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Time to Say “Welcome, Stranger!”
LIFE MAGAZINE POINTS OUT that nearly one
third of the gold drain—$1.2 billion—“is attri
butable to a ‘travel deficit’ from U. S. tourists spend
ing more abroad than foreign visitors spend here.
A bill now in the Senate is designed to help cor
rect this situation. It has been called the “Sell Ameri
ca” bill by one of its sponsors. It would provide $5 mil
lion—a drop in the bucket in the light of government
spending—to create a tourist-promotion bureau. One
of the bureau’s major purposes would be to cut the
red tape that now discourages foreign visitors from
coming here and encourage consular and immigration
officials to help attract tourists instead of scaring them
off. Life cites a number of practices that exist under
present laws and policies which make the potential
visitor from abroad feel like a criminal.
This is the time for such a “Sell America” proj
ect. Throughout the world, country after country has
enjoyed remarkable economic recovery, which means
that more and more of their people have the where
withal to travel. Along with that, the jet airplane
offers speed and comfort to the tourist with limited
time, and the business man. Even .people with short
vacations can now visit countries many thousands of
miles away.
Life’s editorial ends on this note: “Many Euro
peans fear that all U. S. living is on a Waldorf level;
they might be told about 80 cent lunches at the Auto
mat and transcontinental air-coach trips under $100.
It’s time we put the latchstring out, and revived our
did frontier saying, ‘Welcome, Stranger’ ! ”
FRANKLIN, N. C., Press “ . . . Who would deny
that the average American today has much less per
sonal freedom than he had prior to 1914? In scores—
perhaps hundreds—of ways, big and little, his life has
^ j°me .re£ulated. ... In some states today a man is
told—with government sanction—that he may work
only if he joins a labor union.. .. Another rarely noted,
is the curb on the citizen’s right to protest. That right
is asic, and the most effective of all protests is the
re usa to pay taxes. . . . But how can a man refuse to
pay tax that is deductedfrom his wages?”_
NOME NUGGET ADS PAY BIG DIVIDENDS
Cure-All For
I All Alaskans
JUNEAU l/P — A pair of state
I representatives — one a Dcmo
| crat and the other a Republican
I —came up with a tongue-in
I cheek cure-all for Alaskans.
| The final bill introduced be
| fore the House adjourned for the
I night carried the names of Reps.
Mark Jensen of Douglas and Jim
Binkley of Fairbanks.
It was an act entitled:
“An act giving everything to
everybody and providing for an
effective date.”
The act went on to say:
“Be it enacted by the Legisla
ture of the State of Alaska:
“Section 1. For the purpose of
everyone in Alaska becoming a
millionaire, and to give every
thing to everybody, all of the
money now in the Treasury of the
State of Alaska, and any and all
monies from any and all sources,
are hereby appropriated for the
purpose of giving all of the same
to each and every inhabitant of
the State of Alaska upon their
respective requests therefore, less
handling charges.”
After Mrs. Esther Reed, Chief
Clerk of the House, read the bill
Rep. Harold Z. Hansen of Cor
dova leaped to his feet and shout
ed:
“A point of order, Mr. Speaker,
we are already doing that.”
House Speaker Warren Taylor,
a man of quick wit and smile,
said with absolutely no expres
sion on his face:
“The bill is referred to the
teachers’ lobby.”
LEGISLATIVE PRESSURE . . .
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. UP —
Legislative pressures may be get
ting heavy for some lawmakers.
Stuck between the pages of a
bill introduced Thursday in the
Missouri House of Representatives
was a string of eight paper dolls,
neatly cut from a newspaper.
STATE OF ALASKA
Invitation to Bidders (No. 1-61)
Sealed bids will be received by
the Department of Administra
tion .Division of Supply of the
State of Alaska at Room 517 Alas
ka Office Building, Juneau, Alas
ka until 11:00 a. m. on March 20,
1961, and then publicly opened,
for the sale of the following:
MOTOR VESSEL "DENNIS
WINN" (Former F. P. 244).
General Specifications:
Type: wood, motor (diesel).
Year Built: 1944, Length: 148'.
Beam: 33' 5-14". Gross Tons: £40,
Net Tons: 278. Draft: 12' aft. Sin
gle Screw. Crew Quarters: 11 per
sons, Passenger Quarters 18 per
sons, Engines: F air banks - Morse
Co. 875 hp, 5 cylinders.
Complete sale specifications
may be obtained upon request by
writing to the Department of Ad
ministration. Division of Supply,
P. O. Box 2420* Juneau, Alaska.
The state reserves the right to
reject any and all bids and to
waive any formality in bidding
procedures.
R. G. BERG.
Director, Division of Supply
Pub. Feb. 10, 24. March 10, 1961
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A tty. General's Opinion Says
! Pin Shill Machine Bill W ould
Make Control Impossible
By Ward Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU UP — The State At
torney General’s Office has warn
ed that a bill introduced in the
House of Representatives would
make it impossible to control pin
ball machines and to prohibit il
legal payoffs, the Associated
Press learned yesterday.
At the present time, pinball ma
chines are permitted in the state
(1) if their operators have paid
the state and federal gambling
tax applying to such machines
and (2) if they do not provide for
cash or merchandise prizes.
The warning came in a confi
dential, memorandum opinion
written by Atty. Gen. Ralph
Moody at the request of Gov.
Egan. The opinion is dated
March 6.
The opinion deals with House
Bill No. 188, authored by House
Speaker Warren Taylor, a lawyer.
Taylor, asked to comment about
the Attorney General’s opinion,
told the Associated Press:
“If the Attorney General did
say that, he was certainly off
base and is talking without hav
ing any knowledge of the bill or
what the bill seeks to achieve.
“Possibly it was one of those
kids playing around in the Attor
ney General’s office that gave
such an opinion.”
A Simple Measure
Taylor’s bill is a relatively
simple measure. It amends Sec
tion 8 of Chapter 142, Session of
Laws of Alaska, 1960, by adding
new language reading:
“Coin-operated devices on which
the required tax stamp has been
paid shall not be subject to seiz
ure unless they they contain reels
with symbols thereon or automatic
facilities for releasing coins,
tokens, merchandise or similar
objects.”
Moody, in analyzing the bill for
Egan, said it would make it im
possible for the Department of
Law and State Police to control
the operation of coin-operated
machines other than “so-called
one armed bandits.”
The text of Moody’s opinion:
“The bill on its face appears
to be an anti-gambling bill and,
based on news releases the past
I few days, has been represented
| to to public as such.
“However, a closer persual of
j this proposed legislation indicates
the exact opposite.
“Rather than what this bill has
i been represented as accomplish
ing, that is, of outlawing gamb
ling devices, it in effect would
legalize all pinball machines and
permit payoffs to be made to the
players thereof.”
Taylor, in disputing Moody’s
interpretation of the proposed
statute, said:
“We wanted only to achieve
this: If a person paid both the
federal and state license, then
the state should not be permitted
to come in and seize the machines
it had just licensed.
“We felt the state should pro
ceed with a court action instead,
and give the owner, who had
paid all taxes and license fees,
an opportunity to show that they
were not in fact a gambling de
vice.
“We felt it was an injustice for
the state to proceed by a sum
mary procedure, to back a truck
up to a person’s place of busi
ness and start loading pinball
machines up on to it. We felt the
state should bring court action
and attempt to abate the machines
in that maner, instead of seizing
them.”
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PUBLIC NOTICE
STATE BOARD OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY
Notice is hereby given of the forthcoming examination for:
“CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCQUNTAnt”
and
“PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT”
May 17, 18' and 19, 1961
Anyone wishing to take the above examination should make ap
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Fairbanks. Alaska, on or before April V. 1961.
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