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Joint Alaska Legislature Session
Turns Down 36 Names Nominated By
Acting Governor for Territorial Posts
JUNEAU, Iff) — Acting Gov.
Waino Hendrickson was faced
today with the task of nominating
36 persons to 28 territorial agen
cies who will be more acceptable
to the Democratic majorities in
the legislature than his original
choices.
In a joint session yesterday the
Senate and House confirmed the
nominations of 59 persons to key
jobs in the Territory, but tinned
down 36 others. Under the Terri
torial law persons rejected for
confirmation by the Legislature
are eliminated from further con
sideration for appointments to the
posts for which they were nom
inated.
Therefore the acting governor
must submit a new list of names
for those posts.
The heaviest shucking came
on Hendrickson’s nomination to
the Territorial Board of Police
Commissioners. The Senate and
House—in voice votes—refused to
confirm any of Hendrickson’s
nominations to the commission
which sets the policy for the Ter
ritorial Police.
Several Rejected
F, Dewey Baker of Juneau was
rejected both for a term ending
next June 28 and a reappointment
to a term ending June 28, 1961.
An Anchorage man, Republican
Robert C. Reeve, likewise was
rejected for similar terms. And
the joint session turned down
George P. Nehroas of Fairbanks,
who had been nominated to the i
Police Commission for a t^rm
ending September 12, 1959.
The Board of Juvenile Institu
tions also was hard hit by the
Democrats. They refused to con
firm a Juneau doctor, Jqseph O.
Rude, for terms ending June 30
of this year and June 30 of 1962.
Nels Swanberg Jr. of Nome, whose
term would have expired June
30, 1959, also was refused confir
mation—as was Mrs. Marjory S.
Bailey of Anchorage, for a sim
ilar term.
The Legislature confirmed the
nominations of the Reverend Paul
F. Moser of Ketchikan, to June
30, 1960, on the Juvenile Insti
tution Board.
Denied Renominalion
The renomination of the chair
man of the Board of Health, A. B.
Phillips of Juneau, also was de
nied.- Phillips, elected chairman
of the health board only six
weeks ago, would have served
until January of 1961. Another
health board member who failed
to pass the House and Senate was
Mrs. Andrew Nerland of Nome,
whose term would have expired
in January, 1961.
The joint session approved the
nominations of the Territorial
Director of Finance, John McKin
ney/ and the Commissioner of
Agriculture, James W. Wilson of
Palmer. The action on the nomi
nation of McKinney confirmed
him in his powerful Territorial
position and in the post he has
held since June 24, 1955. The new
term for the Commissioner of Ag
riculture runs until March 31,
1961.
But the Democrats, holding a
l-to-5 majority in the Senate and
a 21-to-3 edge in the House, de
clined to confirm W. A. Chipper
field of Anchorage to a new term
as Commissioner of Land.
Reappointment Refused
The joint session also refused
to confirm Mrs. Emily Boucher of
Nome to an interim appointment
on the Board of Library Service
and also refused to confirm her
for a new term to March 30, 1961.
The Territorial Tax Commis
sioner—Karl F. Dewey of Juneau
—also was scheduled to be con
firmed at the joint session. But
the 53-year-old Republican offi
cial was stricken by a heart at
tack Sunday, and a letter from
Hendrickson was read in the
House chambers during the joint
session.
In his letter, Hendrickson ad
vised the Senate and the House
he was withdrawing the name of
Dewey at this time because of his
health. But he said he was reserv
ing the right to renominate Dew
ey to continue in the position at
a later date. Dewey’s term is
| scheduled to expire at about the
same time as the 23rd Legislature
is supposed to wind up its 60-day
session in March.
"Shoplifter" Bill Passes House
Prior to the joint session, the
House passed unanimously a so
called “shoplifter bill,” written
by Rep. Robert Ziegler (D-Ketchi
kan). Under the terms of the bill
merchants would be relieved
from liability which might result
from requests to examine pack
ages carried by customers. The
bill would permit store employes
to ask patrons to keep all items
of merchandise in plain view.
The “shoplifter bill” now goes
to the Senate. It has been intro
duced in the House at the request
of the Juneau and Ketchikan
Chambers of Commerce.
One of the bills introduced in
the House late in the day was a
22-page document proposing two
major changes in Alaska’s alco
holic beverage control laws. The
bill is supported by the Legis
lative Council and was introduced
by ,the speaker of the House
Richard Greuel of Fairbanks, and
by the House floor leader, Burke
Riley of Haines.
The bill would create advisory
'boards in each of the Territory’s
four judicial divisions and would
| Rotary Student
Envoy Relates
Travels at Dinner
Miss Anne Hutchison, for whom
a special dinner was held by the
Rotary Club last evening at the
Bering Sea Club, held the group
of Rotarians and their wives fas
cinated with her report on her
year in Geneva, Switzerland,
where she was sent by Rotary
International to attend the uni
versity there as a special Rotary
Fellowship student in post grad
uate work in political science.
Miss Hutchison, who is a Van
couver, B.C., girl, explained how
Rotary has been sending students
abroad to various colleges all over
the world since 1927 with a total
now of about 800 brilliant young
people having mixed with other
students of 29 other countries ex
plaining the North American way
of life and doing much to over
come the anti-American feeling
which is found in so man)' coun
tries.
Miss Hutchison told Rotarians
of some of her experiences with
German, French, Spanish, Swe
dish and Liberian and Yugoslav
Students and how working to
gether with them, barriers were
broken down by good fellowship.
Following her tali:, she showed
beautiful colored slides with
stimulating and well-phrased
commentaries, of some of the
European cities she visited as
guest of Rotary Clubs in the
various countries.
President Dewey Goodrich ex
pressed for the members; their!
enjoyment and appreciation for
the opportunity of meeting one of
the students whom this club has
helped sponsor,, and pr<asented
her with a copy of the story of
the Northern Commercial Co.,
comparing it to the Hudson Bay
Co. of Canada.
A Rotary presentation was
made by Major R. Kolb.
Bill Barber reviewed the work
of the local clubs as sponsors of
Boy Scouts, and what has been
done for scouting in Nome, ,and
stressed the importance in. help- j
ing six boys attend the Boy Scout j
Jamboree next summer, which,isi
this year’s big Rotary project,
stating: “The Boy Scouts of to
day are the leaders of tomorrow.”
Miss Hutchison, upon comple
tion of her Alaskan tour of Ro
tary Clubs, will start her new
assignment with the Carnegie
Foundation, where she will work
on International Peace.
limit the number of liquor -li
censes that would be available in
the Territory.
The bill retains, the present
makeup of the Board of Liquor
Control, which is set by federal
law to include the Governor, the
Attorney General, 1;he Highway!
Engineer, the Treasurer and the
Director of Finance. But it would
permit each member to appoint
an advisor in each judicial divi
sion. Finds of the advisory boards
relative to the issue of wholesale
or retail liquor licenses would not
be binding.
Under the terms of the bill
population figures would place a
limit on the number of liquor li
censes available. No more than
one license of each type—whole- j
sale, retail, etc, — would be |
granted for each 1,500 persons1
within a radius of 10 miles of the
proposed location of a night club,
tavern, road house or other busi
ness.
‘Laramie’ Teams James Stewart
With Ace Director for 8th Hit
James Stewart and Director Anthony Mann again
are “lucky-teamed” for Columbia Pictures’ “The Man
From Laramie,” the William Goetz production filmed
in CinemaScope and color by Technicolor at The
Theater. In their long, successful
collaboration, Stewart and Mann
have made "Winchester 73,”
“Naked Spur,” “Bend of the
River,” “Thunder Bay,” “The
Far Country,” “The Glenn Miller
Story,” “Strategic Air Command”
and one of their biggest, “The
Man From Laramie.” Goetz
served as producer on five of the
eight named, including “The Man
From Laramie,” which co-stars
Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp,
Cathy O’Donnell, Alex Nicol and
Aline MacMahon.
Chou Storms,
Asks ‘Why
Listen to Ike?’
COLOMBO, Ceylon, UP — Red
China’s Premier, Chou En-Lai,
lost his temper at a news confer
ence today when he was asked
about American prisoners in
China.
A newsman asked the Chinese
leader whether he would agree to
release 10 imprisond Americans,
since President Eisenhower had
said their detention is a bar to
good relations with Communist
China.
“Why should we always have
to listen to the words of the
President of the United States?”
Chou responded. “The United
States doesn’t recognize China.
. Hollywood observers believe
the fruitful combination of Stew
i art and Mann is due to an uncom
: mon “simpatico” between star
I and director, resulting in a com
I pletely uninhibited, imaginative
I and dramaturgical freedom for
the latter.
With Stewart Mann enjoys the
rare directorial elasticity of let
i ^ing himself go in conception and
! in execution. This was graphical
| ly manifest in the making of “The
j Man From Laramie,” which was
filmed on location in New Mexico.
It obstructs China, enforces an
embargo against China and is
hostile to China.
“Why don’t our Asian friends
appeal on our behalf to the
United States to change its poli
cy towards China?”
His face flushed, Chou contin
ued: “Even without the recogni
tion of the United States, China
will continue to exist, and can
work with even more vigor.
“Let the United States continue
not to recognize us for 10, 100 or
even 1,000 years, China will not
topple. Maybe she will stand on
her feet even more firmly.”
Returning to the question of
prisoners, Chou told newsmen he
did not believe the statement of
the U. S. State Department that
there were no Chinese prisoners
in the United States who want
to return to Red China.
‘Ragtime'
BOB DARCH
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Appearing This Week
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‘POLARIS SALOON’
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Come Early and Dance
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