The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily A lfi;kg Empire ay by the Fublished every even bt S EMPIRE PRIN 3 COMPANY Second and Main St Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY - - - President DOROTHY TROY - Vice-President Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager ELMER A. FRII ALFRED ZENGER - - a 4 Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATI Delivered by carrier in Juneau ix months, 8. , $15.00 , postage paid, at the following rates: advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ene month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer « favor if they will promptly notify | we Business Office of any faillure or irregularity in the delivery o their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS for $1.50 per monthi 3. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of &ll news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper &nd also the local news published herein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 fourth Avenue Bldz. Seattle, Wash TWISTED FIGURES While appearing before the Senate yesterday to | give his views on the property tax and its effect upon Alaska, Representative Marcus Jensen stated that the | trend in the States is to get the bulk of the revenues from sales and income taxes and from other sources and to get away from heavy property taxes. 4 He was immediately challenged by Senator Rivers . C. Rivers, who purported to quote from a booklet figures that showed State property taxes amounting to some 926 per cent of State revenues. Senator Rivers had the wrong page in his book- let, which is titled “Facts and Figures on Government Finance,” and is published by the Tax Foundation. The figure he quoted, 92.6 per cent, is the portion of " total revenues collected by municipalities and county governments throughout the States. State tax collection figures in the 1948-1949 edi- tion of the same booklet show an entirely different picture. Away back in 1915 property taxes amounted to 505 per cent of State revenues. In 1948, on the other hand, they mounted to only 4.1 per cent of the total. Other revenue sources of the States were: General | ~ | administrative motor vehicle fuels s sales taxes and licenses, 7.4 per cent; motor vehicle cent; death and gift taxes, 2.7 per cent; severance taxes, 1.9 per cent, and other taxes, 13.5 per cent Sound Finarmrcing l (Fairbanks News-Miner) ' | Senator Butrovich uttered a timely warning re- | cently during debate on another of the spending | measures before the Legislature. The new 1949-51 budget, “bursting at the seams.” | He warned that the budget, already a | breaker at 17 million dollars, may reach 20 rm]lmns,i | said the Senator, is| record- | Butrovich noted that spending bills are still being | introduced while nothing has been pared from the original estimates to offset the added requests. The Fairbanksan is Chairman of the Senate Fi- nance Committee. It is suggested that his colleagues give his observations deserved and marked attention. Many words have been written and spoken, par- ticularly before the election, on the subject of sound financing for Alaska. Those who talked the loudest spoke with gusto of the new taxes to be raised and the obligation of citizens to submit cheerfully to in- creased tax burdens in the interests of balanced bud- getary operations. Butrovich has reminded the Legislature and the | Territorial administration that sound financing is a two-way street. Heavier taxation to underwrite the costs of gov- ernment is merely part of the solution. It is no solu- tion at all without fulfillment of the obligation of officials to hold their expenditures within the limits of governmental need, while securing from each tax dollar spent the maximum in efficiency |and service. The philosophy which holds that budgets can e | kept in balance only by increasing taxes to meet un- { curbed expenditures is ruinous and must lead inevitably to disaster. This is a historical fact and bears no argu- | ment. In their consideration of appropriation bills, the | legislators must place each spending request under the closest scrutiny. Payrolls should be examined in '} detail and department heads should be called upon ! to justify minutely their items of expenditure. To do less will be to leave the Territory at theI mercy of bureaucratic spenders and invite continued financial chaos in Juneau. So far California has been unable to determine which the recent cold weather damaged more: Its fruit ! crop or its climate. “A special Federal tax of $1,000 a year should be | levied on bachelors,” says a woman columnist. Say, sister, don’t you know a tax on liberty is unconsti- tutional? Love may laugh at locksmiths, but in these days 1t | can scarcely muster up a grin at the grocer. sales or gross receipts taxes, 21.7 per cent of the total; ! les taxes, 18.6 per cent; tobacco products sales taxes, 5 per cent; alcoholic beverage | { operators licenses, 9.2 per cent; income taxes, 15.9 per’ i Kuehl, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA . FEBRUARY' 46 of Washington Daily. ¢ / ° Mrs. Jefferscn Manning ° Percy Reynolds Hospital for treatment. ° Kenneth Junge ° Emil Hendrickson ° Mrs. Blair Steele ® Jean Shaw o Mrs. Charles R. Finlay ° ° ° . Grace Remington Maude Cole > FIELD COMMITTEE SESSIONS BEGIN; KEY MEN MEETING Key men in the Department of |gttend Intreior's Alaska staff met Tuesday | meet in Juneau. Meeting as members of the Alas- ka Field Committee, Department ot Interior agency heads have on their agenda policy making for long-term development plans for the Terri- tation. Owing Bad weather over the weekend de- layed three members of the commit- tee. Arriving here late Monday i 270 VEARS AGO FEBRUARY 16, 1929 Curtis Shattuck was made assistant news editor of the University WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1949 from THE EMPIRE Elmer Johnson of the halibut schooner Omaney, entered S. Ann's Mrs. T. M. Reed planned a week's visit with friends and relatives in Ketchikan, leaving on the Alameda. Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine, in reply to a petition of o |Kodiak and Afognak islands citizens, said there was no regulation to @ {prevent shooting of the big brown bears, not only in the established ¢ e ® » e e eihunting season from September to June, but whenever they threatened livestock or humans, or approached within a half-mile of human habi- to the absence of a quorum, the City Council meeting Wulrelflry; postponed to a special session announced by City Clerk H. R. Shepard. Two members of the Council—W. S. Wilson and Wallis S. George—were vout of town, and a third member, Charles G. Warner, was unable “"Brown, Vice President; R. M. Pierce, l The Alaska Electric Light and Power Company announced that electricity would be off on Douglas Island and all of Casey-Shattuck Addition and of Seatter Tract from midnight until 8 a. m. The Juneau Firemen basketers chalked up a win of 36 to 24 over the Douglas Hilltoppers, “like the Somme offensive or the March i tson Navigation Com y Through Georgia,” in a classic in basketball annals. gl e Sy S Milton Lagergren, Juneau High School graduate, attending the {mer PACIFIC COAST SHIPPING MEN HOLD ELECTION Two major labor relations organi- zations in West Coast shipping met in San Francisco February 11, and re-elected officers. At the annual meetings of the Waterfront Employers Association of the Pacific Coast and the Pacific American Shipowners Association, Frank P. Foisie was re-elected Pres- ident of the WEA and J. B. Bryan was re-elected as Pacific American Shipowners Association President. All other officers of the two or- ganizations were also returned to office They include: Henry Clark, Vice President; J. A. Robertson, Sec- K. F. Saysette, Treasurer of the Waterfront Employers Associa- tion; and for the Pacific American Shipowners Association, W. Secretary; and K. F. Saysette, Treasurer. Donald Watson, €an Francisco manager of the Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company, replaced Ger- ald A. Dundon, Vice President of Pope and Talbot, as WEA Vice Pres- ident. John Cushing, President of was elected to the PASA Vice Presi- dency, replacing Thomas Plant, for- Vice President of American iternoon from Anchorage WeTel. . .a. sihool of Mines, made high grades during the first semester, | Hawaiian Steamship Company, who ARR representative L. A. Moore, Land Management Administrator, Lowell M. Puckett and Alfred C.{ special representative Na- tional Park Service. Field Committee sessions are be- ing held in the offices of Chairman Kenneth J. Kadow. — . — PUBLIC HEALTH COUNCIL ELECTS YEAR'S OFFICERS George Danner was re-elected President of the Gastineau Public Health Council at a meeting held | Mnoday. Other officers named| !accm'rling to Supt. W. K. Keller. in the Elks’ House Tournament. removal yFranklin streets. . parties in Moose Hall. G. Ingram and Allen Laurie. Mr. ident, and Earl Bland, secretary- treasurer. To serve on the govem-[ ing board for the coming year will be Mrs. Les Avrit, Mrs. Ernest!( Gruening and George Jorgenson. | With notices sent to all organi- - treatment of a throat condition. zations in the community to send | representatives to the meet, only 12 groups had a del te present. ————————— % Weather: High, 41; low, 3, clear. Sealed bids were invited by N. G. Nelson for the wrecking and of buildings located on the Triangle property, Front and and Mrs. Frank Price entertained at a Valentine party over were Mrs. John Maurstad, vice pres- |the weekend dedicated to Cupid. J. S. M. Quist, operator-in-charge at the Ketchikan office of the U. S. Military Cable, was in Juneau for an inspection. Bob Turner was received again at St. Ann’s Hospital for further ' The Washinglo; _ Merry-Go-Rilg\d By DREW PEARSON et Contirued from Page will become as flabby as the old League of Nations. And in Indone- sia, the Dutch were just as brazen in thumbing their noses at UN peace efforts as the Jap warlords in Manchuria did at the League. But after the State Department took this fine public stand, several Democratic Senators drafted a reso- lution supporting it and going one step further. They wanted to cut off Marshall Plan aid to Holland, which actually has financed the S | Dakota, and Morse of Oregon. ] They intehd to make a major attack on the Administration, { charging the State Department with ‘.Lhm«nng fine phrases before the United Nations while playing foot- sie with the Dutch aggressors uns der the UN table. And it looks as if they were right. SRATITUDE GIFTS What different states are doing with their Gratitude Train gifts: New York City converted the vet- erans’ center into a virtual mus- eum, tastefully displayed French gif.s in showcases. Thousands lin- eC up to see them . . . Massa- chusetts will conduct an essay con- test in high schools on French- American friendship, giving non- historic gifts as prizes to winners been working nights to repeal the Taft-Hartley Law complain private- ly that the American Federation of Labor’'s chief lobbyist, Lewis Hines, is secretly veering against labor. Publicly Hines takes the official AF. of L. stand, but pri- vately, say the Democrats, he seems very palsy-walsy with Republican Senators Bob Taft of Ohio and Ed Martin of Pennsylvania. e - NOTICE PiONEIZs, ~UXILIARY A dinner is being given to wel- come the Delegates to the Grand Lodge Convention on Monday the 21st for members only, and reser- vations MUST be made by noon Friday the 18th by phoning either 764, 884, Black 790 or 552. 20 3t MAJOR NEWBOULD GOES SOUTH; MOTHER lLLl Major Eric Newbould of the Sal- vation Army left Monday on an| ter receiving word of the critical j ( Newbould. months in Juneau during the past year at Major Newbould’s home, | was stricken with a heart attacl Angeles. tion Army. - Get your Prestone or Trek anti- freeze at Madsen Cycle and Fish- ing Supply. {and has been hospitalized in Los . She has been living with increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: Major Newbould’s brother, Captaim, VINDICATION; justification. Victor Newbould, also of the Salva- |tion of his theories.” | Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “You must conform with emergency trip to Los Angeles af-,our rules.” Say, “conform TO our rules.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Research. Accent both noun and verb illness of his mother, Mrs. Emily son LAST syllable, not on the first as is so often heard. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Psychic; though pronounced si-kik, first Mrs, Newbould, who spent several lyeyaple g5 SIGH, last syllable as KICK. SYNONYMS: Exterminate, extirpate, eradicate, annihilate, abolish, K uproot. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us “His success was accepted as a vindica- by ROBERTA LEE MODERN ETIQUETTE has retired. Annual meetings of the two or- ganizations are for the purpose of The Daily Alaskans won two out of three games from the Butchers electing officers and routine busi- ness. RIS L U e NEW PRA MAN Leslie D. Miller, formerly of the i Division office at Denver, Colo., has | jarrived to serve as materials engi- Women of Mooseheart Legion gave the fourth in a series of card |N¢¢F With the Public Roads Admin- Prizes went to Mrs. Oberg, Mrs. J. A. Marten, istration. T | $2.50 trade-in on ycur old storage | and 13 battery at Madsens Cycle Fishing Supply. Widest Selection of | LIQUORS PHONE 39¢ “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists PHONE 311 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery { PHCNE ™™ || \mAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Call EXPERIENCED MEN Alaska JANTTORIAL Service FRED FOLETTE Phone 247 L. C.! MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE 'NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month ,x in Scottish Rite Temple begining at 7:30 p. m. GLENN O. ABRAHAM, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. € B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. JOSEPH H. SADLIER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. Moose Lodge No. 700 ] Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—ARNOLD HILDRE Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN Beri’s Food Center I Grocery Phones 104—1'5 Meat Phones 39539 Deliveries—10:15 A. M. 5 — 4:00 P. M {| "“The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacistc BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. ] Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Msnager Planvs—Musical Instruments and Svpplies Phone 206 Second and Seward ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountant | Auditer Tax Counsetor Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 .M W. Wenar Juneaw’s Finest Liquor Store BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hetel Newly Renovated Reemw st Reassvable Rates PHONE BINGLE 0 PHONE 555 Thomas Hardware Co. i | Dutch Army in Indonesia. The ... Ohio will mount its 40-and-8 = AT & wh o i | ECA money received by Holland, boxcar on wheels and tour it ! 5 en a young man takes a girl out to dinner, and she knows — Oms they sald, was merely being siphon- throuzhout the state . .. The May- CI‘OS ord PU. Z! OLIARgHI | he doesn't earn too much money, should she be very modest n what she STEVENs’ Builders’ and Sheit ed out to the South Pacific to pay or of Parkersburg, W. Va. offer- clolvim! ‘orders? HARDWARE the upkeep of Dutch aggression. ed to do the same in West Vir- ACROSS 30. The milkfish : : : : : i A. Yes, but she needn't overdo it. The man would not have invited i When the State Department got ginia, but some people in Charles- L Horse and car- 31. Exclamation y st Yo . wind of the resolution, however, ton, the state capital, are demand- ks 32. The old dog ST |her Lo ey and it Ehe Sie back” in Herordering Hemi n Typewriters Bob Lovett, then Acting Secretary ing that it stay there. (The French 5 praremns_tool of aoree AlL|L[O[Y {he might have cause to resent it. SOLD and SERVICED by 3 - 9. Plercing tool of State, phoned majority leader people want everyone in the state 1. SaTulullon = gg: Q;:,'{,‘e: Doie L{E/AIN Q. Should dinner guests arrive exactly on the hour, or five or ten J. B- Blflofll & c. Srott Lucas of Illinois, asking him to see the boxcar and the gifts, 13 Jury list 36. First number L O/NJiB { minutes before the appointed time? “Our Doorstep Is W . to lay off. The resolution, he said, if possible) : . , Boston Is placing 15 Strage o il | RO Aty (s moze oonpisierie fo arrive, five oriten minutes early. Satirid Gustomorst must be blocked. | the giits on display in department 1. Build b digits A[PIE|R|S Q. Isn't a loose bouquet more appropriate for a funeral than a formal Eswre windows prior to distribution g9 gx“w;:;lr,:wely 39. Pfi: f){lo type N|OIRISIE set piece? . 0P © S 3 ' cience 2L Ci [ NE : GOP CRABS BALL Lo I(:k(;ica:gPs m};xss\]xmloi '.s“‘n ;0 i Chl;fl;nwruly o sn:f:g: [P['[NED 1 A. Yes; either a loose bouquet or a soft wreath is preferable. FORD AGENCY B omietiat Rakineb R pe ) ndustry wil splay the 40- 24 Notable 43. Chemical suffix Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle (Authorized Dealers) 1 ucas, somewhat against Iis “el- | 4nq.g- boxcar for a month, to- periods 44 Musica) sounds GREASES — GaS q ter judgment, did so. Obediently, |getner with the Prench gifts, af 35 Soogued, . 85 X8ls e DowN 3. Widespread B itk ) T O the Democratic Senators pulled in|yer which they will be taken £5 Toninpotien A Dhe tream 1. Uncooked 4 Dr;r::ll‘}ul LO 0 K a nd I_EA RN Y J“‘au “o‘u c. | their horns—on the promisé that around the state . . . Some states M9 - apock Tonaen o work A. C. GORDON Card Foot of Main Btrees :i):ldsecrx(:ear\ip !°§ "Sh""; Afhesog ! have offered high schools a chance . Offcehamers B“ar.g. c.‘ col e Senate and | i i Sy to display gifts, provided manual- 7. Symbol fo Wholesale 805 10th Bt explain his views on the resohtion. | L:Dini:g {-lagsses br:uld A, ;\11““ Tnl'e“"'m:n 1. Between what two nations is there a boundary line of 3,000 miles MAKE Senator Lucas pointed out that | ycoc for display. S Bt 0 | GBS EARE Sl PHONE 216—DAY er NIGHT JUNEAU DAIRIES Acheson had just become Secretary ptan 2. What is aviculture? for MIXERS er SODA POP DELICIOUS ICE CREAM of State and might not agree with MERRY-GO-ROUND . Building sites ' 3. What is the distinction between “elusive” and “illusive”? s & daily habit—ask for i by name retired Undersecrtary Lovett, so it| President Truman has placed his B hack 4. Of what expression is “Good-bye” a contraction? J D was only fair to hear him. There- | entire domestic program in the . Divide 5. wh 4 ':a’l / 4 ear un a.lli fore the Democratic Senators wait- | hunds of Secretay of Agriculture % gi’i‘;g:‘;’z " ; A:yswz;l:’sx:wme A e er s 5:"‘“’.?' " id Inc. ed—and waited—and waited some |Cuarles Brannan, an able citizen . Repositories s Former Chrysler Marine Engin more. Acheson did not show. Fin- ' All members of the Cabinet have lor waluabies 3 memi T T e A Conada, Stetson and Mallery Hats o Saptver ally, State Department counselor | been told by Truman to take orders 4 h‘li;:'l::ll(ome . Avrew Bhirts and Underwear MACHINE SHOP Chip Bolen telephoned to say that!from Brannan in testifying for the e aon 3. “Elusive” means baffling, and “illusive” is unreal. Allen E& .u Marine Hardwar | Secretary Acheson would not come | Truman domestic program. On the . Ornamental 4. “God be with you.” : Shase 9 § at all. Instead, he, Bohlen, offer- |legislative front, Brannan is now bunch of 5. Gaucho. Skyway Lagrage ' ed to explain things to the Sena- ' assistant president . . . Testifyir .')nr.[h:;:g'r. Chas' G' wmer co- tors. | betore the Senate Interior and I - el : Burden By this time, the Senators were sular Affairs Committee on te Restitch EXA B 0 T A " Y | hopping mad. When a dozen lead- torial affairs, Congressional delegate EYES MINED LENSES PRESCRIBED Ly e HUME GROCERY | ing Democratic Senators ask for A. Fernos-Isern of Puerto Rico re- DR.D.D MBNH\EDT 500 | views of the Secretary of State it ported there wasn't a single breach - FEn e . e e Phone 146 | is customary for him to appear be- of the peace when Puerto Rico Old musical >4 OPTOMETRIST cllornzs | fore them. And when they are elected its first governor last No- 1 l\nl;;;lf:flnn Second and Franklin Juneau NUNN-BUSH SHOES Heme Liquer Stere—Tel. 000 . Ol suflix : PHONE 508 FOR APFOINTMENTS STETSON HATS American Meat — Phene ¥ 1 courteous enough te hold up a res- olution at his request, his appear- ance is considered mandatory. That was why Democratic Senators fused to hear Bohlen, weuld hear Acheson or no one. re- woledient Democrats, however, ‘Republicans picked up tical with that prepared by Dcmocrats, ‘Department’s stand against Army. ‘Smith of Maine, Butler and Wherry of Nebraska, Baldwin of Connecti- # cut, McCarthy of Wisconsin, Ma- 1 ‘Ione of Nevada, Langer of North said they While the Democrats were being r the Lyall Beggs retired as district at- the ball. “They introduced a resolution iden- | defended a drunk he had previous the | prosecuted twice for tipsy driving supporting the State|Chief witness was @ WCTU lady, the | who testified that she had never | Duteh in Indonesia, but asking the even smelled Wwhiskey. “How, then ‘State Department really to carry did you know that the defendant % out its words by cutting off the | was drunk?” asked Beggs. . American ECA subsidy to the Dutch } had a glassy stare,” replied thel| ‘The Republican Senators who gotl behind the resolution are Bridges ! stand, of New Hampshire, Brewster and |acked was, “How's your eyesight?” vember “The people accepted t verdict of the polls,” said the Puc to Rican delegate. “How differe from the people of the United | States,” commented Chairman J 1O'Mnhoney4 “We rejected the polls.” After VFW National Command ELMERE. LINDSTROM = | 8s a paid-up subscriver to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "WYOMING" Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB C0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! —— QOldest Bank in Alaska 1891—Gver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. 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