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DOING HIS GROUND WORK
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Too Much ‘Emergency’
TELEPHONE USERS found stuffers in their
statements this month, calling attention to the
telephone excise tax passed by Congress as an
emergency war measure back in 1941, and urging that
it be repealed, because this tax discriminates unfairly
against you, the user.
The emergency ended, but not the tax — which
adds 10 per cent to telephone bills as a luxury, when
telephones can be classed as necessities.
This is a clear example that a tax once established
is almost impossible to cancel out.
Americans are being taxed out of industrial devel
opment, and foreign cars, watches industrial machin
ery and items too numerous to mention are being im
ported in alarmingly increasing proportions each year.
Alaskan legislators should set the example, by
careful examination of every tax meaure they handle
this next month, to protect the people they represent
against taxing them out of enticing new industry to
invest in the new State. A good place to start will be
with the ESC bill.
— TODAY HAS BEEN SET ASIDE AS —
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
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Has Your Religion Changed Your Life ? ? ?
— THE BIBLE SAYS —
"Therefore, If Any Man be in Christ, He is a New Creature:
Old Things are Passed Away; Behold All Things Are Become
New." — 2 Corinthians 5:17.
•fa If Spirtual Things have not become New to You —
•fa If Your Old Life has not Passed Away —
^ If Christ has not made You a New Person —
— THEN —
RELIGION HAS DONE NOTHING FOR YOU!
This Prayer Should be Yours Today !
• To ask God to forgive you your sins and
• To save you for Jesus' sake.
— MAY GOD HELP YOU TO CALL ON HIM TODAY —
— Rev. Bob Leighl
Lyndon Johnson,
Symington Give
Silent Assent
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon John
son of Texas and Sen. Stuart Sy
mington (D-Mo) are offical candi
dates now for the Democratic
Presidential nomination.
The two Presidential hopefuls
backed into the race Wednesday
with separate announcements they
would not withdraw their names
from the May 20 Oregon Presi
dential primary. Both still avoided
any direct statements that they
are candidates.
Johnson said he was too in
volved in the Senate filibuster on
civil rights to give any attention
to outside political matters. But
he said he has “no plans to act
in any way on the Oregon action.”
This meant he would not file
an affidavit with the Oregon Sec
retary of State to take his name
off the ballot. Oregon law re
quires that all nationally recog
nized candidates be named. They
can withdraw only by filing a
statement disavowing candidacy.
Johnson’s southern support has
been shaken by his action in
bringing the civil rights issue be
fore the Senate. Some of his Dixie
colleagues have sent word to him
they don’t think they can hold
their state delegations for him if
he eventually votes for a debate
limitation to end the current
southern filibuster, which he may
have to do.
Without strong southern back
ing, Johnson may not be in a po
sition to challenge Sen. John F.
Kennedy (D-Mass), an announced
candidate. Kennedy has been say
ing recently that Johnson is his
biggest rival.
Kennedy’s name, put into the
Oregon contest by the State Sec
retary of State, will stay there
along with those of Sen. Hubert
Humphrey (D-Minn) and Sen.
Wayne Morse <D-Ore>.
Chessman’s New Date
With Death Set for May 2
LOS ANGELES, UP) — Caryl
Chessman’s new appointment
with the gas chamber is May 2.
Superior Judge Clement D. Nye
set the date Wednesday for the
condemned sex terrorist over the
vigorous objections of Chessman’s
attorneys. The lawyers claimed a
new execution date could not be
set until a 60-day reprieve,
granted Feb. 19, by Gov. Edmund
G. Brown, has expired. Nye said
sentence is legal because the new
execution date is after the end of
the 60-day period.
In San Quentin, where Chess
man has eluded execution for
11 V£ years with a series of court
appeals, the convict-author com
mented: “It doesn’t look as if I’ll
reach the age of Jack Benny.”
The famed comedian, who is
66, for years has jokingly claimed
he is 39. Chessman will be 39 on
May 27.
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Gruening Reluctantly Ok’s
Appointment of Oregonian
To Maritime Board
WASHINGTON, UR — Sen. Er
nest Gruening wants Sen. Rich
ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore) to know
he is not delyaing confirmation
of Sigfrid B. Unander as a mem
ber of the Federal Maritime
Board.
A telegram from Neuberger this
week said: “I am . . . disappointed
to learn you are continuing to de
lay the confirmation of Sigfrid
Unander of Portland.”
Gruening has been unable to
reach Neuberger in Portland. He
said he thinks Unander “very
poorly qualifed” for the post but
he does not intend “any all-out
fight” against confirmation.
Both Gruening and Sen. Bob
Bartlett have been critical of the
board’s decision in January to
allow a 10 per cent water freight
rate increase to go into effect in
Alaska pending a hering.
Neuberger told Gruening he is
“satisfied and confident” that
Unander will be “profoundly sym
pathetic to the Alaska economic
and shipping problems which so
urgently cry out for fair and
early solution.”
Length of Time Stray Dogs
Are Kept will be Up to
Cities, Under New Law
JUNEAU, W) — The House ap
proved 31-5 Wednesday a bill to
give cities discretion in the
amount of time stray dogs are
kept in city pounds.
The measure passed the Senate
eariler, but must go back there
for concurrence in minor changes
made by the House.
Some House members argued
against the bill on grounds that
ending the present state-imposed
dog-pounding period of 10 days
would tempt some cities to pro
vide for an impounding period of
no time at all.
Alaska, Hawaii
Seek Funds for
Ferry Approaches
WASHINGTON, Iff) — A bid for
use of federal highway funds for
ferry approach roads and facili
ties in Alaska and Hawaii was
made before the House Roads Sub
committee this week.
Representatives of the two new
states pointed out that conditions
in each are unique because many
sections are separated by water,
making use of ferries necessary.
Bills by Representatives Ralph
Rivers and Laniel K. Inouye (D
Hawaii) would amend present
highway law, which does not al
low use of road funds for non
road purposes.
“We look on the ferry system
as a marine highway,” needed in
Southeastern Alaska, Robert. E.
Sharp, president of the South
eastern (Alaska) Conference, told
the committee.
Inouye said it is “utterly im
possible” to connect the Hawaian
Islands by highways.
Richard A. Downing, Alaska
Commissioner of Public Works,
noted that present law permits use
of federal highway money to fi
nance approaches to toll bridges,
tunnels and super highways un
der certain conditions.
Approaches to ferries could be
classified as a road approach to
a bridge, he said.
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