122 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 10
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1963
Per Copy 150
Corporations May
Pay More Taxes
In 1st Year of Cut
WASHINGTON — Corpora
tions might find themselves paying
more taxes instead of less under
the first full year of President Ken
nedy’s proposed tax reduction pro
gram, it was learned today.
Well-posted sources reported also
that Kennedy plans to call for a
sharp curtailment of the personal
deductions claimed by millions of
taxpayers for charity, interest,
local taxes and casualty losses.
In a 9,000-word special message
to Congress tomorrow, the Presi
dent will reveal the details of the
proposed three-year tax package
which would cut corporate and
individual income tax rates by
$13.5 billion but would partly off
set these reductions by $3.5 billion
of revenue-raising revisions.
The message will urge early tax
relief—next July 1—for individuals
and small businesses. For corpora
tions generally, it will propose a
two-stage reduction starting next
Jan. 1 to reduce the corporation
rates from 52 to 47 per cent in
annual steps.
In the event Congress goes along
with the whole Kennedy plan—
an unlikely prospect, in the opinion
of many members of Congress—
the corporations would not re
ceive a full benefit of their $2.5
billion rate reductions until 1969.
The reason is Kennedy’s proposal
that corporation tax payments,
now due six months after the quar
ter in which the income was earn
ed, be speeded up sufficiently over
a period of years to bring the tax
collections to a current basis.
This would increase total cor
poration taxes by $1.5 billion an
nually in 1964, while the rate re
ductions were saving about $1.25
billion.
In 1965, when the second step of
the corporate tax cut takes effect,
the net tax savings would be
roughly $1 billion, experts esti
mate. Not until the 5th year, 1969,
would the full relief be felt.
For consumers, the benefits
would be quick and substantial,
even though the $11 billion cut
proposed in individual income
taxes would be reduced to about
$8 billion because of changes in
tended to close what the Treasury
calls tax loopholes.
Nanooks Will Host
St. Mary’s Knights
This Weekend
Coach Pat Dubb’s St. Mary’s
Knights will arrive here from St.
Mary’s Friday afternoon for a
brace of basketball games with the
local Nome High hoopsters. The
interscholastic games are slated for
Friday and Saturday nights as the
second feature of the evening’s
contests.
Allen’s Flying Service of Bethel
will fly eight players and their
coach from the Yukon River school
to Nome, and return them home
Sunday.
St. Mary’s whipped Bethel High
earlier in the season 61-62, and
47-13 at Bethel. Little else is
• known of the strength of the
Knights who consistently field a
highly respected team. The Knights
lack the height of the Nanooks,
but are adept at ball handling and
floor tactics.
Bleachers are being set up on
the gym stage to accommodate
more spectators for the Friday and
Saturday interscholastic tussles.
Eskimo and Indian
Dancers Will Be Feature
Attraction at Inauguration
JUNEAU — A pageant fea
turing Eskimo and Indian dancers,
bands, choral groups and a re
enactment of the “Shooting of Dan
McGrew” have been scheduled as
part of inauguration ceremonies
here Saturday.
The pageant will be presented in
the auditorium of the Juneau-Doug
las High School twice Saturday,
from 12 noon until 1:30 p.m. and
from 3 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.
From Kotzebue will come 12
Eskimo dancers, Yakutat is send
ing 27 native dancers and the
award-winning Chilkat dancers of
Haines-Port Chilkoot will also per
form.
Musical groups scheduled to per
form include a 14-piece brass sec
tion from the University of Alaska,
a 30-piece Army band from Ft.
Wainwright and a 30-member
choral group from the Alaska Air
Command, Elmendorf Air Force
Base.
The re-enactment of Robert
Service’s poem about the legend
ary Dan McGrew will be presented
by a group of Skagway residents.
The pageant will be presented
free as part of ceremonies planned
for the formal inauguration of Gov.
Wm. Egan and Secretary of State
Hugh Wade.
U.S. Asks Soviets
To Discuss Crab
Gear Destruction
WASHINGTON UP) -r The State
Department asked the Soviet gov
ernment today for a meeting to
discuss ways to prevent destruc
tion of United States crab fishing
gear by Russian trawlers off the
Alaska coast, Sen. E. L. Bartlett
said.
The request, in a note delivered
to the Russian Embassy, is for a
meeting of U.S. and Soviet repre
sentatives in Tokyo next month.
Bartlett said the talks would be
on problems of Kodiak crab fisher
men who have complained about
Russian trawlers damaging their
gear in Alaska waters.
The note, Bartlett said, also asked
that captains of Russian trawlers
be instructed to avoid areas near
Kodiak where U.S. fishermen are
operating.
In October, he added, it was
understood Russian captains were
told to exercise caution in areas
where American crab gear is in
stalled. However, in November the
crab gear of the fishing vessel
Oceanic was destroyed, Bartlett
said.
He added although the vessel
doing the damage could not be
identified because of darkness, it
might have been a Soviet trawler
because of the size of the ship
sighted passing through the crab
ing area.
Scientists Uncover PreHisioric
Man-Made Stone Scraper
LAS VEGAS, Nev. UP> — Sci
entists announced yesterday the
discovery of a man-made stone
scraper in earth strata known to
be 11,000 years old.
Dr. Richard Shutler, curator of
anthropology at the Nevada State
Museum and leader of the excava
tion team, said the discovery was
made at Tule Springs in an exca
vation 10 feet deep.
He said the quartz rock scraper
was used by pre-historic man as a
tool, probably to scrape animal
hides.
Malaspina Due In
Ketchikan Tonight
ABOARD THE MALASPINA
ENROUTE TO ALASKA UR — The
Malaspina performed wonderfully
and Gov. Wm. Egan felt “lousy”
as the shiny new Alaska ferry
stepped up her speed today.
At 10 a.m. the glistening blue
and-gold Malaspina was cutting
through Wright Sound at 20 knots
a little more than 150 miles south
of Ketchikan. Seas were calm and
the sky misty.
The higher speed, increased from
an average 17 knots maintained
through the night, may put the
Malaspina into Ketchikan a little
earlier than estimated.
The remainder of the schedule,
calling for arrival at Juneau at
6 p.m. tomorrow after bypassing
Sitka, is unchanged. Sitka had to
be eliminated from the inaugural
run because a 13-hour delay in
sailing from Seattle yesterday
threw original plans out of kilter.
Egan, one of the dignitaries
aboard, came down with the flu
yesterday and has been suffering
from a slight fever and recurring
chills.
Richard Downing, Alaska Com
missioner of Public Works, said the
Governor “feels lousy.” But Egan
did not think this illness would
disrupt his plans to leave the ferry
at Ketchikan and fly to Juneau.
The day is producing a sight
that has to be seen to be believed.
With only part of the crew
aboard, the Malaspina is too short
handed for the spit-and-polish
planned to get her shipshape for
the arrival at Ketchikan, the first
port of call.
So the newspaper, radio, maga
zine and business guests making
the cruise offered to swab the
decks before she docks.
The 352-foot Malaspina, first of
three sister ships for Alaska’s new
ferry fleet, churned through mist
and drizzle today in the calm, pro
tected waters of the Inside Passage.
She crossed Jueen Charlotte
Sound during the night and rode
through so smoothly that on one
was awakened.
Earlier, the Malaspina hit a
speed of 27 knots in Seymour Nar
rows, aided by a 9-knot tide.
During the day, colored pennants
will be hoisted so the sleek vessel
will be wearing her best finery
for the Ketchikan arrival.
After a two-hour stopover there,
she will leave for Wrangell. Then
she will put in at Petersburg brief
ly and head straight for Juneau.
WOULD OUTLAW
SHORTS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
CONCORD, N.H. UPt — A bill
outlawing the display of feminine
legs more than one inch above
the knee was filed in the legisla
ture yesterday.
Rep. Peter Charland, a 75-year
old grandfather, said he filed the
measure because he has “long been
disgusted seeing women, some even
expectant mothers, cluttering shop
ping centers in shorts.”
Charland said his bill would not
apply to persons “properly at
tired” for bathing or athletics, but
“if a woman hasn’t got modesty
enough to look decent in public,
then we should put her in a cage
with the other animals.”
B-r-r-r-r-r-r
BAMBERG, Germany UPl —
Grave diggers have been unable
for several days to break the fro
zen ground with their picks and
shovels. The town council appro
priated $550 to buy them a pneu
matic drill.
James Meredith Bids
Adieu to “Old Miss”
OXFORD, Miss. UPl — James
Meredith bid adieu to the Univer
sity of Mississippi last night.
Whether he will return next se
mester remains a mystery.
Behind the wheel of a cantanker
ous car and amid the laughter and
wisecracks of fellow students, the
29-year-old Negro who shattered
the university’s segregation bar
rier departed for a vacation.
Meredith’s departure contrasted
sharply with his arrival at Mis
sissippi last September. His pre
scence led to bloody rioting, follow
ed by the armed protection at one
time of 17,000 federal troops and
hundreds of U.S. Marshals.
Laughter and joking from stu
dents filled the air when Mere
dith’s 1952 car wouldn’t start. He
was delayed more than an hour
while various persons tried to start
the car. Finally, newsmen, fed
eral marshals and others shoved
it away from the curb and another
car pushed it until it started.
Even Meredith seemed wryly
amused. “Isn’t this something?” ne
quipped to newsmen.
ARA Conference Slated
In Anchorage Next Month
JUNEAU UP) — A two-day con
ference has been scheduled in An
chorage by the Area Redevelop
ment Administration next month
to deal with the economic develop
ment of Alaska’s election districts,
the ARA announced yesterday.
Field coordinator Tom Bichse]
said representatives of federal,
state and private agencies dealing
with economic development will be
invited to attend the meeting Feb.
25-26.
The agenda and list of speakers
will be announced later, he said.
Dist. 18 Meeting Feb. 27
District No. 18, Area Redevelop
ment Assn, will hold its annual
meeting at Nome on Feb. 27. Time
and place will be announced later,
stated the secretary, Mrs. Tom
Johnson.
Michigan Woman
Continues Survival Test
CLARE, Mich. W — The tem
perature dropped to three below
zero today as Mrs. Lavina Rada
baugh continued her “survival
test” in the woods of Clare County.
The housewife has camped in
the wilderness since Friday when
she carried a 75-pound pack con
taining a shotgun and fishing and
camping gear into the center of
Michigan’s lower peninsula for an
eight-day stay.
A county sheriff’s officer said
today Mrs. Radabaugh, 47, from
the Detroit suburb of Wayne, is
taking the campout “smoothly.”
She’ll win $150 from the Clare
Chamber of Commerce if she stays
until Saturday. The Chamber is
helping to promote area winter
sports advantages. A plane period
ically checks Mrs. Radabaugh.
Love Me Tender! . . .
EDGEWOOD, Tex. W — Mrs.
C. C. Estes wanted her husband
to be extra presentable at a gather
ing of her family, so she laced his
bath water with what she called
“some good smelling stuff.”
Estes related that he got in the
tub and relaxed only momentarily.
“I began to burn and turn red,”
he said.
The bottle of “sweet smelling
stuff’ was meat tenderizer.
Here’s The Reason
For All This
Mixed Up Weather
CHICAGO UPi — Air circulation
may not be an ear-perking conver
sational tidbit but it’s having a
jolting impact this winter on mil
lions of residents of the United
States, the British Isles and West
ern Europe.
The circulation of the upper air
has determined the targets in a
series of global blows struck by
a winter which, although only one
third completed, has been the most
vicious in years.
A steady procession of cold waves
has rolled down into the central
United States, spreading freezing
weather into the crop growing areas
of the deep south and southern
California.
Western Europe and the British
Isles have had 33 consecutive days
of freezing weather. The severe
cold has filled hospitals with
stricken patients and produced
fuel and food shortages in many
places.
The story has been different in
Alaska. Temperatures in that nor
mal ice-box region have been
running well below zero and often
above the freezing mark.
Why the topsy-turvey pattern?
Weather forebasters explain
that there always is an inexhausti
ble supply of cold air over the
Arctic region in the winter. It
either stays there or is moved
somewhere else by air currents.
If it moves away, more builds up
rapidly in the region where there
is much snow and little or no sun
light.
A ridge of high pressure air
stalled off the west coast has
caused the severe weather affect
ing most areas of the United
States.
Air has circulated from north
to southeast of this ridge spread
ing Polar air across much of the
United States and Canada. A south
to north air flow west of the ridge
has been carrying warm air up the
Pacific Ocean and into Alaska, dis
placing the cold air there.
The west coast’s high pressure
ridge shows no sign of moving on
and the long range weather fore
cast through Feb. 15 calls for be
low normal temperatures in most
of the northern two-thirds of the
United States.
Nor is there any sign of a letup
in the severe cold caused by north
to south air flow over Western
Europe.
The speed of air circulation also
determines the intensity of the
cold. The circulation has been un
usually strong over the United
States this winter.
People of Nome
Vote “Yes” for
Sewage and Water
The people of Nome voted yes
terday for a major improvement
supporting the revenue bonding
issue on sewage and water with
a vote of 424 in favor and 69
against the measure.
It is expected that the project,
which will provide the most popu
lated areas of the city with sewers
and year-round water supply from
new wells, will get underway in
the early spring and be put to use
by January 1964.
The voters approved the bond
ing of the city for the sum of
$475,000, which is the city’s share
for a million dollar system with
the balance to come from matching
federal funds and public grants.