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LEGALIZE FISHING
ON SUNDAYS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA UP) — The Georgia
Legislature has passed a bill to
legalize fishing on Sundays after
Sen. Erwin Owens said Sunday
was the “only day I have to relax
and go fishing with my kids.”
In addition, Owens said he
wanted the bill adopted because
many tourists going through
Georgia on Sundays “stop to eat
at picnic tables beside a stream,
throw out a hook, and a sheriff
comes along and fines them $25.
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Senate Reverses Itself and Kills
Employment Benefit Pay Period Bill
JUNEAU UP — The Senate re
versed itself yesterday and killed,
by a 10-10 tie vote, a measure to
increase the maximum employ
ment security benefit period from
26 to 28 weeks.
The upper chamber had ap
proved the bill 13-7 last Friday,
but it came up again on a motion
for reconsideration offered by Sen.
Howard Pollock.
As it did last Friday, the Senate
was tied up for more than an hour
in a sometimes bitter debate over
the merits of the bill.
Sens. Paul Greimann, Brad
Phillips and R. J. McNealy carried
most of the burden of opposition
to the bill.
Advocating its passage were
Sens. A1 Owen and Lester Bron
son.
Phillips told the Senate the bill
should be defeated because the
U. S. Senate has already passed—
and the House is expected to fol
low suit shortly — on a bill for
emergency federal employment
security benefits for a 13-week
period in addition to benefits al
ready paid by the states.
“If we pass this bill,” Phillips
said, “we are going to pay double
for two weeks. The maximum we
are going to be able to get if the
federal bill passes is 39 weeks.
“We already have 26 weeks. If
we add two, we only get 11 weeks
of the federal program, yet we
are going to pay for two more
weeks of federal benefits, plus the
two weeks provided for in this
bill.
“And, on top of that, this bill
does not attack the real problem—
the small wage earner of Alaska.
“Legislation of this type only
serves to kick investment capital
in the head.”
Owen said he did not believe
the bill would discourage invest
ment capital from coming to
Alaska.
Sen. B. J. Logan called the
bill “social injustice. It totally
disregards the little people who
really need help.”
Greimann said more businesses
have been killed by the high cost
of doing business in Alaska than
would have been started here
since the early 1940’s.
Coghill said the references to
the lack of help for the small
wage earner were inaccurate in
that employment security was tied
directly to a person’s attachment
to the labor market, not to the
amount of wages he earns.
Pollock, in a voice ringing with
anger, told the Senate:
“We should not cloud the issue.
We should not mis-state the facts.
“The defeat of this measure is
not going to lower wages. The de
feat of this measure is not going
to lower our standard of living.
It is not going to mean one dollar
of employment security lost.”
Will Ask for Boost
In Airmail Rates
" CHICAGO (iT)— Postmaster
Gen. J. Edward Day said yester
day his department will ask Con
gress to boost first-class mail
rates from the present 4 cents to
5 cents and airmail rates from the
present 7 cents to 8 cents.
He told a news conference the
department also will seek higher
rates for second and third class
mail and for parcel post.
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Alaska Airlines
I Offers New
Scholarships
Alaska Airlines is expanding
and reorganizing its three-year
old scholarship program, it was
announced by President and Gen
eral Manager Charles F. Willis,
Jr.
Since 1958 the carrier has been
offering annual scholarships to
the University of Alaska to grad
uating high school seniors. The
$350 awards were available to
student residents of Fairbanks,
Anchorage and Nome who enroll
ed in prescribed courses at the
university.
Under the new program,
scholarships will instead be of
fered to students enrolled in
either the Department of Busi
ness Administration or any of the
departments of the Engineering
Division of the University of
Alaska with sophomore or jun
ior class standing.
In addition to the $350 awards
for the recipients from Fairbanks,
Anchorage and Nome, a fourth
scholarship will be awarded to
a resident of the state at large
who meets the qualifications,
Willis said.
Recipients must have main
tained a “B” average during their
academic career at the university
and, in addition, a “B” average
for the semester preceding their
selection.
Preference will be given to ap
plicants who have a vocational
interest in the field of commer
cial aviation. Otherwise, the
scholarships will be awarded to
any qualifying student.
The recipients will be selected
by the University’s Scholarship
Committee in March and the
scholarships become effective the
following school year beginning
in September. If any scholarship
is forfeited, a new recipient will
be selected in November.
It was Josephus Daniels who ob
served, “defeat never comes to a
man until he admits it.”
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[Freight Rate Increase
Was Unwarranted
The State of Alaska has submit
ted its brief to the Federal Mari
time Board documenting the
state’s contention that a freight
rate increase put into effect by
the Alaska Steamship Co. in Jan
uary 1959 was unwarranted.
Gov. Egan said the brief, filed
recently asked that the increase
be cancelled and that monies col
lected under it during the past
year be refunded to shippers.
The brief was prepared on the
basis of evidence and testimony
received at a hearing held during
the past year at Anchorage, Seat
tle, and Washington, D. C.
Reply briefs in the case are due
March 22 following which the
board examiner will issue his
recommended decision.
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Road To Point Barrow
Would Permit Travel
To Top of the World
JUNEAU UP! — A joint resolu
tion calling for construction of a
road to Point Barrow was intro
duced in the House by Rep. John
Nusunginya and Rep. Jim Bink
ley.
Nusunginya said the highway
would branch off from the pro
posed Fairbanks-Nome Road near
Hog River.
It would head in a northeaster
ly direction to Anaktuvuk Pass,
then north to a crossing of the
Colville River west of Umiat.
From there, the road would head
northwesterly until it hit the Mead
River, then it would follow the
Mead to a point near Atkasuk.
It would then strike northwest
erly to the Arctic Coast and fol
low the coast through Barrow to
Point Barrow, passing near the
Wiley Post-Will Rogers monu
ment.
“Besides opening up a tremen
dous area of natural resources,”
Nusunginya said, “it would per
mit road travel to the top of the
world.”
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