THE FROHTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21. 1947, at the post office
at Palmer. Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879
T. O. SCHMIDTKE MILDRED JOHNSON
Publisher News Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6.50 a year In Matanuska Valley Area
Mailed to all points in Alaska and the United States $7.50 per year
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NOT RAD FOR COLLECTOR
A world of changes have taken place in this country
over a short span of 30 years.
And one of them has to do with the relationship of
the tax collector to a successful business enterprise.
Take, for instance, the experience of a well-known
oil company.
In 1932 it paid total taxes of $1.6 million. In the
same year it paid its employees $13 million in wages and
salaries, and its stockholders got $5.2 million in divi
dends. The tax collector, then, was low man on this totem
pole.
Thirty years sped by. And in 1962, employee com
pensation came to $57 million,- stockholders received $20
million; and taxes amounted to $34.5 million.
So, in just 30 years, payroll and dividend payments
increased four times—where taxes zoomed 21 times.
This isn't the whole story. If the taxes the company
was required by law to withhold from its employees'
paychecks, along with payroll taxes, and the estimated
income taxes stockholders paid on their dividends (fig
ured at the minimum taxable rate of 20 per cent) are
counted, the tax bill reaches the $50 million level. That
works out more than three times the stockholders' re
turns after taxes—and more than the employees received
after withholding and payroll deductions.
So—who comes out farthest ahead when a company
does a good job, pleases an army of customers, and
makes money?
Answer: the tax collector.
31
By Dan Halligan
DEAR DAN: Here’s a tough problem that needs answering.
My best friend and I like the same boy who is 16 and very
sweet. He seems to like the two of us about the same but my
friend and I are serious about him.—MIXED UP.
Dear Mixed Up: You didn't ask a question but I
assume you want to know how you can get the boy to
choose between you. I don't know how but I do know
there's a better than even chance you two may be just
two of a dozen or more girls he likes equally as well.
So, if you played checkers for him, flipped a coin, or
drew high card, the winner could end up being the
loser. I'm sory, girls, but this is another instance where
a boy's natural instincts will be the deciding factor.
DEAR TEEN-AGERS AND PARENTS: “For Those ....
Under 21,” a tastefully written and informative hard cover
book of well over 200 pages, has been written by yours truly
and will shortly be available for sale. At the risk of being told
I’m bragging, I believe it’s as good and thorough a piece of wri- I
ting as has ever been offered to those of high school age. a little !
older and a little younger. It's literally loaded with factual in
formation and tips about every subject near and sometimes
dear to a teen-ager’s heart.
The material is not a collection of previously written col
umns and nothing trite is said in the book.
Any and all profit will go to the “Under 21” Boys’ Ranch
project which means you'll not only have a very worthwhile
book to add to your home library, but you’ll also be aiding a
very worthy cause.
Whatever subject you’re particularly interested in, you’ll
find it well covered in “For Those . . . Under 21.” Chapters or
portions of chapters are devoted to dating, dancing, baby-sitting,
part-time jobs, allowances, careers, beauty tips, facts of life,
shyness, rudeness, your physical and mental make-up at var
ious ages, personality tips, parking, sports, cars, allowances,
understanding others of your age and those older and younger,
necking and clothes are but a few of the many subjects you’ll
read about.
“For Those . . . Under 21” is especially appropriate for you
young teen-agers and can serve as a sincere reference as you
move from one year into the next. Also included will be a pic
ture of yours truly and each book will contain a personally writ
ten message or autograph if you wish. The picture isn’t intended
to stimulate sales but it will be “nice” to have for pin sticking
and mustache drawing.
In addition to having written the book, I’m also handling
the printing and sales. Therefore, it will only be available
through this column and not at the corner book store. This is
not a so-called “pocketbook” but a full length hard cover book.
Since “For Those . . . Under 21’ is being private published
and the printers need a minimum guarantee to even start their
presses, only paid-in-advance orders can be accepted. The book
sells for $2.95 plus 25 cents for handling or a total of $3.20.
However, it comes to you with a money-back guarantee. If
you don’t like it and return it within 10 days, your full price
will be refunded.
Particularly for parents, the book would make an excellent
Christmas gift for that teen-ager or soon-to-be teen-ager in
your family. It answers hundreds of questions for you and will
definitely make you understand your off-spring better than
you do. In turn, you’ll be better understood too.
Send your orders to me, along with $3.20 in cash, check or
money order, in care of this newspaper. We’ll handle it from
uiei e.
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THE AMERICAN WAY
Only A Spending Cot Can Sere Us I
Sonlheast Alaska Ferries Sfill
Carrying Heavy Passenger Leads
The Southeast Alaska ferries
of the Division of Marine
Transportation continued to
run at better than 5.000 pass
engers a week for the first two
weeks of August, according to
figures recently released.
The three vessels, the Mala
spina. Taku, and Matanuska,
together hauled 10,491 passen
gers for the first half of Au
gust, bringing the total num
ber of passengers carried for
the season to 56.543.
During that same period 1,
979 vehicles of all types were
:arried on the vessels, which
makes a total of 10,145 vehicles
packed since the inaugural
trip of the Malaspina late in
January.
With tourist travel slacking
off for the season, the marine
highway system carried slight
ly less passengers and vehicles
the first two weeks of August
than it did the last half of July.
The peak was hit the final 15
days of July when 11.277 pass
engers and 2,11/ vehicles were
carried.
At present the vessels are
running heavy southbound
from Haines and Skagway, but
northbound traffic has slowed
down, apparently due to sum
mer vacations coming to an
end.
During the first of August
the Malaspina carried 3,668
passengers, the Taku 3,549 and
the Matanuska 3,274. In addi
tion, the Malaspina carried
686 vehicles, the Taku 675 and
the Matanuska 618.
I CATHOLIC CHURCH
TO BEGIN WINTER
SCHEDULE SEPT. 15
; St. Michael’s Catholic
| Church in Palmer will begin
! its winter schedule of masses
on Sept. 15. the Rev. Father
I James P. Snead has announ
1 ced.
Sunday morning masses will
be held at 10:39 a.m. and 11:30
a.m.
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away from quaint Carmel, within
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THOUGHTS
OF A
LAYMAN
The Te*t
A motley crowd was gath
ered to witness a contest be
tween Baal and the eternal
God of Elijah and the Bible.
In vain the priests of Baal
had spent a whole day call
ing upon their God, even
slashing their bodies with
knives, but no answer came.
Then as the afternoon shad
ows began to deepen on Mt.
Carmel, Elijah prepared his
sacrifice. The bullock was
slain and placed on a stone
altar. A trench was made
around the altar. Water was
poured on the sacrifice until
it was soaked and the trench
was filled. Elijah prayed
earnestly and a blaze of fire
descended from heaven,
which consumed the bullock,
the wet wood, the stones of
the altar, and licked up the
water in the trench, Al
mighty God, the God of the
Bible, was vindicated.
Bids Asked For
Haines Depot
An invitation to bid for the
exterior painting of the divi
sion of buildings of the De
partment of Public Works.
Specifications and contract
documents are available for
inspection at the director’s off
ice, Division of Buildings, Cap
itol Building, Juneau; Asso
ciated General Contractors, Al
aska Chapter, 3 0 6 Central
Building, Anchorage; Associa
ted General Contractors, 215
W. Harrison St., Seattle; A.G.
C. Plan Room. Fuller Paint and
Glass Co., Noble and Gaffney
Streets, Fairbanks; and Plan
Bureau Office, 172 Mercer St.,
Seattle.
Sealed bids furnishing all la
bor, equipment, and materials
and performing all work des
cribed in the specifications will
be opened at 10 a.m. PST, Sept.
12, in the Office of the com
missioner, Dept, of Public
Works, Juneau.
Wenatchee, Wn., ships more
apples than any other city in
the world.
Terry Brady Is New Assistant
Editor of Fairbanks Tundra Times
Howard Rock, editor of Tun
dra Times, the Indian-Aleut
Eskimo newspaper, published
in Fairbanks, has announced
that Terry Brady, formerly
with the Fairbanks Daily
News-Miner, has succeeded
Thomas Snapp as assistant edi
tor and technical adviser of
the paper.
Snapp. who has been with
the paper since its inception
last October, is leaving for
five months’ study at the
Graduate School of Journal
ism, University of Missouri.
Brady has also worked with
the Anchorage Daily Times, in
St. Bartholomew's
Episcopal Church
Morning Prayor_10 A.M.
Church School_11 A.M.
PI 5-4341
addition to being the United
Press International correspon
dent for the Fairbanks area for
a year.
He originally came to Alas
ka from the State of Washing
ton to work in the fire control
section of the Bureau of Land
Management, and has travel
ed extensively in Interior and
Arctic Alaska.
ST. JOHN
LUTHERAN
CHURCH
tmr. *. H. Frits, paitoy
Palmar. Alaska /^PI‘54S45
Oirino Sorriest HtOO A.M.
Sunday School 9:45 AJL
Just Received
FAMOUS
MONRAD BULBS
FOR FALL PLANTING
• Tulips • Crocus
• Hyacinths • Narcissus
Malanuska Maid
BUILDING AND FARM SUPPLY STORES
I
PALMER WASILLA
Plant a crop in deep, rich soil and you plant a
crop that will flourish.
Something gives it life. Sun and rain, yes, and
certainly rich, abundant soil. . . and yet, something
more, something that gives it the ability to seek
and use strength.
Someone gives US life . . . nourishing food,
warm comfortable shelter, these help certainly. But
still . . . something else. Our souls reach far below
the surface of everyday existence to find our deeper
faith in God’s wisdom and power.
We place ourselves at His mercy. We seek Him
often in prayer and worship, and "times of refresh
ing shall come from the presence of the Lord.”
Having found this fountain of faith, like the
harvest, we point ever heavenward to share with
others our discovery.
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Monday
Plains
107:83-38
Tuesday
Isaiah
81:12-16
Wednesday
Jeremiah
31:10-14
Thursday
Matthew
13:1-18
Friday
Ephesians
8:14-21
Saturday
Hebrews
6:1-8
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To The Churches of The Matanuska Valley
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