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Mirrored Reflections
By SIG DIGREE
Though we haven’t been able to
confirm it, it has been said a bill
has been introduced into the State
legislature to amend the present
law which requires business firms
in Alaska to pay a tax on their
gross incomes.
We have always considered this
as unfair in that all firms—those
operating on a large margin of
profit and those on extremely
close margins—must pay one-tenth
of one percent on gross earnings.
Under the new bill, firms would
pay only on their net income—
quite a different story, and cer
tainly more just and fair.
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Calling all Queen Contestants.
The young ladies vieing for Queen
of the King Crab Festival are
urged to call in at the Mirror of
fice for interviews as soon as pos
sible. We would like to carry a
photograph and feature story on
each contestant before the Fes
tival gets underway. We’d like
to meet you, hear your story, and
tell it to t^>e public.
Singer Delights
Concert Audience
Roderick Ristow, bass-baritone,
the third artist to appear here un
der the auspices of the Alaska
Music Trails, delighted a fair
sized audience Monday evening
in a concert made up from the
works of the old masters, with
renditions from modern compos
ers and musicals as well.
A well diversified program,
which included arias from operas,
spirited ballads, spirituals, finely
shaded interpretative numbers, of
fered the singer an opportunity to
demonstrate his versatility, wide
musical background, range and
power. His voice inflections of
fered shades of meaning in his
renditions much as that of the
skilled reader.
Selections from Beethoven, Han
del, Shubert, Schumann, and his
rendition of the Monologue ol
Boris, from “Boris Godounov—1
Stand Supreme in Power,” met
reat favor from his audience.
His singing of selected num
bers not appearing on the print
ed program, some as substitutions
and others as encores, made his
conquest complete. These includ
ed: “Oh, What a Beautiful Morn
ing” from Roger and Hammer
stein’s “Oklahoma;” “Song of the
Flea,” by Massorsky; “It Ain’t
Necessarily So,” from Porgy and
Bess, by George Gershwein; and
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"Old Man River.” The artist was
aided immeasurably by his ac
companist, Elaine Korraan at the
piano, who offered excellent
background music to his pleasing
interpretations and skilled vocal
efforts.
ACS Announces
New Low Rates
Beginning today, you can tell
off your congressman or even the
President by telegram for only
$1.50 plus tax, according to a news
release by the Alaska Commun
ication System.
“A new low cost telegraph ser
vice by which Alaskans may ex
press personal opinions to their
elected representatives in Wash
ington, D.C., will become effective
on March 16, 1962,” Colonel J. R.
White, ACS Commanding Officer
stated.
“The new service will permit
any person to send the President,
Vice President, or any U.S. Sen
ator or Representative in Wash
ington, a maximum of fifteen
words of opinion on a matter of
public interest for a flat charge
of $1.50, plus tax,” he advised.
The address of the sender, his
title, and the name of an organ
ization with which he is associated
will be transmitted without addi
tional charge. Signatures are lim
ited to one individual, or a family
name, or a husband and wife.
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Your Will
(Editor’s Note: The following
is a speech delivered by A1 Hoch
berger, vice-president of the Ko
diak Branch, 1st National Bank of
Alaska, before the Toastmaster’s
Club several w’eeks ago. The sub
ject, “Your Will” is at all times
timely and of interest to most
people. Hence its publication in
the Kodiak Mirror.)
YOUR WILL
By A1 Hochberger
Every person who owns prop
erty, or is gainfully employed,
should make a will. A person’s
Last Will and Testament, is the
instructions written according to
law. which he leaves as to things
to be done after his death. In
nearly every case it relates to the
disposition of his property, in a
few' cases it relates only to the
disposition of his body or to the
appointment of his executor.
The three main reasons why a
property ow’ner needs a will are
to provide for his desired dispo
sition of his property, to provide
for the proper settlement of his
estate, and to save taxes.
It a person does not leave a
will, his property wall be disposed
of according to the laws of the
State. These laws are general,
and designed to serve the average
property owner’s needs. They do
not take into account or provide
for the special needs of any per
son. as. for example, the special
needs for an aged parent or a
handicapped child.
The law gives every property
owner the privilege, with very
few restrictions, of disposing of
his property by will in the way,
that, he thinks, will be for the
best interests of everyone con
cerned.
If a person does not leave a
will the court will appoint an ad
ministrator to settle the estate as
the law prescribes, and all too oft
en an administrator is appointed
because of his political or social
standing in the community, or his
particular relationship to the de
ceased, rather than his ability to
administer. Under present day
conditions, the settlement of an
estate is the work of a specialist,
just as the practice of medicine
or law or of any other profession
is the work of a specialist.
The law gives every property
owner the privilege of naming his
own executor. In the exercise of
this privilege he can name an in
dividual, or a bank or trust com
pany. All to often an individual
executor is incompetent in com
plex business negotiations, or is
too busy with his own business,
or may even become incapacitated
by illness or death during the set
tlement of the estate, which neces
sitates the court’s appointment of
a successor.
A bank or trust company is con
stant in existence, while individu
als pass on. It is experienced in
all kinds of business transactions
and settlement of estates, it oper
ates under fidelity bond and in
surance. and government regula
tions, and is examined periodical
ly to assure that all monies are
properly accounted for and that
all business transactions are prop
erly recorded.
(To be continued next week)
Girls Basketball
Crown At Stake
Who will wear the girls’ basket
ball crown this year....Will be
fecided by the outcome of the
preliminary game Monday eve
ning when the High School Girls
again meet the Coast Guard Wives
For the third and final game of
their series.
Group Opposing
Sales Tax Forms
Formation of a group opposed
to the city sales tax was an
nounced today by Mr. Bill Wood.
“We are organizing a car pool
for the purpose of hauling per
sons opposed to the extension of
the sales tax to the polls on elec
tion day, March 27th,” Wood ad
vised. “Anyone interested in par
ticipating in our efforts, both
against the sales tax, and the car
pool, can contact me by calling
486-5470,” he said.
“Frankly, I am just plain sick
and tired of all these taxes and
I think that most everyone else
is also. I wouldn’t perhaps mind
if the sales tax had given us the
paved streets and good water
they promised us. But we have
been all paying tms lax now tor
five years and the roads are
worse now than before and the
water is more polluted than ever,”
he stated emphatically.
At the same time Wood an
nounced that he would be a can
didate for election to the city
charter commission.
Three Speakers
At Toastmasters
Don Clark, Guy Powell and Har
ry Carter are the three speakers
who will deliver talks before the
Toastmaster’s Club meeting set
for Tuesday evening at 6:30, at
the Montmartre Inn.
Toastmaster of the evening will
be Dick Hensel, and A1 Hochber
ger will handle Table Topics.
Chief Critic will be John War
ner.
Anyone interested is invited to
attend.
Special Election
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harbor, either at Gibson Cove or
wherever the next boat harbor
will be built in Kodiak, and for
the elimination of the ice problem
in the present harbor.
As the years pass quickly by,
many of us are prone to forget
the accomplishments of street
construction and improvement
performed with Sales Tax monies.
The sales tax made possible the
construction of several new streets
and improvements to others. Fol
lowing is a list of either new con
struction or improvements; to ex
isting streets:
1. Rezanoff Drive- new street
constructed from Brooklyn Ave
nue to Mill Bay Road.
2. Marine Way- new street con
structed over tidelands from Elks
Bowling Alley to Donnelley and
Acheson store.
3. I Street- new construction
from 6th Avenue to 10th, 10th to
J Street. Constructed through
forested area of the East Addi
tion to open up area for home
building.
4. Cope Street- Short stretch
of new street from Cope Street
to Hillcrest Avenue.
5. Sixth Avenue- Raise street
six feet and widen from Mill Bay
Road to High School for construc
tion of Armory building.
6. Mision Road- widen street
and straighten curve from 6th
Avenue to 7th Avenue to elimin
ate dangerous and narrow curve.
7. Mill Bayr Road- excavate to
depth of three feet, installation
of culvert drainage, widen and re
build with rock base from Ka
shevaroff Street to Rezanoff
Drive.
8. Brooklyn Avenue- raise grade
three feet, widen, and install 48”
storm drain across street.
9. Delarov Street, Leite Addi
tion- new construction.
10. Mission Road, Mill Bay,
Marine Way, Kraft Street, and
Harbor Avenue- paved in down
town area.
In addition, paving equipment
in the amount of $53,000 and as
phalt in drums in the amount of
$16,000 has been purchased and
is on hand.
It should be noted here that
street improvement is expensive
due to the necessity of excavating
the present streets to a depth suf
ficient for removing the material
unsuitable for a road base and re
placing this material with various
grades of rock before the street
is suitable for paving. Only
where this has been done have
the streets survived the winter
frost and rain without producing
frost-boils and other signs of
street failure. In order to prop
erly reconstruct and pave the bal
ance of the principal streets in
Kodiak within the next eight to
ten years, $500,000 is considered
a minimum for such work. It has
been demonstrated that paving
without properly preparing the
sub-surface of streets is a definite
waste of money, as the paving will
not stand up over the years that
should be expected of a properly
executed paving job.
(Continued next week)
KN IDS N’S
Bears, Seals, ash trays in Alabaster. Too expensive to throw
but good to use and look at.
We have some wonderful SOAPSTONE CARVINGS
made by Eskimos
ALASKAN GIFT ITEMS
For young and old
PHOTO FINISHING — Good work and good service
Cameras,
film, projectors, flash bulbs, batteries, etc.
Toys, model planes, coloring books
Plant food — Planters
Pet food and “KITTY LITTER”
Guns, powder, bullets, primers.
KNUDSEN’S — Where All Kodiak Shops I