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COUNCIL FIXES
assessment RATc
AT 1**16 LEVEL
Routine business
at last night’s coun
cil meeting was
speeded through in
order that the 1947
assessment for the
city of Seldovia
might be discussed in
a special session
called immediately at
the close of the reg
ular meeting.
In that special
meeting, the budget
committee presented
its estimate of' a re
quired ”'14,040 nec
essary for city oper
ation in the coming
year* at, examination
of last yearis tax
rolls by the commit
tee revealed that the
assessed valuation of
property in 1946, if
correct as recorded,
will be sufficient to
meet this yearTs
needs.
Motion was made by
councilman Leu Alex
ander that figures
for 1946 be checked
by the clirk, and if
they are determined
correct, that evalua
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Anchorage Pair
Reported Lost
Although Mr. and
Mrs. Bay1or Ecus e1,
rjcent purchasers of
Hesketh island near
Soldovia, were this
week reported in an
chorage newspapers as
lost somewhere along
Cook Inlet, no infor
mation concerning the
incident was avail
able from U. S. Mar
shall Andy anderson
here.
Mr. Anderson said
reports which placed
the missing couplefs
boat rear Soldovia
wore erroneous. Tho
boat has boor locatod
at a point approxi
mately 30 miles from
anchorago. according
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20 STOPS FOR
NEXT DENALI
The Denali has a
scheduled list of 20
ports of call on her
next trip north, it
was announced by And
erson Bock today.
Tstimatod arrival
time in Soldovia is
placed at Juno 4.
YOUTH FALLS
AS POAT IS
NtARING DOCK
Robert Sommer
ville, 14 - year-old
son of Mr. and. Mrs.
L. V. Sommerville,
met death by drowning
late last Thursday
afternoon while mak
ing a trip to Port
Graham on his fa
ther’s boat. The
boat was only a few
hundred feet from the
dock at Port Graham
when the boy appar
ently slipped and
fell overboard.
No one was with
the lad at the tine
of the accident and
there were no wit
nesses to his plunge.
Passengers aboard the
Tillicum all were in
the v/heelhouse or be
low, making prepara
tions to dock. Ro
bert had been alone
on the boat’s deck•
ns the boat pulled
toward the dock, one
of the passengers in
the v/heelhouse opened
the door and glanced
out on the deck at
the spot v’here Robert
had been standing. He
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