TIIE NOME NUGGET
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PROPER I't OWN: RS received their current real and personal !
property assessment notices this week. Those who have been
keeping current with the city's progress were aware that a re- :
evaluation was necessary as it had not been done in 15 years.
They were prepared to find that their property is now much more
valuable than it has been, h <sed pa-fb on a formula of what it
would cost to build todav.
I hose who have not he, t up on w hat is going on in our j
town were more than a little shocked to find their assessments 1
to be double, triple and even !i times higher than it had e\er !
been, even in parts of town whe~e there has not been any im- 1
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provements, except street lights.
This does not mean that the citv tax will be 11 times higher i
as the city council will set the rate of taxation—it was one and |
one-half per cent last year. The statutorv limit is three percent. ■
Any property owner believing his assessment is too high, or 1
having questions about the change, has the right and should take !
advantage of tnis right, to protest at the Board of Equalization j
meetings being held tonight, tomorrow and Friday night.
I he assessment notices do not show the breakdown between j
land, buildings, and personal property, which should be done, if
the property owners are to know for what they are being taxed.
The assessment notices do not show the date of delinquency,
which should be established and written on the form.
The City Council can set the rate up to three per cent of the
valuation without the approval of the taxpayers, so it behooves
the residents of Nome to take an interest in the meetings of the
Board of Equalization these next three evenings. The board
would welcome opinions of the people they represent.
Foreign Ships Help
Soviet Union-Cuba Traffic
LONDON (JP) — The Soviet
motorship Ustyuzhna left Odessa
for Havana Tuesday carrying 5,000
tons of grain and a 100-ton crane,
the Soviet news agency Tass re
ported.
Tass said it was part of a big
buildup in shipments to Cuba,
which are expected to double the
1961 figure.
About 10 Soviet ships are already
heading for Cuba with cargos in
cluding automobiles, agricultural
equipment, canned goods and tim
ber, Tass said.
Foreign ships are being called
in to help with the increased So
viet-Cuba traffic. Among ships I
chartered, Tass said, are the West I
German Westfalen, the Norwegian
Tove Lillian, the Greek Parnon 1
and the Italian Airone.
The ships will return to the So- I
viet Union with Cuban raw sugar, |
Tass said.
No Sir! Khrushchev
Didn't Get an Invite to C21
SEATTLE — Well sir, you’d
never imagine all the fuss created
I by an erroneous report Soviet
j Premier Khrushchev had been in
: vited to visit the Seattle World’s
: Fair.
More than 1,000 letters of pro
test have been received, a Fair
spokesman said Tuesday. Many
threatened to cancel plans to visit
the Fair.
A New York letter writer re
ferred to the No. 1 Russian as “the
pig from Moscow, the butcher of
Budapest.’’ A Pennsylvanian call
ed him “Soviet swine.”
A Texan protested that “if you
invite a cannibal to dinner he’s
likely to think you’re the main
course.”
Joseph Gandy, Fair president,
replied to many of the letters per
sonally that Khrushchev had not
been invited to the space-age ex
position and would not be.
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