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ABBOTSFORD T RIBUNE PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1951
Assessment increase does not raise taxes paid
The Board of Review met at the village hall and completed its work on Monday, about 6 o’clock. Two persons appeared before the board for tax adjustments and a number came for information relative to the 10 percent increase in assement this year.
The village board had instructed Walter Jackson, village assessor, to raise the village assessment roll 10 percent for every taxpayer. It is explained that the 10 percent raise in the assessed valuation of the village should have no effect on the amount of taxes paid, as the tax rate will be lowered to raise approximately the same amont of money as last year.
Record building of roads Madison — Wisconsin may chalk up a record $34,000,000 road building program by the end of 1951, James R. Law, Highway Commission chairman, reported.
Law said there was a good chance of hitting the figure if engineering help is available and if more steel and other supplies are not cut off.
Despite cement shortages and a tight steel supply, builders are handling $20,000,000 worth of projects let since the first of the year. Major jobs on contract or ready for bidding involve about 800 mils of roads. Thus far, only contractors who lay concrete paving have been handicapped seriously by shortages resulting from the Korean conflict.
THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1981
Abby motorcyclist has close call Friday
An Abbotsford man escaped serious injury when the motorcycle he was driving was struck from behind by a car on the south side of Abbotsford last Friday night, July 10.
Gary Grambort of Abby was southbound on Hwy. 13 Friday night at about 11:43 p.m. He slowed down to turn left into the parking lot of the Edgetown Bar on the east side of the highway, but had to stop in the southbound traffic lane because of heavy northbound traffic. Another southbound vehicle, a 1976 Camaro driven by Jill K. Newton of Pickett, Wis., plowed into Grambort’s cycle from the rear. He was thrown backward onto the hood of the Camaro. Grambort was taken to the Colby Clinic, where he was treated for cuts to the head and hand and a bruised right leg. “He’s a lucky man,” said Officer Bill Hussong of the Abbotsford-Colby Police Department. “He could’ve been thrown into the northbound traffic lane. He narrowly escaped being killed.”
In a statement taken after the accident, Newtown said she did not see the brake lights of Grambort’s motorcycle. She applied her brakes, she stated, as soon as she realized the cycle was stopped in the traffic lane, but could not avoid a collision. Grambort said he was stopped, waiting for northbound traffi c to pass, when he glanced in his side view mirror and noticed the Camaro approaching. He said he pumped the brakes to make it more noticeable.
