The Wrangell sentinel., 1953-01-30

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Wrangeu Day IN Juneau
TeftI.gslal Legislature aasWezed
the bell Tor its Isl round with
Problems OF state ap in Juneau
Monday and il turned out Ii d.
sort OF a Wiaugeu field daE. In
the Senate they made Wrangei's
senior Senator Jim Nolan President
pro tenn and chose Wraugeil's Jun
ior Senator and the town former
Mayor. Doris n. Barnes. as chair
man Of the committee ON municipal
affairs.
In the House. as soon Is they
had whisked George Miscovieh into
the Speakers chair with a bow
from Frank Johnson Of Eake. they
elected Mrs. Monte Grisham. the
former Margaret Ottesou OF Wran-
CELL. as Chief Clerk. and Mrs vii
liam Bar iugton. Jr.. the former
Elna Arola of Wrangeu as her as
sistant. ed Note. There's q re-
port current about town that
George once went through here onl
a boat. so maybe we ought to claim
a little credit for that speakegship
too
Pioneer lawmaker Senator Chas.
Jones of Nome was elected perman-
ent President of the Senate with
out opposition. Charley served in
the 1913 Legislature the first.
with y. J. Svindseth of Wrangell.
eds second note: How did
Charley 60 through here. with a
dog team?)
Fair and Warmer
Some weather station up the line
reported the temperature around
zero in the Juneau area, but the
legislative report indicates t h e
members were generating plenty of
heat around the corridors and lob
bies The Republican dominated
legislature still had a Democrat /
for Governor and they weren't hap
py about it, Speaker Miscoyieh Is !
reported to have said. in response
to a summons by the Governor forl
a meeting. that the only thing he |
wanted to see Ernest about was toI
ask him to resign. Senator Heinie
Snider, the sage of Wasilla, was
for getting rid Of the whole kit
and kaboodle.'
Meanwhile, as the Republican
high command rallied in a meeting
to try and agree on some Republi-
can for Governor they could re-
commend to Interior Secretary
Douglas Mckay and the President,
the Governor inserted a touch OF
what has been legislative normally
for the last % years. He delivered
a two-hour message to the Legls-
lature containing, as usual, sub
tie suggestion for a tax boost; this
time in the gasoline levy, now two
cents. Highway Engineer Frank
Metcalf ran for reelection on that
platform without success. He also
put in a plug for the one per cent /
property tax law now in litigation
and for repeal of which a bill al
ready has been introduced in the
current Legislature. Small wonder
they don't feel the cold weather in
the Capital City.
Potent Committees
Elsewhere in this venerable fam
ily journal will be found the cong
mittees named in the two legisla-
tive houses. On the all-powerful
Senate appropriations committee
which passes out the spending
money for the next biennium, are
three veterans of many legisla-
tive dollar skirmish - John Butro-
vich of Fairbanks, chairman: How
ard Lying of Nome, Wrangelis No
Ian and first-timer John Gorsuch
OF Anchorage. Formidable, to say
the least. Old pro Lying also sits as
chairman of the rules committee,
his stamping ground for many
session. This is the committee
which decides which bills shall
come on the floor and when.
Strange thing, but sitting with
Lyng's committee will be Butro-
vich and Nolan and first-timer 10
bison of Anchorage. Nolan heads
up the labor committee and with
him are Butrovich, Beltz of Hay
cock and Robson.
Looks like senior Senator Butro-
vich of the Fourth Division is going
to be Mr.. Republican" of this
session