E. B. COLLINS
NEW HEAD OF
GRANDIDLOO
E. B. Collins. Fairbanks attorney
and long-time member of the Terri
torial Legislature, was elected Grand
President of the Pioneers of Alaska
at yesterday's session of the Grand
Igloo here.
Other officers elected yesterday
include Gerrit Snider. Anchorage.
Grand Vice President; M. J. Walsh.
Nome, Grand Second Vice Presi
dent; Dean C. E. Rice. Juneau.
Grand Chaplain; Dr Will H. Chase,
Cordova, Grand Historian; James
E. Barrack. Fairbanks, Grand Re
corder; Dora M. Sweeney. Juneau,
Grand Secretary; Alfred Zeiv.er.
Juneau, Grand Treasurer; R. N.
De Armond, Sitka. Grand Sergeant
at-Arms; C. C. Carlson, Cordova
and Christiane Hansen, Ketchikan,
Grand Trustees.
Collins succeeds John Reck of
Juneau as Grand President. The
new officers were installed by Henry
Roden. Past Grand President.
The Grand IIloo adop.ed resolu
tions asking that maximum old age
assistance benefits be set at $00.
that no benefit funds be used for
administrative purposes, that ad
ministrative costs of the Welfare
Department and other Territorial
office , be investigated, and that the
Legislature pass a memorial pro
tecting the application of H R. 1702
—requiring marine inspection of
fishing vessels.
Proposals to change member; hip
requirement in the Pioneer of Al.
ka were voted down. The nex:
meeting of the Grand Igloo wdl be
held at Juneau on Feb 22. 1953.
TWO DOZEN ARRIVE,
11 LEAVE VIA PAA
Pan American World Airways car
ried 35 passengers yesterday with
17 arriving from Seattle, seven (rom
Fairbanks and Jl southbound.
From Seattle: Virginia Dick, Car
oline Hoff, Melvin and Grace Holer,
Leonard Johnson, A1 Klamn, Jack
Melquist, Dick and Evelyn Nash,
Don Newton, Bert and Jennie Par
ker, Bud Savage, Mr, and Mrs. John
Sullivan, S. P. Stewart, Adrian Wil
son.
From Fairbanks: Dorothy Green,
Clyde G. Sherman, Grace Butrovich
and Jan, Bill Wilson, A. Boberg,
R. M. Prizer.
To Seattle: J. G. Browne, L. P.
Johnson,- II. Foss, Pearl Peterson,
George Parks, E. Whitehead, K.
Alexander, Ruth McRoberts, David
Olson, Hilda Passmore.
HOSPITAL NOTES
Admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital
yesterday w-as Adam Marshall and
John Weisgerber was discharged.
At the Government Hospital
Nicholas Johnson and Russell James
of Angoon were admitted.
EDUCATION BOARD
PROPOSES TEACHER
SALARY INCREASES
By JIM HUTCHESON
Pay increases ranging from $300
to $500 annually for Alaska school
teachers were recommended to the
Legislature by the Territorial Board
of Education.
The recommendation accompan
ied presentation, at the Wednesday
afternoon session, of a budget cf
$9,854,592 to operate Alaska schools
in the next biennium. If the Legis
lature approves the recommended
teachers' pay increase, the budget
will be increased to about $10.-1
500.000. The appropriation for the
present biennium was $7,789,811.
Members of the Board of Educa
tion and Commissioner of Education
James Ryan appeared before a
joint meeting of the House and Sen
ate Education Finance and Ways I
and Means committees.
In reporting the recommendation j
for a teachers’ pay increase, mem- j
bers of the Board of Education sug- j
gested $300 for first division teach-1
ers, $400 for the third division and
$500. for the second and fourth di
visions.
Members explained the varia
tions were based on cost-of-living
indexes.
Main discussion at the hearing
hinged on school Iran- portation
which Rep. Wendell P. Kay rn:l
Sen. Gunnard Engebretli said had
become a serious i. tie at Anchor
age.
Th? budget includes $350,0J3 for
Iran?per!ation for the next bien-i
niunt, compared to $300,000 alio ted I
for this biennium.
Ryr.n explained both costs rndj
the t i mber cf pupil.; are increas
ing. The budget lists an increase of
40 per cent in support of city rnd
other school districts and a 15 per
cent increase for the support cf
rural schools.
The budget also listed $2,000 000
for school construction in addition
to earmarked tobacco tax revenues
which are outside the budget. The
tobacco tax yielded $442,000 for j
school buildings last year.
Ryan told the Legislators the
commissioner is saddled with too
many transportation and other loca’
problems, that it’s time to tell such
growing communities as Wasilla,
Dillingham, Bethel, Homer and
Kenai to “put on their long pants"
and name their own school boards.
Ryan also announced ths board
has decided against building anyi
new rural schools this summer un- I
j less Federal matching funds are I
available.
FIRE CALLS THURSDAY
The 4-8 lire alarm at 5:10 Thurs
day afternoon was for a chimney
I fire at the William Graves, 1500
Glacier Highway. Little damage was
reported.
The 4-7 alarm immediately follow
ing the first Call was for the second
fire truck to go to Twelfth Street
giving protection to the Waynor
Tract if the fire had been a large
one.
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BILL TO REVISE
ALASKA BANKING
LAWS PREPARED
The Alaska Bankers’ Association
legislative committee Chairman has
presented the legislature with a
completely revised banking law.
Marshall Crutcher of Kodiak sub
mitted the proposed new statute to
the legislators this week on the
basis of recommendations made at I
the recent bankers’ convention here. |
He laid it before the combined.
senate and house banking commit
tees, which are delaying its intro
duction until comments are re
ceived on it from banks of the
territory. It was rushed to them
in complete form immediately after
the committees, started considering
it Wednesday.
Crutcher, with a Juneau attorney,
drafted the bill in the two' weeks
following the bankers’ session.
"It is an entire rewriting of the
present laws,” he explained. "The!
attorney decided that was better;
ihan trying to make the many
amendments to bring the banking
laws up to date. It includes many
points approved by the American
Bankers Association.”
One of the provisions would re
quire all new banks to acquire
federal deposit insurance. It would
not force existing institutions to do |
30.
Crutcher reported at the sam:;
time that a poll of the 21 banks |
in the territory showed 11 of them:
in favor of compulsory deposit in
surance within five years, for all
banks. Eight voted against it and
two did not vote. The poll was
ordered at the bankers’ convention.
Crutcher said those represented at
the convention, who had all the
background, were generally the ones
favoring the proposal.
He said some old banks feel they
have been established solidly for so
many years that insurance is not
needed and is a useless expense. He
told the legislators that some of the
long-established bankers also don’t
like to feel that something is being
“shoved at them.”
Crutcher said about half a dozen
other banking bills also are being
prepared, covering such financial
angles as small loans.
One cf the principal changes pro
posed in the general banking billl
would be an increase from three to
five in the territorial banking board.
The present board includes the gov
ernor, treasurer and auditor. A
banker and a business man would
be added.
HOUSE COMMITTEE
COOL ON CANADIAN
ALUMINUM PLANT
WASHINGTON. Feb. 23 — .?•—
The House Monopoly Committee
was reported today to be cool to
ward a plan to help boost Canadian
aluminum production as a mean of
relieving a shortage in thi. coun
try.
Committee sources, who asked not
...
to be named, told newsman a re
port now being drafted gives only
“last resort” approval to a proposal
by the Aluminum Company of Can
ada (ALCAN) to construct a half
billion-dollar plant in British Co
lumbia with U. S. underwriting.
Dependence should be put on the
ALCAN project for aluminum sup
plies, the committee was reported
to feel, only (1) if American inde
pendent producers can not get into
production within three years, and
(2) if the United States is assured
priority on a substantial portion of
the Canadian aluminum output.
REPORT SHAKEUP
FEWS PERSONNEL
!S DENIED HERE
Report that a shakeup of Pish
and Wildlife Service personnel in
the spring is in the offing, appear
ing in a dispatch under a Juneau
dateline in the February 20 issue of
the Ketchikan Chronicle was denied
her? today by Clarence Rhode, FWS
Regional Director.
“The report is a surprise to this
office,” Rhode said this morning.
Rhode said one or two transfers
of personnel are to be made this
spring, a not ununusual action. In
a normal year, ne saia, a dozen or
more personnel transfers are made
in the regular course of the busi
ness in an organization the size
of (he Fish and Wildlife Service.
■ No widespread transfers are con
templated nor are the majority of
the towns mentioned in the Chron
icle dispatch involved in our pre
sent plans,” said Rhode.
The Chronicle dispatch said that
“no official statement has been
made on the contemplated changes
vet. but it *is expected that the
widespread transfers of the person
nel will begin in the spring.”
It is said it was believed that
FWS agents in Ketchikan, Wran
, ej] Petersburg, Juneau and other
points in Southeast Alaska will be
affected by a series of transfers.
Indications of a Contemplated per
sonnel shakeup were said to be
made following sessions in Juneau
I cf' the Alaska Game Commission
and the Fish and Wildlife Service.
•We expect to be operating this
year with exactly the same crew
we had last year,” Rhode said, “ex
■ept that with the present available
funds we will not be able to replace
the vacancy in our fishery and wild
life management agency at Wran
gell created by the transfer of
Don Bates to the states last Decem
ber.”
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I Approximately 500 school children
were given typhoid innoculations
I in two hours this morning at the
I Juneau Health Center. Three
nurses, Mrs. Edna Kerr, Mrs. Wilma
Welch! and Miss Gertrude Wetzel
and Dr. Virginia Cobb assisted by
seven nurses aides handled the
| group. The youngsters were un
afraid.
Typhoid shots will be given this
evening from 7 to 8 o’clock for
adults and also children. These
shots are being given as part of
the civilian defense program and
will be continued for the next three
I Fridays. To insure immunity, three
inoculations, one week apart, are
required.
TAKEN TO KODIAK
.
The U. S. Coast Guard head
quarters here says that a CG plane
was able to take off for Chignik
yesterday afternoon to take Clark
Cropper to Kodiak. He was be
lieved to be suffering with an acute
attack of appendicitis and the cutter
Bittersweet, enroute to Chignik,
turned back.
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THREE PROMINENT
MINNESOTANS ARE
KILLED IN PLANE
PAXTON, Neb., Feb. 23.—W—
Three prominent Minnesotans fly
ing to a Colorado skiing resort were
killed when their plane crashed into
a tree at the e^ige oi Paxton.
The dead are:
Edmund P. Pillsburv. 37, Minnea
polis, vice president of Pillsbury
Mills, Inc., and son of Pillsbury
board chairman, John S. Pillsbury.
Alfred D. Lindlfey, 47. Minneapolis
attorney, former Olympic skier and
recently unsuccessful Republican
candidate for congress.
Dexter L. Andrews, 38, secretary
and director of Earl Partridge Co
Minneapolis general merchandise
wholesale firm.
Apparently Pillsbury was bringing
the plane in for a landing in a
field near the Paxton railroad depot
when the little ship plowed into a
grove of trees.
MOOSE LODGE
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ANOTHER ACTION,
SALMON CANNERY
WORKERS UNION
SEATTLE, Feb. 23.—Uft—A recom
mendation that Local 7-C, Inter
national Longshoremen’s and Ware
housemen’s Union (Ind.) be certi
fied as collective bargaining agent
for 3,000 non-resident Alaska sal
mon cannery workers has been made
by Thomas P. Graham, Jr., regional
director of the National Labor Rela
tions Board.
Graham also recommended to the
NLRB that objections to the elec
tion which the ILWU won, be over
ruled.
Objections were filed by the
Alaska Fish Cannery Workers Union
(AFL) and Locai 77, United Pack
ing House Workers’ Union (CIO).
Graham said that the two de
feated unions have five days in
which to file exceptions to his re
commendation.
PARKERS RETURN
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Parker of
Gustavus, returned to Juneau yes
terday on Pan American after a trip
to the States.
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