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'asnssed, «nd the average tax
W«f <8 paying almost twice the
^amount ol taxes that he should
- We were al«o told that the
City of Kodiak bad greatly in
S *reased ns cast] reserve and that
'■^it had quite a lot of money in
the bank. We wonder why we
should he proud of this. . It only
»d«nonotrates the fact that the
mtj has col eeted too much mon
’'ey in taxes either by having a
•'too high rate of taxation or a too
tfeigb assessment
* An incorporated city should
**hnetioD in a different manner to
'tkatot a private business cor
‘ tporation, which is in business
safely for profit. A city corpora
(mb exists solely to own and op
«ate utilities—light, water, sew
erage, etc,-to furnish fire and
_
Directory
KODIAK MASONIC CLUB
nHaetings 1st & 3rd Tues. •8 pm
Base Chapel
Civilian Hill, NOB
KODIAK
CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL
meets the 1st Sunda?
•f each month at 10 a. id.
Fishermen’s Union Hall
Glen Robinson, President
Stuart Nuckols, Secretary
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- A. F. of L.
_ Carpenters Local No. 2162
"" Meets on the 1st, & 3rd, Fri
"dar of each Month at 7:30 p.m.
. it the Union Hall,
TEAMSTERS,CHAUFFEURS,
; WAREHOUSEMEN & BELP
ji ERS Union, Local No. 500
1“ Meetings 2nd Monday 11 am
, 4tk Monday 8 pm Union Hall
. U. S. Signal Corps.
— Hours ef Business —
DAILY:—8 am to 5 pm
11 Sundays & Holidays—
19 am to 10 am & 4 pm to 5 pm
<1 Emergency wires only may be
_ lied during closed hours of
receiving office.
i AMERICAN LEGION
J POST No. 17
MEETINGS
Sad A 4th Tuesdays 8 pm
Legion Buildiag
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VETERANS OF FOREIGN
WARS
1st and 3rd Tuesdays
at the VFW Club
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CULINARY UNION 874
Meetings:
| 2nd Friday 2:45
44h Friday 7:30
at the Union Hall
1 I . .
P ’1'cr. protection, to maintain
schools and to build and main*
tain roads, and to perform such
other functions as to Increase the
I “liveability” of a community, ft
| ib not a function of it to make
■ profit. Neither is it good practice
to overtax to create a cash re
serve for capital investment.
Councils and mayors change too
fast, and a cash reserve is too
much of a temptation to spend
Most of us remember the last
cash reserve that Kodiak accum
ulated and the junkets of its of
| ficers to Seattle, Juneau and
| Washington at the city’s ex
I pense There should be no such
thing as a cash reserve; only suf
ficient money for working capi
tal Expenses of operation should
be budgeted for the year and the
tax rate fixed accordingly, bear-i
ing in mind any surplus accumu
lated from the previous year’s
operations that should be return
ed to the taxpayers in lower tax
rates for the ensuing year.
When money is needed for
large capital investments it
should be borrowed, its repay
ment being amortised over a
period of time and included in
the budgeting of taxes. In this
way the voters ef Kodiak would
have the privilege of voting for
or against large capital expendi
tures, which is their right and
which has a tendency to reduce
the probability of giaft in high
places.
The keynote of a successful,
prosperous city, is to budget
your expenses, (and keep within
them) and not accumulate cash
surpluses that are a temptation
to graft and injudicious spending
and to keep your tax rate down.
This procedure has made Omaha
and no any other towns in Neb
raska graft fiee and piospercus,
and has given them the lowest
tax rates of anywhere in the
United States
Yours very truly,
P* J Watkiuson i
Gardeners To Meet
The next meeting of the Kodi
ak Garden Clul» will be held on
April 2 at the home o.' Mary
Root Preparation of soil for flats
by Edna Kraft and soil testing
by AI ce Given will be the topics
discussed
At the last meeting on March
18 at the home of Alice Meyer
regular tn^mess was con ducted
by the new president, Alice
Given
A Naval vessel brought 198
ifoa«s of mail for Kotfiak on Wed
nesday.
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TALLEY J*Z—
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. . . and o nttt> YOU
'Make your appointment early tor those
FACIALS - PERMANENTS
and MANICURES at
i
"TALLEY’S BEAUTY SALON
'Open Afternoons 'Evenings except Wed. & Sun.
Request For Bids
The City of Kodiak, Alaska
requests bids on establishing a
grade line from the intersection
of Main Street and Mission
Road, thence along Main Street
to the intersection of Mam
Street and Mill Bay Road,
thence along Mill Bay Road to
the intersection with Alaska
Street, thence along Alaska
Street to Brooklyn Avenue, or a
total of approximately one thou
sand feet in length by thirty feet
in width, under the terms and
conditions to be authorized by
the Common Council of the City
of Kodiak.
The work will consist of mov
ing about two thousand yards of
the present surface and surfacing
with crushed rock, lowering the
sewer man holes and putting in
cement curbs and catch basins
and drains for same. Plans and J
specifications are available at the
City Clerk's office.
Bids are to be in writing and
sealed and postmarked not later
than midnight, March 31, 1947.
The City reserves the privilege
of rejecting any or all bids.
City of Kodiak, Alaska
Myrna Perkins, City Clerk
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