THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,723
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1951
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TAX BOOST ON
LUXURIES TO
BE DEMANDED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — —
Capitol Hill heard today that Presi
dent Truman will ask tomorrow for
big tax boosts on such luxuries as
, whiskey, wine, beer and cigarettes
| to help pay huge defense costs.
! „ The President outlined his pro
posals — the biggest tax boosting
program in history — at an extra
ordinary private meeting with
> House Democratic and Republican
tax writers yesterday. He will send
a special tax message to Congress
tomorrow.
He said he wants $16,500,000,000
in new revenue, to put the defense
^program on a pay-as-you-go basis,
4but he asked that it be split into
1 two packages, one a quick $10,000,
I OOO.COO increase in individual, cor
poration and excise taxes, some
* times called nuisance or selective
sales taxes.
The excise boosts he will ask may
also extend to motor vehicles, now
taxed on trucks, and to gasoline,
on which the rate is now one and a
1 half cents a gallon.
The President is understood to
have made no suggestions for a
I Federal retail sales tax.
There were indications he will
ask, along with some other excise
i boosts, an increase in the whisky
; tax from $9 a gallon to $12. At1
$12 the tax would be about 12 to ,
| 15 cents a drink. Whiskey is one of
! the biggest revenue producers in
the excise list.
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BENNETT MEYERS,
FORMER GENERAL.
RECEIVES PAROLE
—
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1 — UP) — i
Bennett E. Meyers, former major
genera] in the Air Force was paroled
from prison today.
Since 1948, he has been serving
♦’time in the Federal Reformatory
at Lorton, Va., after being convicted j
of inducing a civilian associate to
lie about his sideline business activ
ities during World War II.
He was immediately picked up
by U. S. marshals to answer a Fed
eral income tax evasion indictment
pending against him at Baltimore.
Meyers, removed from Lorton to
the District of Columbia jail, was
later taken before U. S. Commis
sioner Cyril Lawrence, w'ho fixed
his bond on the income tax charge
at $5,000.
Meyers’ associates said the bond
would be posted promptly.
SALESMAN IN JUNEAU
T. R. Curtis, Seattle traveling
salesman, is stopping at the Gasti
neau Hotel.
I BILL BATES ARRIVES
Mr. and Mr;. W. A. Bates of
Ketchikan are here to attend the
Alaska Bankers meeting.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
: (Copyright. 1951, By Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
T^ASHINGTON—One of the big
things bothering Ccmgess about
drafting 18-year-olds is the prob
lem which Winston Churchill
pounded home on President Roose
velt when he opposed a second
front across the English Channel.
“I do not,” said the Prime Min
ister in typical Churchillian lang
Juage, "propose to lose the seed of
the British Empire.”
What he had in mind was the
fact that in 1914, the cream of
Britain's young men had been ship
ped across the English Channel
and mowed down in Planters.
Those first waves of troops that
went to Belgium included the best
trained men in the nation.
Today it is a recognized fact in
both England and France that na- j
tional leadership is more difficult!
because of those 1914-15 casualties.!
Men who were 18 and 19 during the '
j battle of Flanders would be 541
: and 55 today, and in their prime j
for leadership. But their ranks were
seriously decimated.
In the United States today the
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Air Defense
Along Coast
Being Tested
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1— Itfl—
The giant test of air defense from
the Pacific Coast to the Rocky
Mountains began today, but the
only thing visible to most civilians
will be occasional vapor trails high
in the sky.
“Invading” bombers of the stra
tegic air command are involved
with defenders from the western
air defense force. The "Aggressor”
sorties are above 30,000 feet, out
of sight but well within range of
Radar posts screening strategic
areas.
The maneuver, which also in
volves Navy radar pickets at. sea,
naval and marine air unit, army
anti-aircraft artillery, the air force
reserve and the air national guard,
will go on until Sunday night,
around the clock.
UN COMBAT
TEAM GETS
INTO TRAP
(By Associated Press)
A UN French-American combat
team was completely encircled to
day by Banzai-screaming Chinese
Reds near the juncture of the cen
tral and western fronts in Korea.
French troops were fighting hand
to hand with part of the force of
more than 3,000 Communists.
The combat team had pushed
forward cautiously 12 miles north
cl' Yoju in the eighth day of the
limited Allied oliensive which has
been probing into the enemy’s main
defense lines just south of the
Red-held former K-orean capitol of
Seoul.
Kush From Hideouts
The Reds, screaming out of hide
outs, launched their counterattack
before dawn on three sides and to
ward the end of the day had suc
ceeded in surrounding the Allied
Force.
! A Tenth Corps spokesman would
i not predict the chances of the en
circled regiment fighting its wax
j out of the trap.
Red Movements
j In other sectors, Allied airmen
said they saw Reds withdrawing
across the Han River just on the
outskirts of Seoul. But it could not
be determined whether the enemy
was retreating before the Allied
drive or was regrouping for assaults
elsewhere along the line.
A special American tank-led
group known as "Task Force Tony”
pushed forward on the western
front and met only light resistance.
American infantrymen occupied
44 important hills during the day
as the front moved ahead one-half
to two and one-half miles. The
Allied line now stretches roughly
* east and west five miles northeast
of Suwon.
Soon Back to Seoul
While the battle raged. South
Korean President Syngman Rhee
declared: "I hope to be back in
Seoul soon.”
He said he thought the war
"is already coming to an end” be
cause the Chinese Communist sold
ier “is fighting without spirit.
MRS. BAYERS HONORED
AT BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mrs. Tay Bayers was the honored
guest at a birthday party given for
her by members of her family last
Wednesday week at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Nennah Bayers on
Willoughby Avenue.
Present at the party to celebrate
the day with Mrs. Bayers were
her daughter, Mrs. Lillian Turner,
and Mrs. Turners daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Wesley Turner, Mrs. Phyllis
Lesher, niece of Mrs. Bayer; Mrs.
Genevieve Soboleff, Mrs. A. L. Zum
walt, Mrs. Edith Powers and Mrs.
Nennah Bayers.
SOLDINS TO SKAGWAY
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Soldin came
to Juneau from their home in Sitka
Tuesday and left Wednesday for
Skagway. There they will visit for
a week with Soldin's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Hans Soldin and members
of their family.
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MINERS
GET PAY
INCREASE
I
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—Ml—A I
pay raise in the coal pits went into J
effect today without interference,
from the government, and eventu-1
ally the money will show up on
consumer’s coal bills.
Price Director Michael V. Di Salle
announced that new ceiling prices
on coal would be set today or to
morrow and would “probably reflect
increased costs to the operators as
a result of the wage increase.
Thus the government cracked
open its Jan. 25 temporary wage
price freeze for the first time. Other
cracks are certain.
And thus a long period without
coal strikes seemed to be assured,
and the big shadow of John L.
Lewis faded from the wall in the
conference room of the Wage Stab
ilization Board.
This Board, headed by Cyrus S.
Ching, took several steps yesterday,
it exempted state, county, and mun
icipal employees from the wage
freeze, turning them over to their
governing bodies, which, the Board
said, are expected to conform to
general federal wage policies.
In another regulation, the Board
gave a blanekt OK to all wage and
salary increases due to take ef
fect before midnight Feb. 9, pro
vided they were "formally deter- j
mined and communicated to the
employees” before the Jan. 25 freeze
date.
This permitted an undetermined
number of increases to groups or in
dividuals in that class.
CG Cutter Kimball
To Berth, Ketchikan
SEATTLE, Feb. 1— IJPI —The
Coast Guard cutter Kimball, over
hauled at Baltimore, has tied up
here for 10 days before proceeding
to hernew home port at Ketchikan.
The Kimball is assigned to search
and rescue and patrol work in
Alaska waters. Her skipper is Lt.
(J. G.) R. R. Chayne, 44, of Sault
3tc. Marie, Mich.
Man Can Wrestle
With Wife for Kiss;
M Guilty, Assault
LONDON, Peb. 1—judge
has ruled that "& man wrestling his
wife for a kiss is not guilty of
assault.
The plaintiff was Mrs. Betty
Woolf, who is separated from her
husband Jack. She testified he lay
in wait for her as she left a movie,
seized her and tried to put his lips
to hers. She tcre free and ran.
Said Judge Seymour Collins:
"They are still one in law until
there is a legal separation order,
and how can you assault yourself?”
He dismissed the case.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Feb. 1 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%, American Can
104%, American Tel. & Tel. 152%,
Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft
103%, General Electric 54%, Gen
eral Motors 50, Goodyear 72%, Ken
necott 75%, Libby, McNeil & Libby
9%, Northern Pacific 35%, Stand
ard Oil of California 95%, Twen
tieth Century Fox 21%, U. 8. Steel
47, Pound 2.80%, Canadian Ex
change 94.93%.
Sales today were 2,380,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:,
Industrials 250.76, rails 88.52, utili
ties 42.17.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Norah Irom Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Saturday after
noon or evening.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle 4 p.m. Friday.
Baranof from westward sched
uled to arrive southbound Sunday
morning.
FROM SEATTLE ACS
Capt. Brooks C. Yden and George
Y. Jencik of the Alaska Communica
tions System, from the Seattle of
fice, are in Juneau at the Baranof
| Hotel.
Powered Boats
Will Operate in
Bristol Bay
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — W —
The Interior Department has reiter
ated its decision that powered fish
ing boats may operate in Alaska’s
Bristol Bay.
Last November the department
held a hearing in Seattle on the
regulation issued April 8, 1950,
which permits the use of such boats
which are not more than 32 feet
long.
Operators in the area had pro
tested that replacing the traditional
fleet of gill-net sail boats with
motor boats would threaten the
conservation of the salmon run.
Dale E. Doty, Assistant Secretary
of the Interior, said in a news re
lease that the April, 1950, regula
tion is in the public interest and
will stand.
Doty said the Fish and Wildlife
Service had sufficient enforcement
powers to protect the salmon runs
agairst undue depletion.
RAIL STRIKE
IN EPIDEMIC
PROPORTIONS
(By Associated Press)
A strike epidemic combined with
the winter’s worst weather tangled
transportation and industry and the
daily routine of millions of Amer
icans today.
A walkout of railroad switchmen
was followed by strikes of bus and
trolley drivers that disrupted com
muting in New York. Philadelphia
and New Jersey. Some factory
workers struck, too. Wages were the
chief issue.
Thousands of workers were laid
off temporarily for lack of produc
tion materials tied up in the
switchmen's walkout.
At Philadephia, the Philco Cor
poration announced the "furlough”
! of 13.000 employees, and the Budd
Company, railway car manufacurers
2,000.
Other companies expressed fear
they would have to follow suit
unless the rail tie-up was settled
soon.
An estimated 1,600,000 commut
ers in New Jersey alone were left
without their usual transportation
when 6,500 public service bus and
trolley workers struck at midnight.
A strike of 278 bus drivers in New
York left an estimated 34,000 Long
Island commuters stranded.
Detroit’s auto industry reported
more than 43,000 workers off the
job today in a snowballing series
of walkouts and materials short
ages.
Chrysler Corp. had the largest
number of employees affected, send
ing home 15,200 during the day
from five plants.
The layoffs were believed to have
been caused at least in part by a
walkout of 5,000 at the Budd Co.
The Budd dispute stemmed from
the transfer of three employees
from one job to another.
FROM ANNETTE CG
Four men from the Coast Guard
Air Detachment at Annette are
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
They are Cdr. R. F. Shunk, Robert
Ogg, George Carriveau and Chris
A. Weitzel.
• •••••••• + *
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau — Maximum •
• 28; minimum, 23.. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 26; minimum, 16. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• Fair tonight and Friday. •
• Slightly colder tonight. With •
• low temperature near 18. •
• High Friday near 25. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
j City of Juneau — Trace./ •
• since Jan. 1 — 3.95 inches; •
• since July 1—41.94 inches. •
• At Airport — Trace; •
• since Jan. 1 — 2.25 inches; •
• since July 1—30.25 inches. •
• ••••••••••
UN BRANDS
RED (HINA
AGGRESSOR
Britain's Warning on Sanc
tions Raises Question
as to Next Step
—
LAKE SUCCESS, Feb. 1 —UR—
The United Nations Assembly voted
overwhelmingly today to tag Com
munist China as an aggressor in
Korea, but a warning by Britain to
go slow on sanctions raised a big
question as to the next step.
The Assembly vote was 44 to 7 —
the same as the ballot in the politi
cal committee Tuesday night. The
five Soviet bloc countries were
joined by India and Burma in cast
ing the opposing votes. Eight coun
tries abstained and one — Saudi
Arabia — was recorded as not par
ticipating.
Todays action brought to an end
the present phase of the diplomatic
ba»tle which was touched off by a
report from General Douglas Mac
Arthur 12 weeks ago that the Chi
nese Reds had intervened in the
Korean conflict.
The Assembly—
1. Decided that Communist China
engaged in aggression in Korea.
2. Requested a committee on col
lective security to study what to do
about meeting this aggression, but
to hold up its work it a good of
fice committee reports progress on
a peaceful settlement.
3. Approved creation of the good
offices mmittee to consist of As
sembly President Nasrallah Ente
zam of Iran and two others whom
he will name.
4. Called on the Peiping regime
to withdraw its National air force
from Korea and to stop fighting
U.N. forces.
5. Affirmed the determination of
the U.N. to continue its action in
Korea to meet the aggression.
| 6. Called upon all states and au
thorities not to help the aggressors.
Just before the vote, Britains Sir
Gladwyn Jebb urged the Assembly
to concentrate on seeking a peace
ful settlement in Korea and to go
slow on sanctions against the Chi
nese Reds.
The most important task of the
U. N„ Jebb said, is to study all
possibilities for a peaceful settle
ment, leaving sanctions until last
NEW BILL
REVISES
BID LAW
Revision of the Territorial bid law
is proposed in a bill introduced in
the House yesterday afternoon by
Rep. J. S. MacKinnon of Juneau
and Rep. Glen D. Franklin of Fair
banks.
The bill provides for obtaining
bids and awarding contracts for
purchases in excess of $150 made
on behalf of the Territory, and for
purchases and services in contracts
requiring both.
The present limit is $250 and it
covers purchases only and not items
on which both materials and serv
ices are furnished.
The bill also provides that when
ever possible supplies and materials
be purchased at one time.
In contracts involving more than
$1,000 the call for bids would have
to be advertised in a newspaper
for three weeks.
Two bills of interest to municipal
ities were introduced by Rep. Waino
Hendrickson.
Council Terms
The first would allow cities of
both the first and second class to
elect councilmen for one, two or
three year terms, as the voters may
decide at a special election.
The present law permits only one
year or three-year terms.
The second Hendrickson bill
amends the present municipal sales
tax enabling act by defining such
terms as Retail Sales, Services, Con
sumer, Selling Price, Seller, and so
forth, and otherwise clarifies the
present statute.
Northwestern Paraguay is known
as the Gran Chaco.
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'NO ACCEPTABLE ALTERNATIVE' BUT
FOR AMERICAN HELP IN REARMING
EUROPE DECLARES GEN. EISENHOWER
PRINTING
CONTRACTS
ARE AIRED
House Committee of Whole
Hears Both Sides of
Controversy
ABy Bob DeArmond)
Members of the House of Repre
sentatives, and a number of Sen
ators, heard a good deal about
printing and about Territorial bid
laws during a two-hour hearing on
the contract for printing the 1951
Session Laws yesterday afternoon.
At the end of the hearing they
took no action on the matter what
ever, apparently heeding the as
sertions of Attorney General J.
Gerald Williams and Attorney H.
L. Faulkner that the Legislature
has no power to act and that the
proper place to take the complaint
was the District Court.
The entire controversy stemmed
from contracts let by the Audltoi
for printing the legislative journals
and the Session Laws. The con
tracts were let to the Empire Print
ing Company, although the Journal
Printing Company of Ketchikan,
headed by W. L. Baker, bad entered
lower bids.
Bids Rejected
The Journal Printing Company's
bid for printing the Journals was
rejected on the grounds that it
was not a bid but a counter offer
which Included mimeographing in
stead of printing the advance
sheets.
The same company's bid for
printing the Session Laws was re
jected by the Auditor on the
grounds that the bidder cfmld
not comply with a requirement that
the printed advance sheets be deliv
ered within 48 hours after receipt
of the laws.
The main issue yesterday was the
latter contract, upon which the
Journal Printing C., bid $4,290 and
the Empire bid $6,700.
W. L. Baker, head of the former
company, told the committee that
his shop could do work cheaper
than some others, that he felt
printing shops outside of Juneau
were discriminated against by the
48-hour requirement and that he
would have saved the Territory
50 percent on the two contracts.
Challenges Opinion
Baker challenged the opinion of
Attorney General J. Gerald Will
iams, that the Auditor was not
bound by law to award the cop
tract to the low bidder.
This challenge was repeated by
Baker’s attorney, Mrs. Mildred Her
mann, who followed him on the
I stand.
Mrs. Hermann called it a "curb
stone opinion” and said Williams
had not been in possession of all
of the facts when he issued it. She
also implied that the Attorney Gen
eral has misinterpreted the law or
had used the wrong portions of the
Alaska Code.
Vigorous Denial
These assertions were vigorously
denied by Williams when he took
the stand.
He said that he was not "a
correspondence course lawyer and
could not interpret the law as Mrs.
Hermann wisned it interpreted.
Williams said he would stake his
reputation that the Legislature does
not have the power to break the
contract and added that the power
to do this rests with the courts
alone.
He told the Legislature that the
Territorial bid law at present cov
ers purchases only and does not
cover contracts In which both mat
erial and services are required. He
recommended that the Legislature
look into the advisability of chang
liig this law.
Virtual Monopoly
Mrs. Hermann told the committee
that her client had been deprived
of a valuable property right when
his bid was rejected and added
Juneau has had a virtual monop
oly of legislative printing since 1933
and that the Empire is the only
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — JR —
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told
Congress members today there is,
“no acceptable alternative” to j
American help in rearming Europe.
The live-star general, chosen to
head the Allied Defense forces ,
against Russian aggression, publicly I
Joined the great debate over com- j
mltting U. S. troops to those forces !
with an address to an informal j
Joint meeting of the Senate and j
House.
He argued:
“We must give Europe assistance j
not only because there is no ac
ceptable alternative, but because if ,
we were left standing alone, iso- '
lated in a world of Communism, our j
system would wither away.”
Solemnly, Eisenhower had told !
the lawmakers earlier that their
decisions on defense cooperation
with Western Europe would de
termine the course of civilization
and whether free governments will.
continue to exist.
Equipment Needed
Just back from a tour of Europe,
Eisenhower said there Is no ques
tion of Western Europe’s desire to
resist aggression. “There is a spirit
to resist,” he said. "There is a de
termination to do their part — to
take the risk.”
He said, too, that Europe’s great
est need now is not American sold- j
iers but equipment which he said ;
must be delivered in quantity and
quickly.
As to transfer of American troops
to Europe, Eisenhower said that j
should be done in a ratio to what i
the Europeans themselves provide, j
Eisenhower sketched briefly con- :
ditlons In individual European |
countries as he said he found them, j
France Is Ready
He said there is “no question”
that France has “determined to I
face up to the threat of Commun- .
ism from within and without.”
And he said he found the same
spirit in Belgium, Holland and j
Denmark.
“There is no question about Nor- j
way's determination to resist to the
point of destruction," he went on. j
Italian Morale
He said he found in Rome a stlf- i
fening of Italian morale and ef- ■
forts to make that country’s de- |
fense force more efficient.
Eisenhower said he did not want |
to speak now about the military
potential of Germany.
He said the diplomats must come 1
up with a political platform for j
Germany which gives that nation ,
equality before any of its military t
units could be used in an interna
tional defense force.
He said while it would be "false
and idle to say there does not exist
a spirit of pessimism and defeatism”
in some quarters in Europe, he feels
there has been a “rejuvenation” in
Europe’s morale.
12-YEAR-OLD BOY
FATALLYWOUNDED
BY 10-YEAR OLDER I
—
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 1—1*1 j
—A shotgun broke up a ‘‘cops and i
robbers" game yesterday.
Creed Meadows, 12, was wound- 1
ed fatally by a blast from the shot- j
gun being held by 10-year-old Edgar
Letson, Jr., son of a Ladd Air Force
Base staff sergeant.
Edgar told authorities he was
demonstrating his "rabbit hunting
gun” when it discharged a blast
through Creed's right cheek. He
said he and his friends had been
playing cops and robbers with toy
pistols. When he got the shotgun j
he said he checked it to see if it
was unloaded.
Edgar's mother is in a hospital
where she gave birth to a child two
days ago.
The dead boy was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Creed Meadows.
Wasn't Marijuana,
BOSTON, PVb. 1—<*>—William
Overton, 31, was free today of a
charge that he possessed Mari
juana.
A state chemist testified in the
municipal court trial yesterday
that what Overton had was catnip
—not marijuana.
The man said he uses it to relieve
his ashma.
MORTAR FIRE,
GRENADES ARE
USED, ATTACKS
U. S. Escort Carrier Fired
Upon-Sailors Ashore
Are Threatened
SAIGON, Indochina, Feb. 1 —<0t
— Communist-led Vietminh guer
rillas threw mortar fire at a U.S.
Navy vessel in the Saigon River to
day. Later, suicide Vietminh pa
trols hurled hand grenades at a
group of U. S. sailors from the
ships.
The attack on the sailors was in
downtown Saigon. Not one Ameri
can was hurt, but five French Mar
ines who were with them suffered
injuries in the terror raid, appar
ently staged to protest the arrival
of the U. S. ship here.
Carrier Undamaged
The ship is the U. S. Escort Car
rier Lindham Bay. It arrived this
morning to deliver planes and other
war material to the French who are
fighting the Communist-led Na
tionalists. It was undamaged by
the mortar attack which came as
it moved up the Saigon River from
the China Sea.
Later, when American sailors
gathered at two bars in downtown
Saigon during a shore leave, a group
of attackers appeared suddenly, they
hurled 10 grenades.
One Attacker Cught
One attacker was caught by Viet
nam police at the scene. Among the
others who fled were two wearing
uniforms of streetcar conductors.
Immediately after the attacks,
all U. S. Navy personnel was or
dered back aboard the Windham
Bay. 8ome paused long enough to
pick up grenade fragments as sou
venirs.
French Army patrols and Viet
nam police began a drive to try to
clean out the Vietminh nests.
Alert By Carrier
The carrier was in a state of
alert, ready to open fire should the
Vietminh guerrillas attack again
with mortars from their hiding
places across the river. These at
tacks recalled similar outbreaks last
March, when American Naval ves
sels visiting here were fired on by
Communist mortars from across
the river.
SENATE GROUP
FINDS PENSIONS
FUTURE BETTER
A special Senate committee re
ported today there is a good chance
of Alaska old-age pensions being
restored to normal for March.
The report of the committee,
which was named yesterday, dashed
pensioners’ hopes for a deficiency
appropriation for the public welfare
department. Sen. Howard Lyng (D
Nome) had suggested yesterday, in
proposing the committee, that an
extra appropriation might be justi
fied. Old-age assistance was cut 8
per cent Jan. 1 because of pros
pects of the fund running out be
fore the biennium ends March 31.
The committee report submitted
by Sen. W. L. (Dan) Lhamon <R
Fairbanks) was made without any
recommendation. It included praise
for the welfare administration of
Director Henry A. Harmon.
The report highlighted a morn
ing session in which the Senate ap
proved the House joint resolution
to provide $124,661 for legislative
session expenses. It was the first
measure to pass both houses, as
usual. It compared with a figure of
about $110,000 in the session ex
pense measure for the 1949 session.
The Senate als# approved. 15 to
1, Sen. Ed Anderson’s memorial for
reactivating Marks Air Force base
at Nome. It is addressed to govern
ment and defense officials.
The Nome senator told his col
leagues that he wasn’t thinking of
just helping the second division
when he introduced the air base
appeal, but was thinking of the in
terest and defense of the whole Ter
ritory. The single "no” vote was by
Sen. John Butrovich (R-Falrbanks).
The special Senate committee on
the old-age pension problem re
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