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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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We’ve Crossed the Line
T^fEXT JULY 9, with a bit more than half the year gone, the
corporations of this country—the myriad enterprises which
provide us with the great bulk of our goods and services, as well
as most of our employment of people—will start working for
their owners.
What, one may ask, will they be doing for the six-months
plus preceding that date?
The answer is provided by a cursory glance at a federal
income tax form. The profits tax on any corporation of any size
is a neat 52 per cent. And this does not include the swarm of other
taxes a corporation is burdened with—state income taxs, property
raxes, excise and sales taxes, license taxes, transaction taxes and
even, in some instances, municipal income taxes.
Columnist Henry Tadlor writes: "Mussolini’s corporate state
took 40 per cent of any profits. Hitler took 44 per cent. Both
these exploiters were pikers compared to Washington’s 52 per cent
bite.
"Surely one definition of socialism is the line beyond which a
government gets more than the owners. We’ve crossed that line,
even excluding state, county and community taxes on corpora
tions. In this sense, we’re not going socialist. We’ve gone. Thus
taxpayers are people who don’t need a Civil Service examination
to work for the government."
This is the price we pay for two enormously different things.
One is war, hot and cold—past, present, and to come. The other
is a welfare state. The enormous tax for war, it seems, must con
tinue to be paid—we have no choice in this. But the welfare state—
coddling us, attempting to shield us against our own follies and
wastes, substituting political decision for individual responsibility
and pride—is something we simply cannot afford.
Resolution Calls for
*‘At-Cost Medical Service
JUNEAU UPi — A resolution
seeking a review of the possibility
of the U.S. Public Health Service
providing at-cost medical and!
dental service for certain resi- j
dents of remote areas in Alaska
was introduced in the Senate Sat
urday.
The resolution asks the Alaska
congressional delegation to discuss
with the Surgeon General of the
PBS the possibility of providing
such service to persons not other
wise eligible for free PHS care.
The resolution, offered by Sens.
R. J. McNealy and David Harri
son said that often the transporta
tion costs for persons living in re
mote areas are more than the
cost of dental and medical service
they seek.
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Sub-Standard Housing
JUNEAU (J*) — Some $2 million
worth of sub-standard housing will
be constructed in Alaska this year
unless a contractors licensing bill
is approved by the 1963 legislature,
a spokesman for labor said Friday
night.
Henry Hedberg, representing the
State Federation of Labor, told
the House Commerce and Labor
Committee that $1 million worth
of sub-standard housing was built
in the State last year.
“I’m not attacking the majority
of contractors,” Hedberg said in
testifying on the bill, “but a small
group whose construction is be
low the minimum standards of
Federal Housing Administration
and finance institutions in the
state.
“The legislature has an obliga
tion to protect the general pub
lic from these unscruopulous con
tractors.”
Gov. Rockefeller
l^iys Out 5*Point
Economic Program
Of His Own
NEW YORK — Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller critibized President
Kennedy’s economic program Sat
urday as a failure and proposed
an alternate one of his own.
Rockefeller said the Kennedy
program should be replaced by one
that would have immediate im
pact, end deficit financing and
“restore confidence in our econ
omic future.”
The governor’s office issued his
statements after he took off by
plane for a Milwaukee speaking
engagement.
Rockefeller, prominently men
tioned for next year’s Republi
can Presidential nomination, told
newsmen he is not a candidate—
that it is too soon for the situation
to “crystalize.”
He said he was offering his econ
omic proposals because “full pub
lic discussion of this issue is
vital.”
Rockefeller suggested this five
point program:
1. Reduction of the corporate
income tax rate to 47 per cent,
fully effective in the fiscal year
beginning this July 1. This will
immediately release $2.5 billion
for new investment and provide
the incentive required for a sub
stantial acceleration of economic
growth.
2. An equitable $7.5 billion
across the-board cut in individual
income taxes also effective in the
fiscal year beginning this July 1
—abandoning the so-called re
forms which have shaken the con
fidence of so many millions of
taxpayers. This would stimulate
saving for investment and con
sumer spending in the private sec
tor as opposed to government
spending.
3. Hold federal spending down
at least to the fiscal 1963 level by
cutting back sharply on low
priority programs.
4. Set as a goal—through re
sultant economic growth and re
straint on spending—a balance
cash budget jn fiscal 1965.
5. After the budget has been
balanced, it would then be possible
to reduce the debt and to finance
essential new or expanded govern
ment programs from rising re
ceipts.
Rockefeller said Kennedy tried
during the first two years of his
administration to pump up pur
chasing power by increased de
ficit spending and that “this pro
gram did not work.”
According to government fig
ures, the suicide rate has risen
only one half of one percentage
point since “the good old days”
of 1900.
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Employment Security
Measure Favored ‘Do Pass'
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JUNEAU Ut) — Bills which
would increase the basic payments
and benefit period under Employ
ment Security were reported out
of the House Labor and Manage
ment Committee Saturday with a
majority recommendation that they
“do pass.”
The measures, HB64 and HB 65,
which were introduced at the re
quest of Gov. Wm. Egan, were sent
to the Finance Committee for fur
ther study.
Recommending passage of HB65,
which would increase basic weekly
benefits from $45 to $50, were
Reps. Gravel, Cashel, .Sanders,
Ditman, Wiggins and Leonard.
Signing “do pass” on HB 64,
which would extend the benefit
period from 26 to 28 weeks, were
Reps. Gravel, Cashel, Sanders,
Ditman and Wiggins.
Committee chairman Bennie
Leonard signed “do not pass” on
HB64.
Two Anchorage Men
Named for Sportswriter
And Sportscaster Award
SALISBURY, N.C. UD — Awards
will go to the sportswriter and
sportscaster of the year in the 50
states and District of Columbia
at the fourth annual National
Sportswriters and Sportscasters
Awards Banquet here April 2.
Highlighting the program will
be the presentation of awards to
the national sportswriter and
sportscaster of the year. The na
tional winners will be announced
on the night of the ceremony.
The state winners, announced
by the Salisbury-Rowan County
Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of
the banquet include:
Alaska — Jack Cross, KTVA
TV, Anchorage; and Bernie Ko
sinski, Daily Times, Anchorage.
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Fairbanks Land Office
P.O. Box 1150
Fairbanks, Alaska
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that William
Herbert Cameron of Nome, Alaska, to
gether with his witnesses W. A. Gla
vinovich and C. S. Glavinovich, both of
Nome, Alaska, has filed Application to
Purchase for his Homesite Settlement
Claim, Fairbanks Serial Number 09181
for lands described as:
Lot 1, U.S. Survey No. 3646, Alaska,
situated along the right bank of the
Nome River approximately 7,000 feet
upstream from the confluence of
Dexter Creek and Nome River con
taining 4.90 acres.
During the period of publication or
within 30 days thereafter any person,
corporation, or association having or as
serting any adverse interest in or claim
to the tract of land or any part thereof
may file in the Fairbanks Land Office,
under oath an adverse claim setting forth
and nature and extent thereof; and such
adverse claimant shall, within 60 days
after the filing of such adverse claim,
begin action to quiet title in a court of
competent jurisdiction in Alaska and
thereafter patent shall be issued in con
formity with the final decree of the
court.
Robert F. Hilton,
Chief, Lands Section
Pub: Jan. 14. 21, 28, Feb. 4. 11, 18,
25, March 4, 11.
AAIA Takes
Sharp Issue With
Interior Dept.
JUNEAU UP> — The Association
of American Indian Affairs took
sharp issue Saturday with a report
of an Interior Department task
force regarding land needs of
Alaska’s Indians, Eskimos and
Aleuts.
A statement issued by William
Byler, executive director of the
association, charged that task force
recommendations seriously jeop
ardize the future welfare of the
natives.
He suggested that the task force
return to Alaska “this time to con
sult with the native people on
what they actually need to sur
vive.”
He particularly criticized a por
tion of the report favoring with
drawal of only “small acreages
in the immediate vicinity of na
tive villages.”
“This would clear the way for
the state to expropriate the native
owned land,” the statement said.
“The Department of the Interior
has chosen to see the Alaska land
question in terms of acreage in
stead of the needs of the people.
“By drastically limiting its
withdrawals to the land imme
diately surrounding the villages,
it fails to guarantee the villagers
with enough land to secure their
livelihood today and in the future.
“As a tacit admission that the
natives cannot possibly survive on
the ‘small acreages’ the task force
favors establishing, but for a
limited time only, the ‘privilege’
of hunting and fishing in the larger
areas to be taken over by the
state.
“By placing a time limit on the
use of these lands, the department
acknowledges what our history has
repeatedly demonstrated—a hunt
ing and fishing economy is doom
ed once the land passes out of
native ownership.”
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