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NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1*11
fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. •
Wednesday, April 4, 1951
BOOK REVIEW: THE STATEHOOD
COMMITTEE REPORT
Seldom does this newspaper offer a book review
as editorial matter. However, we are in possession
of an absorbing bit of fiction entitled “'Statehood toy
Alaska.” This booklet purports to be the biennial
report of the Alaska Statehood Committee to the
Twentieth Alaska Legislature.
Biennial reports to the Legislature are prepared
by most, if not all of the Territorial agencies. They
are, in the main, brief histories of the agency's activi
ties for the biennium immediately past, include
a breakdown of receipts and disbursements and gen
erally. offer recommendations for improvement of
existing facilities and services.
PniiHeal propaganda is omitted from such reports
and ds of the reporting agencies customarily
confin ’■emarks to matters germane to the
agency’s 1 un
usually, the number of copies prihted is small—
rarely in excess of five hundred, in some cases, fewer.
Distribution is made to the Governor, the members of
the Legislature (to whom the reports are addressed),
administrative officials of the Territory, and its
agencies, firms and individuals especially interested
in the activities of the agency reporting.
"Statehood for Alaska," however is a different
sort of report. Different in intent—different in con
tent—we describe it for our readers in detail, because
it is patently not a report to the Legislature or
Alaskans, but a propaganda piece directed to people
ouWfc AAtaBka Although, its opening paragraphs
are addressed to the members of the Legislature, the
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
amazing, and he seems completely
on the ball. Furthermore, Marshall
has put the old uniform aside and
is trying to run the defense de
partment as a civilian. This writer
had some skepticism about this
phase of Marshall's new job when
first appointed Secretary of De
fense, but the skepticism appears
not to have been justified.
Cattle-Feed Shortage
Secretary of Agriculture Charles
Brannan had been at daggers'
points over government farm poli
cies for some time with the man
he fired last week, Ralph Trigg,
chief of Production and Marketing.
Main reason the ax fell was that
the production of certain vital
farm crops—chiefly cattle feed—is
desperately behind our defense
goals.
About 127,000,000 tons of grain
will be needed to feed our greatly
expanded population of beef cattle
and hogs this year. However, far
mers have planted or scheduled foi
planting only enough acres to pro
duce 117,000.000 tons of feed grain
Corn will be about 5,000,000 acre1
short of the 90.000,000-acre produc
tion goal fixed by Brannan—which
Trigg was supposed to deliver
Plantings of barley are 1,600,00(
acres behind schedule and sorghuir
grain about 500,000 acres short.
At the same time we have 4,000
000 more beef cattle and over 5,000,
000 more hogs to feed this yeai
than in 1950. The pinch may noi
be felt this year because of feed
grain reserves. However, with these
reserves exhausted, we will face i
serious cutback in cattle productioi
for defense needs—therefore a mea
shortage—in 1952.
Manpower shortage on the larrn
is one reason—perhaps the chie
one 'he failure to divert mon
grassi *o planting feed grain
Knowing ..... t their sons an(
younger hired hands would b<
drafted, farmers have held bad
from planting too much corn
which takes a lot of labor to har
vest. However, Trigg did little abou
importing labor from Mexico ant
elsewhere to fill the gap.
Note—while we have been suf
fering from a farm-labor shortage
British troops have had to put dowi
riots in the British West Indie
because of unemployment.
Washington Pipeline
Illustrating the Washington can
ard factory here is another I heart
recently: "Drew Pearson has nov
sold out to Pan American Airways.
He got a free trip to Europe with
Pan American and is now in their
pocket.” . . . real fact is that I
paid my way to Europe on Pan
American as I have on every other
airline—unlike Roy Howard, pub
lisher of a great newspaper chain,
who has been a Pan American
"guest” all over the world. How
ever, I do not hesitate to pay tri
bute to Pan American’s efficient
operation across the Atlantic. If its
Washington lobbying were on as
clean a basis as its overseas oper
ation, I could find no fault with
Pan Am. . . . The Senate Small
Business committee will investigate
the civil aeronautics board for try
ing to regulate small, unchartered
airlines out of business. ... ec
onomic stabilizer Eric Johnston
has recommended tighter controls
on farm prices and wages. He
wants to freeze farm parity prices
at the January 15 level, then abol
ish the wage escalator clause which
permits wages to rise with prices.
His proposal is to plug the wage
I loophole after June 30, 1951.
Presidential Pique
President Truman's pique and an
economist’s desire to throw off hi:
I new deal label are back of the ad
ministration’s tragic failure t(
clamp on price controls six month:
ago.
This never-told story starts last
year when the elder statesman
Bernard Baruch, publicly came ou’
for price controls.
Heal truth was that the White
House and National Security Re
sources Board were at that verj
time toying w’ith the same idea. Bu
when Mr. Truman heard that the
white-haired New York financie:
was for price controls, he reverset
himself. The President had pul
| Baruch on his "S.O.B. list” wher
Bernie refused to serve on a Dem
ocratic committee in the 1948 elec
; tions, and Truman didn't want t<
be in the position of coming out foi
. j price controls just after Baruct
| did.
1 Another factor was the strong
.' opposition to controls by Leor
Keyserling, then acting chairmar
! of the Council of Economic Advi
. j sers. Keyserling, a former depart
| ment of agriculture economist anc
I assistant to Senator Bob Wagner
i was being attacked by right wingen
. i on Capitol Hill as a wild-eyei
I radical.
i Keyserling, an able economls
: | but subject to human ambitions
j wanted to be named chairman o
the council and gain acceptanci
i as a middle-of-the-road adviser
I And at that time he told both th
• ; President and Stuart Symingtor
l i chairman of the Resources boarc
’ I that controls were “unworkable.
In one consultation with Syming
ton, Keyserling argued that high
prices would, in fact, be helpful b;
draining off excess purchasint
power and its competition foi
goods , services and material'
needed for rearmament.
STRIKE OF COAL
MINERS AT HEALY
RIVER IS ENDED
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 4—
W—Tire strike of miners at the
Healy River Coal Co., plant, which
brought coal rationing to frigid
Fairbanks, has ended as union and
1 company representatives reached
agreement on a new wage scale.
The workers were granted a $2
per day wage boost across the
board, but the increase must be
approved by the Wage Stabilization
Board in Washington, D. C.
The settlement brought to an end
the critical fuel shortage here after
coal had been rationed at one-half
1 ton per order.
I
ACROSS
1. Also
4. Type of lettuce
7. The theatrical
profession
12. Deliberate
indignity
14. Go by
automobile
15. Provided
1G. Relieve
17. Positive
electric pole
18. Novel
20. Abound
22. Type measures
23. Stumble
25. Snare
27. Always: poetic
29. Cluster of
wool fibers
31. Strike with the
open hand
33. Symbol for
neon
34. One who asks
alms
37. Flat parts of
stairs
39. Aloft
40. Pace
42. Shoe latchet
43. Insect's egg
45. Succulent plant
47. Hass horn
50. Teamster’s
command
62. Jump
54. Sailor
65. Exchange
57. Set of three
59. Thus
60. Artist’s stand
61. Support for
a vine
63. Make correc
tion in
Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle
M. Affirmative •
65. High card
DOWN
1. Corrupt
2. Volunteer
3. About
4. Garment
5. Attack
6. Guides the
helm
7. Little: Scotch
8. Harmonize
9. Make ann-ndfl
10. L'nexpe< ted
piece of good
fortune
11. Before
13. Again: prefix
19. Organ of flight
21. Artificially
sprouted
grain
24. Wooden pine
26. Portion
28. Thing
30. Footway
32. Kind or fuel
34. Boll
35. Short pithy
saying
36. Stagger
38. Border
41. Good-looking
4 4. Annoy
46. City in
Vermont
48. Fundamental
49. Went up
51. FamoiiM garden
53. Crusted dishea
55. Small peg
used In golf
56. Olden time*:
poetic
f>8. Oil: uufllx
02. Note of Uio
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rest of the booklet is an appeal to stateside voters
to urge passage of statehood legislation in the 82nd
Congress.
Wide circulation is of paramount importance in
such political appeals — so the Statehood Committee
wisely had ten thousand copies printed for distribu
tion.
Pages five through nine consist of a letter ad
dressed to the members of the Alaska Legislature and
describe, with becoming modesty, the efforts of the
Committee to push passage of HR 331 in the 81st
Congress; the enlistment of national organizations
and pressure groups in support of the Statehood
movement; sadly, the death of HR 331 in the United
States Senate and, hopefully, the introduction of a
new statehood bill in the 82nd Congress (HR 1493).
These pages are the only part of the entire book 144
pages) addressed, even nominally, to Alaskans.
The balance of the ‘'report" is bare-faced pro
paganda designed to promote the passage of favorable
statehood legislation in the Congress of the United
States.
Page 11 is devoted to a description of the dis
advantages suffered by Alaska through its status as a
Territory. Another page attempts to show how the
entire nation would benefit by Alaska s admission to
the Union as a state.
The National Statehood Committee is, of course
listed — under the heading “National Leaders Help”
—four solid pages of names of well known people
from thirty-six states and the District of Columbia.
This list includes authors, attorneys, actors, poli
ticians, professors and clubwomen, but there isn't an
Alaskan in the lot!
The results of two Gallup polls are recorded—but
no mention made of the referendum showing in
Alaska in 1946, results of which were described as
“overwhelmingly in favor of statehood." The "over
whelming” vote was 58',6 per cent for and 41 % per
cent against, although the Committee has not men
tioned it recently.
A list of Governors shows that state chief execu
tives favor statehood for Alaska unanimously.
Three pages comprise a list of newspapers said
by the authors of the “report” to be urging editorially
that Alaska be admitted to the Union. It is inter
esting to note that not a single Alaskan paper is
represented — not even the two whose publishers
grace the Statehood Committee.
The “report" continues — explaining that to be
enacted, statehood legislation must clear the Senate,
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and the House
Public Lands Committee, aftey which it must be ap
proved in both houses by a roll call vote. Included
are lists of the members of both of the above men-1
tioned committees, showing their party affiliations.
The “report" goes on with an eight-page list of
all the members of the 82nd Congress, followed by a
plea to the reader to write his or her Congressman
asking that he take affirmative action on statehood
legislation.
The book concludes with a description of some
of the provisions of HR 1493, a listing of the members
of the Alaska Statehood Committee and, almost as an
afterthought, a financial statement.
We hope that all of our readers will have the
I opportunity to read the "report” in its entirety. Alter
jail, they paid the bill — and there should be enough
I copies to go around.
jgj^APPV
• •
• April 4 •
• •
• Joe Mangan •
• John Feero •
• Denny Hugh Green •
• Mrs. Joe Murphy •
• Gladys Robards «
• H. A. Fowler •
• Mrs. Milton Daniel •
• T. C. Bud” Whiteside •
• David R. Hill •
• Edw. C. Hanson •
• Orrin Royal Edwards e
• Norma Homme •
• •••••••••«
COMMUNITY EVENTS
TODAY
At 7:30 p.m. — Civil Air Patrol will
meet in Quonset Hut.
At 8 p.m. — Elks lodge.
At 8 p.m. — Alaska Potters shown
film in Grade School auditorium,
then to AB hall headquarters.
At 8 p.m. — WSCS meets in Little
Chapel Methodist church.
April 5
At noon — Chamber of Commerce
meets at Baranof hotel. ,
At 8 p.m.«— Sportsmen’s 400 Club
meets in Council Chambers to
elect officers.
At 8 p.m. — Women of Moose in
regular business meeting, also an
nual rollcall night.
At 8 p.m. — JVFD meets in Fire
hall.
At 8:15 p.m. — Penwomen to meet
at Dora Sweeney’s home.
April 6
At 1:30 p.m. — Martha Society
meets at home of Mrs. C. C. Carter.
At 8 p.m. — Mary Circle meets at
manse of NLP church.
At 8 p.m. — Regular meeting of
City Council.
At 8 p.m. — Juneau Shrine Club
meets in Scottish Rite Temple.
April 7
At 2 p.m. — Rainbow Girls monthly
meeting, Scottish Rite Temple.
April 8
At 10:45 a.m. — Rainbow Girls meet
at Scottish Rite Temple to attend
Lutheran church in group.
April 9
At noon — Lions Club, Baranof.
At noon — BPWC meets in Terrace,
Baranof.
At 8 p.m. — American Legion post
meets in Dugout.
April 10
At nooii — Rotary.club, Baranof.
At 8:30 p.m. — Community Center
night for adults at Teen Age club
with square dancing.
At 8 p.m. — Civil Defense Council
meets in City Council chambers.
April 11
At noon — Kiwanis Club, Baranof.
ANCHORAGE FIRM 15 7
LOW BIDDER EKLUTNA
PERMANENT CAMP
The Denali Construction Co. of
Anchorage was low bidder on a
permanent camp to be built near
the Eklutna project, it was learned
today at Bureau of Reclamation
headquarters here.
The Denali Company bid $389,436
for the construction of 12 frame
houses, two 10-car garages, sew
age, water supply, roadways and
walks.
Other bidders were Loyer ana
Casler Construction Co. with J. S>
Ramstead Co. both of Palmer on a
joint bid, $433,178.46; and Morrison
Knudson and Peter Kiewet Sons,
Inc., $459,171.60.
FROM YAKUTAT
Alga Covington of Yakutat is at
the Baranof Hotel.
20 YEARS AGO th*e empire]
\
*■ ..
APRIL 4, 1931
Leo Osterman, who was Deputy Collector of Customs at the Taku
Inlet station during the summer of 1930, and who had been attached to
the Juneau headquarters office the past winter, has been assigned to
Ketchikan as the Deputy Collector of Customs and will report for duty
there on April 16.
Two cannery tenders of the Libby, McNeill and Libby Co. are in
port They are the Retriever and the Washington, bound for Yakutat
with cannery supplies.
Sunday School members of the Resurrection Lutheran Church pre
sented a special Easter program at the church Sunday. Among those
taking part were: David Mielke, Bobby Sabin, Ingvald and Margaret
Varness. Charles Reed, Doreen Heinke, Helen Rinker. Barbara Mac
Spadden, Ruth Peterson, Shirley Rinker, Genevieve Hadland, Lois Mac
Spadden, Chester and Ned Zenger, Lorene Pademeister, Eugene Chase,
Goodman Winthers, Harold Zenger, George Converse, Keith Reischl,
Edwin Messer, Irving Lowell.
With all passenger accommodations taken, the motorship Norco
docked this day in Juneau with Capt. C. V. Gough as hmaster.
Coming from Seattle were: J. V. Pickett, Harry Light, Graham
Young, H. Bayers, Walter Johnson, Patrick Mills, J. W. Gucker, Walter
Otis, Frank Mix, H. Roden, John G. Olsen, Mrs. Lucille Herasley and
Nellie Barclay.
Booked for the return trip to Seattle were: Mr. and Mrs. H. J.
Grossman, Mr. and Mrs. T. Hadland, Loretta Hadland, Silvia Hadland,
Thomas Hadland, Glen Hadland, Eugene Hadland, Gus Gustafson and
Jerry Smith.
Weather: High, 47; low, 39; rain.
| Daily Lessons in English L. goudon i
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WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: "Due to” should always modify a noun,
and not a verb. It is, therefore, wrong to say, “He fell due to the slip
pery floor.” Better expression is, ‘His fall (noun) was due to the slip
pery floor.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Mankind. The accent is on SECOND
syllable, not the first.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Accede and exceed; observe the difference in
spelling.
SYNONYMS: Sober, solemn, sedate, grave, cool, collected, unim
passioned.
WORD STUDY': “Use a word three times and It is yours.” Let us
increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word:
EVENTUATE; to come out finally; result. “These acts of kindness will
eventuate in establishing happy homes.”
! MODERN ETIQUETTE &*ESTa lee !
I ♦
-r r r r J *- r i-«- r~ t- r- t~ 1— ■“» — —
Q. When eating in a public place where small butter pats are
served in little paper containers, is it all right to let the knife blade rest
on the pat when not in use?
A. Never. The knife, when not in use, should rest along the uppei
right part of the plate — and never, of course, with the handle of the
knife resting on the table.
Q. Is it imperative that a bride return all her first calls, or just
those she prefers?
A. The bride should return all these first calls, and as early a:
possible. It would be very rude to return some, and omit others.
Q. How should Jean Norton, who is 18 years old, be introducec
to Mrs. Marshall, who is at least 60 years old?
A. "Mrs. Marshall, this is Jean Norton.”
LOOK and LEARN A. a GORDON j
--....... .>».-*----——
1. What great tragedy In American history occurred on April 14
1865?
2. Of what country is Lima the capital?
3. Where are the radius and ulna of the human body?
4. What 15th century painter attempted to build an airplane?
5. Who was the ancient Greek god of the sun?
ANSWERS:
1. Assassination of Lincoln.
2. Peru.
3. In the arm.
4. Leonardo da Vinci. _ --
5. Apollo.
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'Weather at
Alaska Paints
WWither condition? and temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
a.m., 120*h Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
are as follows:
Anchorage . 30—Cloudy
Annette Island . 35—Snow
Barrow . -Id—Clear
Bethel . 21—Cloudy
Cordova ... 35—Snow
Dawson . 14—Clear
Edmonton . 31—Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks . 14—Clear
Haines . 34—Snow
Havre . 31—Partly Cloudy
Juneau . 36—Cloudy
Kodiak.34—Rain
Kotzebue . 13—Snow
McGrath . 9—Clear
Nome . 20—Cloudy
Northway .. 5—Partly Cloudy
Petersburg . 34—Cloudy
Portland . 44—Clear
Prince George .. 32—Partly Cloudy
Seattle . 42—Clear
. 36—Rain
Whitehorse . 24—Partly Cloudy
Yakutat . 34-Snow
Pelican
Chatter
(Special Correspondence)
PELICAN, Alaska, April 1 — The
Beachcomber came in Monday with
a load of gravel for the Standard
Oil Co. Jerry McKinley, owner, his
daughter Connie and Lorna Lottery
were aboard.
Conrad Klippert returned from a
business trip to Juneau Tuesday
aboard his boat Arminta.
Mrs. Robert Hartley returned to
Pelican on Wednesday’s flight after
spending the winter in Billings.
Mont.
Mrs. K. Hoyt and two children,
Mrs. K. Raatikainen and Mrs. Fiina
Arola arrived Wednesday on Alaska
Coastal Airlines.
R. E. Van Dyne arrived in Peli
can Wednesday. He is with the
Standard Oil Co.
The Valiant, Solar, Ocean Cape
and Glacier Bay were in port this
week heading for the fishing banks.
Mr. and Mrs. Toivo Anderson and
their two children left aboard theii
boat, Greta, Friday. The Anderson.'
will visit the relatives in Ketchi
kan about two weeks before return
ing to Pelican.
' The U S. heating industry pro
duced 680,000 floor furnaces foi
small homes in 1950.
V. F. W.
Taka Post No. 5559
Meeting every Thursday in
the G.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m.
mmmmmammmmmmmami
The Erwin Feed Co.
Office In Caae Lot Grocery
Phene 7M
HAY, GRAIN, COAL
and STORAGE
STEVENS’
LADIES’—MISSES’
READY-TO-WEAR
Beward Street Near TJdrd
The Charles W. Carter
Mortuary
Fourth end FrenkUn Btc.
PHONE 1S6
Casler's Men's Wear
BfeGrefor Bporteweer
SUt*on end Mallory Hat*
Arrow Shirt* end Underwear
tiiw. Edmond* Shoe*
Skyway UH»I»
BOTANY
"500"
CLOTHES
! nunn-bush shoes
STETSON HATS
Quality Work Clothing
FRED HENNING
Complete OntfHter for Men
iHArm'o
SANITARY MEAT
FOR BETTER MEATS
IS—PHONES—4»
pme Delivery
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_ - -V **!3*r*Ma&*f» k/U
MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147
SECOND and FOURTH q
Monday of each month
in Scottish Rite Temple
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Wm. A. Chipperfield, "vy
Worshipful Master;
JAMES W rSTVERS, Secretary.
© B.P. 0. ELKS
Meeting every Wednesday at I
P.M. Visiting brothers welcome
WALLIS S. GEORGE, Exalted
Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary.
r —
Ncose Lodge No. 700
Regular Meeting* Each Friday
Governor—
ARNOLD L -FRANCIS
Secretary—
WALTER R. HER MANSEN
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Brownie’s Liquor Store
PhMM in 11* Be. FrutkHn
r. U B«x MM
■ — ■ ■ ■ " i ■ ■ ■ ' —^
"The Rexall Store"
Tout Reliable Phamwlst*
BUTLER-MAURO
DRUG CO.
(
j Alaska Music Snpply
! Arthur M. Uggen, Manager
j nanee—Musical tDetriment*
and Supplies
..Phone 2M -Second and Seward
GENERAL PAINTS
and WALLPAPER
Ideal Pain! Store
Phone 548 Fred W. Wendt
, ._.__
Card Beverage Co.
I
Wholesale 8G6 10th Bt.
PHONE 216—DAT or NIGHT
'or MIXERS or SODA POP
The Alaskan Hotel
Newly Renovated Been*
at Reasonable Rif
PHONE SINGLE O
PHONE 665
Thomas Hardware Co.
t
PAINTS - OILS
Banders' and Bbetf
HARDWARE
Remington Typewriters
SOLD and SERVICED bp
J. B. Bnrford Co.
“Our Doorstep Is Wsrn bp
Satisfied easterners”
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FORD AGENCY
(Authorized Dealas)
GBRASE8 — GAS — OIL
Janean Motor Co.
Foot of Main Strut j
1 wn
MAmi
JUNEAU DAIRIES
DELICIOUS ICE CREAM
j ft tuny habit—wk for it hr name
Juneau Dairies, Inc.
NICHOLSON’S WELDING
SHOP
Tanks and General Welding
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
P. O. Box 1529-Peero Bldg.
HOME GROCERY
Phones 146 and 342
Home Ltqoor Store—Tel. M
American Meat — Phene H
To Banish “Bine Monday”
To give you more freedom
from work — TRY
Alaska Laundry
H. S. GRAVES
The Clothing Man
LEVTS OVERALLS
for Boy*
BLACKWELL’S
CABINET SHOP
117 Main St. Phone 771
High Qaallty Cabinet Wert
(or Heme, Office er Mm