05/05/1998 03:40 PM Senate STA

Number 090                                                                     
           CSHJR 62(C&RA) - BRING BALTO BACK TO ALASKA                         
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN GREEN brought HJR 62 before the committee as the next                 
order of business.                                                             
                                                                               
REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT OGAN, prime sponsor of the resolution,                    
explained Balto was the lead dog on the original serum run to Nome.            
Balto died in 1933 and was preserved by a taxidermist and then                 
donated to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.  He said third             
grade students in his district have launched a movement to bring               
Balto back to the state where he rightly belongs, and the                      
resolution requests that Balto be returned from the museum to the              
state of  Alaska.                                                              
                                                                               
There being no further testimony on HJR 62, CHAIRMAN GREEN                     
requested a motion on the legislation.                                         
                                                                               
SENATOR MILLER moved HJR 62 be passed out of committee with                    
individual recommendations.  Hearing no objection, it was so                   
ordered.