VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
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Proposed City License Fees
The following are proposed yearly license fees for engaging in
the operation, conduct or carrying on of any trade, profession, bus
iness or privilege covered by Ordinance 14 of the city of Palmer
within said city. These v.ere fees as adopted with the second
reading of the ordinance, Wednesday, September 26. They are
subject to change as seen fit by the council before the third and
final reading, Wednesday, October 3rd.
S1.00
Professional men (as defined Chap. 43 SLA 49).
$14.00
Bakery, barber shops, beauty shops, bottling works, bowling
alleys, cabinet shop, childrens’ nurseries, cold storage, confection
ery, public dance hall, dairy and dairy products, garages, body
and paint shops, groceries and meats, hardware, health salons—
massage—bath parlors, hotels, laundries and dry cleaners, mar
kets, meat markets, peddlers, restaurants, rooming houses, shoot
ing gallery operator, theaters, trucking (local), undertakers and
embalmers and all others not mentioned in ordinance.
$50
Excavating and dirt moving, intoxicating liquor establish
ments, (retail, beverage, dispensary, wholesale, beer and wine or
restaurant), lumber yards, pawn brokers, second-hand merchant,
skating rinks. ,
$100
Building construction contractor, carnivals and fairs, con
tractors (unclassified), electrical contractor, general contractors,
oil burner business, painting contractors, plumbers, shooting gal
leries, sign erectors, taxicab operator (for one cab—$25 for each
additional.)
Other fees include $25 for taxicab chauffeur, $25 monthly for a
transient merchant or trader, $125 for recreational card tables
plus $25 per table in each quarter, and $150 for dance halls
(special.) ,
Fees on mechanical amusement devices and vending machines
amount to $10 on musical devices, $12 ,on merchandise vending
machines, $25 on photo-electric target and amusement games, or
five-ball machines, $50 on “digger” or cigarola machines, and $100
for one-ball, console or any other type machine.
Licenses for dogs cost $5 for females and $2 for males and
spayed females.
Community Chest—
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Slaughter said, “Anybody inter
ested in expressing his opinion on
inclusion of the United Defense
Fund in our annual chest drive,
scheduled to begin October 15, is
invited to do so”.
The United Defense Fund
The United Defense Fund, Inc.,
was organized last spring to com
bine fund-raising campaigns for
defense-connected voluntary ser
vices such as the United Service
Organization (USO), the Ameri
can Social Hygiene association,
United Community Defense Ser
vices, Clothing for Korea, and
similar emergency relief groups.
It was organized at the request of
the National Social Welfare As
sembly and the Community
Chests of America so as to elimi
nate the need for separate fund
raising campaigns during the
present defense emergency.
Just before his recent retire
ment to private life, General of
the Army George C. Marshall en
dorsed the fund as follows:
"As secretary of defense, I
have a deep interest in the suc
cess of the United Defense
Fund.
"The size of our armed for
ces has doubled within the past
12 months. More and more
families are deeply affected.
The welfare of their sons and
daughters will be of great con
cern to them.
"You cannot put three or four
million men under arms and
add other millions to our labor
C. C. Brix Presents—
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communications should be sought.
Ordinances
A new ordinance on taxicabs
operating within the city of Pal
mer, ordinance number 16, was
read for the first time by city at
torney, Harold Butcher. Under
the terms of the ordinance, taxi
drivers would have to be 25 years
of age; and the number of taxis
licensed to operate would not ex
ceed one for every 150 persons in
the city of Palmer, with the coun
cil authorized to determine the
population at any given time.
Ordinance number 14, provid
ing for the licensing of all trades,
businesses and professions operat
ed, conducted or carried on in the
city of Palmer, was read for the
second time. A copy of the pro
posed schedule of license fees ap
pears on page 11 of this week's
Frontiersman. These fees will be
considered further at the next
meeting of the council before the
third and final reading.
Ordinance number 15, the
building code regulation, was
read for the second time. It is
force without creating severe
strains and stresses.
“The United Defense Fund is
an integral part of the defense
effort. It is coordinating its ef
forts closely with those of the
government. I hope that the
nation's community chests and
our people will stand solidly
behind it".
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DO WE WANT THIS SCHOOL, OR DON'T WE?
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AHA Housing Project
Hear Completion With
Four Units Occupied
All 15 of the AHA houses on
the front row will be completed
this week, and the entire 25-house
project will be completed by Oc- '
tober 15, Ray F. James of the
James Construction Co. said this
week.
Six of the houses in the back
row are all done except for the
interior woodwork. The remain
ing four houses are far enough
along that they should not hold
up the completion date.
Only four of the houses have
been sold so far. Mr. T. V.
O’Rourke of AHA was in Palmer
on Tuesday and said there was
some misunderstanding that the
housing was for veterans only.
“The veterans’ priority period
has long since lapsed”, he said.
“The houses are now available for
all purchasers”.
The two and three-bedroom
houses call for down payments
of $2,500 and $4,000. Monthly pay
ments, including taxes, amount
to $80 and $100. Mr. H. D. Ellett,
AHA representative, will be in
Palmer, Sundays, at the housing
project site to talk with anyone
interested and permit inspection
of the houses.
Accident Victim
Hospitalized Here
Caroline Stettsinger is resting
comfortably in the Valley hos
pital, following an accident Sat
urday evening, September 22, at
the foot of Linn’s hill.
The car in which Miss Stett
singer was a passenger failed to
make the turn at the foot of the
hill and overturned. Her injuries
will require from three to five
weeks hospitalization it was es
timated by attending physician,
Dr. C. C. Bailey.
based on the uniform building
code of the Pacific Coast Building
Conference as published and
printed 1 January, 1949, and con
taining 52 chapters including
chapter 51, “Heating Appliances”,
and chapter 52 “Zoning Laws”.
The third and final reading on
this ordinance will be heard at
next week’s council meeting.
Copies of these ordinances are
posted on the bulletin board of
the temporary city hall in Sev
erns’ cabinet shop or may be seen
in the city clerk’s office in the
Neal Wright building. A copy of
the uniform building code as de
scribed above is also in the city
clerk’s office.
This is the question qualified voters must ask themselves.
The people of the Palmer School District have never had an
opportunity as yet to express themselves on the subject. They get
that opportunity in the school bond election to be held at the school
gymnasium, October 2nd—if they register before noon September
29 with the school accessor, William Head.
The issue before the voters is: Shall the School Board be
authorized to issue bonds up to $1 million for the new high school?
That amount would be the school district’s one-half share of an
estimated $2 million construction for the school, plus the gymnasium
and auditorium. So far only the school itself (at a total estimated
cost of $1,200,000) has been approved by Alaska Public Works, al
though approval of the gymnasium and auditorium might come at
any time when the defense emergency restrictions on building are
lifted.
The voters’ authorization does not mean that the School Board
must issue bonds for $1 million or any part of that amount. It merely
gives members authority to do it in case Alaska Public Works insists.
School Board members doubt that the district will ever be asked to
issue bonds, but it stands to reason that APW would want some
guarantee that the money will be paid. School Board member Jim
Hurley has described the school bond election as a pledge of faith
that the school district will be willing to pay its one-half share.
If 65 percent of the qualified electors vote “Yes”, the evidence
that we want the proposed new high school will be conclusive.
Potato Growers Yell—
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said, at least 40 potato pickers
would be needed.
A lot of potato pickers showed
up last week from the army, but
they exhausted their leave in
many cases, waiting for the rain
to stop. Some of them got tired
of paying out money for expenses
when they were able to get no
work in.
Rasmussen reported that this
year’s crop is a good one, but
more work is involved in getting
them harvested because of the
wetness of the soil.
Hard at work this week were
the Co-Op’s big potato producers:
E. W. Barry, Harold Harris, Oscar
Kerttula Kit Carson Jim Berry
Clare Patton, Leo Lucas, Rex
Kibbe, Herb Holstein, Ralph
Bradley, John Church, Cliff Egvit,
S. L. Davis, Martin Olson, Harold
Dinkel, Joe Gieselson, Don Parks,
Ed and Fay Blom and Fred Lar
son.
Max Sherrod’s 1951 crop of po
tatoes was all harvested this
week. He said he usually starts
to get his potatoes in a little ear
lier than most of the farmers be
cause he likes to take his time
with them. He reported a very
good yield of 18 tons to the acre,
with almost no disease noted.
School Bond Issue—
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Works program is two percent.
This would be the same interest
rate charged on a loan by APW
if bonds are not required. School
board members have indicated
repeatedly that they do not be
lieve the bonds will have to be
issued, that APW merely wants
to be reassured that the district
will pay for its share of a possible
$2 million building.
Only 10 Percent Registered
Superintendent William T. Zah
radnicek said this week, “We feel
that the school bonding proposi
tion will have to be settled some
time. If the elected school board
didn’t feel that APW had made
the district a good proposition, it
wouldn’t ask the electors to vote
on it. People should vote and ex
press themselves on it one way or
the other”.
It appeared at noon today that
the will of the qualified electors
might not be fully expressed. At
that time only 121 of them had
registered in the tax collector
assessor’s office. Bill Head stated
that this number is barely 10 per
cent of the qualified electors m
the school district Saturday, Sep
tember 29, at 1 p.m., is the regis
tration deadline.
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