Here There Everywhere
The recent public hearing on the
*ales tax ordinance brought orth
enough ideas of what not ;o tax
rather than what and how to raise
money for City improvements. The
City Fathers wore plaid shirts is
reported in a iocal paper, but they
should have worn beards. The
knotty problem of satisfying every
body on the Sales Tax Ordinance
calls for the wisdom of Solomon.
This man of wisdom (we’re sure
fee must have been wise—how else
could he have kept all the wives
fee was supposed to have had, hap
py) ruled in the case of the two
women who claimed the same
baby, that the infant be cut in half
and a part be given to each wo
man. Cutting the sales tax in half
and charging on everything might
be a solution that will either satis
fy everybody or nobody.
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Mayor Johnson and the City
Council have a job on their hands
whipping this ordinance into shape,
but strangely enough, other com
mun&ies have been faeed -with the
sante' problem, omt Respite early
reactions of a (negative nature, the
people have* found the benefits Jar
outweigh the disagreeable features.
A lot of questions were asked
at the meeting, but the prize one
of the evening, we thii^ will be
this one, asked by somebody In
the audience: Will people who
watch TV have to pay the tax?
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A woman came in the office the
other day with an ad she wanted
iinserted in the Classified section.
At the last minute she struck out
the last line. It read: “Everything
but my husband for sale.” Maybe
she would have been better off to
sell the husband and keep the
other stuff. Who knows?
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Voting in the primaries brought
out some strange practices, tob.
One voter cast his ballot favoring
the Tennessee plan, but did not
vote on the ratification of the Con
stitution. The elected represena
tives wouldn't have much to do in
Washington without a constituton
to fight for. Another voted for
both Stevenson and Kefauver as
presidential candidates on the
Democratic ballot That’s like hav
ing your cake and eating it, too.
Maybe he meant to put them on
the ballot as running mates. May
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be that’s not a bad idea.
We wonder if the ladies who
tabulated votes at the City Hall
had to count sheep in order to in
duce sleep when they finally got
to bed about 5:30 a. m.—Or did
they count votes all over .gain, in
stead?
Pete Ramaglia and George Kap
pos, the latter sometimes known as
Kapolopodopodos, had birthdays
tjjis week. Congratulations to both.
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The West Grove, Pa., Indepen
dent has this to say: “If we could
earn 1956 wages, pay 1925 prices
and 1915 taxes, we would be sit
ting pretty.” How true.
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Torgie Torgerson of the Bank of
KodSak has been gathering pennies
in preparation for the sales tax
levy. He doesn’t have the problem,
though, that the banks in Fair
banks have in furnishing silver
dollars. According to Jessen’s
Weekly, Ed Stroeker, President of
the First National jgt there,
said that it costs the bank more
than $3500 per year to keep the
City in silver dollars. The other
bank in Fairbanks spends a like
sum for shipping charges and
packaging of the cartwheels. The
silver dollar is a traditional medi
um of exchange in the Northern
Alaska town.
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Alaskan farmers experienced a
very rough season in 1955 as a re
sult of cool, wet weather, early
frost, depressed prices and in
creased stateside competition. This
fact was brought,out ki the bulle
tin issued by the Agricultural Ex
periment Station and Alaskan De
partment of Agriculture. Beef and
pork sales were up considerably,
totalling $135,029 compared to
last year’s $86,061. The Anchorage
area produced most of the pork
and the principal beef production
was in the Kodiak area, according
to the bulletin.
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National Baby Week starts to
day and ends May 5. More diapers
have to be changed than ever be
fore, it seems. The birth rate has
risen steadily from 17.3 per 1,000
population in 1939 to a present
rate of 25.9 per 1,000. Or 2,265,588
new, native born in 1939 and this
figure reached the all-time high of
4,100,000 in 1955.
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Did you ever hear about House
wives United? So far it is a small
organization but is said to be dy
namc and determined. Headquart
ers are in Washington, D. C. but
it has members in California, New
York, Ohio, Texas, Illinois, Indiana
and Nebraska. Housewives United
meets every month at, appropriate
ly enough, in a home where they
discuss inflation, legislation and
economics from the vewpoint of
homemakers. Pet peeves to be list
ed in a forthcoming news-letter
include singing commercials, pry
off tops on glass jars, shoddy pock
et books that fall apart, “painting”
oranges and yams to make them
look prettier in the market, and
different parcel post rules for dif
ferent communities. Sounds like it
ought to be a helpful organization.
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SHORT CUTS: Olaf Halverson,
former High School principal here,
accompanied the Nome High stu
dents on their annual skiing party
atop Mt. Newton and Anvil Moun
tain. He is now teaching at Nome .
. . .Ironical Situation: Irate motor
ist stuck, complained to City Coun
cil by phone when that body was
meeting to shape up Sales tax ord
inance designed to improve the
road.
TBOFHIES TO BE GIVEN
FOB BEST FIBE RECORD
Trophies will be awarded to the
Naval Station department with the
best semi-annual fire prevention
record.
A committee appointed to make
the awards include Cmdr. W. W.
Clark as Senior member, LCDK.
R. C. Van Limburgh, LCDR R. B.
Wolfram and Station Fire Chief
T. W. McArthur.
The first Fire Prevention Trophy
will be awarded in October.
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property, will your earnings
be stopped?
Will you Home Owners be
burdened with extra costs?
if so osk us about Business
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in the electinn held Tuesday
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