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Metlakatla Indians Must
Pay Tax on Salmon
Stored In Bellingham
OLYMPIA UP — Canned sal
mon stored in a Bellingham ware
house by its Alaskan Indian own
ers is subject to Washington’s per
sonal property tax. State Atty.
Gen. John O’Connell said Tuesday.
His opinion, issued for What
com County prosecutor Richard A.
Nolle, concerned taxation of can
ned salmon owned by the An
nettee Island Canning Co., a cor
poration owned and operated by
the Metlakatla Indian community
of Alaska.
O’Connell said he could find no
basis for exempting the canned
salmon from Washington’s per
sonal property tax while it is
stored in the Bellingham ware
house.
The Indian-owned company had
contended, O'Connell said, that
the property could not be taxed
by a state because the firm is
owned by a tribe of Indians pro
tected by federal law.
But the Attorney General said
the United States government has
“pursued a general policy of mak
ing the Metlakatla Indian com
munity subject to the rights and
duties of ordinary citizens of
Alaska.”
He also said the Indian-owned
company's canned salmon “com
petes with other commercial es
tablishments” and government su
pervision of the Indian firm
“seems to be negligible if non
existent.”
100TH ENLISTEE
Ft. RICHARDSON — Century
mark reached by Alaska enlistee.
Ian Newman, Ketchikan, joins
the Army under the “Graduate
Specialist” program as the 100th
man to enlist in the Army in
Alaska in 1962. This is the first
time Army enlistment has reach
ed 100 in one year in Alaska.
Newman, formerly with the
Alaska Fish & Game Dept., will
go to Ft. Eustis, Va., for training
as an aircraft mechanic.
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Lavorante Still In Coma
LOS ANGELES — Argen
tine heavyweight Alejandro La
vorante is in the 11th day of a
! coma that followed his knockout
by Johnny Riggins of San Fran
! cisco, but there are indications he
may regain consciousness.
Dr. Dewitt Fox. neurosurgeon in
! charge of Lavorante’s case, said
the 25-year-old boxer’s pupils are
beginning to react slightly, where
as previously they were fixed. He
said this is an indication that the
pressure in the mid-brain area,
adjacent to the so-called sleep
area, is reducing.
*'It should not be too long be
fore further signs of consciousness
appear,” said Dr. Fox. ‘‘Just how
long, we can’t predict, but we
hope in days, not weeks.”
ALGERIA PREMIER BEN BELLA
WILL VISIT WITH KENNEDY
WASHINGTON UP — Algerian
j Premier Ahmed Ben Bella will
! visit President Kennedy at the
White House on Oct. 15, press sec
retary Pierre Salinger announced
Tuesday.
Salinger told reporters that
Kennedy has invited the Algerian
Premier to meet with him on the
morning of Oct. 15 and be his
guest at lunch on the same day,
and Ben Bella has accepted.
Ben Bella and his Foreign Min
ister, Mohammed Khemisti, are
due in New York later this week to
be present when their country is
admitted to the United Nations,
likely on Oct. 8.
It was Josh Billings who ob
served, “If it w’asn’t for faith,
there would be no living in this
world. We couldn’t even eat hash
with any safety.”
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j]\(‘^ro Meredith
Sits Alone in Room
OXFORD, Miss. <7P> — James H. j
Meredith, sitting on an iron cot in j
a bare dormitory room, said Tues- !
da> in- considers his enrollment in ;
the University of Mississippi to be
"more for America than it is for
me."
Meredith is the' first Negro
knowingly to be admitted as a
student in the university’s 114
year history.
lit an interview, hi' showed no
visible signs of nervousness or
apprehension after the explosive
riot that swept the university
campus after his arrival Sunday
night.
Meredith said quietly:
“I hope now the situation gets
back to normal as soon as possible
so that the students can continue
their studies normally. That’s
what I want more than anything
else now.”
He was escorted by Federal
Marshal James MeShane to the
school at 8 am., where he at
j tended an hour’s class in Ameri
I can colonial history. His second
1 class was in political science.
! He took a seat toward the back
j of the room. Two other male stu
| dents sat a little further back.
None of the seats directly ad
joining his was occupied.
A crowd, estimated by MeShane
i at around 40, had gathered in
front of the building when Mere
dith emerged.
However. Meredith said that in
the classes a number of students
have greeted him, saying "Hello”
or "good morning.”
He added: "1 haven't seen any
students in class who appeared to
People
In the News
By The Associated Press
• Secretary of Labor W. Willard
Wirtz, while reaffirming his op
i position to a shorter work week.
1 says demands for a 35-hour week
■ will prosper unless industry and
■ government provide more jobs.
Wirtz said that he doesn’t think
• union leaders are irresponsible for
, pushing their shorter-hours de
i mands if their motive is to spread
existing work and reduce unem
ployment “even though I may dis
; agree” with the proposal.
Gilbert Beale, a 94-year-old mil
lionaire, and four other persons
went for a short ride on London’s
Thames River — in a Rolls Royce.
It wasn’t planned that way. The
Rolls shot over the bank, hit a
' moored yacht, splashed briefly
[ through the water and sank. Fis.i
! ermen pulled the five passengers
. —plus two lap dogs—to safety.
The car settled in 15 feet of water.
Alexander Downer, Immigra
i tion Minister of Australia, an
1 nounced in Canberra that the
; Australian government will pro
, vide accommodations for up to
1,000 White Russian refugees from
Manchuria. He said the refugees
■ had been given 48 hours by the
i Chinese Communist authorities to
; leave their homes.
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Kennedy Signs
U.N. Bond Measure
WASHINGTON UP - President
Kennedy signed the United Na
tions bond bill Tuesday and gave
the lirst of the dozen pens he used
to U N. Ambassador Adlai Steven
son.
Leaders of the House and Sen
ate, along with members of the
Foreign Affairs Committees of
both Houses, attended the eere
mony in the President’s office.
Kennedy expressed his gratifi
cation at enactment of the bill,
which authorizes t h e United
States to buy bonds issued by the
United Nations to meet the costs
of enforcing the peace in the Con
go, Middle East and elsewhere.
Under the measure Kennedy
may lend the United Nations up
to $100 million on 2 per cent, 25
year bonds, but not more than the
total purchases of all other U.N.
members.
At last count, 17 other nations
had bought $27.5 million worth of
the proposed $200-million bond is
sue. and 2(1 other nations had
pledged to purchase $45 million
more.
The U.N. financial crisis stems
from the refusal of Soviet bloc
| and other nations to pay their as
I sessments.
Donnelley & Acheson of
Kodiak Liquidates After
166 Years of Business
KODIAK UP — Donnelley and
! Acheson, a firm started in 1796, is j
! going out of the mercantile busi- !
I ness.
Robert Acheson, a representative '
of the firm, said Monday it is ;
voluntarily liquidating its grocery. !
clothing and hardware depart- j
! ments.
Acheson said the Donnelley and i
I Acheson automobile distributor
I ship would continue.
| The firm was started by Lord j
j Baranoff under the name Russian j
Trading Co. After Alaska was I
j purchased by the United States
! 4 u';is known as the Alaska Com- !
j mercial Co.
After that it was owned by J
the Erskme family for many years I
until it was sold to Donnelley and i
Acheson.
Acheson said an announcement
regarding the firm's real property 1
on the Kodiak dock would be made
later.
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Hut Off Till Oc t. 12
NEW ORLEANS (Jt — A Fed
eral Appeals Court Tuesday put
off until Oct 12 the contempt
showdown with Mississippi Gov.
Ross Barnett. It extended until
then the time for him to show
he has complied with orders not
to block enrollment of James
Meredith, a Negro, in the Uni
versity of Mississippi.
Attorneys for Barnett and Lt.
Gov. Paul Johnson told the 5th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the
officials had ceased interfering
with its directives which admitted
Meredith to the university Mon
day.
Trie court accepted a Justice De
partment recommendation that a
delay be granted to permit Bar
nett and Johnson to give further
evidence they had purged them
selves of contempt. The original
deadline was 11 a.m. yesterday.
Presiding Judge Richard Rives
of Montgomery, Ala., announced,
after conferring with his col
leagues, that Oct. 12, was the
earliest all eight Appeals Judges
could meet here to hear the case.
However, the court dropped con
tempt charges against three Uni
versity of Mississippi officials and
the 13 members of the State Col
lege Board. They had agreed earlier
to comply with the court’s orders.
Cosby Steen Appointed
Dist. Engineer for Dept. Hwys.
JUNEAU i/P — The appointment
of Cosby Steen as District Engi
neer for the State Department of
Highways at Juneau was an
nounced by Commissioner D. A.
McKinnon Tuesday.
Steen, assistant construction en
gineer at Fairbanks, will take over
his new post Nov. 1. He replaces
Tom Shaley, who will be trans
ferred to the Fairbanks district.
Steen, a graduate of Texas A &
M, has been a state highways em
ploye since June 1961, when he
first came to Alaska.
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