$io,oootooo for Alaska Business
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IN JUST ONE AVERAGE YEAR the Canned Salmon Industry brings
over $10,000,000 to Alaska. This is money paid direetly for local labor,
lumber, wire, cannery supplies, taxes. It is money which benefits not
only Alaskan fishery workers and workers in other industries, hut also
Alaska’s professional people and merchants, whom it reaches in the form
of trade for services and goods. Thanks to the Salmon Industry, Alaska
prospers.
Red Cross Roll
Call Starts
Jan. 15
‘‘Residents of a west Texas
town watched the storm clouds
gather in the north, and in the«
afternoon a noticeable roaring
wind was heard. Several families
got into their cars and tried to
drive to safety. One car carried
young parents, two baby boys,
one 3V2 years and the other 3
month old. The s'orm struck
them en route, killing the par
ents. The car and the bodies were
found a quarter of a mile from
the road. The two boys landed in
a pit by the side of the road.
Sometime later a linesman for
the Southwest Bell Telephone Co
inspecting his damaged lines by
flashlight, heard a child whim
pering. When he reached the ba
bies (he found the three year old
in the water almost to his chin,
holding his three-months-old ba
by brother’s head out of the
water.
Wrapping the children in his
ooat, the linesman rushed them
to the Red Cross office. The child
b
LEADING LADY .mom
the American Legion’s auxi- i
liarics is Mrs. James Morris of
Bismarck, N. D„ who was chosen
auxiliary president at Los An*.
<r Cries convention.
ren were given medical aid, and
suffered from exposure and the
older child had received cuts and
gashes on head and body.
As the children responded to
the treatment, Red Cross workers
began to plan for the future of
the little orphans. Since there
were no family resources or pub
■lic benefits available for the
children. Red Cross set up a
maintenance fund, to provide for
their care until they are s xtecn
Red Cross Chapter workers will
keep in contact with the boys,
and will make needed adjust
ments as they grow older.”
This is just a sample of the
type of thing the Red Cross is
doing on a colossal scale through
out the nation by the aid of its
millions of members and volun
teer workers. Over a period of
upon identification, relative;
were notified. Both the childrer
14 years, the average has beer
89 disasters annually rcqihring
: Red Cross relief in the United
I States. During the year ending
J June. 1938, a few of these could
. be enumerated as follows:
j 9 cloudbursts,
j 5 epidemics.
61 fires.
35 tornadoes.
4 windstorms.
1 mine explosion.
The Red Cross Roll Call to be
made during the week beginning
Jan. 15, honors every citizen
with the invitation to become a
members, andi so help in this
humanitarian work.
Vincent C. Widney
Chairman
Favors 3 V ears
Exemption
From Cold Tax
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MINING ASSOCIATION URG
ES OUTPUT FOR FIRST
THREE YEARS BE FREE OF
TAXES
Modifications of exemption
! clauses in laws affecting the gold
mitiing industry are advocated
by the Alaska Miners’ Associa
| tion of Fairbanks.
Exemption for all production
taxation for the first three years
■ of operations, fixing the regular
annual exemption amount at
$20,000 and allowing to placer
gold mining the eight-hour day
throughout the working season
are urged in a resolution that
was adopted at the recent an
nual meeting of the association.
E. N. Patty, president and A.
A. Zimmerman, a director of the
i association will confer with sen
ators and representatives of the
Alaska legislature with a view of
having them exert efforts to put
i the views of the association into
law.
The annual election of officers
was postponed until the next
meeting.
•At yesterday's meeting, which
was held in the councli chamber
of the city hall all but a few of
those present favored in principle
a graduated net income tax on
gold production instead of the
present 3 per cent gross output
tax.
Luther C. Hess, former presi
dent of the Alaska Senate, de
clared that in his opinion the net
profit tax was by far the fairer.
He cited an instance of where a
company had to assess its stock
holders to pay the 3 per cent
gold gross tax. it having pro
duced in excess of $10,000, the
present exemption amount, with
out having made a profit.
Mr. Patty said the criticism of
the net income tax might be ob
viated by enactment of a terri
torial law compelling operators to
file with territorial officers at the
time of the payment of the pro
fit tax a copy of their return on
production that had been made
to the federal government.
This was done in California, it
was said.
Lou D. Colbert, while reoogniz
J ing the greater justice of net in
come tax principles, declared the
1 Democratic party, whose mem
! bers will control the legislature,
j is committed to the 3 per cent
tax on gross output. He thought
i the association should limit its
efforts with legislators to get
other needed changes in mining
laws.
He urged the exemption
amount be raised from $10,000 to
$20,000. advocated that all output
for the first three years of opera
tions should be exempted from
production taxes, and opposed
any law designed to conserve j
precious metal deposits in the [
ground by curtailing the devel
opment of the Territory’s miner
al resources.
He cited the Canadian policy,
which relieves the mining indus
try of any production tax for the j
first three years of operations.
Mr. Patty favored the first 3
year exemption policy, and so did
Jack Lejer, Sam Stay, Roy Fer
guson, Frank O’Farrell and Char
les Strandberg.
Adoption of this Canadian pol
icy, it was argued would incou
rage mining undertakings, would
increase gold production in the
Territory and thereby add to gov j
ernment revenue. These effects,1
it was pointed out, have been ex- j
perienced in Canada.
Senator C. H. (Alabam) La
boyteaux favored raising the ex
emption amount to $20,000, and
opposed “conservation restric
tion” on the development of min
eral resources. He thought that
the legislators might exempt all
first-year operations from taxa
tion, but he had misgivings about
a three-year exemption as in
Canada.
The opinion was unanimous
that precious metal mining in In
terior Alaska is a seasonal indus
try. The miners’ association will
ask the legislature to memorial
ize Congress to change the Wage
and Hour Law so an eight-hour
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Its got the Flash Its got the Smash Its got the Tunes—Gals—Laugh.!
also “BRONCO BUSTER” and "ALIAS ST. NICK”
ONE SHOW SATURDAY 7:30 P.M. Adm. 55* & 25*
“TOPPER”
CONSTANCE BENNETT & CARY GRANT in
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and "CHERRY TIME IN JAPAN”
TWO SHOWS: SUNDAY 7:15 & 9. Adm. 55* & 25*
“THREE WISE GUYS”
with ROBERT YOUNG — BETTY FURNESS
Wit, Wisdom and Whoopee from Gav Gotham to Palm Springs
and CHARLEY CHASE in “COUNT TAKES THE COUNT”
day will obtain in placer mining
in Interior Alaska.
The courts have not yet held
that gold mining comes under
the 44-hour week of the Wage
and Hour Act, and some of those
present yesterday expressed the
opinion that the judicial tribun
als eventually would decide gold
mining was not an interstate in
dustry and consequently outside
the Wage and Hour law.
It was concluded that in view
so much time had been spent in
discussion that the annual elec
tion of officers should be post
poned until the next meeting,
which was made subject to the
call of President Patty.
After the appointment of the
committee consisting of Mr. Pat
ty and Mr. Zimmerman to con
fer with Fourth Division legis
lators, the gathering adjournedk
The officers of the association
are: E. N. Patty, president; Lu
ther C. Hess and Joe E. Crosson,
vice presidents; Frank O’Farrell,
secretary-treasurer; and Mr. Pat
ty, M.r Hess. Mr. Crosson, Mr.
Zimmerman, Roy Ferguson, An
drew Olson, and Don Adler, dir
ectors.
—Fairbanks News-Mine:
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