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VOL. LXXVI- NO. 11,717
JUNEAU. ALASKA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 25, 1951
MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
No New Taxation Necessary Says Governor
FORTY-FOUR
HOUR WORK
WEEK URGED
No Overtime Pay Should
Be Permitted - Price,
Wage Freeze Soon
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25— M —
Marriner S. Eccles today urged a
44-hour work week, “without over
time pay,” a general wage freeze
and limited price controls as anti
inflation measures.
Eccles, a member of the Federal
Reserve Board and chairman until
deposed by President Truman three
years ago, gave his ideas to the
Senate-House Economic Committee
e.t. capital hearings.
His testimony came while the
Economic Stabilization Agency was
reported working on general price
and wage freeze orders, expected
to be issued in the next 24 hours.
They may come late today but more
probably some time tomorrow.
Adding pressure for swift gov
ernment action was a rise in its
cost of living index to a new peak.
Well-placed officials predicted
prices would be pevged at Jan. 2
levels and paychecks at current
wage rates—but with leeway for
some workers to do considerably
more bargaining.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported that its cost of living in
dex hit a peak on Dec. 15, when
it stood at 178.4 percent of the
1935-39 average. The Dec. 15 in
dex was 1.6 percent higher than
that of Nov. 15.
THREE INITIATED BY
VISITING SITKA ELKS
AT MEET LAST NIGHT
Three candidates from the Sitka
and Juneau Elks lodges were in
itiated in ceremonies at the local
lodge meeting last night. Those
initiated were Arthur Sagorsky and
Samuel C. Little for Juneau Lodge
No. 420 and R. E. Wheatley for
Sitka Lodge No. 1662.
Following the business session
the usual ‘‘feed’ was spread out
and the visitors entertained in
regular Elks style.
SOltOPTIMISTS HEAR EVNG
Senator Howard Lyng of the
Second Division will be the guest
speaker at the Friday noon lunch
eon of the Soroptimists in the
Terrace Room of the Baranof.
Members of the organization are
urged to invite guests to the lunch
eon.
The Washingion
Merry-Go-Round
Hv DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951, Dy Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
Washington—Glamor girl of
the underworld is beauteous Vir
ginia Hill in whose home racketeer
Bugsie Siegel was murdered. Like
most of the hoodlums, Virginia,
now Mrs. Hans Houser, files an in
teresting income tax showing rev
enue from unexplained sources.
In 1947, for instance, Virginia
reported that her income was a
flat $16,000 from "wagers on various
sporting events.” She cut this In
come down by claiming her broth
er, Charles Hill, and her mother,
Margaret Hill, as dependents and
in the end paid Uncle Sam a tax
of $4,270.25 this was rather small
considering the trips this lady
took all over the U.S.A. and Eu
rope and the extravagant way she
spent money.
The year previous, Miss Hill was
a little more affluent and received
an income of $23,870 from “wagers
on various sporting events.”
Other tax returns run just about
the same, with the revenue always
from the same source, except that
in 1942 she attributed her $18,000
income to “winnings from bets on
races.” In that year she also de
ducted a $1,100 contribution to the
Jewish Old Ladies Home in Los
Angeles.
The history of the glamor-girl
friend of hoodlums may give some
insight into her sources of in
come. Born in Lipscond. Ala., on
August 26, 1916, she attended pub
lic school through the 8th grade,
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ON PATROLS
CAN'T FIND
BED FOR®
Hoengsong Entered After
Artillery Assault-Air
Strikes Are Made
(By the Associated Press)
A red-hunting allied armored pa
trol late today re-entered Hoeng
song on the snow-carpeted Central
Korean front, but found no quarry.
There was mounting speculation
that the Chinese Reds had quietly
pulled out on the central and west
ern sectors. United Nations patrols
elsewhere on the front encountered
only a relatively few Red Koreans.
It was the second straight day
I Hoengsong was entered by a UN
j patrol. AP Correspondent Tom
r Stone reported the Reds had fled.
Hoengsong is 10 miles north of
'■ Wonju and 33 miles south of Parol
| lei 38.
No Strong Opposition
Failure of the United Nations
I forces to meet any strong opposi
tion during more than a week of
probing into Red territory in Korea
[ has lead to speculation among U. S.
I intelligence officers that the Chi
! nese Communists have pulled back,
| leaving only North Korean troops
| to patrol the area south of the Han
i River.
| Except for a minor patrol clash
| near Yoju, 40 miles southeast of
Seoul, there was no enemy contact
last night. A few Korean Reds had
been encountered elsewhere in the
same area.
Speculation
The speculation was that the
■ Chinese were awaiting political de
l velopments in the United Nations,
| meanwhile using Red Koreans to
patrol the No-Mans Land.
I The Allies, however, did not let
. up on air strikes behind the enemy’s
; lines. American planes plastered .the
j town of Hoengsong.
An Allied patrol took high com
mand northeast of Yongwol on the
j central-eastern front. The Allies
, took the tungsten mining town yes
| terday also and then withdrew hav
. ing observed only scattered enemy
I guerrilla forces in the area.
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LUMBERMEN WIN ONE
LOSE THREE ON LOUR
OF SOUTHEAST ALASKA
The Columbia Lumbermen bas
j ketball team is due to arrive this
afternoon from Annette by Pan
American after losing three games
and winning one in their four-game
series played in Petersburg, Ketchi
kan and Metlakatla.
The first game played against
the Petersburg team was won last
Friday night by the score of 41 to
36. The second game played Satur
day night was lost by two points.
The score not given.
Monday night the Metlakatla
Vets won by a score of 65 to 55.
Tuesday night the locals were de
feated by the Ketchikan Rockets
52 to 50. The team left Juneau
Thursday evening aboard the Co
lumbia Lumber Co. tug Adak.
LYNG SUBSCRIBES
TO "MAJORITY
RULE" PRINCIPLE
When queried by an Empire re
porter at noon today, shortly after
Republican Senator Gunnard Enpe
breth of Anchorage was elected for
his Second consecutive term a;
President of the Alaska Senate dur
ing a Democratic administration,
Senator Howard Lyng of Nome, the
senior member of the Senate on the
Democratic side, made the follow- ,
ing statement:
“As an old line Jeffersonian Dem
ocrat, I have always subscribed to
majority rule and will continue to
do so. This is one of the funda
mental principals of the republi
can form of government prescribed j
by the Constitution of the United
States of America under which our
two-party political system has func
tioned over the years. I will con
tinue to work for the best interests
of the Territory of Alaska, its peo
ple, and the Democratic party.”
John W. Male of Fairbanks is at
the Gastineau Hotel.
T. BENNETT
IS SUICIDE,
FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS', Alaska, Jan. 25— |
'/PI — Thomas Bennett, 46, District
Manager of the Forestry Service,
was found dead with a bullet hole
through his temple late yesterday.
A .30 calibre army carbine was on
his desk beside him at his down
town Fairbanks office.
His seceretary, Mrs. June Syfert,
who said she was on the other
side of a partition from Bennett,
told of hearing the shot end
linding Bennett wounded fatally.
Bdnnett entered the Forestry ]
Service at Anchorage in 1944 and
came here in March, 1947. His
home town was listed Chip
pewa Falls, We.
The widow and a son, Raymond, I
a school student survive here. A
I daughter is with grandparents in1
j,‘-vattle.
Associates told police they knew
of no despondency and could o1'-1
fer no explanation for the appar
ent suicide.
REPORT IS GIVEN ON
BOAT HARCQR STATUS
NOON CHAMBER MEET
A feeling of progress on bout
| harbor development for Juneau was
: reported by Robert Cowling, chair
man of the Juneau Chamber oi
Commerce committee on maritime
' development, at a Chamber meeting
at the Baranof Hotel this noon.
Cowling reported on an inspec
tion trip made yesterday by City
and Chamber officials with Lt. Col.
G. M. Dorland and his party fr<#o
the office of the U. S. District
Engineer, under whose jurisdiction
| these projects come.
I An exchange of ideas and meth
! ods brightened the prospects for a
: new Juneau small boat harbor
north of the NC Co. for about 2,0 >0
feet to Norway Point. An idea ad
■ vanced by City Engineer James Mc
I Namara some time ago which would
cut the cost by one-fourth was well
1 received by the engineers. This was.
j that instead of an expensive rock
fill in about 60 feet of water, that
it would be better to drive piling
| and string a log boom through the
' deep water. This method would
I eliminate the icing condition pres
I ently encountered in the small boat
i harbor now.
. The possibility of placing a cul
I vert through the fill at the present
■ small boat harbor was discussed
as a solution to the icing conditions
there. Other matters taken up were
status of the Douglas boat harbor
: and dredging of the Gastineau Bar.
! president Herb Rowland announc
ed that Peter Wood had been placed
on the tourist committee. Wood re
1 ported that shrimp prospecting was j
J going forward in the Juneau area
! with the possibility of a location I
i of a shrimp cannery here.
Guests were Legislators Doris |
Barnes of Wrangell. Amelia Gun
derson of Ketchikan. Alden Wilbur I
of Fairbanks, Wendell Kay of Anch
orage: William Wagner of the
Alaska Broadcasting System; Wil
liam Neimi of the Alaska Road
Commission; and Herb Hilscher of
Fa irbanks.
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Clara E. MacDowell of Culver
City, Calif., is staying at the Bar- \
anof Hotel.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
In Juneau—Maximum 11;
minimum. 7.
At Airport—Maximum, 12;
minimum, 8.
FORECAST
Decreasing cloudiness with
an occasional gusty north
easterly wind tonight and
Friday. Lowest temperature
tonight near 6 in Juneau and
as low as zero in outlying
areas. Highest Friday about
14.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau—0.01 inches;
since Jan. ]. — 3.95 inches;
since July 1—41.94 inches.
At Airport — 0.01 inches;
since Jan. 1 — 225 inches;
since July 1—30.25 inches.
5 BLAZES
IN 1 DAY,
FAIRBANKS
One Man Burned to Death
-Two Persons Injured
Throw Snow Into Flames
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 25—
ii'P*—One man burned to death and
a soldier and his wife were hurt
as five fires raged at one time yes
terday in frozen, flame-plagued
Fairbanks.
The temperature warmed (yes,
warmed i to 42 decrees below zero
as people in this city just below
the Arctic Circle tugged wearily at
freezing lire hoses and desperate
ly snowballed the flames.
The Weather Bureau promised a
balmy 25 below as tonight's min.,
mum.
Dies In Blaze
The outbreak of lires (aim just
two days after a hall'-million dol
lar blaze destroyed three business
houses. Yesterday’s first fire broke
out in the ruins of one of them, the
Cooperative Drug Store.
George Burmeister. about 50. it
pensioner, died in a blaze that
destroyed a two-story log boarding
house.
That was the day's fourth fire
and only one fireman was left in
the lire station.
Snog I o .st tl On Fire
Corp. Leroy De Grange of Boise.
Ida., suffered shoulder burns and
his wife severe hand burns in the
fifth—and wishful Fairbanks hoped
the last—fire, which started in their
house from an oil stove.
At dhe tithe there was no fire
trucks or hose available and the
crowd tossed snow into the flames.
Ladd Air Base sent trucks and
volunteer firemen to augment the j
city force of eight men and equip- ]
ment of three water trucks and '
a hose truck.
Tite entire city of 12,000 people:
had cjtly seven fire hydrants. .
Hoses had to be run for blocks to j
reach the flames and often froze
solid. Much of the hose supply I
still was iced to the street as a '
hangover from Monday’s fire.
Hoze Freezes
The town still is trying to pick
and shovel its way out of the
ice that sheathed streets after
Monday’s fires.
A boiler was stoked up on Se
cond Avenue yesterday to help re
move a layer of ice created by
spray from fire hoses in the Mon
day blaze.
A mound of solid ice more than
three feet high surrounded a fire
hydrant, preventing water from be
ing turned off in city streets.
The mound had to be melted
with steam points, and broken
by pick and shovel.
STEPHENS LEAVES FOR
INF. COMMUNICATIONS
SCHOOL, FT. BENNINS
Sgt. Arthur Stephens, Headquart
ers, Headquarters and Service Co.,
208th Infantry Battalion isepi, Al
aska National Guard, leaves F11
day afternoon to attend the In
fantry Communications School at
Ft. Bennlng, Georgia. He arrives j
there Saturday atternoon with the j
first class held January 31. Date i
of completion for the course )..
approximately June 7
Stephens served during World
War If with the 275th Anti-Tank
Company, 70th Division, from May ,
1943 to November, 1944 in the
European theatre. He has resided
in Juneau since September, 1949,
employed on the Alaska Sunday
Press and the Daily Alaska Empire
as a linotype operator.
DAUGHTER BORN TO
ELLIOTT ROBERTSON ■> j
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Robertson
of Juneau have received word that ,
they have become grandparents foi j
the sixth time. Wendy Joan was ,
born to Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Rob- I
ertson, their son and daughter-in
law at Anchorage, last Monday.
She joins a brother, Bruce, 1H'
months. Elliott Robertson is head
of the Third Division office of the
Territorial Veterans.
Art Olin of Ketchikan is stopping
at the Gastineau Hotel.
I
TAIYAIS
SUBJECT OF
MEMORIAL
House Asks Re-Eaxmina
tion of Proposal to Build
Plant at Kitimat
The proposed development of
Taiya, north of Juneau, became the
subject of the first House Memorial
of the present session today, and!
House Memorial 1 became the first
measure passed by the House of
Representative at the current ses
sion.
The Taiya memorial, authorized
o; Rep. Wendell Kay of Anchorage,
is, addressed to the President. Secre
tary of the Interior. Congress, Dcle
g.ati Bartlett and Charles E. Wil
son. director of the office of di -
fense mobilization.
The memorial makes the follow
ing points:
A private company has signified
Us willingness to develop at its own
expense the Taiva hydroelectric
power project and to install an
aluminum reduction plant.
This project is being deferred ill
favor of a similar project at Kiti
mat. B C.
Tht> Taiya project could be started
sooner than the Kitimat project be
cause it adjoins the harbor and
town of Skagway, providing services
and facilities.
The large tunnels ol the project,
under the coast range, would be
immune to enemy attack in con
trast to the Kitimat project which
entails construction of a large dam.
The Taiya project entail no long
transmission lines, as doe the Kiri
mat project.
The ultimate power producing
capability at Taiya is greater than j
at Kitimat and the unit cost is
cheaper.
Urges Investigation
The memorial urges that Con
gress, in consultation with national
defense authorities, reexamine the
situation with respect to the Taiya
project and its alternatives in Cun-:
ada to the end that this develop-!
ment shall take place on American ]
soil.
A copy of the memorial is to be,
wired to Delegate Bartlett at once, i
for filing with .subcommittee of th»
House Judiciary Committee which
is to investigate the matter.
The memorial, introduced this
morning, was moved to second and
third reading under a ; aspens ion
of the rules and passed the House
unanimously.
Rep Jack D Conright was an
nounced as chairman of the Com
mittee of Elections, Rep. Alden
Wilbur was named chairman of the
Civilian Defense Committee and
Mike Stepovich heads the Statehood
Committee
The Ways and Means Committee
brought in a substitute for Rep
Conright’ bill permitting the At
torney General to make transfers of
funds from one appropriation to an
other within ltis department. A
move to advance this bill to third
reading failed and a hearing on if.
was to be held this afternoon.
The House, in joint sesson with
the Senate, was to hear the mes
sage of Governor Gruening at
2:30 p.m.
STOCK QUOTATIONS |
NEW YORK. Jan. 25 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3'.. American Can
981 -, American Tel. and Tel. 150' -.
Anaconda 38'-, Douglas Aircraft
100 .. General Electric 53L, Gen
eral Motors 48' . Goodyear 70. Ken
necott 73 ’ i, Libby. McNeill and Lib
by. 9. Northern Pacific 33',. Stand
ard Oil of California 91-, Twen
tieth Century Fox 21',. U. S. Steel
44'-. Pound 2.80, Canadian Ex
change 94 87-.
Sales today were 2.520,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 242.19, rails 8180, utili
ties 41.99.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof scheduled to sail from i
Seattle 4 p.m., Friday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver, 8 p.m., January 31.
Denali from west scheduled to [
irrive Sunday morning southbound.
I
Flu Raging
In Europe;
Many Die
LONDON, Jnn 25 T Millions
of Europeans are sneezing and
running temperatures and some
thousands mostly tin treble and
aged—-have died in an influenza
epidemic which appears to be
reaching its peak in a number of
count rles.
Tile United Kingdom scents to
be hardest hit by the highly in
fect ions disease, which sweeps
through communities with start
ling suddenness, laying low it large
proportion of the population.
In Belgium, Germany, Denmark
and Sweden- the illness appears to
be waning. But it. is flaring up in
Czechoslovakia and Poland and is
reaching epidemic proportions in
Spain.
In many regions of Britain the
schools arc closed, theatres are
empty and transportation and In
dustry have faltered.
Almost universally, hospitals arc
overcrowded and doctors overwork
ed.
EISENHOWER
COMING HOME
FROM TOUR
Encouraged by Defense
Determination Shown
by W. Europeans
REYKJAVIK. Iceland. Jan. 25
i,IV-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ar
rived at Reykjavik's snow-covered
airport today on his tour of At
lantic alliance capitals.
Eisenhower, surveying the capi
tals on their potentialities for a
united international armed front
against Communism, told reporters
on his arrival he was “greatly
encouraged" by the determination
he found among western Europeans
to defend their v.ay of life.
The Atlantic Army Chief was
greeted on his arrival by officials
of the Icelandic government.
From here Eisenhower will go to
Canada for further Atlantic pact
Army talks before returning to
Washington to make a full report
on his findings.
MISS FOLTA TO WED
LOUIS RAMY IN
CEREMONY FRIDAY
The marriage of Miss Clair"
Adele Folia, daughter of Judge and
Mrs. George W. Folta of Juneau
and Mr. Louis Donald Rainery. son
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rainery of
Santa Monica, Calif. will be
solemnized at 8 o’clock tomorrow
evening in the Northern Light
Presbyterian Church. The Rev.
Willis R Booth will read the mar
riage vows.
Ttie bride will be given in mar
riage by her father.
The organ music will be played
by Mrs. Carol Beery Davis and Mr,
and Mrs. Ernest Elder will sing.
Tire bridesmaid will be Miss Loi
Nicholson and Mr. E. Merle Hard
ing will be the groomsman. Usher
will he Mr. John Lowell and Mi
Rod Kohl lx r.
A reception for the couple will
be given by Judge and Mrs. Folta
in the Scottish Rite Temple from
3:30 o’clock until 10:30 o'clock.
BLM EXAMINE It ON LANDS
WORK IN s. y■ ALASKA
-_
Examination oi homesteads and
homesiles in Southeast Ala ku dis
tricts for survey and patent is be- j
ing made this month by Milton i
Lightwood, field examiner of the 1
division of land planning. Bureau
of Land Management.
Lightwood returned from Sitka
yesterday afternoon after 10 days
in that area and is leaving before
the end of the week for Ketchi- !
kail. A numbu of h-une-iead lands
hate been examini I t>" him ii the
Juneau area.
ENGEBRETH
PRESIDENT
LnnTE
Anchorage Republican El
ected on I Ith Ballot
Comes as Surprise
In a move that caught the mem
bers by Surprise, Ouimanl Enge
breth of Anchorage was rtecled
President of the Territorial Senate
today for the second straight ses
sion.
The 42-year-old Republican busi
man and former school teachei be
came the first Senator ever to t
elected to the presidency twice
The election car e on the nth
ballot when Sen. William Belt/, ee
ond division Democrat., refrained
from voting. That made it (i to 7
for Engebreth over Democrat Frank’
Barr of Fairbanks. Barrs name had
been tossed in by the Democrat-1
for the first time on the ninth bal
lot as a candidate on whom the di
vided Democrats could unite.
Belt/' action in refraining from
voting thereby giving the presi- j
dewy to Engebreth. brought mo-j
mentar.v parliamentary confusion |
to the Senate.
Otic of the point.-, raised was I
whether Belt/ was required to ex
plain why he was refraining.
Sen. John Butruvich (R-Fair
banks) insisted the temjjornry presi
dent. Howard L.vng (D-Nomei, had
announced the vole so that It was
too late for any member to Insist (
on an explanation from Belt/.
After a slight delay, in which J
senators argued a bit more about j
what rules the Senate was oper- j
uting under. L.vng officially decreed ;
that Engebreth was the new pre-t-j
dent.
Belt/, Explains
Beltz explained his action this!
way to a reporter after the session;
recessed:
‘ I took the action on my own be- ]
cause I thought the deadlock -houkl |
be ended. I thought the Senate \
should be organized without any
more delay so we could go officially
to the joint session with the House j
to receive the Governors message.!
I found Engebreth was very fair r..
a president in 1949. By my retrain
ing to vole, the dispute could be
ended without my having lo cross
any party line on the vote, and we
could get down to business."
Engebreth is described generally!
as "a liberal Republican.” He voted
for many of the lax measures and!
other proposals of Governor Gruen-!
Ing in 1949.
The new president is 42. a 17-year j
resident of Alaska and the father
of six children.
He promised, in thanking the
Senate for his election, that he
would be "as lair and impartial as
I can be.”
The Senate completed its organ
ization by electing Bonnie Jo Gron
roos as secretary. She polled 10
votes: Ray Beach got five and Mil
dred Hanson one.
The Rev. Walter Soboleff was
chosen chaplain and Harry John-;
son sergeant-at-arms.
Bulrovich Arrives
Tlie Senate look six ballot for
president yesterday, after the de
layed arrival of • Butrovich from
Seattle. The decision came on the
fifth one taken this morning after
talk was increasing of tin possible
flip of a coin to decide the issue.
The last two votes yesterday stood
at right Republicans for Engebreth.
four Democrats for I.yng and four
for Steve McCutcheon of Anch
orage. They lined up the same way
on the first test today.
Lytig had votes of hi fellow Sec
ond division senators. Belt/ and Ed
Anderson, James Nolan of Wrangell
and himself on the first ballot to
day. On the next ballot Belt'/
switched to McCutcheon to make it
8-5-3.
Then Barr’s name was tossed in
after a Democratic caucus. He got
three Democratic votes to McCutch
eon’s four and Lyng's one tby An
derson i on the ninth ballot.
On the 10th it was eight Enge
breth, seven for Barr and one for
McCutcheon iby Anderson).
Then Anderson asked for one
more vote so he could get straight
ened out. on the party alignment.
Sen. R. M. MacKenzie iD-Ketchi
kan) objected to Anderson’s re
quest for unanimous consent for the
(.Continued "ti Rage tsevcn.i
BALANCED j
BUDGET !5
ADVOCATED
Modern Accounting and
Administrative System
Are Badly Needed
(By Jim Hutcheson)
Got Ernest. Gruelling told the
20th Alaska Legislature this after
noon he believed "no new tux
measures need he considered."
While calling for a balanced
budget, omening declared "if some
additional revenues should In your
Judgment be needed, they can. I
reel confident, be provided from
within the existing tax framework."
In olhu high points ot the hour
long message, the Governor urged
intensified civil defense activity
because of Alaska's location: pro
posed a civil defense compact with
neighboring Canadian territory and
provinces: declared a 'drastic over
hauling of our accounting and ii.
cal system js necessary," and re
commended modernising the Terri
torial government through an ad
ministrative organization.
Gruenir,. -ut.mvted n change in
lav.- to r -move the governor from
all 21 boards on which ho serves
except tin Board of Administration
and Board of Appeals. He recom
mended that the Legislature re
duce the Board of Administration's
finance-controlling activities by
taking them over itself, and he sug
gested the possibility of the Terri
tory offering n 810.000 incentive
bonus 4pr discovery <|i urarptun in
mineable quantities.
Minerals stockpile
In view of the gold mining dol
drums, the Governor proposed that
the Legislature give -enous, con
sideration to authorizing tin Coin,
mission! i oi Mines to purchase such
strategic metals and minerals as
may be found In Ala kn for .stock
piling and resale.” The program
would resemble federal metals re
serve company’s wartime operations
in such metals as antimony, tung
sten. tin and copper.
Said Gruening: "This ore could
be stockpiled m the Territory and
resold to commercial markets or
to federal government purchasing
agencies when such agencies are
established. The Commissioner of
Mines deems $100,000 would be
sufficient to carry the program for
a two-year period."
nodmiizc %< ri.uiitiiig
In recommending revised fiscal
and accounting methods, the Gov
ernor said “what is needed is an
office which could be developed
out of-the Auditor's office, or other
wise as tiie Legislature sees lit,
which will enable anyone interested
to secure at any time, a complete
financial picture of the Territory’s
business.
“No office has that responsibility
now, either for securing this in
formation or making it available.
There is no uiequate accounting
system for the Territory. The
Treasurer's Office, as was shown
not long ago, has heretofore been
without adequate auditing super
vision or check upon it by any
other Territorial agency."
The Governor recommended cut
ting responsibilities of the Board
i f Administration while labeling it
a "tough board’’ for freezing funds
"While tiie Board held the dike
against heavy pressures," lie said,
"I feel in principle it is wrong for
six officials in the executive
branch to be obliged to exercise,
through control of purse, what is
properly a legislative function."
Optimistic On Kimuices
The Governor sounded an optim
istic financial note. He said half a
dozen factors make it difficult to
determine closely what the next
biennium's income will be but we
have largely recovered from linan
:-ial ills that plagued us for four
rears."
"The fact that we have drawn
wen with our obligations," he went
m to say, "gives great promise that
nir existing, moderate tax structure
will meet our immediate and con
tinuing needs for long deferred
school buildings, for educational re
quirements, for community hospital
up and public health services, for
Mir pioneers, our aged and needy
Services necessarily curtailed may
aov., 1 believe be adequately pro.
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