The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-04-15
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE


 taken in Juneau this week when the First Division Board of Assess ment and Equalization held it's first meeting with Territorial Tax Commissioner M. P. Mullaney F. c. Hanford of Wrangell was named chairman of the Board and serv- ing with him are Joe Krause of Ketchikan and Ernest Parsons of Juneau. All were recently appointed and confirmed by the Legislature
 c. A. (Pat) Carroll, Mayor of Skagway, was chosen by the Board as First Division Assessor to take over his duties May 1 at a salary of $5,200 year. While head quarters of the Board for this Div ision is fixed by law in Juneau, the Board is considering the estab- lishment of field office in some central location, such as Wran- gell, to accommodate taxpayers in the central and southern areas of the Division.
 First Division Board members with Tax Commissioner Mullaney plan to travel to Anchorage next week and there will meet with board members from the other Div isions to outline overall policy and eorrelate activities. Members of the Second Division board are George Goshaw of Shishmarof and Aarnaut Castell and Bert Bell of Nome; Third Division, Selwyn Mock of Anchorage, Victor M Johnson of Palmer and Victor G. Ellis of Kod- iak; Fourth, James Mulrooney, George Harris and T. S. Batchelder, all of Fairbanks.
 Territorial Representative Frank L. Johnson, Republican of Nome. will shortly resign as a member of the Legislature. He plans to accept a position in the Federal government service. In the event of a special session within the next two years, which is considered highly improbable, there would have to be a special election in the Second to fill the vacancy. John son was chairman of the Transport ation, Commerce and Navigation committee in the recent session. He has been engaged in the avia- tion business at Nome.
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 The tragic death of Norman R. (Doc) Walker of Ketchikan, re- ported last week in this family journal of which Doc was one of its loyal subscribers and sometimes one of it's most able critics, comes as a personal loss to thousands of Alaskans To us, Ike many others, it is hard to realize that Doc isn't around any more. Those notes, often pecked out on the back of a prescription blank from his drug store in Ketchikan, were always a lift the old Peisrcope is going to miss Sometimes it resulted in only an exchange of notes and at other times it was a lead, as we know it in the trade, which led to Peri scope items Again it would be a scathing rebuke, often deserved Then there were reports of the situation on what we facetiously referred to at the time as the Walker War Front" in those now gone days of political battle. That is the time we lost a $20 hat be- cause the old warrior out guessed us and collected with a subtle touch of humor. And that last mes sage, a short time before he died, I'm not in on this one."' He wasn't, and he won't be in on any nfb in ha Inn lyT Walker, proud Alaskan, able mem Der for many years of the Alaska Senate, devoted father and stall wart community citizen has sign ed his "30', end of the message He'll be missed by a host of fri ends and acquaintances throughout the north. To the family, Periscope extends sincerest sympathy.
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 The grapevine telegraph reports that the Territorial Board of Ad- ministration would have liked it just as well if the Legislature had decided where it wanted the new $660,000 Territorial building. To date the board members have re- ceived sheaf of telegrams, which, if waded into a tight ball, might do for the first cornerstone; all of which of course, say put it here" Most eager toll payers are the residents of Palmer, headquart- CTS of the government sponsored Matanuska colony. Every man, wo- man, child, and apparently some of the people just driving through town, seem to want the new build ing in Palmer. A sizeable number from the adjoining village of An chorage want it in that government supported defense boom town. So determined are the stout citizens
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 of that community that they are sending a delegation down to pre- sent arguments tO tha hoard to-