Need For Charter
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1. A petition filed with the City
Council signed by not less
than 10% of the qualified vot
ers of the city based on the
last general state election,
Council must approve by ma
jority vote the holding of an
election for the selection of
nine Charter Commission
members.
2. Charter Commission candi
dates may be nominated by
the City Council or by petition
signed by 25 qualified voters.
3. Candidates must have three
prior years as qualified voters.
4. Question on the ballot shall
be (1) Shall a Charter Com
mission be elected to frame a
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proposed new charter? (2) Se
lection of nine candidates as
members of Charter Commis
sion.
What are the advantages in being
a home-rule charter city as against
the present general law city? The
answer is obvious. Only by “grass
roots” control of your local gov
ernment can you, as a citizen, be
properly represented.
As a recent case in point, the
local airlines operators recently
suggested to the City that a 2c per
gallon aviation gasoline tax be
levied for the purpose of maintain
ing and improving the local air
port. In the absence of specific au
thority by state law, however, the
city could not legally collect such
a tax, even though those affected
were in favor. Under a home-rule
charter this could have been ef
fected.
Many cases of a similar nature
ferquently arise, particularly as re
gards special assessments against
those people specially benefited
by a certain public facility. In gen
eral, this lack of authority tends
to distribute the burden of cost to
every taxpayer, whether benefited
or not, which may become quite
unfair in some instances.
Only by the exercise of your
constitutionally given right can you
do the things you want to do the
way you want to do them. Only by
the adoption of a home-rule char
ter, approved by you and contain
ing the things you want, can you
throw off the restrictive yoke of
government by remote control and
place it in the hands of your
elected local representatives where
it belongs.
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Walt Disney uses his ingenuity
and camera technique to the full in
his version of the “Swiss Family
Robinson” movie playing at the
Orpheum Saturday and Sunday.
The movie features many episodes
but a highlight is the attack by a
boat load of pirates of the family’s
hilltop fortress, as they seek to
scuttle the cast-aways like rats in
a trap.
But the pirates are novices when
it comes to traps. They find them
selves helplessly facing batteries
of crossbows that fire fusilades of
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Christian Science
Society
Sunday School.9;30 m
Sunday Service .... n:0o *. ^
Testimony Meeting
.2nd & 4th Wed.
8:00 pjn.
Reading Room ..
7-8 p. m.
Located at 31 Benson
near Cope St
St. Janies
The Fisherman
Episcopal Church
First Sunday in Advent.
Church School 9:45 a. m.
NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY
Guild: 2nd Wednesday, 8 p. m. j
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arrows at the touch of a trigger; a
sky filled with flying boulders; a
hilll rolling with smoking, bursting
coconut hand grenades; tree traps
that jerk them skyward by the an
kles; tiger pits, and a thundering
avalanche of huge logs that bowl
the miscreants before it like so
many ninepins.
Monday and Tuesday—Lou Cot
tello, Mr. Funny Five by Five him
self, hilariously invades the world
of science-fiction in “The 30-Foot
Bride of Candy Rock,” making a
comic shambles out of such science
cliches as a time machine, an out
sized being (in this case a blonde
and beautiful giantess.)
Wednesday — Leslie Caron and
George Peppard form the exciting,
new romantic team of Metro-Qold
wyn-Mayer’s “The Subterraneans,”
film version in CinemaScope and
color, of the much discussed Jack
Kerouac novel of today’s “new bo
hemians.”
Kodiak Assembly
of God Church
Mission Road
Pastor Wm. L. Cummins
Phone 486—2491
“Not By Might, Nor By Power,
But By My Spirit, Saith the
Lord of Hosts.”
SERVICE SCHEDULE
SUNDAY
Sunday School.10:00 ajn.
Morning Worship ... 11:00 un.
Christ’s Ambassadors 0:80 pjn.
Evangelistic Service .. 7:S0 p.m.
TUESDAY
Women’s Prayer
Meeting.2:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Prayer & Bible Study 7:30 pjm.
FRIDAY
Youth Meeting.7:00 pjiL
Prayer Meeting.8:30 p. m.
SATURDAY
Missionettes.2:00 p. m.
Berean Baptist Church
REV. CLETIS LEVERETT, PASTOR
L. B. LINDSEY, S. S. SUPERINTENDENT
A Bible Believing Baptist Church with
a Real Concern for Souls of Men.
SUNDAY SCHOOL 9 45
MORNING WORSHIP 11:00
EVENING SERVICE 7:00
PRAYER MEETING (Wed.) 7:30
“For the Word of God and the
Testimony of Jesus Christ.”
The Community Baptist Church
CRev. Lewis White
“The Big White Church on the Hill"
Sunday School—9.45 a-m.
Morning Worshi|>—11:00 a.m.
Youth Fellowship Groups—6:30 p.m.
Evening Worship—7:30 p.m.
Mid Week Service—7:30 pjn. Wednesday
"HOLDING FORTH THE WORD OF LIFE”
KODIAK DIRECTORY
KODIAK
EMBLEM
CLUB
No. 187
Meets 1st & 3rd
Thursday at
8 p.m. at the
Elks dub.
KODIAK LODGE NO. 1772 BPOE
^ Meets every Friday
■r evening
flgjgjS at 8:30 p.m.
VisMlng Members Welcome
ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS
i SYSTEM
Hours of Business
Monday thru Friday, 9 am to 6 pm
Saturday, 9 am to 12 noon
Sundays and Holidays, dosed
Wires may be filed during the
dosed office hours by dialing 110.
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WAR*
Regular meetings 1st and lid
Tuesdays, 8 p.m.,
at the VFW Hell.
BARTENDERS LOCAL 875 AJX.
Meets on 2nd Sunday of every
month, 12 noon at Fishermen's
HalL
KODIAK
LODGE '
Ua.m.
No. 295
Meetings — Slated 3rd Monday,
8 p.m. at Kodiak Masonic Temple
BUSINESS ft PROFESSIONAL
WOMEN'S CLUB
Business Meeting—1st Monday at
7:30 p.m.
Dinner Meeting—3rd Monday at
7:00 p. m. at Town Club
JACK ALLMAN POST NO. 17
AMERICAN LEGION
Carl Rodli, Commander
Phone 486—5375
Larry Loomis, Adjutant
Phone 486—5173