Anchorage Chamber Wants
Tax Equity Board Formed
JUNEAU up) — Tlie Greater An
1' !,,!,l^e Chamber <>f Commerce
proposed today that the 1964 Legis
lature create a tax equity board
to resolve any complications result
ing from changes in the state tax
structure.
1 he Greater Anchorage Cham
ber s proposal was submitted to
the Legislative Council after it had
adjourned a public hearing on busi
ness taxation in Alaska.
The Greater Anchorage Chamber
said it recognized that to “equit
ably resolve the complications and
far-reaching effect of any chang s
in our present state tax structure
and its governmental units would
be most difficult and time-con
suming, particularly in view of the
limited time available to the State
legislative session this year as well
as to individuals involved in the
current hearings.
“Therefore, the Greater Anchor
age Chamber of Commerce would
respectively request your consid
eration for the establishment of a
tax equity board to be imple
mented by the State Legislature
during the coming session.
‘‘By adopting this plan, it is
felt that sufficient preparation can
be made to face the mutual prob
lem with optimism for solution.”
INVITATION FOR BIDS
Sale of Building
located at Haycock, Alaska
Sealed bids in single copy will be re
ceived by the Commissioner, Richard
A. Downing, Department of Public
Works. P. O. Box 1361, Juneau, Alaska,
until 10:00 a.m., PST, October 31, 1963,
and then publicly opened for the Sale,
Removal and Clean-up of the premises
for the following building located at
Haycock:
School Building Wood Frame Con
struction. Dimensions 1260 square feet.
Complete Sale Specifications may be
obtained upon request by writing to
the Director, Division of Buildings, De
partment o« Public Works, P. O. Box
1511, Juneau, Alaska.
The State of Alaska reserves the right
to reject any and all bids and to waive
anv informalitv in bidding procedures.
RICHARD A. DOWNING,
Commissioner
Department of Public Works
State of Alaska
Oct. 16 and 18, 1963
Pub.:
INVITATION FOR BIDS
Sale of Buildings
Located at Kougarok, Alaska
Sealed bids in single copy will be re
ceived by the Commissioner, Richard A.
Downing, Department of Public Works,
P. O. Box 1361, Juneau, Alaska, until
10:00 a.m.. PST, October 24, 1963, and
then publicly opened for the Sale, Re
moval and Clean-up of the premises for
the following buildings located at Kou
garok.
Quonset Bldg. No. 272-140-401, B.P.R.
No. 428 Dimensions 12’ X 20’
Quonset Bldg. No. 272-140-402, B.P.R.
No. 427 Dimensions 12’ X 20’
Quonset Bldg. No. 272-140-703, B.P.R.
No. 426 Dimensions 18’ X 20’
Complete Sale Specifications may be
obtained upon request by writing to the
Director, Division of Buildings, Depart
ment of Public Works, P. O. Box 1511,
Juneau, Alaska.
The State of Alaska reserves the right
to reject any and all bids and to waive
any informality in bidding procedure.
RICHARD A. DOWNING, Commissioner
Department of Public Works
State of Alaska
Pub. Oct. 9, 16, 1963.
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Nomerama Patrons Gets
Kicks with Live Combo
The usual Tuesday night movie
was canceled, and Nomerama pa
trons enjoyed a program of Live
music, presented by the “Louie
Green Combo.’’ These boys make
“great” music either for listening
or dancing. Louie Green on gui
tar and vocal, Peanuts Fitch banjo
and vocal, and Harris Nothstine on
guitar. The program had variety
and aside from playing requests
from the audience, they invited the
local talent to join in.
Those who “got in the act” had
fun as well as furnishing enter
tainment for the crowd.
Dewey Otton proved to be a
“real swinger” on the guitar, and
with Guy Martin on the drums gave
several fine performances.
The twisters and limbo artists
were busy, with Clifford Oguillak
and Rheuben Attatayuk taking star
billing.
If you have a yen to go on the
stage, and have talent that is going
to waste. Louie Green asks that
you check with him for some fu
ture Tuesday night at the Nome
rama.
Goldwater Blasts Kennedy
In President’s Home State
BOSTON OP — Republican Sen.
Barry Goldwater of Arizona in
vaded President Kennedy’s home
state of Massachusetts today and
charged that the President has
locked even conservative Demo
crats in what Goldwater termed
a madhouse of massive spending
programs.
The Arizona Senator says in a
speech for a Boston meeting of the
Republican Finance Committee
that the only solution to the situa
tion is a Republican victory in
1964.
Goldwater says — "Even the
liberals have to recognize that
what we have now in Washington
is a would-be king and a want-to
be dynasty, not a President and
a party.”
The Arizona Senator goes on to
accuse the President of what he
calls "baldfaced deception in for
eign policy” and ‘‘election expe
diency rather than economic real
ity” at home.
Unwanted Cabins Ordered
Ousted from Public Lands
JUNEAU W> — The US. Forest
Service said today it had ordered
the immediate removal of several
unauthorized cabins constructed
on land under joint State-Federal
jurisdiction in the Stikine and
Yakutat areas.
Regional Forester P. D. Manson
said the cabins involved, primarily
hunting shacks, were constructed
without the permission of the State
and Federal governments.
Manson said the State and Fed
eral governments have agreed that
lands in the Stikine and Yaku
tt areas be set aside for wildlife,
with no cabins to be constructed
unless the State and Federal gov
ernments are in agreement that
permission to construct a cabin
should be granted.
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Rivers Asks While
House Help to Oust
Russian Fishermen
JUNEAU — Rep. Ralph Riv
ers has urged President Kennedy
to lend strong personal support to
a bill designed to prevent foreign
fishermen from operating in U S.
territorial waters.
The measure, passed by the Sen
ate and nearly identical to two
other bills introduced originally
in the House, prescribes penalties,
including fines and confiscation
of boats, for such foreign of
fenders.
Rivers, in a letter to Kennedy
dated Oct. 14, said the legislation
is needed to fill a void in federal
law with respect to violations of
U.S territorial waters by foreign
vessels.
With its undefined refei'ence to
“territorial waters,’’ Rivers said,
the bill leaves the door open for
executive action extending U.S.
jurisdiction over coastal waters
to 12 miles, instead of only three.
Rivers told the President there
had been numerous incidents dur
ing the past summer in which Rus
sian and Japanese vessels have
engaged in fishing activities within
U.S. territorial waters and had ex
ploited the resources of the U.S.
Continental shelf, both on the At
lantic and Pacific coasts
“In addition to trawling for
king crab in international waters
near Kodiak Island,” Rivers said,
“Russians navigating fleets of mod
ern fast vessels have ruthlessly
moved through waters already oc
cupied by Alaska firshermen and
deliberately damaged or destroyed
their gear, consisting of carb pots
marked with buoys.
"This, of course, has created an
explosive situation leading to the
depletion of the great Alaska king
crab fishery upon our Continental
shelf, concurrently with driving
Alaskans from one of their tradi
tional fishing grounds and thereby
— unless brought to a stop — ruin
ing their means of earning a live
lihood.”
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Tom Balone, Floyd Bush. Robert
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Wilke, Jens Forshaug, Donald
Spangy, Jimmie Owens, Glenn
Walker, W. D. Branson.
For Fairbanks — Dale Dahl. J.
D. Berry, Ken Hatch. Ned Lowry,
Doug Craft, William Priest, Or
lando Gergerson, Mi kil t'd Foster,
Clair Martin, Bob Potter.
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Alien Ways Peril Eskimo Culture
! (From the New York Times)
By WALTER SULLIVAN
Although the Eskimo has been
to the world a model of industry,
fortitude and ingenuity, the prog
nosis for survival of his culture is
poor.
This was the view expressed by
a number of Arctic specialists who
recently took part in a symposium
organized in Montreal by McGill
University and the Arctic Insti
tute of North America.
Dr. Jacques Rousseau, a leading
authority on the North, cited
changes that have already taken
place in the Far North. In a voice
charged with shock and indigna
tion he said:
“I am told there is a jail at
Frobisher Bay, filled all the time
with drunks and other offenders.”
Frobisher Bay is on Baffin Is
land. deep within the realm of the
Eskimo, until a ew years ago. jails
were unknown at such outposts.
Other speakers told of drunk
enness, minor crime, juvenile de
linquency and even prostitution
springing up from Alaska, across
the Arctic to Greenland. The Es
kimos were depicted as fighting
an almost hopeless battle against
the northward march of the white
man’s civilization.
Dr. Rousseau, who has devoted
much of his life to studying the
plants and people of northern
Quebec, said with passion:
‘‘I hope we will not have to de
plore the cultural genocide of the
Eskimo people.”
What emerged from the sympo
sium was a picture of life in ines
capable confrontation with the way
of the white man.
Tribute was paid to the walrus
hunter and igloo builder, a jovial
companion on the blizzard-swept
trail. But it was felt his way could
not survive in an age of jet planes,
television and air conditioning. We
cannot, said Dr. Rousseau, put the
Eskimo in a “zoological preserve.”
Dr. Jacob Fried, anthropologist
at McGill University, and others
told how white men who went
north once lived off the land like
the natives and hence were close
to them. They tended to remain
there many years .if not for a life
time, as trappers or pioneers.
Now the white man brings the
environment with him. serves out
his contracted tour of duty at a
radar site, mine, or native settle
ment, then returns to his native
habitat in the south.
The early-warning radar sites,
with their taped television shows, i
stateside menus and synthetic cli- i
mate are an extreme example of
the ‘‘canned urbanism” transported <
to the North. ,
One speaker told of meeting a i
man at such a site who had been
;here six months. “He went for a I
valk the first day, but apparently
Jie weather was not to his liking -
md he had not been out since.”
Thus the gulf between the Eski
no and his new neighbors has
frown to vast dimensions. Accord
ng to Margaret Lantis, United
states anthropologist, Alaskan Es
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kimos have traditionally been their
own bosses. Now they are trying
to fit into a complex civilization
where they work fixed hours, earn
wages and have to become 'good
consumers.”
Many, unfortunately, have only
learned to consume alcoholic bev
erages. This problem, however, is
limited chiefly to larger settle
ments populated by hundreds that
are economically tied to the out
side world. Many other Eskimos
still live in remote, family-sized
communities, much like their an
cestors.
The Eskimos have never been
numerous. The Canadian Eskimo
“working force” of males between
15 and 35 years of age is estimated
at less than 2,000. Hence they are
highly vulnerable to absorption by
other races.
Dr. Helge Larsen, head of the
Department of Ethnology at the
Danish National Museum and a
veteran of eight field seasons in
Greenland, said that there were
practically no more Eskimos left in
the ice-covered land.
They consider themselves
“Greenlanders,” he said, although
they still speak their own brand
of Eskimo and only 5 per cent
speak Danish. While drunkenness
and minor crimes have been a
problem, the rate, he said, has de
clined in the last few years.
There was wide agreement that
the inability of many officials to
speak Eskimo made it even more
difficult for the inhabitants to live
by a code they did not understand
and was not of their own making.
One of the chief manifestations
of the gulf between the Eskimos
and their administrators has cen
tered on the Dog Ordinance, which
requires Eskimos to keep their
huskies tethered.
Dr. Frank G. Valee, a sociologist
of McMaster University in Ham
ilton, Ont., who has been living at
Povungnituk on the northeast shore
of Hudson Bay, told of efforts to
curb an outbreak of rabies in that
region. Not until the Eskimos were
told that any loose dogs would be
shot did they tether dogs, and then
anlv with considerable resentment.
It was evident, Dr. Vallee said,
that the Eskimos did not accept
the white man's concept of conta
gion. It was not until later that
he Eskimo concept became known
to the administrators, namely that
there is a fixed amount of disease
n the environment.
According to this theory, Dr.
Sallee said, “If the dogs are sick,
he people are not sick.” Unfor
tunately, he added, after the dogs
were tethered, influenza broke
>ut among the Eskimos, which did
lot help persuade them that their
heory was wrong.
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