The Wrangell sentinel., 1952-09-19
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Not Another Olson Case ?

Not Another Olson Case
 It's to be hoped there isn't an- other Oscar Olson case brewing on the Territorial financial front but the old once-familiar charges of unauthorized bank accounts and un- authorized payments are emauating from Juneau.
 Ever mindful of his duty and watehful of Territorial funds, Ter ritorial Auditor Neil F. Moore has asked Attorney General J. Gerald Williams to recover the money and to immediately stop all illegal payments of Territorial funds"
 The deep trouble has arisen over the handling of funds received from the operation of the ferry Chilkoot by the Territorial Board of Road Commissioners made up of the Governor. Treasurer Henry Ro- den and Highway Engineer Frank Metcalf.
 In demanding action of the At torney General the Auditor, in q bill of particulars to that official declares the road board has viola ted the laws of the Territory and repeated opinions of your office re- latiye to the handling of funds collected from shippers and travel CTS using the Territorial-owned Chilkoot ferry"
 He points out that the Board of Road Commissioners i S paying 11 of a special account they have set up at the B. M. Behrends bank of Juneau. This special account is made up from the receipts earned by the ferry. which receipts, ac- cording to your opinion, must be deposited in the General Fund by the Treasurer. The procedure fol- lowed by the said board is the same as that followed by the former Treasurer of Alaska. i.e., unauthor- ized bank accounts and unauthor- ized payments"
 The Auditor cites chapter and verse from the Territorial laws which, he says, have been ignored, and asks that the Attorney General act for the protection of Territorial funds. Meanwhile, the Auditor ord cred the freezing" of the ferry checking account in Behrends bank.
 Interest in COP.
 If the rally held here this week by the Republicans on the occasion of the visit of their candidate for Delegate to Congress, Robert c. Bob" Reeve is indicative, there apparently is a growing interest in the Republican cause after some 20 years of Democratic rule. On short overnight notice, Candidate Reeve and his fellow Republican candid ates - Doris M Barnes, Fred East taugh and William L. Boardman- drew 75 people out on rainy, blustery night Two years ago when Democratic Delegate E. l.. Bob" Bartlett was here on the "Gruening Special" for a rally, he drew an audience of exactly one person, aside from those arranging the meeting. It's been a mooted question around here ever since whether that solitary voter didn't wander into Bjorge's old hall by mistake.
 It might be equally significant that a goodly number of those pre- sent at Wednesday nights meeting were Democrats. Queried by your ever-faithful reporter, one old self admitted Democrat put it this way:
 "The heck of it with these Re- publicans is that they have some darned good candidates"
 Comes the Special
 Apparently the Democrats have been able to tap the officeholders for some campaign money for, in sharp contrast to the Republicans who pay their own expenses, there's another Democratic 'spe- cial" on the way. We are advised by Divisional Chairman Bill Knight of Sitka. via Pete Wood. that the Democratic candidates are swing ing into Southeast Alaska the week of Sept. 28, and it appears they are not travelling by rowboat, for the schedule calls for Rake and Wran- gell on one day. October 3.
 Their broadcast proclaims they
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