COUNCIL VOTES FOR AUDIT OF CITY FUNDS
In a special meeting called
Monday night by Mayor Car;
Meier in order to pay up all the
city’s bills, the Council voted tc
have an audit of city funds as ol
October 1, 1952.
The motion also provided foi
an annual audit as of June 30 or
each following year in accordance
with the fiscal year set up by city
ordinance. The audit would covei
an entire year’s operations, since
the city first received and dis
persed funds as of October 1, 1951
when a refund from the Territory
was followed by the first sales
tax returns.
With the reading of the current
bills, Councilman Brown and
Mayor Meier asked that the items
for their Dorman pump and water
tank, respectively, be removed
from the list. In view of the feath
ernesting charges leveled by “The
Election Blast” supporting A1
Hagen’s election, Brown stated
that he felt that a complete his
tory of the transaction should be
a part of the record. He recalled
the time last summer when dust
was obscuring vision on every
street and need for sprinkling
was imperative. Meier recalled
he had a big tank he wasn’t using
just then and he volunteered to
see if he could rig it up in work
ing condition. A pump was need
ed. Brown had one that had only
50 hours’ use on it, so it was at
tached. When success was report
ed at the next meeting, Council
man Mick suggested that maybe
the city could buy it for perman
ent equipment either for payment
in cash or as a basis for trade on
some water pipe the city had left
over from the temporary line to
Carnegie Creek. When the prices
were submitted in the form of
bills, Hagen objected that the
Council had not authorized by
vote the purchase of the equip
ment and cited tank and pump
prices cheaper than the $300 and
$350 submitted. Meier and Brown
said that the Council need not
buy', but some rent was due. The
equipment had been used over a
month then. Hagen rejoined that
I no rental was authorized either.
! Since only four councilmen were
j present, no action was taken. The
! whole thing was brought up again
| last Wednesday when the items
I were included with city bills. '
Hagen’s motion to exlude the two
| items died for wTant of a second
; Only four Councilmen were pres
| ent so unanimous approval of any
! action was necessary. Failing this,
the bills were not paid at the reg- i
! ular meeting last week. Meier and
; Hagen said that they are with
' drawing their offer to sell or rent j
the equipment to the city. With
j the two controversial items re
; moved, the Council authorized
j payment of $1,311-34 in bills and
i SI.800 toward City Attorney Har
old Butcher’s salary, bringing it
| up to date to October 10.
A financial statement showing j
j the city’s receipts and disburse- i
| ments as of September 30, 1952,1
! presented earlier, had shown an
| unencumbered balance of $10,
| 177.81 in net funds available- j
! Even with the above payments,
| the City Council, which operated
j for five months without any
funds, was handing over to the
| next Council a tidy balance of
! S7.066.47. Out of a total of $86,
1 704 in revenues, only $40,516.38
I was spent on operating disburse
J ments. Of this amount $2,500
; went to the Palmer School Dis
j trict. Capital expenditures for
j street and road equipment, fire
i fighting equipment, water sys
tem land, and assets of the Ma
tanuska Valley Telephone Co.
accounted for $36,009.08. The bal
ance of $10,177.81 was in net
funds available.
FOR THE TERRITORIAL SENATE, VOTE FOR:
Steve McCutcheon, Jack Conright and William
A. Egan—Qualified and Experienced
Territorial Election
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Senate short term and two candi
dates for the two regular four
year terms. Jack Conright (D) and
Paul Robison (R) of Anchorage
are contesting the short term Sen
ate seat; Wiliam Egan (D) of
Valdez, John Gorsuch (R), Mar
shall Hoppin (R), and Steve Mc
Cutcheon (D)— all three of An
chorage—are candidates for the
two four-year terms. Conright and
Egan have had previous experi
ence in the House, Egan having
been Speaker during the last ses
sion of the Legisature. McCutch
eon was a member of the Senate
during the last session.
Running for the 10 Third Divi
sion seats in the House of Repre
sentatives are two men from the
Valley, Republicans M. D. Snod
grass and Dr. Lee McKinley.
Other candidates are Chester C.
Carlson (D), Barbara Dimock (R),
Pearl Gibson (D), Peter Kalam
arides (D), Wendell Kay (D), Z.
J. Loussac (D), Buell Nesbett, (D),
Lloyd Olson (R), Alfred Owen,
Jr. (D), C. A. Pollard (D), How
ward W. Pollard (R), Dorothy
Prior (R), Carl Rentschler (R),
Bert Rutherford (R, Irene Ryan
(D, Herald Stringer (R), Fred
Williamson (R), and Russell
Young (D), Carlson and Dr. Pol
lock have had experience in sev
eral previous sessions of the
House.
Two questions will also be
submitted to the voters Tuesday;
"Do you approve the Territory is
suing its general obligation bonds
up to but not exceeding $12,500,
000 for the sole use of consruct
ing, enlarging, altering, repairing,
equipping, and installing public
school buildings and facilities?”
And, “Should complete control
and operation of the Territorial
fisheries be turned over to the
rerritory of Alaska by Congress?”
POWER-OFF
RE-SCHEDULED
FOR 5 A.M. SUNDAY
A power-off, orginaUy
scheduled for early last Sun
day morning will “take place
this Sunday in the Palmei
area, MEA Manager C. A.
Brewer announced this morn
ings.
The outage will begin at 5
a.m. Sunday and last for per
haps two hours. High winds
that blew down lines in the
Goat Creek area were respon
sible for the cancellation of
the power-off last Sunday.
Homemakers' News
Cheechako Club
The Cheechako Homemakers
Club will hold their next meeting
Octobr 13 at the home of Mrs.
Jeanne Stassel.
The regular monthly meeting of
Sutton Homesteaders Club was
held at the home of Mrs. Marion
Matheson October 1.
Election of officers was held
with the following persons re
elected to hold their present of
fices: president, Mrs. Jean O’
Neill: vice-president, Mrs. Edna
Johnson; secretary, Mrs. Mabel
Wallace; treasurer, Mrs. Joyce
Leppanen; club reporter, Mrs.
Marion Matheson.
After election of officers, a gen
eral discussion was held regard
ing Leather Tooling as the com
ing year’s project. Members also
discussed future Fair plans with
many helpful suggestions offered
for raising money.
Pot luck was served after the
meeting was adjourned. Those at
tending were: Mrs. Grace Boulter,
Mrs. Laura Roberts, Mrs. Flor
ence Mayr, Mrs. Polly Bain, Mrs.
Yolanda Bain, Mrs. Lee Wether
bee, and Mrs. Ellie Mrak.
COFFEY INSURES
EVERYTHING! REMEMBER?
Child. Welfare
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Lazy Mountain Children’s Home
and other citizens of the Palmer
area. “Everybody has helped to
make the first Child Welfare
! Conference in Alaska a success,”
said Miss Edith Monroe, general
chairman for the conference.
Mrs. Mary Lou Prawl, local
conference chairman, said that 93
delegates registered from 30 chil
dren's homes, national and Ter
ritorial mission boards, the Dept,
of Public Welfare, the Dept, of
Health, the Dept, of Education,
I the Alaska Native Service, the
Social Security Administration,
and U of Alaska Extension Ser
vice. This number represented 15
religious denominations. Dele
gates came from Teller in the west
and Ketchikan in the southeast;
from as far south as Kodiak and
as far north as Fairbanks.
The delgates have indicated
that they would like to have a
similar conference next year.
Threat to Valley—
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of program and extent of com
munity responsibility. Dr. Bishop
in her talk Thursday night will
outline a more developed public
health program proposal which
will have more meaning for a
community faced with the very
grave curtailment of almost all
public health activities. Represen
I
On Farm Program—
der Public Law 16 and 346. Under
these new conditions, only about
24 veterans operating farms in
advanced staged of development
might qualify for rehabilitation
training under PL 346 and 550
Unfortunately, these farmers are
scattered so widely over the Ter
rtory that they cannot be assem
bled into efficient class groups
for training. Nor is there enough
money available under these laws
to provide instructors for indi
vidual training.
The need for liberalization of
the laws and regulations in their
application to Alaska has been
discussed with the Veterans Ad
ministration Regional Office in
Juneau, but they do not have the
Authority to change the laws or
regulations to give «a more liberal
application for Alaska. Neither
the Regional Office nor the Uni
versity has authority to permit
the farmer to take more than 30
days leave and in addition, dur
ing the same year, permit an ex
cess of 180 hours of employment
away from his farm.
tatives of the Health Council said
this week that the Health Center
provided for out of Community
Chest funds will be maintained.
That part of Health Center funds
intended for a part of the nurse’s
salary will be retained by the
Community Chest Board until a
new nurse is sent to this area.
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VOTE DEMOCRATIC
Democratic Territorial Convention
The Democraiic Party of Alaska in Convention assembled at Anchorage,
Alaska, representing all Divisions of Alaska, does this 20th day of January. 1952,
wholeheartedly commend Harry S. Truman for his outstanding leadership of our
Nation as President of the United States.
2* 1° accordance with the American principles of self-government, to secure
our rights in national affairs, we demand immediate statehood for Alaska.
3. We compliment and pay tribute to our Democratic Governor, Ernest Gruen
mg, for his splendid and untiring work on behalf of Alaska.
4. We praise the efforts and many accomplishments of E. L. “Bob" Bartlett,
Delegate to Congress, and hereby nominate him as the Democratic Party'
candidate for re-election.
5. We stand united behind the national administration in its firm stand against
Communist expansion.
G. We favor an increase in pensions for Alaska’s Pioneers.
7. We commend the Democratic Legislators of the 1951 session for balancing
the budget, and declare our opposition to any additional general tax burden on the
people of Alaska.
8. A. We pledge our support in maintaining the right of wage earners to
organize for their mutual benfii. and recognize the right as one of the cardinal
privileges of Democratic people.
B. We favor and support organized labor in its efforts to establish prevailing
wage rales on government projects.
C- We favor enforcement of the basic safely code law.
D. V/e favor legislation enabling the Department of Labor to enforce collection
of wage claims.
E. We favor the passage of a Fair Labor Standards Act for Alaska.
F. We favor the inclusion of unemployment benefits to all seasonal workers on
an annual basis.
G. We favor a Territorial Compulsory Workmen's Compensation insurance
program patterned after the Acts which have and are working in those states
that have long been successful in increasing the benefits to the workers and have,
likewise, lowered the payments charged against the employer
H. We advocate adoption of a graduated salary measure for Territorial em
ployees commensurate with that in effect for Federal employees in Alaska, to the
end that there be uniform compensation for comparable duties and responsibilities.
9. A. We demand the complete and immediate abolition of fish traps.
B. We oppose the duty free importation of foreign fish.
C. We ask that legislation be enacted by the Congress of the United States
transferring all power and authority now vested in the Fish and Wildlife Service
over the commercial fisheries of Alaska to the Alaska Department of Fisheries.
D. We demand representation on the Halibut Fisheries Commission.
10. We reaffirm our belief in the American principles of equality of opportunity
for all people, with fair and equal treatment regardless of race, creed or color,
and pledge our full support of all efforts to eliminate discrimination.
11. A. We urge the Defense Minerals Administration to take immediate steps
to establish purchasing depots for strategic and citical minerals at the existing
Territorial Department of Mines facilites.
B. We urge Congress to increase the depletion exemption on Alaska mining.
C. We urge that Congress pass legislation permitting the sale of gold on the
open world market.
12. We request the Legislature to supplement the ARRC fund to permit like
loans to farmers troughout the Territory. We further request proportionate geo
graphical representation on the Board of Directors.
13. A. We advocate that all major Alaskan communities be connected with
the Territorial and Continental Highway Systems wherever feasible.
B. We request legislative investigation as to the practicability of Compulsory
public liability insurance on motor vehicles in Alaska.
C- We protest the discrimination against Alaska contained in the Jones Act.
D. We pledge support of adequate water transportation to and within the
Territory at fair and equitable rales.
E. We respectfully demand that Congress revise the law so the Civil Aeron
autics Board may adopt regulations providing more adequate air carrier service to
Alaska and within Alaska.
F. We pledge to continue the progressive airport program for construction and
extension of airports and seaplane bases in Alaska as established by the Democratic
Party.
G. We again ratify the active Democratic program for small boat harbors
wherever needed in Alaska.
H. We urge the adoption of a motor vehicle drivers' examination in Alaska
and a periodic examination of motor vehicles.
14. We request the Pure Food and Drug Administration to provide proper
stations and facilities within Alaska for inspection of all food products.
15. We promise a continuation of the protective Democratic regulations govern
ing child labor.
1G. A. We urge continuation of the Democratic program of rehabilitation of our
public schools, including the University of Alaska, and recommend the inclusion
of vocational training in the curriculum.
B. We go on record favoring the continuation of earmarking the tobacco tax
funds for school construction purposes, but we oppose the extension of earmarking
to other revenues now a part of the general fund.
17. We heartily endorse the National, Territorial and privately sponsored hous
ing programs now being carried on in Alaska.
18. We favor the extension of the Federal Parole Act to the Territory of
Alaska as an instrument in the correction of juvenile delinquency, and urge that
more active effort be made to process and develop more fully the Alaska Youth
Commission program.
19. We favor the development of private industry in Alaska and the encourage
ment of new industries in order to insure, insofar as possible, a future sound
economy for Alaska.
20. We approve the changed policy of the Federal Government in providing
there shall be no land withdrawals without prior public hearing. We urge rigid
adhrence to this policy. Likewise, we recommend the return to the public domain
of all land heretofore withdrawn not positively essential to the withdrawing agen
cies within a period of three years.
21. We urge the speedy inactment of legislation by the Congress of the
United States embracing the settlement of aboriginal claims and insuring just
and adequate compensation therefor to the Alaska Native people.
22. We actively support the immediate appointment of an additional United
Stale District Judge for Alaska.
23. We favor the construction of pioneer home facilities for married couples.
24. We stand for the complete eradication of tuberculosis in Alaska, and
advocate a continuation of the vigorous Democratic program to eliminate this
dread disease.
25. We advocate the extension of existing veterans' benefit laws to Korean
Veterans.
26. We favor increased law enforcement for Alaska by the creation of an
Alaska law enforcement agency.
Pd. Political Adv.