The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 27, 1951, Page 2

PAGE TWO QUALIFICATIONS 10 VOTE ON SCHOOL BONDS CLARIFIED Next Monday, April 30, is the date of the school bond election to determine the will of the voters in floating an additional $200,000 bond to construct a wing on the new school at 12th and Glacier Way, to contain a cafeteria, nurse's room, of- fice, vault for storage of school rec- ords and rifle range. This wing was in the original plans of the new school but was eliminated due to lack of funds. Territorial law requires - that in voting for a bond election the voter’s name must be on the last assess- ment roll. If a voter is in doubt as to whether or not his name is on the roll, he should check with the city clerk — if he pays his taxes in the city — or with Robert Drux- man at his office, if taxes are paid outside the city of Juneau. In either case, it was pointed out, whether the voter’s name is on the assess- ment roll of the city or that of the Independent School District, he can vote at the city polling place at the Alaska Blectric Light and Power | Co. However, if taxes are paid only in the city, then the voter must vote in the city. In the Territory there is no com- mon property law, therefore, in the case of a husband and wife, the wife's name must appear on the tax roll, as joint owner of property, in order to be eligible to vote. Or the wife can pay a tax on a radio, fur coat or some other article of personal property to get her name on the assessment roll and become eligible. It is expected the increase in the tobacco tax, passed by the last Leg- islature, will provide sufficient in- come for retiring the bonds making any additional tax assessment to property owners unnecessary. Last year income from the tobacco tax was around $35,000. Income this year will be about $41,000 and next year's, when the effect of the newly added tax will be felt, the income should be in the neighborhood of $60,000, it was said. This amount, school au- thorities pointed out, will be more than ample to retire the bonds. However, it was estimated, discount- ing the tobacco tax, the additional $200,000 bond issue would not in crease property tax rates more than ! one-half mill in any event. School authorities feel that' it would be cheaper to build the cafe- teria addition while school construc- tion is underway rather than add it | at a later date. EVERETT PAUP DIES, SEATTLE SEATTLE, April 27 —@® — Alas- | kans, former Alaskans, can.ierymen | and other Alaska industry repre- | sentatives today mourned the pass- | ing of George Everett Paup. | Hundreds of friends and former ! business associates attended the | Rose Croix funeral services Wed- nesday. Paup, who died Sunday in a hos- 1 pital, was one of the pioneers in developing the floating and driven type fish trap in Alaska. I'2 first went north from Seattle as a young man during the gold rush in '98 He planned to make his fortune and return to Seattle in a year, or s0, but he remained in Alaska un- til 1942. 2 He retired from active business in 1948. He turned from mining, to the salmon canning indastry. Among industry officials'who at- tended the funeral of Mr. Paup was Nick Bez, San Juan Fishinz and | Packing Co. Bez said of Mr. Paup: |“He contributed much to the de- velopment of Alaska. He was one of the real pioneers in the Alaska salmon canning industry.” SPOONING IN DARK GIVEN CITY'S 0. K CROYDON, England —(®—Mem- bers were of two minds when the Croydon Council debated whether to put more light on side streets. Mrs. Ethel Cook said, “If we don’t improve our street lighting, we are going to have an influx of young lovers from other adjoining areas which are well lit.” But A. L. Boddington said, “Some of us in our younger days liked shady spots.” The council voted against more lights. [ Legionof the Moose MEETS TONIGHT at'7:00 o’clock For Supper in the Moose Hall Forty-first in a Series The Alaska statehood bill passed by the House of Representatives last year started out with this lan- guage: «Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Con- gress assembled, That all that part of the United States now embraced within the Territory of Alaska, in- cluding a distace of one marine league from the line of coast, shall become the State of Alaska as hereinafter provided, but not be- yond the international boundary of the United States.” In /this year's Alaska statehood bill—S. 50—the opening language has been changed to the following: “Be it enacted, etc., That the in- Habitants of all that part of the United States now constituting the Territory of Alaska, as at present described, may become the State of Alaska, as hereinafter provided.” Of particular interest is the fact | that the old bill would have given to the- State of Alaska “‘a distance | >t one marine league from the line of coast.” A marine league is three nautical miles, or 18,240.81 feet. The present bill, on the other 1and, ignores the matter of tide- lands and coastal waters. There is no mention of them in the portion quoted above, and there is no men- on of them elsewhere in the bill. The leading paragraph of the new bill says “that portion of the Jnited States now constituting the Territory of Alaska, as at present lescribed” may become a state. What description does this refer :0? The description in the treaty >f purchase, concluded with Russia | n 18677 In the treaty the boundary setween -Alaska and Canada is de- scribed and set. The boundary be-| :ween Russia and Alaska in Bering| Sea is also set. But ii makes no nention whatever of the remainder of the Alaska seacoast. Alaskans who live along the oast are well aware that the Ter-| itory does not have control over he tidelands or the coastal waters.; If you want to build a dock or| sther structure on the tidelands,| /ou have to get a permit from the War Department. And all you get' s & use permit. You cannot get, citle to the tidelands your dock oc- supies. Here again I believe the state-| 100d bill should spell out, in clear' exactly; would I ind simple language, vhat jurisdiction Alaska lave as a state. Alaskans, and partlcular(y chose’ Alaskans who make their liveli- 100d from fishinhg, are interested in “aving the niew state get control )f tidelands and the coastal area.| ‘n fact, I am not sure but that his is the fisherman’s main inter- st in getting As this column previously pointed statehood. ; THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA popularity contest in Alaska this week is Rep. F. Jensen of Iowa. He criticied the exterior finish on the Governor’'s Mansion and recom- mended that the capital be moved |’ from Juneau to Fairbanks. And on top of that, he is finding fault with the trucking firms that com- pete with the government-owned Alaska Railroad. Rep. Jensen may not know i, but Alaskans are not likely to for get that it was the truckers, not the railroad, freight charges to the Interior. A woman who was probably Al- aska’s oldest resident died’at Ju-|,. neau recently. She was- “Aunt Sal- ly” Fox and was believed to have been about 115 years old. ' 1f the vital statistics are correct, she was born at Taku Harbor, a few miles south of Juneau, about 1836. That was 4 long, long time ago. It was the year the first steamboat came to this coast and a year be- fore Taku Harbor and the rest of the mainland of what is now Eoutheast Alaska went under the British flag. In 1836 Nicholas I was Czar of Russia and Ivan Antonovich Kup- reanof was governor of Alaska. An- drew Jackson was President of the United States and there were 24 states in the Union. Arkansas was admitted that same year to make the 25th. Abe Lincoln, in 1836, was a clerk and surveyer in Coles Coun- ty, Illinois, and had served a term in the state legislature. And Alaska? There wasn't any such place, officially, in 1836. There was just Russian America where Alaska now is. BULLETIN GIVES 10 REGULATIONS ON WAGE CONTROL The Wage Stabilization Admin- istrator has just issued a bulletin covering the most significant in- terpretations of Wage Stabilization Regulations issued since March 1, 1951. The bulletin is designed for general information only and the statements contained in it may be used as general guides drawn from specific cases. Employers and un- ions should be warned that state- ments in this bulletin do not con- stitute legal rulings applicable to all cases, Leonard E. Evans, Ter- ritorial Representative of the U. S. Department of Labor, anounced to- day. Copies of the interpretative bul- letin, Wage Stabilization Regula- tions, and forms are available in his office at 201 Federal Building Juneau, Alaska. They will be for- warded on request. that brought down|, NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF DOUGLAS The Juneau & Douglas Telephone Co. has begun to make the cut-over to the new dial system in Douglas. Subscribers who will be away from home any day this week please make arrangements with the Douglas operator for the installers to have access to their houses to change telephones. Instructions Please limit your calls to 5 minutes and do not make unnecessary calls until the cut-over is completed, as this will slow up the installation of the new tele- phones. To make a call, remove handset and listen for dial tone, a continuous buzz. If busy tone (interrupted i)uzz) or conversation is heard, hang up and try again ater. To dial, place your finger in the hole over the first digit of the number, pull dial to right until the stdp is reached, remove finger and allow dial to return by itself. Repeat this operation with the remaining digits in the number. Do not force the dial to return to normal, allow it to rotate back under its own power. If the called line is busy, busy tone will be heard. Hang up and try again later. When making more than one call hang up the hand- set between calls to release the equipment. To call a subscriber on the same party line, use the directory number. If the first three digits in his number are the same as the first three in your num- ber he is on the same line. Dial his number as above, hang up until his telephone has had time to ring, then remove your handset to carry on the conversation. To reach Juneau operator, dial “O”. Juneau sub- scribers calling Douglas, please use prefix Douglas and then give proper number. 5 Juneaun -.Douglais Telephone Company New numbers assigned to subscribers will be ad- vertised daily in The Daily: Alaska Empire. sut, the present statehood bill does] 10 Regulations 0t specifically grant control of]| To date the Wage Stabilization he fisheries to the State of Alaska.| Board has promulgated ten regu- dnly by getting control of the tide-{ lations. The following is a list of ands and coastal waters could the|the regulations by number and State of Alaska be assured of con-|subject matter: :rolling its fisheries. 1. Frozen wages as of January The Senate Committee recentlyy25, 1951. roted 7-6 to report the statehood| 2. Authorized increases deter- il without further hearings. Per-|mined and communicated to em- 1aps the House Committee will be| ployees before January 25, 1951, more liberal in giving Alaskans an|provided that the increases applied Jpportunity to be heard on just|to work performed before Febru- what they want their statehood bill|ary 9, 1951. ‘0 contain. 3. Authorized increases necessary to comply with federal, state, and territorial laws. 4. Authorized increases to state, INCIDENTALS .~ | county, municipal, | mployees. 5. Merit and length of service in- creases and rate ranges. 6. Authorized increases up to 10 per cent above wage paid January 15, 1950, without Board approval. 7. Authorized increases without Board approval to employees of charitable, religious, and education- 1 institutions. 8. Cost-of-living escalator clauscs collective bargaining agrecments. 9, New plants. 10. Tandem wage increases. GWR 5, 6, 10 Important After the first flurry of activity from January 25, 1951 to late in February, the requests for wage in Alaska seem to fall y generally within the scope { General Wage Regulations Nos. 5 6, and 10. GWR No. 5 on ad- ijustments to individual employees ns merit and length of ser- || vice increases, promotions and nsfers, néw or changed job du- the hiring of new employees, tions in earnings because normal operation of previous- existing incentive rates, piece :5, shift differentials, commis- s, overtime, and penalty wage and similar pay practices. Cateh-Up Formula and territorial of No. 6 was the catch-up formula which authorized general increases in wages and salaries up to 10 per cent above the wage scale actually paid on January 15, 1950. Unions and employers should be reminded that although wage stabilization went into effect January 25, 1951, any increases given between Jan- uary 15, 1950 and January 25, 1951 must be considered in computing the allowable 10 per cent. Increases given in accordance with the terms in Nos. 5 and 6 do not require prior approval of the Wage Sta- bilization Board; Jowever, increas- es given under the terms of No. 6 must be reported on Form WS-6a within ten days of the effective date of the raise. ments requires Board approval be- fore such adjustments may be put into effect. This general regulation is designed to permit employers who have a long-established prac- tice of following the same wage scale as that set by other employ- ers or negotiated between manage- ment and labor in an industry to continue this practice. Proof Must Me Shown Preof of this ship may be submitted to the Ex- ecutive Director of the Wage Sta- bilization Board. Increases given under this regulation may not be put into eifect until notification has been received from the Exec- utive Director that the proof is adequate, The above information concerns requests for increases but occas- ionally questions arise concerning the legality of present wage scales. Briefly, the rules are these: (1) Any wage scale paid on or before Jan- uary 25, 1951, may be continued; (2) No regulation of the Wage Stabilization Board requires an em- pldyee to receive less than he was paid between May 24 and June 24, 1950 for the same work. Questions, requests for form: and copies of the regulations should be addressed to Leonard E. Evans,Territorial Representative, U. 8. Department of Labor, P. O. Box 1030, Juneau. WANTS PUBLICITY IN JUVENILE CRIME SWANSEA, Wales—(P—Swansea's :hief police officer recommended a new approach to juvenile delin- quency: let newspapers print the names of children in court' cases. “It is a well known fact,” chief} constable D. V. Turner said in his annual report, “that offenders, whether adolescents or adults, are usually more perturbed about pub- licity in the press than about the penalties inflicted in court.” Present laws ban the publication of names and addresses of children dealt with by juvenile panels. The man Jleast llkey to win a —H— h 3 % ! you b it wher -y sn Ameticar is your best way to t drotind Alaska. The big four-engine pers® fly every day of the week Fairbanks, Juneau and Ketchi- B Seattle. Two Clipper flights p And when Whitehorse and Nome. you fly Pan American, BARANQF HOTEL whether it be Inside Alaska or Out. side, you have no travel worries. Pan ¥ American handles all arrangements , through to your final destination... your reservations, sees to your tickets. It’s the convenient, carefree way to travel. Just call... Phone 106 *vede Marh, Fan American World Atrweys, ma AHERICAN ‘WORLD AIRWAYS No. 10 on tandem wage adjust-: tandem relation- Happenings At Haines (Special Correspondence) HAINES, Alaska, April 21 — The Princeton-Hall arriv from the trip to Presbytery Friday at 1 am. The trip according t gers was a pretty o all survived. As they KRlawock one of the went aground on Princeton-Hall retur to puil the boat & The SPS and an | Kake did the re: {boat was from Kake and the pas- sen had been taken off and put on land in the rain and wind. However, the dele arrived heme without any further excite- ment. Reports from Presbyterial and Presbytery were given by deleg@tes to the sessions Sunday morning in church. = Many interesting thin were told to the Con One of the most interesting the building of a new cotta the Mission Grounds for ! children. The cottage is to contain a rcom which is to be a Memorial to women who have died. TF Memorial is to be given by differ- ent Missionary . Societies over the United States. The Volunteer Fire spent Sunday fixing up the Fire Truck and testing the hose and new tank. The new tank holds 300 gallons and has been attached to the truck. = Fighters The Choral Choir from SJS of Sitka was in Haines Fri P.-T.A. and the Missionarn were the hosts and Caroline Williard ¢ tained with a dinner for the in the church. After the concert the P.-T.A. held a reception the choir. spent ekend in Hai Besides holdi c he had a conference with Health Council. He will make a trip to Haines once a month and and make the t the Public H The funeral of Geor who died in Juneau on 2 held in the P Friday afterncon bearers were Dick Nelson, Ted Gr bert. The choir Arms of Jesus.” Andrew Wanna- Kmakcr. Layworker of Kluckwan, |and Robert Williams, student sup- ply minister of tk in charge of the service. Kasko | had been Elder in the church here s‘.fm' 10 years having been reelected church Pall- , Alt ns He Safe in the in[ the last Congregational meet-' iing in January. He was born in ¥ ‘lhc vicinity of Haines and wa | eraduate of Sheldon J&8%kson Sch |at Sitka when the school wa | known the Sitka Training chool. as | Spring has come to Haines. There is painting and cleaning of yards nd the flowers have begun to give little hope. Spring brought the birds and flowers but also brought the good news that ewer were not only a hoped for possibility but to be a reality. The Mayor is carrying around the mes- sage that she received Saturday that $269,000 has been approved for Haines. She is afraid that nc one would believe her—we had been going on hope and rumor for so long. Jerry Strong has taken over the job of being City Policeman. The regular meeting of the P.- T.A. will ke held April 26 in the school. Plans for the school pichic and other matters of business will | | .| The House h church were not only | our Community water project and| . All members requested to and take par be taken up. friends are that eveni HUGE SUM VOTED FOR and reserve in the WASHINGTON, April < passed 06.00 nse appropriatic United States to wage an major powe prepared war is all not now th all-out shooti major p for an against an- cher AREHOUSEMEN ; REFUSE EMPLOYER WAGE RAISE OFFER the IL , unless a se reachod with emp! urther ' policy laid De- | the Depar to undercut by the Small Bu: The comix tricting routes ‘death edic Heacock said that despite assur- ances from the I nse Department y travel of per- sonnel in plane-load lots has been (ransported by domestic non-sched- uled carriers on domestic routes.” OPTICAL Mr. and Mrs. Zeatle are registered at the Bar- f Hotel. Mullins with the ican Optical Co. IFIRE WANT ADS PA Make your floors shine this easy way! use GLO-COAT-it stays bright up to 4 times longer! 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RTER NIGHT Lions Club and the Club and guests will join in a big event tomorrow ev: The event is heduled for 7 o'clock in the Douglas School Gym- na with a Smorgasbord “ala- Mikes Place” the menu for the enin banquet. t Governor elect Al Law- umbe, and Mrs. gnified their in- present, and Mr, present the Charter s Lions President, Edwin s Place, who will cater for banquet, has accepted reser- i or 150. Those who have 10t yet made their reservations or io not have tickets, should con- :act Thomas Cashen, who is Char- er Night Chairman, or Carl Rush- in Junea in fown or in the “Sticks" CALL Glacier Cab JOHNSON’S GLO-COAT PV WORLD'S MOST EXPERIENCED AIRLINE