News-Letter
By Mary Lee Council
Secretary to E. L. Bartlett
Delegate to Congress From Alaska
Here are the major provisions
of the Alaska Statehood Bill, Pub
lic Law 85-508.
1. The Alaska voters will vote
on three propositions, namely,
whether they agree to the boun
daries of the Territory; 'Whether
they consent to the conditions of
the land grants; and whether
they believe Alaska should be ad
mitted as a state. If any of
these failsi the law would be in
effective and Alaska would not
become a state. #
2. The voters will select at
elections set by the Governor
state officials, including a Gover
nor, a Secretary of State, a 60
member legislature; two United
States Senators and one member
of the House of Representatives.
The general election cannot /be
held later than December 1.
Since present plans apparently
call for the general election to be
held on November 25 and tak
ing into consideration a 30-day
waiting period for receipt of all
ballots, including those cast by
absentees, statehood could be a
Christmas present. The Gover
nor is to notify the President of
the results of the elections at
which time the chief executive
would proclaim Alaska a state.
3. The state will be able to
select over a 25-year period
102,550,000 acres of unappro
priated, unreserved and vacant
lands plus 400,000 acres within
the national forest!? and 400,000
acres of public land adjacent to
coimmunities or suitable for pro
spective community centers and
recreational areas, for a total
land grant of 103,350,000 acres,
27 percent of Alaska’s total area.
These land grants include mineral
rights and the state within five
years of statehood could select
lands under mineral leases. In
selling or leasing or otherwise
disposing of lands, all minerals
will be reserved to the state and
mineral deposits will be subject
to lease only. Following the selec
tion of land but prior to issu
ance of patent, the state will be
allowed to execute conditional
sales of such selected land. The
President is given authority to
make national security withdraw
als within a defined area north
and west of the Porcupine, Yu
kon and Kusokkwim rivers, and
the state may select lands within
the defined area if it desires with
the consent of the President or a
representative designated by him.
All exterior surveys of selected
lands will be performed by the
Interior Department. In addition,
all school lands reserved under
the law passed in 1915 will be
granted to the state. It is under
stood this will amount to upwards
of 150,000 acres.
4. Five percent of the net pro
ceeds of public land sales by the
United States from the 73 per J
cent of land remaining under
federal jurisdiction will go to
the state for support of schools,
and 90 percent of the proceeds
from federal leasing on coal
lands will go to the state for dis
position by the legislature, 52 Vz
percent of proceeds from federal
leasing of oil and gas lands will
go to Alaska for disposition by
the legislature and 37 Vfe percent
of federal oil and gas proceeds
will go to the new state for sup
port of schools and roads.
5. Federal control of Alaska’s
fish and wildlife will be trans
[ ferred to the state upon certifi
i cation by the Secretary of the
Interior that “the Alaska State
Legislature has made adequate
provision for the administration,
management, and conservation of
said resources in the broad na
tional interest.” The state will
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receive 70 percent of the net pro
ceeds from the sale of sealskins
in the Pribilofs to assist in ad
ministration. Federal allocations
made to the states for sport fish
ery and game research will apply
equally to Alaska.
6. The law contains a com
pact between the United
States and its people whereby the
state and its people disclaim all
right to property held by the
United States or subject to dis
position by the United States
except the property granted or
confirmed to the state or its sub
divisions under authority of the
law. This disclaimer also ap
plies to property which is owned
or held by natives, or by the
United States in trust for natives
and states that such property re
mains under the absolute con
trol of the United States, as pre
scribed by existing or future acts
of CJongress. This disclaimer
concerning native property does
not apply to property held by in
dividual natives in fee without
restrictions on alienation.
7. Jurisdiction over water trans
portation will continue under the
Federal Maritime Board, and the
Merchant Marine Act of 1920 will
be amended to allow shipments
to Alaska from the States via
combined use of Canadian rail
and vessel.
8. The present federal court
system will be abolished and the
state will set up its own court
system. There will be only one
federal judge. Over a maximum
three-year transition procedures
for transfer of jurisdiction of
cases from the federal court to
the state court system are pro
vided.
9. Alaska will be excluded from
the present provision of law re
quiring screening of all persons
coming to the States from Alas
ka, a procedure which was abol
ished, it is reported, by the Im
migration and Naturalization Ser
vice upon the signing of the bill
into law.
10. The submerged Lands Act
of 1953 will be applicable to Alas
ka.
11. The constitution adopted
by Alaskans in 1956 is ratified.
12 The Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System will
be able to readjust the Federal
Reserve districts so as to include
the new state.
13. The state will receive the
Federal-Territorial Building in
Juneau, as well as the present
Governor’s house and the federal
Jail in Juneau, including the
lands.
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BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADE
CONTINUES TO MAKE NEWS
The San Francisco Bay area has
gone “all out” for Dr. Billy
Graham’s crusade. At San Quen
tin Prison, 4,000 inmates sprawled
in the sun on their baseball dia
mond to hear Graham’s message,
then 657 ignored jeers and cat
calls of their inmate buddies to
come forward to “live for God in
prison.”
The response was -labeled “the
largest percentage of converts
ever to respond at an evangelistic
service anywhere.”
Among the Graham sermon
quotes carried by newspapers all
across the land:
“We have a hard time remem
bering anything, but God never
forgets. He remembers the uni
verse, our planet, and you. He
remembers our sins, because the
Bible say! our sins will find us
out. God can forget sin when it
is covered by the blood of Christ.”
“The American people are
being weighed in the balance
as never before. God meas
ures the things we don’t do as
well as those we do. To whom
much is given much is required.
Never has a nation been blessed
and prospered so ,mightily as
America.”
“The Bible predicts that some
day a man from outer space will
arrive on this planet. That man
is Christ.”
“A Christian is a person who
has made a choice; he has chosen
Christ as his Lord and Saviour.”
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* INVITATION FOR BIDS
• (CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT)
SEALED BIDS, in duplicate copy sub
ject to the conditions contained herein
will be received until July 22, 1958 then
publicly opened, for furnishing all labor
and materials and performing all work
for construction of an Airport Landing
Strip located near Allakaket, Alaska.
Plans, Specifications and Project Doc
uments may be obtained from the Di
rector of Aeronautics, Alaska Aeronaut
ics and Communications Commission,
Room 202. Glover Building, Anchorage,
Alaska, upon deposit of $25.00.
Bids will be publicly opened in the
office of the Director of Aeronautics,
Room 202, Glover Building, Anchorage,
Alaska at 2:00 p.m., A.S.T., on July
22, 1958.
Where copies of plans are requested,
a deposit of $25.00 will be required
to insure their return.
Guarantee will be required with each
bid as follows: Ten Percent (10 pet.).
(See Paragraph 7 of Instructions to
bidder.)
Performance bond will be required for
an amount not less than 50 pet. of the
contract.
Payment bond will be required for
an amount not less than 50 pet. of the
contract.
Liquidated damages for delay will be
as stipulated in the General Contract
Provisions for Airport Construction
Specifications.
Partial payments will be made
monthly.
Minimum wage rates applicable to
the contract shall be as listed in the
Special Contract Provisions.
Bids must be submitted upon Pro
posal Form and the successful bidder
will be required to execute the Standard
Form of Contract for Construction.
The right is reserved, as the interest
of the Territory of Alaska may re
quire, to reject any and all bids, to
waive any informality in bids received,
and to accept or reject any items of
any bid, unless such bid is qualified
by specific limitation.
Envelopes containing bids must be
sealed, marked and addressed as
follows:
Bid for Allakaket
Project No. 9-50-069-01
To be opened at 2:00 p.m., A.S.T.
Date—July 22, 1958
Bidder .
Address .
Eugene G. Roguszka
Director of Aeronautics
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