The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-01

clam industry, a proposed birch wood veneer plant near Anchor age. proposed pulp development, and investigations of freight and lighterage rates.
 The Board, te said, has been able to interest several people in pulp development who had not pre- ;iously been interested in tke Alaska field. Chief obstacle at the present time to pulp development, Sund- borg said, are the unfavorab!e terms offered by the Forest Service on timber contracts. Through the efforts Of the Board, he said, the Chief Forester is now revising these terms.
 Government Can Help The government can help pulp development by offering better terms on timher sales and by de- veloping power resources, Sund- borg reported. Several companies which plan to come in very soon, he said, will build their own pow CT plants as they believe gov ernment development Of power will take too long Rep. Maurice Johnson took eX- ception to the Development Boards printed report which he said deals almost entirely in generalities The only specific information in the report, he said, is that the Board paid out sl6,000 in lawyers fees and S23,00O in salaries. Reps Dewey Anderson and Will jam Egan objected to what they said is a board policy of prying into private businesses and de- nouncing them for what the Board considers excessive earnings There was a considerable dis cussion of letters, telegrams and newspaper stories or editorials on the Development Board and Rep. McCutcheon read a long list of organizations and newspapers which he said endorsed the Board.
 Not Representative
 Rep. Steve Vukovich said that although he knew hundreds Of working people in Alaska, he has yet to receive a letter or any other word from enc of them regarding the board. Further, he said, he has yet to see person who has heen put to work on any job which the Board has established.
 Rep Harry Newell said that many of the endorsements from organizations are not the expres- sion of the full membership of those organizations. He cited the Ketchikan Post of the VFTW which, he said, has membership of about 400 and an average attend ance of about 20 at the meetings.
 The so-called hearings in which the Development Board took part have been inquisitions rather than investigations and seem to have been for the purpose of harrying businessmen" Rep. Mau- rice Johnson charged. The vote on the Board at the Juneau Chamber of Commerce meeting Was s for and 28 against the continuation of the Board, John son said, and many of the B were Federal and Territorial employees, including Sundborg himself.
 Money Fer Schools
 We need this money for schools and hospitals Rep. Snider said. "The Alaska Development Board is another New Deal baby, and would like to strangle it. I be- l!eve that MT. Sundborg has done all he can do, and l am glad to hear that he has been offered another job and hope that he takes it
 Rep. Frank Johnson read long paper lauding the work of the Board, and evidently prepared by an expert, after which the roll was called.
 The vote on the bill was
 Yeas, ll-D. Anderson, Coble Egan, NJ Johnson, Joy, Laws Meath, Newell, Snider, Vukovich Gill.
 Nays, l3-Almquist, Ed Ander- son, Barnett, Engstrom. Garnick Hope. Hopes, Huntley, F. John son, McCutcheon, Nolan, Ost, Pol lard.
 Rep. Hoopes first voted yes, then before the result was an nounced changed his vote and wa thereby enabled to give notice O a recOrsiderat tiOn