House Territories Subcommittee
Okays Bill To Make Alaska a State
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, U?i—The House
Territories subcommittee Thurs
day approved 17-5, a bill to make
Alaska a state.
It acted after accepting, 11-9,
an amendment by Rep. Pillion
<R-NY> to require that Alaskans
hold a general election on the
question “shall Alaska be admit
ted into the Union as a state?”
The election would be held be
fore machinery would be set up
by the bill to bring about state
hood is put into effect.
Chairman O’Brien (D-NY) and
Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) said
because of the closeness of the
vote the referendum provision
probably would be challenged
when the bill comes before the
House Insular Affairs Committee.
Under Pillion’s amendment, the
statehood referendum would be
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Contracts Invited For
Tacan Facilities
At Kotzebue
ANCHORAGE — The Alaska
District Corps of Engineers in
vites contractors to submit com
petitive bids on construction
work of Tacan facilties at Kotze
bue Air Force Station and instal
lation of one generator at Kotze
bue Air Force Station.
Bids will be opened at 2 p.m.
on June 13 at the Anchorage of
fice of the Alaska District.
The Tacan facilities will con
sist of: Navaid Building of frame
construction with asbestos-ce
ment shingles and concrete floor
slab, interior electrical and mech
anical, outside electrical distribu
tion, fuel oil storage and piping,
access road and area grading and
mast piers and anchors. Building
and other structures will be
placed on steel piles.
Installation of a generator at
Kotzebue consists of: Transport
ing and installing one govern
ment-furnished 100 KW diesel
engine-generator set, with radia
tor and switch gear cabinets.
Completion date for all work is
October 31, 1957.
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j called by the governor. He would
certify the results to the Presi
dent. If the President finds a
majority of legal votes cast were
affirmative he would notify the
Alaska governor who then would
schedule remaining statehood
machinery.
The subcommittee adopted an
administration proposal giving
the President authority to set up
whatever military reservations he
deems necessary in less populated
areas of Alaska.
A proposal by O’Brien to in
crease House membership per
manently from 435 to 436 mem
bers was- withdrawn.
Neither the subcommittee nor
the parent Insular Affairs Com
mittee—despite scattered opposi
tion—has never rejected a bill for
admission of Alaska or Hawaiii.
But neither territory has ever
gathered the mommentum to roll
through Congress.
MrUor provisions of the Alaskan
bill as it came before the sub
committee would:
1. Grant statehood to all the
present territory of Alaska.
2. Adopt the proposed state
constitution voted by Alaskans
last year.
3. Grant the new state the right
to select 182,800,000 acres of
otherwise unreserved public lands
in Alaska.
4. Give Alaska 70 per cent of
the net proceeds from the Pribilof
Island seal fishery.
5. Retain control in the federal
government for five years after
Alaska’s admission as a state of
the area’s fish and wildlife re
sources.
Deleted from the bill as origin
ally introduced are provisions
which would have given the new
state 78 million dollars for road
construction, operation and main
tenance, and 15 million dollars
for land surveys.
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Postal Hikes Will j
Raise Rates Penny
WASHINGTON, UP—1The House
Post Office Committee Thursday
approved the administration’s bill
to increase postal rates by 462
million dollars in 1958, effective
July 1.
Chairman Murray <D - Tenn)
said the action was by a “decisive
majority.”
The bill carries penny increases
on first class mail. This would
raise the cost of a regular mail
letter to 4 cents and an air mail
letter to 7 cents.
It also calls for increases in
second class and third class rates.
Second class rates apply to news
papers and magazines, and third
class rates to catalogs and adver
tising matter.
Post Office Department offi
cials have estimated the added
annual revenue from all increases
will reach $527,500,000 by 1961.
Murray announced that at its
next regular meeting June 6 the
committee will discuss the ques
tion of considering increases in
pay for federal workers, includ
ing the postal employes.
President Eisenhower asked for
postal rate increases, saying post
al revenues should be brought
more in line with what it costs
to run the Post Office Depart
ment. The deficit for 1958 has
been estimated at about 650 mil
lion dollars.
Sixth Child—A Girl Born
To The Charlie Chaplins
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (J'—
A six-pound baby girl was born
to Mrs. Onna O’Neill Chaplin
here Thursday. The father, 68- i
year-old comedian Charlie Chap
lin, announced the news. He said ;
the baby, the couple’s sixth, will
be named Jane. Mother, 32, and
child are doing well.
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