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Nome, Alaska, Friday, February 8, 1952
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Truman \\ ants To
Move Back Into
White House
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman is getting pretty tired of
delays in the rebuilding of the
White House.
He wants to move madam and
the baby (that’s Mrs. Truman and
Margaret) back into the mansion
the first week in April.
The President’s impatience was
reflected Wednesday when he took
White House newsmen on a 45
minute tour of the residential sec
tion, from which the Trumans
moved shortly after his 1948 elec
tion victory.
He cited two examples of why
the family had to take refuge in
the Blair House, across the street
on Pennsylvania Avenue.
He stamped his foot sharply on
the floor of the sitting room of
daughter Margaret’s suite.
This will hold, he said. He re
called that one of the legs of Mar
garet’s piano had broken through
the floor in 1948, narrowly miss
ing a drop into the family dining
room below.
On another occasion, the Presi
dent recalled with a grin, he was
bathing when the tub in his own
bathroom began to sink beneath
him.
If it had dropped, he said, it
would have fallen (with him in
it) into the room below where
Top Sled Dog Racers
Expected to Enter
Anchorage Championship
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Alaska’s
top sled dog racers are expected
to enter championship races to be
held here starting Feb. 21, the
Alaska Sled Dog Racing Asso'ci- '
ation announced Thursday.
The program calls for 25 miles
of racing each day of the four
day tournament. The driver with
the lowest accumulated time wins
the title and $1,000, racing offi
cials said.
Gareth Wright, Fairbanks and
North American champion in 1950, |
already has entered. Other ex-j
pected entries include Raymond
Paul, Galena, Alaska, the 1951
winner.
North American championship
races will be held at Fairbanks !
two weeks after the Anchorage
tourney.
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Mrs. Truman often entertained
guests.
He said he kidded the madam
about what she would have done
if she had been entertaining the
Daughters of the American Revo
lution and he had suddenly ap
peared through the ceiling in a
bathtub. Mrs. Truman didn’t think
it too funny, he said, and told him
he wouldn’t have enjoyed the ex
perience any more than she would.
It would have been a state en
trance, he commented.
It was an exciting, if some
what strenuous tour for the re
porters, who had difficulty keep
ing up with the President’s old
Army pace of 120 steps a minute.
New Faces to be
Seen at Alaska’s
1953 Legislature
(By the Associated Pressi
One thing is sure about the ter
ritorial House of Representatives
that will gather at Juneau next
January: It will include a flock
of new faces.
A check of filings in the four
Alaska divisions shows only 12
of the 24 who served in the 1951
session are candidates for reelec
tion. Seven of them are Demo
s
crats; five, Republicans.
Three Democrats who* served in
the 1949 House are trying come
backs. They are Warren Taylor
and Mrs. Essie Dale of Fairbanks
and Alfred Owen of Anchorage,
who was elected as a Kodiak
resident in 1948. Taylor, an at
torney, lost out in his attempt to
step up to the Senate in 1950 and
Mrs. Dale was defeated for re
election.
Reshuffling of Representaiion—
There is also going to be a
wholesale reshuffling of division
representation, due to the 1950
census. The Third Division (An
chorage - Seward - Cordova - Ko
diak) will have 10 seats instead of
seven. It looks like a strategic
gain for the Democrats, who filled
all seven of the seats in the last
election.
Turn of the seats given to the
Third were taken away from the
First (southeastern ) Division,
where the Republicans held a five
to three edge over the Democrats
in the 1951 legislature., The first
will have only six seats, in the
next legislature. Five incumbents
are running for them.
Second Division Loses Seat—
The other seat given to the
Third was taken from the Second
(Nome) Division, leaving only
three for it.
The Democrats seeking reelec
tion to the House are: Andrew
Hope and Vernon Metcalfe, First
Division; James K. Wells, Second;
Wendell Kay, C. A, Pollard and
Chester (Red) Carlson, Third;
Glen Franklin, Fourth.
Republicans seeking another
term are: Mayor Wainor Hendrick
son of Juneau, Ed Locken and
Frank Johnson, First; George Mis
covich, and Alden Wilbur, Fourth.
Some Members Drop Out—
House members who are drop
ping out of the legislative picture
without running for either House
are Stan McCutcheon, Jack Scav
enius, J.S. MacKinnon, George
Gasser and George Madsen.
The party nominations will be
made at the April 29 primary
elections.
JERRY J. FRANKI, MINER,
DIES IN ROCHESTER, N.Y.
SEATTLE, (JP)—Jerry J. Franki,
64, long-time Alaska miner, died
Wednesday in a Rochester, N.Y.
hospital where he had been a pa
tient since December, friends were
notified.
He went to Alaska in 1918 and
had been employed by the New
York-Alaska Gold Dredging Co.,
at Nyak, Alaska, since 1925. He
spent his winters here. Two broth
ers survive.
Requiem mass will be sung Sat
urday at St. James Cathedral, with
burial here.
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Alaskans with $600
Or More Income
Must File Return
Very few residents of Wash
ington and Alaska during 1951 are
exempt from filing an income tax
return by March 15 in this dis
trict, according to Internal Rev
enue Collector Clark Squire in
Tacoma.
Every person having gross in
come of $600 or more must make
a return even though he may not
be taxed. A husband and wife
must file a return if the combined
gross income is $1,200 or more, or
if the separate gross income of
one spouse is $600 or more.
Every taxpayer is urged to fol
low the instructions furnished
with the income tax forms, pre
pare his return and mail it with
remittance to the collector. This
will enable him to save time and
avoid inconvenience of standing
in line at the Internal Revenue
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office.
The Collector warns taxpayers
that failure to receive a blank
form does not relieve him from
filing a return or paying his tax
on time. Forms may be obtained
from local banks and post offices
and from the office of the Collec
tor in Tacoma and zone offices.
The nearest zone office is in Fair
banks, Alaska.
Deputy Collector James G.
Manning is scheduled to be at
Nome between Feb. 25 and Mar.
15 to advise taxpayers. At that
time he may be contacted at the
post office. This schedule is con
ditioned on flying weather.
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