New General Property Tax Would
Tax All Property Outside Cities
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, —Alaska’s contro
versial General Properties Tax of
1949, which ran onto legal shoals
and was finally repealed two
years ago, is just off the legisla
tive stage, ready for another
entry.
A new bill, embodying the same
general plan to tax all property
in the territory outside munici
palities or incorporated and inde
pendent school districts, is being
worked on by the House Ways
and Means Committee, Rep. Ken
Johnson ^D-Anchorage) chairman,
disclosed Monday.
Some changes may be made in
it, however, before actual intro
duction, he said. The term “prop
erty” would be virtually all-in
clusive, including money.
His disclosure came as both
House and Senate settled down to
committee work. Only the Senate
held a brief general session be
fore adjourning to the committee
rooms.
In brief, Johnson said, the new
bill would create what would be
known as a rural school district,
covering all property, with some
exceptions, which is not taxed
now by cities or districts. The one
percent tax imposed would go
into rural school fund.
The measure is drawn, he said,
in such a way as to attempt to
avoid charges tossed against the
1949 law. That applied in cities
and organized districts alon^ with
the rest of the territory, but tax
payers in those areas escaped a
double tax if the city or district
itself had a property tax of an
equal amount.
To meet possible objections, the
new measure states that it is
aimed to “equalize the financial
burden of public school education
as between property in rural
areas and property located in in
corporated areas.”
The 1949 tax was assailed by,
among others, the territory’s min
ers. The Board of Budget lists
$1,200,000 as still uncollected or
involved in litigation for the four
years the law was in effect.
In contrast with the 1949 l^w
which put a flat value of $500 on
each 20-acre claim or part thereof
of unpatented or patented but un
improved mining property, the
new proposal is for a. valuation of
$10 an acre. This would mean a
$2 tax on a standard 20-acre
claim, instead of the previous $5,
Johnson said.
Stiff penalties would also be
set up for swearing falsely or
fraudulently to property holdings.
That would be a felony, with a
fine up to $5,000 or five years in
prison, or both. Failure or refusal
to make reports on property
would be a misdemeanor, subject
to a fine up to $1,000 or six
months in prison, or both.
Property which would be ex
cluded would include that of the
federal government, the territory
or its subdivisions, and that
owned by nonprofit associations
for public utility, or by religious,
educational or charitable groups
and veterans’ organizations, and
unpatented homesteads.
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Copies of Bills Before
Congress Now Available
Copies of the following bills
now before the 84th Congress
have been received from the office
of Delegate Bartlett and are
available to anyone wishing to
read them:
Mental Health Act; Federal Im
port Milk Act amendment; to i'e
serve lands in the territory for
educational and other purposes;
a bill to determine claims for bas
ic and overtime compensation of
employees of the Alaska Road
Commission; House and Senate
bills for statehood; a bill to per
mit the sale of gold within the
United States and Alaska; a bill
to abolish the 80-rod reserved
space between claims on shore
waters of Alaska; and a bill to
change the boundary of the Sec
ond Division.
Fires Takes Toll
Of 47 Lives—
Mostly Children
By the Associated Pt»ess
Fourty-seven persons, most of
them children, lost their lives this
week in a tragic outbreak of fires
occurring in six states.
I At Amsterdam, N.Y., a 10-fam
ily tenement was destroyed early
Tuesday and 12 persons perished.
Eleven were children.
An overflowing oil stove was
; blamed for the fire.
Another tenement fire in New
York City, caused by an explod
ing kerosene heater in an East
Side Manhattan building, took the
lives of three children and three
adults.
Seven other persons died in New
York City blazes, most of them
similarly ignited.
Other fire deaths:
Virginia—Six children of Rob
ert L. Eley, ranging from 3 to 14
years, succumbed when flames
engulfed their frame home at
Chuckatuck, Va.
Georgia—A 29-year-old mother
died trying to save her four chil
dren after an oil stove exploded.
The children, ranging from three
months to 10 years, also perished.
At Augustaf, Army Sgt. John T.
Smith Jr. burned to death with
his three young children in their
home at Camp Gordon.
Indiana—Three children lost
their lives in a blaze caused by an
overheated oil stove ' while their
mother was away on an errand.
Kentucky—Mrs. Charles Hodge
Sr. and her two daughters were
trapped in their blazing farm
home near Liberty. The fire ap
parently started from kerosene
being used to kindle a fire.
New Jersey—An oil lamp upset
and touched off a fire which killed
a 58-year-old man living in a farm
shack.
Maryland—At Baltimore, a mil
lion dollar conflagration gutted an
auto agency.
New York—A lodge near
Rhinebeck was swept by a $100,
000 blaze. .
Icebreaker Sinks in River
QUEBEC, Lff)—The icebreaker
Lady Grey collided with a ferry
in thick fog yesterday and sank in
the St. Lawrence River four miles
east of this city. All 35 members
of the crew were rescued. The ice
breaker was on its way to aid the
ferry, stranded in ice floes.
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
PERFECT
ATTENDANCE
Perfect attendance for the six
weeks comprising the second half
of the first semester was achieved
by the following Nome School
students:
GRADE 1
Mrs. Foster—
Harold Alexine, Margaret Atta
tayuk, Lloyd Hardy, Angela Nor
bert, Ruth Okitkan, Merrill Jo
Swim, Philip Titus, John Reuben
Towner.
Mrs. Coons—
Reuben Ablagalook, John Am
undsen, Pauline Beltz, Eric Eis
grau, Wayne Locke, ' Madeline
Nunoorik, Kathleen Olsen, Jimmy
Nershak, Laura Jane Walker.
GRADE 2
Mrs. Olsen—
Pauline Attatayuk, Robby Fa
gerstrom, Renie Kowasuk, Ernie
Paneok, Walter Simon Jr.
Mrs. Gillis—
John Statayuk, Paul Amarok,
Rose Mary Barber, Homer Hoog
endorn, Victor Hudgins, Clara
Kotongan, Sonny Larsen, Linda
Lenert, Kathleen Mclver, Richard
Miller, Corinne Pauwok, Junior
Titus, Buddy Walker, Ricky
Young.
GRADE 3
Mrs. Bockman—
Stanley Anderson, Linda Doyle,
j Eileen Norbert, Howard Nunoor
! uk, Allen Reed.
Mrs. Tripp—
Alice Carlson, Steffan Ander
sen, Gladys Cannon, Gloria Carl
son, Vicky Eisgrau, Clinton Gray,
Jeannie Heath, Andy Miller, Juli- (
us Pleasant, Karen Swim.
GRADE 4
Mrs. Glavinovich—
Langford Adams, Jeanette Am
undsen, Richard Atuk, Joey Bar- j
her, Michael Cannon, Vicky Cas- j
tel, Carol Doyle, William Green, \
j Kenneth Herman, Carolyn Hudg- !
ins, Janet Jones, Nicky Longley,
i Barbara Mclver, Carol Miller, i
i Gabriel Moses, Sheldon Nagazruk, 1
Marie Peterson, Sharon Reader, j
Mike Simon, Sally Walker, Diane 1
Wilke.
GRADE 5
Mrs. Parkinson—
Jo Ann Aukon, Pearl Johnson,
Alfred Moses Jr., Steve Peterson.
Mrs. Wilson—
Ethel Ailak, Ernest Ailak, Dean
Alexander, Charles Burnett, Ida
Cabinboy, Lurisse Lowe, Earl
Luke, Arthur Martin, Sheryl Mar
tin, Mary Jane Mogg, Anna Noya
kuk, William Oman, Angeline
Outwater, Suzan Savok, Cora Se
nungetuk.
GRADE 6
Mrs. Dunbar—
Laura Atuk, Ray Arnold, Rod
ney Boucher, Roy Carlson, Grant
Doyle, Cherie Galvin, Clarice
Hardy, Edna Johnsen, Frances
Johnson, Augustine Kasgnoc,
Ralph Luke, Douglas Lee, Jimmie
Mays, Stella Moto, Patrick Nor
hert, Maggie Panek, Jo Ann Reed,
Claudia Straub, Billy Muller.
Miss Francis—
David Davis, Carolyn Johnson,
Charles Nershak, Arthur Nuglene,
Lois Okitkon, Lillian Outwater,
Emily Pederson.
GRADE 7
Miss Sleinbrech—
Valerie Adams, Danny Aukon,
Rose Marie Cavote, Franklin Ok
leasik, Eddie Johnsen, Mildred
Pauwok, James Savok, Hilda
James, Lorene Nershak.
Mr. Williams—
Mary Andersen, David Barber,
Bernice Cannon, Bobby Oman,
Wayne Russell, Patricia Maloney,
Allan Attatayuk, Betty Cavota,
Fritz Chambers, Alice Glavino
vich, Frances Longley, Janet
Muller, Lee Oman, Don Outwater.
Mr. Tripp—
Peter Barber, Richard Benson,
Charles Fagerstrom, Tony Martin,
Joe Senungetuk, Earl Towner.
U.S. machines have a total of
about six billion rated horse
power. . .
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