The Wrangell sentinel., 1954-05-28
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Sawmill Progress

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 Report from Tokyo this week says Iakuii Oshima, executive dir eetor of the Alaska Pulp company which last week announced it had reated the Wrangell saWmill from c. T. Takahashi, will be Wrangell- bound shortly after the first of the month to supervise overhaul of the local mill Announced plan of the Japanese company is to have the mill operating by September
 Meanwhile. the company which is incorporated in Alaska, has made application to the Forest Service for a tract of timber in the Sitka area with the aim of establishing pulp mlll there. lSee news story)
 Property Tax
 In San Francisco this week the U. 5. Circuit Court upheld the old o..e per ,ent property tax which was enacted by the Legislature of l949, spent it's entire lifetime in the courts and finally was repealed by the Legislature of 1953.
 The Circuit Courts decision leave Tax Commissioner Karl Dew-I ey III a quandry as to what to dol about the tax years the law was onl the statute books. Some property owners paid it under protest and the funds were set aside in a spec iaI fund due to the litigation. 9th CT property owners ignored it, eunbnng the act would be tossed out the window. What to do with the money collected and what ac- tion to take against those who didn't pay in view of the Legisla tures repeal is Commissioner Dew C., headache. He's asked Attorney General J. Gerald WlInams, who as Attorney General defended the act in behalf of the Territory, to come up with the answer. Gerry no doubt Wall, and it should be interesting.
 in It's decision, the Circuit Court Opined it was not such a hot law, although it wasn't illegal, and didn't praise the Craftsmanship of the lawmakers of 1949. Said the court in part: ''There is no doubt but that the absence of an arrangement for some overall method of equalization is a serious defect in a statute which unquestionably is not only unique but wanting in evidence of legisla- tive workmanship"
 Former Senator Luther c. Hess, pioneer mining man and banker of talrbanks, and the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining company of Juneau had carried the ball against the act on grounds of inequities and espec- ially that it was unfair to property owners outside of cities, school districts and public utility districts.
 Courts decision might prove quite crutch for any candidates for the Legislature this fall whose sympathies tend toward a property tax law.
 How About TV?
 Up in Anchorage today and to- morrow the Legislative Examining and Investigating Committee, creat- ed by the last Legislature to peer into this and that function of Ter ritorial government, is having a meeting. Decision is to be made on whether to hold public hearings on the inquiry now being made into the activities of the Department of Health and the Employment Secur- ity Commission. The lawmakers are going to determine If it is in the public interest, reports Senator Howard Lyng of Nome, member of the committee.
 If it's in the public interest we suggest the committee should go in for nv cameras and all the. trim mings. Just look at the boys who are building themselves in the pub lie eye as result of the current spectacle in the national capital over how many passes a private soldier got and how many girls he called up. There's something about those TV cameras that initiates the ego.
 Warning!
 Warning to derby entrants: Long week end, nice weather and we're moved to go out and get the sixty pounder. Maybe some trout, too. Wishing you the fifty-nine pounder and pleasant holiday week end.
 l. W.