GARDEN CLUB MEETING
SLATED FOR MARCH 24
Palmer Garden Club members
will be meeting in Grange hall on,
March 24 at 8 p.m. Edith Olson
will present a book review, Rose
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Johnson will do a flower arrange
ment and roll call will be an
swered with a favorite annual
flower.
Co-hostesses for the meeting
will be Nina Stock and Marge
Cook.
SHINING THRU THE
SHADOWS
The light of the spirit is eter
nal. shining through the shad
ows of earthly loss to soften
sorrow and lift the heart with
its inspiring promise of crown
ing glory.
PALMER
FUNERAL CHAPEL
WM. BOUWENS. Mgr.
Catholic Men
Forming Church Club
Men of St Michael’s Catholic
Church in Palmer are forming a
social organization for the pur
pose of uniting the men of the
parish.
The organization is open to all
Catholic men and men married
to women of Catholic faith. The
first meeting of the group will
be held Friday, March 21 at 8
p.m. in the basement of the
church. At this meeting a ballot
will be presented for the follow
ing offices: Tom Keenan, presi
dent; A1 Metz, vice president;
Jasper Skok, treasurer, and
Wayne Bouwens, secretary. Addi
tional nominations may be made,
from the floor. A constitution
and by-laws will be adopted; the
name of the organization chosen,
and regular meeting dates set.
Members joining at this meeting
will be exempt from initiation
fees.
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CO-OP TRADING POST
"BUILD ALASKA — BUY THE BEST — BUY MATANUSKA MAID—
ALASKA'S BEST"
No. Consolidated
Announces Stock
And Bond Issuance
Raymond I. Peterson, presi
dent and general 'manager of
Northern Consolidated, announc
ed this wek a company offer to
Alaska residents of $240,000.00 in
debentures bearing six percent
interest per annum and 60,000
shares of company common stock
at its $1.00 par value. The pack
age will consist of a $100.00 de
benture and 25 shares of com
mon stock at a sale price of
$125.00.
The company has ordered
three Fairchild F-27 Project air
craft, two to be delivered in
August and September, 1958, and
the third in April, 1959. The air
line has also ordered four spare
Rolls-Royce Dart engines for
delivery in June and July of 1958.
The three aircraft and four spare
engines will cost approximately
$2 million. A 10-year loan com
mitment in this amount by the
National Bank of Alaska, Anch
orage, Seattle-First National
Bank, Wells Fargo, San Francis
co, New York Trust, New York
City and the American National
Insurance Company of Galveston,
Texas, has been made to the
company. Prepayments on the
new aircraft and engines ($600,
000) has already been taken
down. The acquisition of an ad
ditional $300,000 through the sale
of stock and/or bonds is a re
quirement of the loan.
Petersen said the company de
cided to offer the debentures and
stock only to bona fide residents
of Alaska so as to maintain Alas
kan control of the airline and
to keep down excessive under
writing costs.
The airline’s main base of op
erations is located at the Inter
national Airport, Anchorage.
Bases and stations are also main
tained at Fairbanks, Galena, Mc
Grath, Red Devil, Aniak, Bethel,
Platinum, King Salmon and Dil
lingham.
VISITORS ASSOCIATION.
PLANS 16-MONTH
PROGRAM
A long-range tourism program
decided upon by the Alaska Vis
itors Association in its annual
meeting at Anchorage last week,
is already rolling. R. A. (Dutch)
Derr, managing director of AVA,
and Wes-Marquis, Inc. the or
ganization’s advertising agency
presented an integrated program
to run for the next 16 months.
This was accepted by the board.
Officers were re-elected and
15 board members chosen. Dan
London vice president of West
ern Hotels, San Francisco, was
the banquet speaker and told Al
aska, “The only thing that can
hold back your skyrocketing
tourist industry is a shortage of
accommodations.”
The approved operating pro
gram included: public relations
and advertising; a year-around
news bureau; literature to en
courage winter travel; a hunting
and fishing calendar; a pictorial
map for visitors ad prospects; in
creased promotional work among
travel agents; continuing news
paper and magazine advertising
and outdoor advertising in the
Los Angeles area to start next
A travel survey is to be started ;
April 1 and run through Decern- [
ber 31 of this year to determine I
“and impact of tourism on the Al
aska economy. Monthly reports
are to be sent to the membership
and monthly press releases to
all Alaska newspaper radio and
TV stations.
Everett W. Patton, Alaska Hi
way Tours, Fairbanks, was re
elected president of the organiza
tion. Other officers named were:
Robert E. Ellis, Ellis Airlines,
Ketchikan, first vice president;
Frank Downey, White Pass &
Yukon Route, Vancouver, B. C.,
second vice persident; Jerry Ger
ardy, Culianry Union. Anchorage,
secretary; and O. F. Benecke, Al
aska Coastal Airlines, Juneau,
treasurer.
Board members elected or re
elected were Doris Barnes, Wran
gell; Ex-Gov. B. Frank Heintzle
man, Juneau; Clarence Mattson,
Port Chilkoot; William Feero,
Skagway; Charles Cloudy, Ko
diak; Curley Hoover, Cordova;
Ed Opocensky, Fairbanks; Noel
Wien, Fairbanks; H. B. Richards,
Sitka, Walter Hickel, Ray Peter
sen, (Merrill Chitty, and Paul Niel
son all of Anchorage; George
Hatch, Charles B. West, and Le
roy Peterson of Seattle.
The next board meeting set for
September will be held in Nome.
FOR FAST RESULTS TRY A
FRONTIERSMAN CLASSIFIED
FAX ASSESSOR EXPLAINS RE-ASSESSMENT
BASICS Nf CITY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT
During the past year large
parts of the city and school dis
trict were re-assesed and these
values appear on the 1958 as
sessment notices recently mailed
by the tax office.
The tax assessor asks that all
parties feeling their property to
be over-assessed, or that an er
ror has been made, report first
to his office. Errors in valuation,
description or owner can be
changed by the asessor until the
boards of equalization convene,
the assessor pointed out. Only!
when the assessor feels he can
not change a valuation, will a
formal complaint to the board of
equalization be necessary. This
protest must be filed by April"!
15, 1958, on forms available at the
assessor’s office.
Before appealing a valuation,
the tax assessor asks that the fol
lowing points be considered.
1. Re-assessments are not bas
ed on past year’s assessments.
2. No assessment should exceed
current, fair conservative value,
nor be substantially below that
figure.
3. Generally, buildings are as
sessed at a 1950 depreciated cost
of construction by contract, less
contractor’s profit, but the final,
limiting criteria is still actual
value in dollars.
4. Value of property, including
buildings, is not based on what
it cost you, individually. You may
have gotten a bargain or you
may have paid more than most
prudent buyers would for several
reasons.
5. Labor represents roughly 50
per cent of building cost, whether
your own or a contractor’s labor.
6. Depreciation of one and One
third to five per cent per year,
according to age, condition and
construction will be deducted
periodically on most buildings as
sessed above salvage value—or
inside Palmer, above 40 per cent
of cost of replacement.
7. Territorial law requires uni
formity and full value of assess
ments. Values are not being rais
ed to gam more income—tnat is
a function of the board and coun
cil when setting the mill rate.
Of course a higher valuation
makes a lower mill rate possible
to raise a given sum of money.
8. A continual review of as
sessments will be necessary to
add new construction to offset
the decline in valuation due to
depreciation on existing build
ings. While future changes in all
properties may be necessary to
reflect higher costs of construc
tion or changing land values, no
changes as drastic as some of
those now being made will ever
again be necessary if assessments
are kept up year to year.
9. Land is assessed by a table
( of maximum values set by a com
mittee of businessmen and farm
ers, according to many factors in
cluding soil, terrain, access and
clearing. Small tracts are not as
sessed as farm land, but as home
site, and according to location,
size and access.
10. Finally, appraisal for taxes
f cannot be a fine art and keep the
cost within reason. Mistakes in
judgement and in facts are not
uncommon, and for this reason
legitimate complaints are wel
come, as they tend to bring about
more realistic values for proper
ties we know too little about.
However, a general complaint
that “taxes are too high” is not
sufficient. We all feel that way
particularly in times of economic
decline, but the tax rate is not
a function of the assessor, nor
can he, for obvious reasons, take
into account each fluctuation of
the economy.
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