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Does BIA Need A Bigger Vessel?
THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS has announced
that next year it needs a bigger ship to serve the
towns and villages in Alaska where they deliver gov
ernment freight and that the MS North Star is no longer
big enough for their business.
In the face of the fact that Twenty-Third Amend
ment to the Constitution of the United States, which
states that the Government of the United States shall
not engage in any business, profession, commercial,
etc., has already been approved by four states (Wyo
ming, Texas, Nevada and Lousiana) it does not seem
that this is the right time for the BIA to expand its
ocean transportation.
The Alaska Steamship Co. has indicated that it wants
and needs more cargo. R.C. Rose, traffic manager of
the Alaska Steamship Co., stated, “If BIA would use
our service to ports we regularly serve which includes
Unalakleet, Nome, Teller, and Kotzebue for their car
goes, they surely would have adequate space on the
North Star to serve the outports of Alaska.” The de
cline of mining, plus subsidized air transportation has
reduced the cargo from this area and “full ships create
more regular schedules and more frequent sailings”
stated another spokesman and both the Alaska Steam
ship Co. and the taxpayer would benefit by such an
arrangement.
Acquiring the 10,000-ton ship contemplated and
converting it to the Alaska operation will be an expen
sive job which is paid only by the taxpayer.
Other parts of Alaska are served by a connecting
road to the outside and do not feel the need of water
transportation as keenly as Northwestern Alaska in
its isolated status, but all Americans in the 50 states
feel the increasing tax bite keenly.
Once the BIA and the Alaska Steamship start
cooperating on their shipping routes, no doubt other
ports could be added to the commercial line to further
alleviate the North Star over-tonnage if necessary. In
creasing the Alaksa Steamship cargo could mean add
ing another sailing to the present summer schedule
which would be helpful to business in this area.
The Gettysburg Address,
Paraphrased Up To Date
From a San Franesico paper,
which took it from the S.D. Union
—the Gettysburg Address para
phrased up to date:
One score and 16 years ago our
fathers brought forth upon this
nation a new tax, concieved in
desperation and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are fair
game . . . Now we are engaged
in a great mass calculation, test
ing whether that taxpayer, or any
other taxpayer, so confused and
so impoverished, can long endure.
We are met on Form 1040. We
have come to dedicate a large
portion of our income to a final
resting place with those men who
have spent their lives so that they
may spend our money. It is alto
gether anguish and torture that
we should do this. But, in the
legal sense, we cannot evade, we
cannot cheat, we cannot underes
timate this tax. The collectors,
clever and sly, who computed it,
have gone far beyond our power
to add or subtract. Our creditors
will little note, nor long remem
ber, what we pay here. It is for
us, the taxpayers, rather to be
devoted here to the tax return
which the government has thus
far so nobly spent. It is rather
for us to be dedicated to the great
task remaining before us, that
from these vanishing dollars we
take increased devotion to the few
remaining, that we may highly
resolve that next year will not
find us in a higher bracket. That
this taxpayer, underpaid, shall
figure out more deductions and
that taxation, of the people, by
the Congress, and for the govern
ment, shall not cause our solvency
to perish.
KHRUSHCHEV SPEECH
BEFORE U.N. POSTPONED
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UP)—
U.N, officials announced that
Soviet Premier Khrushchev’s dis
armament address scheduled for
the General Assembly tonight, has
been postponed until tomorrow
afternoon.
The reason was that the As
sembly could not get to the dis
armament question in the evening
session.
Dinah's Zipper Pops
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Dinah
Shore’s zipper popped wide open
Sunday in the middle of a stren
uous folk dance during her live
TV show.
For a second her bare back was
on camera, although guest star
Red Skelton had warned her:
“Yo’d better not turn around.”
Dinah dashed off stage for re
pairs and returned to finish the
number.
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