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Easter Seals Help Needy Children
HAVE YOU RECEIVED your 1959 Easter Seals
yet? The Alaska Crippled Children’s Association
has put more letters in the mails this year than ever
before—because they hope to expand their program
of service to the handicapped.
The need for rehabilitation is great and help is
needed now. With new advances in research, medical
science is offering many handicapped people the op
portunity of care and treatment that, will help them
to become useful and happy citizens.
If you have not received your Easter Seal letter
you can still make >a contribution to the care and
treatment of the handicapped by mailing your gift
to the Alaska Crippled Children’s Association Office,
225 E St., Anchorage, Alaska, or to the representative
of the local ACCA Chapter, Mrs. Donald Lyle.
The People Will Do The Rest
(From The New Age Magazine)
OUR LEGISLATORS AND RULERS will best pro
mote the improvement of the people by strictly
confining themselves to their ojyn legitimate duties —
by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course,
commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence,
their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural,
punishment — by maintaining peace, by defending
property, by diminishing the price of law, and by ob
serving strict economy in every department of the
state. Let the government do this — the people will
assuredly do the rest. — Macaulay.
From the Butte, Montana, Standard: “A Hoover
Commission task force discovered three years ago that
the U. S. Government is, among other things, the
largest electric power producer in the country, the
largest insurer, the largest lender and the largest bor
rower, the largest landlord and the largest tenant, the
largest holder of grazing land, the largest holder of
timberland, the largest owner of grain, the largest
warehouse operator, the largest shipowner and the
largest truck-fleet operator. These conditions still
prevail today, three years after the Hoover Commis
sion recommended that the government get itself out
of business.”
Senate Receives
Key Government
Reorganization Act
JUNEAU, (j¥) The House
voted 31-8 Friday to send the key
reorganization bill to the Senate.
The action ended a weeklong
battle over the proposal which
would streamline the sprawling
state government agencies and
offices into 11 departments under
the direct control of the Governor.
Provisions of the bill were
ironed out in a Democratic party
caucus last weekend and the
House sent the measure to the
Senate virtually unchanged.
Shortly before final passage of
the measure fish and game in
terests attempted to have the bill
moulded to reflect their ideas.
Both fisheries and education sup
porters had hoped to have their
departments exempted from the
direct control of the government.
They are expected to renew their
efforts when the bill appears in
the Senate.
Senate debate on the measure
could come today, with passage
likely during the week. Senate ap
proval would be a major step
toward adjournment of the first
State Legislature within the next
four or five weeks. If the meas
ure passes the Senate in its pres
'■ ent form it would reach acting
! Governor Wade substantially as
the administration had wished.
Meanwhile, in the Governor’s
office, three bills were signed
into law last week.
One measure, known as the uni
form tenure bill, permits the Gov
ernor to remove any government
officials including those elected or
appointed prior to statehood. This
apparently clears the way for the
ousting of Atty. Gen. Gerald
Williams.
Williams, elected prior to state
hood, has refused to rqsign, al
though the administration has
made it plain it wishes him to
do so. Williams’'' term has two
years to run.
The second bill signed by acting
Governor Wade would reduce
Alaska’s residency requirement
for divorce from two years to
one. The third measure makes a
technical correction providing for
! moorage facilities operated by
J Alaskan cities.
Ice Pool Dates
Since 1917, when the Pool
was started, the ice has gone
out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30 .11:30 a.m.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11.10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11. 6:42 a.m.
1922— May 12. 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9. 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26 . 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 p.m.
1929— May 5. 3:41 p.m.
1930— May 8. 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10. 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1.10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 pun.
1934— April 30 . 2:07 pun.
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30.12:58 p.m.
1937— May 12.... 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6. 8:14 pun.
1939— April 29. 1:26 p.m.
1940— April 20 . 3:27 pun.
1941— May 3. 1:$0 aun
1942— April 30 . 1:28 p.m
1943— April 28 . 7:22 pun
1944— May 4. 2:88 p.m
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. 5:63 p.m.
1948— May 13.11:13 pun,
1949— May 14.12:39 p.m
1950— May 6. 4:14 pun.
’951—April 30 . 5:54 pun.
1952— May 12 . 5:04 pun.
1953— April 29 . 3:54 p.m.
1954— May 6. 6:01 pun.
1955— May 9. 2:13 p.m
1956— May 1 .11:24 a.m.
1957— May 5. 9:30 aun.
1958— April 29 . 2:56 p.m.
Mushing
Thru Washington
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Alaska constitute one of the fluor
spar mines on the. basis of the
richness of the ore contained in
the tailings.”
Bartlett said Alaskans, because
of their geographical location, “are
also intensely aware of the im
portance of the ‘at home’ supply
of fluorspar which the missile ex
perts have told us is the base, the
vital ingredient in the ultimate
rocket and missile fuel.
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Hawaii’s Governor William F.
Quinn thinks Alaska collected Ha
waii’s jackpot.
In a Senate speech urging early
action on the Hawaii statehood
bill, Sen. Gordon Aliott CR-Colol
quoted the territorial governor as
follows:
“We were overjoyed when our
big sister territory, Alaska, was
voted in. I will say that we felt
somewhat like the man who has
plied a slot machine with coins
and while he turns away to get
more change someone else drops
one coin in and hits the jackpot.
He deserves the jackpot all right,
but the first fellow was certainly
working long and hard to get it.”
It looks, however, like Hawaii’s
lemons will turn to bars during
this session.
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Two of Sen. Bob Bartlett’s ap
pointees to the U. S. Military
Academy at West Point have made
the dean’s honor list. They are
James J. Harmon, son of Mr. and !
Mrs. Henry A. Harmon of Juneau, i
and Gary L. Paxton, son of Mr. j
and Mrs. Orville Paxton of Sitka, j
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181 years ago James Cook of
England made the first compre-1
hensive survey of the Alaska1
coast, revealing the enormous ex
tent of the future Alaska’s area.
Noted Early-Day Stage
And Screen Artist Dies
In Hollywood at 85
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.,,
OP — Fred Stone, whose nimble
song and dance acts and amaz
ing acrobatics delighted musical
comedy audiences for decades, is
dead at 85.
The veteran of 50 years on
stage and screen died Friday at
his home from a complication of
ailments. A heart attack about
two years ago was soon followed
by total blindness.
Stone’s sight had been failing
for five or six years, the delayed
effect of injuries suffered in a
1927 plane crash.
He was flying solo between his
Connecticut farm and rehearsals
for a Broadway show when he
crashed. Both legs were broken,
an ankle crushed, his jaw bro
ken. His friend, Will Rogers, flew
from Hollywood to replace him in
the show, “Three Cheers.”
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