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A \ ote of Praise to the "Ice Bloc** . . .
N OPPONENT OF THE VOCATIONAL School
for Northern Alaska, which is long overdue as
far as education and justice are concerned, condescend
ingly voiced the opinion that the million and a half
sought for this project would only build the basement
of the school.
Perhaps to a legislator from Anchorage, who is
accustomed to asking for much larger sums for far
less important projects, this amount is insignificant,
but to the “Ice Bloc” as the Northern Alaskan Legisla
tors are called, this small gleaning is the start cf a
segment of our educational system which has long
been ignored.
The courage of the “Ice Bloc” in not yielding on
this issue deserves praise and cooperation and not
ridicule. Because their voice is small, members
of the “Ice Bloc” sometimes find it necessary to be
both blunt and spectacular in order to be heard at all.
While other parts of Alaska are seeking black
top roads, millions for extension of airports, all our
legislators ask is a road, of the most pioneer type, to
connect Northwestern Alaska with the highway sys
tem of North America. Any legislator from any part
of the state who scoffs at that does not have the feel
of Alaska as one big state, but is thinking of only his
part of the state.
Seme legislators from other parts of Alaska, do
not seem to be seeing Alaska as a whole, because if
they did they would realize that any development in
roads, schools, construction, mining, tourist, etc., of
Northwestern Alaska directly benefits all other parts
of the state. Anything or anybody coming to the coast
of Northwestern Alaska must go through the other
parts of the state to get here. Any legislator support
ing the “Ice Bloc” is not being benevolent, but in
directly helping his own part of Alaska.
Miners & Merchants Bank of Alaska
THE FRIENDLY BANK
FULL BANKING SERVICES
To Northwestern Alaska Since 190*
— BRANCH OFFICE IN KOTZEBUE —
Senate Okays
One-Gent Increase
On Gasoline Tax
JUNEAU i/P1 — The Senate gave
its approval to a one-cent in
crease in the motor vehicle gaso
line tax Wednesday, boosting the
tax per gallon to eight cents.
Before passing the measure the
Senate was told by Sen. Howard
Pollock that the tax increase was
the only way the Senate could
find to keep the state’s highway
program going.
Tollock said the $500,000 a year
the adidtional cent a gallon tax
: raise will be used to remove utility
■ poles from the rights of way of
j new highway construction.
The Anchorage Republican said
the money raised by the tax boost
would eventually be returned to
the state, either by the utilities
and the federal government in
combination or by the utilities
themselves.
The tax increase was the re
sult of a long series of meetings
between representatives of 26
utilities and members of the Sen
ate and House Finance and Judi
ciary Committees.
At issue was removal of utility
poles to a certain distance from
highway rights of way, as re
quired by the federal highway
aid program.
Sen. R. J. McNealy, chairman
of the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee. said last week that some $7 j
or $8 million in road projects in j
Ihe Fairbanks, Anchorage and !
Kenai Peninsula areas was being
held up because neither the state I
nor the the utilities had the money i
to relocate the utility poles.
“I campaigned against any in
creases in taxes,” Pollock told the
Senate, “but I’ve got to support
this tax increase.
“Believe me, the Judiciary and
Finance Committees went over
this problem for hours, and we
just simply don’t know how else
we can raise the money.
“We will get the money back
eventually.”
Senate Okays Exemptions
To Overtime Provisions
T; Waves ar.d Hours Act
JUNEAU — A bill establish
ing more exemptions to the over
time provisions of the State
Wages and Hours Act was ap
proved by the Senate yesterday
a; d was sent to the House.
B fore passage, the bill was
amended to exclude employes of
businesses where less than four
employes are on the payroll in
ihe regular course of business.
It also was amended to ex
clude employers o small mining
operations where no more than
12 persons are on the payroll.
Exempted from provisions of
the overtime clause were agri
cultural employes, employes of
newspapers with a circulation of
less than 1,000; seamen; taxicab
operators; loggers and lumber
men in operations hiring less than
13 men; outside buyers of dairy
products; and outside salesmen.
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Alaska Couple
Will Celebrate 50th
Wedding Anniversary
SEATTLE !/P> — Mr. and Mrs.
William L. Paul, who came to
Seattle from Alaska in 1957, will
be honored on their 50th wed
ding anniversary at a reception
from 2 to 5 o’clock Sunday at
Westminster House.
Paul, 75, is a son of pioneer
missionaries in Alaska. He was an
Alaskan legislator four years, was
an attorney and formerly pub
lished a weekly newspaper and
monthly magazine in Ketchikan.
Paul wrote the bill in 1927 cre
ating the flag still used by the
State of Alaska.
Mrs. Paul, 71, taught school in
Ketchikan and Juneau for the
Bureau of Indian Affairs. Later,
she was executive secretary of
the Alaska Tuberculosis Assn, un
til 1957.
Mrs. Paul wrote a book, “Home
Care of the Tuberculous,” still
used in Alaska, and a book on
Tlingit Indian basketwork, used
as a textbook in basket weaving.
The couple met at Whitworth
College, Spokane, and were mar
ried in Aberdeen on March 15,
1911. They went to Alaska from
Portland in 1920. They lived in
Wrangell, Ketchikan and Juneau.
Paul, whose mother was Tlin
git Indian, is President-Emeritus
of the Alaska Native Brotherhood,
a fraternal and political organiza
tion. He led a fi.:;ht in 1928 to de
segregate public schools.
The Pauls live at 1521 16th Ave.
N. They have four children, Wil
liam L. Jr., and Frederick, both
attorneys, Robert, and Mrs. Fran
ces Degerman, all of Seattle, and j
eight grandchildren.
Paul is a Mason and is a deacon ,
and choir member of the First
Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Paul i
is a member of the Order of East
ern Star, of the Chief Seattle
Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution and is a for
mer President of the Alaska Fed- j
oration of Women’s Clubs.
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«$5 Million of Ferry Cone! j
Issue Would be Set Aside
For Poad Construction
JUNEAU i.T—Legislation which j
would set aside $5 million of the
S23 million Ferry-Road Bond is
sue for construction of new high- \
ways was introduced in the Sen
ate yesterday, by the Federal Re- '
lations Committee,
The House passed the Ferry
Road Bond Bill Tuesday. It pro
vide1: for the appropriation of $18
million of the $23 million to be 1
raised from the general obliga
tion bond issue for ferries and !
ferry facilities..
Under the L v ns of the mcas- ;
ure introduced by the Senate Fed- i
oral Relations Committee, the $5 I
million would be used to match ,
\ ai able to t le
state foi new highway construe- i
tion.
The measure does not state i
what specific roads are to be '
constructed.
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Fr-^Iillion Dollar
Libol Suit Filed
Against Coghill
ANCHORAGE UP) — Eugene
Roguszka, Director of the State
Division of Aviation, has filed
a quarter-million dollar libel and
slander suit in Superior Court
here against Sen. John R. Cog
hill iR-Nenana>.
Roguszka alleged that certain
remarks made by Coghill last
January regarding the condition
of the Aviation Construction Re
volving Fund were “deliberately,
maliciously and wilfully made for
the political purpose of bringing
discredit upon the administra
tion of the Honorable William A.
Egan, governor of Alaska, by
causing the people to believe that
plaintiff . . . appointed by the
governor to a position of trust, was
guilty of gross dishonesty.”
Because of Coghill’s position in
the Legislature, Roguszka said in
his suit, “the false and slanderous
remarks . . . were given wide
spread publicity throughout the
state, . . . The remarks of the
defendant . . . were given great
credence by the people of the
state.”
Roguszka said Coghill’s remarks
concerning the Aviation Division,
made outside the legislative cham
bers, have “caused both plaintiff
and his wife, Delores, great hu
miliation, shame and damage to
their good name. . . .
“That by reason of the . . .
malicious and degrading acts on
the part of Senator Coghill . . .
the sum of $150,000 is a reason
able sum to be allowed the plain
tiff by way of punitive damages.”
Roguszka also asked $100,000
in compensatory damages.
KENNEDY SUFFERS
CUT OVER LEF”’ EYE
WASHINGTON (/Pi — President
Kennedy suffered a cut over his
left eye Thursday w'hile picking
up something for his 3-year-old
daughter, Caroline. In bending
down, his head struck the corner
of a table.
White House Pr-ss .Secretary
Pierre Salinger said the cut re
quired no stitches but had to be
covered with a small bandage. He
described the cut as “pretty
deep.”
Salinger said he did not know
what tiie President was picking
up for his daughter fiwn the ac
cident occurred.
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