Pulp Industry
Objects Greatly
To Property Tax
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tax free for 10 to 15 years.
Geoi'ge Sundborg, Alaska De
velopment Board consultant, said
the president of an Alaska indus
trial corporation considering a
Sitka pulp project had wired that
the new Territorial taxes would
“altogether jeopardize our finan
cial schemes.”
The wire added that in solicit
ing financing it has been stressed
that there would be no income or
property taxes.
Sundborg proposed to the Sena
tors an amendment of the bill to
exempt pulp and other major new
industries from the property tax
for their first ten years of opera
tion.
Turcot te estimated tne proposed
mill at Ketchikan would employ
400 men, with at least 50 more in
the woods. Stevedoring, towing
and other work, he said, would
bring the totalto 1,000 or more,
with all employed the year around.
Senators Rivers, comm i 11 e e
chairman, assured the hearing
that the legislators were artxious
for new industries and would try
to evolve a satisfactory solution.
William Baker, Ketchikan edi
tor, told the Senators: “The city
wants some kind of tax moratori
um extended if possible.
He said Ketchikaners expected
a doubling or more in business
and increased revenues from in
creased property values and other
sources.
“This should be exhibit “A” for
new industry in Alaska.”
Turcotte said his project is a 50
year affair and he doesn’t expect
any profits for 20 year*. He said
FRENCH "FRENDSHIP" SHIP
ARRIVES IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, (iP) — A French
ship, symbolizing the gratitude of
the French people to Americans,
received a riotous welcome in New
York harbor today.
Ship whistles blared, planes
roared overhead and fireboats
spread a sheen of white water sky
ward as the steamship Magellan,
bearing the French “Thank You”
train, passed the Statue of Lib
erty.
The 49-car train—one car for
each of the States and the District
of Columbia — is the French
“merci” for the friendship train
which Americans sent to France
last year laden with food and
gifts.
Among the 1,000,000 gifts
aboard the train are historic docu
ments. Flags and other souvenirs
of both world wars.
—
POOL TOURNAMENT
AT POLAR BAR
Much interest is being shown in
the straight pool tournament now
on at the Polar. It is reported that
i the play-off is to start tomorrow.
: Anyone interested in registering
1 for the event or wish further in
i formation may call Main 138. The
management states that there is
room for Kabitzers, too.
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! the company had spent close to
$400,000 already in engineering
studies. Major items in the big
cost, he said, were developing
I their own power and water sup
ply of 30,000,000 filtered gallons
I daily. He estimated the cost of ob
taining and treating water alone,
would be $7,000,000 and said
studies still were proceeding on
whether the water would be satis
factroy.
Present Defenses
Could Not Repel
Alaskan Invasion
• Continued from Page One'
arid the quonset huts are rotting.
Improvements such as these
will have to be made before these
installations can even take care of
peactime requirements.”
Any nation controlling Alaska,
he said, would have a tremendous
advantage in attacking the United
States, though he wro'e off Kodi
ak Island itself as being of little
potential use to an enejny.
Nonetheless, military personnel
at Kodiak go through extensive
defense drills once a month. Wo
men are evacuated to remote bar
racks areas and troops carry their
battle expipment.
Although civilians are not re
quired to join 'in the drills, most
do. They do not carry arms, but
perform such functions as driv- ,
ing trucks and ambulances as they
would in case of an actual attack.
Commenting on the attitude of
Kodiak residents to their position,
Mel Crawford, editor of the Ko
diak Mirror, said they are ex
tremely conscious of their vulner
ability in case of war with Russia,
but they don’t really believe any
thing is going to happen to them.
“I can carry a big s'ory about
Russia fortifying her coastal areas
facing Alaska,” Crawford said,
and nobody pays the slightest at
tention. But just let me run a
story that the price of fish is go
ing up 1 cent a pound and my of
fice is swamped with phone calls.”
Despite a U. S. vulnerability to
enemy attack. Admiral Montgom
ery asserted the Territory, if
taken, could probably be re-occu
pied by our forces.
‘‘The enemy would'have consid
erable difficulty supplying its
LOADING AT SEATTLE MORE
EXPENSIVE THAN PORTLAND
SEATTLE, (/P)—An interior de
partment official said yesterday
his agency ships more railroad
equipment through Portland than
Seat le because of a cost differen
tial.
“The cost of loading a locomo
tive aboard ship in Seattle and de
livering it to Whittier is $2,000
higher than from Portland,” said
Joseph T. Flakne, chief of the
Alaska branch of the department’s
division of Territories.
He made the statement in reply
to Seattle complaints.
Flakne just back from a Terri
torial inspection tour, said the
Alaska Railroad’s postwar reha
bilitation is progressing well.
NAVY CARRIERS WILL AID
INVASION OF KODIAK
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (JP)—A U.
S. navy carrier force sailed yester
day to support the marine inva
sion of Kodiak Island. Alaska.
Planes on the carriers Boxer
and Bairoko included jet-powered
fighters. It will be the first test
for that type of craft under frigid
conditions.
Four destroyers escorted the
carriers. The force was to be join
ed by the light cruiser Duluth, |
sailing from Long Beach.
The 1,800 marines are now at :
Kodiak, preparing for the maneu
ver.
men,” he said .
Among other factors decreasing J
the value of Kodiak and Adak to j
an enemy, said Admiral Montgom- j
ery, is the inadequacy of its air- j
fields. The mile-long runways, he *
stated, are too short for big, mod- j
ern runways, and they cannot be
lengthened because of the moun- i
tainous terrain.
Kodiak is the site of the only
major U. S. naval base in this
area.
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