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Alaska Congressmen Setting up Shop;
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, UP>—Committee
preferences of Alaska’s first vot
ing Congressional delegation cover
nearly every phase of the 49th
State economy.
Whether Alaska’s newcomers
get their wishes won’t be known
until organization of the House
and Senate is completed after the
86th Congress convenes January
7. But here’s what they want:
Senator-elect E. iL. (Bob) Bart
lett, who sat as a voteles member
of various House committees while
serving 14 years as Alaska’s dele
gate, hopes to wind up on the
Senate Commerce Committee
headed by Senator Warren G.
Magnuson (D-Wash). It handles
legislation dealing with shipping,
airlines, fisheries and communi
cations — all pertinent to Alaska.
His colleague, Ernest Gruening.
wants to go on the Senate Interior
and/or Public Works Committees.
Alaskans are familiar with Inter
ior’s role in legislation concerning
Statehood for the Territory, pub
lic lands, Indians, National Parks,
forests and reclamation, and with
that of public works in recom
mending highway, river and har
bor projects.
On the House side, Represen
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tativeelect Ralph J. Rivers seeks a
spot on the coveted Armed Serv
ices Committee with Interior as a
second or alternative choice.
The actual assignments in both
the House and Senate will be made
by a committee on committees,
subject to confirmation by the
Democratic caucuses.
Meanwhile, the Alaskan trio is
occupied with various housekeep
ing chores in anticipation of the
session’s start less than two weeks
away. Rivers, who arrived in
Washington early this week with
his wife, Martha, after a cross
country drive from Seattle, ex
pects his principal aide, Charles
W. Hughes of Ketchikan, over the
weekend. George Sundborg, Alas
ka newspaperman who will be
Gruening’s administrative aide,
also is expected about the same
time.
Gruening also has hired Frances
Veach and Herb Beaser, both
aides to former Senator Herbert
H. Lehman (D-NY), as secretary
and legislative assistant respect
ively. Beaser most recently has
been with Representative Edith
Green (R-Ore):
Bartlett said he plans to make
no additions for several months
to the staff which has manned
his office as delegate.
Queen Elizabeth I built up a
collection of hundreds of pairs of
richly embroidered and bejeweled
gloves through the custom of New
Year’s gifts.
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HOUSE SPEAKER i
WIELDS IMPORTANT
POLITICAL POWERS
When the 86th Congress con
venes on January 7th, Sam Ray
burn will take up the gavel he has
wielded for a record-breaking 15
years as Speaker of the House o'
Representatives. ^
The Texas Democrat has held
the post almost twice as long as
any other speaker. But two Re
publicans gave the speakership
the power that has caused some
experts to rank it as the second
most important office in the
nation.
Henry Clay was the first to .
turn the office to political advan
tage. The speaker was simply an
impartial moderator before Clay’s
election in 1811.
However, the speakership was
transformed into a political tool
almost as powerful as the presi
dency by Thomas Reed and"
“Uncle Joe” Cannon.
In 1890, Reed cracked down on
the delaying tactics of minority
groups by counting all members
present as a quorum — a number
sufficient to conduct business —
even if they did not vote. «
The move earned Reed the
nickname “Czar,” but the Su
preme Court later upheld the rule.
Reed’s methods were only the
starting point for Joseph Cannon,
who ruled the House like a dic
tator in the early 1900’s.
Once, after putting a question ]
for a voice vote, “Uncle Joe” de
clared, “The eyes make the most
noise but the nayes have it.”
Even some members of Can
non’s party rebelled. In 1910, on I
S|.. Patrick’s Day, a coalition of
Democrats and about 30 Repub
licans set out to strip Cannon of
much of his power.
Because of the “St. Patrick’s
Day Revolution,” Sam Rayburn
has little of the formal authority
which Reed and Cannon dele
gated to themselves.
He still has the important
“speaker’s eye,” or the power of
recognizing members who wish to
speak on the floor.
But most of his strength comes
from an informal source — the
party discipline he can maintain
as leader of the majority party
in the House.
Air Force Jet
Crashes In England
Kesgrave, England, WP) — A
U. S. Air Force jet tore a 100-yard
long trail' of destruction through
this village today, killing one res
ident.
The plane, its engine afire,
plunged into the ground only a
minute after taking off. It killed
a woman, injured several other
persons, wrecked a gas station
and a house, and damaged sev
eral others.
The pilot, 1st Lt. Charles L.
Prescott, Santa Monica, Calif.,
parachuted to safety unhurt.
BRIDGEPORT, Calif. (FHTNC),
Marine Pfc. Albert L. Agibnik,.
son of Mrs. Virginia Agibinik of!
Unalakleet, Alaska, serving with
the First Marine Division at Camp I
Pendleton, Calf., completed three |
weeks’ training at the Marine
Corps Cold Weather Training Cen
ter, Bridgeport, Calif., on Dec. 19.
The training, conducted in deep
snow and sub-zero temperatures |
in the high Sierras, is designed to
familiarize Marines with cold
weather infantry tactics and fight
ing in rough terrain.
Each of the two rudders on the
Navy’s newest aircraft carrier
USS Independence, weighs 45 tons
and equals the floor area of a two
bedroom house.
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The Wonderful Antibiotics
It is possible that you are alive and healthy today because your
doctor prescribed an antibiotic drug. Their discovery and develop
ment are, without doubt, one of the greatest medical accomplishments
of our time. They have saved untold numbers of lives, and millions
of dollars in medical bills. <
Diseases which today are
stopped in a matter of hours or
days with an antibiotic drug,
once took weeks of medical atten
tion and bed rest. An example is
pneumonia. Prior to the antibio
tics, this illness usually confined
the victim to bed for at least
three weeks. Today, with the use
of antibiotics and proper care,
the pneumonia patient can be up
and around in a week. This is
only one example.
Other dread-diseases of yester
day have fallen before the anti
biotics: scarlet fever, syphilis,
gonorrhea, “blood poisoning”,
and more than a hundred other
human and animal ills.
What is an antibiotic? Non
technically, it is a chemical sub
stance, produced by a fermenta
tion process from living organ
isms, which will attack many in
fectious organisms. It is a battle
of microbe against microbe. The
organisms which produce the an
tibiotic substance are found plen
tifully in the soil.
The first antibiotic, known lat
er as penicillin, was first ob
served by Sir Alexander Flem
ing in his laboratory in 1929. But
it was not until ten years later
that Dr. Howard Florey, looking
for substances more useful than
the new sulfa drugs, conducted
studies which proved the impor
tance of Dr. Fleming’s earlier
discovery . , . and resulted in
penicillin.
The dramatic story of how
penicillin was brought from Eng
land to the United States at the
beginning of World War II for
commercial production is well
known.
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After penicillin came a succes
sion of “broad-spectrum” anti
biotics, drugs which are effective
against a much greater number
of organisms than penicillin.
Right now, night and day, the
laboratories of our pharmaceu
tical companies are spendirj
millions of dollars on research,
looking for even better antibio
tics. The day may not be far off
when these efforts will produce
an antibiotic drug which will
conquer diseases that now are
incurable. Maybe even cancer.
While the antibiotics are po
tent and useful chemical agents,
many people have the impression
that they are a cure-all for every
ill. This is far from the truth.
Because they are so potent, anti
biotics should never be taken ex
cept upon the advice of a physi
cian. Not only \\ 1 he determine
whether or not you need an anti
biotic, but he will also know
which one.
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