The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 15, 1949, Page 6

— /“ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1949 ENGINEERS IN JUNEAU ON | The five army men, accompanied TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT | by stenographic assistant, Elizabeth g e ‘ Moeller, came in yesterday by Pac- On temporary assignment in Ju- !ific Northern Airlines. With Lt. | neau for approximately a month ! Stafford are Sgts. Noah Roarke, There Juneau Women Enroute to Norway \ure five members of the 111th En- ' Robert Waterhouse, Vernon B. Rust | gineers from Ft. Richardson. Head- and Cpl. Guy Rathburn. Three Juneau women plan to meet | o4 py 1t George Stafford, they will — in New York City for an early April|qsist in classification of engineer-| WASHINGTON — The Supreme sailing, going from the Northland,|ing property at the office of the | Court has agreed to decide whether © on this continent to another one— | resident engineer, Corps of Enxln-idinlng cars on southern railroads Norway. ‘ee;-s‘ U. S. Army. ! diseriminate against negroes. Misses Anna Nielsen and Bernice Floberg, both Juneau-born, were aboard yesterday’'s Pan American PAGE SIX JUNEAU ELECTION POSTPONED 6 MO. 100CTOBER 4,49 Ernest (OMPTROLLER BILL TABLED BY REQUEST with expenditures by {lo the tonding referendum bill, to | provide for an expression from the | voters on the methods they wish, used to pay for the bonds—increased | property tax, increased income tax or sales tax—was voted down. STATEHOOD COMMITTEE CONTROLBILL | FOR p A R T IES The bill to create an Alaska State- HONORED GUEST LIONS BANQUET | | | | ! zather information for an expected ! Constitutional Convention was pass- ed by a 15-1 vote after an attempt |to reduce the appropriation from $80,000 to $40,000 had failed. “Hawaii has had a Statehood Commission for the past two year: With the sig by Gov Gruening, late yesterday afternoon of House Bill No. 51, Juneau's mu- | nicipal elect! postponed for six | months It will be held n i (Continued from Page One) enator Lyng's bill to re-estab- | Octaber | vote. Tuesday | comparison HERMITAGE,, 4, instead of three weeks from to- h liquor enforcement officers un- t P " flight to Seattle, starting their trip. day. April 5 | r the Territorial Treasurer failed With an appropriation of szoo,oou.""“fnf‘fd;’:s:;;‘;";';‘:‘s‘;r'ies he re- |They will meet Miss Floberg's moth- The ms of Mayor Waino E. | .o pass on an 8-8 vote. :Scna(ur Rivers announced. “Mem- de the Banhibis: dve ;.he larg. | T Mrs. Pete (Casey) Hildre, who Hendric and ti outgoing | | Lill to create the Alaska [bers of this body didn't hesitate to Min0°C 2€ : 5 | went outside by boat a week a7 @” ”% /é & Ot 2 3 # » | ask $20,000 for an audit of .| est single source of revenue for tz[a S/ ilmen—W. Burr Jo ‘ Authority to place the|a: ) an audit of the Ter- | , | ritory’s books and I don't think $g0.- | the Territory, but the Territory| The three plan to be at least three in the shipping business, 600 15 out of proportion for this. It spends next to nothing on its fish- | months in . Norway, possibly a ¥ A Blend was indefinitely postponed by a vo | 5 i i i ” eries. There, they will visit Mrs. Hi »f 11-5 despite a strong plea made | Will only be needed once. =5 : y ides tr all oy Behutor Hiveds | “It an 11-member committee costs | Fxshermeqs license fees paid into | srother, who has planned numerous s of munic | “The Territory has no protection | $80,000, what will the Constitutional | !¢ Te"“"rl‘}:" T"{‘;s“éy’m‘v“’setflld‘v motor trips for them. office at the cime rom those who fail to provide sdt- | Convention cost?” Senator Enge-|Will more than offset. the costs o It will be a secc<id visit for Miss | ¢ age of this act shall col Frank V. Birrch, (above) Past |istactory shipping service at pres- | breth wanted to know. | the department during the next two ol 1 ‘ tinue in office until successor are| President of Lions International, |.nt,” Senator Rivers asserted. “This| Senator Rivers said he expects the [ Y°4TS: w°§"“. el duly ‘elected itied folloWing | witl be honored guest at a Juneau | 5ill, allowing the Territory to issue |ccnvention will cost about as much | i Research h";"";"dl e il “FoR municipal election in October. Lions Club banquet tenight at the | f€venue bonds and set up its own |as a 60-day session of the legisla- isheries reses;cd bst :t {h ed- Before going East, Mls§ Nielsen GENERATIONS In order to retain the Ar elec- Gold. B Py ] Lipping, would give us the tools to | ture. | ed, Wiese asserted, bul e en- | planned to join her mother, Mrs A GREAT tion date, it would be necessary to | Gold Room of the Baranof at 8 | ~F0 00 T B L with meces-| “What if statehood isn't granted|ir¢ 8Ppropriation were spent for|Hans Nielsen, in Seattle, and go to . KENTUCKY nance, then take a | ©o'clock. ity bopd FApy ilb" this Congress?” Senator Jones|Chforcement it would still be inade- | Eureka, Calif., to visit another| & TAVORITE" which, according Birch, who is Executive Vice- g1 e <knd quate. sister, Mrs. Cecaries Cress. Mrs. Hendrickson, is almost | President of a national advertising R R NS ORLY ; In answer to a question from|Nielsen will go on to 3an Diego o impo: e to accomplish within the short period. The only Alaska cit- n to have considered such on are rbanks and Nome. ing hcurs for the October 4 election will be from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m., an evening hour being acded | to provisions By ordinance and referen- dum, the term of mayor can be changed from one year to a two- or three-year term. By similar a n, the term of Councilmen can be changed from one year to three years, in which case, rotation would be obtained by electing to Councilmen: each for two- and three-year terms sion also is made that, by fer m, the people may elect a| muy 1 clerk, attorney and treas- urer, offices which are not now | elective. Agcording to Edwin C. Clark, Ju- neau school superintendent, the school election will also ke changed to October 4. One vacancy to be filled on the board cf directors of the Juneau Independent —that | of Mrs. Daniel Livie, secretary. This is for a five-year term. - AL DAND, CANNIRY OPERATOR, WILL RUN HAINES PACKING 0. | Al Dan one of Alasl well- known cannery operators, is back in business in the Juneau a after an absence of 25 years. Dano, who had operated the Tee Packing Company, left this strict in 1924 when the cannery turned down. With the recent purchase by E. M. Brennan of the John Henry and W. H. Harris interests in the Haines Packing Company, Dano is taking over the operation of the Haines cannery for Brennan. After a trip to Haines to check up on arrangements for the opening of the cannery, Dano was a PAA pas- senzer couth today and will return north late in April. Brennan, Henry and Harris had purchased the Haines Cannery from Tim Vogel about 15 years ago and operaticn has been by Harris and\. Henry. iy S e i HOLLOWAY-GUSJAAS CASE GOES TO JURY After arguments this morning in | District Court in the case of Hollo- Gusjaas, the case went to ry of nine men and three wo- 2 o'clock today. Tomorrow" morning at 10 o'clock, the original trial jury panel and those called in last week's special venire will report in District Court. Th whose names were drawn tkan, |APRIL DRAFT (ALL IS G s ; “This bill, while I won't call it a agency ni Milwaukee, Wis., arrived | oncoocie’ partakes of the odor here yesterday from Anchorage. |,f monstrosity,” Senator Lyng On a tour, of Alaskan Lions Clubs, |remarked. He quoted the Democratic | he will kave visited clubs in Fair- |party platform on the of | subject keeping the Territory out of bus. banks, Seward, Anchorage, Juneau, Mt. Edgecumbe and Ketchikan be- | €ss and announced that he will| fore returning to the States. Birch | ‘°1¢ against any Gill that secks to| was also Lions International rep- | Ut the Territory in competition h private business. ! resentative to come to Juneau for the chartering of the club in 1945, UNIOKS - BUYERS SIGN ALL-ALASKA LABOR AGREEMENT Henry A. Benson, Territorial Com- ‘This bill exceeds anything in my | experience,” Senator Coll'ns said. | | “T never saw a bill that such a| | maze as this one. We are clear oft | | the beam. We are travelinz without |a compass and the end of the trail | we would follow in this bill is some- | where in Russia.” Bills that did not come up for a {inal vote last night included the lollowing: | Senator Collins' bill relating to| unfair methods of ccmpetition and missioner of Labor, revealed | yeair practices in the insurance that an All-2 ka Agreement was reached last week between represen- g tatives of Cold Storage Plants, Fi: Exchanges and Buyers in the Ter tory and the I. L. W. U. Marine Warehousemen's Union Locals of Juneau, Cordova, Sitka, Pelican, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ketchi- Senator Huntley's bill to provide indemnity for accidents and dam- age cdue to drinking. A bill to amend the Workmen's Compensation Act and two Health Department bills, one of them rev ing the laws relating to that de- partment and the other setting up 2 pure food and drug law for the Ter- Benson stated that Commissioner 3 union represen- th employ v ritory. atives have ressed satisfaction — & N Two referendum bills were also| ver the signing of the first All- | i . : assed when they failed to ad-| Alaska Agreement for this type of v | P oy | vance under suspension of the rules. ndusf which - they Belleva) wili | FOCC HECER TREAOERE B R tabilize economic conditions and ¥ on the matter of bonding the Ter- rifory; S.B. 78 provides for a refer- | _|endum on the question of placing | the Territory in the whslesale li- | quor business. | An amendment by Senator Munz! result in improved employer-em- ployee relations. The agreement provides a gr ance procedure for adjusting dis-| putes and names Senator Walter | Huntley as the impartial arbitrator. | The negotiations preliminary to| Agreement commenced Feb- 8, at Ketchikan, were ad-| journed to and continued at Ju-| neau February 12 to March 4, when | a stalemate was reached and, at| the request of both employers and | the union, the mediation facilities | of the Department of Labor were ex- | tended and agrecment was finally | reached on March 9. Participating in the negotiations, employer representatives were W lis 2. George, Elton E. Engstrom, Donald Milnes and O. R. Ruthe ford; with Don Baker, Arthur Olin, Roscoe Max, Glynn Freeland and Verne Albright representing the I.| L. W. U. Locals, and Raymond G. ch, mediater from the ‘tor- | 2l Department of Labor. - -+ CANCELLED BY §. §. Selective Service call for April has been cancelled, John L. McCor- mick, Territorial Director of Se-| lective Service said today Cancellation of the April call for | men for the Armed Forces follows | stoppage of induction during both February and March. Previously an- nounced filling of Armed Forces yvesterday will not report until Fri- day. They're trim and neat on youngsters’ feet Long wearing mercerized DURENE* 70-gauge SOLD AT Nanece 3-1$-25 Store quctas is continued cause for re- | duction in draft calls under com pulsory military training “The commiue: will continue un-| til statehood is achieved,” Senator | Rivers inform® him. | OTHER BILLS PASSED | Cther bills passed by the Senate yesterday afternoon and last night included: £.B. 79, amending and tightening the law relating to the registration of engineers and architects, by 2 vote of 16-0. “The Board of Engineers and Ar- chitects, which has teen in exis- tence for 10 years, has never had an appropriation. It is entirely self supporting,” Senator Rivers, a mem- ber of the board, told the Senators. £.B. 67, to compensate Miss Min- nie Field of the Minfield Home for the care of certain indigent chil- dren. S.B. 73, to appropriate $40,000 to et up a vocational activities pro- gram for residents of the Alaska Pioneers’ Home. ‘ B. 76, to ccmpensate Alaska hos- for the care of certain indi- s; S.B. 55, for the regulation of S.B. 72, making an ap- propriation of $7,500 to complete the Prospector Memorial Statue which is to stand in front of the wcers’ Home; S.B. 29, to trans- fer the handling of vital statistics records from the Auditor’s Office to the Department of Health; SBas6l, to control water pollution, and S.B. 30, an aeronautics bill to allow the Territory to participate in Federal airport construction funds. - FROM HAINES Mrs. Alton Nelson arrived by Al- aska Coastal from Haines yesterday and is registered at the Gastineau. | Territorial department does not pre- Senator Barr on the functions of the proposed fisheries department before statehood is achieved. Wiese said that it is important to get it organized and that it could partici- pate with the Fish and Wildlife Service in drawing up regulations, in enforcement and research. The Territorial department would not come in conflict with the White Act—the Federal Act regulating the salmon fisheries—so long as the| sume to extend its authority be- yond that of the Fish and Wild- iife gervice, Wiese said. He admitted that until statehood s achieved the Territorial depart- | ment will probably be somewhat | restricted in its activities, but felt that the department would get a hearing from the FWS in the mat- ter of promulgating regulations. The Senate recessed at noon untii 3 p. m, the later hour being sef | o allow members to attend the funeral services for Mrs. G. E.| Almquist, wife of Rep. G. E. Alm- quist. 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