Seward Seaport Record
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward, Alaska
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CIVIL DEFENSE FIRST AID
TRAINING PROGRAM SET
First phase of a territorial
wide training program for civil
defense will be instruction in
first aid and home nursing to
be made available to all com
munities through the coopera
tion of the American Red Cross.
Col. J. D. Alexander, director
of Alaska civil defense, announc
ed in Anchorage this week that
the Red Cross will furnish two
instructors to conduct schools
this fall.
Colonel Alexander said the
objective will be to train a sub
stantial nucleus of instructors in
first aid and home nursing, in
keeping with national civil de
fense goals of 20,000,000 persons
to be trained in first aid and
12,000,000 in home nursing.
The director said c ri t i c a 1
areas will be given first priority
in the training program.
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WALTER W. SIPPRELL, Gen. Agent - Phone Main 125
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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
In observing the complaints
and actions by the Board of
Equalization one is forced to the
conclusion that to “equalize”
tax assessments means to some
people to reduce the amount to
the lowest possible figure. That
is of course the aim of every
taxpayer, but some cut more
corners than others in the
process.
The system of taxation has
been the biggest headache of
civilization. If there is anything
we hate it is the paying of taxes,
yet that is the very foundation
of civilization whether the gov
ernment system was a monarchy
or oligarchy, democracy or to
talitarian state. It is the same
dreary round the world over.
In this country we arc faced
with a sharp increase at every
level. We know it must be paid.
We all grumble but all pay,
more or less willingly.
Urban living means the main
taining of a police force, fire
protection, educational system,
health and sanitation and count
less devious methods of stretch
ing the tax dollar to accomplish
the most for the many have
been devised by city authorities
everywhere.
In making up assessments
there are many honest errors
made in figures and in estimates.
In those communities where the
taxpayers are asked to cooper
ate with the assessor in arriving
at an equitable and fair assess
ment, and where the taxpayers
actually do comply with the
request, those errors are held
at a minimum. When taxpayers
fail or neglect to do their part
in the program, many com
plaints are heard, and they
usually arrive from the failure
of the property owner to do his
part.
In every community there are
a few who agree that a great
deal of money is required to
maintain the American stand
ard of living and they are
cheerful about the tax rates as
j long as it is the other fellow
, who is paying it. The most
anguished cries often come iroin
i the fellow who gives up apart
ment life and acquires a piece
of property, thus paying taxes
for the first time. Brother, it
sure hurts! Or the fellow who
has been allowed to coast along
paying a little under his share,
then for the first time is raised
to a par with the rest. That
hurts too!
Seward taxpayers as a whole
have been very cooperative and
this year have grumbled a little
less, if anything, than before.
The most enthusiastic believ
ers of heredity are those who get
their money that way.
“Why did you stop singing in,
the choir, Thomas?”
“Well, one Sunday I was sick
and didn’t sing, and a lot of
people in the congregation asked
if the organ had been fixed.”
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Pilots, Friends
AND ALL ALASKANS
INTERESTED IN AVIATION.
You are invited to attend
the dedication and official
opening of the
Matanuska
Valley Airport
During the
Matanuska
Valley Fair
Palmer
2 P.M. — Sept. 2
(Second Day of the Fair)
TWO AIRPORT RUNWAYS
3750 and 4900 FEET
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Meeting 2nd Tuesday of Month
Frank D. Gibbons — President
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Local 39
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President — Harold Davis