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Around Hollywood
AROUND TOWN LAST WEEK -
A tough loking character walked
up to a couple of men standing on
a corner. . . ."All right, you guys,”
he said, "lot’s have vour dough—
and be quick about it.”. . . but the
tough chaiaetcr made two mis
takes. . . .first: he didn’t have a
gun. . .second: the two guys were
city detectives. A motorcpcle of
ficer stopped a speeding motorist
. . . .the driver turned to his pas
sengers and asked, “What's this
cop arresrng us for?”. . . .puzzled,
the officer wanted to know who
he was talking to. . .the driver re
plied: “My two passengers.”. . . .
the officer searched the car and
found no passengers. . . then
booked the driver on a drunk
driving charge. To prove that she
had paid her rent, a woman tenant
showed the landlady the receipt
. . .the landlady pushed the wo
man. snatched the receipt and ate
it. . .it turned out to be a costly
dinner. . .the woman went to court
. and was awarded $811 battery
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TRAVEL
FUNDS
PROTECTED
AGAINST LOSS
OR THEFT
Safeguarding money against
loss when one travels Is as
Important as protecting it by
deposit when at home—and
is just as easy. You merely
convert your travel funds
here, before you start, into
American Express Travelers
Cheques. They are readily ^
spendable as cash, and if lost
or stolen, the amount in
volved is refunded to you.
The cost of the protection
is but 75c on each |10Q.
Minimum 40c. There is no
time limit on use. Thous
ands of people carry these
protective Cheques when
away from home, and find
them invaluable. This is
one of the bankas services
to the traveling public.
Bank of
Seward
damages from the landlady
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Evidentally, a number of girls
are taking the title of RKO's “Ev
ery Girl Should Be Married" rather
seriously. Since filming started
Cary Grant has received over 200
marriage proposals from altar
minded girls.
James Madison Randolph, a
grandson of Thomas Jefferson, was
the first child born in the White
| House. *
This is the third of a series of messages sponsored bx ■
bx the Territorial Taxpayers Association, a non-pro
lit organization formed for the benefit and welfare
of Alaska and Alaskans.
We formed our organization, the Territorial Taxpayers Associa
tion, 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 revenue by the
'lerritorial 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 discon
tinued June 30th.
The Territory received 27 per cent of its revenue from the
fishing industry. 18 per cent from liquor taxes, 3.7 per cent
from mines, 9.4 per cent from motor fuel oil tax, 2.7 per
cent from automobile tax. 3.5 per cent, 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 per cent of the total or
$1,606,631.27. Elimination cf the sales tax means that the
salmon industry paid 40 per cent 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’, particu
larly if we had to pay any portion of it in addition to
present tax loads.
But it is this 27 per cent or $1,606,631.27 that we, as Alaskan
residents, are interested in today 6ecause we may have to
pay part of it ourselves.
Alaska’s
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 contribute 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 can NOT be raised without
passing along additional taxes to resident businesses. We
protest any legislation designed to destroy present Terri
torial tax resources.
The Territory’s present tax program does not produce sufficient
revenue for our schools, old age pensions, Pioneers' Home,
welfare work and other vital programs. Elimination of
traps will reduce present Territorial tax income by ap
proximately one-seventh, making less money for schools.
Pioneers’ Home, old age pensions and welfare work. More /
tax funds are needed, not less.
For economic reasons alone, we, as Alas
kans, think you should vote to keep
traps.
DIRECTORS—
HARRY J. HILL. Anchorage
DAN LHAMON. Fairbanks
THEODORE KETTLESON. Silka
HENRY HOGUE. Juneau
EMORY F. TOBIN. Ketchikan
W. C. STUMP, Ketchikan. Exec. Sec’y.
Territorial Taxpayers
Association
Abraham Lincoln, Edgar Allan
Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Kit
Carson, and the noted Britishers,
I Tennyson and Gladstone, all were
born in 1809.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Amend are
planning to leave about October 1 '
to spend several months in the :
States.
•
Lee Lorang and Bob Muller came
IrhuYsday evening.
' a bear but had
search for moose.
in from
They broVkV
no luck in
Mrs. E. H. Tfohpson and four
daughters of Anchorage, formerly
of Seward, i\ui visiting Mrs. John
son’s brottysr, Harry Rogers, and
family. Mrs. Johnson and daugh
ters spent the summer visiting
friends and relatives in Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho.
PATENTS ISSUED 1926-ms
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~—Pennsylvania
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New
Jersey
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.^Maryland 4
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CW/wW Oy national. ftount> Council
These “mountains” and "valleys” represent a serious trend in
America today — a more or less steady loss in patents issued, accord*
• to National Patent Council. Some of America’s most important
industrial states have seen the annual number of patents decline for
the last decade and a half. Only one in this group — Delaware — has
I indicated patent strength in recent years. That entire state has rela
! lively few patents, however, with an annual peak of not more than 350.
Constant subversive efforts to destroy incentive and thus undermine
invention have been an important factor in the decline of patents, the
Council reports.
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