The Wrangell sentinel., 1954-03-05
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While There's Life, There's Hope
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While There's Life, There's Hope
 There was still hope this week that Wrangelfs north end road fill project would get under the wire as an Alaska Public Works project some time this spring.
 Acting Governor Waino Hend- rickson expressed the view that it might be ready for clearance by next week. (see story elsewhere in today's paper.l Whether the Gov ernor's optimism would spread to the public works agency remained a matter of conjecture.
 T Il e contingent circumstances seem to be that while the City Council had approved the contract and sent it along a couple of weeks ago with a hope and a prayer, there was great migration around the APW office in Juneau.
 Director Don Wilson quit. Attor- ney Frank Riley quit Apparently everybody quit but John Arget- singer. Then Lester Marx, who handles public works for the Office of Territories, came out from Washington. Anthony Lausi, dep uty director of the Office of Ter ritories, came out from Washing ton. Miss Lucille Schwilick, an at torney for the Office of Territor- ies, came out from Washington. We don't know who else came out from Washington. but apparently there were a few Congressmen left to shoot at.
 At any rate, Wrangell's project got caught in h e migration. Thanks to Acting Governor Hend- rickson's efforts somebody found it this week and as Winston Churchill once said about England There'll always be a project Waino seems to think there's hope of it being an active project But. of course, he always was an optimist.
 A Blow for Liberty
 Cyril A. Coyne and his Central Labor Council up in Skagway cele- brated Washington's birthday by striking a blow for liberty and equality.
 President Coyne and his Council took action to address a communi- cation to T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of Internal Revenue The subject: Request for twenty-five per cent cost-of-living allowance on income taxes for all non-Federal personal inaomes in the Territory of AL aska."
 The communication points out that Federal employees have been granted an exemption from taxes on their 25 per cent cost-of-living of allowance and that costs of liv- ing are equally high for non-Fed- eral employees in Alaska and they should be extended the same privil- ege. It says:
 We have a considerably higher cost of living problem in Alaska compared with any state-side med ium because of our geographical location climate; transportation; cost of food, clothing and the com mon necessities of life; and in most instances a lack of balanced social, cultural, amusement and health fa- cility Every person in Alaska is negatively affected by these prob. lens which certainly add up in dol-l lars and cents more than the cost of living allowance requested"
 MT. Coyne points to various un-,, ion contracts which agree to 25 per cent allowance for cost of liv- ing on jobs in Alaska. He explains cost of living is no lower for the resident Alaskan than those who come from the Outside.
 Not to be outdone by the Feder- als, MT. Coyne requests that the ex- emption be made retroactive to 1850 and 1851.
 The boys in Skagway have very excellent point.
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