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Legislature Democrats Pass Bill to
Revise Board Appointment System;
Republicans Say It’s Just ‘Politics’
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU—A regular political
Donnybrook broke out in the Sen
ate of the Alaska legislature Mon
day afternoon before a bill was
passed to revise the system of ap
pointments to territorial boards.
The bill, which would allow the
legislature to do its own appoint
ing should any of the governor’s
appointments be rejected twice by
both branches in joint session,
went through strictly on party
lines, 12 Democrats for and the
four Republicans opobsed.
Alreadv passed by the Demo
cratic House, it was sent back
there for concurrence in a minor
amendment before it goes to Re
publican Gov. Heintzleman.
The board appointments bill
was approved by the Senate de
spite Republican denunciation of
it as “politics” and “usurpation of
executive power.” It was intro
duced in the House by Rep. Burke
Riley <D-Haines>, executive assis
tant to former Gov. Gruening.
In the debate over the appoint
ments bill, Sen. Doris Barnes
charged it was an attempt to “run
roughshod over the governor.”
Sen. Charles Jones (R-Nome)
called it a bill in which a domin
ant political majority is saying
“I’ve got you by the hair and you
do what I say.”
Democrats replied it is a bill to
bring order out of the system of
WEATHER FORECAST
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Continued clear and cold with
light variable winds. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight -30,
highest Thursday -10.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
-12, .low -33. Max. wind 10 mph
from the ENE. Sunrise 7:55 a.m.,
sunset 4:41 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 14. low -14. Extremes this
date since 1907: Highest 38 in
1947, Lowest -3S in 1955.
Other stations as of 7 a.m.-today:
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Barrow ' • -39 Snow
Kotzebue . -43 Clear
Wale« -36 . Clear
Nome -30 Clear
# JJnalakleet -24 Clear
Bethel 6 Snow
McGrath -10 Snow
Anchorage 5 Part cloudy
Fairbanks -13 Snow
Whitehorse -28 Cloudy
Edmonton -30 Cloudy
Juneau 27 Cloudy
Ketchikan 34 Cloudy
Seattle * 35 Fog
San Francisco 52 Light rain
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appointments which at times has
reached a chaotic point, and a
move to bring elected representa
tives of the people, as long as Al
aska has an appointive governor.
Sen. William Egan, head of the
j Democratic Policy Committee for
both houses, extolled the bill as
the only fair one of its kind ever
introduced. He said it would end
“the utter confusion over appoint
ments at the end of the session
under our hodgepodge of laws.”
The bill is described in its title
as*one for uniformity in. appoint
j ments. It would require the gov
ernor to make all appointments
at this session within three days
after the bill becomes law.
It was to rush it through and
make it effective this session that
the Democrats pulled a surprise
and brought it to the floor Mon
day under suspension of the rules
although it was not on the day’s
calendar.
After this year, the governor
would have to make all appoint
ments within 10 days of the con
vening of each future legislature.
If any appointee is rejected at the,
joint session of the houses for con-j
firmations, another name would
have to be submitted within five
days.
If it also is rejected—making
two rejections—the legislature
would do the appointing,
i “Strictly a political game,”
charged Sen. Mike Stepovich (R
Fairbanks)—“two strikes and you
i are out—and it’s a great big fat
political curve, aimed right at the
j governor.”
|' In lining up the Democratic
majority, Sen. Marcus Jensen <D
Douglas), who often disagrees
, with it, said he* did not like some
parts of the bill but “we have
i found that boards often have not
i carried out the policies set by the
j legislature. Since we don’t have
I an elective governor, the chain
of command .should be from the
people through . the legislature.
. The people can hold the legisla
! lure responsible.”
Others contended it would elim
inate the practice of interim ap
pointments—after the legislature
adjourns, under which the ap
pointees serve in the intervening
I two years without legislative con
: firmation.
Butrovich called it “politics be
j yontV anything I’ve seen. I don’t
think this will stay on the books
for four years,” he added.
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| Benson Gains Five Votes
In Election Ballot Recount
For Labor Commissioner
Commissioner of Labor Henry
Benson holds a gain of five votes
as the recount of territorial gener
al election ballots for that office
moved into the Third Division
precincts.
Benson has picked up 11 votes
to give him a total margin of 32,
but H. .J Lannen, of Cordova,
made a gain of six votes, two in
the Second Division, when that
ballot tally recount was complet
ed, and four so far in the Third.
Eighty precincts in the Third
Division’s total 97 are listed for a
ballot tally check in Democrat
Lannen’s request for the recount.
A total of 67 precincts are listed
in the total of 74 in the Fourth
Division. Ballots in 54 precincts
of the 58 in the First Division and
in 34 of the Second Division’s 37,
were recbunted.
Republican Benson took f the
election for the office of Labor
Commissioner with a 27-vote
margin over Lannen.
JAPANESE PREPARE FOR
BIG 1955 SALMON SEASON
SEATTLE, (£*>—Various reports
show, the Seattle Post-Intelli
gencer says, that Japanese are
readying their greatest fishing
fleet since the war for the 1955
salmon season.
A 50 percent expansion has
been planned in the Aleutian op
erations as well as a new effort in
previously forbidden Communist
waters, the newspaper’s marine
editor reported Tuesday.
JANUARY WEATHER, NOME
The first week of January was
very cold, averaging much below
normal, but the remainder of the
month was unseasonably warm
with frequent light precipitation,
resulting in a monthly average
temperature well above normal.
Overheard—She: “I was a fool
when I married you.”
He: “I knew yGu were, but I
had the mistaken idea you would
grow out of it.”
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