Pacific Northern
Passenger Traffic
Breaks All Records
SEATTLE, [ft — Pacific North
ern Airlines’ officials said Thurs
day that passenger traffic on the
line is breaking all records. They
estimate over 100,000 passengers
will be carried by the airline on
its Alaska system for the calen
dar year of 1955 and will surpass
1954 by at least 30 per cent.
They said 100,000 passengers
would set a new record for any
airline operating to or within
Alaska and would be the first
time any carrier has carried in
excess of 75,000 passengers.
Spokesmen added that Pacific
Northern’s air cargo traffic is
also showing a steady increase
this year over 1954, the previous
record year, and airmail traffic
continues to post increases over,
any previous year.
Harold Olsen, vice-president of
traffic and sales said, “Pacific
Northern’s record increases in
passenger traffic as well as air
cargo and airmail can be attrib
uted to the growing economic
strength^of the territory of Alas
ka, and expanded Pacific North
ern promotional program for
tourist traffic, and the introduc
tion of Lockheed Constellation
service between the states and
Alaska.”
Spenard Man’s Car Looted
$2,170 Worth Of Valuables
SEATTLE, UP) — A Spenard,
Alaska,, man, B. J. Lupo, told
police yesterday that his auto
mobile was prowled while parked
on a Seattle street and that cloth
ing, cameras and photographic
supplies valued at $2,170 were
stolen.
The theft took place between
1 a.m. and 6 a.m. Wednesday. In
cluded in the loot was a fur
coat valued at $1,000.
Star Is Hard Man To See
—While In The Shower
PROVO, Utah, UP) — Reporter
Marva Jeanne Pedersen failed to
get the story when he she was
assigned to interview movie star
Robert Taylor.
Taylor stopped here briefly en
route to Wyoming.
“They wouldn’t even let me get
near him,” she reported to City
Editor Theron Luke of the Provo
Herald, as she returned from the
motel where Taylor was stopping.
“Why not?” her city editor
asked.
“He was in the shower.”
Bonn Republic Accepts
Red Proposal To Discuss
Diplomatic Relations
BONN, Germany, (/Pi—The West
German government Thursday
accepted a Moscow proposal to
discuss establishment of a diplo
matic relations between the Bonn
republic and Soviet Russia.
But whether Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer will go to Moscow re
mained in question. A general ac
ceptance of the invitation extend
ed by the Kremlin June 7 for
talks on the normalizing of diplo
matic, trade and cultural rela
tions came in a note relayed thru
the Soviet embassy in Paris.
$1.25 Per Hour
Minimum Wage
Now In Effect
JUNEAU — Henry A. Benson,
Commissioner of Labor, advises
that Alaska’s Wage-Hour Law, es
tablishing minimum rates of pay
and maximum hours of work, be
came effective Tuesday, June 28.
This law, enacted by the last
legislature, requires that every
employer in the Territory having
four or more employes shall pay
each employee not less than $1.25
per hour of work. The minimum
wage of $1.25 applies to both male
and female employees. Baby sit
ters, paper delivery and errand
boys, and aged and partially dis
abled persons, may be paid less
than the $1.25 minimum only
under permits to be issued by the
Labor Commissioner.
The law further requires that
no employer of four or more em
ployes may employ any person for
more than eight hours in any one
day or for more than 40 hours
in any work week unless such
employees are paid for such over
time at the rate of time and one
half the regular straight time rate
of pay.
Certain classes of employers are
exempt from the overtime provi
sions of the law, including airline
operators, mining operations hav
ing less than 12 employes, and
some employers who are at pres
ent exempt under the Federal
Wage-Hour Law.
Commissioner Benson has di
rected particular attention to the
need for accurate record-keeping
by every employer and every
worker. “The employer’s perman
ent files should record not only
the name, address, age and occu
pation of every employee, but
must also plainly reveal the hours
of the day worked, the total hours
worked in any week and the
amount of wages actually paid to
each employee for that pay per
iod.”
Commissioner Benson will tra
vel throughout the Territory dur
ing July and August to discuss
the application of this law with
Alaska’s workers and employers.
Francis Bacon experimented
with refrigeration and is said to
have died from a chill he caught
while stuffing a fowl with snow.
Cigarette Tax Act
Of 1955 Goes Into
Effect Today
JUNEAU — The Cigarette Tax
Act passed by the recent legisla
ture makes no change in the tax
on cigarettes but it does remove
the tax from cigars and other
tobacco products according to K.
F. Dewey, Tax Commissioner.
Under the Act, which becomes
effective today, an excise tax of
2Vz mills is levied on each cigar
ette imported or acquired in the
Territory. This is the same
amount of tax as that levied un
der the old Tobacco Tax Act,
which is repealed as of June 30,
1955. With the repeal of the old
Act, the tax on cigars and other
tobacco products is no longer in
effect.
The new law provides for the
following licenses which are is
sued on a fiscal year basis, July
1 to June 30 each year:
Manufacturer, $5 a year
Distributor, $50 a year
Vending Machine Operator, $25
a year
Direct-Buying Retailer, $25 a
year
Buyer, $25 a year
It is the intent of the Act to
provide for the collection of the
tax from the person who first
acquires the cigarettes in the ter
ritory.
If a retailer purchases cigar
ettes through a distributor who
collects the tax for the territory
and their invoices show that the
tax has been paid, the retailer
has no further requirement under
the Act—he does not have to ob
tain a license. If the retailer
makes purchases from a distribu
tor who does not collect the tax
for the Territory, the retailer
must obtain a license as a “Direct
Buying Retailer” or a “Vending
Machine Operator” and must
make the required monthly re
turns. Any individual who im
ports cigarettes for his own con
sumption, from a non - licensed
source, must obtain a license as
a “Buyer” and make returns as
required under the Act.
Bert Neilly, former Nome un
dertaker, and deputy marshal at
Kotzebue is visiting in town. Mr.
Neilly now makes his home in
Massachusetts.
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