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In Alaska Legislature
House Passes Bill
To Give Cities Aid
To Build Hospitals
JUNEAU, UP)— The House passed
a bill Wednesday afternoon to
clear the way for cities to estab
lish and operate hospitals and get
territorial financial aid for them.
Waino Hendrickson (R-Juneau)
explained it was drawn for the
special benefit of Petersburg and
Sitka, where the communities
were building, operating or plan
• ning hospitals.
The House sidetracked two oth
er bills during the day. One was
a $100 monthly old age pension
measure introduced by the four
Democrats in the House, Theodore
Duffield and Charles Fagerstrom
of Nome, Wendell Kay of Anchor
age, and Richard Greuel of Fair
banks. It was killed by indefinite
postponement.
A proposal that personal prop
' erty tax exemption should be in
creased brought a brief argument
on the floor. While the bill was to
enable second class cities to enact
a two percent sales tax after local
referendum was before the lower
chamber, M. D. Snodgrass <R-An
chorage) proposed raising the ex
emption to $200, then changed it
to $500.
“There is nothing the people
dislike so much as that personal
property tax,” Snodgrass told the
House. “They would go' for a sales
tax in Anchorage if the property
tax exemption were raised.”
Snodgrass failed to pick up
support, however, as half a dozen
legislators argued that the person
al property tax was the only one
paid by many short-term resi
dents.
They also argued it was the
* wrong bill in which to try to in
sert a change.
A memorial introduced by Pol
lock and Duffield protested appli
cation of the McCarran Immigra
tion Act to Alasa.
The memorial declared that the
screening of persons entering the
United States from Alaska, but
not screening entries into the ter
ritory threatens to make Alaska a
‘collecting point for undesirables,’
■when Alaska actually is a vital
' military area.
Other memorials introduced in
clude:
By Kay and Herald Stringer <R
Anchorage), asking Secretary of
the Interior McKay to require
processing of Pribilof fur seals in
Alaska instead of in St. Louis;
By the Transportation Commit
tee, asking Congress to provide
for camping and recreational fac
ilities along the territory’s high
. ways.
NOTICE TO MOTORISTS
Motor vehicle drivers are given
until MARCH 1st to secure their
City Driver's License and car
sticker. Chauffeur Licenses of
taxis or cabs are also required by
that date. Anyone driving without
them is subject to arrest and a
fine. —Clyde D. Glass
Chief of Police
Pub. Feb. 13, 20, 27, 1953
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All Aboard for Russia!
Authentic information now is
coming out of the Soviet Union,
from behind the Iron Curtain,
giving striking evidence of the
complete failure of Socialism’s
key promise—to provide a para
dise for the wage earners. That
was Karl Marx’s rallying cry and
it has been the bait dangled be
fore the wage earners by all So
cialists in America and abroad
since Marx wrote his “Communist
Manifesto.”
Socialism’s rosy promise to the
wage earners, ironically, has failed
most miserably in Russia, the very
country which holds itself up as
the perfect example of 100 per
cent government ownership of the
tools of production and distribu
tion. And it has had 35 years of
trial and error in Russia, under
the most rigid application of pure
Socialism, to prove its case.
Documented Facts
Anxious to get some concrete
documentation on the failure of
the Socialist economic system in
Russia to raise the living stan
dard of the wage earners, I wrote
our State Department in Washing
ton, requesting authentic facts
from behind the Iron Curtain.
They have supplied the facts,
and the picture they paint of the
workers’ plight under government
ownership of the production and
distribution facilities ought to
convince any American that So
cialism is the worst possible way
of life.
The Toilers
In 35 years finder government
! ownership, here’s what our State
Department reports:
“Soviet workers have to put up
j with whatever labor conditions
their one and only employer (the
j state) dictates. Wages are fixed
So are prices and working hours
' Labor discipline is strict and any
breach of its numberless provi
sions is severely punished. All
jobs are frozen. . . ”
The Payoff
The $64 question is: Has the
j sweat and toil of the Soviet work
! er, not to mention his loss of free
| dom, been compensated by a bet
j ter economic life, a higher stan
dard of living? The answer is a
big NO!
There has been no improve
ment in the living standard since
the Socialist government took
over all private property 35 years
ago. Today the Russian factory
worker must work nearly an hour
to earn enough to buy a pound oi
potatoes. Under privately-owned
competitive enterprise, the Amer
ican factory worker does it ir
two minutes.
All food items present similar
comparisons. Housing is another
example. As many as three fam
ilies live in three- ,and four-roorr
j houses or apartments in poverty
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Mostly cloudy today and Satur
day with light northeast winds.
The lowest temperature expec
ted tonight 0, highest Saturday 15.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
22, low 4. Max. wind 16 mph from
the NNE. Sunrise at 7:42 a.m.,
sunset at 4:51 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 25, low 17. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 35 in 1940,
low -31 in 1947.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -26 Clear
Kotzebue -10 Part cloudy
Gambell -12 Part cloudy
Nome 5 Cloudy
Unalakleet 6 Part cloudy
Bethel 11 Cloudy
McGrath 20 Cloudy
Anchorage 35 Cloudy
Fairbanks 28 Cloudy
Whitehorse 31 Cloudy
Edmonton 6 Part cloudy
Juneau 36 Cloudy
Seattle 40 Part cloudy
stricken atmosphere. The clothes
of the average Russian worker are
pitifully poor.
State Not Withdrawing
Instead of the state gradually
withering away, as Marx prom
ised, it gets more powerful and
brutal. A powerful bureaucratic
class has grown up. In it are sel
ected members of the 'Communist
Party which numbers only 6,000,
000 members. These rulers live
richly. The other 194,000,000 Rus
sians are economic slaves. This is
full Socialism in practice — gov
ernment ownership. The facts
should alert all Americans, es
pecially wage earners, to resist
further government encroachment
into the realm of production and
distribution. That is the road of
economic slavery.
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Alaska Development Held
Back by Delay in Settling
Natives’ Claims to Land
WASHINGTON, <tf> — Delay in
settling claims cff natives to land
is retarding the development of
Alaska, a House Insular Affairs
subcommittee was told Thursday.
Rep. D’Eward (R-Mont) urged
the group to approve a bill pro
viding for settlement of all claims
to land.
Under the bill all claims would
be decided by the court of claims.
These could be presented by either
individuals or any community of
Indians, Eskimos or other natives.
Commissioner Dillon S. Myer
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
supported the bill. He said it
should b e definitely decided
whether the great majority of the
land in Alaska is public lands or
what, if any, rights the natives
have to it.
He proposes that m cases where
the Secretary of the Interior de
termines the native is incompe
tent to handle his business affairs,
a restrictive patent fee should be
granted.
This would allow the depart
ment for not more than 20 years
to protect the native, he said.
Myer said that in the event oil
or other minerals were discovered
in Alaska this would help to pro
tect the native against disposing
of his land at a price far below
its worth.
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