Seward Seaport Record
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Seward, Alaska
John M. Coleman ..Editor and Publisher
Mildred Kirkpatrick .Managing Editor
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Letters to the Editor:
To the Editor.
in the last installment on Fish
Traps, we dealt with their effici
ent points in part.
Now looking at the issue from
a conservation point: The des
truction wrought on young sal
mon is from my experience vast
ly overrated. While they do des
troy some small salmon, other
types of gear also destroy young
salmon.
We will take seines for exam
ple. As I stated earlier I put in
ten seasons at this type of fishing
and have seen not infrequently
young salmon six inches or so
long by the thousands brailed
into a hold of a boat. This usual
ly happens in outside fishing.
Secondly, we will take the
salmon troller. The last three
years I kept track of the number
of small king salmon killed. By
small I mean fish too small to
sell as they must be 26 inches
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long to be saleable. These fish
| are chiefly young king salmon.
It ran about o4 killed per thous
and pounds of saleable fish.
These fish are killed because 90'
per cent of them are hooked
through the gills, and a hook
through the gills means a dead
: fish, altho in most cases the fish
swims away upon being released.
These statements are being
made not with the idea of in any
way condemning a specific type
of gear, but to remind everyone
that Fish Traps are not the only
offenders in this respect. In fact
any and every type of gear is
bound in the natural course of|
events to destroy some young
salmon.
Really from a pure destruc-(
lion standpoint there is a quest-;
ion. but that the gill net is the
least destructive of all types of
gear. Yet for some half baked
reason it is illegal to fish with a
gill net anywhere in southeast
ern Alaska with the exception of
a very few small areas. One
would certainly think that a gill
net could fish anywhere a seine
! or trap could, but this is not the
ease.
However, as to the Fish Traps,
we shall never forget that they
1 are a special priveldge for a fav
ored few, and those few 95 per
cent arc non residents.
In the next installment I will
: explain the abuses and monop >
listic tendencies of traps and
there are plenty of them.
Yours truly.
Edmund Bob Lane
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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
Delegate Bartlett has two bills
pending before Congress. One
is to exempt the 25 per cent dif
ferential pay of Civil Service
employes from federal income
tax. the other to consider the
differential as part of the basic
salary for retirement purposes.
I have never been much im
pressed with the pay differential
in the first place and can see
no justice in allowing an exemp
tion on it. Alaskan residents are
not allowed any kind of exemp
tion for the cost of living which
hits them even harder than it
does the government employes
who receive a differential to
cover that cost. Why should that
23 per cent be tax exempt? I
cannot see the Delegate’s point
of view.
The Tax Court of the United
States has upheld a decision
of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue that the 25 per cent
differential paid administrative
ly in 1945 and 1946 wras not
exempt from payment of income
tax. It was stated that Congress
intended to grant the exemption
to foreign service employes to
assist personnel in meeting offi
cial requirements at posts to
which they were sent and that
employes were merely given
additional salary because living
costs in Alaska were high and
that part of the salary should
not be exempt'any more than
any other part of the salary.
This decision was made in a
test case in which M. E. S. Bru
nelle, Clerk of the Court at
Anchorage, contended that the
25 per cent differential pay
should be exempted under Sec
tion 116 (j) of the Internal Re
venue Code whereby federal
employes in foreign service were
allowed exemption on cost-of
1 living allowances.
During the years in question,
1945 and 1946, and prior to
i that, the differential to employes
! in Alaska was paid through
administrative decision and was
considered as part of the basic
i salary for Civil Service retire-:
| ment purposes. In 1949 Con-1
gress approved the payment of
cost-of-living allowances not to j
i exceed 25 per cent as “addition
I al compensation.” The Bureau
i of Internal Revenue refused to
recognize the additional compen
sation as liable for income tax
exemption, and the Civil Service
Commission also refused to ac
knowledge it as part of the em
ploye's basic salary for retire
ment purposes.
Having been a Civil Service
employe, myself, I feel that it1
should be calculated in the re
tirement pay, which is based
upon the highest sum received
per month before retirement.
But, at the same time, why
should it be exempt from income
tax? And why does not Delegate
Bartlett simply abide by the de
cision of the Court on this issue,
but push the second Bill since
he realizes, according to his
statement, that only one of the
two can be enacted?
If, however, Congress does
decide to exempt the 25 per
cent differential pay from in
come tax, then by ail means,
let s have a cost-of-living exemp
tion for every Alaskan tax
payer. We pay 56 per cent more
for the privilege of living in
Alaska, but have only the ex
emption that is granted those
living under normal costs in
the States.
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