EGAN NAMED
SPEAKER ON
OPENING DAY
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(1), Madsen (2), Stepovich H>.
Labor, Capital and Xmur. uaii ai
Gunderson ill, Carl on iS), Lav.
(2>, Wilbur (4), Kay i3).
Mining and Manufacturing -
Madsen (2), Franklin (41, Mi •>
vich (41, Laws (2i, Pollard <3»,
Degnan (2).
Municipal Affairs—Stepovic h > -4 >,
Hendrickson (1>, Kay (3>, L)i ,na i
<21. Hope (1).
Permanent Help Conrigh; (3),
Franklin (4), Metcalfe ill, Harm
(li.
Printing and Purchasing—Lock on
(1), Kay (3), MacKinnon (ll, Gun
dersen ill, Gasser (41.
Public Health, Quarantine and
Moists—Gunderson ill, Souvenir
(3i, Wells (2), Wilbur i4), Harm
(li.
Public Welfare—Barnes (I), Hen
drickson (li, Miscovich <4j, Gun
dersen (1), Pollard (3), Wells (2).
Roads and Highways -MacKin
non (1», Metcalfe ill, Franklin (4),
Scavenius (31, Pollard (3). Madsen
(2>, Degnan (2).
Rules—McCutcheon (3), Frank
lin (4), Stepovich (4), Kay (3),
Hope (li, Johnson <1>, Mad cn (2).
Territorial Institutions Law '2),
Gundersen (11, Barne ill. C . cr
(4), Degnan (2), McCutcheon (3i.
MacKinnon (1).
Transportation, Commerce and
Navigation—Scavenius (3), Johnson
(11, Carlson (3), Gasser < 4), M -
Cutcheon (3>. Wells (2i.
Veterans’ Legislation — Metcalfe
(ll, Wilbur (4i, Conrlght <3), Sc.v
enius (3), Laws (21, MacKinnon 'll.
Ways and Means—Franklin i4i,
Miscovich (4), Madsen (2), Lav i2',
Carlson (3), McCutcheon (3), Kay
(31, Scavenius (3), Gundersen ('ll,
Barnes (ll, Johnson <11.
Recess Fntll 2 P.M.
Shortly before noon the House
recessed until 2 p.m. this afternoon
to give the Committee on Perma
nent Help an opportunity to inter
view job-seekers.
SENATORS
WAIT FOR
'"“BOTROVICH
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her the envy of her stateside ac
quaintances.” ( Another deep
breath).
There is one teensy-weensy dark
note.
“CAA admits frankly, howew
that for some Alaska quick’;,' 1 -
its allure and they seize the f:~
opportunity to get transferred '01 i -
side’.”
There's no explanation of this.
Probably the guys are eager to get
home and spend their gold dust.
70 IN HONbLlXU
Not that it matters, especially on
a day like this, but if anyone wish
es to learn the temperature and
weather report in Honolulu, it is
now being posted daily on a bull
etin board in ’ the window of the
local Pan American World Airway
office. “Not that we are trying to
promote any trips to the Hawaiian
Island. . . .” the boys in the office
say with sly smiles, "but it’s 70 de
crees in Honolulu today.”
Sll'KA VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Bradshaw
of Sitka ar~ stopping at the
Baranof Hotel.
Alaska Steamship Representatives Meet
T
11, ika Steamship C< mpany rc
pi( / at.:Lives attendin'. t ie com
prny 1951 annual at; i-' • meeting at
; .. It’u . J Miliar 15 " re pic* i t<>.
with three new; Adi k;i Lcnm.
:.:l St.evidM i t a i vy id; !
drive folk lift truck: i.i a V*,.r -id
freight ihed, during a rect*«3 be
tween sessions.
Tins ,m . :.a I - - • . . are
mile’.ir Id-■ i- • - ' develop
in' iinuri rM' d seirer
service fur the i d. "i . f i t . -i:iy
territorial open Mors v hich range
kStem Ai
n't; to KV :i the arctic.
: i ::j i ft i» i tl truck i *|s: w.
T. Manrh m, a:'1 iiu i .* al traf
fic m.n.i er, Si"i T. J. M.-loury,
Anohcvn-if ayuit: ;-nd, clop ii,ht
truck, Frank n-iru . Cor.io"a agent.
In leu - v ; a, 1 ; . rom
gft: i:. F. K . . • d: agent
• with hat i • -.•n.i- : . if. W. KLlings
•vorth, manager, /.l ski Ttniinal
Corniiany, W. W. Sipprell, generalj
i :• i:t, Seward; second row: J. F.
ZumdeicK, operating manager, Se- j
uttie; R. Cl. Gardiner, Fairbanks
F. A. Zucsler, executive as
. ant t.i president, Seattle; and
i i.ered front row; D. R. Hen
burger, ns.ustant general frei ht
. gent, Seattle: H. E. Green, Juneau
agent, R. I. Miller, Petersbui
agent, A. N. MacClellan, freight
claim a cat, Svattlr; W. R. Wood,
Ketchikan agent; and R. D. Kel.wy,
Valdex agent.
Right section, second row, from1
right. H. N. Peterson, general
traffic manager, Leo McCormack,1
Wrangell aeent, D. E. Skinner, vice
president and general manager, Se
attle; R. C. Rose, assistant general
passenger agent, Seattle; J. J. Dil
inn, Nome agent, J. D. Nelson, as
istant general traffic manager, Se
attle.
First row, right section, from
licit; Orrin Kimball, Kodiak agent,
D. M. Ramsay, Sitka agent; H. E.
Chesebrough, terminal agent, Seat
tle; K. A. Cross, assistant general
passenger agent, Seattle; and G. S.
Duryea, gciural«lrnii;ht'wnd pas .an
ger agent, Anchorage.
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NEIL GRANTS HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Grant of
Wrangell are at the Baranof Hotel.
They are enroute to their home
after a trip ,-outh and are weather
hound in Juneau.
FROM KETC HIKAN
Jelra W. Hay of Ketchikan is
a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
SEATTLE VISITOR
i. v, C. f . llenbeck of Seattle is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
JIRPS HERE
Egt. Calvin E. Anderson and Cpl.
Adam J. Sclinieder of Elmendorf
Field, near Anchorage, are at the
Juneau Hotel. They are here in
connection with winter activities
on the Juneau Ice Cap.
SITKA VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Snowden of
Sitka arc gue;:ts at the Baranof
: Hotel.
SITKA LAWYER HERE
Paul Dupler, Sitka lawyer, is
] stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
Frank A. D: nan, representative
. irom Unalakleet, is stopping at the
* Gastineau HoLel.
A NORTHERN NOTEBOOK
By BOB DE ARMOND
I
(Eighth of a Series}
A man who professes to je an
admirer of this column r bed An
chorage at an inconveniently late
hour the other evening to tell us
that Governor Ernest Henry Gru
elling has organized a Harvard
Club at the metropolis of Alaska.
When we showed no enthusiasm
over this knowledge, he asked, “Do
you know why he organized it?"
We said we hadn't the faintest
idea.
“He organized the Harvard Club j
to keep Stanley MeCutelieon from'
going to Yale,” the man said.
He though the information should
go into the Notebook.
At the time we could not see its
’ alue, but after a little thought;
'he matter seems worthy of men-I
uon.
Fundamentally, we believe every [
m:.n i; entitled to as much educa
u in as he can get, and any help !
111:: l. anyone can give him toward
• tir ■ that education is to the1:
public interest.
As between Harvard and Yale we
hold no brief whatever. But if
- .alley McCutcheon has labored all
till' e years to the end of going
to Yale, we do not believe it is to
the public interest for the Har
vard alumni to try to prevent it.
As of this writing, the man most
likely to be Speaker of the House
of the 20th Legislature is William
Allen ' Eagle Bill” Egan of Valdez. I
Bill Egan, who picked up the
nickname through his vigorous
thampionin r of measures to estab- ,
lish and pay bounties on American;
eagles killed in Alaska, will be serv- |
his fifth session in the House, j
Born in Valdez on October H. ]
1914, Egan was one of the young- j
est, if not the youngest, man to j
come to the Alaska Legislature:
when he came to Juneau 10 years .
ago to serve in the 15th Session.
nl that session Egan, in addition
to introducing a number of other j
bills, co-authored with John Me-;
Cormick, now Alaska Director of i
Selective Service, a bill providing
for a referendum on the question of i
statehood for Alaska. The bill died'
in the Senate which, incidentally,'
was comprised of seven Democrats.
and one Republican that year.
During his second term, in 1943,
f,. j;i lauded the Mouse Committee
on Fisheries, Fish and Game. He
made another attempt at a state
ly.od referendum, this time wi ii
Rep. Richard E Hardcartle of Ket
chikan as co-author, ana again the
bill was killed by 'he Ft'nace. On
his own, Egan introduced e bill to
provide for the election of the Ter
ritorial Commissioner of Mines and
secured its passage by the House.
It, loo, was voted down by the
Senate.
Served In Army
Shortly after the cio.se of the
16th session, Egan entered the
Army, on May 19, 1913. He was
discharged from the Army as a
sergeant on March 30, 1946. Four
days previously he had been elected
mayor of his home town of V.Hdez.
ROYAL SPORTS SESSION — Emppror Hirohito (right), of Japan, and members of his
family vhat before starting a tennis game on the grounds of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
where he had served on the City
Council in earlier years.
Bill Egan returned to the Lrgi
lature in 1947 and introduced a bill
to provide a bounty on eagles. It
passed the House but was killed
by the Senate.
Two years ago, in the 19th Leg
islature, Egan headed the Municipal
Affairs Committee of the Hoi*' and
frequently served as Speaker pro
tern. He again introduced an eagle
bounty bill, with an appropriation
of $15,000. It was passed by both
houses and became our present
eagle bounty law, although without
the signature of the Governor.
Egan’s eagle bounty received son, -
national attention, and so did his
bill to levy a head tax on all un
married females resident in the
territory. The latter, as its author
no doubt intended, did not yet past
its first committee.
A graduate of the Valdez High
School, Bill Egan worked for the
Alaska Road Commission and at
the Ramsey-Rutherford mine near
Valdez. Later he worked as a mech
anic for Bob Reeve and for the late
Harold Gillam, and learned to fly
his own plane. He is presently in
the merchandising business, still in
his home town.
Accompanying Bill to Juneau for
the presen* session are his wMe,
the former Neva McKittrick, a
Kansas girl who came to Alaska hs
a school teacher and married Bill
in 1940; and his son Dennis Wil
liam, born at Juneau on March
3, 1947, during the session of the 1
18th Legislature.
Gunman Plans io
"Beat That Pap''
For Harder, Kidnap
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 22— .*> —
“I’ll beat that rap some way,”
declared confessed slayer William
E. Cook, Jr., as he awaited indict
ment tomorrow in the kidnap-slay
ing of the Carl Mosser family. ”
This determination was expre ed
to prisoners sharing Cook’s com
partment aboard the train which ar
rived here yesterday from Los An
geles.
A grand jury will be asked to
morrow to indict him on a Lind
bergh law kidnap charge: abducting
the five Mossers of Atwood, 111.,
with intent to do bodily harm: “To
wit, murder.”
AVALANCHES !
CAUSE DEATH
TO OVER 102:
— i
GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 22— I
I/Pi—The death toll may be increased j
from 13G to 141 with many still!
missing today ns rescue workers in .
three Alpine countries continued to j
dig through snow and debris left by ;
disastrous weekend avalanches.
Austria had at least 66 dead, j
Switzerland 60 and Italy 15 as a re- ;
suit of great slides crashing down j
Alpine slopes for the past three days, j
Whole villages were buried, houses i
broken like kindling wood and fam- !
llles entombed by the thundering I
snow.
In Austria, where an untold num- ■
ber of persons still are missing, |
Interior Minister O .car Helmer said
the government is considering ap
propriate aid measures for the vic
tims.
The semi-official Swiss News
Agency said that the disaster struck
at least 15 localities in Switzerland.
Besides the 59 dead, it said, 20
others arc missing and another 20
were re;..Tied seriously injured.
In It. in addition to the dead,
at Io;t t 50 persons were injured,
many Ih^m caught beneath roofs
crump..v. by the weight of the
snow.
More Slides Peered
The mow still was falling on the
Italian side of the Alps, musing
fezes there wouid to more ava
lanches.
On the Swiss side the number of
avalanches appear to be decreas
ing, but officiate warned that there
Mill was danger.
Thousands of British and Ameri
can sports lovers were temporarily
isolated at swank ski resorts. Among
the marooned were 500 British and
70 Americans at Davos, Switzerland.
None of the resorts were believed
to be in any danger, however. They
were said to have ample food stocks.
The unusual number of slides re
sulted from heavy snows last week.
Avalanches are not uncommon in
the Alps, but the weekend number
was believed a record.
Charles Gss! !s
Dead in Seattle
SEATTLE, Jan. 22— .■?—Charles
Gist, 62, of Anchorage, died Satur
day at the Buena Vista nursing
home.
Born in Yugoslavia, he came to
he United States in 1905. In 1507 he
went to Alaska and worked as a
miner and powder man. He came to
Seattle last August because of poor
health.
The funeral will be tomorrow.
A cousin, George Strbac, survives
in Anchorage.
FROM PETERSBURG
Mrs. Dorothy Hofstad and Mrs.
Norma Wilder of Petersburg are
at the Baranof Hotel.
The population of Tibet is be
lieved to be decreasing because of
the large number of celibate Bud
dhist monks and the practice of
polyandry.
HOW at A.E.L.&P.
New lamp bulb beautifies
fixtures like these!
Bright light directed UP
from this port of bulb
Downward light softened
by tinted m"'"el -
coating here
General Electric
50-GA Bulbs «u 40«
Alaska Electric
Light and Power Co.
»OUGMjAS I
NEWS
MKS. rnCKEY HOME
Mrr. James V. Hickey returned
hom«' over the weekend from St
Ann’s Hospital, wlier^ she was con
fined with pneumonia for scver
days.
HOTE M’RSINO
Home Nursing Classes will be
held again this evening in 'the
Government School under a Red
Cross Surges program, headed in
Douglas by Mrs. L. W. Richards,
R.N. Classes begin at 8 o’clock.
SEVENTH STRONG SON
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Strong are the
parents of a seventh son, born on
Sunday morning at 6:10 o’clock at
the Government Hospital in Ju
neau. The young fellow weighed
in at 8 pounds and 9 ounce: and
has not yet been named. He joins
these brothers, Ralph 13; Gene, 6;
Charles, 5; Anthony, 4; James, 3:
David 2. The father is a chef by
occupation and is now employed
with the Alaska Native Service at
Mt. IJlgecumbe and will begin
his service there this week.
K£RNS HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kerns return
ed home on the Princess Norah on
Saturday night, returning from a
two months vacation. ,
The couple with their two child
ren, spent the first month with
Mrs. Kerns' parents in Reno, Nev
ada and were present at the time
of the big flood. The following
month Was spent in Southern Cal
ifornia at Orange, with* Mr. Kerns'
parents. This was a first visit with
.randmas and grandpas for young
Donald Kerns, the ID year old s n.
Kerns is an engineer with the
i S. Bureau of Mines.
ROBERT ISAAC, NF.W COACH
Robert Isaac, new BB coach for
.he Don/las Public Schools arrived
yesterday to replace draftee Coach
Richard McCormick. Isaac is a
former coach of the U. of Alaska.
McCormick will leave Juneau
Tuesday morning with a group of
selectees for the Armed Services,
for induction at Anchorage.
BAPTIST U.M.j MEETS
The Januar^ mor jjg of the Bap
tist Woman’s Missionary Society
was held Thursdafy evening at tka
home cf -;-i. Souell Grimm. It was
| voted that the organization send
<lothing to migrant workers in the
1 Sout’i and a check to the Dun
| can Mission at Fairbanks. The Feb
. uarv meeting will be held at the
J hor.. of Mrs. Ada Springer, Beb
I lends Avenue.
I
COY FOR STRONGS
a baby boy was born to Mr. anu
I Mrs. Jerry Strong of Douglas at the
! Government hospital yesterday.
The Story of the
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