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Dept. Commissioners vs. Governing
Boards Given the Deep Six by Demos
JUNEAU 00 — The hot issue
of department commissioners ver
sus governing boards apparently
has been given the deep six by
the controlling Democratic ma
jority for this session of the Legis
lature.
The second bill, one which
would have placed a board of fish
and game at the head of the Fish
and Game Department with full
administrative and budgetry
powers, died Wednesday when the
House voted to leave it in the
Rules Committee.
A demand by the Republicans
to place the measure on the cal
endar failed by a vote of 19-21.
The only Democrat to join the
18-man GOP bloc was Rep. Mark
Jensen of Douglas.
The bill was sponsored by four
Democrats, including Jensen, and
three Republicans.
The other three Democrats had
changed their minds earlier in the
week in a bitter battle over
placing the Department of Educa
tion under a governing State
Board of Education. That measure
passed after day-long maneuver
ing by a count of 25-15, and then
was killed the following day on
a 20-20 tie vote.
The bills were both “section 26
bills”, so named after Section 26
of the State Constitution, which
permits an alternative to the
strong executive and appointive
commissioner type of government.
Rep. John Hellenthal, state
Democratic party chairman, said
the Democrats had held firm on
the present “strong executive”
form of government “because to
depart from this without good
reason would defeat our whole
theory of government.”
“If we want to have respon
sible government, we must have
a governor with responsibility,”
Hellenthal said.
‘To dilute that responsibility
with the creation of autonomous
governing boards would be defeat
ing our whole purpose — and
we’d be back to the situation we
had before statehood where the
tail was wagging the dog.
“We had 97 boards and com
missions under territorial gov
ernment, and they all worked at
cross purposes.
“Because of lack of responsi
bility and control over those
boards, we placed the depart
ments under the governor who is
responsible to the people in an
election every four years.
“This system now has been in
effect only a year and a half,”
Hellenthal said. “It has worked
i very well and will work a lot bet
ter if it is given a fair chance.”
Rep. R. W. Stratton countered
that in his opinion there were
no objections to the board sys
tem as such under territorial
'status.
“The people of Alaska were
not unhappy with the boards,”
Stratton said. “They were un
happy with the enforced and dic
tatorial control from Washington,
where they had no voting repre
sentatives.
“The present system places al
most complete dictatorial powers
in the hands of the governor, mak
ing it a tremendous responsibility
| and a tremendous job.
“I would be just as concerned
about seeing this ‘Section 26’
board system in effect under a
Republican administration as un
der a Democratic administra
tion,” Stratton said.
“Looking forward over the
years, I feel that the state of
Alaska would be more secure if
the people have closer contact
with the controlling and policy
making boards at the head of the
various state departments.”
GOP LEADERS WILL
STAND BEHIND KENNEDY
WASHINGTON UD — Republi
can leaders pledged themselves
Thursday to stand behind Presi
dent Kennedy in whatever de
cision he makes in the grave
situation in Laos.
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Deputy Commisioner
Wilson of Dept, of Public
Works Submits Resignation
JUNEAU OP — Lawrence D.
Wilson, Deputy Commissioner of
the Department of Public Works,
said Thursday he has submitted
his resignation, effective April 1.
Wilson, who has been deputy
commissioner under Richard A.
Downing for the past year, said
he was going to Santa Fe, N. M.,
as chief highway engineer for the
state of New Mexico.
The New Mexico job is the
same one Wilson held for a four
year period between March, 1955,
and July, 1959, before coming
to Alaska. Wilson said he was
j scheduled to take over his new
job on April 10. The position pays
$17,500 a year.
No successor to Wilson has been
named.
Oklahoma Coach Will be
JFK's Physical Fitness Consultant
WASHINGTON tip — President
Kennedy Thursday named Charles
B. (Bud) Wilkinson, athletic
director and football coach at the
University of Oklahoma, as special
consultant to the President on
physical fitness.
The announcement said Wilkin
son will serve without compensa
tion for an indefinite period, but
will fulfill his coaching duties at
Oklahoma during spring training
and the fall football season.
Wilkinson’s appointment was
announced after he conferred with
Kennedy in the White House.
House Resolution Calls
For BIA Financial Aid in
Vocational Education School
JUNEAU (J1) — The Bureau of
Indian Affairs is asked to par
ticipate financially in the state’s
proposed Vocational Education
School under the provisions of
a resolution which passed the
House yesterday.
Sgt. Raymond Stoney Awarded
Brig. General Noyes Medal
Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Carroll,
Alaska Adjutant General, present
ed the Brig. Gen. John R. Noyes
Medal to Sgt. Raymond Stoney of
Kiana, 80 miles from Kotzebue
during Saturday’s Governor’s Day
celebration at Fort Richardson.
The medal is awarded annually
to the outstanding Eskimo Scout
from the 1st and 2nd Scout Bat
talions, 297th Infantry, Alaska
Army National Guard. Sgt. Stoney
a member of Co. C, 1st Scout Bn.
is at Fort Richardson with more
than 1,400 reservists and Nation
al Guardsmen from throughout
Alaska to take part in a two week
winter training encampment.
CANDIDATES
OUTNUMBER VOTERS
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. UP> —
Candidates outnumbered voters
last night at a political meeting
sponsored by the Bexar County
Young Democrats Club.
Politicians figured it was bound
to happen. Seventy-one candi
dates seek the Senate seat va
l cated by Vice President Lyndon
B. Johnson in the April 4 special
election. And seeking city council
seats here in the election are 34
other persons.
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! Kennedy Signs
His First Major
WASHINGTON I/P — President
Kennedy, has signed into law his
first major bill — an emergency
program designed to cut down
tremendous surpluses in grains
used for livestock.
Kennedy signed the bill Wed
nesday less than two hours after
the Senate, by a 58-31 vote, com
pleted congressional action. The
House earlier approved the com
promise bill 231-185.
Before Kennedy’s signature
was dry. Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman set the law’s
machinery into action. Their ur
gency was prompted by the sea
son — spring is here and plant
ing of this year’s feed grain crops
already has started in some sec
tions.
Freeman immediately made
public the national average price
supports for feed grains — corn,
sorghums, oats, barley and rye.
All supports were higher than
last year’s.
U. S. Consul's Car Dumped
In Bay by Demonstrators
LUANDA, Angola tP — Sev
eral hundred anti-American de
monstrators shoved U. S. Consul
William Gibson’s car into Luanda
Bay Wednesday night during a
shouting, horn-blowing march be
fore the U. S. Consulate.
The crowd smashed the auto
and dumped it into the water after
word spread that Gibson had told
the vanguard of the demonstra
tors to get away from the con
sulate.
You Are Always Welcome at The
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CHURCH
• SUNDAY
10:00 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Worship Service
7:00 p.m. Evening Worship
• WEDNESDAY
7:00 p.m. Bible Study
• THURSDAY
7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting
• FRIDAY
4:00 p.m. Good News Club
7:30 p.m. Youth Fellowship
Rev. Bob Leight — Missionary Pastor
Rhode Island Bank
Invests $1 Million in
Alaska FHA Homes
NEW YORK UPl — A Rhode
Island Mutual Savings Bank has
made what it calls the first in
i vestment of private U. S. capital
in FHA insured home mortgages
in Alaska.
President Daniel E. Stoddard
of the Peoples’ Savings Bank of
Providence, said his bank bought
$1 million in FHA loans covering
the construction of fifty $20,000
homes about 12 miles outside Ju
neau.
The mortgages were bought
from Commonwealth Inc., a Port
land, Ore., mortgage banking con
cern. The houses, all prefabri
cated, will be built by Stone &
Schulte of San Jose, Calif.
Stoddard told a news confer
ence Alaska is suffering for capi
tal, particularly in the housing
field.
“They need money for their
growing economy,” he added. He
called Alaska a huge untapped
market and said he believed his
bank’s investment “was just a
start.”
HAMBURGERS NEXT TIME . .
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Uft — Char
lie Graviss saved the county
money, but his family lost its
taste for hot dogs.
After two- ill-fated stage shows
at the County Armory, Graviss,
the manager, was stuck with 90
pounds of hot dogs. He bought
them for his wife and six young
sters.
The dogs are almost gone, and
no one is happier than Graviss'
son, 8, who asked: “Dad, will
you get some hamburgers next
time?”
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