The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-28
LARGE SUM IS APPROPRIATED FOR RUNNING ALASKA, 7 YRS.

Suffering most, proportionately in the conference was the fund fof Vocational Education and Rehabil- itation, which was sliced from S35,- 900 to S10,0oO The Department of Public Welfare dropped Sl45,oo0 The Labor Commissioner lost an inspector, but the Governor got back stenographe-.
 Hangover Tund
 A $50,000 House allotment to tl.e Development Board was knocked out of the bill by the Senate, and was not put back in conference. However, the Senate did not re- store the reversion clause that the House took from the original Ways and Means Committee Substitute, leaving the ADB with S45,000 hang ing over from last biepnium. AIDE General Manager George Sund- borg told the Senators they were not cutting his appropriation. but his successors as he could not stay on the job with his salary cut to $6,600 year One other agency with a large hangover appropria- tion is the Department of Health, with $90,000 left in it's tuberculosis disqualification fund.
 This years appropriations bill had a freakish history. It first appeared as a minority report of House Ways and Means Committee members McCutcheon and Huntley When it first came out as H. B. ll3, the bill called for $10.347,l44 Referred to Ways and Means, the group brought out a substitute ap- propriating S7,978, ,629. 40 As it pass ed the House, the bill allotted S9,- 028,9l5. The Senate changed that tctal to $8,342, l0l14 Then the last conference licks boosted the ante to 6,309e4, the amount at which it was enacted This figure includes the $400,O00 loan" to the road fund to be paid back when the new earmarked gas tax re- ceipts come in.
 Despite the large final total, members of the Senate Finance Committee and the conference groups were confident that the Territory would not go ill the hole.
 Appropriations
 The main appropriations, as final ly made, by department totals, are:
 Office of the Governor A$17.872.- 20; Office of the Attorney General -$47,3l6 including $l0,000 to fight rate cases); Auditors Office-$74,- 55160, Treasurer-$79 ,465.
 Support of Schools-$4, ,132 ,843 "A; Office of Commissioner of Educa- tion-$77 ,680; Vocational Rehabil- itation- s10,00O; University of AL aska- $682 300; Office of Highway Engineer - SPA ,492.8o; Construction of Roads and Airfields. including Highway Patrol, to be refunded from motor fuel tax $400, 900.
 Governors Emergency Appropria- ton S5, ,000 Commissioner of Mines -S72,774 Assay Offices and Samp- ling Plants S40,000; Library and Museum -- 2l65o; Pioneers Home -$329,575.
 Primary Elections S20000; Wolf and Coyote bounty-s60,00 Hair Seal bounty-$50,00o Fisheries Ex- perimental Commission $30,000; Rescue and Relief of Lost Persons -$l0,000.
 Alaska Communications Commis- sion-S42 ,992.80; Department of La bor = S69, ,22480; Alaska Industrial Board $3 ,000; Territorial Veterin- arian-S15.000
 Department of Public Welfare Administration and board expense sl30,000; Old Age Assistance $780, 900; Relief of Destitution-S20 ,000; Juvenile Code-S75, ,000; Aid to De- pendent $75,000
 Department of Health = Health and Sanitation s200,000; Tubercu- losis Hospitalization $350,000 De- partment of Taxation S230.000. Department of Agriculture S35.000; Territorial Banking Board s7000, Legislative Expense s80000