Ohio Congressman Criticizes Alaska
Railroad Study As Inefficient., Wasteful
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, UP) — Repre
sentative Michael Kirwah (D
Ohio) says it’s because of things
like the Alaska International
Rail and Highway Commission
that the Canadian dollar is “worth
100 cents and ours is worth only
46 cents.”
Criticizing commission plans
to spend about $135,000 for a sur
vey of Alaska’s transportation
needs, the Ohioan wanted to know
why an outside firm had been
hired instead of using services of
-the Interior Department which
he said “konws every bit of
Alaska.”
Kirwan asked Sen. Warren Mag
nuson - (D-Wash), acting commis
sion chairman, if Canada didn’t
plan to use its own personnel in
cooperating with the program.
“They will use their department
heads and I think they use them
a little more efficiently than we
do,” Magnuson agreed.
“Certainly they do, and that s
■why their dollar is worth 100
cents and ours is only wor$h 46
cents,” Kirwan replied. “Yet we
hire someone to make this study
who probably has never seen
Alaska.”
Magnuson emphasized that en
gineering data for the survey was
readily available but that the
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study dealt primarily with eco
nomic data on which the commis
sion received little help from the
Interior Department.
The Washington senator, chair
man of the former International
Highway Commission in the 1930s,
said he thought he could have
put a report together based on his
own experience “but that would
be self-serving.”
“We want this to be thoroughly
objective and to put all of these
pieces together and see where we
are going,” he said.
Magnuson said no contract has
been signed but that the commis
sion has chosen the Battelle Me
morial Institute of Columbus,
Ohio, to do the work.
Waino Hendrickson Named
To Interior Dept. Post
JUNEAU, UP)—Waino Hendrick
former Alaska Territorial Acting
Governor, was named chairman
of the Alaska Field Committee of
the U. S. Department of Interior
yesterday at a salary of $15,000
a year.
Hendrickson, 62, will serve as
a liaison officer between the In
terior Department and Alaska
state officals. He will also coordi
nate and review Interior Depart
ment Alaska programs, with the
Department’s state rural devel
opment activties under his office.
Hendrickson had served as act
ing Governor until Admission
Day, January 3. He took over the
Governor’s office after the resig
nation last August of former Gov
ernor Mike Stepovich.
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Washington Gov. Rosellini
Describes Bristol Bay
Closure As ‘Severe Shock’
OLYMPIA, Wash., [Eh — The ac
tion of the Interior Department in
closing Alaska’s Bristol Bay to
commercial salmon fishing was
described by Washington’s Gov
ernor Rosellini yesterday as “a
severe shock to the economy of
the Pacific Northwest.”
“We are not agreeable to this
closure,” Rosellini said. “Under
the circumstances, we believe our
government should take such ac
tion as may be necessary to re
store the fisheries to a point
where American fishermen would
at least make a living.
“Japanese exploitation of the
(Bristol Bay) salmon fishery
doubtless has reduced other
stocks headed for other streams
of the Pacific Coast.”
In Seattle, meanwhile, Secre
tary Treasurer George Johansen
of the Alaska Fishermen’s Union,
said the situation called for a
shoppers’ boycott of Japanese
salmon products as well as fed
eral legislation.
“We have a proper right to look
after our interests first. We be
lieve our government also has a
responsiblity to placp the wel
fare of our own fishing industry
over and above that of a foreign
industry.”
Ray Hawk Revisits Nome
Ray Hawk, formerly stationed
here with C.A.A., passed through
Nome yesterday, enroute to Tin
City. Hawk is now with the Air
Force as an inspector of electron
ic machines. He stated that his
daughter, Arlene, is married, and
is attending the University of
Alaska, where she is a sophomore,
and her husband is a junior.
92 years ago, the first American
flag to fly over Alaska was un
furled at Sitka on October 18,
1867, marking the purchased trans
fer of Alaska from Russia to the
United States.
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Dafoe Assistant
Will Substitute As
Education Commissioner
JUNEAU, UP — The assistant
to outgoing Commissioner of Edu
cation Don Dafoe will take over
Dafoe’s job April 4. but only on a
temporary basis until the state
government is reorganized.
Howard Matthews, of Juneau,
has accepted the job with the un
derstanding that it is “not per
manent,” acting Governor Wade
said late Wednesday.
The reorganization bill, which
is now being reviewed by the At
torney General’s office pending
the Governor’s approval, provides
that a new board of education
must be appointed before a per
manent commissioner . can be
named. The board will nominate
candidates, with the'Governor to
make the appointment.
Dafoe resigned the $16,000-a
year post March 2 to resume his
studies at Stanford University
afttr six years as commissioner.
Washington State Senate
Lauds Lt. Gov. Cherberg
OLYMPIA, — Lieutenant
Governor John Cherberg received
bi-partisan accolades from the
Washington State Senate yester
day.
The senators praised Cherberg,
a Democrat, for his fairness and
impartiality in presiding over the
Senate. Cherberg, a former Uni
versity of Washington football
coach, was given a movie projec
tor and camera. His wife received
a wrist watch.
Sen. .David Cowen, Spokane
Democrat, in an obvious reference
to Cherberg as a potential 1960
gubernatorial candidate, ended the
ceremony by telling him:
“We hope in the 1961 session,
you will be a little further up the
ladder.”
CONSERVATIVES MAY CALL
BRITISH NATIONAL ELECTION
LONDON, UP — The victory of
Prime Minister Harold MacMil
lan’s Conservative Party in two
special Parliamentary elections
revived talk today of an early
national election. ,
The Conservative government’s
term expires in May, 1960. Under
the British political system, how
ever, the government can call an
election at any time.
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House Bill Would Offer *
Surplus Food To Pioneer
Homesteaders In Alaska,
WASHINGTON, W — Federal
grants of surplus foods to Alaskan
homesteaders would spur settle
ment in the 49th state, Rep. Wil
liam Broomfield (R-Mich) said
today.
Announcing introduction of a
bill to permit this, Broomfield
said present high costs of food
and other products in Alaska
makes settlement prohibitive for
many familes.
“Many homesteading families
have faced near starvation during
the first long winter, until suffi
cient land has been cleared and
crops raised and stored away,”
Broomfield said, adding: ' * "f
“We have billions of dollars of
surplus food just rotting in fed
eral warehouses. We might aS
well see to it that at least part of
that food is put to good use in
helping settle our new state of
Alaska.”
Broomfield’s bill would author
ize donations of surplus food “dinr
ing the period beginning with en
try and ending with acquisition of
title to the land by the home
steader.”
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