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Salary Raises, Increases in Operating Costs Boost
Appropriation Requests in Territorial Budget 61%
Alaska’s legislators will be
asked to increase the biennial ter
ritorial’ budget appropriations at
this next session by the staggering
sum of $15 million—an increase
of 61 per cent over appropriation
figures for the past biennium.
The bulk of the increase stems
from budget requests of the De
partment of Public Welfare, Ter
ritorial Police, University of Alas
ka and schools.
Budget estimates of nearly all
offices of the territory now before
the territorial auditor and the
Board of Budget reflects a general
demand for increased salaries and
more money for rising costs of
doing the business of administra
tion.
The total budget requests
amount to $39,323,749, as com
pared to the last biennium’s budg
et of $24,386,992.
Welfare Asks Big Boost
The Dept, of Public Welfare
asks its allotment to be increased
from the $2,967,320 figure of the
past biennium to $6,016,256, ap
proximately a boost of $3 million.
Welfare administrators are ask
ing general relief funds to be
raised from $500,000 to $1,477,800,
juvenile code funds from $350,000
to $900,000, aid to dependent chil- j
dren from $600,000 to $1,554,000,
and old-age assistance from $1,- !
138,320 to $1,412,810.
The Dept, of Territorial Police,
now financed from a $200,000 bi- !
ennium appropriation plus a
$40,000-month allotment from
motor fuels tax receipts for a total
biennium figure of $1,160,000, has
a request in for $2,850,262.74.
For a greatly expanded police
force and its functions, legislators
will be asked to provide $1,949,
794.
Police also will seek legislative
financing for a laboratory and
other new buildings at figures of
$116,176 and $490,275 respective
ly.
The University of Alaska is re
questing an increase from $2,972,
000 to $6,253,198, another $3 mil
lion boost.
Of this increased allotment re
quested, university officials seek
an increase from $43,000 to $365,
000 for agricultural experimental
stations, and a jump from $900,
000 to $3,022,500 for new con
struction.
Schools Ask Most
School funds represent the larg
est increase figure dollar-wise—
up from $10,689,000 to $14,193,000.
For school funds to schools out
side incorporated cities, the re
quest shows an increase from $1,
160,000 to $2,100,000. For schools
within incorporated cities, the
jump is from $7,250,000 last bien
nium to $10,600,000 this next bi
ennium, while the transportation
funds requests reflect almost a
half million dollars increase from
$750,000 to $1,200,000.
The Dept, of Aviation, like the
Police Dept., is also making its
bid to get out from under the
present motor fuels tax financing
setup and asks $77,000 to adminis
ter its services.
If these two departments are
separately financed on a budget
appropriation basis, the motor
fuels tax fund would be left intact
for roads and airfields construc
tion. It is understood the Dept,
of Aviation is submitting a sup
plemental airport construction re
quest.
Several Ask Salary Increases
Several departments are asking
increases in salaries; Alaska Com
munications Division wants the
supervisor’s salary raised from
$16,000 for the biennium to $20,
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000 and the radio engineers’ sal
ary raised from $6,000 a year to
$7,000.
The Dept, of Agriculture asks
an increase in salary for the com
missioner from $8,000 a year to
$10,000. The territorial auditor
wants a boost from $20,000 for the
biennium to $24,000, and the dep
uty auditor from $15,000 to $18,
000.
The Dept, of Labor has a re
quest in for a salary boost for the
commissioner from $9,000 a year
to $10,000.
Most offices are asking for in
creased salary funds.
The Alaska Dept, of Fisheries
has a budget request in the hop
per for an increase in allotment
from $510,402 last biennium to
$871,000 for a proposed expendi
ture in the next biennium.
The fisheries office seeks an
increase in salary funds for bio
logists from $80,700 to $125,000,
watershed management salaries
from $25,000 to $94,000, general
expense of watershed manage
ment up from $20,000 to $60,400,
and an increase in sport fish prop
agation funds from $90,000 to
$105,000.
More for Advertising
The Alaska Visitor’s Assn, is
asking $300,000 for the next bi
ennium, up from $80,000 the past
two years. In this department
nearly all of the funds will go to
advertising and promotion, with
no requests for salaries and travel,
those items to be financed by
private subscription.
The Alaska Development Board
asks $135,250 in its budget re
quest, a mild boost from $125,000
the past biennium.
The Alaska National Guard has
a budget request in for an in
creased appropriation from $ 185,
000 last biennium to $363,853.
The attorney general’s office
will seek $149,276 as opposed to
the past biennium’s appropriation
of $109,048.
The Dept, of Civil Defense has
a request in for $238,740 instead
of the $50,000 sum of the past
budget.
The Dept, of Education seeks
an increase for administration
from $240,100 to $373,500, while
the Dept, of Health seeks $1,775,
760 as opposed to its past bien
nium’s appropriation of $1,668,000.
The highway engineer's office
seeks $185,200 instea.d of $59,500.
In this department there is an in
creased salary request for the
highway engineer from $19,000
for the biennium to $27,000, office
personnel salary raises from $28,
800 to $37,200, a $48,000 budget
request for engineers and drafts
ment, $20,000 with which to ad
COMMUNICATIONS BREAK
FAIRBANKS, (JV-Telephone
and press circuits to the States
were cut off for two hours Friday
morning when fire destroyed a
pole near the Alaska Communica
tions System repeater station at
Tok Junction.
Cause of the fire is not known.
minister the outdoor advertising
law, and $9,000 to finance a part
time attorney for the office.
The Dept, of Labor seeks $134,
140 as compared to the last appro
priation of $91,040, including sal
ary, travel, and expenses of a stat
istician figured at a budget cost
of $17,500.
The Dept, of Mines seeks to ex
pand assay offices and field work,
putting in a request for an appro
priation of $334,000 instead of
$236,756.
The office of the Dept, of Public
Lands which had $35,000 from the
last legislature, will ask this group
to put up $83,578 for the next two
years.
The Dept, of Taxation wants an
increase from $956,600 to $1,127,
000, largely for the purpose of
expanding field offices.
For School Construction
An extra $600,000 is sought for
construction and repair of schools
—up to $1,300,000 from $700,000.
The treasurer’s offices seek a
few extra dollars, asking $114,500
for the next two years as opposed
to the past biennium’s figure of
$104,848.
Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman
made a $5,000 dent in the in
creased budget request total by
asking for that much less to run
his offices, the reduction being
made in the house & grounds ac
count from $15,000 to $10,000.
American League Teams
Must Travel Far to
Circuit’s Western Cities
NEW YORK, UP)—Eastern mem
bers of the American League will
get a foretaste of things to come
when the time arrives next spring
for them to make their first swing
through the circuit’s western
cities, including Kansas City.
It will amount to a sort of fire
drill against the day, not too dis
tant, when the big leagues will
extend from coast to coast.
The acceptance of Kansas City
pushes the American League’s
western boundary another 238
airline miles into the wilderness
from its previous outpost at St.
Louis and sets up problems that
will bring new gray hairs to the
schedule maker and the traveling
secretaries who are supposed to
see that things come out even.
No matter how many ways you
figure it, one of the league’s east
ern clubs will have to make the
long, unbroken jump all the way
to the beef metropolis each time
an invasion of the western tier
begins. From New York to Kansas
City is 1,113 airline miles, and
from Boston it amounts roughly
to two nights and a day on the
railroad cars.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
TERRITORIAL SCHOOL TAX FOR 1954
NOW DUE AND PAYABLE
Tax is due and payable after January 1 of
each year and becomes delinquent after Dec. 1.
A Penalty of $2.50 Attaches If Not Paid
On or Before December 1, 19"4.
Who Must Pay School Tax:
All male and female persons over 21 and under 55.
Exemptions:
Insane Persons
Active Military or Naval Personnel
Unemployed Dependent Females
Permanently Injured—unable to earn a living
EMPLOYERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLECTION
OF TAX FROM THEIR EMPLOYEES.
Failure or Neglect to Pay the School Tax is a Mis
demeanor and subject to arrest and a fine not more
than $100 or imprisonment of not more than 90 days.
Payment should be made to your local school
tax collector, Department of Taxation, Box
259, Nome, Alaska—on Front Street.