Early Income Tax i
Filing Brings
Early Refunds
Early filing of income tax re
turns has enabled the Internal
Revenue Service to refund 22 per
cent more money to individuals in
the Washington-Alaska collection
district during the first five weeks
of the current filing period than
in the corresponding period last
year, according to Collector Clark
Squire in Tacoma.
So far $595,727 has been re
funded to 12,548 taxpayers. The
amount one year ago was $488,175.
“Cooperation of employers and
their employees has made this in
crease possible,” Squire said.“Em
ployers may take until the end of
January to furnish employees
with figures on earnings and wi‘h
holdings, but they responded to
our request to expedite this work
as much as possible and many
employees have joined other tax
payers in filing returns prompt
ly.”
The voulme of mail received in
Tacoma is much heavier than it
was a year ago. Income tax collec
CATTLE ON UMNAK ISLAND
GET HAYLIFT RATIONS
SEATTLE, OP) — Cows, horse -
and sheep on treeless Umnak Is
land are munching fodder again
today thanks to the coast guard.
District headquarters here re
ported the buoy tender Bitter
sweet’s haylift to the snow-cov
ered island was completed yester
day with the delivery of seven
tons of oats, 10 tons of timothy
and three tons of alfalfa.
They will go into the mouths of
3,000 sheep, six guernseys and a
dozen horses.
The Bittersweet also put ashore
20 barrels of stove oil. eight bar
rels of gasoline, eight pouches of
mail and a ton of miscellaneous
supplies, including y diesel block
and fuel for the Umnak loran sta
tion.
The average bee is compelled to
travel approximately 550 miles to
make a teaspoonful of honey
tions and deposits are running
about a million dollars ahead of
last year—$51,599,322 as compar
ed with $50,504,663. All forms of
internal revenue total $80,157,049
in comparison with $75,966,011 in
1948, according to Squire.
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SCHOOL NOTES
THIRD GRADE
Raphael Alurac, Clarence Olan
na and Herbert James are new
students in the third grade. Our
enrollment is now forty-one.
In arithmetic we are studying
multiplication and division.
We have been corresponding
with several third graders in the
States.
FIFTH GRADE
The fifth grade is busy working
on their second semester work.
The ones with perfect attendance
the first semester \vere: Robert
Dunbar, Tonnie F'ults, Ronnie
Engstrom, Anna Ailak, Lucy Ann
Fagerstrom and Carolyn Hynd
man.
Carolyn Hyndman and Suzanne
Galloway made us a very nice
Valentine box. We are going to
open it Monday afternoon.
HIGH SCHOOL
It was on a foggy night in Lon
don. many years ago, that Mr. W.
D. Boyce, an American, was seek
ing the location of a friend. A
young boy offered his assistance
and found the proper location. Mr.
Boyce offered a coin to the boy
but he replied that he was a Boy
Scout* and lhat Scouts do not ac
cept tips. This incident aroused
Mr. Boyce to investigate this new
movement for boys. He discovered
that Sir Robert Baden-Powell had
founded the organization in 1908.
This was soon after Sir Baden
Powell had returned from the
Boer War. Mr. Boyce introduced
hhe movement into the United
States. It was on Feb. 8, 1910 that
he incorporated the Boy Scouts of
America. This past week has been
Boy Scout week in memory of this
event.
The juniors and seniors have
completed their civics and are now
taking a course in sociology which
is proving very interesting for
them. They are now s*udying
about man’s environment and cul
ture.
In general science, the students
have completed the study of the
nervous system. They are now
learning interesting things about
the circulatory system.
Wednesday evening, the High
School team defeated the Hospi
tal team by a score of 53 to 46. The
local team played a fast game,
holding a comfortable margin
during the entire game. Dr. Paul
son on the Hospital team played a
very good game.
The High School team and a
few students are now all prepared
for the tournament at Anchorage.
The air pump is often used to
produce a partial vacuum. In a
cubic yard of such a vacuum
there would be many hundred
times the amount of matter in a
cubic yard of a comet’s head.
NEW YORK, (/?)—•“Do me a fa
vor, please judge,” pleaded the
man who killed a friend.
“Don’t say what other judges
say when they sentence a guy to
the chair. Leave out the words
‘May God have mercy on your
soul.” Send me out with a smile.”
Then Judge Carmine J. Maras
co began to intone the death sen
tence for the prisoneV, Frank
Bruno, 33.
As he reached the last phrase—
“May God have mercy”—the
judge’s lips continued to move si
lently. But there was no sound in
the hushed courtroom.
“Thanks, judge, thanks very
much,” said Bruno as he was led
away.
He is to die in Sing Sing’s elec
tric chair during the week of
March 13 for the 1946 slaying of
Carlo Zarcone, 27, his close friend.
Rescue Work
Continues Despite
New Storm Wave
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and northern Idaho yesterday, is
temperatures rose, closed several
highways.
A short wave radio and trans
mitter was to be dropped today
to a construction camp at Ander
son Ranch dam in Idaho where
slides have cut telephone commu
nications and blocked roads.
Slides in some areas buried sever
al homes, but no one was injured.
U. S. Highway 30, 30 miles east |
of Portland, Ore., was cleared of
a snow slide yesterday but a huge
rock tumbled from a mountain .
cliff, burying itself four feet into
the roadbed and reclosed the
trans-continental route.
Minor floods from swollen riv
ers in the Pacific Northwest and
slides harassed highway travel
throughout Oregon and southeast
ern Washington. Some homes were
evacuated but damage was not
heavy.
Colder weather in Washington
checked flood conditions. In Day
ton, Wash., three miles of city
streets turned to muddy rivers of
Russia Claims
“Priorities” In
Antarctic
(By Eddy Gilmore)
MOSCOW, (/P) — Russia today
staked out a cla;m to participation
in any international discussion
over the vast Antarctic.
The official Soviet news agency
Tass said in a statement that
“Russian scientific investigations
have priority in discovery and in
vestigation of the Antarctic.”,
“Thereofre, the statement add
ed, “our homeland has the un
questionable right to participate
in the decision of questions con
nected with the Antarcf'o.”
A decision on adminis*rait m of
the vast south polar area “with
out participation of the Soviet Un
ion cannot have legal basis," Tass
declared.
The Tass statement was made
public after a meeting in Lenin
grad of the All-Union Geographic
Society on the question of Russia
and the Antarctic.
t
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, ce last night as temperatures
dropped. Earlier, children waded
home from school in knee-deep
water.
JACK LENCER
Watchmaker
Box 625 Nome. Alaska
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