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_ COME NOW, SHE’S NOT THAT BAD
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- Land Grant Provisions
Of Alaska Mental Health
Act Are Withdrawn
WASHINGTON, (fl—The House
Territorial Affairs Subcommittee
tabled a bill Monday to supple
ment the land grant provisions
of the Alaska Mental Health En
abling Act.
Rep. Ralph Rivers, who intro
duced the bill, made the motion
on grounds it is no longer neces
sary. The action in effect kills the
bill.
The bill was intended to assure
that the one million acres of land
Alaska may choose under the
Mental Health Act of 1956 would
not be restricted to those not
under mineral lease.
Harold R. Mochumuth, lands
staff officer of the Bureau of
Land Management, testified that
this provision was taken care of
in an amendment to the Alaska
Statehood Act passed in August,
1959.
Rivers had introduced the
tabled bill prior to the passage
of the amendment last August.
Air Academy Appointtee
Builds “Air Car”
A young Alaskan who received
a nomination for appointment to
the Air Force Academy by Sen.
E. L. Bartlett, recently gained na
tionwide attention for construc
tion of an “air car.”
Craig W. Vetter, 17, an An
chorage High School senior, is
one of 11 ^Alaskans to be nomi
nated by the Senator for the Ac
ademy.
Vetter received recognition in
the national press for construct
ing his “air car” for $4 while the
Curtis-Wright Corporation was
spending thousands of dollars on
a similar project.
The wheelless car floats on air,
skimming three or four inches
above the ground.
Besides the cost of $4 Craig
put in his spare time and what
was decribed as'a “conglomera
tion of junk,” including a chain
saw engine, an old tractor radia
tor fan and some plywood to con
struct his machine.
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Food Prices In Alaska
Average Lower In 1959
Than In 1954
Alaskan food prices, on the av
erage, were lower in 1959 than in
1954 despite increases in trans
portation costs, wages arfd other
operating costs, according to a re
port from the University of Al
aska Cooperative Extension Ser
vice.
For example, the price of 25
food items was $13.33 for Ketchi
kin in 1954. In 1959, the price
was $12.70 or 63 cents less. For
Juneau, the 1954 price for the 25
items was $13.47; in 1959, $13.21.
For Anchorage, the 1954 price
was $14.76; in 1959 it was $14.39.
For Fairbanks, the 1954 price was
$16.37? for 1959, it was $16.02.
The extension service reported
that in the five year period re
tail food prices in Seattle in
creased 4 to 5 per cent, while in
Alaskan cities, prices dropped 2
to 4 per cent.
For the quarter ending in De
cember, 1959, the survey showed
declines for most Alaska cities,
except for seasonal increases in
Kodiak, Fairbanks and Nome.
Here are figures for the 40 item
“market basket,” the order toeing
Dec. 1959 and Dec. 1958: Seattle,
$16.74, $16.91; Juneau, $20,34,
$20.89; Seward, $21.87, $22.39;
Anchorage, $21.86, $23.89; Pal
mer $22.10, $22.87; Fairbanks,
$24.68, $24.64; Nome, $28.15 and
$28.09.
Nation's Population Estimated
At 179,472,781 Today
WASHINGTON, Of) — The Cen
sus Bureau estimates the nation's
population at 179,472,781 as of 8
a.m. today.
This was the calculation made
for the bureau’s “Census Clock,”
a counting device installed in the
Commerce Department lobby.
The population estimate a
month ago was 179,254,194.
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Permanent State Planning
Agency Is Recommended
JUNEAU, (Jt — A permanent
state agency under the direction
of the Governor to handle a con
tinuing planning program was rec
ommended in a report issued by
the State Planning Commission
Monday.
The report suggtjsted the pro
posed agency have a full-time
staff to study economic and popu
lation trends, devise capital im
provements programs and other
wise assist the Governor in co
ordinating an overall program of
public policies.
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State Supreme
Court Upholds
! ABC Closing Hours
JUNEAU, UP) — The State Su
preme Court, in its first major de
cision, yesterday upheld the clos
ing hours set last September 30
for liquor establishments by the
Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
Associate Justice John Dimond
wrote the majority opinion, con
curred in by Chief Justice Buell
Nesbit. Justice Walter Hodge dis
sented in the 2 to 1 opinion.
The Opinion holds the Fair
banks District Court went too far
in ruling the Legislature did not
properly delegate authority to the
ABC to regulate closing hours.
Dimond said, in the opinion,
“The board’s authority (in liquor
regulation) is complete. It has ev
erything needed to justify the
regulation adopted.”
The liquor board regulations
ended an era of legal all-night
operations by licensed bars and
clubs outside city limits, and ex
tended the legal hours within
cities.
Judge Hodge said he was dis
senting from the majority opinion
because the finding “transcends
j the Constitution of the State of
Alaska and is contrary to the
| great weight of authority.”
BROUGHT HOME TO ROOST!
NEW YORK, (/PI — A runaway
milk truck smashed into a Queens
house early yesterday and caused
considerable wreckage. It was the
home of Michael Kowalewski, a
professional house wrecker.
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jOrbeck Trade Jobs
JUNEAU, — Ed Orbeck yes
j terday resigned the Fairbanks .
| House seat and was appointed to
j fill the Senate vacancy. Robert
Giersdorf, who resigned his Sen
ate seat last week because he did
not meet the age requirement,
was named to Orbeck’s House
seat.
Giersdorf originally had held
the House job. He resigned when
, the Legislature convened last week,
to take a Senate appointment.
After 4V4 days he resigned the
Senate seat when it was revealed
he won’t1 be the required age, 25,
until February 24.
Yesterday’s announcements by
Governor Egan ended'five days of
speculation over what would be
done about the Senate vacancy.
At one time it was thought the
Governor might re-appoint Giers
dorf to the Senate when he be
came 25, about three weeks off.
Federal ‘Greeting Card’
Invites Taxpayers to File
‘Pre-Punched’ Form 1040A
That little “greeting card” you
may have just received from the
U. S. Internal Revenue Service —
the one with the tiny holes
punched in it — safeguard it. Use
it as your federal income tax
return.
You will save the government
— and hence all taxpayers —
money, and you will be speeding
up the handling of the annual
avalanche of returns.
Mr. William E. Frank, District
Director of Internal Revenue, is
sued this appeal to those taxpay
ers who have recently received in
the mails a “pre-punched” card
Form 1040A for this year’s return.
When the taxpayer files his
return using the pre-punched
card, Internal Revenue can use
the return to locate mechanically
another card in which the tax
payer’s name and address have
already been punched.
If the taxpayer fails to use the
pre-punched card, and makes his
return on another blank, Inter
nal Revenue Service must spend
additional time and money on the
job of hand-punching the name
and address again.
It’s costly and time-consuming
work, and it has to be done each
year for several million taxpayers
who have lost, destroyed or mu
tilated the pre-punched cards
sent them.