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Powers of The Grand Jury . . .
THE GRAND JURY goes into session this week. The
citizens whose names have been drawn have a
bigger responsibility than many of them realize be
cause the Grand Jury has great power.
This group can follow the advise and suggestions
of the District Attorney, but they are a power unto
themselves. They can summon their witnesses and
conduct investigations on alleged crime and bring for
mal charges against persons when the evidence pre
sents proof of crime.
It is their duty by extensive powers granted them
to do these things through the enforcement of law to
see that the public welfare and safety is properly
protected.
It is a responsibility that every eligible adult
should accept and not try to dodge and an experience
from Which each person participating will learn a lot
about his fellow men and what makes them do the
things they do. If justice is to be done, each must take
his part.
WEST POINT, Miss., Leader: “When Social Se
curity taxes were first levied in 1937, the maximum
combined annual tax on employer and employe
amounted to $60—or $30 each. By 1969, the combined
tax on employers and employes will be $432— or $216
each. Since 1957, when more people became benefici
aries, the Trust Fund has been declining because it
ihas been paying out more than it received. The deficit
in 1959 amounted to 11.7 billion.
“Social Security cannot continue to go up and
still be security.” _
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Alaska Asks For
Aid lo Participate
In Cenlury 21
JUNEAU UP) — The Seattle
Chamber of Commerce was asked
to join with Alaska on a matching
basis to raise funds for Alaska’s
participation in Seattle’s Century
21 Exposition next year.
The request was sent to the
Seattle Chamber by President
Frank Peratrovieh, of the Senate;
House Speaker Warren Taylor;
and Rep. Pete Deveau, House
Majority Leader.
The three Allaska legislators
said they decided to send the mes
sage after the State Senate turn
ed down a proposed $450,000 ap
propriation to help finance Alas
ka’s participation in the show.
The telegram to the Seattle
Chamber said:
“$450,000 appropriation bill for
Alaska participation in Century
21 killed in Senate. Underlying
reason for this action was lack
of funds during this critical tran
sition period.
“Alaska participation in Century
21 would be a great attraction
and contribution materially to its
success. Mutual business interest
now and in the future makes it
imperative financing of Alaska’s
participation in Century 21 be
solved.
“Would your chamber join with
Alaska in raising funds for this
purpose on a 50-50 basis. If so a
reduced program could be mutual
ly agreed upon and another at
tempt made to obtain Alaska ap
propriation and/or contributions
in reduced amount.
“Advise if you can join with
us on this project which will
benefit Seattle and Alaska for
years to come.”
Action Reversed on
Move of Key Sections
Of Highwav Department
JUNEAU UP> — The State Sen
ate Friday reversed its action in
tabling a bill which would move
several key sections of the State
Division of Highways from Ju
neau to Westward Alaska.
After taking the bill from the
table, the upper chamber amend
ed it to require that the right-of
way, engineering, planning and I
design sections of the division be
relocated in Anchorage or Fair
banks by next Sept. 1.
The vote was 13-7 to remove
the bill from the table and 12-8
on the amendment, offered by
Sen. George McNabb, who also
asked reconsideration of the Sen
ate’s tabling vote of Thursday.
Proponents of the amended bill
couldn’t muster the two-thirds
strength to advance it to final
passage, however, and it was sent
to the Engrossment and Enroll
ment Committee. It will be sched
uled for a vote on final passage
later.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY . . .
Students have been working
their way through college for
years. This is a good time for the
colleges to try to work their way
through some of the students.
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One-Cent Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Hike
Would Start Highway Program Rolling
By Ward Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU UP — A one-cent in
crease in the motor vehicle fuel
tax was proposed in the Senate
Friday as a means of getting the
state’s partially stalled highway
program back into high gear.
The fuel tax increase, proposed
in a bill introduced by the Fed
eral Relations Committee, would
boost the tax on each gallon of
highway fuel to three cents.
The half-million dollars it will
raise will be used to remove
utility poles from the rights of
way of new highways being con
structed in the state. The state
is hoping to get the money re
funded.
Sen. R. J. McNealy, chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Committee,
said the joint Senate and House
Finance and Judiciary Commit
tee have been studying the prob
lem for several weeks.
The combined committees this
week met with representatives of
some 26 utilities and rural elec
tric associations from Ketchikan
to Kotzebue in an effort to reach
a solution.
‘Tt’s a problem that dates back
KITE CAUSES PLANES TO
SWITCH LANDING APPROACH
SAN JOSE, Calif. UP — A large
red kite with a long white tail
dipped and bobbed about 500 feet
over Municipal Airport Friday.
It caused airliners and private
planes suddenly to switch their
landing approach patterns to miss
it.
Irate pilots complained to the
tower and the tower complained
to the police. It took police 25
minutes to locate the young kite
flyer. The kite was hauled down.
VERY BUSY MAN . . .
DOVER. Del. UP — If Lawrence
W. Betts isn’t the busiest man in
nearby Frederica is isn’t because
he doesn’t have enough jobs.
The governing board of this
town of 500 to 600, about 10 miles
south of here, held its annual
meeting. Betts was reappointed
chief of police, secretary, tax col
lector and assessor,
He also was named to serve
with Mayor W. E. Holleger on the
Health and Welfare Committee.
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to the days when the Bureau of
Public Roads was in charge of
Alaska’s roads and the utility
companies constructed power lines
■ and telephone and telegraph lines
! along the rights of way,” Mc
I Nealy said.
“In some instances, the utilities
had permits to do so and in other
I instances they did not.
“When the state took over its
own road program, we found that
in order to receive federal high
way aid funds, our rights of way
had to be a certain width and
that utility poles were not per
mitted within a certain number
of feet from the roadbed.”
Highway engineers discovered,
McNealy said, that if they were
to use roadbeds for construction
of new highways, a “good many
telephone and power lines would
have to be moved, especially in the
Fairbanks, Homer and Anchor
age areas.”
Because the state did not have
the money to move the utility
poles and the utilities themselves
said they were financially unable
to do so, road projects totaling
some $7 or $8 million dollars
ground to a halt.
ELECTRIC DOOR HAS
NERVOUS HABITS . . .
LITTLETON, Colo. UPl — The
radio-controlled door on Kermit
Axsom’s garage works fine, just
fine, during the daytime.
It’s only at night that it does
funny things. Such as going up
and down like a yo-yo.
Axsom finally decided the door’s
nervous habits resulted from
nightime testing of inter-conti
nental balistic missiles at the Mar
tin Co. plant a few miles away.
When engineers there test dry-run
missiles, they sometimes use fre
quencies tuned to that of Axsom’s
garage door.
SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT . . .
MIAMI, Fla. There was a shock
ing development in Miami’s
weather Friday.
Walking across carpeted floors,
sliding across auto seats and
brushing of hair produced shocks
from static electricity as the rel
| ative humidity dropped to 15 per
| cent, just one point above the
| city’s all-time low.
Miami’s average annual after
noon humidity is 60 per cent.
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