# This is the third of a series of messages sponsored by the
Territorial Taxpayers Association, a non-profit organization
formed for the benefit and welfare of Alaska and Alaskans.
WHO PAYS
ALASKA’S TAXES?
We formed our organization, the Territorial Tax
payers Association, to study and recommend tax
laws which will help Alaska grow and prosper.
We are vitally interested in how Alaska’s tax bill
will be paid.
During 1947, $5,788,459.85 was received in tax rev
enue by the Territorial government. Thirty-one
per cent of this total was received through the
Gross Sales and Services tax. This money can be
used only for veterans. It was discontinued June
30th.
The Territory received 27 per cent of its revenue
from the fishing industry, 18 percent from liquor
taxes, 3.7 perecent from mines, 9.4 percent from
motor fuel oil tax, 2.7 percent from automobile
tax, 3.5 percent from the school tax and 3.1 per
cent from other taxes. You will note the second
largest single source of revenue came from the
fishing industry. It was 27 percent of the total or
$1,606,631.27. Elimination of the sales tax means
that the salmon industry paid 40 percent of the
normal tax.
We do not know if this is too much or too little for
the fishing industry to pay. We do know it’s a lot
of money, particularly if we had to pay any por
tion of it in addition to present tax loads.
But it is this 27 percent or $1,606,631.27 that we, as
Alaskan residents, are interested in today be
cause we may have to pay part of it ourselves.
There is a referendum on the ballot in the October
12th election which would continue or abolish
salmon traps. Traps catch about half of all salmon
and continbute a total of about $800,000 in taxes.
We think you should vote to keep traps because
traps pay a large part of your taxes that con NOT
be raised without passing along additional taxes
to resident businesses. We protest any legislation
designed to destroy present Territorial tax re
sources.
The Territory’s present tax program does not pro
duce sufficient revenue for our schools, old age
pensions, Pioneer’s Home, welfare work and
other vital programs. Elimination of traps will
reduce present Territorial tax income by approx
imately one-seventh, making less money for
schools, Pioneer’s Home, old age pensions and
welfare work. More tax funds are needed, not
less.
FOR ECONOMIC REASONS ALONE, WE, AS
ALASKANS, THINK YOU SHOULD VOTE TO
KEEP TRAPS.
Directors:
HARRY J. HILL,
DAN LHAMON, Fairbanks
THEODORE KETTLESON. Sitka
HENRY HOGUE, Juneau
EMORY F. TOBIN. Ketchikan
W. C. STUMP; Ketchikan, Exec. Sec'y\
TERRITORIAL TAXPAYERS
ASSOCIATION
Goldstein liiivs
Olds" Properly:
Tells liuildin^ Plan
J'lXEAU—Evidencing again his
faith in Juneau and i s future,
Charles Goldstein has announced
the purchase of the Olds’ property
on Front Street between Main
and Seward and his plans to erect
there a six or seven story build
ing.
It will be the biggest private
building project Juneau has seen.
The proper y, formerly occupied
by the Occidental Hotel, was pur
chased by Goldstein from the
heirs of John Olds, for an unan
nounced sum. Necessary papers
have been signed by Harry Olds,
Juneau; Lyda Sinclair, Seattle;
Klonda Mathews, Long Reach;
Clarence E. Carpenter, Dolly and
Clarice Carpenter of Seattle, and
Howard D. Stabler has been ap
pointed administrator to handle
the unprobated Olds estate.
Plans are being prepared for
the construction of an all-fire
proof building, 75 by 100 feet.
The street floor will be occu
pied by stores and the upper
floors will be for office space.
Mr. Goldstein hopes to start
building next year, and to have
the new structure ready for oc
cupancy in the fall of 1949.
‘‘I am doing this because I have
complete confidence in the future
of Juneau. Government and com
mercial agencies have been giving
as an excuse for not coming to
Juneau the fact there is no office
space available. It is to bring
these agencies to Juneau that I
have purchased this property,”
said the Juneau pioneer.
‘‘I have been here since 1885
and every penny I have earned
since that time has gone right
back into Juneau’s development.
Juneau must bo ahead. And we
people in Juneau must advance
with our town. We can’t let agen
cies, government or otherwise,
fail to come here because we have
no office space for them.”
The new building will be hand-1
led as a separate incorporation
from the Goldstein Improvement
Co., which owns the Goldstein
Building on Seward street. Most
of the new office space has al
ready been spoken for.
! “It will be the most modern
building in Alaska,” according to
Goldstein, “not just up-to-date. It
will be ahead of its time by ten
years. And it will cost perhaps
$750,000.”
Most of the money has been ar
ranged for, but a certain amount
of the investment involved will be
offered to* the people of Juneau.
U. S. DISTRICT COURT
In U. S. District Court Tuesday,
Judge Joseph Kehoe denied an in
junction in the case of Fred K.
Dent vs. Alaska Placers of Coun
cil.
The case was brought up by Mr. !
Dent in an attempt to stop opera
tion of the Alaska Placers Com
pany dredge in the Niukluk River
adjacent to his claims on the banks
of 'he river.
C. C. Tanner, was attorney for
the Alaska Placers and Charles
Clasby, of Fairbanks, was attor
ney for Mr. Dent.
lERIC HAY DEPARTS FOR
SCHOOL IN STATES
I Frio Hay, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ole Hay departed yesterday for
Pullman, Wash., to continue his
studies at the Washington State
College.
LADIES AID HELD
GOOD MEETING
The Ladies Aid Society met at
the home of Mrs. Lewis Hudgins
last Friday evening with a full at
tendance and Mrs. Robert Baldw n
presiding. Devotional* in charge
of Effie Baldwin on the subject
“Fear,” were most inspiring.
Highlight of the evening was a
lecture by Miss Emily Morgan on
New Zealand where she lived
eight years fluring the war. Orig
inally she had planned a . hort
visit to her sister there but was
caught by the war and remained
for the duration. While there she
nursed and learned to know the
people well and presented a most
interesting talk. Miss Morgan, who
i* well known here, having been
superintendent of the Maynard
Columbus Hospital for several
years as well as nurse at Point
Barrow, has shown her movies on
Alaska many times while in New
Zealand where they are very in
terested in the ways of the far
north. She is enjoying a visit here
with friends made while living in
the Northland, and ge‘ting acv
quainted with the many young
people which she helped to bring
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE U.
S. ATTORNEY. NOME ALASKA
The following people have been
convicted of drunkenness five
times within a twelve-month pe
riod or have been put under
guardianship by the Probate
Court on account of excessive
drinking, and are deemed to come
within the provisions set out in
Section 1. Chapter 60, of the Ses
,'i >n Laws of Alaska for 1930.
Adlooat, Warren; Adlooat, Win
fred; Anoulik, Jack; Apok, Ca l;
Atluk, Mary; Atluk, Frank; Berry,
Lydia; Barger, Donald; Brown,
Tom; Bourdon, Emery; Driggs,
Eric; Henry, Bob; Howard, Oscar;
Jack, John: Jackson, Samuel; Ka
zingnuk, M:ke; Kelly, Jack; Kite,
Hollie; Kunz, Maggie; Kungek,
F. d w a rd; Menadelook, Roger;
Morris, Tom: Muller, Henry; Na
garuk, Leo; Olson,Rose Walker;
Omalik, Joseph; Paul, Glenna; Pe
derson, S'eve; Richards, Martin;
Scott, Earl; Smith, Jacob; Singy
ke, Floyd; Singyke, Daniel, Sin
gyke. Ruby; Willoya, Thomas.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 2nd
day of September, 1943.
into the world.
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