THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879
Nome, Alaska, Monday, March 12, 19*)1
TO PREVENT SLANDER UNDER IMMUNITY
A bill has been introduced in Congress to permit
an individual, slandered in the Senate or House of Rep
resentatives by members “cloaked with Congressional
immunity,” to sue the Government of the United States
for damages, limited to the sum of $10,000 plus costs. ...
Representative Winfield K. Denton, of Indiana,
says that the immunity granted to members of Congress
to speak their minds without question, is a ' “necessary
function of Government” but it is not fair that the in
jured parties should be without redress. He proposes
that they1 have the opportunity to go to court, where it
can be determined if the “statement” made in Congress
is true.
Mr. Denton calls attention to the fact that statements
made in Congress are given great publicity, carried
throughout the country in The Congressional Record'
and receive wide coverage by the press and radio. He I
admits that such statement could cause “irreparable
damage to an individual’s reputation, destroying his
means of livelihood and bring disgrace to him and his
family.
RAILROAD PROFITS MOVE UP
The railroads of the country made a rather poor
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SINGAJPORE, (jP)—Passenger
accommodations aboard ships
travelling from Singapore to Bri
tain are fully booked from Febru
ary through July, travel agents
Thomas Cook and Son, report
here. Indications were that all
available shipping space to Bri
tain in particular, and to Euorpe
in general, would be fully taken.
CRIME'S GRAVITY DETER
MINES LAWYER'S FEE
PRAGUE, (/P)—The heavier the
crime charged -against the defend- j
ant, the higher the lawyer's pay,!
according to a new schedule of le
gal fees decreed by the ministry
of justice here. Divorces are more
profitable than criminal cases, the !
schedule shows.
Sugar-Coated Tax
Foi—s Might Help
(By Cynthia Lowry)
((/P) Newsfeatures Writer)
As a patriotic citizen, of the
United States, l don’t mind paying
income taxes any more than the
next loyal citizen. I hate it.
I recognize, however, that it is
necessary. However, it does seem
as though there must be minds at1
work in Washington in effort to
make the job of completing a re
turn just about the most difficult
one the average taxpayer tackles
during the year. Personally, I
think it would be easier to make a
watch.
There are still days before
March. 15. On that date I shall
rush out a few minutes before
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midnight and mail my return. So
far I’ve just looked over Form
1040 and The Instructions. Al
ready I have the old familiar
symptoms of dizziness, upset and
guilt-feelings.
Can il be that the Treasury De
partment people in charge of set
ting forth rules, explaining them
and designing The Form are noth
ing by cynical misanthropes? Do
’list all your exemptions;
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1 B0Y .« WILL I a
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l A DEPENDENT, MY GOOD I
^JAOTHE% IN - LAW// y
they hade taxpayers?
There’s the simple matter of
space, for instance. The Form asks
—nay, it demands—all sorts of in
formation, like the name of em
ployer and his address. Then The
Form provides us with something
like 6/1000ths of an inch to write
the information in. This undoubt
edly upsets taxpayers who are em
ployed by firms with corporate
names like Reichstag, Sullivan,
Cholmondsley, iledermaus and
Patchouli Company, Inc.
What I object to most is that
dishonest feeling I have even be
fore I start working on my trial
and-error copy with pencil. I'm
trying to make an honest return,
but I have a feeling that the gov
ernment expects me to try some
thing funny. And isn't it about
time for the news to come out fhat
this year every single return will
I be carefully scrutinized, instead
> of every tenth as before? It seems
to me I hear that one every year
about now.
All I can say is that I’m making
an old school try. One thing I’d
like to know is about this Form I
1040. Who is it gets the other 1039
I forms. And who, for instance, gets
i to fill out Form 1?
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NOT A VERY INSPIRING EXAMPLE
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showing insofar as profits were concerned in the first
half of 1950, but, following the outbreak of the Korean
war, they pushed their earings upward.
In additionon to the spurt of business caused by the
war emergency, the railroads were the beneficiaries of
retroactive mail pay award which helped to bolster
Profit?, |
In 1950, the profits of our carriers were fifty per
cent higher than in 1949._
WASHINGTON, (/P) ~ Senator
Virgil Chapman, 55-year-old vet
eran member of Congress from
Kentucky, was injured fatally
early today in a collision of his
automobile and a trailer-truck.
He was a Democrat.
Although Chapman was serving
his first term as a Senator, he had
been a member of the House for
22 years before he moved up to
the Senate in 1948. He succeded
Vice - President Barkley when
Barkley was elected Vice-Presi
dent.
His death cuts the Democratic
majority in the Senate to one,
leaving a 48-47 margin.
The Senate arranged to recess
for the day shortly after Chap
man’s death was announced.
18-Year-Olds
To Be Drafted
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ing by the president.
Lowering the present minimum
draft induction age from 19-18
years is not expected to touch
many 18-year-olds for a year or
more. The Senate bill requires
that men in the present 19 through
25 draft pool must be taken first
by all local boards.
Then when 18-year-olds were
called, those nearest 19 would go
first, with the prioftty moving
downward by three-month jumps.
The first would be boys 18 years
and nine months.
Up to 75,000 men would be de
ferred for college study in each of
the next three years.
. The universal military training
provision which would apply to
a 11 physically fit 18-year-olds,
would become operative only af
ter an end to present internation
al tension permitted a cut back to*
six months of required military
service.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles O'Leary
visited in Washington, (D.C., last
week. Chuck und wife have been
visiting Mrs. J. J. O’Leary at her
home in Lancaster, Fenna. They |
plan to return north ^oon by way
of the highway to Fairbanks.
HAYCOCK NEWS
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the children went home a few
adults gathered to dance and play
“muck”. Charlie Atmik had just
returned from the Haycocks where
he *was cutting wood, so a small
celebration was necessary.'
To some of us, Haycock seems
to be a poor place in which to
EXIST. A series of bad storms
and a low wood supply is not a
morale booster. Then, Alaska Air
lines seemed to forget us for
twelve days and expected mail
was delayed. Essential freight
(gas and food) id due in via Munz
Airlines but even they seem to
have forsaken their patrons. And
Ocr loyal Art Johnson is now a
lower Yukon and Kuskokwim pi
lot for Alaska Airlines. However*
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spring is nearly around the comer.
Skies are bright, temperatures are
higher, days are longer, and con
ference time is here.
Lillian Porter has made a fine
record at Mt. Edgecumbe Voca
tional School, so her principal re
ports. She seems to have over
come her homesickness and is en
joying her surroundings. We all
hope that Lillian will continue on
with her high school education.
MUNZ AIR SERVICE
TO KING ISLAND
Munz Air Serivce made a flight
to King Island on Friday to bring
back Helen Stanisclaus for an in
sanity hearing.
She is reported to have killed
her husband, and the hearing is
scheduled to be held in the Com
missioner’s Office soon. George
Bayer was the deputy who made
the flight to bring in the prisoner.
A special field was laid out on the
island so that Bill (Major could
land.
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Dr. Russell V. DeLong
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