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GOVERNMENT INHERITS MILLIONS
Newspapers recently ran a picture entitled “Heir
ess Counts Up Millions.”
It showed a lucky girl standing beside a safety
deposit box. Along side of her, taking out the secur
ities, were a tax examiner and the state treasurer.
The headline should have read “State and Fed
eral Governments Inherit Millions” — because they
will get the lion’s share of the money and the girl
won’t get a thin dime until after their claims are
satisfied.
The advocates of government ownership of busi
ness who curse capitalism and private profits never
mention that government today through taxation skims
the cream off any profits or savings above the lower
brackets.
Tax exempt government business enterprise could
not operate as they do without the taxes taken from
the profits of private enterprise.
It’s time to get the shoe on the right foot.
Wytheville (Virginia) Enterprise says:
If you are the average working man, you are put
ting in about two and a half hours a day for the U.S.
government. That’s the average time required by the
typical American to earn the money he must pay in
taxes.
In other words, if you start at nine o’clock, you’re
working until about a half hour before noon for yqur
Uncle Sam.
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I Yalta Papers Show
How Russia Got
Big Concessions
By John M. Highiowdr
and Warren Rogers Jr.
WASHINGTON, l/Pi—Publication
of the long-secret Yalta papers
failed Thursday to still the con
troversy that has raged for a dec
ade over the wartime Big Three
meeting.
The half-million-wTord Ameri
record of the historic session was
made public Wednesday night by
the State Department—reported
ly over the objection of Prime
Minister Winston Churchill.
Secretary of State Dulles had
said only Tuesday the 834 pages
of documents would not be made
public now.
The papers disclosed that Pre
mier Joseph Stalin had made a
veiled threat of “difficulty” in
taking Russia into the war against
Japan unless President Roosevelt
agreed to sweeping concessions.
Roosevelt did agree, giving
Russia new strategic positions in
the Northwest Pacific and a pow
erful hand in Manchuria.
The record disclosed also that
Roosevelt told Stalin and Prime
Minister Churchill it #was “very
embarrassing” to him to yield to
another Russian demand for
Ukrainian and White Russian
membership in the United Nations
—giving Russia three votes in the
General Assembly.
And they disclosed long argu
ments by Roosevelt and Churchill
with Stalin over their demands
for creation of free governments
in postwar Poland and other
eastern European countries lib
erated from the Nazis.
Stalin agreed to a declaration
and procedures for setting up of
democratic regimes. But within a
few years the Soviets solidified
Communist rule from the Baltic
to the Black Sea.
The Big Three conference was
held at Yalta in the Russian Cri
mea in February 194,5. Roosevelt,
Stalin and Churchill had met
some months earlier at Tehran,
mainly on coordinating military
strategy against Nazi Germany.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Albert Guthrie and
Joyce Loesch.
Discharged: Caroline Reader,
Reuben Weyenna, Virginia Amak
toolik.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Loesch
are the parents of a little daugh
ter weighing four pounds and
15 ounces. The father is stationed
here with the CAA.
PANSY BROWNIES
Wednesday was Election Day.
Our new officers are:
Karen Swim, janitor; Alice Ar
nold, scribe: June Oman, treasur
er; Jeannie Heath, secretary; and
Linda Doyle, president.
The Home Arts Club gave us a
nice party on March 1. We had
games and refreshments. It was a
Girl Scout birthday party.
—Karen Swim, Scribe
YOUNG CIGAR-SMOKER
Boston, Mass., — John J. Conn
elly, Juvenile Court judge, re
cently saw a little boy, sitting in
a doorway, puffing on a cigar. He
casually asked, “Son, why aren’t
you in school?” The little boy
took the cigar out of his mouth
and replied, “Mister, I’m too
young to go to school.”
Overhead at Chamber meeting:
"Have you tried the fresh un
frozen fryers they have at the
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SMOKE STACKS CLEANED
Fiscal Reorganization Bill Passed
By Senate; Would End Auditor’s Job
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, W—The Fiscal Reor
ganization Bill, abolishing the ter
ritorial auditor’s job, was- head
ed for Gov. Heintzleman’s desk
Thursday after Senate approval
Wednesday afternoon by a some
what surprising 11-5 vote.
Republican Sens. Charles Jones
of Nome and John Butrovich,
Fairbanks, joined with nine Dem
ocrats for the bill. Opposing votes
were by Democrats Marcus Jen
sen, Howard Lvng and James No
lan, and Republicans Doris Barnes
and Mike Stepovich. The House
approved it unanimously.
If the Senate lineup remains
unchanged, the 11 to 5 lineup is
the bare two-thirds majority that
would be required to override a
vetb.
There might be a chance, how
ever. of losing a vote or two if it
came down to a veto. If that hap
pened, any veto would be sus
tained.
The main a’rgument against the
bill was made by Senator Stepo
vich, who summarized most of the
arguments of other opponents. He
declared it was unwise to abolish
an elective office when there are
so few of them in the territory,
and he indicated it was being
done primarily because of contro
versy over the present occupant
of the office, whom he did not
mention by name.
The auditor is Neil Moore, who
has been at odds with a large
segment of the Democratic ma
jority group. '
Stepovich contended, “We would
be derelict in our duty to the peo
ple if we abolish an office io
which they have the power of
election.”
Sens. Frank Barr and Ralph
Rivers, Fairbanks Democrats, re
plied that the whole purpose is to
streamline and modernize the ter
ritorial government. Barr ex
pressed the opinion “It wouldn’t
even cause a ripple if someone
else were in the office.”
Rivers pointed out that the leg
islature created the office in 1929,
and it had the authority to abolish
it. He said the education commis
sioner also once was an elective
officer too, but the legislature felt
it was best to remove the post
from politics. He said the audi
tor was a comparatively minor
office, not involved in policy mak
ing, and “if we are to streamline
the government, we have to do it
like this.”
The bill provides that Moore
would be given a position under
the new and potent director of
finance for the remaining two
years of his four-year term. He
would act as controller, in charge
of accounting and probably of
purchasing. His §10,000 a year
salary would continue.
The director of finance would
be appointed by the governor,
subject to confirmation by the
legislature. However, in the short
time remaining in the session, the
legislature no doubt will be gone
before any appointment would be
made—if the bill actually be
comes law—so the man who
would be named to serve as
finance director for the two years
before the legislature meets again
would be solely the choice of
Governor Heintzleman.
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