Protests Registered
To Administrative
Procedures Act
JUNEAU, (Jt — The House and
Senate Judiciary Committees met
in public session in the district
court here Friday to hear opin
ions of state officials concerning
the proposed Administrative Pro
cedures Act.
The act would provide uniform
procedures for state administra
tive agencies in hearings, publica
tion of rules, rate structures and
other actions which implement
laws approved by the Legislature.
Assistant Attorney General Da
vid Pree objected to the bill as
now written. He said it would im
pose a severe strain on the staff
of the Attorney General’s office
since it would require that office
to provide hearing officers.
Fh'ee said an appropriation of
between $50,000 and $100,000
would be needed, depending on
whether office space is provided
for the Attorney General in the
State Office Building.
Dickerson Regan, attorney for
the Employment Security Com
mission, said he fell his agency
should be exempted from the act.
He said the proposal is patterned
after a California act and that the
ESC in California is exempt. Re
gan also said if his office were
brought under the proposed act
it should be permitted to use per
sons other than attorneys for hear
ing officers.
John Dimond, of the American
Mutual Insurance Alliance, was
the first witness to appear, He
said he felt insurance rate set
ting should be left to the State
Insurance Commissioner and not
■be brought under the proposed
act.
Meanwhile, the decks apparent
ly are being cleared for the intro
duction next week of the bill to
reorganize the executive branch
of government.
Apparently the administration
bill calling for 15 departments
has been thoroughly worked over.
It was only 67 lines long and
the present draft runs nearly 24
pages.
The majority policy committee
has kept close tabs on the re
drafting of the measure which
has been in the hands of the State
Affairs Committees of both
houses.
Major provisions of the new bill
have not been revealed but it
appears the state government will
■be divided into 11 departments.
Two of them, Education and Fish
and Game, are expected to be
operated by commissions, but the
commissions probably will exer
cise only limited authority.
Famed Playwright
Pens Last Act To
Talented Career
STAMFORD, Conn. UP> — Play
wright Maxwell Anderson saw
the theater as a great force spread
ing light into the dark corners of
human experience.
He took to writing plays late in
life and then plunged into it as
a “religious experience.” He
worked at it meticulously until a
few days before he died.
Only a stroke stopped the flow
from his pen. He was 70 when he
died in Stamford hospital Satur
day.
Anderson, the newspaperman
playwright, spotlighted Congres
sional log-rolling in “Both Your
Houses,” which won him the Pu
litzer Prize in 1933.
Anderson, the poet playwright,
wrote 11 successful plays in
verse.
Anderson, the realist playwright
wrote the play, “What Price
Glory,” with Lawrence Stallings
in 1924, to show war was some
thing beyond a setting for heroic
deeds.
Anderson, the social-conscious
playwright, wrote “Winterset.”
He called it a “serious indictment
of the hysterical justice meted out
in the Sacco-Vanzetti trial.”
Anderson, the romantic play
wright, wrote the tender lyrics to
the popular “September Song” —
written 20 years ago for “Knicker
bocker Holiday.”
Anderson began as a teacher,
drifted to newspaper writing, and
came upon the theater quietly in
1923 with a play called “The
White Desert.” No one was en
thusiastic. A year later “What
Price Glory” thundered onto
Broadway and Anderson was able
to devote full time to writing
plays.
Anderson said he was grateful
to the newspaper business because
it taught him discipline. “I nev
er completed a thing I wrote until
I learned to meet the newspaper
deadline,” he said.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Legislators Receive
First Pay Checks
JUNEAU, UP' — Alaska’s 60
lawmakers, with their first pay
checks in their pockets, spent
rriost of the 33rd days of the leg
islative session Friday prying
bills out of committees.
In addition to their salary
checks, the legislators received
their bi-monthly per diem ex
pense allowances Friday.
The pay checks represented the
first of the annual $3,000 salary
each lawmaker is to receive. Each
check amounted to $307.69 before
deductions and covered the period
from January 26, when the Legis
lature convened, through Febru
ary 28.
Thursday’s heavy action had
virtually stripped the legislative
calendar of bills ready for floor
consideration. The Senate moved
20 bills out of committee prepara
tory to Saturday’s session.
One of the bills that came out
of committee was tagged with a
“do not pass” recommendation.
It was a measure calling for an
end to state support of school bus
systems within 10 years.
The bill had been introduced
by the Senate Finance Committee
and provided for withdrawal of
state support at a rate of 10 per
cent per year. At the end of the
10-year period it would be up to
local school districts to provide
support foi the pupil transporta
tion system. During 1957-58 the
state contributed about one and
one-half million dollars for the
program.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
recommended against the bill on
the grounds the financial burden
would be too great for the local
school districts.
Two new bills were introduced
in the Senate Friday, bringing
to 173 the total number of meas
ures introduced in the first State
Legislature. Of these, 106 are
House bills.
More than 29,500,000 boys and
leaders have been in the Boy
Scouts of America since 1910.
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11 MEXICAN CHILDREN DEAD
IN FESTIVAL ACCIDENT
SAN LUIS, Mexico, UP—Eleven
school children who stepped up to
pledge allegiance to the Mexican
flag are dead, killed when the
platform gave way.
Twenty-three other adults and
children suffered serious injuries
in the accident during a festival
celebration Tuesday night in the
farming community of Estacion
Coahuila, 18 miles south of here.
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Churchyard Crosses
Mysteriously Smashed
NORTH CRAY, England, —
Police last week were investigat
ing the mystery of the 10 shattered
churchyard crosses — smashed,
villagers say, by devil-worshipers.
The crosses were smashed a few
days before this week’s full moon
in the Churchyard of St. James
in this Kent village.
Only the crosses were dese
crated — other headstones were
not touched.
Police are also probing reports
of unearthly screams and howls
late at night in the nearby woods.
“The possibility of witchcraft
or devil worship cannot be ruled •
out,” declared the rector, the Rev.
R. J. Shaw-Hamilton.
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