E. B. Collins, 72, Says Constitution Will
Be Culmination of His Life in Alaska
By FLORENCE DOUTHIT «
FAIRBANKS, MP)—A member of
Alaska’s first House of Represen
tatives ranks as the senior mem
ber of the Constitutional Conven
tion.
Eighty-two-year-old E. B. Col
lins of Fairbanks was speaker of
the 1913 House and an active
leader. But today, 42 years and
countless political sessions later,
he says he is content mostly to
listen to other delegates.
Collins retired from the Alaska
Senate in 1949. He sought a con
vention seat after several quiet
summers because “this constitu
tion will mark the culmination of
my life in Alaska and I want to
see statehood before I pass on.”
Collins said the convention re
minds him of the first legislature.
“Both bodies were starting out
from scratch, with men of very
like backgrounds—honest and sin
cere and willing to put politics
into the background,” he says.
At the first legislature, Collins
says, he sat up all night before the
session opened because he had
just found out he was to be the
speaker and he didn’t know how
to make up the committees.
Finally he found some old jour
nals from the Territories of Wash
ington and Oregon.
“With this material, I was able
to make up a committee list and
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the next day we were ready to
go.”
Collins said in the first House
there were 16 members and 16
committees. “Everybody got to be
a committee chairman,” he said.
Collins, who came to Alaska
from California as a young lawyer
in 1904, held his seat in the House
in 1915 and 1919 when he was the
only Republican.
“They let me answer the roll
call, anyway,” he said.
Throughout the years Collins
engaged in mining as well as law
practice. He was in the Alaska
Senate in 1921 and from 1945 to
1949. He also served 12 years as a
special assistant to the U.S. at
torney here.
Noting the ease with which del
egates commute to the convention
here, Collins recalls the early
days in the legislature when he
left Fairbanks in January and re
turned in June traveling to and
from Juneau by foot, dog team
and steamer.
“Most of the others who shaped
this land have answered the last
rollcall, but I’ve always had a
feeling I might make it to the
Constitutional Convention,” he
said.
Search Abandoned for
Liberian Freighter
BOSTON, (£)—The Coast Guard
gave up active searching today for
the missing • 3,300-ton Liberian
freighter Daytona, a converted
LST carrying 60 , men.
The Daytona, enroute from No
va Scotia to. Philadelphia, radioed
she was in distress 75 miles east
of Gloucester. She was caught in
a storm with winds of more than
hurricane force.
LIFE SAVINGS STOLEN
DURING FUNERAL SERVICE
SAN PEDRO, Calif., (JV—Burg
lars were busy while Mrs. Filo
mena DeCarlo attended funeral
services for her husband.
When she returned from the
rites yesterday she found $7,260
missing from the penthouse apart
ment above the bakery shop which
Lorenzo DiCarlo, 77, had operated
for many years.
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