Dept, of Army Rescinds Plan To
Purchase Commissary Goods Locally
ANCHORAGE. UP) — Alaskan
food wholesalers received a jolt
Wednesday when the Army an
nounced cancellation of a recent
ly-developed local purchase pro
gram.
The Department of the Army,
in a directive from Washington,
D. C., to the Alaska Army Head
quarters ordered discontinuance
of the program, which was to have
been put into operation this
month.
Discontinuance of the plan for
Alaska wholesalers to more close
ly compete with outside whole
salers on brand name items for
military commissary stocks appar
ently closes the book on former
Governor Mike Stepovich’s Com
mittee on Local Procurement.
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the question . . . “What is the
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“Thou will show me the path
of life: in Thy presence is fulness
of joy: at Thy right hand there
are pleasures for ever more.”
(Psalm 16:11).
Stepovich organized the com
I mittee in November. 1957, to seek
j more military business for Alas
i kan firms.
Jack Anderson, Anchorage,
chairman of the committee, said
the Army Department’s order to
discontinue the program appar
ently has thrown the whole sub-1
ject into the realm of politics.
“It’s become a political issue
now,” Anderson said. “And there
doesn’t seem much more we can
do except see what happens in
Washington.”
At a press conference at Army
headquarters at Ft. Richardson,
Col. Jack B. Baker, Army Quar
termaster, and Col. William Red
ling, Assistant Chief of Staff for
Logistics, detailed the background
of the order.
The officers said the program
they had planned to make effective
this month would have allowed
Alaskan wholesalers to bid on
brand name items after first see
ing the last price established by
outside wholesalers.
This, they said, would have giv
en Alaskans a distinct advantage,
since the last price offered by
outsiders could be underbid.
However, the Army Department
, directive determined this proce
dure would not have provided “for
! necessary competition under the
j purchase notice agreement sys
tem.”
General Gilman Mudgett, com
mander of Army troops in Alaska,
said he was disappointed in the
j Army Department directive.
General Mudget said that from
j the beginning of the Governor’s
| Committee on Local Procurement,
| he has “supported it to the hilt.”
I “I’m disappointed personally
| because I’d like to have seen this
} program given a try,” he said. He
j added:
“I’ll be very much surprised if
the local people don’t attempt to
reopen this thing. However, I
j don’t think the Department of the
! Army will reopen it at this time.”
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MAIN 46 “First In Alaska" ”**’ Walsh
From The
j Nation’s Capitol
(The Weekly Newsletter from the
Office of Senator Ernest Gruening)
By GEORGE SUNDBORG
Administrative Assistant
WASHINGTON, (Jan. 10) —
Alaska was very much in the
limelight as the 86th Congress be
gan. Spontaneous applaus broke
out both on the floor of the Sen
ate and in the galleries as Sena
tors Bartlett and Gruening took
their oaths on Wednesday. Presi
dent Eisenhower interpolated a
gracious reference to Alaska at
the beginning of the prepared text
of his State of the Union message
on Friday. Many senators in de
bate have referred to the presence
of two senators from Alaska, cit
ing this fact to illustrate points
they make about the Senate rules.
; What the President said was
as follows: “Members of the 86th
Congress and friends: first I should
like to asure the delegation of our
newest State, Alaska, of my satis
faction that it now begins its par-1
ticipation with all of you in the
work of Congress for the benefit
of the United States.”
Senator Gruening has agreed to
co-sponsor, with Senator Monro
ney of Oklahoma (and 38 other
senators) amendments to the Fed
eral Airport Act which expires
June 30, 1959. The bill would ex
j tend the act for five years and in
crease the amount authorized to
be appropriated for grants each
year from $68 million to $100 mil
lion.
Also with Senator Bartlett, he
will sponsor a bill to permit pay
ment in Alaska of cost-of-living
allowances at rates higher than
25 per cent of basic compensa
tion.
With Senator Morse (and others)
a bill to increase benefits for re
tired and unemployed railroad
workers and their dependents.
The bill is similar to one which
passed the Senate in the closing
days of the 85th Congress. How
ever, the House never voted on it.
With Senator Neuberger and
others, he will sponsor a bill au
thorizing the appropriation of
$11 million a year for 6 years for
the improvement of the Alaska
Highway and the Haines Cutoff
on the condition that the Govern
ment o f Canada participate
equally in this program.
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Fed. Judge Cites
Alabama Jurist
For Contempt
MONTGOMERY, Ala, UR — U.
S. District Judge Frank M. John
son Jr. yesterday ordered Circuit
Court Judge George C. Wallace
cited for criminal contempt of
court after failure to comply with
an order to produce voter regis
tration records to the Civil Rights
Commission.
Justice Department attorneys
were directed by Johnson to in
stitute contempt proceedings as
soon as possible.
Johnson’s action came after the
commission reported it was able
to inspect registration records in
Barbour and Bullock Counties de
spite what it called “dilatory” tac
tics used by Wallace in turning
che records over to grand juries
in the two counties instead of to
the commission.
The federal judge ruled that al
though the purpose of his order to
Wallace to produce the records
was carried out when the grand
juries allowed federal agents to
look at them, the 39-year-old Ala
lama judge nevertheless must an
swer for his defiant action.
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Demo. Leader Says He’s
Not Certain About Seating
Hawaii This Year
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex), the ♦
Senate majority leader, said yes
terday there is no assurance the
Senate will add two senators from
Hawaii this year.
Senator Mike Monroney (D
Oklat, applauding a decision of
Senate leaders to increase the
number of members on major le
gislative committees, observed
that the action was particularly
important in view of the prospect,
as Monroney put it, of two addi
tional senators before the end of
the year.
Johnson, in reply, told the Sen
ate he was not prepared to go
along with Monroney “and agree
that it is an assured fact that we
will have any additional senators
this year.”
“Time will have to tell about
that,” he said.
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