COMMUNITY SING
There will be an old fashioned
Community Sing at 7:30 Thurs
day evening, around the Com
munity Christmas Tree with Rev.
Roald Amundson as leader.
The revival of Community Sing
is sponsored by Beta Sigma Phi
and everyone is invited to parti
cipate and then see the shops
which will be open that evening,
or go to meetings or other gath
erings already scheduled for later
in the evening.
Pre - Christmas
Sale
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CRAFTS
OTTO ft KATHIE SCHULZ
996,000 Lbs. of Shells
Or ... Nuts for Jet JEngines
MOBILE, Ala. W —. Air Ma
terial Area Headquarters at
Brooklyn Air Force Base is buy
ing 966,000 pounds of pecan, al
mond and walnut shells.
The contractor promised to toss
in some peach, cherry and apri
cot pits for good measure at the
going rate of 3 cents a pound the
Air Force said.
The shells and seeds will be
ground up and (blasted through jet
engines to clean them. Sand and
other abrasives have been used
in the past. The Air Force said
it is switching to nut shells be
cause they’re cheaper and easier
on the engines.
Rodney Crew Laid to Rest
(Rodney Crew, son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. C. Crew Jr., who burned
to death in the home fire tragedy
last week was laid to rest from
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church on
Saturday.
Miss Melba Bourger has ar
rived from Ness City, Kansas, to
take over the work of Barbara
McKinnis as X-ray and labora
tory technician at the MMM Hos
pital. i
Western Electric Co.. Inc.
Awarded $2.2 Million Contract
WASHINGTON <*> — Western
Electric Co., Inc., New York City,
Saturday was awarded a 32.2
million Air Force contract for en
gineering, installation, test and
support of a semi-automatic voice
communications switching system
in Alaska.
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Alaska Steam
Seeks to Hike
Rates on Cargo
SEATTLE MP» — 'Rate increases,
amounting to 10 per cent on some i
cargoes and 20 per cent on others,
will toe filed toy the Alaska Steam
ship Co.
Increases in wage rates and
operating costs make the increases
necessary, Fred Zumdieck, assist
ant general manager of the com
pany, said Friday.
A 10 per cent increase will be
made on all freight from Seattle
to the Alaska Peninsula, Bristol
Bay, Norton Sound, Bethel and
Kotzebue.
The rate on cans, cartons and
salt used toy canneries in all areas
will toe raised 20 per cent.
The rate on canned fish shipped
from Alaska to Washington ports
and Astoria, Ore., will toe raised
10 per cent.
Other rates will remain un
changed.
The increases will have little
effect until spring, since they ap
ply to seasonal traffic, Zumdieck
said.
“Our seven seasonal ships as
signed to that trade are in dire
need of revenue,” Zumdieck said.
Eskimo Music
Assured Recognition
Alaska's intriguing and little
known Eskimo music, featured
for the first time in the 1961
Alaska Festival of Music, is as
sured of recognition as an im
portant element in Alaska’s cult
ural heritage.
The long-neglected Eskimo art
form was introduced to Alaskans
and Alaska visitors last summer]
at the Alaska Festival of Music
by Lorraine Koranda, authority
on Eskimo folk music.
As a consequence of Mrs. Kor
anda’s efforts and the full sup
port of the Festival of Music, a
$17,000 grant by the Z. J. Lous
sac Foundation of Anchorage will
enable her to devote full time to
research and documentation of
Eskimo songs and music.
Following participation in a
Festival folk music seminar on
June 15, which will also feature
John Jacob Niles and Lowell
Thomas, Jr., Mrs. Koranda will be
presented the grant by Z. J. Lous
sac, retired druggist and chairman
of the Loussac Foundation.
Mrs. Koranda will leave for the
Arctic on June 16 for a continua
tion of her work. She will be as
sisted by the University of Alas
|ka and Anchorage Community
College as well as the Alaska
Festival of Music.
DROWNED BY RAINDROPS
TAUNTON, England UP) — Gra
ham England, 16, was drowned
by raindrops.
An inquest was told Friday he
.crashed on his bicycle while rid
ing through pouring rain and was
(knocked unconscious. The rain ]
fell in his mouth and he drowned,
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U.S. IRS to Increase
Tax on Employers
Of Four or More
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
has announced that an increased
amount of federal unemployment
tax will be due for 1961 employ
ers of four or more who pay
both federal tax and Alaska un
employment tax. The increase will
result from the reduction of the
amount of credit, for taxes paid
to states, which the employers ap
ply against their federal unem
ployment tax. The credit is re
duced because Alaska did not
repay, before Nov. 10, 1961, ad
vances which were made by the
federal government to Alaska un
employment account more than
four years ago. The credit reduc
tion is required by a provision
(Section 3302 (c) (2) of the In
ternal Revenue Code which was
enacted in 1954.
IRS expalined the federal un
employment tax applies to the
first $3,000 paid by an employer
in each calendar year to each of
his employes. If any part of the
$3,000 is paid in 1961 for services
performed in Alaska, the addition
al federal unemployment tax will
be equal to fifteen hundreths of
one per cent of that part. If the
entire $3,000 is earned by an em
ploye in Alaska, his employer will
pay additional federal tax of $4.50
for the employe. The federal un
employment tax for 1961 is due
in January 1962 when the em
ployer files his annual return on
Form 940.
This credit reduction has no ef
fect on the federal social security
taxes due for employers of one
or more individuals, IRS caution
ed.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NUGGET
AA Stewardesses
Receive Pay Increase
SEATTLE m — A two-year
contract providing “substantial”
pay increases and changes in
working rules for stewardesses
flying with Alaska Airlines has
'been signed by the company and
the Air Line Pilots’ Assn.
The contract will boost wages
for stewardesses with one year of
experience from $315 to $335 for
83 hours of flying The raise will
be from $460 to $610 for employes
with ten years of service.
Incentive pay will be paid for
women flying more than 80 hours
a month.
Alaska Airlines employes 23
stewardesses. The contract is the
first negotiated for them by the
association.
Alaska Airlines stewardesses
formerly were represented by the
Airl Line Stewards and Stew
ardesses Assn, but the stewardes
ses voted in May to join the as
sociation.
The U.S. now has about 67 mil
lion telephones, more than half
the world’s total. The average
person makes 472 phone calls a
year.
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POOL HALL
B ARBER SHOP
WILL BE OPEN
from
2 p.in. to 10 p.m.
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