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Bills Would Bolster BRUCE SCANbLING Associated Press Writer JUNEAU (AP) --Alaska's oil-fueled savings account will get bigger and be harder to tap if several bills proposed for the 14th Alaska Legislature become Doubling state contributions to the Alaska Permanent Fund and protecting unspent interest earned by the fund is the goal of measures introduced last week. They be among 98 pre-filed measures awaiting legislators when they. convene the 1985 session Monday. Sen. Vic Fischer, D-Anchorage, lias drafted a bill that will oil- royalty contributions to the fund from 25 to 50 percent.

A similar proposal has Elks' Hoop Shcot Contest on Tap All boys and girls ages 8 to 13 are invited to partake in the Elks Hoop Shoot Feb. 2 at Sitka High School. Warm-up for the contest will begin at 1 p.m. and the contest at i 30 p.m. Age categories, as of April 1, 1984, will be 8- arid 9-year-olds, 10- and ll- year-olds and 12- and 13-year olds.

Those age 8 and 9 will shoot from four feet in front of the freethrow line. The other two groups will shoot from the freethrow line. Each will be given 25 shots. Last year, Casey Demmert won 10- and 11-year-old division in the local and state contests and placed fourth in the regionals at Portland, Ore. Registration forms for the contest may be picked up from physical education instructors; Those with questions may call Bruce Ellingson at 747-8064.

Teen Club Offers Parent Discussion Sitka Teen Club will a discussion group for improving parenting skills. 1:30" a.m. Tuesdays beginning Jan. 22 in the Teen Resource Center located above Old Harbor Books. The sessions cost $5 which covers the cost of materials.

Licensed child care will be provided. To. register or for more information, contact the center at Gets Wew Officer Pregnancy Aid has announced the appointment of Teri Lundy as its new office manager. She is, a six-year resident of Sitka. Lundy replaces Pat Nelson who will be moving to Lundy will be available at the Pregnancy Aid office 11 a.m.

to 1 p.m. Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays. Women in need of pregnancy tests or those wishing inf prmatiofr on local assistance available for pregnant' women may call the off ice at 747-6955 or stop by at 319 Katlian St. All services are free and confidential. Brother Charged In Shooting Death ANCHORAGE (AP) Clyde R.

Lewis Jr. has been charged with negligent homicide in the shooting death of his 17-year-old brother at their father's Hillside home, prosecutors said. Investigators said Michael Lewis was shot -Nov. 24 as he and his brother practiced quick-draws with loaded caliber automatic pistols. The younger Lewis was hit in the heart and left lung.

Their a A a businessman Clyde R. Lewis, was not home at the time of the shooting. Prosecutors said they had delayed charging Lewis until Alaska State Troopers finished investigating the of the shooting. been offered by Rep. Mike Szymanski D-Anchorage.

While Fischer and Szymanski want to boost how much the state must pump into the Permanent Juneau Rep. Jim fiuncan wants to protect any unused interest money earned by the fund. bill would return most of the "undistributed income account" of the Permanent Fund back to the main body of the fund for re-investment. Duncan, a Juneau Democrat, said greedy lawmakers are too likely to try to tap; the undistributed'. money for construction projects if it's not protected.

"It me that there's always talk about dipping into that part of the Duncan said Monday. "This bill would take away the attractiveness of going in and appropriating that money." After annual Permanent Fund earnings are used to pay dividends and cover inflation, leftover money, is channeled into the undistributed income account. Although it's never been done, lawmakers theoretically could use that money for capital projects. -Duncan's bill would make certain the unspent money is kicked back into the main body of the Permanent Fund for re-investment. At'the sanie time, money equaling 5 percent, of the totarpermanent Fund would remain available to lawmakers, Duncan said.

He said the bill would pump $450 million into the Permanent Fund by the end of this fiscal year. Approximately $250 riuilion would remain in the undistributed income account, Duncan said. Gov. Sheffield in December ordered $200 million transferred from, the state's'treasury to the Permanent Fund, the last of $1.8 billion in contributions mandated by the 1981 Legislature. That action boosted the fund to $6.1 billion.

Szymanski said his bill, corsponsored by House Majority Leader 'Don. Clocksiri, D-Anchorage would mean a smaller state budget. But the plan also would mean more to spend later as oil revenues keep dropping. "It would serve a twofold pur06se, he said. "It would front-load the fund today and force us into a more conservative budgeting process.

And it would hopefully bail us out in the future." On the Senate side, Fischer's bill also would double contributions to the Permanent Fund. "We have almost consistently managed to spend everything we make," Fischer said. "I would say the climate is not necessarily better this year; there's even more pressure to spend." But Fischer said he thinks lawmakers should move to boost Permanent Fund contributions as oil- revenue projections continue to dip. If not, he said, public-interest groups may move on their own to increase contributions. "I have a hunch if the legislature doesn't move on this, it could happen by initiative," he said.

IN MISSION Bradley James Wilson has departed for two years of full-time missionary service in the Oregon Portland Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He will attend two weeks of training at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, before going to Portland. Wilson is a 1984 graduate of Sitka High School and has been employed at Sea Mart. Boom ANCHORAGE (AP) A legislative glitch in a state loan program has. triggered a building boom in Homer while further depressing the housing market in Cordova; Prior to.

last year, the low-interest loan money was reserved for people living in communities without road access or year-round ports. TJien the Legislature got into the act. Lawmakers drew a 100-mile circle around the Municipality of Anchorage and decreed that small communities outside the circle qualified for the loans. As a result, Homer was out and Cordova was in. So Homer is in the money and Cordova is out.

Since July, residents of the Kachemak Bay community have snapped up more than 25 percent of the available funds. "You have to feel guilty; about it," said.one man, who asked.not to be identified. "I don't think Man Questioned After Fairjjaitks Kidnan Try -I FAIRBANKS (AP) Investigators checking leads in the attempted abduction of a 7-year-old girl have started questioning a man captured after eluding police last week. "We are concentrating our efforts on this man," said John Baus, a Fairbanks detective. Bail.for Harris Nylund, 27, was the weekend to $35,000 from He was held at the Fairbanks Correctional Center on a charge of third-degree theft.

Nylund is accused of stealing merchandise from Basket store on Nov. 30. He was arrested Saturday afternoon after a resident found him sleeping in his garage. Police searching for a car used in the attempted-abduction "Dec. 18 found a vehicle in North Pole matching its description, Baus said officers believed the car, a blue Chevrolet El Camino, belonged to Nylund.

"We believe at this point it may be the car," Baus said. Fish and Game Advisors to Meet The Sitka Fish and Game Advisory Committee will meet 7:30 p.m. Jan. 10 in the Centennial Building. The main agenda item will be election of five members by the public.

Game regulations proposals and a report on the U.S.-Canada salmon treaty will also be featured along with a short film on on wildlife habitat The meeting is open to the public. COLISEUM TWIN THEATRE Lincoln St. Shows: Wed Thurs 7:00 out 8:50 7:00 9:00 Matinee 1:30 out 3:10 AMERICAN DREAMER JOBETH WILLIAMS TOM CONTI Shows: 7:00 out 8:57 7:00 9:00 Matinee 1:30 out 3:17 TWENTIETH STARTS JANUARY 16 ENDS JANUARY 20 FIRSTBORN TERI GARR I PETER WELLER STARTS JANUARY 16 ENDS JANUARY 2 DIANE KEATON i THE DWilMER tni For three weeks, police have hunted for the man who dragged a young girl from a department store, after telling her that her mother waited outside. The man was confronted by two passersby who heard the cry for help. She escaped unharmed and the man fled in a blue car.

Baus said when officers found the car in North Pole, they started Iqokirig for Nylund. When officers approached him late Friday, he fled, police said. Nylund eluded about 20 officers who chased him on foot, on snowmachines, in patrol cars and in a helicopter, police said. Baus said Monday that Nylund had not been charged with the attempted abduction. Mat-Sii Borough To Elect Mayor PALMER (AP) Mat-Su voters went to the polls today to elect a new borough mayor.

If one of the six candidates gets at least 40 percent of the vote, he or she will serve the final 10 months of the term of Edna Armstrong-DeVires, who is resigning to take a seat in the Legislature. If no one gets 40 percent, there will be a runoff Jan. 22 between the top two vote-getters. The race has been a quiet one, with the six candidates combined spending less than $10,000. The mayor presides over assembly-meetings and has veto but administrative authority rests with the borough manager.

The largely ceremonial job pays anout $1,450 a month for salary and expenses. The candidates are former assembly member Bob Barry, businessman Bruce Edwards, Deputy Mayor Dorothy Jones, outgoing state Rep. Barbara Lacher, R-Wasilla, election supervisor Nancy Lumpkin and credit union manager AI Strawn. Halibut Hearing Set Steve Hoag, representative of the International Pacific Halibut Commission, and Robert McVey, regional director of the -National Marine Fisheries Service, will speak on halibut seasons and quotas I p.m. Wednesday at the Sheffield hotel.

Bowlers to Meet Sitka Women's Bowling Association Board of Directors will meet 2 p.m. Saturday at the Moose Lodge. The city bowling tournament will be discussed. Toastmasters Meet Totem Toastmasters will meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at 414 Hollywood Way.

the Legislature realized that.Homer would be included." Homer is at the end of Alaska primary road system, and has a year- round port. Meanwhile, already suffering from declines in the local fishing industry -and accessible only by plane or boat -Cordova's already battered housing market has been hurt worse. Only a few people would be building houses this year anyway, says John Wheeler, Cordova branch manager for the First National Bank of Anchorage. The lack of low-interest loan money depressed the number even more, he says. "For some people, it has made the difference of qualifying or not qualifying," Wheeler says.

The interest rate on the rural loans is one percentage point below what is offered by the Alaska Housing Finance Corp. Clark Boston, director of the Division -of Housing Assistance, says Homer is the unintended beneficiary of a legislative oversight. "Boundaries will probably be an -issue," Boston says of the upcoming legislative session. "Right now the department has no position" on Homer should remain iff the low-interest He says he doesn't believe the Homer area will exhaust the loan fund, even though residents there have borrowed $12 million of million Boston says he thinks there is sufficient money to last until June 30, the end of the fiscal year. More than three dozen homes are under construction, and more than 100 rental units have been added to Homer's housing inventory.

Jim.Lund, Homer branch manager for National Bank of Alaska, says "everyone in this area who ever contemplated investment property has jumped in. "It's almost unbelievable the number of rental units introduced to the Homer area," Lund says. "It's more than amazing. It's concerning. We're approaching the point where it's overbuilt." He says state officials were so alarmed by the trend that they stopped financing multi-family units in October.

But he says applications for single- family homes keep pouring in; Spenard Builders Supply set a new sales record at its Homer store in 1984, says manager Bruce Turkington. "Without the loan program, things would have really slowed down from 1983," he says. Daily Sitka Sentinel, Siika, Alaska, Tuesday, January 8,1985, Page 5 Libertarian Politics Returning to Juneau By BRUCE SCANDLING Associated Press Writer JUNEAU (AP) Andre Marrou has lost little time in putting the Libertarian stamp on some proposed legislation that would dole out more state money and limit how long Alaskans can hold elective office. The Homer real estate broker is the first Libertarian to be elected to the Legislature since 1982, when Dick Randolph made an unsuccessful run for the governor's office and Fairbanksan Ken Fanning lost a House re-election bid. Marrou, promising to pick up the maverick image left by previous Libertarians, already has pre-filed a bill to increase the amount of Permanent Fund dividend checks for Alaskans.

He's also calling for the elimination of hefty pay raises lawmakers voted themselves in 1983. Another bill pushed by Marrou would limit how long Alaskans can hold elective office. After his November election victory over Rep. Miio Fritz, R-Anchor Point, Marrou was contacted by House leaders as a Democrat-led majority took power. Minority Republicans also have approached Marrou about joining their coalition.

So far, he's turned down both sides. ANB, ANS Panel Holds Session The Alaska Native Brotherhood Convention Evaluation Committee met recently. It proposed a manual for conventions be written and ANB Camp No. 1 volunteered to do the writing outlining local camp responsibilities and Grand camp responsibilities. Also discussed at the meeting were setting' themes and issues for conventions, parliamentary procedures and duties of grand officers.

Local delegates are to take their issues to the camp for inclusion in the agenda. It was decided that Robert's Rules of Order would be used for conventions. addition, minutes of prior conventions are to be made available to delegates prior to the meeting. Frank p. Williams Jr.

attended last month's meeting of village representatives in Juneau to review 1991 issues and resolutions proposed by the Alaska Federau'on-qf Natives. A statewide rfiee ting wilPbe neld in Anchorage Jan. 30-31. Southeast will be allowed five representatives. Congratulations Birthday congratulations are extended to Ben Gregg and Chris Barden and anniversary congratulations are extended to Wayne and Sabra Jenkins.

All are listed on the Sitka High Drill Team Calendar for today. "I suspect it will be better for me to be a maverick this year," Marrou said Monday. "I see myself as a commentator on the Legislature." While he hasn't ruled out joining either coalition, Marrou said he's most comfortable acting on his own instead of going a certain way because that's the group's preference. "Perhaps I can be more objective that way," Marrou said. He wants to increase by 25 percent the amount of money every year for Permanent Fund dividend checks.

"The prime purpose is to keep the money out of the hands of the legislature and the governor," Marrou said. He wants to boost the state's revenue contribution to the Permanent Fund. Marrou would double the amount of cash added to the Permanent Fund from oil contracts signed before 1980. Marrou said that could bolster the Fund substantially, because royalty contracts from most of Alaska's major oil fields were signed in the 1970s. Another Marrou-sponsored bill would eliminate a 130 percent pay raise lawmakers voted themselves in the closing days of the 1983 session.

Perhaps the most visible stamp of his Libertarian philosphy is on two resolutions he drafted that would mandate the state and federal governments to quit competing with private- sector businesses. For example, the state should not run the Alaska Railroad, Marrou said. He believes a private contractor would be more likely to run the railroad as a profit-making venture. "The state should start a dialogue on privatizing it," he said. "It's going to be a drain on state government and will become a greater and greater millstone." Marrou also wants to limit how long Alaskans can hold elective office, A resolution he backs would allow House members to serve a maximum four two-year terms and senators two four- year terms.

The measure also allows the same candidate to serve as governor and lieutenant governor for eight years each. In all, "an Alaskan could hold four offices for a total of 32 years. "If Joe Blow is so good people want to keep electing him, that's fine," Marrou said. "But having some people elected for 20 consecutive years to the same office is just too much." Marrou have to, worcy much about post- election challenge by Fritz is successful. The Anchor Point lawmaker has accused Marrou of lying on a conflict-of-interest form filed with the Alaska Public Offices Commission.

Marrou claims the charge is false, and said he never has been formally contacted about the challenge. Fritz wants Lt. Gov. Stephen McAlpine to de-certify the election. APOC commissioners are scheduled to take up the matter at a February meeting.

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