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Harming People’s Interests
(Daily Alaska Empire)
The past several weeks the controversy between
the offices of the attorney general and Governor Heint
zleman has been sharing Page 1 space with the news
about congressional committees making on-the-spot
studies of Alaskan problems. However, the nature of
the news has been somewhat different in respect to
its effect on the interests of the citizens of the territory.
The congressmen and senators have been visiting
Alaska with the idea of gathering facts which aid the
territory in its needs which are served by Congress. The
controversy with the governor’s office works against
the interests of our citizens.
Effect f the attorney general’s opinions regarding
Governor Heintzleman’s appointments to territorial
boards has been to make even more difficult the gov
ernor’s already tough job of obtaining desirable and
qualified men to serve on these boards. Innocent men!
have become the centers of political1 controversy
through no fault of their own.
To effeciently direct the operation of the territorial
government, commissioners of these boards must be
the best men that can be found. Those who agree to
accept appointment do so without salary and only re
ceive expense allowances. The attorney general’s office
now has attacked the right of several of them to receive
this money—a mere pittance as compared to the ser
vice they performed for the public.
This controversy between the attorney general’s
office and the governor has been rather disgracful. It
was even termed “disgraceful” by several of the con
gressmen who were in Juneau recently. They felt that
this political argument between the two offices actually
was kicking the interests of the people of Alaska around
and generally retarding progress in the territory.
Certainly no one in the territory benefits by these
politically inspired decisions from the attorney gener
al’s office.All theyve done is hamstring the normal oper
ation of the territorial government. The decisions have
been loud-mouthed and noisy. We label them such
because stupid politicians sometimes think that to im
pose their decisions on the public for political reason
makes sense. It is high time that the rabble-rousing
be recognized for exactly what it is.
It certainly cannot mean progress for the terri
tory of Alaska or any of its more than 200,000 people.
Only Sea Otters
In Captivity Arrive
At Woodland Park Zoo
SEATTLE, Gf)—Tony and Susy,
perhaps the only sea otters in cap
tivity, at least outside of Russia,
arrived at the Woodland Park Zoo
here Monday.
The animals were caught a
month ago on Amchitka Island by
Karl Kenyo, a biologist for the
United States Fish and Wildlife
Service, and his Aleut helper, An
tone Bezezekoff. Amchitka is
about 160 miles west of Adak, in
the Aleutian Islands.
“We think they are the only
captive sea otters in the world,”
said Kenyon. “But we don’t know
about Russia.”
Three were caught last year.
They were kept at the Woodland
Park Zoo for two weeks but died
soon after being taken to a Wash
ington D.C. zoo. Kenyon said they
couldn’t stand the 90-degree tem
peratures there.
Capture of the otters was inci
dental to a study project in which
Kenyon and Bezezekoff spent two
and a half months on Amchitka,
studying habits of otters in“ the
wild. The Navy kept them sup
plied with mail and checked with
them by radio occasionally to be
certain they were all right.
Tony, 6 months old, was caught
Sept. 9. Susy, 18 months old, was
captured Sept. 4. Bezezekoff
pulled them from the sea with a
large dip net.
Tony and Susy will be given
quarters in the bear grotto.
|U.S. Is Becoming
! More Dependent
On Mineral Import
LAS VEGAS, Nev., M—Secre
tary of the Interior McKay says
the United States has a “growing
dependence upon imports” of
minerals.
He told delegates to the annual
I meeting of the American Mining
| Congress Monday that “most of
| our high-grade ores have been de
I pleted and we have to learn in
j creasingly to handle economically
I the submarginal ones.”
McKay said “We have only 7
percent of the world’s population
yet we produce one-third of the
world’s minerals. But we consume
one-half of the world’s production
of minerals.”
“That we have a job to do is
evidenced by our growing depen-1
dence upon imports,” he contin
ued. “No longer can we fight a
war, or sustain an industrial econ
omy, without the aid of materials
from foreign sources.”
Delegates adopted a resolution
urging legislation “to strip the
labor bosses of their most deadly [
weapon—enforced political con- 1
\
tributions.” It called such contri
butions “the boldest bid for econ
omic and political power ever
made by any group since the
founding of this country.”
—
The wild elephant has been al
I most exterminated from India j
I and now can b* found only in !
I higher ridges and plateaus.
Columbus the Pioneer
Four hundred and sixty-three years ago today it
took Christopher Columbus seventy days to cross the
Atlantic Ocean and become the discoverer of America.
What he and his crew accomplished can now be
done in a few hours without any kind of discomfort
and contact with the mainlands throughout the trip.
Like the achievements of many great men, Colum
bus' discovery was not appreciated until long after his
death. He died in disgrace and obscurity but Americans
make the date of the founding of the free world a red
letter day on their calendars so that they do not forget
the first pioneer.
Alaskans chose this day to dedicate the'Haines
Fairbanks pipeline ALCANGO, completed through the
cooperation of Americans and Canadians, all part of the
great country which Columbus found.
Those pioneers who made it possible with their
prospecting, trapping, fishing, endurance and forbear
ance against the many injustices thrust upon them
during the territorial status will be an important part
of the history of Alaska now in the making. All Alas
kans are proud of their heritage.
Truman Says There’s No
Basis for Charge Demos
Will Drop Stevenson
NEW YORK, UP*—Former Presi
dent Harry Truman said Tuesday
there is no basis for a Republican
charge the Democrats may drop
Adlai Stevenson as a possible
presidential nominee even before
next year’s convention.
Republican National Chairman
Leonard Hall had said Monday
Stevenson, defeated by President
Eisenhower four years ago, “may
be dumped in midstream.”
He indicated he thought Tru
man, Gov. Averell Harriman of
New York and Carmine Desapio,
a high Democratic Party leader in
New York, might be engineering
such a plan.
Harriman hay been prominently
mentioned as a possible nominee,
and was host to Truman over the
weekend at Albany.
Press Freedom May
Return in Argentina
ZURICH, Switzerland, UP)—'The
International Press Institute re
ported Tuesday it has been ad
vised by the office of Argentine
Provisional President Lonardi that
the return of Argentina’s indepen
dent newspapers to their owners
is under consideration.
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