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AND ALL HE SAID WAS, "GOD BLESS YOU"!
GOVERNOR CANDIDA'IT
MARTIN ATTACKS FELLOW
CANDIDATE POLLOCK
KETCHIKAN — Verne O.
Martin, Republican candidate for
governor, today labeled State Sen.
Howard Pollock, an opponent for .
the GOP nomination a "Socialist."
Addressing the Ketchikan Re
publican Club luncheon this noon. 1
Martin launched the first personal
attack by a candidate of either
party in the current campaign.
Martin lashed out against Pol
lock while discussing the historic
principles of the Republican Party.
“I'm sorry that I had to talk
about another candidate—I didn't
mean to ... ” the Anchorage at
torney said.
He explained that among the
five Republicans seeking the party
nomination for governor, Pollock
was the only one who was “not
a Republican.”
Martin based his assertion on
the fact Pollock introduced an ag
riculture marketing bill in the 1962
legislature which was similar to
the agricultural socialization bills
of the Roosevelt era.
“This is the only completely
socialistic bill in the Alaska State
Legislature introduced by either
the Republicans or Democrats,”
he declared.
IRS CENTENNIAL
MARKS SHARP RISE IN
1 I'D ERA L TAX PER CAPITA
A sharp rise in federal per capita
tax collections was registered dur
ing the 100 years since the first
permanent federal tax agency was
created on July 1, 1862, under a
law signed by Abraham Lincoln,
according to Commerce Clearing
House.
Comparative statistics go back
only to 1866, when the new agency
collected 310 million dollars at a
per capita tax rate of S8.48. At that
time the IRS had 4,461 employes.
In the most recent fiscal year
ended June 30, 1961, more than
94 billion dollars were collected
at a per capita tax rate of $510.87,
the CCH report said. Today’s IRS
staff totals close to 59,000.
During long periods of the past
century taxes fell well below the
1866 figure. For example, from
1871 through 1914, the per capita
tax at no time exceeded $4.00. In
1885, the low point in the entire
record, the per capita tax was only
| $1.98.
Note: The population of the
United States increased from 36,
| 538,000 in 1866 to 184,000,000 in
, 1961. The per capita tax figures
used above are based on popula
: tions during the respective years.
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YEA Is Armed
To Enforce Belter
Teaching Methods
DENVER. Colo. i/P> — For tin
first time in its long history, the
National Education Assn., is armed
with a weapon to enforce its de
mands for better teaching condi
; tions.
| In a move plainly designee) to
! counter the growing strength of
j teachers’ unions, the NEA's dele
gate assembly roared approval Fri
day of a policy of invoking sanc
tions to prevent “unethical or
arbitrary policies or practices” that
have bad effect on the schools.
As envisioned by top NEA of
| fieials, the sanctions would have
I the effect of blacklisting offending
I schools or school districts.
! There was little debate and al
most no opposition to the policy
I when it was presented as a resolu
I tion.
The question of teachers’ unions,
: their impact on the NEA, and
; the best means of fighting them
i almost completely dominated this
j year’s convention.
The unions have been stressing
■ in their recruiting drives that the
| NEA, is a professional organiza
| tion with a no-strike policy, had no
way of bringing pressure on stub
born school boards or administra
tors.
Mrs. Hazel Blanchard, who took
over as NEA president at the close
of the 100th annual convention
Friday night, told a news confer
ence that immediate action would
be taken to spell out just what
the sanctions shall be, and how
they shall be applied.
In all probability, she said, they
would be similar to those officially
adopted last April by the Cali
fornia Teachers’ Assn., an NEA
| affiliate.
This means throwing the full
glare of publicity on the school
or school district, advising teach
ers not to accept jobs there, and
working with community leaders
to bring about a solution to the
problem.
FISHERMAN DIFS
FROM CLAM POISONING
JUNEAU Oft — A 60-year-old
fisherman from Gold Bar, Wn.,
died Friday aboard his fishing
boat and the death apparently
was caused by the effects of clam
poisoning. Olev Nebro, died short
ly after being taken to Hawk
Inlet, a southeastern Alaska can
nery near Juneau. Nebro had fished
in Alaska waters for many years.
Nebro is the first to die from
the effect of eating clams, but
nine fishermen were hospitalized
here slightly more than a week ago
from a similar type of poisoning.
The Alaska Department of Health
and Welfare has been conducting
studies of the cause of the poison
ing since the initial cases were re
ported and has issued repeated
warnings about the harmful effects
of the poisoning.
The poisoning causes a paraly
sis, particularly about the face, and
if treatment is not prompt it at
tacks the nervous system causing
death.
Nebro had eaten the clams, or
mussels, and drank some nectar
and became ill shortly afterwards.
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S’ N. C!Rl HNING again
URGES GOLD SUBSIDY
Sen. Ernest Gruenitig l ist week
reviewed lor the benefit of nil the
senators the testimony given by
Treasury Undersecretary for Money
Affairs Robert Roosa when testi
fying before the Minerals, Ma
terials and Fuels Subcommittee of
the Interior and Insular Affairs
Committee. Roosa gave the Treas
ury Department’s view, opposing
S J. Res. 44 of which Sen. Omen
ing is a co-sponsor. The measure
would provide a subsidy foi newly
mined domestic gold, up to $35
per ounce.
‘•Gold, like historic Gibraltar,
has remained firm, but planes today
fly over Gibraltar just as 1962
prices have skyrocketed above the
fixed price of gold,” Sen. Omening
remarked in the Senate chamber.
He said representatives of the gold
mining industry have attempted to
warn the Treasury Department of
the alarming critical situation fac
ing them, but that the department
is flatly opposed to aiding the in
dustry on the ground that foreign
nations would think the U.S. dollar
was about to be evaluated.
“I suggest that it is the Treasury
Department which by voicing its
fears is spreading this alarm and
apprehension as it goes about in
timidating those who inquire, say
ing disastrous world-wide conse
quences will ensue if our gold
miners are subsidized to save them
and their industry from economic
extinction,” the senator concluded.
He has consistently urged the sub
sidy legislation be enacted soon.
George Washington, who left an
estate valued at $530,000 was con
sidered “land poor” at his death.
That same land today is worth
more than $20 million.
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WASHINGTON W» — F.iirnina
1 ion of travel restrictions on So
viet visitors to the United States
could lead to a further improve
ment in U.S.-Russian relate
officials said Saturday. It all a .
pends on how the Soviet gow: u
ment reacts.
The U.S. action, personally ap
proved by President Kennedy, was
announced Friday by the State
Department.
Bcgining immediately, the
proximatelv 2,000 Russians •
visit the United States each , r
will be as free to travel a v
other foreign tourists.
In a note handed bv Unde:
retarv of State George Had t
bassador Anatoly Dobrynin. e:(.
State Department informed
Soviet government of its acti a
and asked for a reciprocal Rus-ian
step to contribute to "better mr : ii
understanding and . . . broaden
ing of cooperation between da
peoples of the two countries.”
Should Soviet Premier Khrush
chev react by cutting back on re
strictions on the travel of n< te
than 1.000 Americans who now
visit the Soviet Union each year,
the way would probably In open
ed for other measures on improv
ing relations.
One possibility could be renew
al of active consideration of n
agreement for direct air service
between Moscow and New V k
The text of such an agreement was
negotiated and initialed 1 -st ear.
Rut arrangements were brokt a if
in mid-August in the midst of
crisis over the Berlin Wall. The
State Department said at tie- v
it was inappropriate to sign 1 he
agreement in view of the inn-r
national situation.
RUSS HARDYS RETURN
Mr. and Mrs. Russ Hardy and
son Lloyd returned to Nome after
about a month at Mr. Hardy's Ga -
ily home in Wichita, Kansas.
Their vacation was sa-’e :■ : ’ v
the death of Mr. Hardy's ! ‘
while they were visiting him.
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