Fills Introduced
JUNEAU UP) — An additional
tax of one quarter of a mill on
each cigarette is asked in a bill
which was introduced in the Sen
ate by Sens. Paul Greinmann, Sr.
and B. J. Logan.
A bill which would remove the
limit on salaries which could be
paid to District Magistrates was
introduced in the House by the
Judiciary Committee.
The measure would eliminate
the $10,000 ceiling of Magistrate’s
salaries which is contained in the
present law. District Magistrates’
salaries are set by the Supreme
Court.
The state would be required to
make all of its purchases from
resident businesses, with certain
exceptions, under the terms of a
bill introduced by Rep. Bennie
Leonard.
The state could make outside
purchases only if it could not
make the desired purchase in
Alaska, if the business would
charge the state more than it
would charge a private person for
identical purchases or if the Alas
ka business set its price more
than 10 per cent higher than a
non-resident business.
A bill which would make Paci
fic Standard Time the uniform
time throughout Alaska was in
troduced in the House by Rep.
Bennie Leonard.
LEO SEIDENVERG
LEAVES $484,004 ESTATE
SEATTLE Gfl — Leo Seiden
verg, whose trading posts along
the Siberian Coast were confis
cated by the Russian government
in 1922, left his share of a $484,
004 estate in trust for his widow,
Ethel, and their family, probate
proceedings disclosed.
He died last Nov. 15. Born in
Russia he came to the United
States in 1900 and operated a
general store at Nome.
In 1917 he set up trading posts
in the Siberian Arctic. Later he
had a clothing store in Anchor
age until he retired 15 years
ago and came to Seattle.
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I Justice Department Asks
Congress for Stepped-Up
War on Organized Crime
WASHINGTON Wi — The Jus
tice Department asked Congress
yesterday for a stepped-up war
on organized crime and racketeer
ing.
It requested $135,000 to hire
additional lawyers and other em
ployes for the Criminal Division
during the remainder of the fiscal
year ending June 30.
“This is so we can get going
immediately” on Kennedy’s plans
for beefing up the Criminal Di
vision. S. A. Andretta, adminis
trative assistant to the Attorney
General, told the Senate Appro
priations Committee.
Andretta said the money would
permit hiring 20 more attorneys
plus 10 secretaries, 5 clerks and
2 messengers.
To make the jobs permanent,
$540,000 has been requested for
the new fiscal year starting July
1.
Source of Information
Woud be Confidential
To Newsmen
JUNEAU (ff) — Legislation
which would permit newsmen to
keep the source of their informa
tion confidential was introduced
in the Senate yesterday.
The proposed statute provides:
“A publisher, editor, reporter,
or other persons connected with
or employed by a newspaper,
magazine, radio station, or tele
vision station cannot be adjudged
in contempt by a court, the Legis
lature, for any information pro
cured for publication and pub
lished in a newspaper, magazine
or broadcast over a radio or tele
cast over a television station.”
The measure was introduced
by Sens. A1 Owen, George Mc
Nabb, John Coghill, Elton Eng
strom and Eben Hopson.
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Bill to Move
Highway Office
Tabled by Senate
JUNEAU. —The Senate yes
terday, during an afternoon of
fast action, passed a bill which
would require that genuine and
I authentic native arts and crafts
be labeled as such and tabled a
bill calling for relocation of the
headquarters of the State High
way Division in westward Alaska.
The native arts bill is designed
to protect the arts and crafts of
Alaska natives from competition
by mass-produced imitations.
The highways division proposal
brought the sharpest floor fight
of the day before the Senate laid
the bill on the table. Sen. George
McNabb gave notice before ad
journment, however, that he
would ask for reconsideration.
The bill as offered would have
moved the Highways Division
to a place north and west of
Yakutat.
The Senate adopted an amend
ment by McNabb asking that the
Highways Division headquarters
be relocated in the Fairbanks
area.
With a thinly-veiled hint to the
members of the Senate from
southeastern Alaska, McNabb told
the upper chamber:
“Fairbanks is the hub of the
state’s road system, just at south
east Alaska should be the center
of the ferry system.
“I would like to remind the
people of the southeast that they
are going to have to have the sup
port of the ‘ice bloc’ in getting a
ferry system.”
Sen. Pollock of Anchorage said
“The people who are living with
this should be the ones to decide
where the headquarters should be
located. Fairbanks may be the
proper place, I don’t know, but
we should let the people involved
decide.”
At this point, Mcnabb took the
floor and said:
“This is the first time during
this session that the good senators
Brad Phillips and Pollock have
agreed to leave anything to the
discretion of the administration.”
Pollock jumped to his feet.
“A point of order, Mr. Presi
dnet. That is not true. He is
singling us out and I resent it.
He should stop it.”
Then, turning to McNabb,
whose seat is directly behind
Pollock’s, Pollock pointed his fin
ger at McNabb and said:
“I’m warning you, stop it.”
The Senate, then, in rapid-fire
order, defeated an amendment to
give Anchorage consideration as
the place for the new headquar
ters of the Highways Division; de
feated a motion to table the bill;
turned down a motion to advance
it to final passage; approved an
amendment by Sen. Metcalf of
Seward which knocked out Mc
Nabb’s amendment; and tabled
the bill, 11-9.
In 20 years the price of food has
gone up 151 per cent, clothing 106
per cent — and the cost of a
man’s haircut 218 per cent.
INVITATION TO BID
Sealed bids, in writing, will be
accepted at the Office of the City
Clerk of the City of Nome until
5 p.m. March 13, 1961 for the pur
chase from the City of Nome of
the following real and personal
property:
2 Wood frame houses
1 Quonset type house
Along with contents therein.
Buildings are located on Lot 8
Block 64 and must be removed
within 90 days of bid acceptance.
Bids may be for one or all
of the three items together. All
bids must be accompanied by
cash or check in amount of bid.
City reserves the right to refuse
and reject any and all bids.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By Robert F. Scott.
City Clerk
Pub. March 6, 8, 10, 13, 1961.
Watered Down Version
Of Wage Pronosal Okayed
By Labor Committee
WASHINGTON UP)—-The House
Labor Committee yesterday ap
proved a sightly watered down
version of the administration’s
minimum wage proposal.
A full week has been set aside
in the House beginning March 20
for consideration of the highly
controversial measure. A month
of struggle was required to get
it through committee.
The bill that finally emerged
would raise the present $l-an- j
hour minimum to $1.15. Two years
later it would automatically go
to $1.25 unless the next Congress
acted to prevent it.
The administration had pro
posed an intermediate step from
$1.15 to $1.20 before the $1.25 was
reached.
The bill would also extend
j coverage to 4,311,000 workers now
| exempt from minimum wage leg
! islation, most of them in large
retail and service firms. This is
almost exactly what the admin
istration requested.
In its final session on the bill
the committee removed 400,000
hotel, motel and restaurant work
ers from the section extending
coverage. They had been put in
by the committee Tuesday.
IT DON'T SOUND NICE . . .
LOUISVILLE, Ky. UP) — It
isn’t that the ladies of a sewing
circle here can’t spell, but they
do call themselves “The Sowers.”
Mrs. A. R. Kasey, president of
the group, explains: “There is
another word spelled s-e-w-e-r-s,
and if you pronounce it that way,
it doesn’t sound nice.”
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JFK’s Daughter Greets
The Man Who Used to
“Live In Our House”
WASHINGTON UP) — A for
mer tenant of the White House
was greeted by one of the new
occupants as a man who “used
to live in our house.”
The visitor was former Presi
dent Harry S. Truman. He was
welcomed by President Kennedy’^
daughter, Caroline, 3.
Truman is in town for a dinner
marking the 20th anniversary of
the founding of the Truman In
vestigating Committee — a Con
gressional unit he headed as a
senator from Missouri. Truman
told newsmen after a 25-minute
chat with Kennedy that the
President plans to attend the din
ner.
Caroline, blonde and cute in
royal blue overalls and white
pullover sweater, was on hand
in her father’s office.
Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, Tru
man’s former military aide, was
along. He told newsmen that Ken
nedy had to prod Caroline a bit
to recall a greeting that obvious
ly had been rehearsed.
“What did I tell you to tell
him?” The President asked the
youngster with a nod toward Tru
man.
“Oh, yes,” Caroline bubbled.
“You used to live in our house.”
GEOGRAPHIC BOARD
APPROVED BY HOUSE
JUNEAU (JP> — A bill establish
ing a State Georgraphic Board
within the office of the governor
was approved by the House yes
terday.
The board would be empowered
to give names to lakes, streams
and other geographic features of
the state and to cooperate with
local subdivisions of the state
i in efforts to eliminate duplication
S of names.
The bill was introduced by
Reps. Grant Pearson, John Hellen
| thal and Harold Strandberg.
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