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1 MSvoi*y*time*the Governor crocks the!
whipidown in Juneau, it cortainly^
sounds good up hero”• * M *
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•' THE- ANCHORAGE TIMES -TELLS US THAT TH3 GOVERNOR MUST TSKS ON THE
ROLL OF \i BOSS OR DICTATOR OR OUR PRETTY !'El'/ 8T4.TS - IS SANK . ' '
before the last election we were' told td|’bo ^careful in
choosing good men '(mostly Republicans) for .tire legislature because
it wdultl be the legislature that would make policies and laws for
this brave Vie?/ State# The paper says: ’’For the firfet time Alaska
has'-a boss in its government# The constitution gives the governor
brbad powers in running the affairs of the entire 3tate#
It. In g'*and to hear the Governor talking like the boss he is
supp4>* t . wO bei He should maintain tight controls over all the
op'/\» m cns* of government#
• -ir «g-i.t he had better do so for his own good# The constitution.
n:pt~?oiy gives him the authority,but it is so written that, any .*..
failure i^ost be. olamed. on him# The Governor should be encouraged
to'uae*' the'' ,/oncrs of his office. Indeed, if he should fail to do
’ soV't* powers may go by default, to the Legislature. That is not
intended under the constitution. ,. > •
Tho legislature is naturally a clumsy mechanism of government#
Each prof c mr.h t be approved twice by passing in two houses •
The Legislature .cild spend six months working on the executive
branch before „ra<j.ting anything. ** Leaving it to the. .
Legislature would bo Like leaving it to a committee# —
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1 " It seems a man in Fairbanks sent a check drawn against*.-his .
account in a fairbanks•bank to Now Hampshire and it Was returned
with the notation Please remit a check which is payable in the
continental United States’1 «»nd the Alaska newspaper comments: .
H,4nd of all inings, the check wa? returned by the District
iDirector of Internal Revenue at Portsmouth, N.Hamp*
fin other words, we in ,*laska are still foreigners as far as the
Internal Revenue’ Sorvico is concerned#’1
<»nd then we turn a page or two and find that our two Senators
are simply horrified that the Director of Internal Revenue is
ruling that the State cf Alaska i3 now part of continantal United
/States and should 1/ose the tax exemptions it has enjoyed as a
[Territory. .Thjy howl that it was never ’’intended that Alaska
f should be ..sidered a part of CONTINENTAL u«s*
We Ala'iriu.in have enjoyed Uncle’s paternalism that we have come
to feel ’it our inalienable right to play both ends against the
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Attaturk Nakasto reports that: ”Vorft Miller was little time
ago was exchargod iinchorage jail* him rid3 in here with Cliffy and
was ovornite guest at Chitina Bar few nito sago* Next morning very
cold, proprietor start jeep to give Cliff pull. Engine very cold,
much balky, much sputter. Proprietor him yell,* Hey / something
missing engine boro*and him slam cash register shut. Pretty soon
engine him go. Vorn Miller him klattawaugh with Cliff.”
There isn’t much to see in a little ghost town, but what
you hoar makes up for it.
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