THE* NOME NUGGET
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Children on Sleds Endangered
Places for Sledding Needed
This is the time of year when car drivers start
complaining about children and their sleds popping
up on every hill at unexpected places and inconvenient
times.
Nights and streets are dark, and although no one
wants to hurt a child, accidents will happen.
Instead of warning parents and children about the
ever-present hazard, why doesn’t the City Traffic De
partment pick out two or three good places in various
parts of town and allocate these to the children. Let
them help choose the places, see they are lighted, put
lip warnings to drivers, and let the children have the
same kind of fun we had.
One particularly hazardous hill at this time, is in
front of the hospital on B Street.
Astronomy Notes
By OLAF HALVERSON
Until 1675, it was believed that
light traveled instantaneously.
About that time a young Danish
astronomer by the name of Roem
er was observing the moons of
Jupiter at the Paris Observatory.
Roemer observed with great
precision when one of these moons
or satellites passed into the shad
ow cast by the planet. The begin
ning of these successive eclipses
of Jupiter’s satellite were signal
flashes at equal intervals.
When the earth is traveling
away from Jupiter, the interval
between signals is greater than
• the true interval because light
from each succeeding signal has a
greater distance to travel to reach
the earth. A total delay of 1,000
seconds was noted when the earth
•was at its greatest or opposite side
of the orbit.
The distance across our earth’s
orbit, 186,000,000 miles, divided
by 1,000 seconds gives the speed
c|f light—186,000 miles per second.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: F. Pauls, R.
Benjamin, L. Callan, Jack Kelly,
Mrs. Veona Sauve, Robert Foss,
M. Hulse, Vito Granickas, Capt. R.
Currington, Dick Ball, E. Jackson,
F. F. Maddocks, F. O’Hara.
To Anchorage: Joe Walsh, G. L.
Hamre, Arthur Hurth Jr., Joseph
K. King, Charles A. Rhodeen, Sgt.
Hamrich, William Barber, Rev. N.
Hegland, Lt. Col. Coleman, Wayne
D. Dennis, Ben Swan.
To McGrath: Lauris Parker.
To Unalakleet: Morey Williams,
Henrietta Hansen.
To Kotzebue: Frank Wells.
At POLET’S STORE
Income Taxes
Higher in Alaska
Than in States
In Alaska the income and in
heritance tax amounts to 37.5 per
cent of the total tax collections,
while in the States the same tax
is just 17.9 percent of the total,
according to a recent report from
the territorial treasurer.
Sales and gross receipts taxes in
Alaska make up 34.9 percent of
the total tax collections. In the
States this tax category makes up
59.3 percent of the total.
Property tax in the territory is
.5 percent of the total, while state
property taxes in the States aver
age 3.6 percent.
The percapita tax rate in Alaska
is $77.47, slightly above the aver
age for the States’, which is $72.25.
Delaware has the highest per
capita tax rate, $116.89, with
Washington next with $107.86,
then California, $102.92, and Lou
isiana, $102,19. The lowest per
capita rate is in New Jersey,
where it is $39.11 and Nebraska
next lowest with $47.12.
Of the nearly $16 million col
lected in taxes in Alaska, $6Vfc
million come from inheritance and
income taxes.
Gross receipts and sales of mo
tor fuel, liquor excise, business
licenses, insurance taxes, tobacco
tax and gross sales and service
net®nearly $5V£ million.
License and privilige taxes
bring in nearly $2 millon and the
raw fish tax is $lVfc million.
Territorial property tax comes
to $5,000 dollars.
INVITATION TO BID
Notice is hereby given that the
City of Nome will open bids for
water delivery to the City Hall
Building for winter season, 1955
'56 at regular Council meeting, to
be held in Council Chambers Oct.
24, 1955 at 8:00 p.m., upon the
following basis:
Hard water .... per gallon
Hard wafer .... flat rale per month
Soft water .... per gallon
Soft water .... flat rate per month
Bids must be in writing and the
City reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Publ. Oct. 19, 21, 1955.
[Airline President
Criticizes CAB for
Delays and ‘Antics’
J
SEATTLE, UP)—The president of
Pacific Northern Airlines Wednes
day criticized what he termed “in
credible procrastinations” and “ir
responsible antics” of the Civil
Aeronautics Board.
PNA President Arthur G. Wood
ley called for congressional action
to give his company permanent
certification on its routes between
the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
Woodley appeared before a
hearing of the Senate Committee
on Interstate and Foreign Com
merce to assail the CAB in the
strongest terms ever used by a
major airline executive.
Woodley, whose firms received
five-year extension of its certifi
cation between Sea ttl e-Portland
and Anchorage last May after
President Eisenhower personally
demanded it from the board, de
clared:
“The vacillations of the CAB
over the years have been respon
sible for seriously inhibiting the
progress of Pacific Northern as
well as the progress of other car
riers serving the territory.
“The Territory of Alaska and the
carriers which provided its basic
transportation facilities have been
deprived of the sound economic
development which Congress in
! tended to foster and encourage.
“Instead,, the carriers have been
harassed by the board with an
endless sequence of prolonged and
1 costly public hearings which have
j failed to produce effective solu
I tions to the basic problems in
; volved.”
Although PNA has served the
territory since 1932 and now car
| ries more than 30 percent of all
States-Alaska air passengers, he
j recalled the CAB has refused to
j grant it permanent certification.
Nobel Prize in
Medicine Awarded
To Dr. Theorell
STOCKHOLM Sweden, (#>—The
1955 Nobel Prize in medicine was
awarded Thursday to Dr. Hugo
Theorell, a Swedish biochemist,
“for his discoveries concerning the
nature and mode of action of oxi
dation enzymes.”
He will receive a record Nobel
cash award equal to $36,720.85,
along with his Nobel insignia
from King Gustav VI Adolf at
ceremonies here Dec. 16. The
money comes from a $9,000,060
foundation established by the will
of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dyna
mite.
The Swedish Academy of Liter
ature will choose the literary
prize winner Oct. 27. Physics and
chemistry winners will be select
ed by the Swedish Academy of
Science Nov. ,2. A committee from
the Norwegian Parliament selects
the peace prize winner.
Dr. Theorell, one of Sweden’s
top biochemists, won the 1955
award under a decision of the
Caroline Institute of Medicine.
Earlier, ranking members of the
awarding body had indicated that
the selection of Dr. Vincent Du
Vigneaud of Cornell University,
New York, was a foregone con
clusion. The U.S. biochemist ran
a close second last year when
three other Americans won the
prize for the work on polio.
Theorell, 52, has devoted sever
al decades to the study of the en
zymes, which serve as lubricants
in living organisms by promoting
chemical reactions without being
changed by them.
Lifts in some South African
gold mine shafts travel up and
down at the rate of 3,500 feet a
minute, more than twice as fast
as New York City’s most rapid
skyscraper elevators.
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