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HOUSE MEMORIAL NO. 36
To the President of the United
States, to the Congress of the Uni
ted States, to the Secretary of the
Interior and to the Delegate from
Alaska:
Your Memorialist, the House of
Representatives of the Territory of
Alaska, in Twentieth Session as
sembled, respectfully represents
that:
WHEREAS,, the people of the
Territory of Alaska desiring the
fullest measure of self-government
are requeuing Congress to grant
them Statehood at the earliest op
portunity; and
WHEREAS, a bill providing for
admission of Alaska as a State
of the Union failed to become law
in the Eighty-first Congress; and
has again been introduced in the
First Session of the Eighty-second
Congress; and
WHEREAS, the acquisition of an
additional measure of self-govern
ment through provision for the
election, by the people of the Ter
ritory, of their own Governor, will
constitute an important and deci
sive step toward the achievement
of the ultimate goal of Statehood
for Alaska; will aid and not de
tract from the Statehood cause;
and
WHEREAS, the people of Aalska
deem themselves fully qualified and
capable at the present time to ex
ercise all the duties and preroga
tives of full citizens;
NOW THEREFORE, your Memor
ialist, the House of Representatives
of the Territory of Alaska, respect
fully urges the Congress of the Uni
ted States to make provision by
appropriate action for the election
by the people of the Territory, oi
the Governor of that Territory.
AND YOUR MEMORIALIST
WILL EVER PRAY.
Juneau, Alaska
March 21, 1951
Honorable E. L. Bartlett
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
In accordance with instructions
given me by the House of Repre
sentatives of the Alaska Territorial
Legislature, after the passage ci
HOUSE MEMORIAL NO. 36 on
March 20th, 1951, the following is
a roll call of the vote on the pas
sage of HOUSE MEMORIAL NO
36 by the House, together with the
— ■ “ —■ i — ■ * ■ — " — ' — " — ■ — —V
Division from which each Member
comes;
14: I
Carnes, Dolls M. Republican 1st
Div.
Degnan, Frank A. Democrat 2nd
| Div.
Franklin, Glen D. Democrat 4th
Div.
; Gasser, George W. Republican
4th Div.
Hendrickson, Waino Republican
[ 1st Div.
Johnson, Frank G. Republican
1st Div.
Daws, W. W. Republican 2nd Div.
Locken, Ed Republican 1st Div.
| MacKinnon, J. S. Republican 1st
Div. (
Madsen, George P. Democrat 2nd
! Div.
Miscovich, George Republican 4th
Div.
Stepovieh, Mike Republican 4th
Div.
Wells, James K. Democrat 2nd
Div.
Wilbur, Alden L. Republican 4th
Div.
Nays 10:
Carlson, Chester C. Democrat
3rd Div.
Conright, Jack D. Democrat 3rd
Div.
Gundersen, Amelia Democrat 1st
Div.
Hope, Andrew Democrat 1st Div.
Kay, Wendell P. Democrat 3rd
Div.
McCutcheon, Stanley Democrat
3rd Div.
Metcalfe, Vernon Democrat 1st
Div.
Pollard, C. A. Democrat 3rd Div.
Seavenius, Jack Democrat 3rd
Div.
Speaker Wm. A. Egan Democrat
3rd Div.
Very truly yours,
Margaret O. Grisham
Chief Clerk
House of Representatives
Identical Letters also sent to:
President of the United States
The Senate, Congress of the United
States
House ol Representatives, Congress
of the United States
Secretary of the Interior
This is not the first Memorial
asking for an elective Governor
that has been sent to Congress from
the Alaska Legislature, although
it is, I think, the first to be sent
there while a bill to make the
Governor elective was before Con
gress.
The last previous Memorial seek
ing an elective Governor was, I
believe, in 1945. This was House
j Joint Memorial No. 8, and it star
i ted out:
“WHEREAS, the people of Alaska
desiring the fullest measure of self
government are requesting Congress
to grant them Statehood at the
earliest opportunity;”
; and finishes with the prayer:
“NOW, THEREFORE, your Mem
| orialist, the Legislature of the Ter
! ritory of Alaska, respectfully pe
titions the Congress of the United
States to amend the Organic Act
for Alaska to permit the people
of Alaska to elect their own gov
ernor."
House Joint Memorial No. 8 of
the 1945 Legislature passed the
House on February 19, 1945. It
passed the Senate on March 5, 1945.
The vote in the House was unan
imously in favor of the Memorial.
It is interesting to note that among
the 24 members of the House in
1945 were Stanley J. McCutcheon,
Andrew Hope and C. A. Pollard and
llial they voted for the Memorial.
The voting record of these three
Representatives on House Memor
ial No. 36 in the 1951 Legislature
is lecorded above.
Juneau, Alaska
March 27, 1951
To the Public:
With reference to the comments
of the Governor regarding the Com
missioner of Education in March
20th Empire:—
This appears to be another at
tempt to drown this important is
::ue in a sea of high-sounding words.
This same purpose was apparent in
the statement by Mrs. Nordale,
President of the Board of Educa
tion, which appeared in the March
17 issue of the Empire.
These statements confuse but do
not face the real issue; the fact
that action by the legislative ses
sion just ended deprived the vot
ing public of whatever small
amount of control of the qualifica
tions of the Commissioner of Ed
ucation which then remained avail
able through elected members of,
the legislature.
I would like to reiterate a state
ment I made in a talk on this sub
ject on KINY on March 22nd. “I
believe it should be made abund
antly clear that these members of
the Board of Education are appoin
ted by the Governor, who is him
self appointed and whose actions
are not answerable to the people
of Alaska. Thus, since the Legisla
ture’s controls have been removed
by this bill (S.B. 92;, at no point
do the people of the Territory now
have any say in the selection of
the Commissioner of Education,
whose policies largely determine
the quality of education your chil
dren will receive.”
The determination of the quali
fications for this important position'
are now left to this appointed
Board. I doubt that anyone would
argue that the qualifications
moved by SB. 92 were Requite
or even desirable, but an amend
ment RAISING the qualifications,
requiring definite training and ex
perience in school and business ad
ministration would have in no way
hampered the Board in its selec
tion of a competent Commissioner
of Education. But, at the insistence
of the Board, such an amendment
was defeated. Why? Even if the
motives of this Board are lily-white,
when did it become a good thing
lor education to be completely dom
inated by politics? Loose talk of
the way being open for the Board
to RAISE standards, under such
conditions, merely confuses the is
sue. What these misleading state
ments by the Governor ahd Mrs.
Nordale do NOT say is that the
way is now just as clear to LOWER
the standards. When such a Board
demands the power to both set the
standards and make the appoint
ments to top jobs in such an im
portant field as education with no
legislative controls; declares itself
infallible in its choice, and charac
terizes as “ridiculous” anyone who
enters a protest, then I believe it
is high tune to . question both the
motives and infallibility of such a
group. This Board has, by Mrs.
Nordale's own admission, appoin
ted to the position of Supervisor
of Education a person with the
educational qualifications of a Ba
chelor of Arts. This puts into the
position of Supervisor a person with
lower educational qualifications
than some of the teachers being
supervised. If the Board does ap
point a competent Commissioner of
Education, it will be despite the
present law, rather than because
of it. Educators of integrity might
well be hesitant to accept positions
in a system tainted by politics.
It is becoming apparent from
successive legislative sessions that
this is but a part of a pattern de
signed to centralise control of all
important Territorial functions in
the hands of a few appomtees by
removing public offices of trust
from the elective processes. I be
lieve this a matter for thinking
people of the Territory to give their
best attention.
Sincerely,
Hal Weidner,
Auke Bay, Alaska
769-It
COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT
The Jurfeau City Council will hold
a special meeting in the Council
Chambers at 8 tonight to open bids
on the demolition of the City Hal!
and the AB Hall. There are five
ordinances to be read, including the
second reading of the new telephone
rate ordinance.
Championship Form
Baseball’s batting champions, Stan Mtisial (top) of St. Louis Cardinals and Billy Goodman (bottom)
of Boston Red Sox, demonstrate their batting styles for sequence camera in these training camp pic
tures. Musial, named Most Valuable Player in the National League, three times, compiled a .34H aver
age last year. Goodman, last season's American League champ, hit .334. « Wirephoto.
ALEUTIANS
CONSIDERED
FOR TESTS
(Continued from Page One)
are of solid rock formation, some
of them with soil or tundra cover
ing in the low areas, and many of
them of considerable surface area.
Moreover, the rock formation there
would be nearer to average forma
tion than the soft coral of an Atoll.
Flat Area
Many of the Aleautians are moun
tainous, but some — like' Shetnya1
and Amchitka near the western end
of the chain and Unimak toward
the eastern end t— are comparatively
flat, with a soil covering.
Although the general air mass
movement from the Aleutians
curves downward to the southeast,
a subterranean explosion of an
atomic bomb probably would hold
release of radioactive matter close
tp the earth and out of upper air
ftiorerueiits-W hiotherwise might
earry it towanf the mainland. ■
‘The weather in the Aleutians;"i*
stormy, but the temperature, (yen
in winter, does r)Qt - fall to the ex
tremes reached in the .Interior of
Aimka. FronrS(i4if
the average ranges from about 35
to 50 degrees.
VALLE - SOMMERS
BID IS ACCEPTED,
NEW SCHOOL BLDG.
The alternate estimate of $57$,
294, entered by- the Valle and Sairi
mers Construction Co. ot Seattle,
low bidders for the construction of
the new Juneau Public Grade School
building near Twelfth Street and
Glacier Highway, were accepted by
the Juneau Independent School
Board of Directors at a meeting
held last night to open bids for
the project, in the office of Super
intendent of Schools Sterling Sears.
The base bid entered by the Valle
and Sommers firm was $743,657.00,
which exceeds by $143,657.00 the
$600,000.00 fund presently available
for the job. The Sommers of the
firm is R. J. Sommers. Juneau con
tractor.
In view of the fact that all base
estimates entered by the six con
struction companies bidding on the
job exceeded the funds available
for the project, the alternate bids
entered by each company for lesser
construction were considered by the
School Board. It was agreed by
the Valle and Sommers Construc
tion Co. and the School Board that
a period of 40 days will be allowed
for acceptance of the original base
bid. It is believed that it may be
possible that additional funds can
be obtained in that time for the
entire structure provided for in
the base bids, Superintendent Sears
said.■
Plans under the alternate bid pro
vide for a two-story building, 170
feet long and 67 feet wide to con
tain 13 classrooms.
The original plans under the base
bid provide in addition to the two
story building an adjoining one
story structure to house two kind
ergarten class rooms, a cafeteria
a room for the school nur-.e and
office space. Total length of th«
entire building would be 274 feet
and the width 67 feet.
First plans for the structure
abandoned because of lack of fund.'
provided for a gymnasium twc
stories in height.
The construction work is sched
uled to start May 1 and the spec!'
fications allow 420 consecutive cal- ,
endar days for completion of the
project.
Bids of the five companies enter
ing estimates for the job beside
Valle and Sommers Construction Co.
were as follows:
Brady Construction Co. of
Seattle, base bid $766,000.00; altern
1 ate, $658,000.00.
j J. B. Warrack Co. of Seattle, base
I bid $736,500.00; alternate, $608,
>00.00.
Carson Construction Co. of
Helena. Mont., base bid $838,018.00;
alternate, $686,220.00.
Pacific Construction Co. of Se
attle, base bid $841,000.00; alternate,
5698,000.00.
SUNKEN PROCYON IS
BROUGHT HERE AFTER
RAISING BY WALKER
Delayed by a montn of bad
Wather, W. 3S. Walker has arrived j
at the small boat harbor on his i
!toat the Lady Bess with the raised i
troller Procyon in tow. The 41-foot
Procycn sank the night of August
23 In Coot Cove at Funter Bay!
after hitting a fish trap.
On his first dive about a month '
ago Walker’s air lines froze. Freez- |
ing weather froze the moisture , in
,his air lines making it impossible
to get air to him. A reserve tank
supplied him air until he could be
raised. The Procyon laid in 84 feet
of water at high tide. Thirty drums
were lashed to the troller and com
pressed air was pumped into them
! to raise the sunken boat.
Bill Johnson on his boat the
Coho accompanied Walker as his
tender and helped in towing the
r | oc'yon to JLn \ u. Tom Last,
owner of the Procyon, was operat
ing the boat at the time of the
accident. lie had evidently seen the
fish trap too late when the sinking
j occurred. Last had tried to miss
■ the trap but the stern of the troller
j was stove in after Last had spun
! the wheel.
\ Teredos had damaged the trolling
poles so that they fell from the
Procyon as it was being raised.
F looring in the wheelhouse was also
I damaged by the marine worms.
: Walker raised the Procyon for the
! Robert O. Fleming Insurance Co.,
Seattle. Last, owner of the troller
j is some place in the States.
TROOPS FOR
EUROPE BIG
ISSUE NOW
Senate Has Resolution for
Two House Action -
Vote May Be Close
WASHINGTON, March 28 —tPi—
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) put his
weight behind efforts to telescope
the Senate’s two troops-to-Europe
resolutions into a single measure re
quiring two-House action.
Taft, who heads the Senate Re
publican Policy Committee, told a
reporter he will vote for a motion
of this kind offered by Senators
Bricker ' R-Ohio j and Cordon <R
Orei.
While Chairman Connally (D
Texi of the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee predicted the move
would be defeated, another Demo
eratic strategist said an informal
poll Indicates the vote may be very
done. He declined to be quoted by
name,
The Senate ha. before it two reso
lutions approving the dispatch of
four more American divisions to
join the two now in Europe and al
ready assigned to the North Atlantic
Defense Force oomniand by Gen.
Dwight D. Elsenhower.
The resolutions would call on the
President to consult with Congress
before making any further troop
assignments. One resolution re
quires only Senate action. The other
also needs House approval. Neither
would be binding in law. The two
House measure sought by Ericker
and Cordon would be.
WASH. LAWMAKERS
"JUST TALK" FIRST
DAY SPECIAL SESSION
OLYMPIA, Wash., March 28.—Wl
—Sen. Virgil Lee came out of a
conference that wound up the first
day of the special session of the
legislature last night and told re
porters :
“We just talked without coming
to any definite conclusions.”
His words recalled the deadlocked
32nd legislature which adjourned a
record 71-day session last week
after okaying an overweight appro
priations bill without approving
matching taxes.
Governor Langlie vetoed the ap
propriations bill and called legis
lators back for the special session.
SKI mm TO SPEAK
AT CHAMBER MEET
D. E. Skinner, vice president and
manager of the Alaska Steamship
Company of Seattle, was due to ar
rive on Pan American World Air
ways today. He is scheduled to be
speaker at the regular chamber of
commerce meeting tomorrow noon
at the Baranof hotel.
JOSEPH CASEY
REFUSES GIVE
TESTIMONY
WASHINGTON, March 2.8 —Uft—
Joseph E. Casey, former Congress
member who has told of making
$250,000 on a $20,000 investment in
buying ships from the government,
refused today to give investigating
senators any more details about it.
In the witness chair of the Sen
ate Banking Subcommittee, Casey
declined specifically to say who
were the others in on the big profits
deal, but insisted it was “wholly
above criticism.”
When he first told of the deal on
March 12, Casey said one of those
who participated was now a govern
ment official — though not one at
the time of the transaction. He did
not name the official.
Casey contended the banking sub
committee had no authority to go
into the ships matter. It was created
to investigate alleged influence in
RFC lending. The RFC was not in
volved in the ship deal.
The senators finally dismissed
Casey but not without an implied
threat first of contempt action.
Chairman Fulbright (D-Ark)
said that was a matter for the com
mittee to consider later.
Fulbright posed eight specific
questions to Casey and got eight re
fusals to answer.
FROM SEATTLE
E. Norberg of Seattle is registered
at the Earanof Hotel.
SEATTLE VISITOR
A. T. Colman of Seattle is a
guest at the Baranof Hotel.
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