Mew Department of Transportation
Would be Empowered to Operate and
| Maintain Transportation Facilities
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THE SHRINKING WATER HOLE
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Our Legislators Set a Pattern . . .
U A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY earned,” is an old
saying but according to a recent Montana pub
lication, “a penny saved is a penny earned—except
that a third of it goes for taxes.”
It is hard to believe but direct and indirect, fed
eral, state and local taxes work out to approximately
a third of our incomes.
Those legislators who voted in favor of cutting
their own pay and who throughout the session have
shown an interest in trimming expenses wherever
possible are thinking to ease the tax burden within our
new state and help set a pattern for other states to fol
low. These legislators are thinking about the people
whom they serve, although they could easily use the
extra pay just like anyone else. It’s easy for the state,
like the individual to get into debt, but it takes a lot
of time and extra money to pay it back. Many of the
projects before our hard working legislators indicate
that they are sound business investments with a fair
return in due time, but there are other projects about
which not enough is known at this time to make a
decision. We urge our legislators to be among those
who would rather delay definite action rather than
plunge into something that has not been thoroughly
analyzed. Better to wait than be sorry.
EL DORADO, Kan., Times: “The following im
pressive statement is credited to Clarence Day:
“The world of books is the most remarkable cre
ation of man; nothing else that he builds ever lasts.
“Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations
grow old and die out. After an era of darkness new
races build others; but in the world of books are vol
umes that live on, still as young and fresh as the day
they were written—still telling men’s hearts of the
hearts of men centuries dead.”
WASHINGTON, Iowa, Journal: “I feel sorry for
the newspaper workers who slave for the metropoli
tan sheets. They have to work in a mechanical and
impersonal atmosphere. The smaller the town the
more important the news becomes. That’s where the
folk know all the news before the paper comes out,
and they take it simply to see whether or not the
editor got the stories according to the way they heard i
them.” I
| Grand Jury Proposes
Prostitution and Gambling
Be Made Legal in Philly
PHILADELPHIA W — A Grand
Jury of 13 women and eight men
has proposed that prostitution and
gambling be made legal in Phil
adelphia.
The Grand Jury did not say why
it believed prostitution should be
legalized. But in its final present
ment Friday under the the head
ing “General Comment,” it wrote:
“To legalize areas for the pur
pose of prostitution, to register
prostitutes, maintain a rigid peri
odic health program where they
are concerned and license houses
where they operate.”
The jurors suggested that lot
teries and off-track betting be le
galized “in order to derive more
revenue for the city and the state,
and to free more patrolmen for
more serious duties.”
Political Maxim . . .
WASHINGTON OP — A 32
year veteran Congressman gave a
political maxim to one of the Ken
nedy Administration’s newcomers
to public office.
Rep. Wright Patman and Secre
tary of Labor Arthur Goldberg
got into a discussion of who should
run the program to aid depressed
areas.
Goldberg said he was not re
commending the Labor Dept.,
although “it would be normal to
toot your horn for your own
agency.”
“There are some people in poli
tics,” Patman said, “who believe
that for him that tooteth not his
own horn, the same shall not be
tooted.”
ORDINANCE NO. 407
AN ORDINANCE of the City of
Nome, Alaska, to amend Sec
tion 16-5, of the Code of Or
dinances of Nome, Alaska, re
garding snow removal and
assessments, and setting an ef
fective date.
Be it ordained and enacted by the
Common Council of the City of
Nome, Alaska, as follows:
Section 16-5. Snow removal and
assessments.
(a) No person having the care,
either as owner or occupant of
any premises bordered by a
sidewalk on Front Street be
tween "B" Street and Steadman
Avenue shall fail to remove any
snow which may have fallen
thereon, within a reasonable
time thereafter.
(b) In the event that a person
mentioned in the preceding
paragraph shall fail to keep the
sidewalks in front of his res
pective premises reasonably
clear of snow, the City may
cause the snow to be removed
from such sidewalk and assess
the cost thereof against such
premises at the rate of fifty
cents (50c) per front foot. Such
assessment shall be a para
mount lien upon the premises
against which it is assessed and
may be collected and enforced
and be subject to the same pen
alties and interest after delin
quency as in the case of gen
eral taxes.
(c) A person whose snow has
been so removed shall be mail
ed, by registered mail, a notice
in writing by the City Clerk,
stating the time of removal and
the cost of removal. Said notice
shall state that if the owner
does not appear and in writing
object to said charge, the same
shall be immediately assessed
against his properly by motion
properly carried at the next en
suing Council meeting. The lien
shall attach from the date of
passage of said motion and the
same shall thereupon be en
tered on the assessment rolls of
the city. No such motion shall
be made within ten days of the
mailing of said notice.
This Section shall become ef
fective immediately upon its pas
sage by the Common Council and
the approval of the Mayor.
Passed by the Common Coun
cil of the City of Nome, Alaska,
at regular session assembled on
the 27th day of February, 1961.
/s/ Steffen Andersen,
(Seal) Mayor
/s/ Robert F. Scott,
Attest: City Clerk
Publish March 1, 6, 8, 1961
JUNEAU UP) — Legislation cre
ating a new Department of Trans
portation was introduced in the
House of Representatives by the
Finance Committee Saturday.
The bill, a committee substitute,
was drafted in an effort to win
additional support for House Bill
No. 44, the big ferry bond meas
ure which is still resting in the
Finance Committee.
The new department would be
empowered to operate and main
tain the following transportation
facilities:
1. The present state owned ferry
and terminals.
2. The ferries and terminals to
be constructed from the proceeds
of the $23 million bond issue au
thorized by the voters last Nov. 8.
3. The Anchorage and Fair
banks International Airports.
4. Any airports, toll bridges,
causeways, tunnels, ferries and
terminals, railroads, ports and
port facilities and any other trans
portation facilities which may be
financed in the future by the is
suance of revenue bonds author
ized by the Legislature.
The new department would not
have any jurisdiction over the
State Highway System. That
function would remain with the
State Department of Public
Works’ Division of Highways.
The proposed new department
would be a unique agency in that
it would be headed by a seven
man board with full administra
tive powers. Only one member
could be a public employe.
The board would be appointed
by the governor and removed by
the governor, subject to the ap
proval or disapproval of the Leg
islature. The board could appoint
a chief executive officer as com
missioner for transportation.
The board would serve in ad
visory capacity to the governor
while the proposed ferry system
was being established. When the
system was completed, the board
would take over actual operation.
The bill is a committee substi
tue for HB135, which would have
established a transportation au
thority, patterned after Washing
ton State’s Toll Bridge Authority.
Thirty-Six Insurance
Companys form Risk Pool
JUNEAU — Thirty-six in
surance companies have formed
an assigned risk pool to write
workmen’s compensation insur
ance for Alaska employers unable
to secure it from individual car
riers, Gov. Egan stated.
The 36 companies who formed
the assigned risk pool, which went
into effect March 1, write 97
per cent of the state’s compensa
tion insurance.
Under the assigned risk pro
gram, if an Alaskan employer is
refused workmen’s compensation
insurance by two carriers, he may
secure coverage from the pool.
The premium would be equal to
that charged by a private carrier,
plus an additional basic 8 per
cent surcharge.
WATCH IT!
NEW DELHI, India Ufi — India
plans to use Soviet-made four
engine turboprop transports for
air freighting to the northern bor
ders where roads and installations
are being built up against any ag
gression from Red China.
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