DESK CONTRAST
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ALL CLEAR—President Eisenhower starts his work as chief
executive with a clean desk. It contrasts with the desks of
Presidents Truman and Roosevelt. Only the years will show
whether the contrast represents a difference in temperament or
only the fact that the new President has not had time to collect
mementos.
TRUMAN kept a number of things on his desk. In the center
is a pile of news bulletins. There is a 1917 picture of Mrs. Tru
man, a piece of granite from Mt. McKinley between the pens,
miniature donkeys, clocks, ash trays, calendars and a flag.
ROOSEVELT was noted for the knick-knack collection he kept
on his desk. In addition he had pictures of his four sons who
were in the service at the time.
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Senate Approves
“Nest Egg” Bill
Now Goes to House
JUNEAU, (J1!—The Alaska Sen
ate approved and sent to the
House Monday afternoon the
“nest egg” bill to create a $10
million fund as a stabilization
reserve against a day when de
creased military spending brings
headaches to the Territory.
Main arguments of the support
ers were that people sent the
Republicans to the legislature to
save money and setting aside a
surplus into a special fund would
make the territory unique among
debt-burdened state governments.
Opponents argued that school
needs should come first and that
the people sent the legislators to
meet the territory’s needs, not to
set up a savings bank, as Sen.
John Gorsuch (R - Anchorage)
labeled it, and if revenues are
more than needed there should
be a tax reduction.
The five who voted against the
bill after an hour long debate
were Democrats William Egan,
Valdez; Mark Jensen, Douglas;
and Republicans Elton Engstrom,
Juneau; Gorsuch and Paul Robi
son, Anchorage.
The main oratorical efforts
were between two Republicans,
Gorsuch and Mike Stepovic'n,
Fairbanks.
Gorsuch covered the field from
the Biblical parable of men who
received talents, to multiply them
or buy them, to school children
waiting for a bus that never
comes.
Stepovich made a desk-pound
ing appeal for the Butrovich
Nolan bill that left him with sore
knuckles.
The vote crossed party lines in
zig-zag fashion. Two Democrats
and three Republicans voted
against it; eight Republicans and
three Democrats for.
Gorsuch: “The people didn’t
send us here to start a savings
business. They sent us to meet
the problems of the territory.”
Stepovich responded acidly:
“To hear the senator from the
Third Division, it sounds like the
people sent us here to spend.
There’s a little money—so let ’er
go. The Democrats didn’t spend
enough down here so the people
sent the Republicans down to
spend more.”
Sen. James Nolan, Wrangell
Democrat and co - author of the
bill, told the Senate there would
be ample money for territorial
needs and “if we can’t put some
thing aside in these lush times
we’d better examine our whole
financial structure.”
Sen. Egan of Valdez argued
thusly against the bill:
“Many districts have been
waiting 10 years for schools. We
haven’t accomplished even the
necessary things, let alone the
desirable ones. In business you
must keep a margin of profit or
you cease to operate. In gov
ernment you must provide for the
fundamental needs of the people,
and keep in the black if you can.”
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$400,000 In Fishing
License Refunds
Delayed In Senate
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, (A*>—A bill for refund
of approximately $400,000 to non
resident fishermen or firms that
paid their Alaska license fees ran
into Senate delay yesterday after
noon.
Elton Engstrom’s (R-Juneau) bill
was referred back to the Judiciary
Committee after questions were
raised over the bill’s language and
whether the territory had specific
information on instances in which
companies paid for a block of
licenses and then deducted the
costs from payments to fishermen.
Paul Robison (R-Anchorage) ex
pressed concern over whether the
treasurer might make a tax re
fund to the firms, then face claims
from individual fishermen.
The refund would be the differ
ence between a $5 president li
cense and a $50 non-resident li
cense which the supreme court
has ruled out.
A bill for $275,000 for reim
bursing bank and individual loans
for finishing the two top floors
of the new territorial office build
ing here went through the second
reading without amendment and
comes up later, probably today,
for final action.
Territorial Treasurer Henry Ro
den was called to the stand to de
scribe negotiations. Roden said
that action was taken because the
building could be finished much
more economically while the con
tractor was on the job than later
under another contractor.
Roden said it was a tough job
Condemned Atom Spies
Julius, Ethel Rosenberg,
Win Stay of Execution
NEW YORK, (#) — Condemned
atom spies Julius and Ethel Ros
enberg Tuesday won a stay of
execution until at least March 30
and possibly longer.
The stay will be in effect to
permit the Supreme Court of the
United States to review the case
a third time.
They had been scheduled to die
the week of March 9.
A three-mem'oer United States
appeals court granted the stay on
motion of defense attorney Eman
uel H. Block to give the con
demned couple time to petition
the Supreme Court for a review.
Judge Learned Hand told
Bloch:
“We will give you a stay until
March 30, and, if your petition is.
filed then, then whatever the
Supreme Court decides to do is
up to that court and the stay will
not expire until they have acted.”
raising the bank loans. He said it
was a unique arrangement in
which no one signed notes for it.
“I didn’t want to alone,” he told
the senators,” and I didn’t want
the governor to do it.”
Roden was asked:
“Has it been decided who will
pay if we don’t pass the bill?”
“No,” Roden replied.
The House killed a bill two
years ago to appropriate $265,000
for the added cost of the building
but Roden said he thought that
was because it was late in the
session and he didn’t have a
chance to present the facts.
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