REV. AND MRS. AMUNDSEN
ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Rev. Roald Amundsen, with his
wife and children of the Covenant
Church, are leaving today by
plane for Fairbanks enroute to the
^ States for a year or more.
They will be met in Fairbanks
by Rev. Paul Carlson and fam
ily who have motored up the
highway and who will fly the
Covenant church plane back to
Nome to resume the missionary
work here which they left two
years ago due to the illness of
f Mrs. Carlson.
Rev. and Mrs. Amundsen have
been active workers in the com
munity for four years as well as
in Unalakleet where their church
maintains an orphanage, and they
leave many friends to welcome
them home again after their leave
of absence.
GUNMAN SPARE THAT PHONE
p MISSOULA, Mont. ifP.>—Unable
to get a call completed on a pay
telephone, an unidentified man
pulled out a gun, fired three shots
into the booth and walked out.
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Predicts Economic
Expansion
In Poland
WARSAW, Poland f/P>, Ambas
sador Oskar Lange says Poland’s
industrial production should in
crease from 85 to 95 per cent over
present output during the new
sixyear plan starting before the
end of 1949. Lange predicted agri
cultural production would rise by
35 to 45 per cent over the 1948-49
figure.
Lange, first of speakers in a
series on Poland’s economic re
covery arranged by Radio Polskie,
said Poland’s total production in
1948 was 40 per cent higher than
before the war.
He forecast huge industrial ex
pasion and modernization during
the next several years and broad
training of technical workers.
Lange, now active in the work of
the communist united workers
party, was Poland’s first envoy to
the United States. He still retains
the rank of ambassador and often
attends United Nations sessions.
ALASKA TO BE THEME OF
1950 U. OF W. YEARBOOK
JUNEAU — Alaska may be the
! theme for the 1950 edition of the
| University of Washington year
I book, the Alaska Devolepment
Board has been advised by Ken- j
neth C. Cole, a member of the |
university publication Tyee.
“The thought of presenting the (
Territory of Alaska as the central,
theme has occured to us,” Cole
wrote, “since there is the possi
bility of Alaska soon being ad
mitted to the Union as the 49th
State. Also, since Washington is
Alaska’s nearest neighbor in the
United States, and since Seattle is
known as the Gateway to Alaska. |
th« University of Washington ap
propriately should be interested ;n
the Territory.”
Cole asked the development
board for an article describing,
Alaska’s potentialities and pic-;
tures to illustrate.
Blonde—"I don’t see how loot
ball players ever get rtean.”
Redhead—“Don’t be silly! What
do you think the scrub teams are
for?”
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Alaska’s Fish Trap
Tax Challenged
JUNEAU, (ft*)—Alaska’s quad
rupled fish trap tax has become
the second major tax law of the)
1949 legislature to be challenged
in court.
A previous challenge was filed
against the method by which the
income tax was enacted.
A suit disputing validity of the
heavily increased fish trap taxes
was filed in district court Satur-1
day by P. E. Harris and company
of Seattle. A challenge of the tax
on the contention that it is dis
criminatory has been predicted
since its passage. The law multi
plied existing fish trap taxes by
four times and added an addition
al levy against each fish caught
above a certain number—aimed at
the heavy producing traps.
The corporation’s suit seeks a
preliminary injunction restraining
tax commissioner M. P. Mullaney
from collecting $132,547 under the
new act rather than $21,250 paid
for the license in January.
The company owns canneries at
False Pass, Hawk Inlet and Kake.
| For the most part the firm uses'
S floating pile driven traps.
The suit charges the tax is un
reasonable, that it discriminates
■against fixed type fishing gear
and is in favor of mobile types.
The firm’s attorneys are Frank
L. Mechem of the Bogle, Bogle,
and Gates firm of Seattle, and the
Faulkner, Banficld. Boocheever
i firm of Juneau.
LOIS MORGAN RETURNS
FROM HEALTH MEETING
Lois Morgan, Territorial Health
Nurse returned home this morn
| ing from the public health meet-;
ling of the Alaska department of
health, which has been held in ,
Anchorage for the past week.
It is reported that the meeting
was well attended with workers
from all fields of the department
in attendance. '
Among the phases ^discussed
were medicine, education, sanita
tion. engineering, nursing, social
work administration, bacteriol
ogy, nutrition and field work.
There were representati ves
from Nome, Bethel. Unalaklect. i
Juneau, Cordova, Ketchikan, Sew- i
nrd, Fairbanks, Neknek, Kotze
bue, Nulato, Tanana, Mt. Edge
cumbe. Barrow. Seldovia and Dil-'
iinghom.
FRED CRANE BACK FROM
BUSINESS TRIP
Fred Crane returned from Fair
banks this morning from a short
business trip.
While in Fairbanks he submit
ted samples of “black diamonds’’
to Art Glover, Territorial assayer.
who is reported to have stated
they were of good quality.
According to Alt Glover the!
Alaska black diamond is hematite
of gun metal color, that takes a i
high polish and is confined to the'
jewelry trade, being frequently
used for the setting of cameos.
LOS ANGELES MAYOR
RE-ELECTED TO 4th TERM
LOS ANGELES, </P) — Mayor!
Fletcher Bowron today was elect
ed to a fourth term by a 30,000
plurality over his bitter political
and personal foe, city engineer •
Lloyd Aldrich.
Unofficial returns from all of I
the city’s 3.362 precincts gave
Bowron 238.190 votes to Aldrich’s j
207,211.
The election yesterday was a
runoff because Bowron’s lead in
April primary lacked the neccs-1
sary majority over all his oppon- j
ents. Aldrich was next highest.
TRUMAN TO GIVE "MAJOR"
SPEECH AT LITTLE ROCK
WASHINGTON, UP), The White
House said today President Tru
man will make an important
speech at Little Rock June 11 dur
<0
ing the annual reunion of the 35tn
Division.
Prcsdiential press sec re t a t y
Charles C. Ross said Mr. Truman
will speak in the stadium there
at the dedication ol' a war memo
rial.
Ross said the subject of the
President's speech has not been
determined but he should be in
clined to call it a "major” speech.
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