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A Division of Alaska Steamship Company
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As we welcome the New Year we
wish for you and yours a full
measure of health, happiness and
prosperity.
NEW YEAR GREETINGS
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i Gold Mining Output
; Increased in 1960
WASHINGTON UPi — Mine
production of gold in the United
States increased in 1960, revers
ing a four-year downward trend.
The Bureau of Mines today
estimated the output at 1.7 mil
lion ounces, valued at $58 mil
lion, a rise of about 3 per cent
over 1959.
The gain was attributed princi
pally to increased output of gold
as a by-product of copper mining
in Utah, Arizona and Montana.
This more than offset lower out
put from straight gold mining
operations.
The Bureau reported that mine
output of silver continued to de
cline for the fourth successive
year in 1960, reaching the lowest
peacetime level since 1935.
Apprentice Petty Officer Ipalook
From Kotzebue to Graduate
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (FHTNC)—
Gerald W. Ipalook, apprentice
petty officer first class, USN,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy P.
Ipalook of Kotzebue, Alaska, is
scheduled to graduate Jan. 13
from Recruit Training at the
Naval Training Center, San Diego,
Calif.
Apprentice petty officers are
chosen from the ranks of the sea
men recruits to assist Company
Commanders. The selection is
based on individual aptitude and
leadership qualities.
New Alaska
School Tax
Effective Jan. 1
Effective Jan. 1, 1961, a new
method for the payment of Alaska
School Tax will become law. Chap
ter 179, SLA 1960, provides in
part for the following basic
changes:
1. School tax will still be with
held by employers. No school tax
receipts will be issued. There
fore, during the year you will be
reqt\red to withhold school tax
from each employe, without re
gard to a school tax withheld by
another employer.
2. The use of the monthly school
tax listing sheet Will be discon
tinued.
3. At the end of each quarter,
a revised Income Tax and School
Tax Withholding form WR-501
will be filed which will provide
separate spaces for total Income
Tax withheld from wages and
total School Tax withheld from
each employe.
4. At the end of the year or
close of employment, whichever
is sooner, the employer will pre
pare a revised Form WR-500,
withholding statement, for each
individual employe, which will
indicate the amount of wages, in
come tax withheld and school tax
withheld.
5. Alter the close ot the cal
endar year and on or before April
15 on a revised Alaska Income
Tax and School Tax Return Dep
rev 600, each individual will
compute income tax liability in
the usual manner. In addition,
spaces will be provided for decla
ration and computation of school
tax liability. Likewise, appropri
ate spaces will be included to
show estimated tax payments
made by the individual, amount of
income tax withheld by employer,
and school tax withheld by the
employer. The aggregate tax paid
or withheld will be applied against
the combined Income and School
tax liability. Any resulting over
payments will be refunded in
the usual manner. Taxes due will
be paid as required under the
present income tax law.
Communist China Agriculture
Suffered Serious Adversities
TOKYO, —Communist China
said today that its agriculture in
1960 suffered from “serious nat
ural adversities without parallel
in the past 100 years.”
About 150 million acres of farm
land, or half Red China’s total
cultivated acreage, was reported
stricken by drought, typhoons and
floods of varying severity. More
than half of this acreage suffered
seriously, in many cases losing
entire harvests.
WHO HAS THE
RIGHT ANSWER ?
By Rev. L. E. Ost
Is the following only a coinci
dence, just a happening, an acci
dent? Or does it indicate that the
great Babylonian King, Nebu
chadnezzar, spoke more truth
than he realized when he said,
“This matter is by the decree
of the watchers, and the demand
by the word of the holy ones: To
the intent that the living may
know that the most high ruleth
in the kingdom of men, and
giveth it to whomsoever He will,
and setteth up over it the basest
of men”?
John Adams, our 2nd Presi
dent, died July 4. 1826.
Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd Pres
dent, died July 4, 1826.
James Madison, our 4th Presi
dent, died July 4, 1836.
And this:
The following Presidents were
elected twenty years apart suc
cessively and all died in office:
William Henry Harrison, 9th
President, elected 1840.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th Presi
dent, elected 1860.
James A. Garfield, 20th Presi
dent elected 1880.
William McKinley, 25th Pres
ident elected 1900.
Warren G. Harding, 29th Presi
dent, elected 1920.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd
President, elected 1940.
1960?