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him. “Do you pray for the Sena
tors, Dr. Hale?”
He is supposed to have replied:
“No, I look at the Senators and
pray for the country.”
* * * *
Don’t know whether or not we
have such a problem in Kodiak,
but down in the deep south a
chief of police was having trou
ble w'ith motorists who persisted
in gunning it along a certain
stretch of highway.
So our chief with an inventive
trend of mind erected this sign:
“Nudist Colony.”
He says it worked, too, with
nearly all the truck drivers and
men drivers pulling up to a
snail’s pace.
If we have such a problem on
the island, it might be a solution.
* * * *
Comes now this story of the re
cent young Kodiak bride complain
ing to her parents about her hus
band’s drinking.
“But why did you marry him, if
you knew he drank so much?”
asked her mother.
“I didn’t know he drank at all
said the girl, “until he came home
sober one night.”
* * * *
It’s Go North, Young Woman,
Go North.”
Alaska is still an ideal target
for husband-seeking women.
Alaska is one of the nine states
having more men of voting age
than women of voting age. The
figures take into account the
CAMPAIGN
COMMENTS
Alaskans have always faced a
gross inequity in basic Federal
tax structure. The goods we buy,
the services we need, the rents
we pay, cost 50% more than in
Seattle. In Seattle a family can
live reasonably well on $5,000
per year; the federal income tax
would be $420. To increase the
take home pay 50% would re
quire a salary of $8,000 and a
tax of $1196. Thus our tax is
300% of the Seattle tax. This is
nothing more nor less than a
federal tax on the privilege of
living in Alaska. If we compared
Alaska with other areas in the
South 48 the inequity would be
greater.
The federal government is
well aware of the situation. Its
employees receive a 25% tax
free cost of living allowance.
This is right and proper and
should be continued. But I feel,
too, that Mr. and Mrs. Average
Citizen also have their problems
with the higher cost of living
and should receive a tax adjust
ment.
A simple solution is to key ex
emptions and rates to the cost
of living so that a man will pay
no more income tax to live rea
sonably well in one state than
he would in another. The in
equities of our income tax struc
ture are nation wide but Alaska
is the hardest hit of all and must
lead the way to tax reform. As
governor of Alaska, I will make
it my duty to lead this battle.
(Pol. Ad written and paid
for by Verne O. Martin)
49th State’s voting age of 19
years.
There are 22,567 more men of
voting age in Alaska than there
are women.
But the gals had better hurry,
as the gap is narrowing. The per
centage of men to total Alaska
population increased 44.97 per
cent in the 1950-1960 period, but
the percentage of women to total
population increased 77.31 per
cent.
* * * *
Unfortunately, some good news
story originating in these parts
must come to us in a round-about
way.
For example in a June 25 edition
of the Daily Alaska Empire we
learn that the Kodiak Airways ar
ranged a rendezvous through Coast
Guard* communications with the
fishing vessel White Swan near
the southern tip of Kodiak to de
liver a Canadian fisherman who
was suffering from a halibut hook
in his hand.
* * *
One U.S. Representative, Rep.
Johansen of Michigan, had his
say on the uproar over the out
lawing of a formalized non-sec
tarian prayer in the New York
Schools by the Supreme Court
which on the same day favored
a pervert magazine:
The Michigan Congressman
said: “Mr. Speaker, I direct the
attention of the House to the
fact there were at least two de
cisions by the Supreme Court
June 25. The upshot of the two
decisions seems to be: prayer,
no; obscenity, yes."
* * * *
Among the English language’s
many puzzling words is “economy,"
which means the large size in soap
flakes and breakfast foods but the
small size in autos.
* * * *
Monkey’s Viewpoint
From a church publication (we
know no whose) comes this bit
of animal philosophy: entitled a
“Monkey’s Viewpoint.”
Three monkeys sat in a cocoanut
tree
Discussing things as they’re said
to be
Said one to the others, “Now
listen, you two,
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There’s a certain rumor that
can’t be true,
That man descends from our no
ble race —
The very idea is a disgrace.
No monkey ever deserted his
wife,
Starved her babies and ruined
her life,
And you’ve never known a
mother monk
To leave her babies with others
to bunk,
Or pass them on from one to
another
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