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UNCLE SAM AS A COMPETITOR
If you’re in business, there’s a good chance Uncle
Sam is one of your competitors. And if you’re not in
business, you still must help to pay — through your
taxes — for the government’s business-type activities.
That observation comes from the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States. It is solidly backed up
by a set of facts.
According to the Bureau of the Budget, the gov
ernment actually is operating 19,771 commercial
industrial undertakings, with 266 thousand employes
and close to $12 billion of capital assets. These fall into
more than 200 categories, including mining, manu
facturing, wholesale and retail trade, farming, trans
portation, communication, services such as electric
power, insurance, and so on and so on.
The Chamber also points out that when Uncle
Sam run? a business that private citizens could run
just as well he’s adding unnecessarily to the cost of
government. Further, he is losing revenue—for pri
vate business pays taxes while government business
type activities do not. Instead, they usually run at
deficits.
On the bright side, it is clear that more and more
people are awakening to the menace of government
in business—and that more and more men in govern
ment are interested in doing something about it. In
the last year, a start has been made toward getting
government out of busness, and a substantial saving
has resulted. But the surface has only been scratched.
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To The FOREST RANGER
CHRIST is the TREE OF LIFE
"In the midst of the street of it (the Holy City)—
was there the Tree of Life." —Rev. 22:2
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NOME ALASKA
How Fire
Insurance Rates
Are Established
By F. C. ROBERTS
Terrilorial Fire Marshal
Dept, of Territorial Police
An understanding of how Fire
Insurance Rates are established
should be had by all of us as
we all help pay for Fire Insur
ance either directly or indirectly,
whether we own property or not.
Business people must protect
their investments with fire insur
ance and they must add all such
overhead costs to their products
or services.
Fire insurance companies aje
in business to earn money and
they are forced to charge pre
miums in ratio with the Terri
tory’s fire loss in order to receive
a proper return on their business.
We in the Territory of Alaska can
then blame no one but ourselves
for the high insurance premiums
we must pay as the fire loss is
high here.
Insurance Rates Established
On Territory-Wide Basis
Basic insurance rates are usual
ly established on a State basis as
such an area will have similar
climatic conditions throughout,
buildings will be of approxi
mately similar construction,
building laws and other regula
tions are about he same and in
general the occupational prob
lems will be related. What this
means to us is that any fire loss
anywhere in the Territory will be
reflected in our fire insurance
rates. We cannot ignore our fire
protection any place in the Terri
tory.
Time is also a very important
factor in establishing fire insur
ance premiums as a minimum
fire loss record of five years is
used in estimating what is a safe
premium for the insurance com
panies to charge.
We have been discussing basic
fire insurance rates up to this
point. To the basic rate must be
added additional charges which
will be raised or lowered in pro
portion to the fire protection
problem in any city or area. Fire
insurance rates are set or estab
lished within Alaska by the
Board of Fire Underwriters of the
Pacific who periodically send a
Fire Protection Engineer to each
city to make a physical survey
of the following items:
1. Water Supply 1700
2. Fire Department 1500
3. Fire Alarm System 550
4. Police Assistance 50
5. Building Laws 200
6. Fire Prevention 300
7. Structural Conditions 700
8. Climatic Conditions 5,000
9. Divergence between
1st two items
Cities Are Graded On Their
Fire Defense Rating
The grading value of each item
is shown at right and each item
can be graded from 1 to 10 which
means that a city with no water
system would be graded class 10
in water supply and if a city had
a perfect water supply it would
have a class 1 water supply. Each
item considered is given a rating
and by combining all items an
average is arrived at which, will
be the city’s Fire Defense Rating.
GOPs Recommend
Statehood For
Alaska Right Away
By LEROY HITTLE
SAN FRANCISCO, UP —Mem
bers of the Republican platform
committee Tuesday recommend
ed immediate statehood for Alas
ka and Hawaii.
The stand on Alaska carried a
reservation on defense. There
were no reservations in the state
ment on Hawaii.
Democrats adopted a similar
plank in. Chicago a week ago. It
called for immediate statehood
for both territories.
Bills for statehood for Hawaii
have been before Congress since
1947. The first one for Alaska
statehood was in 1950.
In the latest congressional ac
tion, the House voted in May of
1955 to return the combined
Hawaii-Alaska bill to its commit
tee on Interior and Insular Af
fairs, thus killing it.
President Eisenhower, repeat
edly has urged immediate state
hood for Hawaii but has withheld
endorsement of Alaska statehood
in his message to Congress.
The Hawaiian Delegate to Con
gress, Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington
of Honolulu, and an Alaska at
torney, Paul Robison of Anchor
age, were on the subcommittee
that drafted the statehood plat
form.
The better this rating, the better
chance of getting a reduced fire
insurance rate but as pointed out
the basic rate is established on a
Territorial basis and we must all
work together to get the basic
rate reduced.
The rate charged for dwellings
is usually the same, as records
kept for many years have shown
the hazard ratio in that type of
occupancy to be within a certain
range, but commercial and busi
ness properties can add addition
al protection such as automatic
sprinklers which will bring a re
duced fire insurance rate and
money thus saved will pay for
the sprinkler system within sev
eral years.
Additional information on this
subject may be had by writing
the Fi e Marshal’s Office in Ju
neau.
Gov. and Mrs.
Knight Hosts To
8,000 Republicans
By MARTHA COLE
SAN FRANCISCO, OPt—Repub
licans went partying Monday
night and forgot their few differ
ences in a swirl of evening dress,
music, champagne and crab New
burg.
White - gloved waiters met
guests at the door with a glass
of champagne—California made,
of course—when Gov. and Mrs.
J. Goodwin Knight entertained
some 8,000 Republicans here for
their national convention.
Vice President Richard Nixon
shook hands with presidential
aide Harold Stassen, the man who
wants to replace Nixon on the
GOP ticket with Gov. Christian
A. Herter of Massachusetts. Her
ter was there, too.
A life-sized elephant made of
fresh chrysanthemums revolved
on a stand in the middle of the
dance floor. Searchlights pierced
the sky outside San Francisco’s
cavernous Civic Auditorium
where the lavish party was held.
Opera star Helen Traubel sang
“I Could Have Danced All
Night.” Comedians cavorted
around the stage. Dancers tapped
their way across it.
Pretty girls at the door gave
women guests their choice of oor
sages—orchid, gardenia, camellia,
carnation.
Some 150 waiters zigzagged
among the crowd with bottles of
champagne, ready to refill the
glasses.
i The party was given by the
Knights in behalf of the Cali
fornia State Host Committee. A
spokesman for the committee said
Knight supporters and various
industrial and financial organiza
tions footed the bill.
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