The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-01
REGULATION PROVIDED BY
 NEW BOARD
Fairbanks Branch of Pio- neers' Home Establish
 ed by House Measure
By BOB DeARMOND

By BOB DeARMOND
 The long-awaited Liquor Control Bill which had been expected since late Saturday and apparently found some difficulty in securing spon- sor, was introduced as House Bill B this morning as Public Well fare Committee measure.
 The bill, which carries an ap- propriation of sl50.000, sets up Liquor Control Board of five mem bers to approve and issue licenses and set up regulations and enforce them.
 Four of the members would be ap- pointed by the Governor and would receive salaries not exceeding $5,000 a year The fifth member would act as director, would te selected by the other four members and would re- ce!ve salary not exceeding $12,000.
 The Liquor Control Board would take over the present duties of the District Courts issuing licenses for the sale of liquor.
 BASED Gil POPULATION
 The number ol ..quor licenses is- sued for any one town or locality would be governed by the population of the locality under the provisions of this bill.
 A community of 1000 people or less would be entitled to two bars or dispensaries and two retail stores. An additional bar and retail store would be allowed for each addition al thousand of population. A grandfather" clause would protect existing license holders, but where the number of licenses pres- ently in force exceeds the permis- sible number under the proposed schedule, no new licenses would be issued until the population increas- ed or some of the licenses .were vol- untarily dropped to the required ratio.
 Members of the Board. one of them in each of the four Judicial Divisions, would constitute a mo- ,.le enforcement agency as well as a licensing agency.
 PERMITS REQUIRED
 Under the provision of the Bill, all persons engaged in the liquor traffic in any manner. including salesmen and even truckers who haul liquor, would be required to have permits, issued by the Board and costing $50 year.
 The lengthy bill was referred back to the Welfare Committee for fur ther study. Members of this com- mittee are: Rep Wil1ia m Beltz, chairman; Reps. Barnes, Dale, Gum dersen, Hope, Jensen. Frank L. Johnson and Pollard.
 Another Bill introduced this morning. H.B. 34, would establish a :. branch of the Alaska Pioneers Home at Fairbanks, appropriating sl25,000 for that purpose An addi- tional $75,000 would be used to es- tabllsh facilities for the care of pio- neer women at Sitka. The bill was introduced by Reps. Essia R. Dale of Fairbanks, Doris Barnes of Wrangell and Amelia Gundersen of Ketchikan. It provides for the es- tablishment of Pioneers Home Building Commission to administer the $200.0 appropriated.
 Rep. Abel Anderson introduced H.B. g to transfer the Department of Weights and Measures from the Office of the Territorial Treasurer to the Commissioner of Lator.
 Rep. Frank G. Johnson introduced H.B. 3l to amend the law regarding absentee voting and provide that postmasters may, in some instances, handle absentee ballots.
 PUBLIC SERVANT REQUEST
 A request from the Anchorage School Board that the Territory pay transportation costs of sending the Superinten e ndent of Schools and Principal of the High School to Juneau to attend the Board of Education meeting was re- ceived by the House this morning and referred to Education Commit tee. The trip would be in the na- ture of public service, the tele- gram stated
 House Bill 1 was received back in the House this morning with note from the Senate to request that it be properly engrossed.
 An effort to shove H.B. 3, the bill to tax raw fish and fishery pro- ducts, from the foot of the calendar 10 the head. was defeated by vote