Bellingham Herald, May 2, Courthouse ReportAssessor Sees No Change In Taxing of Stored Goods A new state law concerning exemption of goods stored for shipment outside the state will mean no" change in present personal property assessment methods, Assessor Harold Adams said Tuesday. Adams said some county shippers had asked him about the situation after a story told of the new law as outlined to local Traffic and Rates Bureau members by their consultant. The assessor said his study of the law, which is to go into effect in June, shows it does not make any basic change from the procedure he has followed. His office still assesses personal property as of Jan. 1 inventories, and goods in transit out.
of the state are already exempt if they go out by April 30 of the same year, he pointed out. As far: as he can see, the new law adds exemption of raw furs specifically, and also adds the words "for sale" to the law in effect now. He said the state assessors association feels the assessor themselves would not need to get any legal interpretation on the law. TWO BIDDERS--Two tracts of state tidelands on Lake Whatcom inside the city of Bellingham were sold at well below appraised values at the courthouse Tuesday. Two men showed up for the auction conducted by Auditor Wella Hansen for the state Department of Natural Resources.
A. E. Markham, Vanderbilt bought 40 feet along the lake at the foot of Martin Street, off Alabama Street, for $500. Appraised value set by the state was $1.000. Clyde E.
Wallace, Star. Route, Quincy, bought about a half acre on the northeast end of the lake for $100. It was appraised at $940. DIVORCE ASKED -Mary Kasych has filed suit in Superior Court seeking a divorce from Joseph Kasych. Married in Winnipeg in 1943, they have no children.
COMMITTED A 20-year-old Bellingham man who confessed to a Cornwall Park incident a week ago Saturday--the showing of obscene pictures to two young girls--was voluntarily committed to Northern State Hospital Tuesday in a hearing before Court Commissioner Harry 0. Loft. PROBATION San Juan County case heard Tuesday in Bellingham by Superior Court Judge Bert Kale, the probationary sentence of Louis A. Duran Jr. of Everett was revoked, subjecting the defendant to a 15- year maximum term in the state reformatory for grand larceny.
After being placed on probation under a 1960 conviction Duran was re-arrested for a violation of probation after he signed a $500 check drawn on a bank where he did not have an account and after he pawned a $75 television set on which he still owed payments. He was also found guilty of failure to make restitution in the earlier case as had been ordered by the court. The 1960 conviction was on al San Juan County charge. The bation violation involved a check passed in Everett. Duran is in his early 20's.
The defendant blamed the bad check incident on "high-pressure salesmanship" when he attempted to purchase a car. He said he "only signed the check" after the car salesman had made it out, but he admitted giving the salesman the name of a bank where he did not have an account. Late Sports NATIONAL LEAGUE San Fran. 000 004- 4 51 Chicago 540 000 00x- 9 121 Sanford, Fischer (2), Duffalo (6), O'Dell (7), Miller (8), and Bailey; Cardwell and Taylor. HR: Altman, Chicago; Williams, Chicago; McCovey, San Francisco.
Driver Fined $200 In Municipal Court Einar T. Tomtan, 45, 1310 gon was convicted in pal Court Tuesday of driving under the influence. Judge Jack Kurtz fined $200, half of which was suspended, and given a suspended 10-day jail sentence for the offense, which took place April 21. WWC Debater Wins in Montana Speech Tourney Western Washington College's debators ended the 1960-61 forensic season as Patricia Pike, an arts and science major, took first place honors in women's extempore speaking at the annual Tau Kappa Alpha Speech Tournament at Montana State University. Mrs.
Pike, a senior, teamed with her husband, Robert, to place fourth in a field of more than 60 teams in the Oxford debate category. Robert was also a finalist in the extempore class, as was Bonnie Baker, Everett sophomore, in original oratory. WINS MOST FIRSTS Mrs. Pike has won more first place awards in intercollegiate competition. than any other student in Western's history, according to Dr.
Paul Herbold, forensics advisor. She and her husband earlier took the first place cup in Oxford debate in competition at Seattle Pacific College. In addition to her forensic work and academic program, Mrs. Pike is the mother of a year-old daughter, Stephanie, who is, of course, an early talker. The fourth member of the squad making the trip to Montana, Sue Weidman, a senior in education, won place recognition in the preliminaries but failed to qualify for the finals.
Some 350 students from 42 leges and universities throughout the West and Mid-West participated in the three-day invitational tournament. We Are Always Open All 365 IN THE DAYS YEAR 10 A.M. TO 10 P.M. EVENINGS AND SUNDAYS For Prescription Compounding SENUTY'S PRESCRIPTION PHARMACY Call RE 3-4040 3106 Northwest Ave. WOUSE REALTY SUNNYACRES COMPANY If you're sold on home ownership, let National Bank of Commerce help you buy a home just right for your family- with a loan just right for your finances.
You'll appreciate the low cost of a real estate mortgage loan from Bof C. NATIONAL BANK of COMMERCE NBC good place to bank Member FDIC Have Chassis and Motor, Will Travel A 20 year old Bellingham youth was fined $12 in Municipal Court Monday for driving with defective equipment. A check of the missing equipment included the following items: headlight, tail light, stop light, foot brake, handbrake, windshield wiper. Boeing Net Earnings Up SEATTLE (AP)-Net earnings of the Boeing Airplane Co. for the first quarter of 1961 were 820, a gain of nearly $2 million over the same period a year ago.
William L. Allen, company president, made the report Tuesday at a stockholder's meeting and predicted earnings for the full year should improve over 1960 levels. The earnings amounted to 75 cents a share, compared to 51 cents for the first quarter of 1960. As a percentage of sales, net earnings were equal to 1.83 per ce cent this quarter, 1.02 for the similar period a year ago. Weather Table By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS High Low Pr.
Albany, rain 60 43 .31 Albuquerque, cloudy 83 Atlanta, clear 70 51 ..34 Bismarck, cloudy 54 34 Boston, rain 56 Buffalo, cloudy 59 33 Chicago, clear 51 39 Cleveland, cloudy 55 30 Denver, cloudy 54 35 Des Moines, clear 55 31 Detroit, clear 52 33 Fairbanks, clear 50 32 Fort Worth, cloudy 76 52 Helena, rain 70 43 Honolulu, cloudy 78 71 .09 Indianapolis, clear an 56 31 Kansas clear 54 34 Juneau, cloudy. 56 40- Los Angeles, cloudy 76 55 Louisville, clear 65 33 Memphis, clear 68 43 Miami, rain 81 69 .48 Milwaukee, clear 49 29 St. Paul, clear 54 24 New Orleans, clear 79 64 1.87 New York, rain 56 46 .23 Oklahoma City, clear 65 39 Omaha, clear 57 31 Philadelphia, rain 58 47 .25 Phoenix, clear 99 60 Pittsburgh, clear 64 33 Portland, rain 57 44 Portland, cloudy 64 50 .05 Rapid City, clear 58 34 Richmond, rain 76 48 .96 St. Louis, clear 56 32 Salt Lake City, clear 81 48 San Diego, cloudy 70 58 San Francisco, clear, 61 50 .12 Seattle, clear 67 38 .04 HONOR FOR INDIAN CHIEF ASTORIA, Ore. (AP)-The skull of Chief Concomly, an Indian who befriended early American explorers of the Oregon country, will be buried next year after returning from half way around the woria.
Concomly, who headed a tribe cf Chinook Indians, helped Lewis and Clark get through their winter on the West Coast in 1805-06. Later he aided the John Jacob Astor expedition which founded this city. Four years after his death in or 1830, a Hudson Bay official dug up his skull and shipped it to England as a curiosity. The skull, amazed the English, for like many Chinool, Concomly had a flat head, made so by bin 1- ing in childhood. For more than a century the skull was in a British naval hospital.
Seven years ago Astorians managed to induce the English to send it back to Oregon. It has been in a glass case in the hisdorical society museum here Next year, during the 150th anniversary of the city's founding, the skull will be buried in a memorial. THIS IS TAX EVIDENCE? Dan Chechels of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, looks over a box of items which arrived by certified mail from an unidentified Maryland taxpayer to support a medical deduction challenged by the agency. Among the items: a hot water bottle, an ice pack, tooth paste cartons and assorted drug store remedies. The ice pack poses a question as to whether it was purchased to treat migraine headaches or hangovers.
The IRS says hangovers are not Wirephoto. Marriage Licenses John R. Millenaar, 21, Everett, and Karen G. Snow, 18, 3000 Bennett Drive. Walter H.
Clements, 23. Seattle, and Nellie A. Winter, 22, 1316 High Street. Jacob Dykstra, 23, Rt. 1, Everson, and Helen Irma Heida, 23, Rt.
1, Everson. Harold A. Peterson, 24, Oak Harbor, and Judith C. Nordby, 18, Lynden. Frank Lee, 65.
1530 Kentucky and Mary I. Katleman, legal age, 1009 Clinton St. The Almanac By United Press International Today is Tuesday, May 2nd, the 122nd day of the year with 243 more to follow in 1961. The mcon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Venus.
The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 1853, General Thon.as (Stonewall) Jackson, was shot down by his own Confederate soldiers side of Chancellorsville, Virginia. He subsequently lost his left arm: In 1923, Lt. Oakley Kelley and John Macready left New York on a flight that made them the first aviators to make a nonstop transcontinental flight. In 1941, the Federal Communications Commission approved the regular scheduling of commercial television broadcasts beginning July 1st.
In 1960, so-called "red-light murderer" Caryl Chessman died in San Quentin's gas chamber. A thought for today: Germanborn writer Thomas Mann said: "Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them." SERVICE SET SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI) -Funeral service's will be held Thursday for Ralph Arnold, 86, one of the nation's first petroleum engineers, who died Sunday. CORKS POP LONDON (AP) Champagne corks popped in a backstage room of the Theater Royal early today at a party celebrating the start of "My Fair Lady's" fourth year in London. NOW YOU KNOW By United Press International The North American continent, including its islands, has an area of 9.3 million square miles, third in size behind Asia and Africa.
may be a lot of bunk, but it's the latest A RIVER BED? -This wrinkle in the college bed craze. Five University of Missouri students, members of Delta Upsilon fraternity, shove off to float a double-deck bunk down the Missouri River to St. Louis 011 a raft. The object--if there is one-is to beat the record of fraternity brothers at the University of Oregon who floated a bunk down the Willamette River 44 hours, before a log upended their Wirephoto via bed from Missouri. 'Dead' Cigarettes Blamed for Fires But Forester Sees Help from Public By WORTH HEDRICK United Press International.
OLYMPIA (UPI) Too many people flip their cigarette butts instead of snuffing them out in ashtrays. The "dead" cigarettes start forest fires, and the annual loss totals countless thousands of dollars. But Loren Tucker, State Fire 250,000 Died In Mock Attack OLYMPIA (AP)-A mock nuclear attack on Washington state last Friday theoretically killed 250,000 persons, State Civil Defense Director Charles C. Ralls, said Tuesday. Ralls said 11 missile strikes blasted the state with the equivalent of 65 million tons of TNT in the civil defense test exercise.
He said the dead were from blast effects only, while thousands more perished later from deadly swaths of radioactive fallout covering the state. Most families could bave survived the fallout if they had prepared fallout shelters equipped with enough food, water and supplies to last for two weeks, Ralls said. Civil Service Eligibility List Rankings Set Up City civil service eligibility lists for starting police patrolman cannot be set up because of questions on physical qualifications of some of the applicants. The Civil Service Commisison Monday afternoon approved setting up rankings of applicants for other city positions, however. They included four who passed both the mental and physical tests for water utilityman, nine for street utilityman, four for firefighter and five for park utilityman.
In some instances, persons already on the eligible list had to be fitted into the proper rankings. PHYSICALS ELIMINATE SOME The board rejected two applicants for park jobs because they failed to pass the physicals, three for patrolman, one for firefighter and one for street utilityman. In addition, four physical exams for police applicants were returned to the doctors for completion and another for more information on a specific condition. In other business, Park Supt. Herb Olson asked for promotional exams for light equipment operator and park caretaker II, and the board decided they would be given when the next exams are held.
The board welcomed Chairman F. J. (Bill) Herb back after a trip and an illness, and then reelected him to head the commission. Other members are Robert Andrews and Albert Brazas. Udall Denies Solicit Charge WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of the Interior Stewart L.
Udall said today he asked a friend to help him sell $100 tickets to a Democratic dinner but denied that I asked him to solicit the oil and gas Udall met reporters in his office to answer questions arising from publication of a story by Peter Edson of Newspaper Enterprises Association. The story said an oil company representative had solicited contributions in Udall's name by letter from 56 oil and gas industry representatives, lobbyists and public relations executives here. The letter was sent by Jack K. Evans of Asiatic Petroleum Co. Control Division supervisor, is optimistic as the 1961 fire season gets underway-in spite of careless smokers.
Tucker--a pipe smoker- -pointed to statistics that show the general public gradually is becoming more aware of forest fire danger and is cooperating more each year in fire prevention and con- Power Squadron 'Changes Watch' Alfred Hahnel was installed as commander at the third annual "Change of the Watch" meeting of Bellingham Power Squadron Monday night at Bellingham Yacht Club. H. Rolland Main was elected lieutenant commander, Theo P. ALFRED HAHNEL Installed as Commander Scholz, first lieutenant: Arthur J. Boyd, secretary, and Norman Olsen, treasurer.
Hahnel succeeds David McDonald and Herbert R. Hearsey as leader of the group which has instructed more than 150 local boaters in handling and navigation of boats the past two years. Hearsey, the educational officer, announced six members had passed their advance piloting examinations. They include Main, Galen W. Bentley, Albert L.
Florence, L. Wesley Florence, Fred F. Neely and Carter A. Watson. Committee appointments at the meeting included Hearsey, Bob Nelson and Bob Clark, nominations; Ray Scougale, Fred Neely and Bentley, executtive, and Peter Redpath and Bill Wieder, auditors.
Appointive officers include Hearsey, education; James S. Martin, advance grades chairman; McDonald, admissions chairman, and Gerald Gilbert, elective courses chairman. District Commander Raymond Harting attended the installation meeting. CHEYNNE LEADERS SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) ny Woodenlegs of Lame Deer, has been named president of the Northern Cheyenne Indian tribe for the third time.
Chosen to the tribal council are August Spotted Elk, John Stands in Timber, John Kills on Top William Hollowbreast and Clarence Spotted Wolf. CHOICE PRIME Rib of Beef LEOPOLD HOTEL of Course trol. MORE AWARENESS He believed that the most significant factor in the reduction of man-caused fires in recent years is the fact that the public has become increasingly aware of forest fier losses. Although 90 per cent of the fires each year are still mancaused, Tucker noted with optimism that the number and total loss in acreage has dropped considerably in the last 10 years. The largest percentage of fires in Washington last per cent-was caused by smokers, and all but about six per cent were man-caused.
For many years it has been the same way, but the total loss has gradually decreased, Tucker said. He believed the reduction in losses has resulted from an expanded education program, modern techniques in fire prevention and fire control and better organization of fire-fighting crews. The 1961 fire prevention and control program has been underway for several months under Tucker's supervision and he has high hopes of further reducing fire losses during the current season. CRITICAL TIME STARTS Tucker said the most critical fire danger periods are late April and May and during August and the early part of Septembertimes when dead vegetation is piled high in forest areas. By mid-June fire-fighting and control forces are at peak strength, he said, and many workers have already been placed in strategic locations to aid in the program.
During the midsummer period there are about 155 fire wardens, 480 fire-suppression crew members and nearly 300 fire-fighters available for immediate duty in the event of large fires, Tucker said. Fighting a fire isn't nearly as expensive as letting one run free of control, he said. 'MANY INTANGIBLES' More than 9,000 acres were burned over by fires last year, Tucker said, and the loss is impossible to accurately figure "because of the many It will take 10 to 20 years to replace some of the trees burned in last year's fires, he pointed out. Tucker attributed the reduced loss from forest fires to technical advances in equipment and refined organization of fire-fighting crews as well as to increased awareness of fire danger on the part of the general public." He said shortwave radio com. munication has greatly aided firefighters and modern pumpers and tankers have increased efficiency in fire control.
The state has also been aided in fire-fighting and fire prevention by cooperation of the Department of Institutions in providing adults and young men from honor camps when they are needed, Tucker said. DO REHABILITATION Tucker said a total of about 300 men are available for firefighting from seven adult and youth honor camps throughout the state. When not fighting fires, the men are engaged in forest rehabilitation work. Another aid in modern fire prevention has been that of improved weather forecasting, Tucker said.He pointed out that meteorologists working with the Fire Control Division supply information important in determining fire danger on specific days. He also stressed the importance of training sessions the division conducts to instruct fire suppression crews and meetings on fire prevention held with woods industry personnel in cooperation with the Washington Forest Protection Association.
Averages One Law to Break According to statistics, every driver can expect to be involved in a serious accident about once every 20 years. But Bellingham Police Chief Edward Bartleson points out that the statistician's figures are based on the law of averages and should not be considered as an absolute prediction of the inevitability for every motorist in the city. "It is a fallacy, of course," said Chief Bartleson, "to assume that you must have an accident. The law of averages is one law that you are wholly justified in breaking." The chief said that beating the statistician's figures is by no means impossible. It is being done every day by drivers who avoid creating dangerous situations for themselves and who drive that is, in a manner that keeps them prepared to meet any emergency that may arise out of the acts of other drivers.
He noted that it takes only a moment of inattention, a single error of judgment, or one careless act to lead to a serious accident. News In Brief Rome Grange will hold a rummage sale Friday at 318 W. Holly. International Plowing Association will meet at 8:30 p. m.
Wednesday at the Lynden National Bank of Commerce conference room. Members are asked to bring written criticisms. Mrs. B. J.
Docherty of Yelm died in Olympia Monday. Among the survivors is Mrs. Charles B. Wilson of Bellingham. Services will be in Yelm Friday.
Bellingham Stamp Club will meet in the home of Charles Steward, 916 N. Forest at 7 p. m. Wednesday. Visitors are welcome.
Marietta Volunteer Fire Department answered a call at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday to 3130 Bennett Drive where a furnace backfired in a home. There was no apparent damage. Whatcom Lodge No. 151, will meet in cation special on Thursday, communiMay 4, at 7:30 p.m.
The speaker of the evening will be Major John Elledge, who will talk on "The Military Code of Conduct." All Master Masons are welcome. Refreshments after the meeting. -JOHN CARRICK, W. FAST DRYCLEANING! IT'S ALL DONE RIGHT HERE ON OUR STORE PREMISES IN BY NOON. WEAR IT TONIGHT PANTS 1.25 5 SHIRTS 25c ea, SUITS 1.25 -DRIVE-IN Holly Ellis Johnny-on-the-Spot Plenty of Parking POL A Woman's Touch When troubles seem almost unbearable, it's usually a woman who offers the most appreciated consolation and understanding.
Those we serve find in Mrs. Jessie Westford, our lady attendant, ability to provide such consolation and understanding. Westford FUNERAL HOME JOHN E. WESTFORD DIRECTORS JACK E. FRAZIER PHONE 1831 SERVICE RE 4.1717 MEANLALD CORNWALL THE MEMBER.
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