The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-09-03

munities. Individual loans may
in turn, he said, be made by the
community corporations to indivi-
duals.
Paul asked liberalization to allow
loans to small groups of natives
wishing to start up logging opera
tons, also for less ANS overseeing
of the details of loans and opera
lions and more responsibility for
the natives. The Indians sense
OF responsibility lis now being
sapped" by administrative prac-
tees, he stated. Pauls reply to
Senator Cain that the natives are
complaining against the admins
tration of the Act rather than
against the legislation, prompted
Senator Capehart to wonder
whether government in Alaska is
by legislation or by directive?
Foster said that the OLA holds
that loans to smaller groups than
whole villages are not legal under
the Act. OF two logging loan APP
plications so far received, one has
been made through the Sitka Viii
lage Corporation, he said, and is
working out successfully.
Paul also submitted graph
showing the downward trend of
Pink salmon production in South
cas- Alaska. Saying he could see
no end to the falling off, Paul urg-
ed more research and that the
Fish and Wildlife Service make
greater use of the advice of fish
ernen.
Territorial Commissioner OF
Health, DR. c. Earl Albrecht,
then presented the tuberculosis
problem in Alaska, urging the need
for 1000 sc ,aatoria teds if the dis
ease is to lie brought under con-
tyol. Figures he presented to show
per capita cost comparison for
health programs in the States and
in Alaska were challenged and
tilted by Senator Ellender. AL
brecht especially asked attention
to an emergency created by fail
ure Of the Federal government to
appropriate for care of 48 natives
in the Seward Sanatorium. The
Territory is providing for its re-
sponsihility, Albrecht declared.
What Ii state?
Senator Cain asked if Albrecht
thought Alaska could carry its
health load if it were a state. The
Federal government would still
have the natives as it responsibility
was Albrecht's view.
Asked by Senator Ellender if
combining the native and Territor-
ial schools would not increase the
tuberculosis problem, Albrecht said
he is insisting on all children being
x-rayed upon entering school.
R. E. Robertson made brief
statement regarding the Juneau Air
port, stressing that it is still Of
strategic value-in war or in peace.
ANB Grand President Cyril zuboff
spoke for vocational education for
the natives as well as for education
to better native living conditions as
a way to combat tuberculosis. He
was followed by Mrs. Roy Peratro-
vich, the final witness, who said the
native people have been crying the
warning of tuberculosis for % years
but white negligence until the last
six years is responsible for allowing
the plague to develop.
Contending that the natives are
the responsibility of the Territory
and should not be considered as
Federal beneficiaries, she made
round about charges that political
groups in the Alaska Legislature, /
who fought taxation for their own
ends are responsible for insuffi- /
cient care of the tubercular and for
other major problems in the Terri
tory.
She declared payment by the Fed
eral government of tuition for native |
pupils in Territorial schools is not a !
workable solution for native educa-
ton. She closed by prophesying that
the ANB and ANS will petition Cen
gress for outright subsidies Tor Al
aska, to carry the Territory over
until the Legislature wakes up"
After Mrs. Peratrcvich had 5pok-
en-, the hearing broke UP to let the
Congressman hurry to their lunch
con date with the K:wanis Club
The Capehart ra.tv was to board
a Pacific Northern Airlines plane
here this afternoon for a flight to
the westward, to hold municipal air.
Port hearings in Anchorage and
Fairbanks as subcommittee of the |
Senate Interstate and Foreign Com |
merce Committee