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A GOOD LEGISLATURE
(The Juneau Independent)
Citizens who get the impression from reading the
newspapers that the 22nd Territorial Legislature
spends all its time listening to speeches about George
Folta, Paul Robison and other subjects somewhat out
side the legislative purview make a serious mistake.
This i$ the hardest-working, smoothest - running
most thoughtful and productive session we have seen
in 15 years in Juneau. Maybe it is a mistake to pass
out bouquets so early in the 60 days. We dare to do
it because the seriousness of the 36 men and four
women making up the membership of this Legislature
guarantees that they are going to stay on the ball to
the end.
Legislation long needed is fairly crackling through
the two houses. Changes made in the rules early this
session have materially speeded up the legislative
process. The clowns, the wastrels of time and the out
and out obstructionists of other years are missing from
the scene in 1955.
We will repeat, with even greater confidence that
1 when it was first pronounced some weeks ago, that it
is our prediction the 22nd Legislature will be remem
bered as one of the best in Alaska’s history as a
Territory.
TOWARD A BETTER WORLD
In spite of the just-revealed fact that the USSR
has stepped up its military budget 12 percent over
•last year, we are assured that their atomic activities
are in the interests of building a better world.
When our scientists detected some time ago what
they assumed to be bomb tests somewhere in the vast
ness of the Soviet, the Russians explained they were
merely moving a mountain. More recently a more de
tailed discussion of the atomic plans of Soviet scientists
has come to light. This piece, by Andrei Markin, a
Russian engineer, says their projects include revers
ing rivers as well as moving mountains, shooting warm
Pacific currents into the Arctic ocean and melting the
Polar ice cap—to mention a few.
The Soviet atomic aim, says Mr. Markin, is “to
rectify many defects of nature.” It should be borne in
mind, that he might possibly be including the human
race, capitalist division.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued fair with high, thin
clouds. Colder tonight. Wind light
and variable. Lowest temperature
expected tonight -17, highest to
morrow 0.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
10, low -11. Max. wind 6 mph
from the north. Sunrise 7:14 a.m.,
sunset 5:16 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 10, low -11. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 37 in 1915,
low -30 in 1918.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
S^aiion Temp. Weather
Barrow -16 Cloudy
Kotzebue 6 Snow
Wale* 9 Cloudy
Nome -7 Cloudy
Unalakleet -16 Part cloudy
Bethel -6 Part cloudy
Nenana -6 Clear
McGrath 15 Clear
Anchorage *23 Clear
Fairbanks -4 Part cloudy
Whitehorse -5 Part cloudy
Edmonton 21 Part cloudy
Juneau 26 Cloudy
Ketchikan 36 Cloudy
Seattle 47 Clear
San Francisco -5 Clear
E. S. Deadlock . . .
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siding in rural and remote area.”
The bill is being sponsored by
Sens. Howard Lvng (D-Nome),
Doris Barnes (R-Wrangell), Mike
; Stepovich (R-Fairbanks) and Wm.
Egan (D-Valdez).
Two of the duties of the pro
posed boards, as set forth in the
bill, would be to handle any
emergency relief program outside
of tl>e regular territorial and fed
eral assistance programs, and to
formulate a program of public
construction of basic facilities for
the benefit of the isolated vill-j
ages.
In another legislative develop
ment, the Territorial Police Com
mission has made a $500,000 re
duction in its original budget re
quest. The request was for more
than two million dollars.
New Bills . . .
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lishment if the signer actually
should be proven to be under age.
The bill was introduced by
Reps. Vern Metcalfe <D-Juneau),
Edith Bullock ‘R-Kotzebue) and
Peter Kalamarides ‘D-Anchor
age;.
Small Loans Bill
A bill was introduced by two
Fairbanks senators for an Alaska
small loans act.
It would require registration of
persons in the business of making
loans under one thousand dollars
and would set the maximum rates
of interest to be charged. It also
would forbid the adding of any
extra service fees for a loan ex
cept to cover actual costs. Sena
tors Ralph Rivers and Frank Barr
put in the bill.
Teachers' Retirement Law
The Senate Education Commit
tee submitted one to revise the
Teachers’ Retirement Law, de
scribed as an act “to provide an
actuarially sound retirement
plan”.
A bill setting forth strict proce
dures under which a teacher can
be dismissed or penalized for al
leged misconduct or incompe
tency was introduced by Rep.
Stanley McCutcheon, by request.
It would set up a strict formula
for hearings unless a teacher is
dismissed because there actually
is no need for his or her services.
In the latter case the teacher
would be entitled to 60 days’ pay.
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Unemployment
Security Bills
Before Legislature
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, (jP — Legislation re- j
vising the territorial employment |
security law drew the attention i
of both the House and the Sen- ;
ate Friday.
The revision is expected to be j
one of the major jobs of the law- j
makers before they close up shop j
25 days hence.
Although the House spent most I
of its time on the employment
security problem, it did find time
to okeh a bill which would create
an Alaska Bar Assn.
The association would oversee
the legal practice in the territory
and would have the power to
disbar lawyers who transgress the
canons of the profession.
The employment security bills
being considered by the House
and the Senate were quite differ
ent.
The House was considering
the bill introduced by its Labor
Committee as a substitute for
H.B. 50, which was drawn by
representatives of organized
labor.
It would provide for a top pay
ment of $60 a week in unem
ployment benefits for persons
staying in Alaska and for a maxi
mum of $35 a week—which is the
present level — for unemployed
workers who leave Alaska to
draw their benefits. It would el
iminate benefits for dependents
in Alaska.
It would restrict the benefits
for short-term workers in Alaska
by requiring that a person would
have to work more than three
months to get benefits. He would
have to have income during a
second quarter which would be
equal to one-fourth of what he
earned during his quarter of high
est income.
That provision probably would
eliminate workers in the salmon
canning industry.
The bill would increase the pay
level on which the employment
security taxes are levied aaginst j
the employer to $4,800 from the
present $3,000 limit, and also
would require workers to con
tribute one per cent of their in
come, up to a maximum of $48
a year.
' In the Senate, Senate Bill 56
was under consideration. It would
set up sharply restrictive stand
ards for payments through a
clause that would enable an un
I employed worker to draw bene
fits only in a month in which he
had worked during the previous
year.
It has a provision of maximum
payments of $70 a week for work
ers who can qualify.
Record 28,673 Persons
Visit University
Museum During 1954
Travelers from every state in
the Union and 38 foreign coun
tries toured the University of Al- •
aska Museum during 1954 to set
a new visitor record of 28,673.
Dr. Ivar Skarland, museum di
rector and head of the anthro
pology department, last week dis
closed that this record compares
with 28,068 visitors for 1953, 23,
400 for 1952, and 12,062 for 1951.
He pointed out that the total
number in each case is actually *
higher because many visitors dp
cline or forget to register when ‘
they enter the museum.
Top visitor month during 1954
was July, when 5,564 persons
signed the register. Low month
was December with 333 signa- •
tures. California contributed the
greatest number of stateside visi
tros, 2,260, while the least num
ber, 22, came from Delaware.
Yukon Territory supplied the
top number of visitors from Can
ada, 85, while British Columbia
was a close second with 64. Alas
ka’s sister territory, Hawaii, fur
nished 34 visitors.
Countries listed on the registra
tion book are Argentina, Aus
tralia, Austria, Bahamas, Bavar
ia, Bermuda, Brazil, Canal Zone,
Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, England,
Estonia, Fiji Islands, Finland,
France, French North Africa,
Germany, Hong Kong, Iraq, Ire
land, Japan, Mexico, Newfound
land, New Zealand, Norway, Pan
ama, Philippine Islands, Puerto
Rico, Samoa Islands, Saudi Ara
bia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, The Netherlands,
Virgin Islands and North Africa.
ACTRESS ETHEL LEVEY
DIES OF HEART ATTACK
NEW YORK, Uf)—Actress Ethel
Levey, former wife of the late
song-and-dance man George M.
Cohan and a performer in all his
productions from 1901 to 1907,
died of a heart attack yesterday.
She was 72. ,
Miss Levey divorced Cohen in,
1907 and in 1916 married British
aviator Claude Grahame-White,
a pioneer in development of Brit
ish commercial aviation. In 1939
she divorced Grahame - White,
who is now in London.
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