The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-19
WAR VETS HIRING MEASURE IS GIVEN
 SETBACK IN HOUSE
By JIM HUTCHINSON

NCtSAeAio RAS4SA JOO ACSlSld ton lost a leg in the House yes- terday.
 The House amended the Senate approved bill for priority hiring of war veterans on public jobs by striking out the proviso for a pre- ferential markup on competitive ex- aminations. It was on motion of Rep. Alfred Owen, Jr., who argued that he thought most veterans would concede that they had ad- vantage enough if they got the job after just breaking even with other competitors in an examination.
 He said he thought awarding jobs to persons who needed a preferen- tial markup to get them would con- tribute to inefficiency n adminis- tration.
 The final vote on the amended bill was IS to 6. Critics described it as "class legislation and con- tended a job might be more essen- tial for man with a family than for a veteran who might not have one. Rep. Jack Conright, Veterans Committee chairman, replied: Ger tainly it's class legislation, but it was class legislation, too, when these men were called into the army"
 The House approved a memorial to Congress for 90-day legislative session, but only by 13-10 vote in contrast to the big votes by which memorials normally win approval.
 Other bills passed by the House yesterday in the session that ran until after pm. were:
 SB82, providing that report on the audit of territorial offices, al- ready provided by law, shall be submitted between legislative ses- sions to the chairmen of the Sen ate Finance and the House Ways and Means Committees.
 SEAT, for assisting community operated hospitals after s50,000 had been added to it to raise the total to $250,00O to give extra assistance to Sitka.
 SB76, for repaying $2O,449 to hos pitals for care of indigents.
 SB79 for licensing professional architects along with the engineers.
 The House approved long list of Senate joint memorials, topped by requests for millions in federal expenditures.
 One asks the government to in- vest $250, .000 in a customs smelter in Alaska. Another asks the fed eral government to provide $38,000,- OOO additional for rehabilitation of the Alaska Railroad.
 Looking forward to pulp indus try developments, another approved memorial petitions Forest Service officials to write into logging con- tracts restriction against over use of stream beds for log sideways because of the damage it would cause to salmon spawning beds.
 The House completed legislative acton yesterday on a bill to pre- vent marring of Alaska highway scenery with advertising billboards. But one major exemption was writ ten in. You guessed it-it is poli- tical advertising.
 The original House bill banned all general hillboards. The Senate slipped in the amendment to ex- empt political advertising.
 When it came back to the House, members said the Senate might be just testing, or they might be try ing to kill the bill. Numerous mem bers said they didn't want to risk killing the bill so they accepted it in toto, commenting that political advertising is only seasonal" any, way and would appear only near cities. Some expressed the fear that if they waited two years more to get a law on the books, bill- boards might already have sprung up along the highways.