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¥>OROUGHS AND WHAT TO DO about them is taking a lot
of time down at the legislature because it is a step in our
state government for which we are not ready.
Under the present law, all special service areas, such as
school districts cease to exist in July of this year unless they are
incorporated as boroughs, or are annexed to cities.
Our founding Statehood fathers knew we had to have this
intermediary step in our political government and 1963 seemed
far enough from the time Statehood was granted for this county
or borough political division to be worked out.
It is a big state and it has had many other problems in setting
up its housekeeping, and there seems to be no reason why the
date can’t be stepped ahead until the people are ready to set up
boroughs.
Three bills are now before the legislature, Senate Bill 17
which would set the date to 1970; HB 90 which provides for man
datory creation of the first-class boroughs in major population
districts; and HB 62 which provides that the State Board of Edu
cation could step in and form second-class boroughs for school
purposes.
We quote from J. G. Holland:
”One thing at a time, all things in succession, that
which grows fast, withers as rapidly; that which grows
slowly endures”
Yes, let’s take one thing at a time and support SB 17 and
leave the boroughs until 1970, especially since federal aid funds
to schools would be cut in half with the organization of state
schools on a local level. Nome is not immediately concerned as
there are no school districts here, but at the speed boroughs would
develop with HB 90 we and other parts of the undeveloped parts
of the state could get involved in problems with which we could
not cope due to lack of taxable population.
Barry Wants to Know
OENATOR BARRY GOLDWATER, who is also a major gen
^ eral in the Air Force Reserve, wants to know whether dis
mantling our Turkish and Italian missile bases, planned reduc
tion of our forces in Europe, de-activation of B-47’s, killing the
RS-70 program, and other unilateral disarmament moves are
"part of some kind of deal involving Cuba and disarmament plans.”
Noting no softening of Red subversion in our hemisphere, or
guerrilla war for Southeast Asia, or the push of Moscow-armed
Sukarno, or Russia’s test-ban toughness—and Khrush’s recent
reiteration of his promise to bury us, the magazine National Re
view says: "This is no deal, citizens . . . Mr. Kennedy has initiated
a policy of unilateral disengagement. . . On a world scale he is
ordering a strategic withdrawal from confrontation with the enemy.
"The reply of the enemy”, concludes NR, "is natural and automatic:
he moves forward by his own chosen methods to fill the gaps.”
Harry Truman, former President: "You never can tell what a
Congress is going to do. I was there 10 years, and nobody knows
what the Senate or House will do when the time comes to act.”
Legislators Will
“Sit Tight'” On
Salmon Campaign
JUNEAU (/P> — A special legisla
tive committee studying a proposal
for a joint state-canned salmon
industry advertising campaign de
cided to “sit tight and see what
public reaction develops.”
The plan for a joint advertising
effort, to boost sagging sales of
Alaska canned salmon, was pro
posed to the special six-man com
mittee Monday by three repre
sentatives of the industry.
Frank Wright, representing the
Association of Pacific Fisheries,
told the committee he “gets the
feeling members of my association
are split right down the middle on
this proposal.”
The plan was submitted by Nick
Bez of Peter Pan Seafoods; Haakon
Friele of Nakat Packing Co.; and
A. W. Brindle of Ward's Cove
Packing Co.
They proposed that the state
put up $1 million and the industry
$500,000 a year for an intensive
advertising campaign to run at
least two years.
Henry Roloff, State Commission
er of Economic Development and
Planning, told the committee the
advertising campaign carried out
during the past six years by the
Canned Salmon Institute hasn’t
“been really an advertising cam
paign, but more of a product use
promotion.”
Roloff said that in his opinion,
salmon processors and distributors
are faced with three major prob
lems: a high priced product, a
limited market and a heavy in
ventory.
Avrum Gross, an assistant at
torney general, suggested that any
joint effort undertaken by the
state and the industry might have
a dual purpose.
“It might be a program which
would promote the state as well
as canned salmon,” Gross said.
“Canned salmon is generally con
sidered to be a uniquely Alaskan
product and the two promotional
ideas might be tied together very
effectively.”
Rep. Jay Hammond suggested
that before the committee took
any action it get an expression
from the canned salmon industry
as a whole.
Roloff said that before the com
mittee moved, it should consider
the possibility of providing for an
“impartial, analytical study of the
problem.”
“You’re not going to get a com
mon expression from the big can
ners, the small canners, the fish
ermen and the brand distributors,
I can t§ll you that,” Roloff said.
Sen. James Nolan, chairman of
the committee, said the group
should first address itself to the
question of whether the canned
industry is really in the sales
trouble it says it is.
Nolan also pointed out that if
production increases more rapid
ly than sales, the fishermen will
not be able to make full utiliza
tion of the salmon resource, which
could permit the Japanese to enter
into the coastal salmon fishery
under the abstention principle of
the International North Pacific
Fisheries Convention.
“This abstention thing is an al
batross around our neck,” Ham
mond commented. “Regardless of
how many fish there are and our
troubles selling them, we’re going
to have to catch them.”
“Yes, even if we have to use
them for fertilizer,” Rep. Clem
Tillion added.
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Closedown of Pinballs
Would Cost State
Overall Loss of $80,000
JUNEAU — A closedown of
pinball machines within Alaska
would mean an Overall loss of about
$80,000 in gross revenues, R. D.
Stevenson, acting Commissioner of
the State Department of Revenue,
told the Finance Committee Wed
nesday.
The loss would be shared by
the state and its poltical subdi
visions, including cities and or
ganized boroughs.
Stevenson said that an investi
gation by the federal government
which is now underway might
have the effect of removing pin
ball machines from the state.
He said that the taxes on pin
ball machines provide approxi
mately two-thirds of the monies
realized under the state’s tax on
coin-operated devices which aver
ages out at a total of about $120,000
a year.
Approximately $40,000 to $45,000
is refunded to political subdivisions
each year under the shared tax
program for coin-operated devices.
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House GOPs Spell
Out Where They
Can Cut Billions
From JFK’s Budget
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WASHINGTON UPl — House Re
publican leaders said Thursday
they are accepting President Ken
nedy’s challenge to spell out the
places where they would cut bil
lions from his $98.8 billion budget.
“We’ll give them a bill of par
ticulars when the time comes,”
said GOP leader Charles Halleck
of Indiana, “and we’ll be respon
sible about it.”
Rep. Frank Bow of Ohio, head
of a Republican task force on bud
get cutting, said the detailed pro
posals for reduced spending are
already in the hands of the Repub
lican members best placed to use
them—the senior minority mem
bers of the various subcommittees
considering appropriations bills.
Kennedy, who defended what he
called his hard budget at his news
conference Wednesday, also came
in for some Republican criticism
for his latest statement on tax re
duction and tax revision.
“They seem to blow hot and
cold,” Halleck commented.
Rep. Thomas Curtis of Missouri,
a member of the Tax-Writing
Ways and Means Committee, said
it looks as though there are two
groups in the administration tug
ging the President in different di
rections.
Statements by Kennedy, Secre
tary of the Treasury Douglas Dil
lon and others fyave agreed that
an early tax reduction is desirable
and that it would be best carried
out in connection with revisions
to make the tax code more equit
able and restore some of the re
venue lost by cutting rates. But
there has appeared to be a differ
ence of emphasis from time to
time on the importance of re
visions and how much they could
eliminate from a tax cut bill with
out forfeiting Kennedy’s approval
of it.
Juvenile Detention Facility
JUNEAU iJf) — Legislation au
thorizing the construction of a ju
venile detention facility in the
Fairbanks area was introduced in
the House by Rep. John Holm.
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shampoo a chair in less than 30 minutes and with little effort.
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water is added.
These methods not only take time to prepare, but have o.«e
big drawback: no matter how hard you try, there is always the
possibility of over-wetting the fabric and even more important
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are often used for the backing of upholstered furniture can
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