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mise agreement reached by
House-Senate conference commit
tees was to be presented to both
chambers Friday. Acceptance
seems assured since to reject the
agreement would mean death to
the convention bill.
The House passed on a 19 to 3
vote a long bill to create a public
service commission in Alaska for
the fifst time to regulate rates
charged by all public utilities,
both privately and publicly own
ed. The bill was rushed through
only two days after its introduc
tion as several Democrats describ
. ed it as legislation in effect in
•’ all the states and long needed in
Alaska.
The House also passed a bill to
create a territorial real estate
board with authority to regulate
the real estate business, give ex
aminations and issue licenses to
brokers and salesmen.
Another bill passed by the
House would authorize the board
of trustees of the Pioneer Home to
require the elderly residents to
give the territory any income
they have over $15 a month. It
also provides that $5 a month
could be provided for oldtirpers
in the home who do not have'
any income at all.
The $15 restriction was pro
posed because many of the resi
dents now draw Social Security ,
checks and legislators and Terri
torial Treasurer Henry Roden, a
member of the home trustees, said
the buying of liquor had become
a troublesome administrative and
hospital problem.
* A bill was approved to pro
vide for the terri.orial police to
handle issuance and renewals of
drivers’ licenses, with renewals
every two years on the holder’s j
• birthday, instead of having a re- ,
newal lineup at the end of the
year.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued clear and cold with
light variable winds. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight -20,
high Saturday -6.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
-1, low -21. Max. wind 21 mph
* from the NW. Sunrise 6:35 a.m.,
stmset 5:50 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 13, low' -2. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 35 in 1925,
low -32 in 1947.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Winona Carter, Gab
riel Moses, Virginia Amaktoolik.
Rev. Westerdahl To Speak Next
Week At Covenant Church
Rev. Wilbur Westerdahl of the
Redwood City, Calif., Covenant
Church, Who is visiting Alaskan
missions on an evangelistic tour,
is scheduled to speak each eve
ning next week at the Nome
Covenant Church, with services
starting each evening at 7:30.
IKE GETS LOCKED OUT
WASHINGTON, UP—President
Eisenhower got locked out of the
White House momentarily Thurs
day.
He had gone into the rose gar
den just outside his west wing
office to greet a group of foreign
students in this country to study
atomic energy technology.
When he started to return to
the office he found the door had
swung shut and locked.
With a grin, the President
poked a buzzer button and was
admitted by a Secret Service
agent.
Senate Bill Calls For Special Election On \ j
Issue of Immediate Statehood, Commonwealth
Status or Continuance of Alaska As Territory
JUNEAU, (j^—A bill calling for
a special election on the issue of
immediate statehood, common
wealth status or continuance as
a territory was introduced in the
Senate Wednesday.
The bill* by Sens. Doris Barnes
and Charles Jones would provide
$40,000 for an election to be held
in April or October, on a call of
the governor.
It proposes five choices on the
ballot: 1. Remain a territory now;
2. Immediate statehood, even if
divided; 3. Immediate statehood
without any division; 4. Com
monwealth, even if on a perman
ent basis; 5- Commonwealth, but
only as a step, to statehood.
Attempts failed in both houses
to attach a statehood referendum
to the constitutional convention
bill.
A bill to designate Nov. 30 as
^'Anthony J. Dimond Day” in the
territory, in honor of the late dis- j
trict judge at Anchorage and for-;
mer delegate to Congress, was |
f introduced by Sen. J. Earl Cooper
I (D-Anchorage).
Among the flood of more than
30 measures which hit the legis
lature on the last day for the
introduction of anything but tax
and appropriation bills included
this one:
To provide for up to 80 Alaskan
high school students to visit the
legislature for a week during each
session, at territorial expense, to
stimulate interest in government,
by Sen. Egan.
Nome Basketball Squad
Guests At Rotary Luncheon
Honored guests at Rotary noon
luncheon Thursday were the
Nome High School basketball
squad and Coach Bill Ullrich. Mr.
Ullrich introduced the players
and briefly described their ex
periences in the recent tourna
ment at Anchorage.
The program for the day was j
a question and answer contest j
conducted by Jack Reed.
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