THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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THE WHEEL THAT SQUEAKS THE LOUDEST
Legislators Take Note:—
3% Sales Tax Most Painless
Why our legislators are evading the most painless
tax of all, a 3% sales tax, is something we can’t under
stand from way up here.
With a steady income of 1% going to relieve the j
needs of the territorial government and the 2% to the I
communities a dual purpose is served with everyone!
paying according to what he spends.
The legislators are working long hard hours figur
ing out ways and means to tax the overtaxed businesses |
of the territory with more and more complicated taxes.
They are crippling development and improvements to
established business so badly needed at this time. Much
more can be accomplished by the lawmakers by the one
pay as you go tax.
Alaska had it to form the veteran’s fund and it
worked successfully. Why not duplicate a tax that was
successful rather than experiment with new ones which
are harmful?
QUAKES CAUSED
MILLION DOLLARS
DAMAGE AT ADAK
KODIAK, (JP) — Sevcenteenth
Naval District officials estimated
Saturday that Navy installations
at Adak have suffered a million
dollars damage in a series of
earthquakes.
A public relations officer said
most of the damage is to utilities
on the island which is far out on
the ■ Aleutian chain.
Various reports have been re
ceived concerning the extent o'
damage suffered since the inter
mittent tremors have jarred the
island with intensities ranging
from light to violent during the
past several weeks.
Some civilian estimates of the
damage have run as high as 10
million dollars and reports have
been received that residents are
in a state of near panic. A number
of bridges were damaged and
roads have been badly broken, ob
servers said.
ASTRONOMY NOTYS
By OLAF HALVORSON
Auriga is a constellation lo
cated high in the sky and to the |
west of the twin stars, Castor and j
Pollux. Auriga forms a geometric!
polygon of five sides called a pen- j
tagon.
The brightest star in this con-1
stellation is Capella, another
beautiful star sending out a clear
white light. Like so many stars,
Capella really consists of two
great suns of nearly equal bril
liance.
These two stars lie so close to
| gether that there is not much
I more than half the distance be
j tween our earth and the sun be
i iween them. They revolve around j
I a common center of gravity in
! only 104.2 days. In the present!
j state of our knowledge about eight
stars out of twenty are inaries or;
multiples.
The distance of Capella from
the earth has been estimated to j
■be about 34 light years. A light;
year is the distance that light trav-1
els in one year at the rate of
186,000 miles a second.
Navy Airmen
Cross Country
In 3 Hrs. 35 Mins.
SANFORD, Fla., UP)—Just “to
add a little spice to a routine fer
rying job,” three Navy airmen set
an unofficial cross-country record
time of 3 hours 39 minutes and
24 seconds on a flight from Cali
fornia to Florida Friday.
Lt. (J.G.fc Ralph S. Barnett, the
pilot, said he made no effort to
push the twin-jet A-3D Navy at
tack bomber to its maximum and
didn’t know he bettered the rec
ord until he sat down to dinner
here.
While the record bettered by
eight minutes the time made in
January by. an Air Force B-47, it
will not be official because timing
arrangements were not made in
advance with the international
federation which certifies such
records.
Barnett and his crewmen aver
aged above 640 miles an hour.
“We figured it would take
about 10 minutes longer than it
did,” Barnett said. He signified
in the flight plan he planned to
try for the record “to add a little
spice to a routine ferrying job.”
He said a helpful tailwind about
36,000 feet up pushed them to the
record but otherwise it was an
uneventful flight.
Would-Be Suicides
Asked to Leave
Names and Addresses
ODAWARA, Japan, UP) — Town
officials at Hakone, a mountain
resort about 75 miles southwest
of Tokyo, are seeking cooperation
from “would-be suicides.”
A spokesman said Hakone has
become the most popular spot in
Japan for committing suicide, with
30 already this year.
“We appreciate people seeking
our town . . . when dying,” he
commented, but at least we’d like
them to leave names and ad
dresses.”
The spokesman said it cost the
town $7,755 or $77 per person to
bury the 115 persons who killed
themselves here last year. That
did not include expenses for 143
attempted suicides.
Most victims, the spokesman
said, were penniless and left no
identification.
Zee Becomes Jungle
As Result of Quakes
In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, UPt — Flei
shaker Zoo has been turned back
into a jungle by the San Fran
cisco’s earthquakes.
Every time the ground shakes
elephants lope around their en
closures trumpeting loudly. Lions
and tigers roar. Monkeys and pea
cocks shriek.
Zoo foreman Fred Roemer said
the gibbon apes are the most ex
cited.
A lady giraffe ran into a fence
Friday and was bruised. Windows
were smashed in the aviary —
but no birds left.
In Millbrae, one home owner
said the pet dog became so ex
cited that his wife had to calm
the canine with a shot of whiskey.
University of Alaska
Faculty Members Win
Science Fellowships
Two University of Alaska fac
ulty members today learned that
they have been awarded National
Science Foundation fellowships
for a year of advanced study at
the institutions of their choice.
The foundation, a federal govern
ment organization, awarded only
100 such fellowships all over the
nation.
Alaska recipients are Prof.
Charles Sargent, head of the de
partment of civil engineering, and
John R. Hoskins, assistant pro
fessor of mining.
Record Made of
Three Alaska Songs
Non-Alaskans are going to hear
a lot more about the territory and
its university because of the en
terprise of a well-known Anchor
age organist.
Mrs. Kenneth M. Johnston re
cently made a record of three
Alaska songs while she and her
husband were visiting in Arizona.
On the disk is “Alaska’s Flag,” by
Eleanor Dusenbury, and two Uni
versity of Alaska songs, “Fight
song” and “Alma Mater,” both by
Carl Franklin. He was on the
university staff in 1934 and now
is dean of the law school at the
University of Southern California.
WEATHER REPORT
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued fair and cold tonight
and Tuesday. Temperatures falling
tonight to -15 to -20. High to
morrow 5 to 10 degrees.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a. m. today:
Temperatures: highest 8, lowest
-19. Maximum wind 10 miles an
hour from the northeast. Sunrise
at 5:44 a. m., sunset at 6:33 p. m.
COMPARATIVE DATA
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 10, low -15.
Extremes this date since 1907:
Highest 35 in 1913, lowest -34 in
1925.
Data for other stations as of
7 a. m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -26 cloudy
Kotzebue -23 partly cloudy
Wales -19 clear
Gambell _14 clear
Nome -15 clear
Unalakleet -4 partly cloudy
Bethel -14 partly cloudy
McGrath -6 clear
Anchorage 22 partly coudy
Fairbanks 0 snow
Whitehorse 17 partly cloudy
Edmonton 38 partly cloudy
Juneau 32 light snow
Ketchikan 35 cloudy
Seattle 43 partly cloudy
San Francisco 54 cloudy
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Donations Pouring In
To Save Adm. Halsey’s
Flagship From Scrapheap
NEW YORK, m — Fleet Adm.
William F. Halsey (ret.) says
donations are pouring in to save
his old flagship from the scrap
heap.
“The worldwide publicity stirred
up by the campaign to save the
carrier Enterprise has already had
a tremendous effect,” Halsey said
yesterday. “About 4,000 letters
with donations have been sent in
by everyone from Navy men to
schoolboys.”
Halsey is honorary chairman
of the Enterprise Assn., an organ
ization of 1,400 former Navy men
who served aboard the famed
World War II ship.
The association seeks $350,000
to rehabilitate the sidelined ship j
and maintain her as a memorial. J
30,000th Hungarian
refugee Since October
Leaves for America
VIENNA GP)—The 30,000th Hun
garian refugee to be admitted to
the United States since Hungary’s
anti-Soviet revolution last "Octo
ber left Vienna by air Saturday,
officials of the Intergovernmental
Committee for European Migra
tion (ICEM) announced.
-.lore than 46,000 Hungarians
still await visas or transportation
to new homes in the West.
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Tax Incentive
Program OK’d
By Legislature
JUNEAU, UP) — The Territorial
Legislature has approved a tax
incentive program that lawmakers
hope will make the territory as
attractive to industry as is Puerto
Rico.
On a 15 to 1 vote, the Senate
passed yesterday and sent to the
governor a bill to grant up to IP
years of tax relief to new indus
try in Alaska.
The bill, which passed the
House a week ago, is modeled on
the 1954 Puerto Rico industrial
tax incentive plan.
It is expected to get quick ap
proval by the acting governor —
who asked for a tax relief pro
gram in his message to the Legis
lature when it convened 2 months
ago.
Under terms of the bill, new
manufacturing or industrial com
panies in Alaska could obtain full
forgiveness of all territorial in
come taxes. *
In addition, qualification under
the program would guarantee
complete relief from all property
.taxes — whether municipal, ter
ritorial or levied by independent
school districts or public utility
districts.
As a third incentive, new indus
try likewise would not have to
pay any form of the territorial
gross business license tax — a
big factor in the Alaska tax
structure.
The program would be open to
firms engaged in manufacturing,
processing and refining — and
also would include new tourist
and commercial hotels.
More Oil Discovered
In Northeast B. C.
FORT ST. JOHN, B. C., UPt The
known area of the northeastern
British Columbia gas and oil field
was extended with reports here
last week of a further oil dis
covery on the Milligan River,
north of this Peace River center.
The reports said oil flowed free
. ly when the Triassic strata was
reached.
With a weather break-up in
sight, a rush is under way to get
equipment into the area east of
the Alaska Highway before the
melting sno\V softens its roads.
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