. Alaska, has submitted final proof
on his homestead entry. Anchorage serial
No. 013379 for the SEViSW'A.S'-iSEb* and
lot 4. Sec. 19 T. 17 N. R 1 W S M. con
taining 158.94 acres, and it is now in the
files of the Land Office in Anchorage, Al
aska, and if n<f protest is filed in the Land
Office within the period of publication or
thirty days thereafter, said final proof will
be accepted and final certificate issued.
GEORGE A. LINGO, Manager
Published: October 11, 18. 25: Nov. 1 and
8. 1951.
LEGAL NOTICE
UNITED STATES DEPART
MENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF LAND MAN
AGEMENT.
Land Office.
Anchorage, Alaska,
October 23, 1951.
_ Notice for Publication
Notice is hereby given that
John Charles Zak, entryman, of
Pittman, Alaska, together with
his witnesses Kenneth Roy Atkins
and William Frank Davis, both
of Wasilia, Alaska, has made final
proof on his homestead. Anchor
age Serial 016257, for Lots 1, 3,
4, and the NW14SE1/* sec. 11, and
lot 1, sec. 14, T. 17 N. R. 3 W.
5. M. containing 171.17 acres, and
it is now in the files of the Land
Office, Anchorage, Alaska, and
if no protest is filed in the local
Land Office, Anchorage, within
the period of publication or thirty
days thereafter, said final proof
will be accepted and final cer
tificate issued.
GEORGE A. LINGO, Manager
Published: Nov. 8. 15, 21. 29, and
Dec. 6, 1951.
LEGAL NOTICE
UNITED STATES DEPART
MENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF LAND MAN
AGEMENT
Land Office
Anchorage. Alaska
October 22, 1951
Notice for Publication
Notice is hereby given that Ed
win S. Moore, entryman, together
with his witnesses Cecil C.
Schrock and J. H. Schrock, all of
Wasilia, Alaska, has submitted
final proof on his homestead en
try, Anchorage serial No. 014715
for the NWViSW’/i sec. 26, NE%
SE V* ,S Va SE V* Sec. 27 T. 18 N.
R. 1 W. S. M., containing 160
acres, and it is now in the files of
the Land Office in Anchorage,
Alaska, and if no protest is filed
in the Land Office within the pe
riod of publication or thirty days
thereafter, said final proof will
be accepted and final certificate
issued.
GEORGE. A. LINGO, Manager.
Published: November 1. 8, 15, 22,
29, 1951.