Alaskan Now
In Brazil,
Talks Taxes
‘‘If it is unconstitutional to tax
Puerto Ricans because they have
no vote in Congress, why is it not
equally as unconstitutional to tax
Alaskans who likewise have no vote
in Congress?”, writes Mrs. E. P.
Erickson, of Curitiba, Parana, Bra
zill, in a letter to Jessen's Weekly.
Mrs. Erickson is the wife of Gene
Erickson, mining engineering grad
uate of the University of Alaska
and longtime resident of the North.
The couple went to Brazil nearly
two years ago where he is an engi
neer for a New York firm.
Enclosed in Mrs. Erickson’s letter
was a full-page advertisement in a
recent issue of the Wall Street
Journal, paid for by the Economic
Development Administration of Pu
erto Rico, which points out that not
only is "taxation without represen
tation unconstitutional” but that
(in the case of Puerto Rico) the
United States government recog
nizes and admits it.
Mrs. Erickson sent the advertise
ment, she writes, "because it has
been with much interest that I have
read several editorials in your paper
regarding the federal income tax
in Alaska.”
(Editors note: It might be added
here that Jessen's Weekly goes to
many foreign countries besides Bra
zil.)
The head-lines in the advertise- j
meat reads as follows: Why 402 U.S. j
manufacturers in Puerto Rico now I
enjoy 100' r tax fredom.
"We don’t want runaway indus- I
tries,” says Governor Munoz, "but j
we do seek all the new and ex
panding industry we can get.”
Governor Munoz continues:
“Puerto Rico's industrial plan is
based on a combination of absolute
ly ethical incentives. We do not and
never will hold out low wages as
an attraction to business. My gov
ernment’s firm philosophy is that
wages should rise rapidly as our
economic developments permits.”
Beardsley Ruml ia columnist, we
believe) points out in the advertise
ment: "Start a new plant in Puerto
Rico and you are not only free
from federal income taxes (they
don’t apply)—you can be exempt
from local income taxes, too. Your
freedom from federal taxes is not
a concession. It is a constitutional
fact which stems logically from that
historic American principle ‘Taxa
tion without representation is ty
ranny.’ Puerto Rico has no vote in
Congress, and therefore no federal
income taxes-corporate or person
al.”
The local income tax exemption
is part of Puerto Rico’s added in
centive, specifically designed to at
tract new plants that Puerto Rico’s
economy needs. A business is not
only protected by the Common
wealth Constitution, but also it is
permanently guarded by all the
guarantees of the U. S. Courts and
Constitution, too.
Mrs. Woof ter Is
Progressing Well
After Operation
Mrs. Clarence J. Woofter, wife of
Major Clarence J. Woofter. former
ACS Commander, is making a won
derful recovery after undergoing
major surgery last Monday at the
5005th USAF hospital at Elmendorf.
Operating surgeon was Major Jay.
formerly on duty at the Walter
Heed General Hospital in Washing
ton, DC., the scene of President
Eisenhower's recent operation.
Surgical authorities at Elmendorf
believe that she will be well enough
to be flown home next Friday to the
Ladd hospital. Mrs. Woofer says she
has high praise for the medical,
surgical, and nursing staffs of the
Elmendorf hospital.
As soon as Mrs. Woofter is able,
she and her husband will leave to
winter in Arizona, but expect to
return here in a couple of weeks.
Wanna swap? Use Jessen’s
Weekly Classified Ads. Phone
5292 today.
Salvation Army
Youth Camp To
Start Monday
The Salvation Army youth group
camp will be held next week Mon
day through Saturday at Camp
Sheldon at Harding Lake, an
nounced the church leaders Capt.
and Mrs. Gerald Hill.
Bible, music, and handcraft clas
ses, recreation periods, and a camp
fire program will highlight the
camp'as activity. Children of all
ages are invited to contact Mrs.
Hill at the Salvation Army for reg
istration. About 40 children can be
accepted, she said, and application
form will be taken through Sun
day. Possibly more students can be
accommodated later, she added.
Fee for the week long summer
camp will be $9. Moose meat for
the entire camp has been donated
by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Two classes will be held in each
department, one for the younger
children, and one for the older
group.
Anyone interested in obtaining an
application form or in helping with
the transportation is asked to call
Mrs. Hill at 3113 or stop in at the
army parlors at 410 Fifth avenue.
Hamilton Acres
Begins Work On
Park Project
A long term program for the erec
tion of a public park in Hamilton
Acres was announced this week by
Mrs. Cleo Langberg, representative
of the Hamilton Acres Women's
Club.
Earl E. Cook, realty agent for In
terior Alaska, Inc., has granted the
residents of the area an entire
block consisting of 20 lots. In re
turn for this gesture, the people A
Hamilton Acres are carrying on a
sales promotion project to help
Cook sell 20 other lots in a differ
ent part of the district.
The block granted is in the un
surveyed area south of First street.
A park committee has been cre
ated, consisting of Tom Herring.
Dr. Joseph Ribar. Rev. McClure.
Russ Rusing, W. M. Cartwright,
Mrs. Edward Prince, and Mrs. Cleo j
Langberg. The committee plans to
begin with four of the lots, of which
two w'ill be cleared this summer for
a baseball diamond.
The Hamilton Acres Garden Club .
is in charge of landscaping the
grounds. All labor and equipment
is volunteer. A caterpillar has al
ready been donated to clear the
land.
Letters to all Hamilton Acres res
idents have been distributed this
week, explaining the need for pro
moting the lot sales campaign.
There will be a meeting of the
park committee tonight at the home
of Mrs. Langberg to make more def
inite plans and establish a specific
program.
Mrs. Hawkins
Returns After
5 Years Outside
Mrs. W. T. Hawkins, one of Al
aska's early and best known pi
oneers, returned to Alaska last
week after spending the last live
years Outside.
Mrs. Hawkins was in Los Angeles
keeping house for her granddaugh
ter, Diane Darling, while she at
tended the University of California.
Mrs. Hawkins has been busy vis
; iting friends in Fairbanks, Anchor
age and Seward. She is supervis
ing extensive remodeling work be
ing done on some of her Seward
properties.
The Alaska Shop in Seward was
founded by Mrs. Hawkins and is
now run by Vance Hitt. Her hus
| band was part owner of Brown and
Hawkins department store there.
Mrs. Hawkins, who went to Sew
ard in 1905, will live there with her
daughter and son-in-law, the O. E.
Darlings.
Good printing of all kinds and
at reasonable prices at Jessen's
Weekly.
CAP Building,
School Sidewalk
Occupy Manager
Several major items of city busi
ness, to appear on the city council
agenda in the near future, are being
taken under advisement by city
manager Matt Slankard this week.
A petition from the Fairbanks
School District, asking that the city
pay one-half the cost of a proposed
sidewalk along Airport Road in the
vicinity of Lathrop High School, is
being considered carefully, since
the money for such a project is
unbudgeted. Surveying for the pro
posed project is being continued,
however.
Ove Selid, of the Civil Air Patrol,
is conferring with the city manager
this week on the location fof the
new CAP building. The city coun
cil showed its dissatisfaction with
the location requested in Selid's
petition, the site between the new
high school and the Meadowmoor
Dairy.
The old CAP building is located
on the property which the city
recently sold to Hubert Rumph and
Ronald Twogood for the erection
of a bowling alley. The city has
agreed to move the building to a
new location as soon as Selid and
Slankard agree on a site.
FAIRBANKS CHAMBER
INVITED TO VALDEZ
FOR MEETING, FISHING
The Fairbanks Chamber of Com- j
merce has received an invitation j
from the Valdez Chamber to visit
the Prince William Sound city it
was announced this week.
The inivitation mentioned mid
August as a possible date for a joint
meeting and an inter-chamber fish
ing derby.
Mrs. Mae Gourley of 234 Third
street in Hamilton Acres was ad
mitted to St. Joseph's hospital Sun- j
day after she slipped and fell, frac- I
hiring two ribs. Her husband, '
James, is employed as shop fore
man for Automotive Parts in An
chorage,
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Residents a few decades ago remember a fellow named Waterfront
Brown, some of them vividly. Brown was a bill collector in the city
when times following World W'ar I were economically a bit on the
rough side.
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