Senate Asked to
Return House Cuts
In Alaska Funds
WASHINGTON, UP> — Senator
Bob Bartlett has asked a Senate
Appropriations subcommittee to
disregard changes made by the
House in passing the money bill
to finance federal administration
of Alaska’s game and fisheries.
The House, slashing sharply at
Administration recommendations,
pared appropriations to the level
it thought necessary to continue
federal programs only until Jan
uary 1 and earmarked much of
this to be financed from Pribilof
Island seal revenues.
In urging a return to levels
proposed by the Administration,
Bartlett said Pribilof revenues are
insufficient to overcome the House
reduction. He said also there are
grave doubts that Congress will
remain in session long enough to
fulfill requirements of the state
hood law so Alaska could take
over its fish and game programs
January 1.
President Eisenhower asked
Congress for $535,625 for adminis
tration of the Alaska game law and
$1,664,700* for administration of
Alaska’s fisheries in the year be
ginning July 1.
The House, however, reduced
the game program to $268,000 and
pared the fisheries management
program to $833,700. Of the
amounts approved for both pro
grams, the House earmarked
8666,000 to come from revenues of
the Pribilof Island seal fishery.
Bartlett said U. S. returns from
the Pribilof program during the
year is expected to total only
$3,196,500, of which $1,940,000
would be spent for administra
• lion. Of the remaining $1,256,500,
Alaska is entitled under the state
hood bill to receive 70 per cent or
$879,550. This, he said, would
leave only $289,355 to fill a need
of $666,000 as spelled out by the
House.
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Governor Names Negro Woman To
Legislature As Racier Replacement
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Mrs,]
Blanche McSmith, named by Gov-1
ernor Egan to fill a vacancy in!
the State House of Representa
tives, said two programs in which
she is particularly interested are
in the fields of civil rights and
vocational education.
Mrs. McSmith, the first Negro
ever to be a member of the Legis
lature, will step into the seat va
cated by John Rader of Anchor
age. Rader recently became the
state’s first Attorney General.
Mrs. McSmith said her legisla
tive plans call for introducing
amendments to the civil rights law
now on the books. She would
River Flooding
Abated By Navy
Bombs at Ft. Yukon
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Blasting
of ice jams by military teams has
eased danger of flooding on both
the Yukon and Kuskokwim Riv
ers, Ed Fortier, acting Civil De
fense director, reported yesterday.
A Navy bomber dropped six 500
pound bombs on an ice jam two
miles below the village of Ft.
Yukon, where the water had cov
ered the air strip and part of the
business district late Monday.
The water was reported drop
ping Tuesday, although the Navy
was to return later to blast the
jam again. Several homes were al
ready flooded but damage was not
major, Fortier said.
An Army helicopter team eased
the danger at Tuluksak and Akia
chak, upriver from Bethel on the
Kuskokwim River, with demoli
tions on ice jams below each
village.
A1 Laroux, C-D director at Be
thel, reported the ice was begin
ning to move there and he believed
the danger is past.
The danger at Ft. Yukon was
increased by a jam five miles
above the town.
“If the upper jam broke while
the lower ice wall held, the vil
lage could be wiped out,” Fortier
said.
strengthen the law to include non
discrimination amendments in the
fields of housing and employment.
“I don’t think there is very
much more to do to the law of
1945,” she said, “except that I
think housing should be empha
sized. We have had some prob
lem with discrimination in hous
ing here, particularly in public
supported housing.
She also said she advocated a
commission to administer the fair
employment practices act.
One of her principal interests
lies in the field of vocational edu
cation. She said the state should
help prepare those unskilled per
sons who in a few years will find
little in the way of employment
unless they receive some training
and acquire skills.
■Mrs. McSmith said she felt
“very humble in accepting the
nomination.”
“I feel that Governor Egan had
a very difficult decision to make
with so many other qualified per
sons to consider,” Mrs. McSmith
said. She was one of six Anchor
age area Democrats endorsed by
the South Central Democratic
Committee for the post.
“However,” she added, “consid
ering the vote of confidence at
the polls in the primary election,
for which I was grateful, I am
tremendously pleased to accept the
nomination and will do my best
to represent the people of my
district and all the citizens of
Alaska. I hope I will never see
the day when Governor Egan
would have reason to regret his
confidence in me.”
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Scouts’ Court of Honor
Advances Eight Boys
In Awards Ceremony
Eight Boy Scouts received ad
vancement awards last evening at
the Scout Hall in a Court of
Honor ceremony presided over
by Judge Walter Hodge, chair
man of the Central Scout Com
mittee. _
The awards were made by Sgt.
Jim Blanning of A.C.S. and Lt.
Bill Caldwell of the A.N.G.
Ricky Young received his 1st
Class Badge, and 2nd Class
Badges were awarded to Gabriel
Moses, Fred Chunn, Willie and
Homer Hoogendorn, Billy Bixby,
and Jeff Grant. David Craft was
not present to accept his award.
Scoutmaster John Bandy said
that many of the boys have al
ready advanced in grade but that
these awards will be made at the
Court of Honor at the Salmon
Lake encampment in June.
Edgar Bibb filmed the awards j
ceremony on his 16 mm movie
camera with the expectation of
using it for television promotion
of Scout activities.
One of the ingredients lacking
for a more complete Scouting pro
gram in Nome, is a contact man
who will enlist the support and |
presence of parents of Scouts at
such functions ae the Court of
Honor and encampments.
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Hoffa Says Quote
Of Strike Threats
Was ‘Distortion’
HOUSTON, Tex., UP) — Team
sters Union president James Hof
fa today denied he threatened a
nationwide strike in reprisal for
proposed restrictive labor laws.
He told the Houston Chronicle
late Tuesday that accounts of his
speech in Brownsville were “dis
tortions of the truth.” He said
there is “no threat of a nationwide
Teamsters’ strike whatever.”
The Associated Press reporter
at the Brownsville meeting, Whit
ney Sawyer, said however, he
quoted Hoffa correctly. Sawyer
said he talked to Hoffa after the
Brownsville meeting and the
union president then repeated
the threat.
Hoffa, addressing a convention
of longshoremen at Brownsville
was quoted by the A-P as saying
in reference to restrictive labor
laws:
“The only answer is that if
such a law is passed, we should
have all of our contracts end on a
given date. They talk about a
secondary boycott. We can call a
primary strike all across the na
tion that will straighten out the
employers once and for all.”
The McCallen Texas Monitor
quoted Hoffa as adding:
“Then if we have to, we could
call one solitary strike through
out the United States to tie up
all employers across the nation
at one time.”
Hoffa spoke extemporaneously
and no transcript of his Browns
ville remarks was made.
In Houston Tuesday Hoffa said
there was “no threat of a nation
wide Teamsters strike whatever.
“What I said was that if this
restrictive legislation is passed,
we will be forced into European
type unions.”
Hoffa said in this type of union
“industry-wide and company-wide
bargaining would have to be done
wherever a dispute arose.”
FILMS SHOWN TONIGHT
Special Gospel films are to be
shown at the Nome Gospel -Home
tonight at 7 p.rn. The films shown
will be “African Conflict” and
“The Rapture.”
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