The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 9, 1945, Page 3

l FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1945 D. Cochran, under suspended rule.s,i the measure was jumped into second | rcading without committee 'rs‘fm-] ence, was advanced to third reading and unanimously passed—all in lnesl than seven minuies. The memmnlf prays Congress for speedy enactmem |of H. R. 2262. introduced in the na- | tional House of Representatives, on{ Delegate AYES HAVEIT ONDISTRICTS February 19, by Alaska's | Dclegate Bartlett’s resolution in Congress would re-define the powers and duties of United States Comn CPA Exam Chal‘lqe ADPTOV' | sioners, proposing additional (1["‘;’1'; I ed-Senate Sends Pray- |“cmacor . & watkers bi to au- ed fo Back Barflett | thorize the Territorial Treasurer to invest surplus Territorial funds in : mt‘lest bearing bonds of the United | Alaska's Senators were in passing; | States, Senate No. 27, was the 145[ fnocd yesterday, putting their stamp measure voted passage yesterday. 1t| of approval on nearly everything was amendad to provide that [h9| that came within reach — they kick- Treasurer might also sell such bonds. | ed out nothing except the specta- t tors. The Senators called an exe- cutive session in mid-afternoon yts-i Held over until today in second | terday and today are still looking for | reading was Senate Bill No. 37, by a good reason for all the deep pn-‘SeuaLms Walker and Grenold Col-| vacy. |iing, which woud create a Dopurt-‘ After spending most of the mor- ment of Taxation headed by a Terri- ning wading through the long Con- 'torial Tax Commissioner, Two| solidated School Districts bill, Sen- amendments were written into the até No. 64, the solons came back af- bill yesterday. One decreased the ter lunch to finish a second reading salary of the Commissioner from | of the measure—then, anxious to s2e $7.500 to $6,000 per year. The sec- no more of it, moved the bill along cnd shortened his term of office gnd passéd it without discussion. from six tc four years. Only very minor amendments were| Other amendments were forecast| then passed 12 to 4. | Taxation Department ® 6000000009000 00000000 0 o = ECONOMY up. and aids 5176 velvety, SIZZ s ASK FOR'IT A1 Butler, Mauro Drug Co. Your Rexall Store made to the measure. The final for the measure today. Senator vote was 15 for passage, Senate Cochran declared he would propose President Edward D. Coffey dissent-|a change to have the Commissioner’s ing: ljob filled by appointment for one According to its Board of Educa-| two-year tearm after which the of- tion proponents, the school districts’ fice would Le made elective. An measure is intended to relieve the administrative appropriation is still schools in larger Alaskan cities of to be inserted in the bill. some of the burden of pupils from = The Senate adjourned until 10 without their city limits. On peti- o'clock this morning, at which time | tion of one-fourth of the residents,'it was to go into executive session a sehool district including both the'to hear a “hush-hush” witness in city area and outside surrounding regard to the Tax Commissioner sections could be proposed for vote measurc. ‘ of the residents of the entire dls- trict. 1If the proposal carried, school board of five directors \sauld opA Expl‘l“s NEw be created to govern the district, A preperty tax of up to 1 per cent FoRMulA o“ pRKES of the value could be levied on resi dents of the district outside the cor- porate limits. Proportional contri- Io (I" MER(HA"TS butions to the support of the school would te made by the municipality and by the outlying areas, on a per- Over 40 meul\anm attended the pupil basis. If the 1 per cent levy meeting held by Office of Price Ad- on non-city property woud be insuf- Ministration officials in the Amer- ficient to carry the cost of all the ican Legion Dugout last evening in pupils from without the city limits, ¢rder to explain the new percentage iho deficit would be made up from formula allowed under Revised Territorial funds. |MER 194, The meeting was opened by Mrs. Special Elections Mildred R. Hermann, Alaska Dir- Consolidated School Districts ector. This was followed by a gen- would be created at special elections. eral outline of the basic changes in Their boundaries woud be limited to the revised regulation by Jacques the enclosure of an area of 250 Schurre, Price Attorney. Donald J. square miles and would be subject O'Cenncr, Territorial Price Execu- to Court approval. The school levy tive, discussed how the optional per- | that would be collected from per- centage markup formula will work | sons llving just outside cities and out on the pricing of those items not not now paying toward the:cost of otherwise‘covered by specific dollars their children’s schooling would, it and cents ceilings and explained is anticipated by backers of tbe bill, “similar” and ‘“comparable” goods | supplant in large measure the tui- in relation to the newly esmhhshcd‘ tion contributions now made from pricing methods now allowed. | the Territorial Treasury. The mach-| “Merchants in Juneau are invited inery for assessing the outlying real to bring their pricing problems to the | and personal properties . would be Territorial Office of Price Admm-} similar to that now in effect in cn.— istration for additional information | ies of the first class. lor help,” said Mr. It was stated that there might be e some provisions of the law that POLICE COURT FINg would be of questionable validity,! D. McLeon, was fined $25 in City but it was generally conceded by Magistrate’s Cowrt today on a the Senators that the proposal is charge of drunk and disorderly worth trying. conduct. Senate Bill No. .50, a measure in-| G ey troduced by Senator Howard Lyng @ e e o o o o o o at request of a majority of Alaskas . WEATHER REPORT public accountants, brought two wit- | ¢ (U. S. Weather, Bureau) nesses before the Senate: M. E. o Temperatures for 24-hour Monagle, Juneau attorney Wwho e period ending at 7:30 o’clock framed the bill, and Archie Betts,' this morning of Skagway. f- o o o Impoctant Ch‘“‘“ In Juneau—Maximum, 42; Mr. Monagle explained that the minimum, 35. Precipitation, bill proposed two major changes in ¢ 12 of an inch. $ the Territory's present Board of Ac- o At Airport—Maximum, 41; countancy law — changes which it is ¢ mipjmum, 33. Precipitation, believed will make administration of ¢ 03 of an inch. i the law Ialrert 1t was broadly hint- 0 imu s o e ed by the witnesses' testimony that ¢ Ll » provisions of the present law are TOMORB?W: anECAbT E:!ms made use of ‘to maintain a Intermittent light rain or osed corporation” = of Cernfled snow tonight. Partly cl Public Accountants in Alaska. ght. Partly. cloudy Saturday and Saturday The two changes offered in the o night. Temperatures: Low- bill would: (1) Require that mem- o est tohight, 30°; highest Sat. bers, of the Territorial Board of |, . mgs. agiand.c o Accountancy must, at some time ° "%V havepnssed or must pass within al ® ® 9 000 00 0 short time after their appointment, an_examination to. establish their qnnhflcauons as’accountants; (2) | Applicants, for CPA ratings will be tested on e: tions prepared by the American Institute of Account- nm‘.s and their pépers will be graded u‘?& Exam Board of that In- stil Under the present 18w, the examination of the Institute has teen given to dandidates, but the| answers have been graded by the Territorial Board, which determin- ed whether an applicant had passed or failed. There were no amendment made to the bill by the Senate and the rules were suspended to advance it to third reading where it was pass- ed by a 15 to 1 vote. Only Senator Leo W. Rogge, the Senate’s prime “No-man”, opposed ,the measure, Quick Action Fagtest , trip qugh_the Senate yet recorded wés accorded to Senate Joint Memoridl No. 21. Introduced yesterdny a!urnoon by Senazor 0. legm sié_H@ars |+ Tins Biw fier s Vapoia | All the Gossip Now flulndhlloxl!m S YapUTe 4 “ent. Fhousands "fu'.'.'nor-"my "uTESChestandbacksur-‘ fated like a poultice. by g most of the mis- buzzing head moises. O_Il:Y VINIIIB flng. Vgr - ek - HOUSEVOTE |Senate the $1,5500,000 Alaskan Sol-|coming from? Those boys coming 1senmnvcs Gill, :s:\id Representative Peterson. of them fis still living. He doesn’t O’Connor. J THE DAILY AL/SKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA declared, wouldn't have had | much trouble passing this bill when the Japs were in the Aleutians.” ‘ Representative Chris Hennings said: “Whether that money is in| the treasury or not, there will l)-! several ways to raise it.” 1l Bill Is Important i At that point in the discussion, ) just before the vote, Speaker Jesse Lander turned. over the gavel to| the bill's author, Representative | Stanley McCutcheon of Anchorage ‘This bill is very important,” Lander declared. “It’s important to| the boys away fighting—you who not faced enemy fire cannot what it means. The least can do for these boys who are their sweat, their blood and their lives. is to give them some ccmpensation for the time they| were away fighting and outsid were up here replacing them in their jobs and making two or three No measure, since the beginningito pay for this in taxes.” hundred dollars a week.” of this Seventeenth Session, has| Said Representative Krause, from Under the bill, Alaskan soldiers | brought on such impassioned pleas, ‘Kuchlkan “They won't be able to who were residents of the Territory, with bonus boosters having the eat the chestfull of medals they before September 16, 1940, will re- | definite edge, and economy boosters might have.” ceive $100, plus $20 for each month| facing the .toughest vote of their of service. experience | The meusure When it was all over and the Sénate. |echoes of armed glory, debilitated treas\lrles and hmel personalities {had died away, the vote stood at 16 to 8. Voting nay were Repre- Hoopes, Linck, Pe- Shattuck, Vukovich: he Federal Government hi patsed the GI Bill of Rights to |enable a soldier to get $4,000 busi- {ness capitalization. The fact that |but_one state has enacted bonus |legislation is proof that the prob- ]em is universally recognized as ral.” L2 | Reprewmnuve Fred Hanford asked: “What would have hap- pened to us if it weren't for these boys, when the Japs were down in the Aleutians?” “I ddn't want to give them just A'aSkan Gls to Ge' Blg Sum \a_handshake,” Representative An- |derson from Nome declared. “If 0f $1 500 000 " |there isn't enough meney here for the job, let the next legislature Senate Okehs take care of that. 2 | “I'm a small businessman,” said sion marked by, Representative Vukovich, “but I the House of Rep- |still have to balance my books every passed to the month. Where is &ll this money BONUSBILL PASSED BY have know we giving In a morning |stirring oratory, resentatives today will have diers Bonus Bill home are the ones that | “We were sent down here to en- {act sensible legislation,” said Rep- resentative Hoopes, from Fairbanks. “We haven't enough money to pay for this bill. I say, let's give the boys jobs when they come back-— not a note.” | Representative Huntley, Representative * Huntley, now goes to th(\‘ - R CPL. REISCHL llERE Cpl. Keith Reischl, Army Medical | Corps, is visiting his parents, Mr., land . Mrs. Ralph Reischl. He ex- pects to be home about three weeks' and then continue south. of Palm Palmer, terson, Porter, and Walsh. God's Country Nearly every member of the House is a war veteran, or has sons in the service, or has close friends at the fighting fronts. “I've had two sons in the service,” “One |want this money.— Let’s keep this cuunu) the way it was when the | boys left. —This is the only country {under the American flag that is' |still worth a darn.—Let's keep it Ged's country.” Answered Representative Taylor: “I don’t want to wave the flag, bul‘ I want to show these boys we ap- preciate what théy've done. I don't want to wave the flag in front of {them when they come home—I want to lay a check down in front | of them.” Said Representative ing the opportunity to give the tax program a boost: “I'm in faver of this if we know we'll have suf-, ficient money in the treasury. 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Bartlett to put an appropria- tion for flood control work in Gold Creek into the next Rivers ion mmittee. It uld provide | fer the collection of taxes on prem- Jum\ for insurance written in the | Territory by companies not licensed 'm Alaska Also introduced was a Finance c(‘mmlt. o substitute for its own \;an' il No. 41. The original ! bill provi uled raises in pay for Terri- torial officials and other Territorial employees. The new measure would increase salaries only for the Terri- i tory's Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney | Gonerai, Highway Engineer, Com- fered by A. Shaftuck- MOI’C ShUSh S'Uff missioner of Mines, Commis- smm of Labor, and the Com- ing ntu;(umnw of two bills missioner of Education and Director reports, | of Public Welfare. The rate of pay this of all would be pegged at $6250 per the | year. HIT SENATE Insirance Tax Méasure Of - Fcllo and reading of committee the Territorial Senate again morning revolved itself into secracy of an “executive session” and ! Provision in the original bill for tayed there until the noon |2 10 per cent salary increase for non- O. S. Sullivan was the only out-,executive Territorial employees is not sidar pormitted within the sacro- includad in the substitute sanct Senate portals while that body | The Senate recesied until 1 wos making a private affair of its|o'clok this afternoon, | coftsideration of Senate Bill No. 37,! o s s R and Harbors Bill. tha Department of Taxation and Tax PUBLIC UTILITIES TO i The pictures are needed to show Ccmmissioner act. 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