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Separate Bills Supported for
Alaska and Hawaii Statehood
After 125 Years
Girl Born at Last
In Lott Family
BRIE, Pa., — For the first
time in the past 125 years a girl
has been bom in the Lott family.
It happened last night at the
M. D. General Hspital in nearby
Lawrence Park when Mrs. Del
bert Lott of Millcreek gave birth
to a girl whom they named Cindy.
'Lott, production manager of the
Zum Manufacturing Co., said 20
boys had been born in his family
over the past 125 years, but nary
a girl until Cindy came along.
Principal’s Job ‘Too Much;’
Prefers Teaching History
SPARKS, Nev., (51 — Edwin
Whitehead resigned last week as
principal of Sparks High School
but will remain as a history
teacher.
“That job was too much to
worry about,” said Whitehead,
who will take a drop in pay from
$7,600 to $6,500 a year.
Dist. school supt. Earl Wooster
said he could understand.
“In a job like his, you’re never
right, and catch it from the school
board, parents, pupils and news
papers,” Wooster explained.
GIRL SCOUT NEWS
Troop 66 Rose Brownies
Five Brownies were present the
day of our meeting. We are paint
ing our puppet’s heads and putting
the aair on our puppets. We are
also finishing the puppet play
about Rose Red and Snow White.
Miss Ross gave us each a stick of
candy and then the meeting was
dismissed.
Scribe, Linda Lenert.
RECEPTION PLANNED
FOR EPISCOPAL BISHOP
ARRIVING HERE TOMORROW
The Right Reverend William
Gordon Jr., Bishop of the Episopal
Church in Alaska, accompanied by
Rev. Alvin Reiners Jr. of Kotze
bue, will arrive in Nome Tuesday.
Following the church services,
an informal reception honoring
the visiting clergymen will be
hied at the home of Mr.’and Mrs.
Russell R. Hermann. Assisting Mrs.
Hermann will be Mrs. Robert
Grant, Mrs. Phillip Dexter and
Mrs. Russell Hardy.
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Communism Is
An Issue, Says
House Group Chairman
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, UPl — The
chairman of a Congressional
committee that is handling Alas
ka statehood bills says he “fully
intends to end a hearing on the
bills by April 6.
Chairman O’Brien (D-N. Y.) of
the House Territories Subcommit
tee made this statement Friday
in winding up the first week of
the hearing* which he recessed
until Wednesday.
The April 6 date is two days be
fore the subcommittee is sched
uled to take up similar bills that
would grant statehood to Hawaii.
O’Brien told a witness yester
day that he decided to support
separate consideration of the Alas
ka and Hawaii statehood bills
partly because of the Communism
issue.
The witness, Dr. P. Gordon
Gould of Philadelphia, a native
of Unga, Alaska, had testified
that he had never met an Alaskan
who favored Communism.
O’Brien said that when joint
consideration was given two years
ago to statehood for Alaska and
Hawaii, almost all the arguments
were directed “at alleged Commu
nist tendencies of certain unions
in Hawaii” with no relation to
the merits of Alaskan statehood.
The House defeated that bill.
Gould, a minister, now is giv
ing full time to helping establish
the Alaska Methodist University
at Anchorage. He said statehood
should be granted Alaska because j
“stateside public opinion favors
it,” because the caliber of its cit
izens “warrants” it, and because
its strategic location could make
Alaska a show window for de
mocracy. j
Alice Stuart of Fairbanks, who
identified herself as editor and
published of a “photo-memo book”
called the ‘‘‘Alaska Calendar for
Engagements,” testified against the
bills. She expressed belief a ma
jority of Alaskans would oppose
statehood now if given the op
portunity to vote on it.
All Alaskans “want statehood
someday when we can afford it,”
she said. Alaskans have never
been given an opportunity to “vote
on the bills-eye question” of im
mediate statehood, she said.
O’Brien said she had offered
I no evidence to support her con
| tention. Referring to his advo
| cacy of statehood, she replied:
I “Neither have you.”
O’Brien said he believed Alas
! kans' election of delegates to a
; constitutional convention, subse
quent adoption of the constitu
tion and its election of an unoffi
cial Congressional delegation to
push for statehood indicated most
Alaskans want statehood.
Miss Stuart said she believed
the election of William Egan of
Valdez, who served as chairman
of the constitutional convention,
as one of two “senators” in the
unofficial Congressional delega
tion resulted because his state
hood views were less known than
those of his opponent, Robert At
wood, Anchorage newspaper pub
lisher and chairman of the Alaska
Statehood Commission.
Miss Stuart also said Alaskans
don’t discuss statehood “at the
dinner table ... or in polite so
ciety . . . because it causes so
much friction.”
She said a 1946 referendum on
statehood, in which advocates
prevailed 9,630 to 6,822, was on
the general subject of statehood
rather than on the question of
immediate statehood.
A. M. Buddy, president of the
Alaska Sportsmen’s Council, sug
gested an amendment to the state
hood bill directing that commer
cial fisheries be managed by a
separate agency than sports fish
eries and wildlife. He said the
Alaska Legislature had put the
two under a commission “domi-!
nated by commercial fishing in
terests.”
O’Brien then said that was a
matter which should be left to
the Legislature and one which was
not “pertinent to statehood.”
Buddy then said that he also
questioned the advisability of in
cluding within the statehood bill
the withdrawal authority recom
mended by the administration.
He said he believed this author
ity, under which the President
could set up military reservations
in northern and western Alaska,
would be detrimental to resources I
development.
Industry, he said, would be re
luctant to invest money in an
area threatened by possible with
drawals.
O’Brien said he shared Buddy’s
concern on this score, but added
that from a “practical” standpoint,
the withdrawal proposal was a
compromise under which imme
diate statehood would receive ad
ministration backing.
“It's a handicap to statehood,”
O’Brien said, “but without it we
haven’t a chance.”
Scheduled to testify later are
“Rep.” Ralph J. Rivers of Fair
banks, Mike Erceg, Fairbanks;
Mrs. R. I. C. Prout, president of
the General Federation of Wo
men’s Clubs; Francis O. Wilcox,
Assistant Secretary of State;
Charles Callison, National Wildlife
Federation, and C. R. Gutermuhh,
Wildlife Management Institute.
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BIBLE READINGS —
for use during
Lent and Easter, 1937
MARCH
Friday 8 . Romans 8:31-39
Saturday 9 . II Timothy 2:7-15
Sunday 10 . Psalm 51:1-13
Monday 11 . Luke 10:25-37
Tuesday 12 Luke 5:20-26
Wednesday 13 . Mark 1:9-15
Thursday 14 . John 6:32-40 j
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