Top o‘ The World Club 15
Memberships Part Of
AVA Tourist Program
The “Alaska Top o’ the World
Club” has its first official mcm
'ber. Membership consists of those
visitors to Alaska who are inter
viewed on Alaska radio or tele
vision stations.
Sponsored by the Alaska Visi
tors Association and the stations,
the visitors are given a handsome
certificate to prove their status
as “honorary Alaskan sourdoughs
and top o’ the world explorers.”
Sam N. Mercer of San Fran
cisco who is executive director of
the Pacific Area Travel Associa
tion, was interviewed on radio
station KNO in Juneau last month
and the was the first to receive
his certificate. He stopped over
enroute on a trip from Tokyo.
PATA is an organization which
promotes travel in the Pacific
area to which AVA belongs.
“It is expected that at least a
thousand of these certificates will
be given to visitors this season,”
Frank H. Whaley, AVA managing
director, has stated. He pointed
out that many of these attractive
certificates will be framed to hang I
on office and den walls to re
mind visitors of their Alaska trip.
This is part of an active Alaska
promotion campaign by the AVA
to stimulate the Alaska vistor in
dustry, he said.
The porcupine is equipped, even
before birth, with quills half an
inch long.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
"cab Will Cut
Alaska and N.C.A.
Mail Subsidies
WASHINGTON, iff)—'The Civil
Aeronautics Board has decided to
cut $96,000 from the annual mail
pay of Northern Consolidated Air
lines of Alaska.
The board also started a pro
ceeding designed to lower the
mail rates for Alaska Airlines.
The CAB took the actions Wed
nesday in the light of its “con
tinuing responsibility to review
outstanding mail rates in order to
guard against their becoming un
fair and unreasonable and to start
proceedings looking towards de
crease of such rates if they
become unreasonable.”
It proposed for the future year,
for Northern Consolidated, start
ing on Feb. 3, 1956, mail pay of
69.11 cents a revenue mile de
signed to yield $944,241. The CAB
said this would be about $96,000
less a year than the amount fore
cast in the previous mail rate es
tablished last July 8.
In its order starting a new mail,
rate preceedings for Alaska Air
lines, the CAB said that when it
set that airline’s final mail rates
last Jan. 12 it expected the rates
to provide the airline with $2,
072,417 in annual mail pay.
At a 10 per cent rate of return
on investment, this would have
given Alaska a net annual oper
ating income of $172,889.
The CAB said that Alaska re
ported a net operating income of
$199,375 for 1955. “It appears
Alaska’s financial circumstances
have improved and accordingly,
its subsidy requirement may have
diminished,” the CAB said.
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QUALITY DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Prompt and Courteous Service
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PHONE RED 96
Estimate 30,000
Tax Returns Will
i
Need ( Correcting
o
The District Director of Inter
nal Revenue has announced that
an estimated 30,000 taxpayers in
the state of Washington and Alas
ka will be% getting their income
tax returns back for correction.
The most common discrepancies
that require correction are:
1. Missing Signatures— Separ
ate returns must be signed by the
individual making the return.
Joint returns must be signed by
both husband and wife. A return
on which exemption credit is
claimed for both husband and
wife is considered a joint return.
Joint returns must include the
income of both husband and wife
even though the income of one
spouse was less than $600.
2. Missing Forms W-2 — All
Forms W-2 for w'ages and salaries
must be attached to the return to
support the amount of income and
tax withheld shown on the return.
3. Missing Schedules — All
schedules for use by taxpayers
deriving income from farming,
business or profession must be at
tached and made part of the re
turn.
4. Exemption Credit for De
pendents—The names of all de
pendent children should be listed
and their addresses if different
from the taxpayer’s. When claim
ing exemption credit for persons
other thai? wife and children, tax
payer must furnish complete^ in
formation in the schedule pro
vided on the return.
5. Exemption Credit for Hus
band and Wife — If exemption
credit claimed for both husband
and wife, both names should ap
pear in the caption and both must
sign the return.
Last minute checking of returns
for completeness will help to
avoid delay in processing.
()nly 11 Days
REMAIN TO FILE YOUR
Federal Income
Tax Return
WHY PUT IT OFF
—ANY LONGER?
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BANK OF ALASKA
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Nome 10:30 a.m. BST Fairbanks * 3:30 p.m. AST
WEDNESDAY
Leave Arrive
Fairbanks 6:00 a.m. AST Nome 12:40 pun. BST
Tanana, Hughes, traffic warranting. Scheduled stop Kotzebue
Nome 1:00 p.m. BST Fairbanks 6:30 p.m. AST
Stopping at Galena and Tanana, traffic warranting
THURSDAY and SATURDAY
Leave Arrive
Fairbanks 6:00 a.m. AST Nome 9:00 a.m. BST
Stopping at Galena, traffic warranting
Nome 9:20 a.m. BST Fairbanks 3:40 p.m. AST
Scheduled stop Kctzebue. Hughes, Tanana, traffic warranting
Connection PAA 904 Monday, Wednesday, Friday
BUSH FLIGHT TUESDAYS
Deering, Candle, Buckland, Kotzebue
Arrive Nome 11:40 a.m. Depart Nome 12*45 p^m.
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%_T Smoke Shop
and Arcade J
EVERYTHING IN THE TOBACCO LINE
SUNDAY, APRIL 8
10 A.M. TO 10 P.M.
In Connection with Cherry's Barber Shop
CHARLES MILLS, Owner and Manager