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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 151
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NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1963
Revenue Dept. Fears Excessive Loss j
To State with Approval of Tax Cuts j
JUNEAU UP> — Congressional
approval of the federal income tax
cut bill would result in a loss in
income of $1,828,888 to Alaska in
calendar 1964, the State Depart
ment of Revenue said today.
The estimate, Commissioner R.
D. Stevenson pointed out, is based:
(1) On Congressional approval of
the bill, HR8363, as it is written
now.
(2) An absence of state legisla
tion to maintain the take from
state net income taxes at its pres
ent level.
Alaska’s income taxes are based
on a percentage of the amount an
individual or a corporation pays
in federal income taxes.
The corporate rate is 18 per
cent; the individual rate is 16
per cent.
A cut in federal income taxes
would, thus, automatically result
in a cut in state and income tax
revenues, unless the Legislature
acted to hold state corporate and
individual net income taxes
steady.
steady, regardless of what Con
gress does on the federal level.
Estimating individual net in
come tax revenues of $13.8 mil
lion and corporate income tax
revenues of $2.2 million during
calendar 1964, passage of HR8363
would trim state revenues by
$1,725,000 in individual new in
come taxes and $103,307 in cor
porate taxes, the department said.
For calendar 1965, the loss
would be even greater as further
reductions provided for in HR
8363 went into effect, the Revenue
Department said.
Using the same individual and
corporate net income tax revenue
estimates for calendar 1965 as
were used for calendar 1964, the
total loss would be $2,794,986, in
cluding $2,588,372 in individual
taxes and $206,614 in corporate
income taxes.
NOTICE
As both Christmas and New
Years fall on Wednesday, there
will be no publication on these
holidays. The Nugget will be pub
ished on Tuesday and Friday of
both weeks.
M-K Bid Is Only
Offer Opened for
Teller Road Work
JUNEAU W — Morrison-Knud
sen, Inc., of Seattle, submitted a
lone hid of $3,543,316 yesterday
for construction of the Sinuk
Tisuk section of the Nome-Teller
road on the Seward Peninsula.
Donald A. McKinnon, Commis
sioner of Highways, said three
other companies had apparently
entered bids which were not re
ceived by the 10 a.m. bid. opening
deadline.
The three bids will be opened
only if it is determined after they
are received that they were mailed
in time to reach here by the bid
opening deadline, McKinnon said.
Mail has been held up by inclem
ent weather.
The state estimate on the work
was $3,268,674.
The project involves grading,
drainage and select borrow top
ping on 20.877 miles of roadway
and the construction of bridges
over the Sinuk, Tisuk, Feather
and Bluestone Rivers and Eldo
rado and Gold Run Creeks.
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ROMEO RESCUED FROM ICE FLOE
King Island Eskimo Romauld "Romeo” Katexac, right, prepares to shoulder his
gear for the flight to the mainland in an Air Force rescue helicopter. Assisting
him is Dr. (Capt.) Corden Johnston of the 5010th U.S. Air Force Hospital at
Eielson Air Force Base. The H21 helicopter evacuated Katexac after he had
spent three days on the Bering Sea ice floe. The floe broke away from King Island
Wien Alaska Airlines Inaugurates Its
Fairbanks - Whitehorse - Juneau Run
FAIRBANKS — Starting to- j
day, Wien Alaska Airlines F-27
propjets begin flying the Fair
banks-Whitehorse-Juneau route.
News that the Canadian Air
Transport Board had approved the |
route transfer from Pan Amer- j
ican World Airways to Wien came 1
Wednesday as Pan Am’s DC6B
“Malemute” was flying the route. J
It was the “Malemute’s” last !
flight on the Whitehorse circuit, j
marking the end of 28 years of
service between Interior Alaska,
the Yukon Territory and South
eastern Alaska.
Bud Hagberg, Wien’s vice pres
ident for traffic, reports that the
F-27 will fly to Juneau both on
Friday and Saturday this week be
cause of the holiday rush.
Friday’s flight, marking the in
auguration of scheduled service,
will depart Fairbanks at 2 p.m.,
nonstop to Juneau. Saturday’s
flight will leave at 6:30 a.m.
Thereafter, departures from
Fairbanks will be at 6:30 a.m.
Monday, 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, and
6:30 a.m. Friday.
Hagberg said there is a tem
porary traffic restriction on the
Whitehorse to Juneau leg because
Pan Am had never actually had
tariff authority to carry passen
Drawing for the Beta Sigma Phi
doll will be held at the North Star
on Monday, Dec. 23, at 3 pm.
gers on the Whitehorse-Juneau
run, the Yukon capital being a
provisional stop. Wien expects to
work this matter out in the near
future.
As of Wednesday, however,
Wien does have tariff authority to
carry passengers from Fairbanks
to Whitehorse and between Fair
banks and Juneau.
School Christmas
Program Heard
By Large Audience
“Christmas in Music,” a four
part music concert was well at
tended by an appreciative audi
ence last night in the Multipur
pose Room.
Directed by Stephen McPhetres
and Mrs. Emma Cameron, the one
hour program featured the High
School Band, and choruses from
I the elementary, junior high and
senior high schools. A silver an
gel and star were the background
for the musicians who used risers
on the stage for playing and
singing.
The audience last night filled
every available seat and over
j flowed into the corridors. Morning
and afternoon performances were
j given for school students, and
! over one thousand persons heard
the Christmas music during the
j day and evening.
‘BIA Bureaucrats Meddling With
Balance of Nature’ Say Sportsmen
ANCHORAGE (AP) — Representatives of three sportsmen's
groups have asked Gov. William A. Egan to intercede to halt the
poisoning of wolves in the Kotzebue area.
A telegram asking action by the Chief Executive was sent
after a meeting here of guides, trophy hunter groups and other
outdoorsmen urged court suit if •
necessary to end poisoning as a
predator control method.
The sportsmen said disastrous
results had occurred from past
poisoning efforts. The new drive i
to control wolves with poison was ;
undertaken by the U.S. Fish and j
Wildlife Service, at the request of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The sportsmen’s demands were
triggered by a campaign to eradi
cate wolves believed to be preying
on reindeer herds in the Kotzebue
area.
Ward Gay, President of the
Alaska Guides and Outfitters As
sociation said the control program
was non-selective. He said setting
out poison baits also killed birds
and meat-eating animals other
than wolves.
Strychnine was used in the Kot
zebue area, and an estimated 30
wolves have fallen victim to the
poison.
Don Sheldon, Talkeetna guide
and bush pilot who called the
meeting of sportsmen here, said
poisoning upset the balance of
nature.
He contended BIA officials
“don’t know what they’re doing.
They’re destroying the livelihood
of people who trap for a living,
the people they’re supposed to
help.
“It’s murder. I'm entirely against
it,” said Bob Reeve, president of
Reeve Aleutians Airways and an
executive board member of the
Boone and Crockett Club.
He called the poisoning program
the “most unjustified thing in re
cent years.”
Frank Cook, president of the
Aaska Big Game Trophy Club,
condemned the poisoning. There
are too many other ways to bring
about control,” he said.
In Juneau, Governor Egan said
he had received the telegram and
that it was under study.
Egan said he had been advised
10 days ago by State Rep. Jacob
Stalker, D-Kotzebue, that the
poisoning project, requested of the
BIA by residents of the Kotzebue
area, was being conducted in an
orderly, controlled manner.
» The Harpoon a
Hot Scoop — Mandeville
can be talked into selling
the Anchor Bar.