Alaska Legislation. Introduced
Measures relating to statehood
for Alaska, set nets in Alaska
waters, land grants to the Ter
ritory, mental health care and
treatment, proceeds from mineral
lands, control of fisheries and
elimination of fish traps were
among 41 bills introduced by
Delegate Bartlett as the 84th
Congress convened this week.
Delegate Bartlett’s Alaska state
hood bill would grant, with min
eral rights, 103,050,000 acres of
land to the new state, plus other
land and building grants in the
city of Juneau now used for the
Governor’s residence, the feder
al building and federal jail. Of
this total, 100 million acres would
be selected over a 25-year period
from public domain, 400,000 acres
from Alaska’s national forests for
community development and rec
reational areas, 400,000 acres from
the public domain for the same
purpose, and 2,250,000 for state
institutions. The bill provides for
exterior surveys by the Interior
Department with an authorization
contained in the measure of $15
million for state survey of lands
within the exterior boundaries
and for construction and improve
ment of harbors. The legislation
would bring Alaska under the
federal aid highway acts and
would authorize road construc
tion funds to the new state of
$17 million for the first fiscal year
after statehood, $13 million for
the second, $9 million foi* the
third, $5 million for the fourth, $3
million for the fifth and $1 mil
lion for the sixth. Additional
authorization is included for
maintenance funds for roads of
$3 million for each of the first
five fiscal years after statehood,
$2 million for each of the second
five fiscal years and $1 million for
each of the third five fiscal years.
Control of Alaska’s fisheries would
be transferred to the state except
the fur-seal and sea-otter fisher
ies with 50 percent of the pro
ceeds from the sale of seal skins
and sea otters to go to the state.
Five percent of the proceeds from
the sale of public lands by the
United States lying within the
state would go to the state. The
state would assume the care and
treatment of the mentally ill ex
cept that the federal government
would continue this responsibility
for those receiving care and treat
ment at the time Alaska is ad
mitted into the Union. The Sub
merged Lands Act of 1953 would
be extended to the state, and the
measure also spells out the pro
cedure for the mechanics of be
coming a state, starting with the
calling of a state constitutional
convention.
At the present tmie no proceeds
from royalties and rent from coal
lands in Alaska are returned in
any form to the Territory but go
into the federal treasury for re
imbursement on railroad con
struction within the Territory.
The major portion of proceeds
from oil and gas leases on the
public domain in the Territory
are returned to the, federal trea
sury with Alaska receiving only
37^ percent for public schools
and roads. Delegate Bartlett this
week introduced a bill which
would return to Alaska 90 percent
of the mineral proceeds, includ
ing coal, gas and oil. Of this total,
37 Ms percent would go to the Ter
ritory for public roads and schools
and 52 Mi percent to the Terri
tory for whatever use the legis
lature would determine.
The Territory would be granted
20,400,000 acres of land, with min
eral rights, under another bill
dropped in the House hopper this
week by Delegate Bartlett. The
lands, which would be selected
by the Territory within 25 years,
would be from the public domain
in the sum of 20 million acres
with 40,000 acres to be selected
from the national forests for com
munity and recreational purposes.
The Interior Department would
survey the exterior boundaries
with a $3 million authorization in
cluded in the measure to be used
for territorial surveys of land.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13
OPERATION “SNOW BIRD”
OPENS
NORTHLAND PIONEER GRAN
GE, Grange Hall, 8 p.m.
MATANUSKA AIRMENS’ AS
SOCIATION, Co-Op club room,
8 p.m.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 14
SQUARE DANCE GROUP, Moose
Hall, 8:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 15
A & R BAKE SALE, Bert’s Drug,
*11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
MONDAY, JANUARY 17
KIWANIS CLUB, Co-Op club
room, 12:05 p.m.
[altar AND ROSARY SOCI
ETY, Mrs. James Smith’s, 8
p.m.
BETA SIGMA PHI, Bonnie Bet
tine’s, 8 p.m.
LIBRARY BOARD, Palmer Li
brary, 8 p.m.
EXPLORER SCOUTS, U. P.
Church, 7 p.m.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18
PALMER P-TA, School library,
8 p.m.
CITY COUNCIL, Clerk’s office,
7:30 p.m.
BOY SCOUTS, U. P. Church, 7
p.m.
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 19
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Co
Op club room, 12:05 p.m.
MAT. VALLEY O. E. STAR, Car
penters’ Hall, 8 p.m.
WELL CHILD CONFERENCE,
Health Center, 2-4 p.m.
Palmer B. P. O. ELKS, Elks home,
8 p.m.
GRANGE CARD PARTY, Grange
Hall, 8 p.m.
THURSDAY. JANUARY 20
AMERICAN LEGION & AUXIL
IARY, Legion Bldg., 8 p.m.
granted. Effective two years after
approval of the bill provisions of
law reserving school lands in Al
aska would be repleated, thus al
lowing the Territory to select any
of these lands desired.
HEALTH FOR ALL
Through A Pane of Glass
For the Future »
You are a man in your forties
and you are resting at home for
a few months. Not your idea of
living? Of course not. But it is
happening to an increasing num
ber of men who break down with
tuberculosis in their middle years.
Treatment of TB with drugs de
veloped in recent years has made
it possible for some patients to
leave the hospital after a certain
point and finish treatment at
home with regular visits to a
clinic. As one of either group,
you have some very special prob
lems, as you well know.
It’s a lonely life in spite of be
ing with your family. In a hos
pital you would be with others
making the same fight against
TB. Eager as your family and
friends are to help, they cannot
share all your burdens. You have
to do the “resting” to give your
body a chance to heal. You have
to fill hours that seem much more
than 60 minutes long. You may
be plagued with worries about the
future.
Stop right there. You can do
something about the future. Your
state and the Federal government
are partners in a program to pre
pare you for and place you in the
right job when you are well
again. This could mean! helping
you return safely to your old job
or to some new kind of work.
These are not charity services.
They are your right, just as a
public school education is your
child’s right.
Your doctor will tell you when
you are physically able to start
training. There is no cost to you
for most of the services offered.
But I am not this man, you in
sist. Let’s hope you won’t be one
of the 110,000 Americans who will
be stricken with TB this year. But
chances are you will know one
of them. You can help and en
courage him to take full advan
tage of his “rest period” to build
a better future.
FRONTIERSMAN CLASSIFIEDS
ALWAYS BRING RESULTS
Optometrist Plans
Regular Local Visits
Dr. Edward. E. Bach, optome
trist from Anchorage, will be com
ing to Palmer on regularly sched
uled visits for the purpose of mak
ing vision care more conveniently
available to the residents of Pal
mer and surrounding areas.
Those who are uncertain whe
ther an examination is necessary
are welcome to come in for a
free consultation or preliminary
check to detormire if there exists
a visual problem which would
warrant an eye examination, Dr.
Bach stated this week.
This service, he said, should
be a great boon to parents who
are anxious to safeguard their
children’s vision but hesitate to
seek an eye examination! which
may not be really needed.
When in Palmer Dr. Bach will
make his headquarters in the cor
ner office in the Co-Op Recrea
tion building next door to the
beauty shop. He plans to make
visits on a twice monthly basis
for the present. Announcements
of each visit will appear in this
paper.
Those who desire ant eye exam
ination should make an appoint
ment with Mrs. Maud Hosier at
the Flower Shop in the same
building. Those requiring repairs,
lens replacements or adjustments
are invited to drop in without
an appointment.
Dr. Bach is not a newcomer to
Alaska. He first came to the ter
ritory in 1938, and has been a
resident of Anchorage since 1940
where he maintains his office and
practise.
THANK YOU FOLKS
Yes, thanks again to all of you
fine people who gave floral pieces
and expressed thoughts of sym
pathy during the recent loss of
our beloved son and brother.
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Marth
and family
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