The Wrangell sentinel., 1953-05-01
z THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE
Sounds Hot

Sounds Hot
 Along about the middle of this spring month of May there is ex.- pected to come out of the House Uu-American and Subversiye Activ- ities committee a report that prom ises to shake Alaska to it's political fOots Our advance information is that a man widely known in Alaska affairs Is being tabled by the com mittee as a seasoned Communist for subyersiye conspiracy and that the ramifications are almost be- yond conception politically as well as otherwise"
 Premature
 Gov. Heintzleman is reported polling the members of the Legfs- lature in regards To possibility of calling a special session as request ed by Anchorage and the Third Ju- dicial Division of Alaska. The boys up in the Third want to raise the gasoline tax to four or six cents to build some roads, which on the sur face appears to be a laudable idea. Catch is that Congress has trimmed Alaska road building funds and there promises to be no matching money available to assist the Ter ritory. one-fifth the size of contin- ental United States, to build any thing, including roads.
 Checking reaction for the great est of all news agencies, the AsL soeiated Press. Sentinel Periscope got some solid views from Wran- gells two Senators - Democrat James Nolan and Republican Doris Barnes. Premature. said they. Felt it might be wiser to wait and exam inc the action of Congress toward Alaska. If the economy program as pertains to Alaska is going through as tabled by the House - cutting Alaska appropriations yir- tually in half - there is little need for a special session at this time, Maybe. come next winter. it might be we'll to look the situation over. they feel, but a special session now is pOintless.
 Senator Barnes put it this way:
 All of us want to give Gov. Heintzleman the fullest cooperation and support and if he should de- eide that a special session is neces- sary I will not strongly oppose it. However, I do feel that a session before the complete action of Con gress is known is untimely and un- necessary"
 Senator NOlan's remarks were a little more pithy. The Senator was trying to determine the tax on two cans of smoking tobacco when ap- preached by this inquiring report CT. He said (Oh. well. just skip it). We can report the Senator is not for a special session in this history-making year of 1853, and, after determining the tax on a cou- pie cans of smoking tobacco, he has some views on taxes which are highly enlightening, but, due to the space limitations of this peer less family journal, We haven't room to print them this week. If you have any ideas the Senator is for more taxes, including gasoline. it's just as well to forget them.
 Near Miss
 The ice went out at 3:45 D. m. Wednesday of this week, according to report. Three Wrangell women can now interpret what the bomber pilots mean when they call 1t a near miss. Mrs. Neva Coulter had set the time at 3:55 D. m. as of Ap- Til 29 0ptimist Mrs. Dan Roberts had begged 1t at 3:56 and Mrs Doe" Wheeler thought 3:57 was a good time. Oh well. how close can you get and miss? Better go by the moon next year, girls.
 Resigns
 Don Hamilton, Ketchikan fisher man who was recently named by Gov. Heintzleman to the Territorial Board of Fisheries (see story else where in today's paper) has sub- mitted his resignation. My private affairs are such that I will be un- able to do full justice to this i'm portant office" said Hamilton.