FEDERAL SECURITY
FUNDS BENEFITED
PEOPLE OF ALASKA
The people of Alaska have bene
fited from Federal funds amount
ing to $2,247,914 during the fiscal
year 1950 under the health, educa
tion and social security programs
of the Federal Security Agency, ac
cording to a summary released to
day by Dr. Jack C. Haldeman,
Deputy Regional Director of the
Federal Security Agency for Alaska
Operation of these programs i
described in the forthcoming Fed
eral Security Agency annual report
for the fiscal year ended June 30.
1950. The highlights of these opera
tions are given in (he Administra
tor’s Report, just issued by Federal
Security Administrator Oscar R
Ewing.
"The benefits and services re
ceived by people under the Federal
Security Agency programs,” Dr.
Haldeman said, "demonstrate the
effectiveness of State and Federal
teamwprk. A large part of the
Federal expenditure of $2,247,914
went for programs financed jointly
by Territorial, local and Federal
funds. A complete accounting for
these programs would require the
inclusion of Alaska’s public fluids
that were expended for the same
programs.
“The $2,247,914 includes payments
under the Federal old-age and sur
vivors Insurance program," Dr.
Haldeman added. "It does not in
clude expenditures under other Fed
eral Security Agency program ad
ministered entirely by the Federal
Government, such as programs con
cerned with pure food and drugs:
certain public health services, like
quarantine and epidemic controls;
services ' to the Territorial. educa
tional system: and supervision of
Federal credit unions. Such nation
wide programs benefit everyone in
Alaska, but it is not possible to
break down the amount spent on
a State by State basis.
Thousands Benefited
"While Federal Security Agency
programs in one way or another,
directly or indirectly, benefit every
man, woman and child in the Terri
tory," Dr Haldeman said, "thou
sands of persons received individual
benefits or services under certain
programs, such as old-age and sur
vivors insurance and public assist
ance.”
The number of recipients under
these programs is included in the
following summary of Federal Se
curity Agency activities in Alaska
for the fiscal < pear 1949-50.
By June 30, 1950, 1,400 residents
of Alaska were receiving payments
under the Federal system of old
age and survivors insurance at a
rate of $26,000 per month. This is
a Federal program administered
by the Bureau of Old-Age and Sur
vivors Insurance of the Social Se
curity Administration. The system
provides a monthly income for
workers in private industry and
commerce and their families when
the worker retires at age 65 or later,
and for the dependents of a worker
who dies. Monthly benefits certified
for payment to retired workers,
their wives, and their dependent
children In Alaska during the fiscal
year 1949-50 amounted to $191,000.
Monthly benefits to survivors of in
sured workers totaled $87,000. These
payments went to children, widowed
mothers, aged widows, and aged
parents of deceased workers. In
addition, lump-sum payments total
ing $21,000 were made to survivors
not immediately eligible for
monthly benefits.
Passage of amendments to the
Social Security Act in August, 1950,
greatly improved and extended this
program. Its insurance protection
was made available to about 10
million more people. Many who
would not previously have been able
to qualify for benefits have already
become eligible for payments under
the new amendments. The amount
of payments to individuals was
substantially increased beginning
with the September, 1950, checks.
Aid tor stales
Under the Social Security Act,
Federal funds are also made avail
able to help States finance approved
plans for public assistance. The
Federal aspects of the program are
administered by the Bureau of
Public Assistance, Social Security
Administration. Federal funds pail
to recipients of public assistance
by Alaska for its two public assist
ance programs during the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1950, were as
follows: Aid to dependent children,
$194,740, and old-age assistance,
$530,799. The amounts spent by
Alaska from its own State funds
and from local funds for these pro
grams were: aid to dependent chil
dren, $213,695, and old-age assist
ance, $560,798. In additio'n, the
Federal Government shared one
half of the approved expenditures
for administration of these pro
grams.
The number of recipients under
the public assistance piograms in
June, 1950, were: aid to dependent
children, 1,500 children in 640 fami
lies; and old-age assistance, 1,604.
The 1950 amendments to the
Federal Social Security Act pro
vided that beginning October 1,
1950, more Federal money will be
available to States to aid dependent
children.
Of a total of $22,777,725 of Fed
eral money paid to the States and
Territories in the fiscal year 1949-50
for health and welfare services to,
mothers and children, Alaska re
oeived approximately $231,437 to
help build up its maternal and child
health, crippled children’s, and
child welfare services.
These programs are administered
by State health departments, crip
pled children’s agencies, and wel
fare departments under plans ap
proved by the Children’s Bureau,
Social Security Administration.
in enacting the 1950 amendments
to the Social Security Act, Con
gress also increased the total
amount the Federal Government
wall make avails tic eac h yea- to
extend and strei. the l Hi - r
vices.
Federal Credit - a ons
Under another pro pern of the
.Social Security /.’i.'.'iu.M tion,
there were on Jui: 31, ll'-iC, 12
Federal credit union . i:i Alask . vith
1.724 members. Fed s al credit . nlons
are cooperative i oeattipi.4 pro
moting systematic savin: • rr■' mak
ing small consumer-lyt e to
members. The 12 Federal Credit
Unions in Alaska had total savings!
of $174,433 of which 12 . c o was
outstanding, in l-s n: L» members.
The Vocational Rehabilitation
program, which fi:r;:i! i • -"tl
aid and education and training to
disabled civilians, also fflnaijced
through fedcrrl ':rants-in-aid, was|
not operated in Alaska d in".'' the
fiscal year 1C49-C0 n< th.e ap
propriated Te'iito;' fu'!'1 re
mained frozen .a n t.i ' . re
period.
Health no ;
Funds lor pe: crr.l 1 th pro-|
grams amounting to $309,830 were;
paid by the Fedcr.l Covcrument,
in lire fiscal year 1943-50 to In lp |
Alaska build up and maintain its
local health services, control com
municable diseases, improve sanita-:
lion, and carry on health educa
tion, demonstration, personnel
training, and other general public
health services.
Alaska received $103,960 in Fed
eral funds to carry out effective
measures for the prevention, treat
ment and control of tuberculosis
in the Territory. An important part
of tuberculosis work, the making
of mass X-ray surveys to discover
the disease in its early, remediable
stages, was made possible through
grants-in-aid. The Territory was
further assisted through the Public
Health Service by consultation ser-;
vice, loan of personnel, demonstra
tions of photofluorographic units in!
the field, and the development of.
clinic and nursing services.
Federal funds expended for con- .
trol of venereal disease in Alaska!
, amounted to $26,972 in the fiscal j
ijear 1949-50.
I Other grants to the State
j public health services includeu. ,
! $6,687 for cancer control; $7,000
for mental health activities; $12,467 j
for heart disease control; and
i $9,212 for industrial waste studies.
In addition to grants given directly
to the Territory, research grants
representing a total of $15,760 were
made to research institutions. This
money was for research in the
causes and methods of prevention i
of the diseases of man, including
cancer, infectious diseases, diseases'
of old age, and malnutrition, and i
in the effects of various industrial j
substances, processes, and environ- j
ments.
SUICIDE ATTEMPT I
BY YOUNG SOLDIER
WHEN FLYING HOME
—
SEATTLE, Feb. 7.—Iff)—A young j
soldier returning from overseas was j
found with his throat and neck j
slashed, just minutes before his |
trans-Pacific airliner landed, air
line officials reported.
The soldier, Daniel J. Karamarko
vich, Jr., 19, of Ambridge, Pa., was j
discovered bleeding profusely in the
plane’s men’s room by flight steward
Delbert Carlisle.
Beside hint was a pearl-handled
pocket knife, a line spokesman said,
and a note written on the back
of a cigarette wrapper which read:
“I killed myself because I can
never do anything right."
He was given first aid aboard
the plane and was transferred to a
hospital on arrival at the airport.
His condition was not considered
serious.
I
} Al'K BAY 4-11 MEETS
j We met at the home of Jean
Ellis Thursday evening. President
Lynne Barcas called the meeting
to order. We discussed a constitu
tion and adopted it. Mrs. Ellis made
a birthday cake for Lynne Bar
cus which we ate along with cook
ies and a beverage. We talked and
sewed until ‘he meeting was ad
journed.
BONNIE JO LYNCH, Reporter
AT no: t. hotel
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Lubcke have
taken an apartment at the Home
Hotel for the next two or three
weeks while Patrolman Lubcke com
pletes his duty in this area with
the Territorial Highway Patrol
Thev will then return to Lubcke’s
headquarters at Haines.
Lubcke returned recently from
duty in Ketchikan and Mrs. Lub
cke arrived in Juneau ^n the past
week from the states where she
| has been visiting with her family
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A NORTHERN NOTEBOOK
By BOB BE ARMO'NB
(Fifteenth of a Series)
The biennial report of Highwav
Engineer Frank Metcalf, issued re
cently, reveals that approximately
half of the two-cents-per-gallon
tax paid to the Territory by the
owners of automobiles, trucks,
tractors and oil-burning stationary
engines during the past two years
went to pay for operation of the
Alaska Highway Patrol.
In the Metcalf report the type
of equipment mentioned above is
lumped together as "cars,” and the
report shows that “cars” shelled
out $883,576.28 in motor fuel taxes
during 1949 and 1950.
During the same years, accord
ing to the report, it cost $419,473.86
to operate the Highway Patrol.
The proportional cost of Highway
Patrol operation varied from place
to place and down in the First
: Division it took about 66 percent
of fuel tax revenues from “cars”
I to run it.
First Division receipts from “cars”
i during the biennium came to $126,
324.80, and it required $83,890.88 to
run the Highway Patrol in the
area.
During the biennium the High
way Patrol traveled 960,112 miles,
according to the Metcalf report.
This figures out at ',around 45
cents per mile.
The Patrol apprehended 1,483
traffic violators during the two
years, and this figures out at a cost
of $281.71 per violator apprehend
ed. The traffic violators were fin
ed a total of $52,536, or around
$35.21 apiece. The fines, however,
reverted to the Federal govern
ment.
In addition to apprehending 1,
489 traffic violators and driving
960,112 miles, the Highway Patrol
reported 1.293 traffic accidents,
counted 14,514 cars entering and
9,787 cars leaving Alaska through
Tok Junction, and returned an
estimated $590,875 worth of stolen
cars to their corners, the report
says.
With every report received from
the Bureau of (he Census at Wash
ingtin the true population of Al
aska seems to dwindle.
The official 17th Census count
of Alaskan noses was 128,643, ac
cording to the first reports received
But a recent telegram from the;
Director of the Census to William '
A. Egan, Speaker of the House of
Representatives, regarding appor
tionment of members of the House,
reveals that 20,407 of the 128,643 ^
are military personnel stationed in
Alaska.
Th,r Director listed 660 mili
tary personnel in the First Divi
sion, 452 in the Second, 13,871 in
the Third and 5,424 in the Fourth.
This leaves a civilian population
of 108,236, of whom 27,543 are in
the First Division, 11,820 in the
Second, 45.647 in the Third and
23,226 in the Fourth.
And it was further disclosed,
when the official certification ol
the Census Director was filed with
the Legislature, that some of tlir
wives and families of military per
sonnel are included in the court
of Alaska's civilian population.
No information is available as to
the number of wives and children |
of military personnel in Alr.sk
but their number wil cut down the
total of real stay-at-home Alaskans
and could cut the figure to pretty
close to the 100,000 mark.
And when you deduct the school
children, the people who are in
institutions and the people .who are j
receiving old age assistance or some
other kind ol assistance benefits ,
are for some other reason non
productive, the number left to pay
the taxes is woefully small.
! IN THE i
! HOUSE j
BILLS INTRODUCED
First quarter of the 20th Session:
H.B 1, by Gasser, to appropriate
$4,590 for expenses of the Alaska
Soil Conservation Board for the
biennium ending March 31, 1953.
H.B. 2, by Kay, to license and
I regulate real estate brokers and
1 sale-men, creating a Real Estate
• Board, and prescribing penaltie s
H.B. 3, by Kay and Scavenius, re
i lating to and providin'! for the el
■ imination of certain practices of
discrimination because of race, color,
religion or national origin; provid
ing penalties.
H.B. 4, by Kay and Scavenius,
to create a Department of Territor
ial Police and prescribe its duties
and powers.
II.B. 5, (Committee Substitute),
I to authorize the Attorney General
! to transfer $3,800 available in his
I biennial appropriation from an item
I containing a surplus to items where
! there is a deficiency.
H.B. 6, Conright, to amend the
laws pertaining to the employment
of an assistant or associate counsel
to the Attorney General.
H.B. 7. by Franklin, establishing
a Legislative Investigating Commit
tee; pmb-ribing ills powers and
j duties; make an appropriation oi
$7,500.
H.B. 8, by Conright, to transfer
I the office of the Commissioner of
i Agriculture from Fairbanks to Pal
| mer and appropriate $2,500 for the
i expenses of such transfer.
H.B. 9. by Kay, to amend the law
pertaining to dependency allowanc
es for unemployment compensation;
j extending time and total amount
of allowances.
H.B. 10, by Kay, to amend the
law relating to weekly benefit
amount of claimants for unemploy
ment compensation; increasing the
maximum to $30.
H.B. 11, by Carlson, to provide
for the care of sick and disabled
fishermen; establishing a board;
making an appropriation.
H.B. 12, by Carlson, providing for
maximum hours and minimum wag
es of labor, excepting certain cla. -
j es of employment.
H.B. 13, by Metcalfe by request,
j pertaining to officials and employ -
j ces of the Territory and of any
I municipal corporation or other sub
[ division thereof, who shall be mem
I berg of any reserve component of |
the U. S. armed forces; providing <
for re-employment of any such per
sons who are ordered to duty.
H.B. 14, by Conright, to approve
adopt and make of force as the
Code of Alaska, the new compilation
of laws authorized by the Legisla
ture in 1947.
H.B. 15, by Hope and Scavenius.
amending the laws relating to child
labor by permitting 16-13 year old
to work during school vacations
except in certain industries.
H. B. 16, by Hendrickson, relative
to social security coverage for em
ployees of public agencies.
H.B. 17, by Scavenius, amending
the law pertaining to annexation
petitions, hearing and order lor el
ections.
H.B. 18, by Mackinnon, to provide
for obtaining bids and awardin',
contracts for purchases in exce ;s
of $150 made on behalf of the Ter
ritory and for purchases and servic
es in contracts requiring both.
H. B. 19, by Hendrickson, tc
amend the law pertaining to thi
annual election of council mem
bers and their term of office.
H. B. 20, by Hendrickson, amend
ing the law pertaining to the powci
of city councils, pursuant tc refer
endum to levy sales taxes.
H. B. 21, by Kay, to create a
Territorial Legislative Council and
prescribe its duties and powers
FROM KETCHIKAN
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bentley o!
Ketchikan are at the Hotel Juneau
Bentley is with the Bureau of Pub
| lie Roads.
(Continued from Page One)
cient _ despite the engineer’s state
ment.
Gov. Driscoll expressed shock at
the tragedy and ordered an investi
gation to pin down the cause.
Mayor August Greiner of Wood
bridve id he thought the trestle
buckled beneath Ihc train’s weight.
But the trestle did not collapse.
train traveling fast
WOODBRIDGE. N. J.. Feb, 7 —OF :
_ Authorities said today that a
crack commuter train was traveling.
twice i authorized speed when it j
roared off the rails here last night, i
killing 82 persons.
Approximately 500 others were in- j:
jured.
Middlesex County Assistant Prose- ;
cufor Alex Aber, conducting one of i
a half dozen investigations, said :
Ur,! the train was highballing at 50 :
miles an hour when it plunged off
a newly-built trestle.
He aid that the train’s engineer, (
Joseph Fitzsimmons, interviewed in
his hospital bed, had admitted he i
w. traveling this speed, although |
the railroad had ordered a 25-mile
per hour limit over the trestle sec- i
tion.
Fitzsimmons- was quoted as saying |,
he had slowed down from GO miles;
an hour, but had not further re- ;
tarded his speed because he found i
no caution signal.
' , . 5 ;i
itS* |
NEW YORK, Feb. 7 — /PI— Mrs.
Elizabeth Patton Brady, 83, widow I
of John G. Brady, governor of Ala*-- i
ka from 1896 to 1906, died in her
apartment on Park Avenue yester
day after a long illness.
Mrs. Brady, who was born in
Ccchranlton, Pa., went to Alaska in
March, 1883. and opened the first
government school for Natives.
She also pioneered in industrial
training for Natives and from 1916
t^ 1920 she- served as an agent for
the Indian Service in Sitka. Alaska.
In 1887 she married Brady, who
had come to Alaska in 1878 as a
Protestant minister following his
graduation from Yale University
and Union Theological seminary.
Her late husband left the ministry
after one year and entered business
n Alaska. In 1896 he was appointed
the first resident governor of Alaska.
Mrs, Brady is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Mary Beattie and
Miss Elizabeth P. Brady, both of
New York; three sons, John G. and
:ugh P. Erady of Seattle, and Shel
ton Jackson Brady of Patterson,
N. Y.
Funeral services will be held here
omorrow and burial will be at
Pawling, N. Y.
ANCHORAGE VISITOR
E. S'. Weiss of Anchorage is at
!tic Barancf Hotel.
IVSC NOT TO MEET
The World Service Circle of the
Northern Light Presbyterian church
has cancelled the regular mcctim
"or this week but will join with
he World Day of Prayer observance
at 2:45 p.m. Friday in the Lutheran
church.
MARTHA SOCIETY FOOD SALE
At Sear’s Thursday, Feb 8.—1!
a.m. 727-2t
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Sweden with their mother, Queen Ingrid. Left to right: Anne-Marie, Benedikte and Margarethe.
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| IN THE
i SENATE j
BILLS INTRODUCED
During the first quarter of the
20th session:
s! ”b.~T. "by^Barr. providing for
minimum wages for labor excepting
certain classes of employees:
authorizing the Commissioner of
Labzr to make cei.ain regulations;
defining violations and prescribing
penalties.
S. B. 2. by Snider, to reimburse
Providence Hospital' at Anchorage
for services rendered certain in
digent, deceased and other per
sons, in amount of $17,462.81.
S. B. 3. by Barr, to appropriate
$74! for making terminal leave pay
ment on the account of W. Leonard
Smith, deceased, former Territorial
Highway Engineer, to his widow,
Barbara Smith.
S. B. 4, by Garnick, increasing
temporary relief payments by mak
in;;' the maximum $60 instead of
$30 a month.
S. B. 5, by Barr, amending th"
law pertaining to the Issuance of
checks without funds or credit; de
fining credit; providing penaltie
lor violation.
S. B. 6, by Barr, to amend the .
law pertaining to punishment upon j
conviction of rape.
S. B. 7, by McCutcheon. to amend J
the law pertaining to bond furn
ished by municipal treasurers.
S. B. 8, by McCutcheon, to amend
the tobacco tax law, increasing the
tax to five cents on each package
of 2C cigarettes.
S. B. 9, by McCutcheon, amend
ing'the law pertaining to a general;
Lax for school and municipal pur- i
poses, setting the maximum at three
per cent.
S'. B. 10, by MacKenzie, amending
the law pertaining to liquor licenses.
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I LIQUOR BILL
IS APPROVED
BY SENATE
(Continued from Page One)
would eliminate tha„ barrier tanc
would make their lot easier.
"They say this is just a little
thing, but I think it would nullify
local options."
A bill was introduced by Senator
McCutcheon to put a semi-freeze
on the board of administration’s
fund-freezing activities.
Fund Freezing
It proposes that the board .shall
have the authority to “fraeze” no
more than 50 per cent of any ap
propriation made by the legislature
On certain appropriations now, it
can exercise a complete freeze.
The senators finally reached an
agreement on how much city treas
urers should have to be bonded by
territorial edict. They finally com
promised on a figure of one-fourth ]
the total of the collectable property
tax in the city, but not more than
a bond of $100,COO.
It was a compromise between a
proposal in McCuteheon’s bill to al
low city councils a free hand in
setting the amount of bond and a
committee amendment to make it
at least the amount of cash going
through his hands during a term.
McCutcheon protested that the
latter would still require $6,000,000
bond for the Anchorage treasurer.
He said $12,000,000 is required un
der present law, and said that a
bond of only $200,000 is required for
the territorial treasurer.
Sen. John Butrovich (R-Fair
banks) branded a bond in the mil
lions as “ridiculous,” and very dif
ficult to obtain.
Sen. Howard Lyng (D-Nome)
uggested it be left to the city coun
cils, who were closest to the prob
lem. He said there seemed to be an
increasing attempt by the legisla
ture to keep a hand In local city
affairs, which he said is as unde
sirable as it is to have an increas
ing number of “bureaucrats in
Washington trying to run the ter
ritory.”
The senate heard testimony by
Arthur Rosien, executive secretary
of the League of Alaska Cities, in
support of the modified bonding.
He explained that the league was
supporting it and representatives of
some municipalities not in the
league are also supporting the move.
The towns now in the league are
Anchorage, Kodiak. Cordovia, Sel
dovia and Seward. Rosien explained
that he has been a political science
faculty member at Syracuse Uni
versity while working for a Ph.D.
SANITARIAN JOINS
DEPT. HEALTH STAFF
Larry Ccwper of Santa Cruz, Cal
ifornia has arrived to join the
Sanitation Department of the Al
aska Department of Health. He will
be sanitarian with headquarters in
Juneau. He is a graduate of San
Jc e State College, took post grad
uate w-ork at UCLA and has form
erly been with the San Jose City
Department of Health.
Ccwper is no stranger to Alaska,
having engaged in commercial fish
ing in the Anchorage area last
year. During the war he was with
the Army Medical Corps in the
Pacific theatre of war.
FROM ARKANSAS
Mrs. T. A. Hazard of Little Rock,
Ark., is registered at ‘he Baranof
Hotel.
Dr. Jack Haldeman of /. tchcr
nge is stopping at the Bwranof
Hotel.
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