Gavels Bang In Both House and Senate
. . . H'61 State Legislature Adjourns
Bo Ward Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer
Juneau w — The second
Stale Legislature called it quits
for another year early Thursday,
after okaying the largest budget
in Alaska’s history and boosting
taxes by $3.6 million a year.
The 74-day session faded into
history at 2:08 a. m. when House
Speaker Warren Taylor banged
the gavel to send the House into
adjournment until Jan. 22, 1962.
The Senate had adjourned 20
minutes earlier, when Senate
President Frank Peratrovich rap
ped his gavel for the last time this
year.
The general appropriations bill
for fiscal 1962, as finally approved
by the House and the Senate, call
ed for state expenditures of $56,
734,000 during the period from
next July 1 until June 30, 1962.
Of that amount, approximately
$52,094,000 will come from gen
eral fund revenues, federal transi
tional grants and surplus funds
and $3,640,000 will come from
new taxes added by the 1961 ses
sion.
The Democratic leadership of
the ’61 session formulated and
pushed through, during the clos
ing days, a tax program calling
for increases in the cigarette tax,
the liquor taxes, motor vehicle
license fees, highway gasoline
taxes and the state individual net
income tax.
In a surprise, last-minute
amendment to the income tax
boost, the Legislature wrote in an
applicable date of Jan. 1, 1961.
That means that income received
during the current calendar year
will be subject to the increase.
The Democrats said the tax
boosts were necessary to head off
a financial crisis expected during
fiscal 1963, when the state will
drop federal transitional grants
and federal highway construction
and maintenance monies.
Various estimates have placed
the difference between income
and outgo during the fiscal 1963,
based on the cost of maintaining
present state services at their cur
rent level, between $10 and $15.5
million.
Gov. Egan, in his budget mes
sage to the Legislature three days
before it adjourned, said the state
would be facing a $15.5 financial
problem in fiscal 1963.
Salary increases for teachers
will take a $975,000 bite out of
the fiscal 1962 budget, with fed
eral and local funds swelling the
salary boost for teachers to some
$1.5 million.
A spokesman for the Alaska
Education Assn., Nicholas Begich.
said the organization was “elated”
with the increase the teachers re
ceived “but we agree with every
member of the Joint Finance Com
mittee that this salary increase
is only a stop gap measure.”
Egan was a* top-heavy winner
in getting most of the program
he had requested. He did fail to
get requested increases in the
weekly employment security bene
fit amount and weekly employ
ment security benefit period.
He also failed to win legisla
tive approval of executive re- j
quests that state workers be given !
employment security coverage j
and for pre-election registration
of voters in the heavily populated
election districts.
Labor was the big loser in the
session just ended. Not one major
piece of labor legislation was
passed. Lewis Dischner, lobbyist
for the Alaska Council of Team
sters. and Henry Hedberg, lobby
ist for the State Federation of
Labor, put it simply:
“The first session of the second
State Legislature of Alaska ac
complished nothing for the work
ing people of the state.”
The Legislature did propel the
state into tlhe ferry business, ap
proving a bill implementing the
sale of $23 million in general ob- ;
ligation bonds to establish a ferry
system to serve Southeast Alaska
and Kodiak Island.
And the 1961 session turned its
back on two years of legislative
delay and provided for the estab
lishment of a borough system of
local government, as directed in
the State Constitution.
Republicans fought the tax in
creases to the bitter end, but,
with a 22-18 advantage in the
House and a 13-7 margin in the
Senate, the Democrats pushed the
tax program through despite Re
publican delaying tactics.
Sen. John McNess, in one of
the final speeches of the session,
told the Senate:
“It is wise that we are provid
ing now for the financial prob
lems which we will face in fiscal
1963. If we didn’t take the step
we are taking now, we would face
compounded taxes next year. I
am proud of the Democratic party
for facing up to the financial
problems of the state in this man
ner.”
And soft-spoken Sen. Jack
Weise <R-Bethel> took the floor
as he rarely did and answered:
‘This tax program is the most
moral tax program in the history
of Alaska, if it weren’t for one
gimmick.
“By the sigarette tax we in
duce people to stop smoking. By
the liquor tax we induce them to
stop drinking. By the motor ve
hicle license fee increase and the
highway gas tax boost we induce
them to stop motoring.
“Now, after they have saved
all that money, here’s the gim
mick: We take it all away by up
ping the income tax.”
NEW BOOKS AT
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New books which have been re
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this week are:
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Blood On the Arctic Snow by
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Conscience of a Conservative by
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Wastemakers by Packard.
Ladies Home Journal Cookbook.
Snake Has All the Lines by
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Featuring a total of 181 tours
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The copyrighted 40-page com
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JUNEAU (A*) — A resolution
asking t h e establishment of
branches of the State Division of
Highways at Nome, Fairbanks and
Anchorage received the approval
of the Senate Wednesday.
Under the provisions of the reso
lution the branches would contain
planning, engineering, design and
right of way sections. A Central
Review Office would be main
tained in Juneau.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
No. 1112
NOTICE OF HEARING ON
FINAL REPORT AND ACCOUNT AND
DETERMINATION OF INHERITANCE
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
EDWARD WEBSTER. Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Gordon Osborne, of Kotzebue. Alaska,
Administrator, has filed his Final Re
port and Account, and that the 15th day
of May, 19(11, at the hour of 2:00 p.m.,
of said day, in the above-named court,
Nome, Alaska, has by Court Order been
fixed as the time and place for a hear
ing on said Report and Account; and
also, at such time and place the Court
will determine and adjudicate the bene
ficiaries of this estate.
Objections, if any there be, to said
Report, and Account will be heard at
this time.
Dated this 14th day of March, 1901.
GORDON OSBORNE,
Administrator
Virgil D. Vochoska
Attorney for Administrator
Publish March 17. 24, 31, April 7, 1961
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
No. 60-7-P
NOTICE OF HEARING ON
FIRST AND FINAL ACCOUNT AND
DETERMINATION OF INHERITANCE
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
MARY JANE JEFFFORD, Deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mrs.
J. H. Alexander, of Nome, Alaska. E e
cutrix herein, his filed her First and
Final Report and Account, and that the
15th day of May. 1961, at the hour of
2:00 p.m., of said day. in the above
named Court, Nome, Alaska, has by
Court Order been fixed as the time and
place for a hearing on said Report and
Account; and also, at such time and
place the Court will determine and ad
judicate the beneficiaries of this estate.
Objections, if any there be to said Re
port and Account, and proof of heirship
will be heard at this time.
Dated this 13th day of March, 1961.
MRS. J. H. ALEXANDER,
Executrix.
Virgil D. Vochoska
Attorney for Administratrix
Publish March 17, 24, 31, April 7, 1961
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Answer to Crossword Puzzle
REV. CARL OPSAHL
ARRIVES IN NOME
Rev. Carl Opsahl, a member of
the Commission on Evangelism of
the American Lutheran Church,
arrived in Nome today. He will
be conducting a series of special
preaching services in Nome and
vicinity. He will be in Shishmaref
Aptil 9 through April 13. He will
then travel to Teller and be there
April 14 through April 21.
Rev. Opsahl is a native of
Avoca, Minn. He obtained his
degree from Luther Theological ;
Seminary. He has served parish- !
es in Montana, Iowa and Minne
sota before joining the Evange
lism staff.
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At Demo Fund-Raising Dinner
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nedy will celebrate his 44th birth- i
day May 29 at a Democratic fund- j
raising dinner expected to be at- j
tended by 5,000 at Boston’s Com- j
monwealth Armory.
"HONEYMOON MONEY" . . .
RICHMOND, Va. UPI — The fed
eral tax collector here has a ro
mantic streak in his make-up.
C. W. Glotzbach, Internal Rev
enue Director, said he plans to
expedite a request from a female
taxpayer who attached the fol
lowing note to an income tax re
fund claim for $33: “Rush! Rush!
Rush! This is honeymoon money.”
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