Senate Passed Bill
Gains Quicker
School Tax Funds
JUNEAU, i/Pi — The Senate
passed unanimously Monday a
bill to require payment of the
$10 annual school tax at the same
time Alaska income taxes are
paid.
Sen. A1 Owen, Uganik Bay
Democrat who heads the Senate
Finance Committee, said the bill
is designed to bring in about
$240,000 a year in school tax pay
ments that now go uncollected.
Part of the money will go for
pay increases for educators pro
vided in a bill which also passed
the Senate Monday on a 20-0 vote.
The pay increases would total
about 1 Vt million dollars. Owen
said $650,000 is expected to be
absorbed by administrative steps
designed to increase the average
number of pupils per classroom
without requiring the hiripg of
additional teachers.
Even so, Owen said some $610,
000 in new revenue will be needed
in the coming year to finance the
pay boosts.
The Finance Committee will
study methods of raising the
money.
The pay increases will mean a
minimum of $100 a year more in
the pay of beginning teachers and
up to 81,800 a year to experienced
teachers in the highest classifica
tions who have been in the Alaska
school system more than 12 years.
Salaries of school superinten
dents would be increased from
$1,000 to $1,900 a year. School
principals, who now receive $600
more annually than classroom
teachers, would move up along
with teachers in the various pay
brackets.
The bill would also establish
graduation among teacher ranks.
Those with bachelor degrees and
20 semester hours of graduate
study would receive $200 more
than teachers with the same ex
perience ratings and bachelor de
grees, but lacking the 20 hours
of additional study.
Owen said there was no doubt
the higher salary schedules would
cost more money, but said they
represented an investment in the
youth of the state that could not
be ignored.
Both bills now go to the House
where the salary increase measure
may encounter some difficulty.
House passage of both measures,
however, seems assured.
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House Carries Through j
Longest Day’s Work with I
Action on 11 Items
JUNEAU, OP) — Floor opposi- 1
tion was expressed on only one
bill Monday as the House handled
its longest calendar of the ses
sion, acting on 11 measures.
Six bills, three resolutions and
two memorials were approved.
The opposition came when five
lawmakers protested a bill to re
fer a study of a proposed state
ferry system to the Legislative
Council. Democrat Dora Sweeney
of Juneau said she felt including
a study of the feasibility of haul
ing freight in the service might
discourage private enterprise
from offering such service.
Two of the resolutions would:
Direct the Legislative Council
to make a comprehensive study
of the State’s bounty system.
Urge Warner Brothers Studio
to hold its World Premiere of the
motion picture, “Ice Palace,” in
Alaska.
The eighth and last Adminis
tration measure to set up Alaska’s
penal system was passed. It would
permit Alaska to be a party to
the interstate compact on run
away juveniles. The other seven
measures were passed last week
and sent to the Senate.
Five other bills, just out of
House committees, were also ap
proved. They would:
Give time off from jobs to vote.
Permit a $200,000 transfer from
the motor vehicle fund to the
water and harbor facilities fund.
Bring the election of judges un
der the proposed state election
code.
Prohibit the accumulation of
debris, as a safety measure.
Clarify requirements for the
annual assessment of labor on
state mining claims.
LEAPING BIRTHDAYS
SOMERVILLE, Mass., OP) —For
a man who has had but 25 birth
days, Roderick P. Lewis has quite
a family.
There are six daughters, four
sons, 36 grandchildren and 68
great grandchildren.
Lewis, a retired contractor, was
born on Feb. 29, 1856. Though he
is 104, he has celebrated a birth
day only on each leap year.
Lewis shared a cake with a
hundred relatives Sunday.
HIGH COST OF PITY
BALTIMORE,' OP) — Vernon
Sheppard made a homeless 65
year-old man his new night
watchman because he felt sorry
for him.
The man began work at 8 p.m.
Monday night. Five-and-a-half
hours later Sheppard looked for
him.
Sheppard is still looking today
—and also for the $3,000 the man
took with him when he left.
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West Notifies Reds
Berlin High Flights
Will he Resumed
BERLIN, I#) — The Soviet Em
bassy in East Berlin said yester
day resumption of high-altitude
flights to Berlin by Western Big
Three planes would be violating
past practices.
But an embassy spokesman de
clined to say whether Soviet fight
er planes would be sent up against
U. S., British or French planes
flying above the 10,000-foot ceiling
imposed by the Soviet Union on
isolated Berlin’s air corridors.
Soviet fighter planes buzzed but
did not attack U. S. supply planes
last April, when they defied the
ceiling rule. None of the Big
Three recognizes the ceiling.
The United States halted the
high altitude flights at the prompt
ing of the British, who feared a
serious incident. A report from
Washington Monday said the Al
lies are notifying Moscow of their
intention to resume the high alti
tude flights.
“If we can get something con
crete in the form of a note,” the
Soviet spokesman said, “then we
can talk about it. Naturally, we
would have to talk with our al
lies, especially the East Germans,
about it.”
He indicated that any high-al
titude flights would be considered
a violation of East Germany’s air
space.
The flights would have a double
purpose: To demonstrate that
giant C-130 cargo planes — which
fly more efficiently at altitudes
above 10,000 feet — could be used
to supply West Berlin, and to
show that the Allies would not
allow Moscow to dictate to them
on flight levels or anything else
involving Berlin.
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that the Fed
eral Aviation Agency has filed request
Fairbanks 023211 for the conveyance to
the State of Alaska for the Department
of Aviation, the following described
tract of public lands, pursuant to the
provisions of Section 16 of the Federal
Airport Act of May 13, 1946, (60 Stat.
170.49 U.S.C. 1115) for the construction,
operation and maintenance of a public
airport at:
SHAKTOOLIK, ALASKA
From the northeast corner of the
Shaktoolik School Building proceed
South 36° 40' East, a distance of approxi
mately 1,547 feet to a point which is the
northeast corner of the airport site, on
the west meander line of the the Dayou
manick River and Corner No. 1, the
point of beginning; thence South 55° 00'
West, a distance of approximately 280
feet to a point on the meander line of
the Norton Sound which is Corner No.
2; thence South 35° 30' East, approxi
mately 4,650 feet along the meander line
of Norton Sound to a point which is
Corner No. 3; thence North 55° 00' East
approximately 190 feet to a point on the
west meander line of the Dayoumanick
River which is Corner No. 4. thence
northerly apprximately 4,650 feet mean
dering along the southwest limit of the
Dayoumanick River to the point of
beginning.
This tract comprises approximately
25.0 acres.
The purpose of this notice is to give
persons claiming an interest in the lands
or having bonafide objection to the con
veyance, an opportunity to file with
the Manager. Fairbanks Land Office,
Bureau of Land Management, 516 Sec
ond Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska, within
30 days after the last publication, a
protest together with evidence that a
copy of the protest has been served on
the applicant.
D. B. LEIGHTON,
Acting Manager.
Publish March 2, 9, 16, 23.
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EVERY DAY
Gov. Egan Proclaims
Friday, March 4,
World Day of Prayer
The Governor of Alaska, Wil
liam A. Egan, urges by proclama
tion that the World Day of Prayer,
which is Friday, March 4, be ob
served throughout the state, as
it is throughout the world, where
humble people, regardless of race,
color or creed, living against a
background of international ten
sion and uncertainty, bow their
heads and lift up their hearts to
the Almighty in prayer."
The Governor urged that “Our
citizens, wherever possible, at
tend World Day of Prayer serv
ices, or to pause for a minute of
prayer at high noon, to ask the
Almighty to give us, in all our
humility, the guidance to meet and
solve the problems of our times.”
The World Day of Prayer was
started orignally in 1887, when
some Presbyterian women in the
United States designed a day of
prayer for home missions. This
grew, and different groups ap
pointed special days of prayer for
special purposes. In 1941, the Uni
ted Council of Church Women ac
cepted responsiblity for planning
and promoting the service. Now
the day is observed in more than
125 geographical areas abroad, and
in over 20,000 communities in the
United States
The World Day of Prayer is
observed all over the world, start
ing on the Tonga Islands, where
Queen Salote leads her devout
subjects in prayer, and continues
throughout the day, closing with
the observance at St. Lawrence
Island. As Nome is in the same
time zone as St. Lawrence Is
land, the evening service at the
Community Methodist Church at
7:30 will probably be where the
Day of Prayer ends.
This service is held through the
co-operation of six of the local
Protestant churches: Methodist,
Lutheran, Covenant, Nazarene,
Assembly of God, and Nome Gos
pel Home, under the sponsorship
of the United Church Women of
the National Council of Churches.
The service will include organ
music toy Harriet Brown, vocal
offertory music toy the Covenant
trio. Ushers will be Lutheran
Women; altar decorations by the
Nazarene women, programs by
the Methodist Women, and bene
diction by Miss Maxine Book.
Under the auspices of the Nome
Ministerial Association, a noon
service will be held at the Naza
rene from 12 to 1 p.m., in which
all seven Protestant churches will
participate. This is open to the
public.
PETE X. PETERSON WILL BE
86 ON MARCH 28
Pete X. Peterson is among the
guests of the Pioneer Home who
will celebrate birthdays in March.
Peter X. will be 86 years old on
March 28.
Anyone interested in cheering
the folks away from home, are
urged to send birthday cards to
the following:
With a birthday on March 3 —
Joseph C. Goyer, born 1879, en
tered the Poneer Home from
Seldovia; Angus McDonald, 1885,
Palmer; March 5 — Mrs. Jessie
Mather, 1881, Eagle; 7—Mrs. Con
stance Smith, 1880, Mt. Edge
cumbe; 9—Wm. Howell, 1878,
Cordova; Mrs. Lillian Strutz,
1881, Ketchikan; 12—Wm. Patter
son, 1881, Seward; 13—Cyriele
Verhaeghe, 1885, Nenana; 15 —
Ruby Philips, 1891, Fairbanks; 16
— Anton Joseph Shimkus, 1886,
Ketchikan; 20—Carl R. Holm,
1891, Petersburg; Ole Robben,
1882, Ketchikan;
March 21 — Alfred Gregerson,
1877, Palmer; Arthur Marzan,
1874, Kodiak; 25—Oswald Willis,
1868, Sleetmute; 28 — Peter G.
Peterson, 1874, Nome; 29 — Fes
tistes E. Omo, 1874, Eagle; Rachel
Zuidhof, 1896, Anchorage.
SNOWDRIFT COMFORT1
DETROIT, UP) — Police spotted
a car stuck in a snowdrift here
and offered assistance
The owner, James M. Atkins, 46,
was inside, calmly mixing a
cocktail.
Brought into traffic court on a
charge of driving without a li
cense, Atkins said he was not the
driver. His wife had given the
keys to a friend to drive him
home. The friend had gone for
a tow car.
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