The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-20
CONGRESSIONAL SUBCOMMITTEE
 S DUE TONIGHT
House Group Will Hear from Juneau Residents
 al Meeting tomorrow

Following an informative public session at Ketchikan Wednesday and briefer stops at Wrangell and Peters burg yesterday, the five Congress- men composing the Interior Depart ment committee of the House Appropriations committee, now view ing Alaska conditions at first hand, are due to arrive at Juneau this ev- ening.
 They will spend all of tomorrow in this City, with another public hearing scheduled to open Saturday morning at 9:30 o'clock, in the City Council Chamber at the City Hall. The meeting is to last as long as there are persons wishing to be heard by the Congressional commit tee. The Juneau Chamber of Com merce and other groups, as well as individual residents, are expected to have programs to present.
 One grievance almost certain to be aired before the Congressional group is the issue regarding elimina- tion of extra continental pay differ entials for resident Alaskans hold ing graded positions in the Federal service. President Ava w. Black erby of the local organization of the National Federation of Federal Elm ployees was today marshaling facts to be laid before the committee re- garding the discriminatory nature of the projected executive order wiping out the differentials.
 It was stated here today by Gov. Ernest Gruening, who was with the Congressional group on its Ketchi- kan, Wrangell and Petersburg visits, that the quintet of legislators is primarily interested in hearing res ident Alaskans on matters pertain inging directly to appropriation re- quirements of agencies of the De- partment of the Interior functioning in the Territory; though they have also expressed interest in the prob lems of Alaska as whole and it's potentials for postwar development.
 Gov Gruening arrived back in Juneau this morning for conferences with United States Indian Affairs Commissioner William Brophy and High Commissioner of New Zea- land David Wilson. The Governor arrived here by plane from Tracy Arm where the Congressional party was today viewing some of South east Alaska's spectacular tourist at fractions from the Fish and Wild life vessel Brant, on which the party has been travelling toward Juneau from Seattle. s. M 4
 Coy. Gruening remarked on the receptive attitude displayed by the Congressmen at the Ketchikan hear ing; their appreciatiye acceptance of proposals for the benefit of the Territory and their apparent realiza- tion that Federal expenditures on the Territory's behalf have in the past fallen short of what Alaskans feel they have right to expect.
 Among those appearing before the committee at Ketchikan were: Jack Talbot, representing the Alaska De- velopment Board; Wilfred Stump, on behalf of the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce; Lyle Anderson, former biologist in charge at the Fisher ies Experimental Laboratory at Ketchikan, presenting fisheries prob lems, and A. H. Ziegler, President of the Territorial Board of Educa- tion.
 MT. Stump spoke strongly in favor of statehood for Alaska. MT. Zeigler reviewed the Territorys tuberculosis problem before the sub committee, supported election of Alaska's gov- ernor and argued for a single school system for the Territory He stated that the dual system of Territorial and Alaska Native Service schools should be abolished, with the Terri tory given direction of all educa- tion, with Federal appropriations now being made for the Indian schools being put at the disposition of the Territory. Considerable econ- omies could so be effected, he main- tained.
 The Congressmen viewed the Fish cries Laboratory at Ketchikan un-l der the guidance of National Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dr. Ira Gabrielson. They were served there with 8 unique and delicious lunch con consisting of more than twenty ocean products, Gov. Gruening said.
 No public hearings were held at Wrangell and Petersburg The legis-
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