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GOVERNMENT WINS AGAIN
The government hit the jackpot again on Dec. 6.
On that-occasion, an attractive young woman Ph.D.
won $64,000 on the enormously popular TV show, “The
$64,000 Question.” She did this by answering an almost
incredibly difficult series of questions concerning box
ing, all the way from ancient Roman gladiatorial days
to the Dempsey-Firpo fight.
Just how much she must pay in taxes can’t be
detailed exactly. However, a single person with an
income of $4,000 who won the $64,000 would have a
tax bill not far short of $40,000. Inasmuch as the young
woman winner is a practicing psychologist and her
husband is a medical doctor, it may be presumed that
the $64,000 will push their total taxable income into
exteremelv high levels. Yes, the government is the real
winner.!
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Air Defense Chief
Says A-Weapons
Soon Be Standard
WASHINGTON, M—The com
mander of the nation’s air de
fenses said today atomic weapons
soon will be stored at Air Force
ground stations and carried on
defense aircraft.
“The day is not far off when
we shall have atomic weapons at
the various stations in storage
and on the planes in flight,” Gen.
Earle E. Partridge said in an ad
dress prepared for a jet age con
ference of the Air Force Assn.
“This contributes to our deter
mination to remove military fly
ing from municipal or civil air
ports as soon as possible,” he said,
but added that will come only
“over a period of years” and at
a cost of more than three billion
dollars.
Partridge, commander in chief
of the Continental Air Defense
Command said that while defense
aircraft are always loaded when
on missions, the Air Force has
installed “all manner of control
sequences” as a guards against
accidents.
“We are putting more safety
features into the controls for the
future,” Partridge said “The rea
son is that the present weapons
are only midgets in comparison to
what we are going to have.”
Partridge said 18 of his com
mand’s bases—about one third of
its total—are on civil airports,
many of them with runways too
short for good jet operations.
Convention
Rejects Plan
(Continued from Page One)
like Patrick Henry in 1775 and
1776 who were emotional we
wouldn’t be a nation today.”
Ralph Rivers of Fairbanks, a
leader of the opposition, won
backing when he asked the con
vention, “What would the elected
governor and secretary of state
do?. Would they move out the
appointive governor and secre
tary? Could the territory create
a system of courts? Would the
territorial legislature be unseated
by the state legislature?
During a high point of the de
bate, Victor Fischer of Anchorage
told the convention:
“There’s a big difference be
tween a marriage and a divorce.
We’d simply be showing (by adop
tion of the section) that we’re not
going to lie down and die when
this convention is over.”
„ Frank Barr of Fairbanks spoke
for many delegates when he sug
gested amending the section in
stead of striking it.
“Statehood is not a privilege,
it’s a right,” he said. “We’re
simply insisting that the union of
states take us into the family
where we belong.”
The section was defeated 37-16
on a final vote but the recom
mendation fb amend was picked
up by John McNees of Nome who
moved to reverse the convention’s
decision.
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Results of Fuel Tax on Road Revenue
Will Be Fully Realized This Year
Territorial Highway Engineer
Bulletin for January 1956
Due to the increase of 3 cents
per gallon on the tax on motor
fuel from vehicles using the high
ways, there were many more road
projects undertaken in the 1955
construction season that in pre
vious years. However, the full re
sult in this raise in the tax will
not be realized until the construc
tion season of 1956.
Also, in order to follow the pro
cedure set forth in the new fi
nance law (Chap. 82, SLA 1955* it
is necessary to let road construc
tion out on bids where such work
cannot be contracted for with a
government agency such as the
Alaska Road Commission, or a
political subdivision such as a
municipality or public utility dis
trict. When road construction is
done by private contract, the
roads so built have to be designed
and engineered so that the con
tractor will have definite data on
which to bid, and such contrac
tor’s work will have to be checked
by engineers to see that the con
tract is properly carried out.
All these, along with other rea
sons, made it necessary that the
highway engineer secure an en
gineering staff. Due to the great
demand for competent engineers
and the small amount of funds
available in the 1955-56 biennium
for this type of w'ork, only a
skeleton staff could be assembled
and only one engineer, secured
on a yearly salary basis.
The engineering staff was too
large to use the very limited space
occupied by the office of the high
way engineer in the Alaska Of
fice Bldg, in Juneau. It was de
cided, therefore, that field offices
should be established to the west
ward for drafting and engineer
ing headquarters. Again the small
amount of funds available for
' field offices and equipment al
lowed the renting of only one
drafting room in Anchorage and
a storeroom for engineering sup
plies at Fairbanks.
In September 1955 representa
tives of the Interior Department
announced that the department
would not ask Congress for the
usual $400,000 annual approp na
tion for farm and access roads but
would leave the building of such
roads to the territory. With the
raise in the motor fuel tax the
territory can absorb this work.
However, department spokes
men made no mention of asking
Congress for an equal amount to j
be applied to trunk lines or thru |
roads. This does not seem quite ,
fair to the territory, which so very j
badly needs roads and has made j
quite an effoik to secure more
roads thru the motor fuel tax
raise. It is true that the depart
ment’s action saved the federal
government $400,000 a year but
only at the expense of more terri
torial roads.
Second Division road work done
by the territorial highway engi
neer for the territory from motor
fuel tax funds in the 1955 con
struction season was as follows:
f. Construction was finished by
contract on the road from the
Kotzebue Airfield to Coldstorage
Creek, thus allowing the people
of Kotzebue to haul water for
domestic purposes in the summer
from an uncontaminated supply
rather than take water from the
pond back of the village.
2. Construction Was finished by
contract on a road about mile
long from Kotzebue along Lagoon
St. to Kotzebue Lagoon. This road .
will allow small boats and float
planes to use the lagoon as a har
bor for loading during stormy
weather in summer rather than
the open roadstead in Kotzebue
Sound in front of the village.
3. The main street of Kotzebue
was graded up and partially re
gravelled.
4. Under a construction agree
ment with the Alaska Road Com
mission, the Nome - Fairbanks
Highway, now known as Route
U.S. 97, was continued by the
highway engineer from motor
fuel tax funds up Nome River
past Darling Creek.
5. The highway engineer ex
tended by private contract the
Nomc-Teller road past Sunset
Creek to Penny River.
6. Under an agreement with the
Alaska Road Commission, the
highway engineer conditioned
with, motor fuel tax funds the
Teller end of the Nome-Teller
road.
7. Through an agreement with
the Alaska Road Commission, the
territory through the office of the
its highway engineer staked with
motor fuel tax funds the winter
trail between Golovin and Elim.
8. The office of the terdtorial
! highway engineer completed a
I reconnaissance road survey be
tween the cast end of the Blue
stone Road out of Teller :.n:l the
west end of the present Xj.hc
Teller road at Penny River.
At Nomev $2,030 was paid to the
U.S. Army Engineers as a con
tribution to the yearly dredging
of Snake River Ila.bor by the
| Territorial Board of Road Com
i rnissioners through the off;ce of
! the territorial highway engineer.
This contribution was made
I possible by the territorial road
! commissioner for the Third Divi
j sion contributing the small
amount of Water and Harbor Fa
cilities Fund from his division to
add to that fund o: the Second
Division.
In the past, the total contribu
tion of $2,500 has been taken
from funds collected from the
motor fuel oil tax following Sen
ate Joint Memorial No. 9 passed
by the 1951 legislature that such
contributions should be paid by
the territory for five years. This
procedure is no longer legally pos
sible to follow and Nome has
agreed to make up the difference
between the $2,000 contributed by
the territory and the $2,500 due.
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