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^SENATE |
Bills Introduced
S. B. 24, by Engstrom, making the
Highway Engineer the Inspector of
Weights and Measures for the Ter
ritory. *
S. B. 25. by Committee on Edu
cation, amending the law perl fin
ing to place of meeting of the
Board of Education.
S. B. 26. by Lhamon, amending
the law relating to the distribution
of real and personal property and
its escheat if the intestate shall
leave no lineal descendants, hus
band, widow or kindred.
S. B. 27, by Barr, relating to
aeronautics; pertaining to zoning
of airports; providing regulations;
prescribing penalties.
S. B. 28. by Engstrom and Snider,
to provide for the payment of de
ficiencies and other sundy claims
against the Territory; appropriat
ing $233,520.16, including $216,802
for bounties.
S. B. 29. by Huntley and Snider,
directing the Treasurer to surrend
er without consideration, bonds ag
gregating $500 issued by the Valley
Hospital Association of Palmer.
S. B. 30, by Lhamon, setting the
maximum salary of the Commis
sioner of Education at $12,000.
S. B. 31, by Lhamon, appropriat
ing $9,469.36 to reimburse the Alas- j
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j lea World War II Veterans’ Revolv
| ing Fund for the cost of audits ol
I the accounts of the Veterans’ Af
| fairs Commission.
S. B. 32, by Engsirom and Coble,
amending the law so as to include
persons to membership without
medical examination in non-profit
mutual beneficial insurance socie
ties incorporated under the laws of
Alaska, where the maximum insur
ance benefit does not exceed $2,500.
S. B. 33, by McCutcheon, pro
viding for punishment, upon con
viction, for selling mortgaged per
onal property to a third party for
,i valuable consideration without in
forming him of the existence am
effect of such mortgage.
S. B. 34, by Garni ck and Hi nl
ley, amending the law relating 1/
issuance of marriage licetiscs by al
lowing the issuance of license to c
female under 16 years of age upon
recommendation by a licensed phy
sician.
S. B. 35, by Lhamon, to permit the
sale of liquor on Election Day in
municipalities where no election 1
being held.
S. B, 36, by Huntley, relating to
public and Territorial lands, estab
lishing a Division of Public Lands
within the Department of Taxa
tion, creating the office of Land
Commissioner, prescribing powers
and duties of the Land Commis
sioner, transfering certain statutory
duties to the Land Commissioner
providing for reactivation of the
land registration program.
S. B. 37, by MacKeilzie, to amend
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the law pertaining to the Motoi
Fuel Oil Tax by providing penal
ties for failure to file returns anc
remit the tax.
S. B. 38, by the Committee or
Education, relating to the method
of determining the per cent of re
fund paid to school distftcts and
manner of making advanced and
final refunds.
S. B. 39, by Beltz, establishing
a "Vital Statistics Fund” and pro
viding that all fees received by the
Registrar of Vital Statistics shall
be covered into the fund and ex
pended by the Reigstrar.
S. B. 40, by Beltz, to require
moneys received under the Federal
Mineral Leasing Act to be covered
into the Public School Current
Fund.
S. B. 41, to create a Territorial
Defense Council and a Department
of Civil Defense thereunder, grant
ing certain emergency powers, pro
viding penalties and appropriating
$1,100,000.
FIRE DEPT. BOYS
PAID OFF, PAPER
$; SILVER SHORT
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The regular monthly meeting ofj
the Juneau Fire Department was!
held last night at the Fire Club and
the members expressed their appre
ciation lor the excellent cooperation
received during the annual February j
drive which culminated in the Fire-I
man’s Ball. February 10.
Discussion arose regarding the
attendance at calls by the two com
panies. Records proved that there
was no appreciable difference re
gardless of contrary opinions of
several mem be ns.
With a few dissenters, it was
agreed to curtail entertainment at
monthly meetings In view of a con
templated family get-to-gether in
the distant future.
The usual payoff for attendance
at fires was for the first time in
history made with paper dollars due
to a shortage in Juneau of the reg
ular silver medium.
The meeting closed with Driver
Sorenson's usual excellent lunch
which featured a feed of large local
shrimp in the shell.
—EMPIRE WANT AI»S PAY—
ALASKANS ON VISI1
TO WASWNGTONtD.C.
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The last Issue of Bartlett’s News
Letter says Marvin S. Pickard,
attorney for The Alaska Railroad,
was a recent Washington visitor
wljile on vacation in the East. Mr
Pickard, now living at Anchorage,
visited his former home in Missis
sippi. • r
Ted C. Matthews, mining execu
tive of Fairbanks, was in Washing
ton this jWeek' to confer with Navy
Department officials in connection
with Naval Petroleum Reserve No.
4.
Erick Bostrom, longshoreman of
Seward, where he has lived for
four years, called at Delegate Bart
lett's office this week. Mr. Bos
trom is on a motor trip through the
States and will return to Alaska
over the highway after visiting his
mother at his former home in
Michigan.
Morris Rafn of Tacoma, is in
Washington for a few days on bus
iness. Mr. Rafn, who is interested
in a cannery at Ugashik, came to
Washington after attending a
oanners’ convention in Chicago.
Charles H. Stowell, formed Chief
of Police at Anchorage and now
special investigator for The Alas
ka Railroad, was in Washington
this week.
Russel T. Conlon of Fairbanks
and Louis C. Berman of Seattle
were in Washington this week in
connection with their duties with
the International Union of Oper
ating Engineers. Mr. Oonlon is the
union's Alaska representative and
Mr. Berman is the attorney for the
union.
NO PARKING
No parking signs are now up on
Second and Third Streets between;
Main and Franklin Streets and |
tickets are being given out for1
parking violations. According to I
action of the City Council it was
decided to remove the parking me-]
ters and have those areas for
loading and unloading only. The
same is true of Second Street from j
Franklin to Gold Streets.
Iaddie mckinnon on
JOB 20 YEARS, FED.
BUILDING EXCHANGE
Twenty years ago on March 2,
Mrs. Addie V. McKinnon was ap
pointed as operator at the tele
; phone exchange in the new Federal
1 and Territorial building shortly
I after it had been opened for oc
! cupancy, and today she is still on
j the Joo.
Keeping abreast of me continued
expansion of her duties, she has
through the years handled the tele
phone contacts for offices which
she has watched grow from one or
two rooms to cover a large part
of one floor, with always the same
smooth efficiency. She knows every
worker in the building and the
office designation for each, whether
he has been there several years or
a week.
I:. addition to her regular duties,
for years Mrs. McKinnon has
doubled as "Information.”
ALASKA COASTAL HAS
46 ON THURSDAY TRIPS
Alaska Coastal Airlines carried
a total of 46 passengers on flights
Thursday with four on interport,
21 departing and 21 arriving.
Departing for Sitka: Willard
Jones, John Graft, Bishop Zlobin,
F. A. Benson, P. Williams, L. G.
Roberts, Carol Westfall, John Bow
en, W. Alexander; for Pish Bay:
Bill Ferris; for Angoon: Bob Syre,
For Skagway: Dr. Bledsoe; for
Ketchikan: C. R.. Barnhill, John
Christopher, Charles Buchert, F.
Toner, J. Connors; for Petersburg:
I, j. Montgomery, I. Johnson; for
Hoonah: John Bowen; for Gust
avus: Pearl B. Haynes.
Arriving from Hoonah: Albert
Jackson, Esther Moses, Lorraine
Howard; from Pelican: Mrs. M. W.
Soule; from Petersburg: A. L. Zum
walt; from Haines: Leonard King,
Mr, and Mrs. Ira Powell, I. J.
Cunz, Mrs. Chester Loop, Bonita
Loop, C. W. Kessener.
From Sitka: Mike Gavril, Paula
Taylor, Frank Ward, L. Widmark,
Mr. and Mrs. Gahan, Harold Aga,
Ray Renshaw; from Angoon: Bob
Syre.
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PROBABLY you’ve never thought of
yourself as a maker of history.
But you are. And here is how you, as
a citizen of the United States, are
creating the greatest success in all
history.
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Remember back in 1941 when the
Defense Bonds you were buying sud
denly had to become War Bonds? How
you and your neighbors pitched in to
buy them in ever-increasing numbers,
to back our fighting men and to help
achieve the victory of World War II?
After V-J Day, when those bonds
became Savings Bonds, you continued
to buy them because you had learned
how regular saving could build secu
rity and contentment for yourself and
those you love.
The face of the land has undergone
some dramatic changes in those years
since V-J Day. Now the landscape is
dotted with new homes that Savings
Bonds built. Thousands upon thou
sands of new automobiles travel the
highways—Savings Bonds cars, bought
with the product of individual thrift.
Qn the farms, Bond-purchased equip
ment has helped produce bumper crops
and prosperous years. Everywhere in
America, man's urge to get into busi
ness for himself has become a bright
reality. So has the ambition of loving
parents to send their children through
college. Time and time again, Savings
Bonds have made those dreams and
many others come true.
You KNOW they've come true, be
cause it's happened to you or to
tome of your own friends.
And this is only the beginning of the
story. Even after accomplishing so
much, millions of American families
still enjoy the financial security of
owning more than fifty billion dollars—
fifty thousand million dollars in
Savings Bonds. More than at the peak
of war-time Bond holdings!
How much money is that? It's enough
to build a new $10,000 mortgage-free
home for every family in San Francisco
—and Sacramento—and Salt Lake
City—and Denver—and Kansas City—
and St. Louis—and Indianapolis—and
Cincinnati—and Pittsburgh—and
New York City—and the whole state i
of Texas!
And every week, everywhere in Amer
ica, new millions of dollars are
added to the total—as crisp new
Savings Bonds are typed up with your
name on them.
Kind of a king-size success story, isn’t
it? Your success story because you
and the millions of your neighbors are
living it right now. Your own faith in
America—your own desire for the
warmth of family security and in
dependence—have made the story
of United States Savings Bonds
the thrift miracle of all time.
/tor your security, amf your
country'* too, mure note - throuyh reyulur
purchase qf U.S. ^facing* Bonds
The V. S. Government does not pay jor this advertising. The Treasury Department thenTt.
'_ tor their patriotic donation, the Mvertiting Council and
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ALUMINUM
ALCAN PLANT
VICTORIA. B C., March 2 —IN’!—
An agreement between the Pro
1 Vince and the Aluminum Company
I of Canada for construction of a gi
gantic $550,000,000 aluminum plant
was submitted to the British Colum
bia Legislature yesterday. There is
little doubt it will be ratified, lead
ers said.
Under the agreement, ALCAN
will pay an annual fee of some $225,
000 a year for hydro-electric power.
Construction must start before June
1, 1953.
The all-Canadian project, with a
reduction plant capable of produc
ing 300,000 tons of aluminum ingots
a year, will be built near Kitimat.
400 miles north of here. Water pow
er would come from the Nechako
River area, east of Kitimat.
FUTURE OF MAN
DISCUSSED BY
TOASTMASTERS
“The Future of Man” was the
challenging topic treated by one
minute speakers at Thursday eve
ning's regular Toastmasters meet
ing held at the Baranof Hotel. The
subject was propounded by Herb
Rowland as topic master.
William Manthey was toastmaster
for the evening and introduced the
speakers. Bill Ellis spoke on “Proper
Use of Hands” from a speaker's
angle, while Wes Overby chose - a
palm-reading subject “Your Destiny
fn Your Hands.” Linn Forrest told
of “The Art of the Totem Pole”
in the ten-minute talk of the eve
ning. Two speakers discussed the
Legislature in impromptu talks.
Jerry McKinley outlined “What Are
The Worst Points of Our Legisla
ture,” and Waino Hendrickson told
'Why Your Bill That Passed the
House Didn’t Pass the Senate.”
General critic was Bud Elkins.
He was assisted by Waino Hen
drickson, Jack Burford, Commander
Ed Chester, J. E. O’Brien, and Fred
Dunn. Gene Viulle was grammarian.
NIGHT LANDINGS
Night landings were made in
connection with a mercy flight by
a U. S. Coast Guard plane from
Kodiak to Cold Bay last night, it
was learned at CG headquarters
here this morning. The night flight
was made to pick up seven-month
old John T. Borenin who was re
ported to be suffering from severe
diarrhea.
HAINES VISITOR
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gistered at the Ga-stineau Hotel.
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A NORTHERN NOTEBOOK
By BOB DE AKMOf'D
Twenty-fifth of a Series
Expenditures by the Territorial
Government during 1949 and 1950
amounted to $25,471,324.91, an in
crease of $9,371,689.81 over the pre
vious biennium, according to the
report of Auditor Neil Moore, just
issued.
Forty-nine percer.* cf this total,
ir $j2,392,174.29, went for public
welfare, an increase in this item of
$3,027,471.98 over the previous bi
ennium.
Education took 33 percent of to
tal expenditures, or $8,316,083.83,
which was an increase of $3,792,
172.07 over the 1947-48 biennium.
Expenditures under the heading
of development of the Territory
amounted to $2,783,544.42, which
was 11 percent of total expendi
tures. This was an increase of
$1,501,882.80 over the previous bi
ennium.
Industrial development took two
percent of expenditures or $673,
416.81, an increase of $321,492.25
over 1947-48.
And general administration of
Jie Territorial government required
five percent of total expenditures
during 1949-50 and amounted to
$1,307,523.54, which was $733,670.71
more than was spent for that pur
pose in 1947-1948.
In the Auditor's report is a break
down of expenditures from April 1,
1949, to December 31, 1950, and
this shows that $3,927,601.38 was
spent for personal Services, $1,069
252.91 for office expense and $407,
119.64 for travel.
Advertising and public notices
took $2,413.79 and vehicle expense
amounted to $124,420.88. Miscella
neous items, which includes boun
ties, loans and bonuses, refunds,
hospitalization, professional fees
and other program costs took $12,
844,251.49, w'hile $481,921 was spent
for equipment and $3,116,058.08 was
spent on structures and public
works.
The number of Territorial em
ployees increased from 581 in 1947
48 to 742 at the end of December,
1950, the Territorial Auditor re
ports.
Several departments made con
siderable increases in personnel
during the past couple of years.
Highway Patrol employees num
bered 15 two years ago and 30 two
HOUSEHOLDS
HEARINGS ON
COMP. BILL
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tracts are on lump sum bids that
did not contemplate such an in
crease in insurance rates.
R. E. Robertson, representing the
Association of Casualty Insurance
Companies, went over the bill sec
tion by section to point out featurci
he considered too severe or unfair
Swan accused Moore of “a sel
fish approach to the problem of
compensation,” and joined Hill in a
plea for more liberal long-term
benefits for Alaskan workers.
Evans cited the Federal Employes'>
Compensation Act as the most lib
eral now in existence in the United
States and said “the way to reduce
the insurance rates is to reduce ac
cidents, not to cut the benefits.”
New Bills
The House received its 100th bill
of the session this morning — by
the Committee on Public Health,
to appropriate $40,000 for the Board
of Health to use in providing fi
nancial assistance to communities
in improving their hospital or health
center facilities —and the commit
tee received a bouquet of daffodils
from the permanent help in recog
nition of this milestone.
A new bill by Reps. Kay and
Stepovich would dedicate for high
way purposes b tract four rods
wide along each section line.
Another bill by Kay nad Stepo
vich amends the law relating to
prosecutions in proceedings for con
tempt.
The House recessed until 2 p.m.
but was not entirely certain it
would meet this afternoon. The
Committee on Institutions, schedul
ed to leave this morning for Sitka,
was delayed by weather but it was
believed planes might fly this after
noon.
It had been agreed that no bus
iness would be transacted by the
House during the absence of the
committee.
Fishermen’s Bill Passed
Rep C. C. Carlson's bill to pro
vide for the care of sick and dis
abled fishermen, a hardy perennial
n the Alaska Legislature, gained
House approval yesterday afternoon
^n a 17-7 vote.
Aimed particularly at caring fori
fishermen on undocumented boats,
he bill provides for the care of
fishermen whose injury or illness
is attributable to their fishing ac
tivities, and the provisions would
be extended to all persons who buy
commercial fishing licenses.
| months ago. The Department of
! Welfare increased its staff from 26
to 31 and the Department of Health
increased the number on its pay
roll from 129 to 152. Employment
Security employees went from 72
up to 81; Territorial Teachers went
up from 124 to 148 and the staff at
the University of Alaska jumped
from 75 to 98. The Department of
Taxation increased its personnel
from 17 to 53.
During the same time the Audi
tor's office dropped one employee,
the Treasurer’s office dropped four
and the Territorial Veterans’ Af
fairs staff decreased by one.
New departments added 15 to
the payrolls, six in the National
Guard and nine in the Department
of Fisheries.
The Territory paid $3,830,838.23
to municipalities during the years
1949 and 1950, the report of the
Auditor reveals. The biggest part
of this was in cash refunds to
schools, which amounted to $3,362,
512.29. There was also $39,055 for
tuition and $3,265.82 in interest to
schools for borrowed funds.
Refunds of liquor licenses totaled
$414,816.62. Other items paid to
municipalities were refunds on coin
operated machines, business license
taxes and punchboard taxes.
Anchorage was away out in front
in receipts from the Territory with
a total of $966,388.09. Next in line
were Fairbanks, $457,409.70; Ket
chikan, $355,134.02; Juneau, $354,
117.73; Sitka, $216,598.52; Seward,
$167,630.62; Kodiak, $140,619.13;
Palmer, $130,676.13; Petersburg,
$126,749.72; Nome. $122,528.57;
Wrangell, $112,918.08, and Cordova,
$105,403.66.
Anchorage was ate far in front
in liquor license refunds, with
$133,891.64 for the biennium. Fair
banks received $48,950 from liquor
licenses; Juneau, $41,900 and Ket
chikan, $37,600.
Other towns and their receipts
from liquor licenses were: Nome,
$21,500; Seward. $20,350; Kodiak,
$16,233.33; Cordova, $16,150; Sitka,
$14,300; Nenana, $7,200; Wrangell,
$7,000; Seldovia, $6,616.
Petehsburg, $6,900; Skagway, $6,
300; Valdez, $4,874.99; Haines, $4,
975; Craig, $4,800; Douglas, $4,400;
Port Alexander, $3,500; Pelican,
$3,200; Unalaska, $2,975, and Eagle,
$1,200.
The bill had been held over to
allow Carlson to investigate the
possibilities of an amendment to
limit the provisions to “real” com
mercial fishermen, excluding the
sports and weekend fishermen who
may buy commercial fishing li
censes.
Investigation disclosed, Carlson
said, that this would be almost im
possible and might result in tying
the bill into knots.
The bill creates a board of seven
members, including four fishermen,
to administer a special fund into
which would go 30 per cent of rev
enues from commercial fishermen’s
licenses.
Pay Bill Killed
On its second round in the House,
H. B. 66, providing that wages
would accrue until paid, was killed
on a 12-12 vote. The House had
passed the bill the previous day and
it was held over for another vote
when Rep. Wilbur gave notice of
intention to reconsider.
The remainder of the afternoon
session was devoted to the Com
mittee of the Whole hearing on H.
B. 61, described above.
U. S. WILL HAVE BUT
SIX DIVISIONS IN
EUROPE BY MID-1952
WASHINGTON, March 2.—UR—
The Defense Department was re
ported today to have told Congress
it expects to have only six American
divisions in Europe by July 1. 1952,
unless war breaks out.
This information bore out state
ments by Secretary of Defense Mar
shall that there are no present
plans to increase U. S. commitments
to the North Atlantic defense force
being formed by Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
Senators told newsmen the Senate
Foreign Relations and Armed Serv
ices Committees were told, in an
swers to a series of questions put
by Senator Knowland (R-Calif.),
that present plans call for sending
two additional U. S. divisions to
Europe this year.
Marshall said four more divisions
would be furnished in all to join
under Eisenhower’s command the
two now in Germany on occupation
duty.
The committees called Gen. J.
Lawton Collins, Army Chief of
Staff, before them in closed ses
sion (10 a. m. EST* today. Some
senators said they wanted to check
on reports that the military may
ask for $100,000,000,000 for the year
starting July 1. 1952. One Senate
report was that the Armv alone
might ask for $50,003,000,000
I Senator Byrd 'D-Va.r told a im
porter he had ht rd talk ■ toe
$100,000,000,000 figure He added he
fears that any such budget would
splinter the country's economy.
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