Many Alaskans Get
Income Tax Refunds
Refunds in excess of 22 million
dollars have been made to 430,353
individual income taxpayers in
Washington and Alaska so far
this year, Internal Revenue Col
lector Clark Squire announced to
day.
During the first four months re
funds totaled $22,516,293.85, as
compared with $16,274,246.10 for
the corresponding period last year.
The number of refunds increased
41,602.
Handling of this additional load
was made possible through earlier
filing of returns and speeding up
the refunding process. As a re
sult, interest payments on refunds
were reduced $10,844.74. Interest
on refunds up to May 1 last year
amounted to $17, 942.01, whereas
interest on the 22 millions refund
ed this year is but $7,097.27.
The number of processed re
turns has increased from 851,043
to 889,069.
Deposits of income and excess
profits taxes increased slightly,
from $138,547,091 to $142,399,904.
Total internal revenue collec
tions in this district for the last
four months were $288,425,178.77,
compared with $218,077,556.60 for
the corresponding period last
year.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Chalmer David
' Sinkey, 58, ‘ well known Pacific
Northwest newsreel cameraman,
died Wednesday in a hospital af
ter a few days illness. Sinkney was
northwest representative of the
I Fox Movietone News.
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| Sidelights
i Quite a number of QM boys
1 have been doing some angling re
cently and plan on really getting
down to the profession of Isaak
Walton soon. Projected member
• ship of NCO Club among the QM
Det. is expected to increase sharp
ly. We hope that T/5 William A.
Spivy can make better use of his
■ binoculars this year so that he
! will not find bears that smell of
diesel oil.
‘Mrs. Lauritsen, the charming
wife of our popular Provost Mar
shal and Special Service Officer,
left for Fort Richardson Tuesday,
where she will enter the hospital.
She came back from Fort Rich
ardson about a month ago. and her
return there is for a check-up. We
all wish her well and hope for her
speedy return to the base here and
for her complete recovery.
With the coming of warm wea
ther several of the boys in the
Engineers have ventured out over
the tundra. T/5 Porter, Pfcs. Mc
Kinney and Anderson even went
so far as to spend a night in the
mountains. First Sgt. Eddie Male
cki has been reassigned to Nome
after leaving last fal^ Cpl. Shoop
! man and Sgt. Morgan have come
I back from the outpost to aid as
heavy equipment operators in the
construction to be done this sum
mer*
Station WXLN now employs
i the aid of six Hq. pencil-pushers.
! Pfcs. Tom Siler, Alan Winslow,
j Roy Noonan, Harry Prigg, Gioc
chino Clemente and Cpl. Dick
Dahlin are voluntarily giving up
a night’s leisure to jockey radio
disc programs. More than that;
Siler, Prigg and Dahlin are work
ing two nights. With the station
on long hours and short on per
sonnel, these willing GIs are do
ing much in the way of entertain
ment and morale-building.
; The AACS at this base has re
cently been recommended for its
accurate Direction Finder bear
ings. With the use of one Direc
tion Finder Station a D/F opera
tor can give a pilot an exact
course to fly to reach this base.
The D/F operators at this location
are exceptionally well trained and
experienced and under the super
vision of the D/F operator, Sgt.
Joe Marcinkowski, a pilot can
safely rely upon the D/F bearings
furnished at this base.
Pfc. Steven Czausz, Elmio San
chez and. Cpl. George Syah have
returned from their two month
trip to Anchorage where they
each completed a course in Air
craft Maintenance. M/Sgt. Krupar
once again took up home life last
week when his wife arrived in
Nome. We only hope she likes it
here as much as we do. Sgt. Clif
ford Smith and Sgt. Harris Denny
just returned from a trip up the
coast.
Pfc. James Hart, who was
known as Wimpy in his home
town now works at the Snack Bar
cooking hamburgers. When asked
to comment on how well he liked
his job he replied:
“Well boys ’tis sad indeed
That my own hamgurgers I
have to eat
Though I’ve tried and tried to
cook them right
My only comment is of my
plight.”
Sir Wimpy Hart has everything
His little heart desires;
Except those delicious ham
burgers •
His general health requires.
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Intellectual pursuit: Chasing af
ter a smart dame.
i To Slash German
Food Rations
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FRANKFURT, Germany, (ZD
German officials proposed Thurs
day a temporary slash in the offi-1
cial rations in the British and
American zones as food experts of
both zones met in emergency ses
sion on western Germany’s grave
food crisis.
Government sources in London
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said British troops would seek to
crush a large-scale black market
which is held largely responsible
for the critical situation. British
troops will search farmlands for
hidden stocks which, the inform
ants said, are hoarded for diver
sion into black market channels.
Reports reaching Berlin from j
the Soviet zone indicated that thej
Russians, too, were experiencing i
difficulty meeting ration scales in
Eastern Germany, although the
situation there was believed to be
I less acute.
In Washington, secretary of war
i Rqbert Patterson said more than i
400,000 tons of food would be sent
to Germany this month, a similar
amount would be sent next month, i
and “even more” in July.
, German officials in Stuttgart!
proposed that the official ration j
in the British and American zones j
be cut from 1,550 to 1,130 calories •
daily per person, and Paul S. Tag-'
gert, U.S. food director for Wuert
j tember-Baden said that if the pro
| posal was approved by both mili
tary governments, it would take
! effect May 25 for a four-week pe
; riod. States in both zones are
| failing to meet the official per
; capita ration, with deficiencies
j ranging up to nearly 50 per cent,
j reports to the bi-zonal food agency
; in Stuttgart show.
| • The possibility of a mass pro
j test strike in Stuttgart next week
appeared to have faded. Factory
i workers, reflecting the “ugly
mood” noted by American offi
cials Wednesday, had threatened
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Lewis To Try To
Negotiate Contract
WASHINGTON, (/P) — John L.
Lewis agreed Thursday to try to
negotiate a wage contract with
operators representing about 75
per cent ol' the nation’s soft coal
production.
The Southern Coal Producers
Association, which refused to go
along on industry-wide bargain
ing with Lewis’ united mine work
ers, asked for separate negotia
tions.
Lewis replied that he wanted a
chance to discuss the southerners’
request with his policy committee
before giving an answer.
Those major developments in
the long-troubled coal industry
were announced by Navy Capt. N.
H. Collisson, federal coal mines
administrator.
Lewis’ agreement to negotiate
with a part of the industry repre
sented an about face on his previ
ous insistence on industry-wide
bargaining, in line with a policy
adopted at the UMW convention
last year.
Most of the nation’s soft coal
mines are undeF government op
eration, but must be restored to
private ownership by July 1. Col
lison called the UMW chief and
the operators together several
’weeks ago in the hope that would
produce a contract that would
avert a major strike when the pri
vate owners resume control.
WASHINGTON. (/P)—The rural
electrification administration an
nounced Thursday it had approv
ed a loan of $310,000 for Kodiak
Electric Association. Inc., a co-op
erative at Kodiak, Alaska.
a general strike May 22, but Mar
cus Schleicher, president of the
city’s trade unions, declared that
the workers would allow more
time for the situation to be im
proved.
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