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Unpaid tax bills sent to county Both the Mohawk and Herk imer School boards have author ized their business departments to send unpaid property tax bills to the county treasurer. Chuck Mower, Mohawk busi ness manager, told the school board this week that last year the county was responsible for collecting 13.89 percent of the total property taxes collected in the school district as compared to this year’s figure of 13.11 percent. The unpaid taxes total about $175,000, Mr. Mower said. Herkimer’s figure is higher than Mohawk’s, but relatively standard, explained Superin tendent Robert Moorhead at this week’s school board meeting. In the town of Herkimer, up aid school taxes are about $376,000 and in the town of Little Falls the figure is about $8,700. He said unpaid taxes in the town of Herkimer usually range around $400,000. After the upaid taxes go to the county treasurer’s office, the county is responsible for collec tion. The school districts are reimbursed for the taxes due on the properties; actor Chuck Connors was enter taining crowds. The man known as Lucas McCain in the television series “The Rifleman,” which aired from 1958-1963, played in two exhibition basketball games at the old Mohawk Armory in 1946. Tuesday, the 71-year-old Mr. Connors died of lung cancer. But, memories of the tall, handsome Mr. Connors are vivid for a local businessman who recruited him to play in the two exhibition games. Sheldon Basloe, who now owns the original Herkimer County Cheese Co., had just returned from service as a staff sergeant in the Army when he and his father, Frank J. Basloe began promoting basketball in the area. At the age of 16, Frank Basloe organized a professional basket ball team and organized games in area towns in 1903. He later organized a team of profession als, called the Basloe Globetrot ters that “barnstormed” on trips throughout the East and Midwest. Occasionally, when the six member team was short a play er, Mr. Basloe suited up and played, but he is primarily noted as a promoter and manager. His efforts led to the establish ment of a state professional basketball league in the late 1940s which operated for about three years. Frank and his son Sheldon, were seeking to rejuvenate basketball into the area by bringing in some of the best play ers to compete in exhibition games at the Mohawk Armory, now known as the Mohawk YMCA. The Basles hired an agent who went to New York City in search of talented basketball players. One player he brought to the area for a game on New Year’s Day 1946 was the 6’5” Connors, whose personality was as significant as his prowess on the court. Mr. Connors was in the Army and stationed at West Point at the time he traveled upstate New York to play against other independent teams in exhibition games. “They were all talented. You didn’t tell him much. He was so
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Herkimer Evening Telegram
Herkimer, New York, US
Thu, Nov 12, 1992
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