Household Helpers
Come Under Social
Security Tax S
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Housewives who have regularly
employed household workers may
be liable for filing Social Security
returns after January 1, 1951, it
has been announced by Internal
Revenue Collector Clark Squire.
The new Federal Social Secur
ity law covers the employment of
household workers such as cooks,
maids, gardeners, han d y m e n,
chauffeurs, laundresses, nurse- i
maids, housekeepers, etc., provid- j
ed the time worked and cash |
wages paid during each quarter j
year meet certain min i m u m
-amounts.
A pamphlet outlining the condi- I
tions which establish liability un
der the now law concerning house
r hold employees may be secured at
your local Internal Revenue of
fice Social Security board, or post
office. The back cover of the pam
phlet is a post card which can be
detached •and used by the em
ployer in requesting to be put on
the mailing list to receive forms
for reporting tax.
Alaska RR. To
. Double Service
ANCHORAGE (/Pi—The Alaska
Railroad is going to double its
streamlined passenger train serv
ice between Anchorage •and Fair
banks effective June 18, 1951, of
ficials have announced.
Seward service also will be in
creased.
The present streamline passen
ger train service between Anchor
j age and Fairbanks started three
years ago, making three round
Russia Building
New Large Navy
LONDON (^Wane’s Fighting
Ships—the world’s Bible of naval
intelligence—said this week Rus
sia is building a navy “already far
in excess of the normal require
ments of defense.”
The new edition of the yearbook
said Russian navy estimates for
the year 1950-51 are 15,400,000,000
rubles, equivalent to $3,850,000,
000, compared with the U. S. naval
appropriation of $4,168,000,000 for
the same period.
The yearbook also noted that
last February a Soviet navy min
istry was created, independent of
the armed farces.
Jane’s said there are reports the
Soviets have launched two 35,000
to 37,000 ton battleships with tow
ers for firing guided missiles and
are constructing a third one.
The yearbook said 350 to 370
Russian submarines are believed
already in service with 120 more
in the works. It added that the
Soviets have, or soon will have, 14
heavy cruisers o’f the 9,500-ton
Kirov type, plus two ex-German
cruisers of the 15,200-ton Polrava
class.
“The capacity of. the Soviet
shipbuilding, now largely under
the supervision of German spe
cialists, bolstered by foreign labor,
is reported to be twice that of 10
years ago, it said.
trips weekly.
Under the new program next
year daily service is planned for
six days a week, with trains leav
ing Anchorage and Fairbanks si
multaneously at 8:30 a.m. There
wilf be no train north on Wednes
day, nor south on Thursday.
The twin streamliners which
will operate in June will include
dining, buffet and bar cars.
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ONE CENT SALE
Christmas is over! —
We have a few items
that are overstocked.
BUY ONE ITEM REGU
LAR PRICE PAY only
ONE CENT for Duplicate
On Sales Tables This Week
1 FirSt Come FirSt Sold
^ Cash Only
Yeer friendly Community Store
Wholesale and Retail
Phone MAIn 133 FREE DELIVERY
Special Attention to our Out of Town Orders
( OMMERCE
CHAMBER OF
President Saario presided at the
regular Chamber meeting yester
day noon at the Polaris at which
time several important matters
were taken up.
It was agreed that a* letter be
written to the other Chambers in
the Territofy offering -to join with
them in the nomination of a di
rector of the National Chamber
from this part of the country.
A letter o*f appreciation to AFRS
for their fine programs furnished
to the people of the area was sug
gested by Dewey Goodrich and a
copy of the letter sent to the Com
manding Officer at Anchorage.
The Chamber endorsed the pro
gram and action of the Good
Roads Assn., and notified Col.
John Noyes of the ARC of their
action, urging the reconsideration
of the budget so that the Nome
Solomon Road be reinstated in the
appropriations for Second Divi
sion.
A study of the legislative pro
gram was scheduled by the legis
lative committee of the Chamber
for this morning to make plans for
a public meeting to which the
legislators could be invited to
hear the demands of the people of
the area and be oriented in their
needs.
Fire Destroys
Reader Garage
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wired it is reported by the Reader
Bros, when they turned it into a
garage after the fire three years
ago which destroyed their busi
ness at the east end of town.
Four cars were in the garage at
the time of the fire, two of which
were destroyed and two which it
is reported can be salvaged. The
fire started in the south part of
the building.
Due to the oil and gas in the
garage it was a hard fire to fight as
it was necessary to keep the fire
confined to the building to avoid
it spreading to adjoining houses.
Third in a series of four fires
Saturday was at a cabin on B
street, Which was owned by E.
Mulch. The cause of the fire was
due to a faulty carburetor on an
oil stove and could not® be shut
off properly. The pipe and stove
became overheated and out of
control, causing the alarm.
The fourth fire was minor, and
in the basement of the Fire De
partment. The pipe from the pump
which had been running for a
long time in connection with the
Reader fire became very hot, it is
reported, at a point where it goes
through the frame building and
caught fire from the heat. The fire
was quickly put out by cutting
away the charred wood.
FINDS REDS PLAY ROUGH
Somewhere in Korea, (/P)—Ma
rine Lt. Manning T. Jeter pulled
his jeep up behind a small ridge
and started crawling up to the
crest to get. a closer look at the
enemy he believed to be on the
other side. He heard the deafen
ing crack of a nearby weapon and
noted the blue flash of an anti
tank discharge overhead. Then he
turned over to check on his trans
portation and saw ortly the twist
ed scrap metal of his late eep.
A few days later, Lt. Jeter was
finishing a long delayed shave in
another valley when a shell drop
ped on his shaving gear and pack
a short distance away. He was
left holding the remains of all his
personal possessions—a bottle of
shaving lotion. I
Possessory Claims
Must Be Filed by
December. 31, 1952
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Secretary of the Interior Chap
man has extended until December
31, 1952, the time within which
petitions of native groups of Alas
ka concerning possessory claims
to lands and waters or upon use or
occupancy maintained from abor
iginal times to the present day
may be filed.
The Department, in an effort to
ascertain what claims n*a t i v e
groups in Alaska might have
through possessory or aboriginal
rights, had called for petitions
from native groups to be submit
ted by December 31 of this year.
The two-year extension provides
that a copy of each petition is to
; be transmitted to the Commis
sioner of Indian Affairs and the
Director of the Bureau of Land
Management for “preliminary in
vestigations and reports.”
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In Business 3 Yrs.;
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Fights to Continue
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PORTLAND, Ore. {JP)—General
Airways, non-scheduled Portland
to Anchorage air carrier in opera
tion the last three years, announc
ed yesterday it would fight for
the light to stay operating.
U. S. Callas, pilot-president of
the Portland firm, said his attor
neys have petitioned the civil
aeronautics board to reconsider an
order rejecting the firm’s bid to
continue ope} a ting.
Callas said the CAB claimed the
airline was offering a “route
type” service competing with reg
ularly scheduled airlines. The
company now has two DC-3 type
air craft. It was the first Portland
airline to begin flying fresh food
stuffs and other cargo into Alaska
from Portland in the post-war
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years. (It is the only Portland
firm now flying non-schedule to
Alaskan cities.)
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