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IT’S GOING TO TAKE THE LARGER SIZE
The Cost of Statehood . . .
• Juneau Empire)
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, during the Statehood de
bating in Alaska, charges were hurled that State
hood would cost more than Alaskans could afford.
This charge was denied by strong Statehood sup
porters. It was argued that additional revenues, and
population gains, would compensate for the increase
in governmental costs.
Now, the facts are coming to light. We’ve got
Statehood, and yesterday we got our first bill. The tax
increases which are sought in the Legislature are
brought about primarily because of Statehood costs.
The tax increases sought are levied on cigarettes,
gasoline, income taxes, and auto licenses.
We have taken here an “average man.” We fig
ure he smokes a package of cigarettes per day, drives
about 10,000 miles per year, pays the federal govern
ment about $1,000 income tax in a year, and drinks
a quart of whisky a week. (That may be a little heavy
on the liquor consumption, but after he gets this tax
bill he will probably hit the jug that hard.)
His new taxes each year will amount to an addi
tional $20 income tax, $10.92 additional on his cigaret
tes, $6 per year on his whisky, $5 per year on his gas
oline, and $10 per year on his license, for a grand
total of approximately $51.
This current tax bill does not make up all the
anticipated deficit for the next two years. Another
tax increase will be needed, but not quite so great as
this one, so long as spending remains at current levels.
Therefore, we can now say that predictions that
Statehood would not cost Alaska anything were
wrong. It appears that the bill will be in the vicinity
of $70 per year, per average person, if there is such a
thing as an average person.
At any rate, we are not complaining. We are just
pointing out a fact. Possibly, we should seek ways and
means to keep this bill as low as possible.
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| Demos Real Rack
IGOR Attempts to
Amend Budget
Ft?/ Ward T. Sim v
Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU (?P — Senate Demo
crats beat back ■ Republican at
tempts to amend the proposed
budget for fiscal 1962 one by one
Monday.
The Senate took the big $55.5
million budget bill into consider
ation shortly before noon and
then, after a lunch recess, work
ed on it all during a long after
noon session which finally ended
at 5:30 p. m.
During the course of the after
noon, the Senate considered 38
separate amendments to the
budget bill.
Of the total. 17 were offered by
the Senate Finance Committee,
20 were submitted by Sen. How
ard Pollock and one was offered
■ by Sen. John Coghill.
The Senate accepted the Fi
nance Committee amendments,
most of which were realignments
of funds within departments and
did not change the overall total.
The amendments offered by
Pollock and Coghill were all turn
ed down.
Sens. George McNabb, Eben
Hopson and A1 Owen voted with
the seven-man Republican bloc
on almost every amendment offer
ed by Pollock and Coghill.
Coghill’s lone amendment would
have deleted a $356,000 appropri
ation for the Harborview Nursing
Home at Valdez and a $95,235
appropriation for the Alaska
Psychiatric Istitute at Anchorage.
“I think we should put Harbor
view in mothballs for the present
time,” Coghill said. “I think we
have to take a stand now on
mental health.
“Do we want to keep our men
tal patients in Alaska or do we
want to have them cared for at
Morningside Hospital in Port
land. It costs the state $9 a day at
Morningside per patient. The cost
in Alaska would be $12 to $15
a day.
Coghill said the Finance Com
mittee had been advised that men
tal health would take 23 per cent
of the state’s annual budget in
the future.
Agency Reports Waste
In Government Spending
WASHINGTON (#> — The agen
cy that looks for waste in govern
ment spending reported that a
road proiect in South Viet Nam,
originrlly price-tagged at $18 mil
lion, wound up costing more than
$70 million.
The General Accounting Office
cited the case in its 20th report
on contract procedures of the In
ternational Cooperation Adminis
tration. which administers for
eign aid projects.
This GAO report was about as
critical as proceeding ones on ICA,
noting what it called inadequate
planning on foreign projects, lack
of competitive bidding on con
tracts and use of cost- plus fixed
fee contracts under which the
contractor took little or no risk.
But the report said ICA has
“made considerable efforts to im
prove its contracting procedures”
in recent years and has put new
regulations into effect to cut
losses.
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IJ. S. Urges Castro
To Sever Links
With Communists
WASHINGTON L4V—The United i
J States has urged Fidel Castro’s
j Cuban regime “to sever its links 1
| with the international Commu- 1
i nist movement.”
The statement, issued Monday,
accused Castro of betraying the
Cuban revolution and leading the j
Caribbean island into Communist
bondage.
It was the Kennedy Administra
tion’s toughest indictment of Cas
tro so far.
At the same time it expressed
sympathy and support for the as
pirations of the Cuban people,
saying:
“The United States, along with
the other nations of the hem
ishere, expresses a profound de
termination to assure future
democratic governments in Cuba
full and positive support in their
efforts to help the Cuban people
achieve freedom, democracy and
social justice.”
The U. S. statement said it is
the government’s belief that “the
Castro regime in Cuba offers a
clear and present danger to the
authentic and autonomous revolu
tion of the Americas.
“What began as a movement
to enlarge Cuban democracy and
freedom has been perverted, in
short, into a mechanism for the
destruction of free institutions in
Cuba, for the seizure by interna
tional Communism of a base and
bridgehead in the Americas, and
for the disruption of the inter
American system.”
Press officer Lincoln White
said “because of the tremendous
public interest of the United
States in Cuba, this pamphlet for
public consumption is a straight
forward presentation of the situa
tion in Cuba.”
LAUGHING MATTER . . .
SAN FRANCISCO (/Pi — When
Emmet Hall heard giggling inside
a 14-i'oot-high tank, he figured
the two painters inside were en
joying themselves.
But when the giggling continued
for 15 minutes. Hall figured noth
ing could be that funny.
So Hall called Torn Mason,
superintendent of the Chlorine So
lution Co., who clambered into the
tank and found Charles Ilasfotfd
ad Don Seilhymer reeling
around, stupefied by a combina
tion of paint fumes and heat.
Then Mason started giggling
Hail called an ambulance. Ma
son, Hasford and Seilhymer were
treated at a hospital and pro
nounced in good condition.
HERE'S HOW THEY VOTED
ON CIGARETTE TAX
JUNEAU (J*) — Here is the way
the Senate voted yesterday when
it turned down a proposed in
crease in the state cigarette |ax
from 5 to 8 cents a pack:
Voting in favor of the bill: Sens.
Bradshaw, Bronson, McNealy, Mc
Nees, Metcalf, Smith Walsh and
Peratrovich.
Voting against passage: Sens.
C o g h i 1 1, Engstrom, Greimann,
Hopson, Logan, McNabb, Nolan,
Owen, B. Phillips, V. Phillips,
Pollock and Weise.
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