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Partnership With Youth
Reaching, as it does today, 3,300,000 boys
•in all parts of the nation with its character
building and citizenship-training program, the Boy
Scouts of America could not attain its great strength
without the dedicated spirit of its 1,200,000 adult
volunteer leaders.
Scouting is a partnership with communities anc^,
institutions. There are nearly 70,000 churches,
synagogues, schools, Parent-Teacher Associations,
service clubs, veterans’ organizations, fraternal
lodges, industry and labor groups, and other commu
nity organizations that stand behind the nation’s
111,000 Boy Scout units.
These institutions provide facilities, leadership,
boys’ work programs, administration, and spiritual and
mofal purpose. The Boy Scouts of America provides
camping, training, organization, the Scouting program,
and Scout ideals.
Each of these units is a “service station” for
youth. Whether it be in the congested metropolitan
area or at a crossroads rural school, each represents
(an established center for the physical, mental and
spiritual development of the nation’s boys.
The Western Alaska Council, with headquarters
in Anchorage, now serves a total of 6,000 boys in 160
units located in Alaska.
This membership represents a gain of 800 boys
over the year before. Last year 25 additional Cub
Scout packs, Boy Scout troops, and Explorer units
were organized..
Now, as the Western Alaska Council conducts its
annual operating budget campaign, it is important
every citizen invest in Scouting today for dividends
of good citizenship tomorrow.
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Bartlett Asks More
Funds for Alaska
Land Surveys
WASHINGTON, UFi — Senator
Bob Bartlett has urged a Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee to
approve a substantial increase in
funds for land surveys in Alaska
in the year beginning July 1.
Bartlett noted the 1961 budget
asks $1,113,000 for this work and
urged the figure be raised to be
tween two and three billion dol
lars.
Under the Alaska Statehood
Act, he said, the state may select
103 million acres of public lands
over the next 25 years. Bartlett
said the funds are needed to put
the survey program on a time
table basis so that orderly selec
tions can be made.
Bartlett, in his appearance Wed
nesday, supported an increase of
$5,213,400 over the budget recom
mendation of $1,786,000 for the
national forest program. He said
this would provide $250,000 for an
office-laboratory for timber and
fire protection research at Fair
banks.
Bartlett also told the commit
tee that during fiscal 1960, Interior
Department administrative costs
for the Pribilof Island fur seal
industry were estimated at $1,940,
000, and Alaska’s share of pro
ceeds at $813,919.
Bartlett said he was concerned
to note that administrative costs
are expected to rise to $2,070,000
in fiscal 1961, and that the state’s
receipts are to drop to around
$310,850. He suggested that the In
terior Department be requested to
justify the increased administra
tive costs.
House-Passed Measure
Would Change State
Elections Regulations
JUNEAU, UP — The House
passed a bill codifying Alaska
election laws .Wednesday after
adopting amendments making it
easier to run for the Legislature
and more expensive to run for
Congress.
The bill would shift adminis
tration of elections from the
courts to the office of the Secre
tary of State. The vote on pass
age was 34-4, with four members
absent.
The measure now goes to the
Senate.
One amendment adopted would
reduce from 150 to 50 the num
ber of signature petitions required
of independent candidates for the
State Legislature in order to get
their names on the ibaliot.
Another, offered by Rep. Rich
ard Greuel would increase' from
$40 to $120 the filing fee for can
didates seeking election to the
U. S. House of Representatives.
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1 PAID ADVERTISEMENTI
Proposed “23rd Amendment”
Would Repeal Income Tax
SEATTLE!—The National Com
mittee for Economic Freedom, or
iginating in Los Angeles, is spon
soring a plan to stop “federal
competition with private enter
prise and repeal income taxes.”
This the committee proposed to do
under the terms of a “Proposed
23rd Amendment” pending in
Congress as H.J. Res. 23. It pro
vides that:
“Section 1. The government of
the United States shall not engage
ih any business, professional,
commercial, financial or indus
trial enterprise except as speci
fied in the Constitution.
“Sec. 2. T h e constitution o r
laws of any State, or the laws
of the United States shall not be
subject to the terms of an foreign
or domestic agreement which
would abrogate this amendment.
“Sec. 3. The activities of the
United States government which
violate the intent and purposes of
this amendment shall, within a
period of three years from the
date of the ratification of this
amendment, be liquidated and the
properties and facilities affected
shall be sold.
“Sec. 4. Three years after thp
ratification of this amendment the
sixteenth article of amendments
to the Constitution of the United
States shall stand repealed and
thereafter Congress shall not levy
taxes on personal incomes, es
tates, and/or gifts.”
The “Proposed 23rd Amend
ment” would force the sale of the
land and facilities of federal cor
porate activities back to the Am
erican people from whom they
were taken, and thus cut the Na
tional Debt more than $65,000,
000,000, according to the Com
mittee.
Savings on interest, amortiza
tion, losses, payroll and costs, plus
saving of foreign grants and cre
dits would mean a saving of $44,
775,000,000.
2>/2 Billion Dollar Net Surplus
Repeal of the income tax and
a resultant increase in excise and
corporate taxes, taking into ac
count the actual 1959 deficit, ac
cording to the Committee, would
leave a net surplus of over 2V£
billion dollars to pay on the na
tional debt.
The plan also estimates sav
ings of $200 million on the cost
! of collecting taxes; $100 million
! on the cost of printing tax forms,
etc.; $40 million on franked post
age on all tax mail. Also envi
sioned are savings of an unesti
mated amount on the cost of pro
tective lobbying, prosecuting and
incarcerating of tax violators, and
bookkeeping, reporting and ac
counting fees and other imposi
tions.
Rep. Bruce Kendall (R-Valdezl
is expected to introduce a joint
resolution at this session of the
Alaska Legislature to effectuate
H.J.'R. 23 from Alaska. An active
campaign is also under way in
Oregon and Washington in sup
port of the plan.
Wyoming has formally ap
proved the amendment and more
than 6,000 organizations have
adopted resolutions in its support.
ASTRONOMY NOTES'^
By OLAF HALVERSON
The path of stars, called the
Milky Way, stretches entirely
around the sky, or seems to do
so, because our solar system rests
almost within its center. We are
i within 60,000 light years of the •
I center of a Galaxy some 300,000
I light years in diameter.
I If we could stop the earth and
I look at these stars, they would
look like a gigantic wreath. Now
we see only half of the wreath
from the northern hemisphere,
and the other half by traveling
tjO the southern hemisphere.
We now know for a certainty
that our glorious Galaxy of stars is
itself but an item in space. Inves
tigations with the 60- and 100
inch telescopes of Mount Wilson
Observatory reveal that the outer
portions of the spiral nebulae are
swarms of stars. There are hun
k dreds of thousands of galaxies
separated from ours by a million
light years, and from one another
equally far.
AFRICA STUDY GROUP OF
WSCS MEETS TONIGHT
The special study group on
Africa, being conducted toy the
WSCS, is scheduled to meet this
evening at the home of Mrs. Caro
lyn Coons.
Visitors interested in this study
course are invited to join with
members of the WSCS, and par
ticipate in this meeting.
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