By Dr. Donald R. Moberg
Assoc. Prof, of Polit. Science
University of Alaska
PART III
Guides to Answers to Questions
On Framing a Constitution
Where can Alaskans find some
competent guides to aid them in
answering these fundamental
questions about framing Alaska’s
constitution? Merely posing the
questions solves nothing. To en
sure a strong stable state govern
ment obviously all alternatives to
these questions must be weighed
before a final choice is made.
Most desirable would be for the
territorial government to author
ize (and pay for!) the compilation
of a manual on state constitutional
provisions such as Hawaii did for
its constitutional convention in
1950. The University of Alaska
would engage on the task, but it
does not have at present either
the needed funds or sufficient
trained staff.
Until such a compilation is
made, the task must be accom
plished piecemeal from available
and inexpensive sources. To fill
this need, the Dept, of History
and Political Science, University
of Alaska, compiled and pur
chased 10 basic kits of study aids
last year and has made them
available to interested groups
throughout the territory. At the
present date they are all in use.
For the use of any individuals
or groups in the territory, that list
and the cost per item is given as
follows:
Graves, W. Brooke, American
Stale Government, D. C. Heath &
Co., Boston, 4th edition, 1953. $6.
Johnson, Claudius O., State and
Local Government, Thomas Y.
Crowell Co., New York, 1950.
S3.50.
Model State Constitution, Na
tional Municipal League, 299
Broadway, New York 7, N.Y., 5th
edition, 1948. (75 cents each).
The Constitution of the State of
Hawaii, Hawaii Statehood Com
mission, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1953.
(free.)
Manual on State Constitutional
Provisions, Hawaii Statehood
Commission, Honolulu, Hawaii,
1950. (out of print).
Constitution of the Common
wealth of Puerto Rico, Dept, of
Education Press, San Juan, Puer
.to Rico, Washington, D.C., 1952.
(free)
Notes and Comments on the
Constitution of the Common
wealth of Puerto Rico, Washing
ton, D.C., 1952. (free'
Handbook on Alaska Territorial
Government, Alaska Legislative
Council, 1954. $1.
Book of the States 1954-55,
Council of State Government,
Chicago, 1954. $10.
Other helpful aids are:
The various statehood bills
now before the 84th Congress of
the United States.
Alaska Statehood Committee
reports.
Biennial reports of all the terri
torial and federal departments
operating in Alaska.
Constitutions of all the 48 states
—usually free or at a very small
cost by writing to the State Li
brarian of each state.
It is strongly urged that inter
ested persons and organizations in
each Alaskan community band to
gether to form serious study
groups to investigate any and all
phases of constitution making.
The need is imperative and ob
vious.
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Next: The Constitutional Con
vention itself and the bill to call
it into being.
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House Resolution
Asks Federal Loan
To Aid EC Fund
By Jim Hutcheson
JUNEAU I#)—A House-approved
resolution urging immediate ap
plication for a federal loan to
bolster Alaska’s Employment Se
curity Fund goes to Gov. Heint
zleman Saturday with a back
ground of politically-tinged argu
ment.
The House sent the resolution
to the governor on a 19-3 vote.
Three days ago the Senate side
tracked a similar resolution into
the Finance Committee for fur
ther study.
On the final House vote yester
day Republican Ed Locken, Pe
tersburg banker, voted with the
Democratic majority for passage,
and Dora Sweeney, Juneau Dem
ocrat, sided with the other two
Republican members. She said
she wouldn’t necessarily oppose a
loan application but urged more
study.
Rep. Russell Young, an Anchor
age AFL union leader, said re
ports from ESC officials indicated
the fund would be depleted by
April 1.
Young said labor groups have
agreed to corrective legislation
under which workers would con
tribute to the fund, possibly about
one percent of their wages.
And Young predicted the present
legislature would clamp down on
“boomers” who “work two or
three fast months in the territory
and then go outside to draw full
benefits.”
Denmark Prime Minister
Dies of Heart Attack
While in Sweden
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, UP—
Prime Minister Hans Hedtoft'of
Denmark died unexpectedly here
Saturday at the age of 52. The
Social Democratic press in Copen
hagen said Foreign Minister H. C.
Hansen will succeed Hedtoft as
Prime Minister.
Hedtoft, leader of Denmark’s
Social Democratic Party for near
ly two decades, was in Stockholm
for the third session of the Nordic
Council, which opened Friday.
Hedtoft dined Friday night with
the Prime Minister of Sweden,
Tage Erlander, and later made a
broadcast over Swedish radio.
Friends said he showed no signs
of ill health. He was found dead
in bed in his hotel room. Death
was attributed to a heart attack.
The son of a tailor, he began
his political career at 24.
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By OLAF HALVERSON
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the largest satellite about the
planet called Titan. A four-inch
telescope will reveal four other
satellites on favorable occasions.
At irregular intervals belts are
seen similar to Jupiter but are
much fainter. Saturn’s equatorial
belt is the brightest portion of
the planet, and an olive green
zone often caps the pole. Excel
lent photographs of Saturn have
been taken at both the Lick and
Greenwich observatories.
The rings of Saturn are neither
solid nor liquid, but are composed
of enormous clouds of very small
bodies traveling around the planet
each in an orbit of its own. Some
think the bodies are very small
and comparable to meteors. Per
haps they are housands of miles
apart in space, but so distant is
the planet from the earth and so
numerous are the particles that
they appear continuous or solid.
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