House Passes Hunting and Fishin
Subsistence License for Persons Whose
Gross Income Is Less Than $3,600 a Year
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JUNEAU — The House de
bated for nearly an hour Satur
day before passing a bill which
would prohibit hunting and fish
ing on a subsistence license simply
on the basis of historic dependence.
The bill, a Resources Committee
substitute for HB52, would per
mit only those persons who have
obtained federal or state welfare
assistance during the past six
months, or had a family gross in- :
come of less than $3,600 the pre
ceding year to be eligible for the :
25-cent subsistence license.
It would also change the pre
sent law to permit all dependent
members of a family to hunt and
fish under a subsistence license,
rather than just the head of the j
family.
Passage came on a vote of 33-1
after the House tabled an amend
ment which would have restored
that portion of the law which per
mits all of those who have been
dependent historically on fish and
game for subsistence to use the
subsistence license.
As the amendment read, it
would have ruled out those per
sons with incomes of less than
$3,600 who did not have historic
rights.
“I don’t think this measure
simply involves aboriginal rights,
Rep. John Rader said in speaking
against the amendment. “I think
it should apply to everyone.
“If a family goes out in the
bush to try and make its own way,
they should be just as entitled to
hunt on a subsistence license as
anyone else.
“But if they haven’t historically
hunted and fished before, under
the amendment they couldn’t do
it. Anyone who had, could.
“I think it would have a re
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Resources Committee chairman
Jay Hammond said the bill was de
signed to “close the door on people
who are making well over $3,600
a year and still are buying the
two-bit license.
“Almost everyone in Alaska, at
one time or the other, might be |
considered historically dependent
on hunting and fishing,” he added.
“That would include me, per
sonally.”
Rep. Robert Blodgett, who with
three other members of the Ice
Bloc, introduced the amendment
which was tabled argued:
“Alaska is still in a transitional
period of cultural conflicts. I
think we would do injustice if we
enact any legislation which might
infringe upon aboriginal rights.”
Dog Race News
A number of phone calls have
been received regarding the Sno
Traveler Race. The trail has not
yet been laid out nor the number
of laps. This trail will be laid
out on smooth going to accommo
date the lady drivers. “With
Grannie Harwood at the wheel
most anything can happen,” states <
chairman Tom Martin.
Martha Craft still won’t com
mit herself, she says a woman
“with my experience can hardly
compete against these small town
drivers.”
It doesn’t have to be a husband
and wife team, just remember it’s
the total elapsed time of the two
days that wins the money. This
race is open to any person having
a machine of this type regardless
of trade name. The owner does
not have to operate his own ma
chine and we expect a few heavy
weights will have substitute
drivers.
Race headquarters will be as fol
lows, so be sure you pay your
entry fee early.
Kid’s Race — Entry fee $1.00,
M’Lord & Lady’s Shop.
Dog Race — Entry fee $20.00,
Nome Hardware.
Sno-Traveler Race — Entry fee
$20.00, Morgan & Son.
The prizes for the 1964 Dog
Race contest will be $500 in mer
chandise, same as last year. The
tickets will soon be on sale, “so
dig down into your pockets,” says
Tom Martin. “We need a total of
$2,500 to cover this year’s races
and only thru the help of the
people and business houses can we
hope to raise this money. Any
money given to the Arctic Club is
spent on these yearly races. Not
one cent goes into the building or
the Arctic Club proper as the
members themselves must support
the club.”
Every blessing brings a prob
lem. Example: The United States
has about two-thirds of the world’s
motor vehicles — but only about
one-sixteenth of the world’s land
space in which to park them.
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A or way Slaps U.S.
For Segregation of
Fast Germans at
Anchorage Airport
WASHINGTON UP) — Norway’s i
biggest afternoon newspaper, the I
Liberal Dagbladet, devoted its
main editorial Saturday to a scath
ing attack on the United States
because East German skaters re
turning from the world speed
skating championships in Japan
were segregated in Anchorage,
Alaska.
“Here, the returning skaters had
the fantastic experience that while
participants from all other na
tions spent their waiting time in
a big and qompfortable transit hall
at the airport, the East Germans '
were kept in a small room on the |
airfield itself,” the paper said.
Keifer Gray, district director ,
for Immigration and Naturaliza
tion at Anchorage, expressed sur
prise when informed of the Dag
aladet editorial.
He said the East Germans were
segregated because they lacked ,
proper papers. ,
None of the persons involved
complained, he said.
He said the East German skaters ,
lad been handled no differently
:han nationals of other Commu
nist countries, who regularly come
;hrough Anchorage without proper
iocuments.
The East Germans were allowed ]
;o enter the International Lounge, •
vhich he described as by no means ,
small, where they rested and re
ceived refreshments. They were
not allowed to roam the airport
and terminal, however, on orders
from Immigration authorities in
Washington.
Gray said the plane taking the |
East Germans to Tokyo encounter- ]
ed mechanical trouble and during
its nine-hour stopover in Anchor
age the skaters were given places
to sleep in the lounge. Many other
passengers had no place to lie
down, Gray said.
“No better way of strengthen
ing the ideas of the Communists
could have been devised. If they
(the East Germans) were not con
vinced that the great power across
the sea is hostile in inhuman de
gree, they would have to believe
it after this,” the paper said.
“They suffered no physical
harm. But the demonstration seem
ed so useless, so motiveless, re
gardless of whether there is a wall
in Berlin,” Dagbladet added.
“The idea could only be to de
monstrate dislike for the East
German regime by inconvenienc
ing East German skaters who had
to make a stopover at an Ameri
can airport.”
“This method is not worthy of a
democratic country.
“It was also very unsportsman
like done by the Americans after
the United States had participated
side-by-side with East Germany
in Japan,” Dagbladet said.
It was Israel Zangwill who ob
served: “A man likes his wife to
be just clever enough to compre
hend his cleverness, and just stupid
enough to admire it.”
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deduct, what you can't and whe
ther to itemize deductions or take
the standard 10 per cent in lieu
of them.
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WASHINGTON W — The do
it-yourself way of deducting ex
penses saves many people money
in making out their 1962 income
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They’re the one who itemize their
deductions, to claim them in full,
instead of accepting the standard
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all taxpayers.
The under-$5,000 income people
who don’t itemize but find their
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a limit of $500.
People figuring their own tax,
without itemizing, subtract 10 per
cent of their income up to a limit
of $1,000, before what’s left is
taxable.
But if your deductible expenses
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limit, you’ll lose by not itemizing
to claim them fully. You use form
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to round up, covers many kinds of
deductions.
But it covers such a vast field
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Red Cross, Heart, Cancer and
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—but not dues—to the YMCA,
YWCA, YMHA, and American
Legion.
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cent is allowed if one-third of your
contributions (10 per cent of ad
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by no federal taxes, personal ,
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registration fees, poll taxes and
most retail sales taxes, and delin
quent taxes.
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able deduction for sales taxes in
various states. Get it from your
nearest IRS office.
If you’re retired, or are 65 or
older, you may be entitled to a
credit against your tax for a per
i centage of your retirement income.
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dues in professional societies, ali
mony payments by the person
making them, fees to employment
agencies, club dues if they are
j needed for business reasons and
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; of them which exceed 3 per cent
of your adjusted gross income. If
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worrying whether it exceeds 3 per
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j if it was to help to improve you
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; your job. You can’t deduct if the
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by excluding items like sick pay
| subtracting dividend credits.
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