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Meeting Of SE Alaska
Mayors In Ketchikan
Postponed Indefinitely
JUNEAU, —Southeast Alaska
mayors who had expected to hold
their first conference in two years
at Ketchikan Jan. 13-15 will have
to wait a little longer.
Victor P. Guns, Ketchikan city
manager, has notified the city of
ficials that the host city has post
poned the meeting indefinitely.
The delay is believed caused by
results of a federal grmd jury in
ves Tgation which this week in
die d the former Ketchikan
police chief, a police captain and
a number of other persons, and
sharply criticized city officials.
The last mayors’ conference
was in Juneau in 1951.
The Pilgrims did not build log
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Sen. Butler To Introduce Bill On
Sale Of Public Lands That Would
Help Get Statehood For Alaska
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Ike Renews Bid for
! Hawaii Statehood;
Alaska Omitted
WASHINGTON, Iff) — President
I Eisenhower has renewed his re
| quest that Congress grant state
! hood to Hawaii.
I The President made no mention
of statehood for Alaska in his
second annual message to Con
gress on the state of the union.
As he did last year, the chief
executive called for enactment of
the Hawaii statehood bill in time
for election of state officials and
representatives and senators in
Congress this fall.
Delegate Bartlett said he was
“greatly disappointed” 'that the
President’s message failed to men
tion Alaska.
“I had hoped against hope that
it might, in fulfillment of the Re
publican platform, give adminis
tration blessing to that greatest of
Alaska’s political aspirations —
statehood.
“Now we know that the face of
the administration is turned away
from us.”
Even without statehood, Bart
lett said, “There was opportunity
and room to' point out Alaska’s
significant geographical position
in the free world’s defensive sys
tem and to urge continued build
ing up of the territory’s defensive
installations, population and ec
onomy.
“This failure to acknowledge
our e-xistence even, coupled with
bad news it is reported may be
in store in respect to appropria
tions for vital federal programs
when the budget message is pub
lished, surely signifies that this
administration does not propose to
address the kind of dedicated at
tention to Alaska that its prede
cessor did.”
Alaska Road Program Cost
$6,871,300 In 1953; For
1954 $5,330,400 Estimated
JUNEAU, UP) — The Territorial
Board of Roads reports that its
1953 road-building program to
taled $6,871,300.
The biggest outlays were for
projects at Ketchikan and on the
Alaska Highway. A 51-mile re
construction job on the highway
from Johnson River to Delta Junc
tion cost $2,237,000.
Construction of a 7-mile road to
the new pulp mill site outside
Ketchikan cost $2,100,000.
The BPR district office said
road projects under way, to be
continues! when the 1955 season
opens, are estimated at a $5,330,
400 total.
An estimated $3,689,000 will go
for southeastern road work.
BPR officials said the final few
miles of paving will also be com
pleted on a 54-mile, $1,472,000 job
between Seward and Mile 58 on
the Seward-Anchorage Highway.
WEDDINGS FOR SENTIMENT
MIDDLEBORO, Mass., (ff)—Five
Middleboro couples were re-wed
recently in the Central Congrega
tional Church although everyone
present knew the original jnarital
knots had been well tied.
The couples reaffirmed their
marriage vows in a special cere
mony. Each had been married 51
years or more.
* WASHINGTON, Uf) — Senator
Butler said Thursday he expects
to introduce shortly legislation
which would constitute “a step to
ward a rather fundamental change
in our handling of public lands in
Alaska.”
The bill, now being drafted, will
include five major points and is
designed to correct what Butler,
who is chairman of the Senate
Interior and Insular Affairs Com
mittee, has termed one of the
major stumbling blocks in the
way of Alaska statehood.
Hearings in Alaska, Butler said
in a statement, “brought out the
peculiar fact that the federal gov
ernment owns over 99 per cent
of the land area of Alaska. This
fact creates great difficulties from
the standpoint of statehood, since
I do not believe any state has
ever previously been admitted
with so much of its land area
controlled by the federal gov
ernment.”
The senator said many Alas
kans feel that heavy government
ownership of land “is due to re
strictive federal policies regard
ing the public lands and I feel
they are partly correct. The bill
I shall introduce is intended as
a starter toward a fundamental
change in our land laws in Al
aska.”
Among the Butler proposals is
repeal of the Shore Space Re
serve Act which requires a reser
vation of 80 rods between land
holdings along navigable waters.
He also will propose revision of
the Public Sale Act to permit
sales of public land in large
tracts to private companies. At
present no corporation may pur
chase more than 160 acres — an
acreage which Butler says is too
small to permit a company to
enter an undeveloped area where
it may be required to set up its
own housing for workers as 'vtal]
as its plant operations.
The senator said he also would
propose “sharp restrictions” on
withdrawals and reservations of
land by the federal government.
The restrictions, he indicated,
would include a provision for re
view of the withdrawal to deter
mine its continued necessity.
Butler said he feels the present
15,360 acre limitation on leases for
oil and gas exploration and pro
duction is too low to encourage
development of Alaska’s oil and
gas potential.
Last of the five major points to
be covered in the Butler legisla
tion would be a provision to per
mit purchase of small tracts of
public land by anyone for any
purpose without any compliance
requirement. Under present law,
public lands may ncft be pur
chased except for the purpose for
which they are classified by the
government—farming, residential,
business, etc.
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First Shipment Of Relief
Foods For Fishermen
To Leave Seattle Jan. 15
JUNEAU, UP) — The first ship
load of staple foods for the fish
ermen’s disaster relief program is
scheduled to leave Seattle Jan. 15
aboard an Alaska Steamship Co.
freighter.
Supplies will be dropped at
Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg,
Juneau and Sitka, then redis
tributed to the smaller commun
ities on the Alaska Native Service
ship Mt. Edgecumbe. The supplies
are divided in units which are\
designed to meet the needs of an
average family for two months.
Food items include butter, pow
dered skim milk, cottonseed oil, 1
■processed cheese, canned beef and
government supplies.
W. E. Hendrickson, secretary of
Alaska, said the food cargoes will i
go out later this month to Prince
William Sound and the Bristol
Bay areas.
Alaska Democrats To Meet
In Juneau Jan. 15 - 17
JUNEAU, UP)—Territorial Demo
crats will meet here Jan. 15-17 for
their annual convention, with first
greetings extended them by a Re
publican—Mayor B. F. McDowell.
Rep. Wendell P. Kay of Anchor
age will make the keynote speech
on Jan. 17. Business sessions, a
reception and banquet are on the
agenda after Mayor McDowell
lays out the official welcome mat.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
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Air National Guard To
Get Facilities At
International Airport
ANCHORAGE, UPl — Bids have
been called by the Alaska Corps
of Engineers for facilities for the
Alaska Air National Guard.
The project calls for a larger
hangar, warehouse and outside
utilities, taxiway and apron at the
Anchorage International Airport.
The ANG has been operating at
Elmendorf Air Force Base since
its organization late in 1952. Col.
L. L. Johnston, ANG commander,
said it has about one-half its
full quota of men and planes but
expects to be at full strength when
the facilities are finished.
Bids will be opened here Feb. 4.
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