2 THE NOME NUGGET Friday. October 10. 1992
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OUR EVER-INCREASING TAX BURDEN
During the seven year since World War II, Amer
cans have paid into the Federal treasury a total of
more than $300 billion in taxes. This is about $50 billion
more than was collected by the Federal government in
taxes during the entire history of this nation prior to
this seven year period.
While most of us realize how much we pay each
year in income taxes, very few of us have any idea how
much we pay in hidden taxes. According to the Na
tional Industrial Conference Board, a private research
agency, taxes paid on income are far less than hidden
taxes.
“Hidden taxes,” according to the agency, “are such
things as the property tax your landlord pays directly
but that you pay actually as part of your rent, or the
taxes that a manufacturer pays directly but that you
actually pay as part of the price of his product.” -
The prospect for 1952 is that taxes will take $80
billion, or more than $16 billion more than 1951. The
tax take in 1952 is about 25 per cent over that paid
in the fiscal year ending as the Korean war began.
JAIL FOR REDS
United States District Judge William C. Mathes,
recently made the threat of the Communists very plain
when he called them “anarchists.” The judge said that
they defied all law except the law they wanted to
obey, which is characteristic of the Communist men
tality.
Judge Mathes imposed five-year prison terms and
$10,000 fines on 14 California Communists, who were,
n the Court’s opinion, teaching and advocating the
overthrow of the Crovernment by force and violence.
Coming on the heels of another Court decision, in
New York, where another group of Communists was
sentenced to jail terms, the Court action is impressive.
‘ It shows clearly, to all who wish to observe the trend,
that the judicial system in the United States is capable
of jailing enemies among us who would overthrow our
government, in favor of a foreign ideology, by means
of force and violence.
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The span of life is too short for any man to
learn enough to brag about.
Health hint: If you believe your doctor, do what
he advises; if you don’t believe him, do what he advises.
Aircraft To Reach
Production Peak
In December, 1952
LOS ANGELES — More than
i 10,000 military planes have been
| delivered to the nation’s air ser
I vices in the two critical years
! since the outbreak of the Korean
War, Admiral DeWitt C. Ramsey,
President of Aircraft Industries
Association, disclosed recently.
He further revealed the fact
that the aircraft industry will
reach its production peak in De
cember, 1952, when it will be
turning out between 1,000 and
1,100 planes per month for the
military. However, he added, out
put of airframe weight “will con
tinue to rise for several months
after that, as production of some
types of liaison and training
planes is completed and as deliv
eries of the heavier fighters and
bombers increase.”
At present, the over-all month
ly production rate of military
planes has increased by more than
four times, and production of
fighters and bombers for the Air
Force has been multiplied by five
times since hostilities began in
Korea.
However, Adm. Ramsey point
ed out, the aircraft industry is not
producing as many planes • as it
could build, nor do the current
schedules indicate that it will be
called upon to produce to the lim
its of its capacity in the near fu
ture. He explained that a series
of reductions in production sched
ules were made as the result of
evaluation by top mobilization
planners of the nation’s economic,
civil and military needs.
Declaring that schedule fluctu
ations prevent efficient long -
range planning, Admiral Ramsey
advocated the establishment of
specific long-range targets as the
most economical and most logical
approach to the problem of pro
viding the military with adequate
quantities of superior aircraft.
“With these fixed goals, and
adequate priorities for production
resources,” he said, “the aircraft
industry can deliver the world’s
best military planes in the num
bers and at the time required.”
DONT MISS THE —
Navigators Meeting
TONIGHT AT 7:30 PM.
AT THE COVENANT CHURCH
Inspirational Message in the
pep singing of songs and chor
uses. interspersed by other vo
cal selection.
Special Message, delving into
the reality of the Navigators'
theme. "Fishers of Men,"
And special Musical Trills on
the Trumpet by Rev. Donald
Buckner.
Canadian Killer Ships
Catch 451 Whales to Keep
B.C. Company in Business
VANCOUVER, B.C., (A>)—Five
rust - covered killer ships were
back at home base here Wednes
day boasting a post-war record
catch of 451 whales.
The 250 - ton vessels, British
Columbia’s entire whaling fleet,
sailed from Vancouver in May on
a $2,000,000 gamble. It was either
come back with enough whales
to put the company, B.C. Packers,
in the black or go out of business
altogether. The whale oil market
had dropped to less than half of
last year’s.
In April, it looked as though
the B. C. fleet would have to sus
pend operations this year, as hap
pened in Newfoundland, because
of the depressed market for whale
products. But the crews withdrew
their demand for a wage increase
and agreed to work on the basis
| of the 1951 contract.
Unlike European whaling fleets,
which set out with half a dozen
killer boats and a mother, or fac
tory ship, and a helicopter to spot
the animals, B.C. whalers tow
their kills to Coal Harbor Shore
i Station, once an Royal Canadian
Air Force base, on the northern
tip of Vancouver Island. There
the whales are cut up and pro
cessed into oil, meal and fertili
zer.
The ships are on the hunt an
average of nine days before re
turning to the shore station to
deliver their kills and take on
fuel and supplies.
Mrs. T. Scot! and Daughter
Return from Carolina Visit
Mrs. Tolbert Scott and daugh
ter, Jane, returned with Alaska
Airlines yesterday from a trip to
North Carolina where they visited
with relatvies. While in Washing
ton, D.C., they visited with Mrs.
Anna Hewitt, pioneer Nomeite
who met them there.
They also made a quick trip to
California to visit relatives.
September Weather Summary
Precipitation for the month of
September was well below nor
mal but the monthly total of 1.55
inches exceeded Sept. 1951 when
only 1.17 inches fell. Tempera
tures were near normal with min
imum temperatures falling below
freezing at the close of the month.
Wife Kills Mate
‘Running Around’
With German Girl
MUNICH, Germany, (A3)—Mrs.
Martha Joan Wage, 19-year-old
Red Wing, Minn., mother of two
children, was found guilty yester,
day of intentional manslaughter
in the fatal shooting of her hus
band, U.S. Air Force Sgt. Dan. P.
! Wage of Baldwin, Wisconsin.
The court sentenced her to a
prison term of two years and six
months. She showed no sign of
emotion as sentence was an
nounced.
A three-judge U.S. district court
returned the guilty verdict against
the pale, blonde woman who ad
mitted firing the fatal shot at her
husband with an Army carbine
July 26 after the 26-year-old ser
geant had brought a plump Ger
man girl into the Wage home at
(nearby Fuerstenfeldbruck Air
Base.
The court had deliberated on
the verdict since the trial—con
ducted under German law—ended
Aug. 30.
Mrs. Wage had told the court
she meant only to click the bolt
of the carbine to “scare” her hus
band into staying home with her
and their children, D i a n, 17
months, and Kathleen, six months.
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for
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