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Do Your Talking Now
Your city taxes will go up this year.
The tax itself is limited by territorial law, but there’s
no law that says your property, valued at $4,000 last year,
can’t be revalued at more than that this year. And that is
what the city is doing, with an eye to raising more money
through taxes.
If you don’t think your property is worth what the
assessor has decided, don’t gripe to your neighbors today and
to the city council a month from now.
Go next week, before the city council, which will sit as
a board of equalization, to hear your complaints. Every year,
the board of equlization meets, and every year those who ap
pear are few. Those who appear at subsequent council meet
ings to ask for tax adjustments are numerous.
Next week is the proper time for such questions and
complaints if any. If your property has been valued at what,
seems to you an exorbitant figure, prepare your argument and
present yourself next week.
The PTA executive board
recently met at Mrs. Basil
Clark’s home to discuss plans
for programs and meetings
for the following school year.
Regular meetings for the
1952-53 term will be held in
the Home Economics room on
the second Thursday of each
month.
Mrs. John Adams is employ
ed at the post office.
The Washington Star,
owned by John Breskovich
head of Pacific Reefer
, Fisheries of Tacoma, arrived
! at the Standard Oil Company
float Tuesday for refueling
and to deliver two men to the
j hospital for medical attention.
; The vessel came here from
j Bristol Bay where it has been
i packing salmon. The Washing
ton Star is skippered by J. B.
Salsbury.
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F-ank Chance’s champion
|1 ubs of 1906 set the All
Time major league record for
| games won with 116 victories.
An even belter club—perhaps
the best of all—the Yan s of
1927, led by Miller Huggins
(and spurred on by Babe
Ruth’s 60 homers, set ''lie
American League mark with
110 victories.
Now, believe it or not, the
Brooklyn Dodgers of 1952 are
making a serious bid to tie the
Yanks’ record and might
make a serious challenge for
the Cubs’s old mark.
The Dodgers have won 61 of
the 87 played. t They have 67
games left to play and if they
continue their present pace
they will wind up with 110
victories.
1 doubt if they will make
the grade because they have
not enough games left
against the Reds, the Braves
and the Pirates.
The Dodges’ pace against
those three clubs have been
phenominal. They have played
a total of 41 games against the
three league trailers — and
have only three games, all to
the Reds.
Against the Reds the Dod
gers stand 12-3; and against
the Braves 15-0 and against
the Pirates 14-0. Total: 41
victories, 3 defeats.
The Dodgers have 22 games
remaining against those three
push-overs, but the law of
averages will work against
them,
You may recall that the ex
! perts generally agreed when
J the season began that the
Dodgers has no pitching. Per
| haps not, but somebody must
j have been throwing all those
I victories for them.
! As a matter of fact, the
Dodgers have more good
pitchers than any other club
in the league. Tney have so
many good ones that Charley
Dressen can afford to give
them plenty of rest between
assignments.
Look them over: there’s the
steady veteran, Preacher Roe,
still unbeaten. There’s Carl
Erskine of no hit fame. And
Chris Van Cuyk, Ralph Bran
ca Clem Labine and Billy Loes
to say nothihg of big Ben
Wade and Joe Black, the re
liefer.
Despite their terrific pace
to pay, the Dodgers are by no
means a sure bet to win the
pennant. The Giants have
been hot on their trail all the
way and the Cardinals, mag
nificently handled by Eddie
Stanky, have been coming a
long at a tremendous clip. The
Giants and the Cards should
keep the Doderers from becom
ing over-confident, the Card
inals having won 9 out of 12
from the Dodgers.
Lefty Craft is in Adak this
week managing the Kodiak
softball All-Stars for the Sev
enteenth Naval District
Championship against the A
dak team.
Tjs3 Windbird Completes
Successful Trip
“It was interesting in
everyway, ” was the way Dr.
j A. Holmes Johnson described
the five-week trip of the
j Windbird, s 38 foot ketch,
! fr >m Seattle up the inside pas
|s:>.ge and across to Kodiak.
| Dr. and Mrs. Johnson, their
i -on, R. Holmes and lbs fiancee
j Miss Marian James of Seattle
'made up the cre.y of the
! Windbird.
The vessel arrived in port
j July 25. The log of the Wind
I bird shows 1,797.2 nautical
i miles logged and a total of 363
! hours actual running time,
i The Windbird carries four
sails, a jib, staysail, main and
imizzen. It is 11 1-3 feet in the
• beam, draws six feet of water,
j has a 28 horsepower Grey aux
iliary engine, a 12 volt light
.plant, 55 watt Fischer radio
and sleeps five.
On the trip along the Cana
dian and Alaskan coast Dr.
1 Johnson charted a course be
tween the hundreds of rocks
and islands along little used
channels to avoid the regular
shipping lanes.
“We encountered lots of fog
1 and it rained during the major
i part of the trip,” Dr. Johnson
said.
j They stopped at several
Canadian ports including
I Prince Rupert. “Anchoring at
[night in Princess Louise Inlet
in Canada was the most dan
gerous and exciting incident
of the trip,” Dr. Johnson
said.
The Windbird was in port at
Ketchikan for three days
while the crew waited for a
repair on their radio. Other
ports of call, besides coves and
inlets at night, were Juneau,
Petersburg, Yakutat, Seward
and Montague Island.
On leaving Cape Spencer
they sailed to Yakutat without
once seeing the coast because
of a heavy fog bank.
In Seward the crew visited
Mr and Mrs. Walt Sipprell
and journeyed up to Moose
Pass to visit Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Haas.
“While at sea Bob had the
12 to 4 watches, Mrs. Johnson
and Miss James the 8 to 12
and I took the 4 to 8,” Dr.
Johnson said.
They were delayed for two
days after leaving Seward by
rough weather and put into a
small bay on the Kenai
Peninsula. They then set
course, past Sea Lion Rocks,
between Marmot and Afognak
, Island and into Kodiak.
They saw hundreds of sea
lions on Sea Lion Hocks.
“We stayed six hours in Icy
Bay on the run from Yakutat
' to Seward. There were ice
; bergs floating near the big
glacier and we experienced
heavy seas while at anchor,”
Dr. Johnson said.
The Windbird averages 8
knots with sail and about 9i
knots with both sail and
power.
J. W. Rhoades left Tuesday
for Seattle to meet Mrs.
Rhoades and later drive up the
Alcan Highway.
Early this month Rhoades
and Mrs. Sadie Herring were
married in Seattle. Rhoades
returned to Kodiak last week
for a few days. They are ex
pected to complete the Alcan
trip within two weeks.
A divorce suit has been
filed by Carey Fleming Ce
derberg against Arnold Ceder
berg, in Third District Court.
Paul Dupler is attorney for
the plaintiff.
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