SENATE FOR
5-CENT TAX
ON CIGARETS
(Continued fr :n bage One)
tional funds for school needs should
be found by more painless" means,
Barr responded:
“There is no less painful method.”
As one of the smoking members
of the Senate, W. L. <Dan) Lhamon
(R-Fairbanks) added, "I don t ob
ject to it. It’s a form of luxury tax.
Most smokers don’t mind."
Nolan, a drugstore operator at
Wrangell, challenged tha point. He
cited the tax collections he has to
make in his business, and adric'’.: T
have heard plenty of objections.”
He also suggested there was a
prospect of a new 3-cent-a-pack
Federal tax.
Senator Garnick, who is in the
grocery bu -mess, warned that tne
price would have to be advanced by
retailers because the wholesale
prices had gone up twice since 1349,
with merchants absorbing it.
She said thp additional 2 cents a
pack would bring the total cost to
the retailer to SI.98 a carton—which
is a bare 2 cents short of 20 cents
a pack.
Other Bills Passed
The Senate also passed two other
bills this morning.
One would reimburse the Veter
ans Affairs Department for $9,469
spent for audits. The other, passed
14 to 1, is for a deficiency appropria
tion of $233,090 for the present bien
nium.
Most of it, $198,000 is for hair seal
bounties, Nolan pointed out some
“startling changes” by divisions in
payment of the bounties since they
were approved by the 1949 legisla
ture for the Bering Sea region.
Engstrom asked Treasurer Henry
Roden if the extension of the boun
ty region to the non-salmon produc
ing far north, when it was intended
as a salmon protective measure, was
responsible for the big increase.
"It is solely responsible,” Roden
replied.
Nolan said $120,000 of the bounty
payment deficiency is for that re
gion, where most of the hunting is
done by Eskimos.
A bill was introduced in the House
today to eliminate the Bering Seif
area from the bounty payments on
h^'r seals It would make the north
side of Bristol Bay the northern
limit. It also would drop the boun
ty to $4 from the present $6.
The $198,000 bill is above the
$100,000 appropriation made by the
1949 legislature for tl 1 seal boun
ties.
Saturday Afternoon
The Senate completed legislative
approval Saturday afternoon on
House bills for removal of the gov
ernor from the Alaska Development
Board and the Board of Health.
They were the first of 10 House
bills for removal of the governor
from numerous boards, as he recom
mended in his message, to run the
full legislative course. They now
head for the governor’s desk.
The Senate passed one other
minor bill and a memorial and spent
an hour in the long Saturday session
in a heated hearing over the con
troversial 40-hour week section oi
the House-approved wage-hour bill
The hearing on the measure was
to continue this afternoon, with
labor and industry witnesses ex
pected to appear.
The Senate also completed legis
lative approval of a memorial by
Rep. Jack Scavenius (D-Anchor
age) for a Seldovia-Kasitna Bay
road and a ferry from the bay tc
Homer for a link with the Alaska
highway system.
The Saturday afternoon witness
against Rep. C. C. Carlson’s wage
hour bill was A1 Anderson, secre
tary of the Alaska Miners’ Associa
tion.
The controversial section is the
provision for overtime after eight
hours in any day or 40 hours in
any week.
Anaerson aeciarea tne tmpiica- ■
tions of the bill are far-reaching.
It affects every phase of economic
life in the Territory."
Sen. Steve McCutcheon chal
lenged Anderson’s testimony about
anything but the bill’s effect on
the mining industry, but Sen. How
ard Lyng insisted that the witness
be allowed to discuss the full ef
fects of the proposed law.
“It would do a certain amount of
damage to the mining industry,”
Anderson declared, “but mainly it
would revolutionize the labor situa
tion in the Territory.”
He said most of the mining in
dustry already pays time and a half
after 40 hours, so that it would not
not be affected as much as other
businesses.
He said it would apply to all man
ner of businesses and institutions in
the Territory, including many that
now have no employer-employe
problems.
He said it would require Terri
torial Department of Labor inspec
tion of virtually every busine in
Alaska and that the labor office
would need a bigger appropriation
for any such task.
Anderson challenged some of the
labor law interpretations made the
previous day by Leonard Lvam.j
Duck Chases Tof
Nancy Ellen McKee, 3, of Oakland, tali!., tiers crying m terror,
while pursued bv a “monster"—a duck. A “duck biting children”
alarm brought police on the scene. They found “Quackv,” a noisy
neighborhood duck who delights in chasing, children, terrorizing the
tot;;. Returned home, the word was, “anybody wanta buy a dnek.”
iff VVireplioto.
Federal Department of Labor repre
sentative. But they agreed that the
proposed new law would affect such
businesses as retail stores, laun
dries, small phone exchanges and
restaurant workers.
When Senator McCutcheon asked
Evans whether the bill would" im
pose additional burdens on fisheries,
mining and lumber industries, Evans
replied:
“It will impose additional bur
dens on some of each.”
But he minimized its effect on
the mining industry and said specif
ically "I don’t think there would be
any hardships on small miners."
Senator Lyng expressed concern |
over whether the overtime provision
after 40 hours wouldn’t work a
hardship on trading posts operated
by village councils in the second
I division. He said they kept open
! late at night as gathering places
i for the native populace.
That brought the rejoinder from
Sen. Percy Ipalook (R-Kotzebuei.
| who formerly was a missionary at
Wales:
| "It would be a good idea if i!
! would force these trading posts to
j close. The people could do their
j shopping in a few hours of a day
! and if they closed at nigh it would
j stop these people from ham iu
| around and doing so much unnec
j essary visiting late into the nigh:.''
KOSM { FOR M!>5. SMITH
; 7:30 WEDNESDAY EVE
The Rosary will be recited at 7:30
o’clock tomorrow evening in the
I Carter Chapel for Mrs. Frances J.
Smith, it was announced today
Funeral services will (be held on
| Wednesday morning, the hour of
which is to be announced tomorrow
I Mrs. Smith's daughter, Dolores F.
' Bruns, and a son, Joe M. Smith,
who was in the States on business
at the time of her death arrived
here Sunday.
Mrs. Smith passed away with a
heart attack last Wednesday.
John \V. Gibbs, engineer with the
Bureau of Public Roads, will arrive
on the steamship Baranof from Se
attle, and will be in charge of BPR
engineering work for the road con
struction project to start on the
Glacier Highway March 1, it was
announced by Hugh A. Stoddart
BPR Division Engineer.
Gibbs is coming to Juneau from
Denver, Colorado, and is one of
seven engineers who are being trans
ferred to Alaska for the coming sea
son's work Rom the southwest
mountain states where they have
been assigned to highway work in
the National Forests. In addition
to the seven from Colorado, three
engineers from the BPR San Fran
cisco office and two from Portland
will asist Alaska's resident engineers
in the road const ruction program
for the Territory this year. They
will all be here by March 15, Stod
rlart l aid.
Keil and Peterman of Juneau were
awarded the contract for the Glacier
Highway job. Major construction
will It-' the building of a straighway
on the highway a short distance
bevond the cutoff to the Airport
to near the approach of the Men
denhall Bridge, eliminating the road
curve and bridge over Duck Creek,
nd a straightway on the Auk Lake
section to cut through the hill which
houses the' Chanel at the Fritz Cove
junction and crossing the creek at
the outlet of the lake over a culvert
from 2C0 to 300 feet below the pres
ent road site, to a point at the
hilltop a short distance this side
of the Christensen nlace, thus elim
inating the sharp curve and bridge
at the outlet of the lake. A large
parking space is to be put in on
the far side of the lake outlet for
the benefit of sightseers and the
short stretch of hill road will be left
ias an approach to the site.
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COOKIE SALE OF
GIRL SCOUTS TO
START TOMORROW
A Girl Scout leather shoulder bag
will be the grand prize for the girl
who sells the largest number of
boxes of cookies in the annual sale
which starts tomorrow. All girl
scouts and Brownies will be out
taking orders for cookies for a
week from February 27 to March 6
The cookies will be delivered about
wo weeks a.'ter the orders are
aken.
This is the thud year the Scout;;
have sold cookies to raise money
for troop activities. Before these
unds were made available, many
times the leaders themselves had
to dig down into their own pocket >
o finance materials lor scout needs.
Only the fourth grade Brownie
roup, Mrs. Elma Burrus leader, w 1!
■empete for the shoulder bag prize.
The other Brownies will each sell
two boxes of cookies as their part
of the project, Mrs. Robert Boochc
ver, chairman of the sale, said.
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
OF AMERICAN LEGION
DISCUSSED, VAN HORN
John Van Horn, first vice-com
mander of the Alaska Department,
American Legion, will be the guest
of the Juneau Post No. 4 and Aux
iliary at a joint mcetirg tonight at
8 m the Legion Dugout, according
to Vern Harris, post commander.
Van Horn, also membership chair
man, is on a tour of southeast
Ala -ka to assist posts in setting up
membership recruiting campaigns.
He will discuss the need for more
members in Alaska and what other
posts arc doing toward that end.
A short business session of the
p t will be followed by a social
meeting with the auxiliary and re
freshment > will be served. A cordial i
Invitation is extended to all vet
erans and their wiv^s.
The National Geographic Society
:;r-,s storms probably sank more
Spanish treasure ships than d i d
freebooters.
MEDICAL CLINIC RAIDED
BANGKOK—(*>—Police raided a
medical clinic and arrested 16 gam
blers. They also seised considerable
gambling equpiment. The phys
ician owner of the house was
among those taken into custody.
Authorities said the medical clinic
was Bangkok s biggest gambling
house.
JUDGES JUDGED
KARACHI—t'I’l—A young Karachi
laundryman guilty of bigamy re
ceived “justice at the hands of
elders of his community. They
gave him a “trial,” tied him up
and whipped him. Then the police
arrived.
The self-appointed judges are no*
in jail, waiting for justice to take
its course.
Uranium ore has been found in
two counties in New Mexico.
Nearly 100 photo labs are used
by soldier - photographer - hobbyists
in the Far East Command.
The columbine is the state flower
of Colorado.
The rose is regarded as the flower
for June and the pearl or moon
stone as the birthstone.
The lily of the valley is regarded
as the flower for May and the
emerald is the birth stone.
The mountain laurel is the state
flower of Connecticut.
The rural free delivery service,
which brings mail regularly to the
farm home, was inaugurated in 1830.
Fourteen Spanish ships bearing
some $65,000,000 in gold and .her
sank in a storm off Long Cay, Fla.,
in 1715.
The soles on shoes support 13
separate muscles in the soles of
each foot, grouped four muscle
layers.
One of the first patents issued
in the United States was for a
process of making potash.
Plastic pipe in place of metal
is finding wide use on the farm,
including irrigation.
First snip of the new American
Navy to go to sea was the Ganges
in 1798.
The only time Marine Corps head
quarters moved was from Phila
delphia to Washington in 1800.
Salvagers have recovered $20,000,
000 from Spanish galleons sunk in
Vigo Bay, Spain, in 1702.
Milk contains fats, carbohydrates
and proteins in easily digestible
forms.
EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED
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