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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
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Co :mittee Calls For Improvements
In The Alaska Native Loan Service
WASHINGTON, UP> — The
House Government Operations
Com^'t'e, criticizing operation
of the Alaska Native Loan Ser
vice as ed the Secretary of the
Entrr'or today to review the
prCKn--—i an(j initiate necessary
improvements.
The committee said the re
view, on which it asked a re
port ot later than Aug. 1,
should include an examination
of the program’s staffing and
administration, and recommen
dations already made by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and
consultants.
The suggested review was one
of eight recommendations by the
committee as a rsult of studies
it made of the program in re
sponse to a memorial passed by
the Alaska Territorial Senate in
,1957.
The program, designed to pro
vide economic enterprises for the
Alas’ a natives, provides loans
.to native community associa
tions for the acquisition and
operation of fish canneries and
for relending to individual mem
bers for the purchase and re
pair of fishing boats.
The committee said the over-all
repayment picture for the pro
gram is poor. It attributed this
primarily to the prolonged short
age of fish in Southeast Alaska.
“However, unsatisfactory at
titudes- and acts of bureau per
sonnel, the managers of the
native canneries and the natives
themselves have been contrib
utin'? causes,” it said.
Attitudes of bureau personnel,
the committee said, “reflect com
placency and a skepticism of the
natives’ capacity to aid them
selves in their present situation.
The Washington office of the
bureau seems to regard the
natives’ problem in terms of
profit and loss and to put little
emphasis on the basic objectives
of the act . . .”
In a minority report, four Re
publican members of the commit
tee said the recommendations
adopted by majority “appear
justified” except for possible
lack of time for the secretary to
make the requested study. They
paid they found it necessary,
however, to disagree with con
clusions upon which recommen
dations were based. ^
Concerning contentions that at
titudes of bureau personnel re
flected “complacency and skepti
cism” of native capabilities, the
minority said if this were true
“it is unlikely that # 710 loans to
individuals, totaling more than
$2,608,300, would have received
consideration and approval.”
Several conclusions reached in
the majority report, the minority
said, dealt with matters resolved
in years past.
Senate Confirms
Appointment Of Hodge
WASHINGTON, (£>—The Sen
ate Tuesday confirmed Presi
dent Eisenhower’s appointment
of Walter H. Hodge tjo a new
four-year term as U. S. District
Judge for Alaska’s Division No.
2.
GOP Leaders
Favor No
Tax Cuts
WASHINGTON, OP)—Speaker of
the House Sam Rayburn said
Tuesday he is. “in full accord”
with President Eisenhower’s rec
ommendation against substantial
tax reductions this year.
Rep. Wilbur ^lills (D-Ark)
chairman of the tax-writing
House Ways and Means Com
mittee, concurred in Rayburn’s
statement at a joint news con
ference.
Mills said his committee will
start consideration today of a
bill to continue corporate arid
excise tax rates at their present
levels.
These rates are scheduled un
der existing law to drop auto
matically on July 1. Eisenhower
has asked Congress to continue
them to prevent an estimated
three-billion-dollar drop in rev
enues.
A number of members of Con
gress have said they will seek
reduction in' the excise tax on
automobiles,, whose sales have
been lagging.
Rayburn said he has not been
in favor of a general decrease in
taxes at this time. He said both
he and Mills are “in accord
with the statement (from the
President) that there will be no
further recommendations for tax
reductions this year.”
“I have never thought that a
tax reduction would .be very
potent in stopping a recession,”
Rayburn said. He added he
could not comment on whether
the recession is tapering off.
Republican congressional lead
ers said meanwhile the adminis
tration’s stand against any anti
recession tax cut is prompted by
the uneasy international situa
tion and the threat of inflation.
Senate Majority Leader Wil
liam F. Knowland of California
gave newsmen that word after
he and other GOP chiefs had
held their weekly meeting with
President Eisenhower.
Victor Meyers To Speak
At Jaycee Convention
At Ketchikan
OLYMPHIA, Wash., UPi — Sec
retary of State Victor A. Meyers,
who has long established him
self as a master-of-ceremonies
and after-dinner speaker, will
take his talents to Ketchikan this
weekend.
There he will be main speaker
for the annual convention of the
Alaska Junior Chamber of Com
merce. Meyers will address the
convention at its final banquet
Saturday evening, climaxing the
four day meeting.
The Secretary of State will
fly to Ketchikan Thursday.
Son Bom To Carl James'
Mr. and Mrs. Carl James are
the parents of a boy born at the
hospital on May 26th.
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tered on Alaska’s slim popula
tion—estimated at 205,000; on the
territory’s economy, which is
based largely on government
and defense spending, and on
its location.
Critics in the states contend
admission of Alaska would open
the way to statehood for other
non-contiguous areas, including
Hawaii and Puerto Rico. State
hood leaders say such attacks are
smoke screens. The basic reason,
they say, is that a number of
congressmen are unwilling to en
large membership in the Senate.
Former Gov. Ernest Gruening,
one of two provisional Senators,
has charged the government with
“colonialism” and says Alaskans
are Second class citizens.
“That second class, citizenship
talk is all poppycock,” says Man
ders. “I don’t know anyone who
has been dragged to Alaska.”
The first Alaska statehood bill
was introduced in Congress in
1916, 49 years after the United
States purchased the huge ter
ritory from Russia. ,
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Cardinal Stritch Dies
ROME, W) — Samuel Cardinal
I Stritch, 70-year-old archbishop of
Chicago, died early Tuesday at
Rbme’s Sanatrix Clinic. He had
been confined thbre with cir
culatory ailments since he ar
rived in Rome April 25 to assume
the high post given him by Pbpe
Pius XII. •'
The cardinal died before he
had a chance to take up his
duties as Pro-prefect of the Vat
ican’s Congregation For Propa
gation of the Faith. He was the
only native ever named to the
Vatican Curia, the church’s
highest administrative body.
The prelate was stricken first
with a blodd clot in his right arm
while en route to Italy to take
up his Vatican post. Three days
later the arm was amputated to
to eliminate danger of gangrene.
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