Salmon Freezer Ship ‘Catch’ In Coastal
Waters Subject To Alaska State 4% Tax
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — The
U. S. Court of Appeals upheld the
validity of Alaska’s law taxing the
catch of freezer ships fish for sal
mon in northern waters.
But the court set aside an Alas
ka district court’s judgment
against eight Puget Sound fishery
companies and ordered a new
trial for determining the amount
of tax.
The companies had been ordered
to pay a total of $115,198 taxes and
interest for 1951-54. The payments
were ordered by Judge Walter
Bodge at Nome, in a decision
May 21, 1956.
Each year the companies send
freezer ships to Alaskan waters
during the salmon season. The fish
are caught close to shore by men
in small catcher boats.
The fish are collected aboard
the freezer ships and hauled to
Puget Sound plants for later can
ning.
The ships stay in deep water,
over three miles from shore in the
Bristol Bay area, the court said,
“but closer in the Kodiak Island
and southeastern fishing areas.”
The appeals court said that the
freezer ship tax of 4 per cent of
the value of raw fish is “not un
reasonable, arbitrary or discrim
inatory” and “we therefore find
this tax valid.”
However, the appeals court said
the record was not clear as to the
amount of value of fish obtained
by independent catchers as differ
entiated from catchers operating
in small boats belonging to the
freezer ships.
The court said “We cannot agree
that freezer ships must pay Alas
kan taxes on fish obtained within
Alaska waters by independent
catcher boats but purchased by
freezer ships outside these waters.
By this device freezer ships may
reduce their liability for Alas
kan taxes.”
Truman Declines ‘Editor
For-A-Day’ Offer
By Boston Globe
BOSTON, (IP! — Former Presi
dent Harry Truman has turned
down an offer to be a newspaper
editor for a day.
The job was offered him by the
Boston Globe after Truman told
the University of Missouri School
of Journalism that he wished he
could be a newspaper editor for
a while.
The Globe s$id it received a
letter from Truman yesterday in
which he refused the offer, and
said: “You see, the difference be
tween your profession and mine
is that the editors know all about
how another man’s business ought
to be run, while I do not pretend
to know the mechanics of yours.”
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B. C. Legislator Wants
Alaska ‘Corridor’ Swap
Negotiated With U. S.
VICTORIA, B. C., OPT— A gov
ernment member of the British
Columbia Legislature suggested
Monday night that before the B. C.
government swaps power for cor
ridors through the Alaska Pan
handle, it should take a look at
B.C.’s own panhandle which
pierces the northern state.
Herbert Bruch of Esquimalt
Riding said he referred to the
very northwestern tip of British
Columbia, which juts south into
the Alaska Panhandle. The B.C.
area of about 10,000 square miles
contains 15,300-foot Mount Fair
weather, the highest point in the
province.
Much has been heard in the past
about swapping power for B. C.
corridors through the Alaska Pan
handle. But, asked Bruch, couldn’t
there be negotiations on the basis
of swapping this mountainous
piece of the province for corri
dors through the Alaska Pan
handle farther south?
There was no immediate com
ment from government leaders.
BEER SALES GO UP
IN WHISKY-DRY OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY, WV-Liquor
tipplers in Oklahoma apparently
are quenching their thirst with
beer during the state’s strict en
forcement of whisky prohibition
laws.
A report Monday from the State
Tax Commission said beer sales
zoomed 25 per cent last month
over the same month a year ago.
Oklahoma votes to continue or
repeal prohibition laws April 7th.
For the past two months whisky
laws have been enforced, with
bootleg liquor sales sinking pro
portionately.
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Dublin ‘Drowns’
The Shamrock, for
St. Patrick’s Day
By MICHAEL ROONEY
DUBLIN, UP) — A parade with
more than 200 floats picturing as
pects of Ireland’s industry fea
tured the St. Patrick’s Day cele
bration in the Irish capitol.
Shop windows limited their dis
plays to Irish-made goods.
Hand-woven tweeds, green ber
ets, green ties, and scarves fas
tened with gold tara brooches
were seen everywhere.
The holiday program included
cycling races, concerts, plays and
dances.
Premier Eamon De Valera and
cabinet members attended mass in
the cathedral with Dublin Arch
bishop John Charles McQuaid offi
ciating. The sermon was in Gaelic.
For the first time in the history
of the republic, the president was
absent on The Day. President Sean
O’Kelly is in America as the guest
of President Eisenhower.
An outstanding national pro
duct not on open display was
Irish whisky, it being illegal to
serve drinks in the bars on St.
Patrick’s Day. Many bars did so
on the sly as usual, however, and
the old custom of “drowning the
shamrock” did not suffer greatly.
Alaska Steamship Co.
Gets Two More Ships
SEATTLE, UP) — The second of
two new Liberty ships for the
Alaska Steamship Co. arrived
here Monday.
The SS Transpacific entered
Todd Shipyards for modification
of quarters and deck gear that
will prepare her for her new serv
ice. She will emerge as the SS
Talkeetna, named for an Alaska
river.
The other new Liberty ship, the
SS Transatlantic (renamed Nena
na, arrived here early this month.
The two ships were bought last
year from New York firms.
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Attorney General Holds
State Tax Fees Must Be
Kept For Specified Funds
JTJNEAU, UPl — An Attorney
General’s opinion tolled the knell
Monday of a number of bills. The
opinion concerned dedicated funds.
The Attorney General said a
constitutional provision does not
permit the use of state tax and
license fees for special purposes,
except when required for federal
aid programs. Specified programs
on the books as of 1956 are per
mitted, however.
According to the ruling, the
constitutional provision prevents
the Legislature from changing any
of the present dedicated fund
formulas. There is no recourse, the
ruling held, except to repeal the
ear-marked program completely.
The opinion was rendered in
connection with a bill to increase
the gasoline tax, with the added
revenue to go for airport pro
grams.
Several other bills would be af
fected by the ruling and shortly
after the opinion was delivered
the Senate withdrew a measure
that would have changed the gross
business license tax.
Center of U. S. Changed
By Hawaii Admission
Washington, (J) — The entry of
Hawaii as a state is moving the
geographic center of the United
States six miles but it will re
main in Butte County, S. D.
The Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey announced today the new cen
ter is six miles west southwest
of its old location. It’s now about
17 miles west of Castle Rock, S. D.
The center was moved last July
when Alaskan statehood was
voted. At that time it was relo
cated 439 miles northwest of its
longtime site near Lebanon, Kans.
Rear Adm. H. Arnold Karo, sur
vey director, said the new loca
tion is at latitude 44 degrees 58
minutes north and longitude 103
degrees 46 minutes west.
The fire alarm this afternoon
was the cabin occupied by Tom
Darrington on D St.
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