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SURPRISE!
Libert'
Amendment
/YN FEBRUARY 16, 1962, Georgia became the fifth state to j
” adopt a resolution for the "Liberty Amendment."
South Carolina was the sixth, passing the Liberty Amendment
resolution March 22, 1962. This could establish a trend. Formally
ratified and signed into law, this proposed 24th Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States could produce a significant
turn of events.
Harold Newman, acting state chairman of the National Com
mittee for Economic Freedom, has compiled some of the Alaska
figures which are food for thought. He estimates that $81 mil
lion left the state in income tax and if left within the state would
change hands about five times a year or a total of $410,000,000.
While it is changing hands the local and state taxes on this
at 3 per cent would provide additional new revenue of about
$12,000,000.
This is something to think about !
EASE BURDEN ON
ALASKA EMPLOYERS
WASHINGTON UP) — A bill to
ease the burden of Alaska employ
ers in repayment of federal funds,
borrowed for unemployment com
pensation payments, was approved
by the House Ways and Means
Committee Monday.
The Alaska unemployment se
curity system borrowed $8.7 mil
lion from the federal unemploy
ment account (Reed Fund) to make
unemployment compensation pay
ments at a time when the state’s
fund was depleted.
The bill, by Rep. Ralph Rivers
would set the payments for em
ployers this year at $4.50 for each
employe. Without the bill, the pay
ment due for 1962 would be $9
for each employe.
The 1961 installment of $4.50
for each employe was paid last
January.
Rivers said the purpose of the
bill is not to avoid repayment of
the debt, but to extend the payout
- period so the burden is lessened.
Under the existing loan agree
ment, state employers would have
to make a 1962 payment of some
$500,000. Rivers’ bill would defer
payment of about half that amount.
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FAA BANS KITES AND
BALLOONS FROM AIRPORTS
WASHINGTON tR — The Fed
eral Aviation Agency banned
kites and moored balloons from
airport areas Monday and prohibit
ed their use anywhere at heights
of more than 500 feet.
The agency established the new
rules because of reported flight
hazards caused by the increasing
use of large kites and balloons for
advertising.
The restrictions do not apply to
weather balloons or various author
ized and approved research proj
ects.
Neither do they apply to kites
less than 5 pounds, or to balloons
of less than 6 feet in diameter or
less than 115 cubic feet capacity.
The new rules prohibit flying of
moored balloons or kites within
five miles of any airport.
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Library Hours
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10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
WEDNESDAY EVENING
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Common Market
Will Hike Tariff
On U.S. Products
BRUSSELS, Belgium m — The
European Common Market will
increase duties as much as 100
per cent on five classes of Ameri
can products July 17 in retaliation
for similar U.S. tariff boosts on
carpets and sheet glass.
The six-nation Common Mar
ket’s Council of Ministers approved
the unprecedented tariff boosts
Monday at the request of Belgium,
which charged the U.S. duty in
creases threaten industries in Bel
gium that involve 6,000 workers
and $26 million a year.
The Common Market action will
double to about 40 per cent of
their value the duties on American
produced polyester, polyethylene,
artificial and synthetic textiles and
raise from 16 to 19 per cent the
duties on American varnishes and
water colors.
Officials said U.S. exports of
these products to Common Market
nations — France, Belgium, West
Germany, Luxembourg, the Nether
lands and Italy — total $27 mil
lion yearly. They said the differ
ence in duty would total $5
million a year.
Under the rules of the general
agreement on tariff and trade, the
Common Market duties go into
effect a month after the new U.S.
tariff overseas becomes effective
June 17.
The new U.S. tariff rates will
boost duties on wilton and velvet
or tapestry carpet imports from
21 to 40 per cent. The increased
duties on cylinder, crown and
sheet glass will range from 1.3
cents to 3,5 cents. Belgium is the
leading source of U.S. imports of
wilton and velvet carpet and sheet
glass.
President Kennedy announced
last March that he was reluctantly
ordering the increases because the
U.S. carpet and glass industries
had been hard hit by unemploy
ment. Kennedy said that Belgian
unemployment was half the U.S.
level and that Belgium enjoyed a
favorable balance of payments
while the United States was losing
gold.
"E for EXPORT" AWARD
WRANGELL <#— The Wrangell
Lumber Co., Alaska’s largest ex
porting mill, has been designated
to receive President Kennedy’s
“E for Export” award, Supt. Chet
Neil announded yesterday.
Commerce Department Secre
tary Luther Hodges wired that
the firm had made “significant
contributions to the export expan
sion program of the United States,”
Neil said. An “appropriate” pre
sentation ceremony was promised.
The company is affiliated with
the Alaska Lumber and Pulp Co.
of Sitka and Tokyo and exported
more than 47 million board feet of
lumber to Japanese ports in 1961,
Neil said.
Twenty-six lumber carriers call
ed at this Southeastern Alaska
part during the year.
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JFK-AM A Wrestle
JFK STRIKFS BACK IN HIS
BATTLE FOR MEDICAL CARE
WASHINGTON W — President
Kennedy, striking back in the bat
tle for his medical care program,
acidly challenged the American
Medical Assn, yesterday "to set
the record straight” on its policy
toward social security.
The White House made public
a briskly worded letter from Ken
nedy to Dr. Leonard W. Larson,
AMA president, in reply to a
message Larson had addressed to
the President late last month.
In his letter, Larson charged
Kennedy with spreading the im
pression that the AMA once re
ferred to the social security sys
tem as a "cruel hoax,” and declared
this was untrue.
Larson said the AMA never took
a position on the social security
system, never opposed it and even
supported one section calling for
extension of public health services.
Kennedy had declared a few
days earlier at a news conference
that the AMA was one of the chief
opponents of social security in the
1930s.
In his letter to Larson, Ken
nedy cited actions he said were
taken by the AMA in 1939, 1949
and 1953, all critical of social se
curity.
“If your organization did not
oppose social security before its
enactment — only afterwards —
I will be glad to point out this
unique distinction at my next press
conference,” Kennedy said.
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AMA HEAD SAYS MEDICAL
CARE BILL IS ON TRIAL
CHICAGO — The president
of the American Medical Assn.,
replying to President Kennedy, de
clared yesterday the King-Ander
son medical care bill, not the AMA
is on trial.
Dr. Leonard W. Larson, head of
the association, issued this state
ment in reply to a challenge from
Mr. Kennedy “to set the record
straight” on its policy toward
social security.
“President Kennedy made the
statement in his May 23 news con
ference that ‘the AMA was one of
the chief opponents of the social
security system in the ’30s’.
“This statement is false.
‘•As I said in my letter to the
President, the American Medical
Assn, did not oppose enactment of
the social security system but
what may have been said at some
later time is extraneous to the ac
cusation the President made on
May 23. Furthermore, I want to
emphasize that past history of the
AMA has nothing to do with the
merits of the King-Anderson bill.
Such accusations serve simply as
a smoke screen. The King-Ander
son bill is on trial, not the AMA.
“We have endeavored to keep
attention focused on the bill which
is the only issue involved in this
controversy. This bill would be
compulsory, illusory and inequit
able, it would keep those who don’t
need help and fail to assist those
who do; it would interfere with
free choice of hospital and physi
cian, open the door to government
control of medicine in this country
and unjustly tax the working
people to provide health care for
millions financially able to take
care of themselves.”
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