Convention OKs System of Local
Government With Borough as Unit
FAIRBANKS, WV-Delegates to
the Constitutional -Convention
Friday approved a system of local
government for the proposed state
of Alaska.
The local government commit
tee plan for dividing the whole of
Alaska into units of local govern
ment went through its second
reading without much change, in
cluding the much-talked-of name
for the units of local government.
The delegates decided that
“borough” would do.
Committee members hastened
to insist the pronunciation is not
as in “burrow” but, rather, as in
“borewaoh.”
In a windup debate, observers
termed “quaint,” five delegates
who opposed the name burough
spent three minutes each defend
ing these titles for the local units:
county, canton, province, division
and district.
In the first vote, borough got
21 votes and county 16, with the
other four trailing in the distance.
Then, to prevent a time-consum
ing series of votes, six delegates
changed then' dicisions to the
word burough and the rush was
on.
The major controversy of the
committee’s plan for local govern
ment was waged over the issue of
school districts. Maurice Johnson,
Fairbanks, moved to amend the
article so as to allow school dis
tricts to operate on a basis of
financial independence.
Ed Davis of Anchorage support
ed this, claiming he had seen
cases in his city where street
pavement won out over added
school facilities and teachers.
Johnson’s amendment was to
add school districts to this section:
“All local government power?
shall be vested in boroughs and
cities. The state may delegate tax
ing powers to organized boroughs
and cities only.”
Warren Taylor of Fairbanks
then moved to add public utility
districts, health districts and pub
lic improvement disricts, along
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with school districts.
“This is to prove,” Taylor said,
“that once the camel gets his head
into the tent the rest is bound to
come in.”
Taylors proposal was ruled out
of order and Johnson’s amend
ment was downed by a vote of 43
to 9.
School districts will not have
independent taxing powers, ac
cording to Alaska’s constitution.
By their action Friday the con
vention endorsed a system where
in the entire area of the state will
be divided into boroughs, both or
ganized and unorganized. The leg
islature will establish the stand
ards and the manner in which
they will toe created.
First class boroughs will be
governed by art assembly com
prising city council members and
representatives of the rural re
gions within the local government
unit. The non-city assemblymen
will be chosen from the qualified
voters living in their respective
regions within the borough.
Committee members said that
their article was aimed at “se
curing the maximum amount of
local self government” and pre
venting “duplication and overlap
ping of independent tax-levying
jurisdictions.”
Members of the local govern
ment committee are John Ross
wog, chairman, Cordova; John
Cross, Kotzebue; James Doogan,
Fairbanks; Victor Fisher, Anchor
age; Eldor Lee, Petersburg; May
nard Londborg, Unalakleet; and
Victor Rivers, Anchorage.
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To Kotzebue: Don Hungerford.
To Fairbanks: Sgt. D. Fogg,
Lt. R. Wheeless, Sgt. Geo. Padilla,
Sgt. Karl Dieker, A/2c A. Bar
nitz, Robt. Blodgett, A/3c Thos.
Pallas, Capt. Dunham, Len Han
naman, Milton Wilson, Whitey
Turner.
To Galena: Lt. Roger Burtner,
C. A. Van Etten, A1 Sloan.
From Kotzebue: W.C. Stephen
son, U.A. Honka, Frank Morris,
Roderick Kobesko, Ruth Parcell,
Mary Jolley.
From Fairbanks: Shigeo Maka
yama, Wm. Cochran, Mike Kelly,
Glenn Tweet, Maj. Kell, Louise
Allred.
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Tractor Trains Start
Hazardous Supply Run
To Radar Line
MOOSONEE, Ont., UPi—•Four
tractor trains have churned out of
this town on a hazardous 300-mile
run to carry supplies for the Can
adian-built mid-Canada radar
line.
The project calls for 10 trains
to shuttle day and night to Cape
Henrietta Maria, north of Pere on
the west coast of James Bay, un
til next spring’s ice breakup.
Thirty-four tractors, 350 sets
of sleighs, 16 wagons, and 160
men are involved in the opera
tion.
The project will be supervised
from the air by a bush plane and
a helicopter. The trains will trav
el at about three miles an hour.
Constitution To Be
Signed Sunday in
University Gym
By FLORENCE DOUTHIT
FAIRBANKS, UP*—'The official
signing of the Alaska State Con
stitution by its 55 framers will
take place Sunday, Feb. 5, at 2
p.m. on the University of Alaska
campus.
This was the decision Saturday
of Constitutional Convention del
egates, who also voted to hold the
historic ceremony in the univer
sity’s old gymnasium—the largest
room on the campus—rather than
in the chambers where the docu
ment is being drafted.
Most delegates voiced a senti
mental preference for the small,
cheerful, glass and drapes-rimmed
room in which all plenary ses- |
sio«s have been held since the
first began Nov. 8.
But James Doogan of Fairbanks
expressed the prevailing view j
during Saturday’s discussion of
ceremony arrangements.
“This room is where our heart
is,” he told the delegates, “but
there’s no room for the public
here. It’s the people’s constitu
tion we’re going to be signing.”
It is believed the document will
be sent to Palo Alto, Calif., where
a former chief designer of the
Government Printing Office will
prepare one handwritten copy. It
is probably that either parchment
or paper of 100 percent rag con
tent, will be used.
The regulations which created
the convention require that five
printed copies be signed by every
delegate.
If a handwritten copy is not
ready in time for the signing, only
the last page will be used in the
ceremony. This is the way it hap
pened in both the Federal Consti
tution and the Bill of Rights.
The constitution will contain
about 13,000 words.
The only article of substance
still to be considered in second
reading is ordinances and transi
tional measures.
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Waiter Indicted
For Not Reporting
$67,000 in Tips
NEW YORK, UP)—A former head
waiier at the Waldorf-Astoria Ho
tel has been indicted on a charge
of failing to report more than
$67,000 he received in tips be
tween 1949 and 1952.
The Internal Revenue Service
says the case involving the retired
head waiter, Hans Paul, probably
will touch off an investigation in
this area of hotels and catering
services at which workers make
most of their money in tips.
Paul, 63, now is vacationing in
Miami, Fla. He was indicted Fri
day on a charge of failing to re
port tips in his earnings during
the four “years preceding his re
tirement. The government says
Paul’s salary during that period
was $3,000 a year.
The government contends that
Paul’s true income was $122,677
over the four-year period but he
reported an income of $55,607.
Asst. Atty. Gen. David Jaffe
estimated that Paul cheated the
government out of nearly $25,000
in taxes.
“It is believed the government
has been duped out of millions of
dollars a year by those persons
who fail to report an accurate ac
counting of gratuitous tips,’’ Jaffe
said.
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FAIRBANKS Iff)—Two men and
a woman fleeing after an Alaska*)
holdup reckoned without the Uni4
ted States Army Friday and were
caught—in Canada.
Two bandits held up Jack Mar-<
ler, proprietor of the Tok Junc-i
tion Lodge, early Saturday and
escaped with a woman companion
in a stolen automobile.
They fled south on the Alaska
Highway at high speed, racing
through the Canadian customs
station at Snag without stopping;
The Canadian officials notified
Alaska territorial police at Tok
Junction who, in turn, radioed to
the Army convoy from Ft. Lewis,
Wash., - northbound for winter
maneuvers.
The convoy was stopped and its
trucks drawn across the road. The
fugitives stopped and surrendered
to the armed, parka-clad troops.
Canadian authorities have the trio
now.
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