Four Changes in Alaska Adoption
Laws Proposed by Service Council
McKay Says COPs
Must Start Now
For ‘56 Campaign
NEW YORK, OP—Secretary of
the Interior Douglas McKay says
the Republican Party must start
now to compaign for a Republi
can ticket in 1956 because “to
morrow may be too late.”
The cabinet officer told the
Women’s National Republican
Club Monday the Eisenhower Ad
ministration has done “a remark
able job” in government. In list
ing its achievements, he said it
had cut taxes, reduced federal
spending, improved services and
attained peace, “uneasy as it may
be.”
But, McKay said, the adminis
tration has done “poor job in sell
ing itself to the public.”
The secretary, answering oppo
sition charges of an Interior De
partment “giveaway” of public
power resources, said he favors
private power development and
sees no reason why the federal
government should “develop all
the power for all the people in the
United States.”
“The philosophy of the Depart
ment of the Interior is one of trust
and confidence in private enter
prise; we’re not against business
because it is big, so long as it is
honest,” he added.
McKay said he is opposed to
monopoly, but the “worst kind of
monopoly is federal monopoly”
because it involves politics and
bureaucratic control. He -added;
“We can clip the wings of private
enterprise when it does not be
have.”
U.S. Transport Rams
Japanese Schooner
TOKYO, —The Japanese
coast guard said a U.S. military
transport sliced through a Japan
ese fishing schooner in the inland
sea Monday night, killing one
Japanese and injuring two. Four
are missing.
The coast guard said the U.S.
transport General Patrick picked
up three survivors but one died.
The others, listed as serious, were
landed at Moji.
“ Four changes in the adoption
| laws of Alaska have been pro
{ posed by the Community Service
Council. Letters urging passage
of the amendments will be sent to
each legislator in the territory.
The CSC is an unofficial body
comprising representatives of the
fields of health, welfare, religion,
recreation and education.
According to the council, the
adoption laws should allow only
married couples living together to
adopt children. At present, any
person may qualify.
The council also wants the law
to provide that a child must be
in an adoptive home six months
before filing the petition. Under
current regulations, there is no
waiting period and the child does
not have to live in the home prior
to adoption.
The third' alteration sought by
the service group, if enacted,
would require consent of the Pub
lic Welfare Dept, in all adop
tion cases involving those chil
dren under custody of that agency.
At present, the consent is required
only for orphans and those legally
judged as abandoned.
In the adoption laws there is no
provision for annulment of an
adoption except on petition of the
natural parents within six months.
The council would amend the law
to give the adoptive parents re
course to change their minds
within three years after the adop
tion.
“While we feel some pride as
Alaskans in being ‘America’s Last
! Frontier’, we do not like being the
last place in this civilized country
to afford adequate protection to
our youngest and most helpless
citizens,” concluded the council’s
statement to the legislators.
On the committee of the council
which drafted the changes are:
the Rev. John Maakestad, the
Rev. Victor Alfsen, Miss Elsie
May Smith, Miss Lorene Branoh
and Mrs. Arne Beltz.
No changes have been made in
Alaska’s adoption laws in six
years.
Heather, which grows in Scot
land on land too poor to support
grass is called “poverty plant” by
the British.
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! Fight for Tachens
WASHINGTON, IP—Secretary
of State Dulles announced Tues
day he rejected the contention of
Sen. Knowland tR-Calif) that the
mission of Dag Hammarskjold to
Red China had been a failure.
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north of the Tachens is without
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free nations of Asia. But Dulles
again ruled out any great “Mar
shall Plan” type of program, say
ing this is unsuited to the under
developed countries.
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