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Reapportionment
Of Alaska House
Asked for in Bill
JUNEAU, UP!—In a surprising
21-3 vote, a bill calling for re
apportionment of the Territorial
House was approved by the lower
chamber Wednesday.
The bill now goes to the Senate,
where it stands a slight chance
of getting consideration on this,
the scheduled final day of the
23rd session.
'Under its terms, a total of 19
election districts would be estab
lished inside the four judicial di
visions, and members of the House
would be elected from within
those districts.
If approved, the bill would be
effective in the 1958 general elec
tion and would guarantee smaller
areas of the territory representa
tion in the House.
The number of representatives
from the large population centers
would be greatly reduced.
For example, Anchorage now
has nine of the 10 representatives
from the Third Division. Under
terms of the reapportionment bill,
Anchorage would have six mem
bers in the House.
Fairbanks, now with four of
the five-man Fourth Division del
agation, would be limited to three
members under the bill, which
is modeled after the districting
provisions of the proposed Alaska
constitution.
The membership of the Senate
would not be affected.
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‘We’re Not Through W ith Beck,’
Says Chairman McClellan, As
Senate Group Recesses Hearings
By G. MILTON KELLY
WASHINGTON, WV—S enate
rackets probers turned yesterday
from public to private checking
into their charge that teamster
president Dave Back misappropri
ated $320,000 of union funds.
While Beck headed home
ward, Senate staff investigators
dug for details that Beck had
refused to provide on grounds
his answers might tend to in
criminate him.
Beck, head of the nation’s big
gest labor union, left the witness
stand yesterday a wilted Fifth
Amendment witness facing possi
ble contempt of Congress action.
“We are not through with Mr.
Beck,” Chairman McClellan, of
the special Senate committee con
ducting the inquiry, told report
ers. “He will be a matter of con
tinuing interest to the committee
and further testimony may be
desired.”
McClellan recessed the hear
ings indefinitely Wednesday af
ter accusing Beck of “flagrant
. . . disrespect for honest union
ism" and “arrogant contempt"
for members of his teamsters
union.
Beck declined comment on Me- \
Clellan’s tongue lashing. He left
the Capitol declaring he intended
to catch the first plane westward
to his home in Seattle.
He told the committee “I’ll be
able to come out of this clean and
white 100 percent” if he gets a
chance to testify in a court. He
said he expects to do so because
of his income tax troubles with
the Internal Revenue Service.
Beck said he would not attend
a meeting of the AFL-CIO Ex
ecutive Council, which has been
called to meet today to consider
his repeated use of the Fifth
Amendment's protection against
self-in crimination.
A code of ethics adopted by the
council early this year calls for
expulsion of any labor official
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVORSON
The brilliant golden-yellow star,
Arcturus, has always been a fav
orite among star-gazers. This star
can be located easily by continu
ing the curvature of the Big Dip
per handle.
-So beautiful is this star that the
ancient Egyptians oriented huge
temples to it. The star was also
given special mention in the
Bible.
Near the Arctic Circle this beau
tiful star never sets, but travels
in a wide circular path above the
horizon. Seal hunters in the north
often use it in telling time by the
position of the star with reference
to the four points of the compass.■
Arcturus is not only one of the
largest but it is also one of the
swiftest moving stars in the heav
ens. It moves so swiftly that it
covers 100 miles in every second.
The star is so far distant that .it
has taken 800 years to describe
a space equal to the apparent dia
meter of the moon.
who uses the amendment to avoid
answering questions about union
affairs. '
Beck remained outwardly con
fident but disinclined to talk when
he left Washington Thursday.
McClellan announced he ex
pects about a two-week recess
before the committee resumes
hearings. He said it will decide
at a closed door meeting the
subject matter of the next hear
ings. V
To date, he said, the inquiry has
“revealed some things that should
be of interest to all good citizens
everywhere.”
It was McClellan who raised
the possibility of prosecuting
Beck for contempt, an offense
punishable by up to a year in jail
and $1,000 fine.
In two days oh the witness
stand, Beck refused, because the
testimony might incriminate him,
to tell whether he:
1. Had misappropriated some
$320,000 of union funds, and bor
rowed $200,000 to help repay it
after revenue agents started in
vestigating him in March 1954.
2. Had signed an agreement
with the union to make what
Kennedy called “restitution” in
chunks of $200,0(40, $50,000 and
$20,000. McClellan said this still
left some $50,000 missing.
3. Had suld his Seattle home to
the union for $163,000, though
that has been publicly announced.
4. Had used union funds to pay
his friend, Chicago labor-manage
ment consultant Nathan Sheffer
man, $85,000 for the purchase of
clothing, freezers, nylon sox,
baby’s diapers and a long list of
other items for himself and mem
bers of his family.
5. Had bought two lots adjoin
ing the teamsters joint council
building in Seattle for $39,000
and sold them some years later
to the teamsters for $135,000.
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