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Entered as second class matter
October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 1945.
“IMPENDING DEFICIT”
What is taking plahe in
the Legislature now might
be termed:
“How to create an im
pending deficit in the Ter
ritory’s financial position i
in 50 easy lessons.”
Enough new agencies
and bureaus and high-sal
aried jobs would be creat
ed by a multitude of pro
posed laws to run any State
into debt. And at the
same time, practically non
atntempt is being made to
cut down or eliminate some
practically worthless ex
pend.! tures.
We believe this to be a
fact:
An impending deficit
may be created as a burden
on any governmental unit
through the simple process
of proposing enough things
for which tax money may
be spent—and it need not
follow that a single one of
these things is not desir
able or needed.
Some needs are greater
function of the lawmakers
to attempt to lessen these
needs first to the ability of
the tax base to pay.
These needs in Alaska
are being satisfied slowly,
as they are in other Ter
ritories and States. Ter
ritorial biennial appropri
ations are now double what
they were 10 year$ ago,
and at the same time, Fed
eral taxes paid by individ
uals and corporations in
the Territory are the high
est in history.
The proposed income tax
bill supposedly would ac
complish overnight what
the Territory has accom
plished in the last 10 years.
Actually, as we see it, the
bill if enacted into law
would add nothing to the
Territory’s income, but
would, if the estimates of
the author are correct, pos
sibly subtract $100,000.
Now a property tax,
similar to that used in cit
ies to supply revenue for
municipal functions, would
be imposed upon those liv
ing outside of cities. The
Governor states in his mes
sage that this would
“equalize the existing un
fairness of having Alask
ans who live in the incor
porated towns pay property
taxes while those just out
side ... do not.
Of course this bill
would take in not only
those who live “just out
side,” but all property
owners outside of towns.
The city levies taxes on
those who live inside their
boundaries, and its resid
ents pay these taxes, be
cause they get in return all
of'the advantages which
living in a city offers—the
public schools, paved
streets, parks^ police pro
tection, fire protection,
libraries. Most State
governments, we believe
reserve this source of tax
ation for the local com
munities. Are we forget
ting that the people who
live outside of incorporat
ed cities do not have the
benefits which the resid
ents of these communities
have?
AIRWAYS
Wien Alaska Airlines
....Tre Boeing made a round trip
from Fairbanks Wednesday, with
David Pasnan and Robert Craig
of the weather bureau, for Nome.
....Pilot Peterson flew to Diomede
with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kapatuk
and returned with Olbert Hen
rich, Tom lyapana and son, and
a load of express.
....Pilot Bill Peterson flew to Tel
ler yesterday and has not yet re
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PanAmerican World Airways
....The regular plane arrived
Wednesday with Leon R. Bagley,
Internal Revenue Agent. .
....The plane left with Edman
Groodmanson, Edward Cain, Vin
cent Timm, Mr. and Mrs. A. R.
Johanson and two children. Mas
ters Teddy Reed, William Layton
and Robert Singyke.
JOHANSON‘S
MOVE
FAIRBANKS
Mr. and Mrs.A. (Tony) Johan
son and children, left for Fair
banks where they will live.
Tony has been employed for
j several years by the Alaska Air
lines.
NOTED PAINTER
HERO OF NORTH
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“Rusty” Huerline, Alaskan
artist who spent last winter in
Nome, is credited with saving
many lives during the recent ep-'
idemic of influenza in Point Bar- j
row. All nurses except one were |
ill, and “Rusty” worked tirelessly
distributing “sulfa” tablets.
Very few of the ‘whites’ sta
toined at Barrow were afflicted
with the hospital was filld with
the natives. The only nurse on
deck at the hospital, was unable
to leave to attend the sick in their
homes, so “Rusty”Huerline was
dispatched to care for them.
By starting fires in the homes
of the villagers and seeing to it
that the villagers took their med
iicne and plenty of water, it is
believed that many lives were
saved.
Field nurse J. Gromtzeff ar
rived from St. Lawrence Island,
' 7 — ^
and took charge of the pneumonia *
cases.
Dr. Ed. Seinfeld arrived on the
14th day of the epidemic and
brought ‘pnicilin’. This is the
first time this new drug has been
used in Barrow, according to in
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formation received from Leon
Vincent, Bureau of Indian Affairs w
teacher there.
Mr. Huerline has been busy this
winter painting a portrait of the
late Charles Brower. The pic
ture was nearly completed at the
time of the death of Mr. Brower
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“Rusty” is also painting other
scenes portraying the native life
of that Arctic region.
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