The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-06-10
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City, independent and incorpor ated school distrirts which might be looking with wistful eyes to ward their share of the $750, ,000 appropriated by the last Legisla ture for school construction in such districts are likely to have to join the waiting list. Under the terms of the law the districts will get a little over $28.000 each - sometime; that is, when there's some money in the Territory's general fund to pay it. Towns such as Wrangell where they have voted to bond themselves for SS5,000 for school construction and therefore, have the major portion of the funds necessary are fortunate, and could go ahead with their building plans, aware that they will not get their $28,000, or any portion of it, probably before next year. Others which are depending large ly on the Territorial contribution will be wise to drop their building plans for this year as it is a cer- tainty that the money will not be available. With the income tax law and a couple of others in court, and no money from those sources being paid in, the latest summation from the Capital is to the effect that there is slightly over $100,000 in the Territorys general fund and outstanding in unpaid vouchers against it approx imately a million and a quarter. Among the vouchers being held up are those for refunds to school districts.
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 It isn't sweet Georgia Brown, the gal of Hitting harmony, but Deputy Tax Collector Archie l.. Brown, re- signed, who has been the cause of the latest commotion up in the Third Division. It seems that when the agent for Arthur Anderson and Company, employed to do the Ter ritorial audit, dropped around the Anchorage tax office up popped a little matter of $555.29. On notifi- cation from the auditor Attorney General J. Gerald Williams took off for the scene. In signed con- fession to the Attorney General, tax collector Brown admitted he has used the aforesaid money for his own use, but had made com plete restitution, as the records proved. Meanwhile, the story broke in the Anchorage News. The com peting Anchorage daily, the Times, broke out with a special edition shouting political intrigue aE the Attorney General perhaps be- cause it had been ''scooped" on the story or perhaps because it was friend of Browns. At any rate, the fat has been in the fire more or less up around Anchorage ever since. As a result of the admission to Williams, which also included matter of $565 which had been used in March and later replaced, Browns case will be presented to the grand jury when it meets in the Third
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 Apparently having a dull spring what with the ice out and every thing, the Fairbanns News-Miner got around to reading the Anchor age papers and discovered what was going on around Editor Bill Strand, obviously facing a tough day for tomorrow's editorial, de- cided to enter into the fray. Ed itor Strand, able newspaperman in his own right, Cor maybe it was Miriam Dickey, the big wheel for Cap Lathrop behind the News Miner) decided to do some sum- ming up, aimed, naturally enough, at the present administration, the News-Miner being anti-anything that even has a faint aroma of a Democrat, as well as being anti Albert White, who runs the Re- publican party in Alaska much to the disgust of the News-Miner, al- though pledging allegiance to a certain faction of the COPS split personality. Periscope has no quar- rel with the News-Miner's right to draw conclusions as it sees fit, it being a free country at last re- port, but it does feel duty bound to set the record straight in con
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