Senate Passes Fair Employment Act,
Tables Proposed Measure Restricting
Emolovment of University President
By JIM HUTCHESON <
JUNEAU, — Alaska’s Senate
passed a fair employment prac
tices act at the opening of a busy
bill-passing afternoon Wednesday,
then finished the long session by
tabling a measure to put restric
tions on employing a new univer
sity president. The bills held top
interest among the seven approved
measures. Both had been previ
ously approved by the House.
The fair employment act pro
vides $500 fine and/or a year in
jail for racial discrimination in
employment or within the labor
union. It got a unanimous vote.
It goes back to the House, how
ever, because the Senate deleted
from the original Rep. Wendell
U.S. Must Win in Korea
Or Reds Will Get All Asia,
Van Fleet Tells Senators
WASHINGTON, UPt— Gen. James
A. Van Fleet declared Thursday
the United States must win a mil
itary victory in Korea to maintain
the “prestige, honor and influ- |
ence” of this nation in world af- '
fairs.
Van Fleet, the former military
commander in Korea who is re
tiring at the end of the month,
also told the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee, there “has been
a serious shortage of ammunition
ever since I’ve been in Korea—
there have been critical shortages
at times.”
The general Thursday stressed
these points:
1. The International Red Cross
regulations forced the U.S. Army
to give better food, clothing and
shelter to Communist prisoners
of war than are given to South
Korean troops.
2. He ignored Pentagon planners
in building up the South Korean
army to its present strength with
a training program six times the
size that first was authorized.
3. Anything short of all-out mil
itary victory in Korea will “be a
defeat” and mean the eventual
loss of all Asia to the Communists.
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Kay bill a provision for creating
an advisory commission.
The university presidency bill
was aimed by House Republicans
against any possibility of the re
gents naming Governor Gruening
University of Alaska president.
Gruening has said, however, he is
not an applicant for the post.
The motion to table it was made
after it was said the House bill’s
provisions would have barred two
men who were named to big uni
versity presidencies—Eisenhower
and Harold Stassen.
Against School Census
The House also passed several
bills in a shorter afternoon session.
It unanimously approved the
bill by Rep. Dorothy Prior (R
Anchoragel for strict regulation
of employment agencies.
It also voted repeal, of a law
for an annual school census, be
cause schools are growing too fast
for an annual census to keep up,
and approved a bill by Rep. Wil
liam Boardman (R-Ketchikan) for
stiff penalties for tampering with
witnesses or injuring jurors.
Mining Tax Reduction
The Senate completed legisla
tive approval on a bill reducing
the mining taxes which supporters
said was intended to bolster the
sick gold mining industry.
It approved unanimously a bill
to increase mining profits tax ex
emption from $1,000 to $10,000.
The rates were also reduced on
taxable profits. The bracket of
the five percent tax was cut to
three: the 6 cut to 4; the 7 cut to
5, and in the top bracket, for
earnings above $100,000, the tax
was cut from 8 to 7 percent.
ARC Board Increase
The Senate voted 14 to 2 to
revise the Board of Road Com
missioners by adding two mem
bers. The bill, by Sen. William
Egan (D-Valdez), provided one
member should be from the truck
ing industry. Present members
are the governor, treasurer and
highway engineer.
The Senate completed legisla
tive action on Rep. Barbara Dim
ock’s bill allowing cities to im
pound and sell abandoned cars.
Two bills to crack down on way
ward motorists were introduced in
the legislature.
Spiritual Emphasis Week
At Community Church
March 15 Through 22nd
A spiritual emphasis week in
the nature of union evangelistic
services will be held in the Com
munity Methodist Church Sunday,
March 15 through 22.
The visiting speaker will be Mr.
Ronald DuFresne, Methodist < lay
man from Vancouver, Washington.
Mr. Dufresne expects to bring
along with him a tenor soloist and
his wife, who is a harpist and or
ganist. Together, they will pro
vide an unusual musical as well
as a spiritual treat to the people
of this community.
, Services of song, music and
message will be held each evening
at 7:30 o’clock in the Community
Church to which all people are
invited.
In U.S. District Court
Judge J. Earl Cooper rendered
a decision in the case of Bale vs.
Oliver this morning in favor of
the defendant.
A petition to reopen the estate
of Gus Cremidas, deceased, was
granted.
Drunken Driving
Rep. Wendell Kay (D-Anchor
age) sponsored a bill calling for
suspension of a driver’s license
for five years for the second con
viction on drunken driving.
Sen. Dan Lhamon submitted a
bill making it a felony to remove
a car from Alaska without having
clear title or consent.
Other new bills included: by
Rep. Lee McKinley CR-Anchor
age) by request, that no child is
obliged to submit to a physical
exam if objected to on religious
grounds; by the House Mining
Committee against handling over
500 pounds of explosives on the
waterfront without a permit; and
several Senate bills empowering
the territory to get land for roads.
Sen. James Nolan (D-Wrangell)
introduced a memorial, by request,
asking Congress to increase the
income tax exemption in Alaska
to $1,200 for individual and $900
for each dependent because of the
higher living cost recognized by
the government in the 25 percent
salary differential.
“Scientist X” Acquitted
Of Perjury in Congress
Atom Spy Investigation
WASHINGTON, (JB—Dr. Joseph
W. Weinberg was acquitted yes
terday of a charge of perjui^-. He
was accused of lying when he
denied to a congressional commit
tee that he had been a member
of the Communist Party.
U.S. District Judge Alexander
Holtzoff told the jury he did not
agree with the verdict.
The jury deliberated for more
than seven hours.
Weinberg is the “Scientist X”
of a congressional investigation of
atomic spying.
After the verdict Weinberg was
discharged from the bond under
which he has remained at liberty
since his indictment on three
charges of lying before the House
Un-American Activities Commit
tee in May, 1949.
Senate Votes 10-6 to
Repeal Property Tax Law
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against repealing the tax law
while the court case was pending.
Critics of the law threw labels
in profusion at it: nefarious, un
just, hastily drawn, unholy, dis
criminatory, and too costly to col
lect in the vast spaces of the ter
ritory.
Supporters of the present law
called it basically sound taxation
which was accepted in all states
and Hawaii; a fair tax on wealth;
and a law which will help put
land into production because it
will straighten land registrations
and the territory can take over
mining claims to which claimants
are indifferent.
The figures on what the tax
was worth to the territory ranged
from Robinson’s statement that it
would bring only $200,000 during
a biennium and cost $100,000 to
collect to Butrovich’s estimate that
it would bring in $1,000,000 each
bienniuifi.
Robinson, in the longest speech
for repeal, quoted an economics
book on the weaknesses of the
property tax as a revenue raiser
and contended it discriminates
against the man who puts his re
sources where they can be seen,
in a house or in real estate, while
the persons of greatest wealth in
money, stock or bonds escapes the
tax.
He called the Personal Property
Tax a harassing tax which “puts
a tax on honesty” and raises more
resentment than revenue.
Butrovich responded that voters
knew how he stood on the proper
ty tax issue since he voted for it
in 1949 and yet he topped the
Fourth Division ticket in votes.
“People who were against the
property tax ' were also against
the income tax in 1949. If we
hadn’t adopted the income tax I
wonder where we would be now.”
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"The Best In The West"
By the Bucket or by the Tank
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St. Patrick’s Day Party
March 17* Sponsored
By Catholic Ladies
Ever sindte this mining camp
was established, more than 50
years ago, the people of Nome
have celebrated St. Patrick’s Day
each year. These celebrations have
always been well patronized.
This year, the Catholic Ladies
of the parish are sponsoring the
celebration which will take place
on Tuesday, March 17th, at Pio
neer Hall.
The hall will be tastefully dec
orated in keeping with the occa
sion; whist games will he Indulged
in; luncheon served; appropriate
vocal and instrumental selections,
and dancing to the strains of pop
ular Irish music that will induce
even the most sedate to partici
pate.
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