The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-25
SENATE GETS
 BILL TO HIKE
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Uniform Salary for Depart meni Heads Pegged dt
 S7, 500 Per Year

Another fistfull of bills was intro duced in the Alaska Senate this morning, headed by a uniform sal ary bill authored by Senator Gun nard M Engebreth.
 Tie Engebreth measure-Senate Bill 6l would set the pay of all territorial department heads at ST. 800 per year. Most of them now are drawing S5,600 A way out is left for the Commissioner of Health and the General Manager of the Alaska Development Board to continue to pull down their respective 510,000 and sl2,oO0 salaries in a provision that:
 Any appointive official now em- ployed at higher salary than speci- fled, who is engaged in administering a highly specialized program and "who must necessarily have un- commonly specialized qualifications to perform the duties of this office may, if authorized by his board, with the consent of the Board of Administration, be paid any salary above the amount herein limited and within the maximum authorized by law which establishes his office
 A uniform salary of $6,000 per year is set by the bill for any other employee engaged as full-time executive officer in charge oi the program of any Board or Commis- sion. Salaries of Territorial Assay CTS are begged up to S5,000 per year and those of chief deputies in the various agencies at $5.5en
 A iother bill by Engebreth-S. B. 59s-provides territorial extension of the Federal mercantile licensing system by writing license taxes to cover types of establishments not now licensed or paying lower license rates. It would provide as nearly uniform as practical license fees for similar types of businesses. Estab- lishments covered under s. B. 59 are: Cold storage plants. laundries, restaurants. drug stores and jewelry stores.
 s. B. 60, by the Senate's Commit tee on Education, would require school administrators to notify teach CTS of reappointment by April Of each year and would require accept ance or non-acceptance by teachers within 30 days.
 s. B. 58, by Senator o. D. Coch- ran, would require that certain ter ritorial refunds to municipalities be used only for school purposes. Coch- rams s. B. 55 would bar co-opera- tives ffom organizing as non-profit corporations. s. B. 57, by Cochran, would require that parties to actions at law who demand trial by Jury must deposit a sufficient sum to cover payment to all members of the jury panel.
 Senate Joint Memorial No. IA. by Senator Tolbert Scott, asks the Army to repair the Seward Pen insula Railroad.
 Spice is added to the new quota of legislation by Senator Cochran's s. B. 56, which would repeal, as obsolete, that chapter of the Com piled Laws relating to use Of carrier pigeons as aids to navigation, which reads.
 Sec. 528. Carrier pigeons. For the purpose of aiding aviation ana increasing safety thereof. the Gov ernor shall have authority to estab- fish and maintain a carrier pigeon loft at such place or place in the Territory as he shall deem of great est advantage, to secure for the same the necessary pigeons ana make such arrangement for the training and the use of the same as he shall find to pest gerve the purpose for the attainment of which such pigeons are secured and kept"
 s. J. M. IA was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Judiciary; s. B. 55, s. B. 56,. s. B 57, to Judiciary; s. B. 58 to Educa- ton; s. B. 59 to Taxation; s. B. 6l to Finance, and S. B. 60 to Rules for placement on tomorrow's call oNlor