The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 19, 1950, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT normally resist the sales tax in favor of an increased property tax !tax that hits somebody elsé. Cori- o p l N l o NS o" SAI'EJ sequently non-property owners TAX ARE VARIED BUT DON'T FORGET, VOTE | overr. Talk for and against the city one percegt Sales Tax on which Juneau votes tomorrow was general on the) streets today Most active opponents of the sales tax are the local unions. T. Ericksen, executive secret. of the Alaska Territorial Federation of Labor, will speak against the Sales Tax over KINY. Mayor Waino Hendrickson ad- fressed the Chamber of Commerce Thursday, the Lions Club today and Wwill speak at the Rotary Club to- | their fair share other than througn | i | believe.” which latter will not be paid by non-property owners use our streets, schools and other municipal facilities. They pay a few taxes in some cases, while in sther cases they pay none. Is there any way to require them to pay a sales tax?” A federal executive who did not wish his name mentioned said: * was accustomed to paying sales taxes wherever I lived before I came to Juneau. It is an equitable tax, 1/ "= A Juneau business man: “Argu- ments against the tax are good, but I believe thst every one should - be terminated when our present ob- ligations are met.” Informal expression of the busi- ness women was about halt in tavor of the tax and half opposed. An out-of-town logger said, “Of | town of Pelican.” fectly willing to pay my share ot Juneau’s Sales Tax but I think it should end when the present bonds 0. $556,000 are paid oft.” RENT CONTROL SET FORSIXMONTHS IN JOINT CONFAB course Sitka’s Sales Tax made the, °* IRAI“I"G Du' ' A highway resident: “I'll be per-. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA TWO NAVY SHIPS DUE THURSDAY, | Two U.S. Navy destroyers bearing | three hundred reserve enlisted men | and more than fifty officer reserves | will arrive in Juneau Thursday mid- | afternoon on annual training duty. | The ships are the 2100-ton de- stroyer Shields and the destroyer | escort Nickel. Commander James L | Foley, USN, is commanding the| | Shields and is also in overall tactical | | command of the training force. DOUGLAS NEWS Nugget Chapter No. 2, Order of; Eastern Star, will meet tomorréw evening in Eagles Hall at 8 o'- clock, according to announcement There will be balloting, initiation and refreshments. BEACH IN GOOD SHAPE The Douglas Recreation Beach | is in* the cleanest shape since it was originated by the cities of | Lt. Comdr. Robert R. Weir, USNR, | is commanding the Nickel. Both of- ficers wear decorations for their| Douglas-Juneau and the Lions Club three years ago. Committees of Lions, Boy Scouts and just good NATL. PLANES N THREAT MADE, SET COMMIE TAIPEI, June 19—{P—Nationalist by Worthy Matron, Alma Cuthbert.!chinese warplanes today set fire to two steamers and left a third cap- sizing in raids on the Communist mainland coast, announced. One of the ships, Red troops, was attacked at the mouth of the Min river, leading to Foochow, capital of Fukien province. When last sighted she was listing &4 MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1950 | | . : g REALLY 'WONDERFUL «+«NOT A SIGN OF fl SPOTSI BUT TAX INCREASE - MAY BE NECESSARY| (Continued from Page 1) SHIPS AFIRE tax would be used solely for'paying off the city’s bonded indebtedness; and that the sales tax would end in the quarter in which the bonded indebtedness is paid off. Only active opposition to the sales tax ordinance has been from the Carpenters local. But T. B. Erick- son, executive secretary . of the Alaska Territorial Federation of Labor, stated at the meeting of the City Council Friday that the two major labor organizations in the air headquarters loaded with| badly and the water was full of swimming troops. The other two ships were left WASHINGTON, June 19 — (® — : extensive war service in Atlantic Senate and House conferees agreed jand Pacific theaters, today on a compromise bill extend- | United States are opposed to all consumer taxes because they ‘“re- §strain trade.” torrow explaining the proposec Sales Tax. He alsc spoke over tht | neighbors haye spent many houts oSS picking up glass burning debris and The ships, which With the excep- |y, ing rubbish. Another table has share the costs of our city.” “It 18 KINY today. Another federal employee: i ;s G v set | s burning on the coast of Nanjih Read the Sales Tax, Jiscuss it|a good tax prov ded a goal is set|ing Federal rent controls for six tion of Commander Foley are en of anj| Gith. your friends and meighbors,|and the tax eiminated when a set /months beyond June 30. | tirely manned and directed by Naval :‘ee;{;‘zge"fii“‘:fik;‘: :::t;s‘":: Island, 50 miles south of Foochow. { make }xp your mind what you think | fund is raised.” | The] iompromise, subject to ap- | Reservists, stopped overnight in | oatred att Bue GliBe miade'ss St Air headquarters also announced ' s Roiv ! | prova both chamb 4 ir tri ¥ ! hea Ellis Reynolds, locs! merctanaise [P y ers of Cof- | Seattle on their trip north and will |, "o e with side boards placed | oy, artillery positions ‘"“*'HOIISG passes Bi" {§ the best thing tor the city. But and | broker: “I am going to vote for tge ress, give municipali H i bot - g 2 palities power to ' call at that city again next week U"‘and tha Bedken et wAlasa. mbed and strafed on the main yote. We (the City Council : e ok keep the Federal' controls for an | their return to California. Mayor) want an expression Irom the people to guide us in any fu-|tax for the whole city. Everyone ture action,” the mayor said over{who uses the city’s facilities should the radio. People around the streets today have expressed these opinions: Sales Tax. It is the most equitable 30, 1951. In communities where no want to pay his share of upkeep.” | A well-known banker, famiuar with the city’s needs: “I am going to | Curtis Shattuck: “I'd preter not|vote for the sales tax, aren’t you? to have a sales tax, or any other added taxes. They are very mgnl now, when you add them all up. A well-known local business| woman, questioned at the close of | the Business and Professional Club I've heard a lot of the arguments | meeting today: “I think the Sales for and against the sales tax, and|Tax is one way for Juneau to get any of them have their merit. some income from everyone wno; “Any person,resists the.tax that’ buys in town—tourists as well as 15 apt to Wit him, and prefers the residents. But I think the tax snoumj = e | | father’s body was found in a nearby‘complete work for. the year. L & . : EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED é\ VISI-"“G AI_ASKA | tralian landings in Brunel Bay in| GUESTS AT RICHARDS Jh‘n:ndmtxed :rell. The bill goes back to the Senate| ‘DRY CLEANING DR. D. D. MARQUARDT = |the summer of 1945 and fulfiled| Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Richards| COURty attorney Lloyd L. Pospi- | for action on House amendments. o . . = | AT 4 schil of Colfax County said the = FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 19— subsequent duties in waters off the have had a busy week with com- s a _ OPTOMETRIST = | p_jean de Ia Garde, first French | Philippine Islands that same year.|pany calling at their home. mother and three children had = Second and Franklip Juneau = | Consular officer to visit Alaska, was | The Shields now operates in the| Red Lochert, former Douglas res- beie}’]‘ badly beaten about the heads SKa Ommall el’ ‘THE DIRT LIKE = PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS = | Cexploring” the Territory today, | Naval Reserve training program and |ident and member of the crew of [Tl eRAN. gRgpome other brutal iR = g e eciiog a natonial |8 assigned to tie Alameda, Galifor- |the: Lenojs, visited his sister and |[ETIment” © Ho weapon ©wes Ge's Promofio" SANITONE! - - | nia, reserve. | brother-in-law here for five days # 3 ! \ 3 Your Deposits such action is taken, controls would automatically end on December 31. The House had voted for an automatic seven-months extension, with an additional five months op- tional. additional six months, or until June | The Senate warited a six- | After leaving Juneau, about 5 a.m. Saturday, - they will cruise to Taku| Glacier and on Sunday afternoon | will tie up at Prince Rupert for a | one-day call. The reservists are | scheduled to leave here early .Sat- !'urday morning. The USS Shields is a Fletch(-r‘ 7z months automatic extension, With | class destroyer carrying five 57inch six more optional months, FRENCH CONSULAR !guns and numerous anti-aircraft| guns. She was launched at the| Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremer- ton, on December 4, 1944, and was [named for Purser Thomas Shields, & | OFFI(ER o" IouR | Navy hero of the War of 1812. | ¥ | She saw action in support of Aus- | market for French wines “no more | expensive now than California | wines” and ski equipment manutac- The Nickel, named in honor of last week. | Marine - Corps Private Thomas F.| jempty bottles and garbage in the| week by Lions. {says, when you see a broken bottle, Every one having contributed work to the beach is well rewarded by the extensive use it has been receiving this year, with '-undreds | using it each day. ¥ Persons using the beach are asked | F AMIlY IS FouND to co-operate by depositing their 16 garbage containers set in diff- erent sections of the beach last| And the committee | that may cause injuries, pick 1t |qt up and put it in the cans. Also Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Johnson Island outpost of Quemoy. March- ing troops on highway and bridges near Foochow wzre strafed. land coast opposite the Natiennnstl Exlending P: ® Vining ’ SCHUYLER, Neb., June 19—(®— {A mother and three children were jor a bottle or any sharp metal found beaten to death in their beds east of Leigh, Neb,, He identified the slaying victims: Mrs. Henry F. Bahns, 48; Eldon, |(#—Maj. Gen. William E. Kepner 20, Assessment Work WASHINGTON, June 19 — (® —; The House passed today a bill to extend the time for completing the annual assessment work on mining claims in the United States and Alaska for the current fiscal year until Oct. 1. i The fiscal year ends June 30. Under the bill, holders of claims have three additional months to BEATEN T0 DEATH a farm home six miles south- today. The NO OTHER GREENMILLE, S. C., June 19— Ardith, 14, and Helen, aged 8.!arrived here today to be sworn in e of Ketchikan, visited at the Rich-| erd home leaving last Friday on| tured near Grenoble in the French | Nickel, who died heroically in th | South Pacific in 1942, was launched He said the body of Henry F.|as a Lieutenant General of the sA““‘oNE Dry clmning Bahns, the father, bore no marks|Air Force. e A Alps. De la Garde, Consul General at | San Francjsco, arrived last night ARE SAFE BUY and HOLD UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS ont DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE ‘INSURED tomorrow for Anchorage. FISHERMAN DIES «SEATTLE, June 19—#—Pan Am- erican World Airways officials re- ported today Richard Jonassen, San Francisco, died aboard a char- tered plane while enroute from - Seattle to Naknek, Alaska. (flying to Alaska to work in the |Alaska Packers Association instal- lations at Naknek. by bus from Whitehorse, Y.T. His |convoy duty. The Nickel later par- territory covers the nine western | ticipated in the battles for the Mari- states, Hawail and Alaska. He leaves | anas and Ryukyus islands. ON NAKNEK FLIGHT Airline ofricials said Jonassen was | a member of a group of fishermen | the Alaska. Mr. Johnson is gen- eral manager for all the New Eng- land Fish Canneries in Alaska ahd flew to Sitka and Pelican while | Mrs. Johnson visited her niece Mrs. 'Richards and Mr. Richards here. in early 1944 at Hingham, Mass,, | and ordered immediately to Atlantic of | While in Juneau the reservists | will enjoy a short holiday from their | training program before leaving for | | battle exercises south of here. CANVASS FOR FOURTH Grace Russo has been canvass-| ling the town for contributions for the Douglas Fourth of July cele- bration, Each year the Douglas Four‘h which is put on mainly r the children, is financed in this manner with all residents helping '¥/ARKING GIVEN Pospischil said he was conveninglFla., a coroner’s inquest at thie scene|general. this afternoon in an attempt to ner will become head of the Alas- determine the circumstances. — DOOEAN JANITOR SERVICE —— He is on léave from Elgin Field where he was commanding After leave, General Kep- injury. Is Always Better All Ways! The news is traveling fast about our different, better Sanitone Service! What ¢ thrill say all who discover this dry cleaning that gets clothes really spotless! No embedded grime left be- hind! No nasty cleaning kan command. Windows washed, storm windows removed, Venetian blinds, overstuffed furniture, walls, woodwork, floors cleaned, waxed and polished. Rugs shampooed. " 10 SENATE BY " VICE - PRESIDENT as they can afford. The celebra- tion includes a full program of field sports for the children and a par- ade, plus a ball game and hose race for firemen. TELEPHONE "SPY" WASHINGTON, June 19 —+ Vice President Barkley today ly | reminded the Senate that it is not a grand jury and said‘he doubted odor. Try it today! There is no substitute for GOOD Plasiering " For expert, distinctive plastering . . . with the plaster that' INSULATES ... cak 15 yrs. experience MY nlcz Phone Douglas 21 "Arraovio ithe propriety of any Senate in- vestigation of public officials that; | & FIRST NATIONAL BANK |, T 2o o, o, o 1 the Seattle-Naknek | MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSTRANCE CORPORATION talolks JOLT =0 JENY flight yesterday. | might result in an impeachment. Barkley made his comments in | referring .to the Judiciary Commit- tee a resolution signed by 21 Re-| MAY BE FREED VIENNA, Austria, June 19—#— Reliable American informants said Who Wants a Sales Tax?? Could It Be g The big property owners who voted the present bonded indebtedness into being now wish to escape their responsibility to the community by using the City Council to saddle us with a Sales Tax? AS WE REMEMBER THE PROPERTY OWNERS WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD VOTE IN THE BONDING ELECTION. Could It Be ‘ These same interests are using the City Council to sell a “BILL OF GOODS” to the small property owner by threatening to raise their property tax 50% ? WHEN ANALYZED THIS ACTUALLY MEANS 19 OF THE AS- SESSED PROPERTY VALUE. We Don't Think It Could Be The Hotel Bell Boy, who works for $6.50 per day or The Waitress who works for $7.50 per day. Therefore, HOTEL and RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES Local Union 871 : URGES YOU TO VOTE ON JUNE 20th and VOTE NO (Paid adv.) publican Senators demanding a, today that Robert A. Vogeler, separate investigation of the Jus-|American business man jailed in tice Department’s handling of the Hungary on spy cherges, may be 1945 Ameragia secret documenmfrelessed this week. | case. The informants said Hungarian Barkley sent the resolution, in- officials have made no definite | troduced by Senator Caphart (R-:promlses, but indications are that Ind) for himself and 20 others, to|they may turn Vogeler over to the the Judiciary Committee which | US. officials Tuesday or Wednes- would be authorized to conduct the day. inquiry. Vogeler, 39, an executive and rov- Chairman McCarran (D-Nev) al-|ing European representative of the ready has turned down a personalilnwrmflonal Telephone and Tele- request made by Senator Ferguson | graph Company, was sentenced by a (R-Mich) for such a probe. Mc—'Hungarian People’s court last Feb- Carran told Ferguson that he saw ruary on charges of espionage and no reason for the inquiry because sabotage. 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