‘Middle - Ground Policy’ Suggested By
Bartlett for Alaska’s Fed. Roads Plan
JUNEAU, UPt — Alaska’s goal as
to federal highway funds .should
be a federal aid formula providing
about 25 million dollars a year,
Senator Bob Bartlett believes.
Bartlett, addressing a joint
House-Senate session late Wednes
day, suggested a middle ground
policy would be advisable in deal
ing with the government on the
problem. The policy had been ap
proved earlier in conferences with
acting Governor Hugh Wade and
other state officials.
A bill expected to reach Con
gress next month will place Alas
ka under the Federal Highway
Program in the same way as other
states, he said.
Thus Alaska’s share of federal
highway funds will be higher
than previously, but the matching
costs which the new state must
meet will also be increased. But
he feels it would not be improper
for Alaska to expect some special
treatment the next few years, dur
ing its transition period.
Bartlett explained the 25 mil
lion dollar goal this way:
Only one-third of Alaska’s total
land area is now figured in allo
cating federal highway funds to
the state. That means about 18
million dollars annually.
The use of Alaska’s total land
area as a basis would provide 36
million dollars a year. His “middle
ground” position would be only
two-thirds of the land area, which
would mean about 24 million dol
lars annually.
Bartlett said he thought there
were two good arguments for his
position and he believes other
states would accept them when
it comes to granting special favors
to Alaska.
First, if Alaska should take its
full share, other states would have
reduced federal highway contri
butions. Hence as a practical mat
ter, other states would prefer Alas
ka’s taking less than the full
amount.
Second, Alaska does not now
par'ic'pate in the Federal Defense
Highway Program, which is a 90
10 matching program for super
highways. But Alaska taxes help
pay for that program in other
states. So it will be only fair, he
continued, for the other states to
recognize this and help Alaska in
another way.
Bartlett, who will return to
Washington this weekend, also re
peated his previous statements
that Alaska should build its own
mental health hospital without
delay.
There must be “some error,”
he said, in a Legislative Audit
Committee’s estimate that the
cost of patient care in Alaska
would be 3Vt times greater than
that now paid at Momingside
Hospital.
Earlier Wednesday the Senate
passed by an 18-2 vote a resolu
tion urging that the Governor
work for building the hospital at
the earliest possible date. It
would mean using 61^ million dol
lars federal funds which will lapse
if not used by next year. The reso
lution was sent to the House for
concurrence.
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Teamster Merger
In Fairbanks
Ordered Dissolved
WASHINGTON, UR — A federal
judge has ordered Teamster’s
Union president James R. Hoffa to
void a merger of union locals in
Fairbanks.
A spokesman for court-ap
pointed union monitors said yes
terday this was one provision in
an order issued Monday by U. S.
District Judge F. Dickinson Letts.
The order gave the monitors pow
er to compel any “reasonable”
reforms in the union.
The spokesman said Judge Letts
held the merger at Fairbanks was
illegal and, in effect, ordered Hof
fa io comply with an order of the
monitors granting each union in
dividual autonomy.
Judge Letts had announced pre
viously that he intended to take
such action. Last December the
Judge threatened to oust Hoffa as
Teamster president unless he
stopped blocking reforms recom
mended by the monitors. At that
time Judge Letts cited the Fair
banks merger as an instance where.
Hoffa failed to follow orders of
the monitors.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., UPV—State
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fines of up to $500 for insulting
or abusing a teacher in a class
room or within hearing of pupils
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House Blocks
Attempts to Lower
Exec. Salaries Bill
JUNEAU, UP) — The House has
again batted down attempts to
lower the proposed $24,000 a year
salary for the Governor and sent
the measure to the Senate. The
vote on final passage was 31-9.
Representative Orval Freeman,
Ketchikan Democrat, sought Wed
nesday to amend the bill to trim
the Governor’s salary to $21,000
and the Secretary of State’s from
$17,500 to $17,000.
His proposal lost out, however,
when the House refused to return
the measure from third to second
reading for an amendment. Tues
day four attempts to lower the
two salaries were tabled.
The nine opponents on final
passage were:
Speaker Warren Taylor, James
Fisher, John Hellenthal, Allan Pe
terson, and Freeman and J. Ray
Roady, all Democrats; Republicans
John Curtis and Bruce Kendall.
Finance Committee Chairman
Earl Hillstrand of Anchorage
changed his vote from “yes” to
“no” after the roll call, apparently
to be eligible for a conference
committee if the Senate adopts any
amendments. He supported the bill
in debate.
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RAINIER, UPi — Oregon’s 20th
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Forty riders and two stage
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Tuesday to carry mail to Astoria
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HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Actress
Audrey Hepburn is recovering
from her fall from a horse last
month and will return to work
early in March, a spokesman says.
The actress suffered two frac
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VIBERNUM, Mo., UP) — A wire
cable splice parted and dropped
a heavy hoist bucket containing
four men 100 feet or more to the
bottom of a lead mine shaft late
yesterday.
Two miners were killed. The
two others survived, although
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Air Force Warning
Link Cost Set
At $30 Millions
WASHINGTON, UP) — A pro
posed Air Force communications
system to speed missile attack
warnings from Alaska to the other
48 states probably will cost 30 mil
lion dollars.
This was the preliminary esti
mate the Air Force yesterday
gave Senator Bob Bartlett.
The project would provide a
two-way link between the ballis
tic missile Early Warning system
station at Clear and the other
states.
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