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WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Bob Bartlett has declined to co
sponsor a bill for the creation of a
wildernes area system even
though he thinks something along
that line might be advisable.
In a recent letter to Senator Hu
ber Humphrey (D-Minn), who
sought his backing, the Alaska
Senator said he wanted to know
more about what the bill proposed
for Alaska before enlisting in the
fight.
“For years and years and
years,” he wrote Humphrey, “We
in Alaska have suffered by a con
tinuing gobbling up of land under
federal reservations of one kind
or another. There is fairly conclu
sive evidence that more often than
not, the federal agencies with
drew more land than was abso
lutely required, merely because
it was readily available.”
Bartlett said earlier proposals
for the preservation of primitive,
untrammeled areas had contem
plated “grossly excessive” with
drawals in Alaska, and added:
“My personal conclusion is that
it would be well to have some
Alaska land in wilderness status,
but the size of the withdrawals
should be arrived at by the appli
cation of common sense and not
by the theory that, ‘Here it is,
we’d better take it’.”
Senator Strom Thurmond (D
SC>, who fought to the last ditch
against the Senate’s passage of the
statehood bill last year, still is
keeping a questioning eye on
things Alaskan.
At a recent closed session of the
Senate Commerce Committee,
called to consider the Federal Air
port Aid Bll, the South Carolinian
•balked at provisions of the bill
which would set up matching pro
visions for Alaska on a 75 per cent
federal, 25 per cent state basis.
Thurmond argued that Alaska
should be given no more favorable
treatment than the other states,
which must match on a 50-50
basis.
The committee overruled him,
however, and approved the bill
with the 75-25 provision.
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General Services Administra
tion says its hands are tied as far
as any further steps are concerned
to fight the level of rail rates in
the 48 states on cargoes destined
for Alaska.
“'Under the circumstances, there
is nothing further that GSA can
do about this situation,” adminis
trator Franklin Floete has ad
vised Senator Bartlett.
Back in 1955, the agency
brought an action before the In
terstate Commerce Commission
seeking an adjustment on rail
rates which, on items shipped to
Alaska, are frequently higher than
HELD UP HIS LUNCH . . .
ELIZABETH, N. J., UP) — Watch
man Steve Nootney was held up
last week by a gunman who took
50 cents and Nootney’s lunch —
two jelly sandwiches.
for the same item shipped to
overseas points.
ICC turned them down in 1957,
contending that the element of
competition which prompted es
tablishment of the cheaper export
import rates to Hawai and the
Far East, was not present on Alas
kan traffic.
“Because we disagreed with the
commission’s action,” Floete said,
“we requested the Attorney Gen
eral to seek a review of the de
cison in the courts for the purpose
of obtaining a reversal. The De
partment of Jus ace declined to
take such action.
“In response to our request that
this decison be reconsidered the
Deputy Attorney General, on Jan
uary 2, 1959, again declined to
seek court review, stating that it
was felt the commission’s order
was correct and that any remedy
would appear to require Congres
sional action.”
Bartlett had written Floete in
hopes the advent of statehood
since the ICCs adverse ruling
might have changed the situation.
He said he plans to inquire fur
ther into the matter to see what
additional steps may be taken.
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A young former Alaskan
dropped into the offices of both
Senator Ernest Gruening and Rep
resentative Ralph Rivers last week
to present them with Cub Scout
pins as part of the publicity build
up for the coming National Boy
Scout Week.
The youngster was Peter Tra
wicky, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. L.
Trawicky, now of Alexandria, Va.,
but residents of Fairbanks be
tween 1946 and 1951. The boy’s
father was stationed in Fairbanks
with the Department of Agricul
ture’s Permafrost Research Pro
ject.
Senator Bob Bartlett received
his pin from Edward Patterson, a
District of Columbia Cub Scout
who has never been in Alaska. The
youngster picked Bartlett, how
ever, because two of his aunts —
Mrs. Rita Butcher and Helen Di
Andreth — formerly lived in
Anchorage.
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Workman’s Compensation
Not Expected to be Hot
Issue in ’59 Legislature
JUNEAU, OP) — A workmen’s
compensation program bill was in
troduced in the Senate Friday. And
like the controversial measure of
the 1957 session, it will be known
as Senate Bill 22.
The compensation bill was ve
toed in the last Territorial ses
sion after a lengthy battle in
which labor, industry and insur
ance representatives took part. It
is not expected to cause such a
stir this time, since compensation
rates have been dropped three
times in Alaska, and sponsors say
the program should not be as cost
ly now.
The bill, sponsored by the Legis
lative Council, would broaden
workmen’s compensation coverage.
Dulles Returns With
Assurances the West
Agrees on Berlin Action
WASHINGTON, M — Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles said
today the Western allies have
agreed generally on procedures to
follow if the Soviet Union invokes
-“physical means” to block access
to Berlin.
He also renewed the West’s offer
to talk about a general settlement.
“We are willing to talk with
the Soviets in a sincere effort to
reach agreements,” he said.
Dulles returned to Washington
after talks at London, Paris and
Bonn. Dulles told newsmen his
talks abroad “reconfirmed the uni
ty and firmness of our position.”
“We do not accept any substi
tution of East Germans for the
Soviet Union in its responsibilities
toward Berlin and its obligations
to us,” he said.
“We are resolved that our posi
tion in, and access to West Berlin
shall be preserved.
“We are in a general agreement
as to the procedures we shall fol
low if physical means are invoked
to interfere with our rights in
this respect.”
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Congress Asked to
Extend Alaska
Vacation Credits
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaska’s
senators asked Congress Friday
to authorize federal employes in
tiie 49th state to accumulate up to
45 days annual leave. .
The measure, by Senators Bob
Bartlett and Ernest Gruening,
would be applicable to all federal
employes in Alaska, whether re
cruited for work there or in the
States.
Until Alaska’s admission as a
state, government employes re
cruited outside for work in Alas
ka were authorized to accumulate
45 days leave, or vacation. With
statehood, however, the Comptrol
ler General ruled that the maxi
mum time which could be accu
mulated is 30 days — the same as
in other states.
Scout leaders from twelve coun
tries took training at the Schiff
Scout Reservation at Mendham,
New Jersey, in 1958.
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