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Pursuant to Regulation No.
10 of t h e St. Thomas Virgin
Islands Lottery itis hereby
brought to the Publie Notice:
(1) that the Lottery balls will
be examined in the Lottery
Office, Municipal Building,
Dronningens Gad e No. 20,
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas,
Virgin Izlands at 2;00 p.m.
Monday, April 7, 1952. (2) ! he
1565th Drawing of the St. Tho
mas Virgin Islands Lottery
will take place in the Lottery
Office, Municipal Building.
Dronningens Gad e No, 20,
Charlotie Amalie, St. Thomas,
Virgin Islands at 1:30 p.m.
precisely. Tuesday, April 8,
1952.
The verification of the balls
and the Drawing are public
acts, therefore, the public is
urged to be present and to
wilness same,
Municipality of St Thomas
: ard St. John
Bureau of the St. Thomas Vir
gin Istards Lottery
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
Virgin Islands
April 1, 1¢52
D. E. Lucien Lorard,
Director
Approved;
Louis Shulterbrandt,
Treasurer
Notice
All concerned please take no
tice that by decree of the
District Court granted c¢n
March 18, 1952, the name
*‘ldalia Samue!’’ was changed
to, and s h all hereafter be
“‘ldalia Sprauve.”’
Alphonso A. Christian
Attorney for Petitioner
Dated: March 18, 1952.
Telephone Notice i
It is anticipated that the
new telephone system will go
into operation within a fe w
months. Service will be a
vailable to all subsecribers!
within a distance of 500 ft. of |
the new cable system. Sub
scribers beyond 500 feet will
be required to pay additional
cost o!f the installation in ad
vance Present subscribers
will be given present service
unless change or additional
service is applied for. Those
who have not yet submitted
applications should do so im
mediately. |
St. Thomas Power Authority‘
Fred Vialet
General Manager
R EADERS’ FORUM
Editor,
The Home Journal:
- May I take this opportunity
to correct what may have a
‘wrong impression on many
persons in this community.
.1 refer to your editorial in
Apr. 2issue of the Home Jour
nal under the Headir g of
NEW TAXATION tbe second
paragraph wherein you refer
to the following “An in
crease of real proparty tax has
been ruled out, but a hotel tax
and one or two others are un
der study.’’
While the Council in its wis
dom» would not consider t h e
Goverror’s proposal in addition
to an increase of reassessment
on real property to increase al
so the rate-bear in mind the
excessive and confiscatory re
assessment that is now under
away a‘one will bring ina reve
nue of over $50,000. Just ima
gine if the rate had also been
raised, it would mean only one
thing viz: the wealthy onti
nenials who are moving in fast
would just take over every
thing, and we are playing fast
into their hands daily. The na
tives are about to lose their i
dentity, believe it or not.
The Reeve’s report stated
very ciearly that this was a
small cOmmunity without any
industry or resources from
which to draw and that his re
cowmmendations should take a
matter of many years to put
into practise, and taen with
understanding for cur particu
iar condition. The Governor
seems to be in an awful hurry
to put everything into play all
at once, contrary to his recom
mendations. |
This wild orgy of taxation if
allowed to go through will
cripple business thiroughout the
island, it must be checked.
Sincerely,
St. Thomian
Butler Wins Primary Election
Sen. Hugh Butler of Ne
braska, ranking Republican on
the Senate Interior and Insu
lar Affairs Committee, defeat
ed Gov. Val Petersenin the
Republican primary election
held this week. The 74 -year
old Senator w h o faced his
toughest test, is assured of re
elect'on in this ncrmally Re
publican state
The Home Journal
Clocking The Town
Hot Spot for Tax Assessor
Tax Assessor Clarice
[Bryan’s tiff with Finance
Commissioner’s Louis
‘Shulterbrandt which led to
her sudden resignation
was not the only difficulty
though which she passed
last week.
Assailed to the left and
right by property owners,
furiously protesting
against the reassessment
of their properties, Miss
Bryan was in the hottest
spot every occupied by a
Tax Assessor. If the pain
ful outcries of property
owners meant anything,
the cases to be reviewed
by the Board of Appeals
which meets in mid-April
wiil reach record propor
tions. Nearly 5000 new as
sessments have been sent
out and increases have
been made in the vast
majority of cases. -
Some property owners
were not content to fume
over the new assessments.
A few of them were per
sonal in their attacks and
violent in their language,
and one anonymous tax
payer called the Tax
Assessor ather home at
an early hour one morning
to give her a verbal spank
ing :
Miss Bryan will probably
not quit her jub after all,
in view of the warm, com
mendatory, conciliatory
tone of a letter written to
her by the Governor, but
she has convinced him
that all the insults, abuse
and character asaults she
has to undergo make the
office of Tox Assessor de
serving of a higher salary
than $250 a month.
Gov.—Board Tiff
Gov. de Castro’s bitter
feeling toward the Muni
cipal Council for rejecting
his recommendation to sell
the properties of t h e St.
Thomas Power Authority
was sweet and gentle love
compared to the venemous
feelinghe hadfor the
Board of Directors of the.
Authority.
i He was piqued at the
Board for not supporting
his recommendation to
the legislature. Moveover,
he made no effort to hide
his suspicion. t hat the
Board had alotto do
with the Council’s reject
ion of the sale of the
Corporation.
In a meeting on
Wednesday with members
of the Board a n d legisla
ture he accused the Roard
of “failing inits dut y to
the public” by n o t vigor
ously supporting his re
commendation. For t w o
years, I have fought alone
without any help, to ob
tain more power here, he
insisted. He rebuked the
Board for disclosing that
the loan of $125,000 grant
ed to the Authority by V.
I. Corporation had been
cancelled, and said he was
shocked by a letter writ
ten by the Board to the
Council. When it was sug
gested that the letter be
withdrawn, Alton Adams,
chairman of t h e Board,
hotly retorted that “I am
62 years of age, and no
one is going to put words
in my mouth.”
It was not the first time
the Governor and the Au
thority h ad clashe¢d, but
it was the first time it had
been brought into the
open.