Tax Bill To End All Tax Bills
Proposed by Kodiak Fisherman
Heintzleman Asks
House to Withdraw
Memorial Critical
Of Housing Board
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, OB —The Republican
majority in Alaska’s House of
Representatives wielded a broom
against boards in a wide swath
Monday.
It voted to kill four of the
measures and reconstitute three
new ones.
The first official communica
tion to the legislators from the
new governor - designate, Frank
Heintzleman, was received and it
results in the withdrawal of a
memorial which carried stinging
criticism of Alaska Housing Board
practices and asked for a federal
investigation.
Rep. Carl Rentscler, Anchorage
real estate man, had introduced
the memorial, and read Heintzle
man’s telegram on the House floor
asking the memorial’s withdrawal.
Tremendous Pressures
Then he announced he was com
plying because “tremendous pres
sures from some surprising places
hove built up.”
Heintzleman’s wire said “the
proposed housing memorial at
this critical time may jeopardize
much needed funds for housing
and Alaska Public Works projects
at Ketchikan.”
The governor-designate said a
preferable proposal, to which he
would agree, was “when I take
office I will urge proper federal
agencies to make a thorough in
vestigation of the housing situa
tion and I will designate quali
fied Alaskans to assist; Hope you
can agree to this plan in place
of the memorial.”
The housing authority was un
der the gun from another angle,
too. It was one of four boards
which the House voted to toss out,
and then reconstitute. Others were
the Alaska Development Board,
the Board of Public Welfare, and
the Board of Health.
New Banking Code
The Senate pased a voluminous
new banking code which will
create a new banking board with
out the governor or other terri
torial officials as members; create
a territorial banking department
under a commissioner, and pro
vide for stricter examination of
territorial banks, some of which
were described as without exam
ination in several years.
Discussion brought sharp criti
cism of the head of the banking
board from two senators, Mark
Jensen and Howard Lyng, both
Democrats.
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BOY SCOUT NEWS
Troop 666’s meeting came to
order as Robert Summers sounded
assembly on his bugle.
The Apache and Eagle Patrols
worked on march formations,
while the Hawks and the Flying
Eagles practiced tying knots.
The Apache group is also work
ing on an ice rescue demonstra
tion.
Four newly enlisted boys were
James Savok, Clifford Attatayuk,
Jaxcfn Muller and Gordon Dim
mick.
The remainder of the pight’s
program was taken up recreation,
which consisted of kick-ball, bat
tleships and submarines, and sev
eral bouts of boxing among the
Scouts.
— Paul S. Glavinovich
*> JUNEAU, UP)—Tiny Cichoski, a
; big fisherman from Kodiak, fig
I ures his tax bill has about as
much merit as a lot of those
that have poured into the legis
lature in record numbers.
It’s a certainly it has more
irony.
It is “an act to repeal aH taxes
in the territory . . . and declaring
a grave emergency.” He calculates
that if it didn’t declare an emer
gency, it sure would create one.
The bill by the United Fisher
men of Kodiak representative
would provide:
“Sec. 1. That all taxes shall be
repealed, and further revenues to
run the territory and all school
districts, cities and P.U-D.s shall
be derived from licenses on fish
ing, trades and professions.
“Sec. 2. A license of $5 will be
paid by all residents and $25 by
all non-residents with any inten
tion of engaging in their trade or
profession.
“Furthermore, a license is here
by placed on any gear, tools, books
(such as law libraries), blackjacks,
pistols, cards, dice, picks, shovels
or any other paraphernalia re
motely connected with said trade
or profession.
“Sec. 3. For each such tool a
resident shall pay a license of $5,
a non-resident $25. Heavy equip
ment shall have a license of $125.
“Everything that two good
Swedes can’t lift shall be classi
fied as heavy equipment.
“For tricycles, bicycles, wheel
barrows, dog sleds, plows, pushed
or pulled by any man, woman or
beast, the operator shall at all
times have in possession a terri
torial driver’s license. (If this
nominal license fee does not pro
duce the necessary revenue, the
license fee can always be jacked
up on fishing licenses and fishing
gear to balance the budget).
“Sec. 4. Penalties under this act
are as follows: Anyone failing to
pay any license shall, if a non
resident, be exiled for life to' the
continental United States. Any
resident, except a fisherman, shall
get life imprisonment.
“Miners and other big operat
ors, when they get control of the
House and Senate, can have this
act repealed, hence no punish
ment for them is stated herein.”
Cichoski hasn’t had much luck
finding a legislators to sponsor his
brainchild. When asked if he
wrote it all himself, the big fish
erman just looked non-committal
—like he had a Kodiak herring
in his cheek.
Marshal Tito Lunches
With Queen Elizabeth
LONDON, (£) — Marshal Tito
met young Queen Elizabeth II in
Buckingham Palace Tuesday. This
served as a clear sign to the world
—the Kremlin included—that the
Yugoslav dictator has made the
grade socially in the West.
It also marked the first time
Britain’s queen has sat across a
luncheon table from a wartime
Communist guerrilla chieftain,
turned dictator. But in this cold
war period Tito is a dictator with
a difference—he is feuding with
Soviet Russia.
Tito drove to the palace after
taking in the British Museum and
the ancient Tower of London. A
heavy police guard surrounded
him on the rubbernecking visit
to some of the great tourist sights
of the city. It was done at high
speed. The tour lasted 70 minutes.
FOUND—Young cat, dark striped.
Call Nugget.
’Twas A Great Day
For The Irish Yesterday
The Irish were put in great
numbers last night. Had St. Pat
rick looked in on the celebration
he would have felt proud of his
followers. They were there from
Dublin to Denmark. All were
Irish last night with Moke Walsh
as Master of Ceremonies.
The hall was appropriately dec
orated and the diversified enter
tainment was in keeping with the
occasion. The outstanding feature
of the evening was the rendition
of five vocal solos by Sergeant
Bob Scott, who kept the audience
spellbound with his beautiful ten
or voice as he sang one Irish mel
ody after another. He was en
cored again and again.
After the whist games were
concluded and prizes awarded,
lunch was served. Then the floor
was cleared and Name’s own or
chestra, with Frank Schneider at
the piano, furnished delightful
music which was enjoyed by the
dancers.
It was a very well conducted
party. And although it seemed
that every inch of space was oc
cupied in the large Pioneer Hall
and the adjoining lodge room, ev
eryone was well taken care of.
The Catholic Ladies are to be
congratulated for furnishing such
a delightful evening of entertain
ment for so many people.
Prize winners were Mesdames
O’Studebaker, O’Rohn, O’Berriti
ni, and Ellen O’Waldheim. Gents:
O’Barber, McBayer, O’Freericks,
and Bob O’Scott.
The genuine imported Irish shil
laligh was given to Arvo Saario.
Genuine shamrocks from Ire
land arrived this morning by
P.A.A.
A postal card has the stamp
printed on it. Unstamped cards,
usually with pictures, are proper
ly called post cards.
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