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Mirrored Reflections
By SIG DIGREE
We are concerned this week
mainly with some facts we learn
by reading our mail. It’s surprising
what you can learn.
For instance, we were sent a rec
ipe for a health giving drink which
is said to have had good results in
assisting curing ailments — “they
cover stomach troubles abated,
kidney twitchings diminished,
headaches cleared, constipation re
lieved, tooth decay arrested,
breathing eased, nervous tension
lowered and a host of others cover
ing about every type of health frus
tration, suffered by civilized hu
man beings.”
This miracle drink is called Dr.
Ann’s Seven Manna Drink. Its prin
ciple ingredient is grass—take
once a day. Use a pint jar with a
tight cover. In it put:
Enough juice — select any you
like—to fill one glass, pineapple,
cranberry, carrot, prune, etc.; one
teaspoon of dried brewer’s yeast;
one teaspoon of soy, olive or other
oil; one teaspoon of any unsul
phured molasses; one raw yolk of a
brown egg (Use no white of egg);
one teaspoon of grass. Cut all grass
into tiny bits with scissors. If dry
grass, soak in a little juice for an
hour before using.
Shake the jar vigorously to mix
yolk. The Chinese say the yolk’s
potency lasts but thirty minutes—
drink at once—slowly.
* * *•
Don’t ever say this column
doesn’t share its knowledge with its
readers. If you try the drink let
us know how it tastes and what it
does for you.
• * *
Coining changes that will affect
business: It may seem like a nick
les-and-dimes business to a person
when he drops his coins in an auto
matic vending machine. But it’s
actually a multibillion dollar busi
ness, and its a rapidly growing one.
Indications are that at least 8 mil
lion vending machines, double the
present number, will be in opera
tion by 1970, with annual sales of
perhaps $7 billion. Much of the ex
pected increase will be in sales by
machines that will be capable of
“instantly” cooking and serving
frozen complete meals. However,
machines are expected to sell a
wide variety of products, from
bread to underwear. The advent of
machines that can change paper
money is a key development in this
expanding marketing innovation—
front SRI’s Long Range Planning
Service.
President Edward F. Gallagher
of the Goodwill Publishing Co., of
Gastonia, N. C. (he publishes Bi
bles) pays off his 29 hourly-rate
employes in cash and in full every
other Friday. For two hours (ap
prox.) they have the privilege of
gloating over all this money. Then
the paymaster comes along and col
lects the tax bite—state and Fed
eral income tax withholding and
Social Security. Result: employes
know how much the firm is paying
them, and impresses on them how
much Government is costing them.
* * *
There’s bears in them thar hills,
according to A1 Hochberger, vice
president of the Kodiak Branch,
National Bank of Alaska. He and
Bob Acheson travelled with Kodiak
Airways Monday and Tuesday,
visiting canneries and villages en
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
With your summers wages?
Money carried in the pocket
SEEMS TO VANISH
Why Not
PUT IT IN THE BANK
To provide financial security
through the Winter?
KODIAK BRANCH
NATIONAL BANK
OF ALASKA
1 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
and Federal Reserve System
the island. On the return trip, they
spotted eight bears at Olga Bay. A
thrilling sight and an enjoyable
trip, according to Al.
* * *
The following item which ap
peared in a recent issue of the Fair
banks News-Miner, and written by
Seguno Llorente, S. J. in his col
umn, “Alakanuk News” indicates
there are slums in the Arctic.
We quote in part: Two young
men were committed lately to
the Morningside Hospital. Un
fortunately this area is much too
well represented in that mental in
stitution. (Why, the good Father
asks?) He continues: The weather
is exceptionally bad almost at all
times of the year. The housing is a
sorry sight and a sorrier thing to
live in. Privacy is non-existent. No
timber, no gardening, no outdoor
entertainment. No roads nor pos
sibility of roads to break the en
forced confinement. The minimal
education prevailing does preclude
the mental relaxation afforded by
reading books and magazines. Too '
many frustrations. Time hangs
heavy and begets unbearable bor
ing. So ... to Morningside. Or so
we think.”
Retirement Ends
Z3 Years In C.G.
Retirement ceremonies at the
Coast Guard A i r Detachment
Wednesday, marked the end of a
twenty-three-year military career
for Warrant Officer Jesse B. Lowe.
He' has served as the Supply Of
ficer here for the last fourteen
months.
Lowe began his military career
in June of 1938 with a two-year
enlistment in the Army. He served
as a regimental clerk at Fort
Lewis, Washington. When dis
charged in 1940, he joined the
Goast Guard and went to sea on
the Coast Guard Cutter Shoskone.
During the next twenty years,
Lowe remained at sea on various
Coast Guard Cutters, except for
two and a half years at Lifeboat
Stations, and a short stay at the
Coast Guard Base in Seattle, Wash
ington.
Starting as a ship’s cook in 1940,
he was promoted through the ranks
to Commissaryman Chief in 1953.
He received a Warrant Officer’s
commission in 1957 and was pro
moted to Chief Warrant Officer,
W-2, in 1960.
Letter to the Editor
(Continued from Page 1)
will have on the overall effective
ness of our state educational pro
gram. Certainly the insufficient
legislative appropriation will be re
flected in the school budgets of
other communities as well.
This critical situation might well
act as a catalyst to bring about a
long critical look at our method of
providing for adequate school fin
ancing. Too, it might be well if
these recent developments help to
shake the voting public awake to
the reality that first-class educa
tion must have first-class fiscal
support. The general apathy that
pervades the area of school financ
ing is appaling. The U. S. Office of
Education reports that over the
last 12 years only 36.3 percent of
the eligible voters in the country
have shown enough interest in
school bond and tax elections to
cast a ballot.
The Alaska School Finance
Study, under the joint sponsorship
of the State Department of Educa
tion and the Ford Foundation, is
nearing completion. It might be
well if we all take notice of its
findings and recommendations in
the light of our present school fin
ance dilemma.
Haze J. Bergeron,
Executive Secretary
Alaska Education Association
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In what is undoubtedly the
most comprehensive survey
ever undertaken of Main Street
sentiments on taxation prob
lems, the National Federation
of Independent Business has
completed and sent to the White
House, Congressional Commit
tee’s, Treasury Dept, and other
governmental
agencies a 240
page report.
* * *
The district
chairmen of
the Feder
ation were
asked to vote
on the ten
parts of the
President’s
proposed tax c. W. Harder
program, and invited to make
additional comments.
• • •
Approximately 1,000 of the
total number of district chair
men replied. Each of them are
engaged in independent busi
ness or professional practice
covering the entire field of
commercial activity from man
ufacturing, wholesaling, retail
ing and services. The returns
from 50 states and the District
of Columbia were about in ratio
to their populations.
* * *
54.9% expressed favor of the
proposed tax incentive pro
gram which would provide for
a different method of deprecia
tion write-offs to encourage
business to expand.
Yet only 22.3% were in favor
of the proposal to levy a with
holding tax against interest
and dividends, and only 18.4%
favored the repeal of the pro
vision that now permits the
first $50 in income from divi
dends and interest to be tax
free, and the additional credit
of 4% on divdend income in ex
cess of $50.
fc) National Federation of Independent Bmlnef
In volunteered comments,
there is expressed considerable
and often quite bitter resent
ment over U. S. policy on for
eign matters. 71.9% voted for
the proposal to compel U. S.
firms with foreign plants to
pay U. S. taxes on the undis
tributed earnings of these
plants. And likewise, by a ma
jority of 57.6% the president’s
proposal that such tax be de
ferred on U. S. plants operat
ing in so-called “under-devel
oped” countries was voted
down.
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While 54.2% voted against the
president’s proposal to change
the ruling on capital gains
from the sale of depreciable
property by having the profit
computed on such a sale on
the actual original price rather
than the depreciated value,
93.4% are in favor of the Pres
ident’s recommendations to tax
cooperatives.
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Although by time survey was
tabulated, Congress had al
ready voted a one year exten
sion of present corporation and
excise tax rates, only 39.3%
favored such a move.
* * *
Of the ten tax proposals, half
were favored, the other half
not favored.
* * *
While the Federation is not
committed on these votes, as
it requires a vote by the full
national membership of the or
ganization, it is quite probable
that these district chairmen,
closely in touch with the inde
pendent business sentiments in
all parts of the country, voted
in much the same way a full
membership ballot would turn
out. But one thing seems ob
vious. There will not be much
employment supplying expan
sion of the nation’s vast inde
pendent business complex until
there are substantial reforms
in the crazy-quilt tax laws.