The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-05-12
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 Tabulation of the 162 absentee ballots cast in the First Division in the recent primary election made no changes in the nominees.
 Tally made in the clerk of courts office this week revealed the fol- lowing absentee vote: Bartlett g6, Peterson 4S, Roden 126, Beach 24, Benson 63, Kimball 19, Owen 30 Almquist AT, Nolan 92, Peratro- yieh n, Engstrom 67, Barnes S3, Bartholomew A, Coughlin S7, For sythe 20, Gunderson fs. Harris IT, Heinmiller IS, Hendrickson 54, Ho- mer IT. Hope 66, Jensen 45, John son 61. Joyce 26 Lane 24, Locken 70. LOckeridge 2S, MacKinnon 55. Macspadden 3S, Metcane 37. Paul 3S, Peterson 36, Smith 37, Stew art 52, Toner 30 and Wood 42.
 Tony Schwamm, director of acre. nautics, was down in the Southeast for a few days this week checking on float work the department is undertaking. May IT bids will be- opened at this Anchorage head quarters on additional projects for the Southeast. Plans call for inn proving or building facilities at Todd, Hood Bay, Angoon, Ketchi- kan, Port Altrop, Craig. Tongass Harbor, Gustavus, Sitka. Baranof, Hydaburg and possibly Hyder. This part of the program carried under the federal airport aid act in coop eration with the CAA which pro Vides 75 per cent of the cost After the bid opening Sehwamm will re- turn to the Southeast at which time he will look over the facility. at Wrangell with the aim of rais- ing the float, which has been sink ing.
 Gov. Ernest Gruening, who has been in Washington for a couple of months in connection with Alaska matters. will return to the terri ory next week. En route north he will stop at Edmonton Tuesday where the University of Alberta will confer upon him an honorary degree of doctor of laws. He ex- poets to reach his Juneau headquar- ters about the 17th or 18th.
 Senator Howard Lyng of Nome, Democratic National Committeeman who has been wintering in Califor- mia. is returning to the territory on this trip of the Baranof. Lyng was recently East for the statehood hearings and also for a conference of the national committee. He plans to confer with Divisional Chairman James Nolan in Wrangell while the vessel is in port.
 In the Southeast on business mat ters this week was Sen. Victor c. Rivers of Anchorage. Democratic Territorial chairman. In the recent primary. the senator ran well ahead of tho field to win handily another nomination for the senate. He and 2. J. Lousac will pace it off against Senator Gunnard Engebreth and former Rep. Heinie Snyder, Repub- Ifeans, in the fall general election
 Back from Washington this week after attending the statehood hear ings was Rep. Stanley McCutcheon of Anchorage Optimistic about statehood, but a little irked be- cause he had been criticized for the size of his fees for legal work for the Department of Aviation. Me Cutcheon, speaker of the house at the last session, stopped over in Juneau to give an explanation of his fees and what work he accom- piished for the department.
 Fact is that the attorney general was not available to do work at the time for the aviation depart ment with the result that the Aero nautics and Communications Con- mission instructed Director Tony Schwamm to hire an attorney. This was done, the work accomplished and the bill paid. The commission found that the fees charged were in line with those charged by the