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Show No Mercy!
The Naval Station authorities have bent over backward in re
cent weeks to remove irritating and annoying manned gates on the
road that passes through the base. We of the town asked for this to
be done and it was done. Now we have a few reckless nuts and drunks
who are endangering this arrangement. Those who fail to heed the
posted speed limits and the rules applying within the base may very
quickly destroy what it has taken both the navy and the people of
town years to accomplish. We have said before and repeat again that
anyone caught in flagrant violation of such rules deserves no pity
or consideration from the rest of us. We do not hesitate to recom
mend the authorities on both the base and in the town to crack down
to the very fullest extent of the law on such offenders. The very
least they should do is to revoke driver’s licenses, perhaps perma
nently. __
Chamber Endorses
3 Possible Sites
For F&W Facility
The Chamber of Commerce,
which had gone on record and pro
tested the use of ACS land as a
site for the construction of a Fish
and Wildlife Service headquarters
facility, yesterday approved three
other possible sites.
Ole Johnson, chairman of the
Land Use Committee said that his
committee had met with represen
tatives of the various agencies in
terested. including the school dis
trict and city and endorsed selec
tion of an area adjacent to the Ko
diak Baptist Mission. Two other al
ternate sites recommended were:
The North side of Mill Bay adja
cent to the Naughton Ranch and
an area NE of the Cutoff between
Mill Bay Road and Mission Road.
The proposed headquarters site
would need approximately five
acres and involve housing as well
as a visitors center and admini
strative building.
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13, and 14.
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Pete Deveau May Ryu For Mayor;
Says Would “Clean Up City Hall”
Interest continued to mount in
still far-off city elections with for
mer state representative Pete De
veau, who has also served on the
city council in the past, making
known his plans for being a candi
date for mayor or the council.
“I’m thinking very seriously
about running for city office in the
next election,” said Deveau who
did not specify whether he would
choose to file for one of the three
council seats up for election or
whether he might instead file for
a two year term as mayor. He made
dear that his purpose in filing was
to “prepare Kodiak for the influx
of tourists that we shall surely
have with the beginning of the
ferry boat runs in 1964.”
Deveau made clear that one of
his first moves if elected would be
to “clean up city hall.”
Carl Rodli, appointed to the
council to fill out Nick Frost’s
term until the elections and in
stalled at last night’s council meet
ing, advises that he intends to be
City Budget —
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occasions arise, such as group
fights, which are by no means un
common. the officer on foot patrol
can then call the station to send
the autimotive patrol officer for
assistance, and vice-versa. The
need for an additional jail guard
is brought about by the fact that
the Chief of Police simply cannot
take care of a desk officer's duties
and still perform his considerable
administrative and supervisory du
ties in a satisfactory manner. At
the present time he is putting in
■ 12 to 16 hours per day in an at
tempt to perform these duties, plus
answering numerous calls at night
for assistance to the night shift pa
trolmen.
“The garbage collection contract
will terminate in September of
1963. The service provided under
the contract leaves much to be de
sired, and it may become advanta
geous or even necessary for City
employed personnel to perform
this duty. Since the problem has
not been resolved, no change in
procedure has been indicated on
the proposed budget.
“It should be noted that this
fiscal year is the last payment on
Aleutian Homes streets. This an
nual payment amounts to $24,900
and represents approximately 2Vi
mills of property taxes that will be
sa^ed.
“It should be further noted that
this is a preliminary budget draft,
which can be changed by Council
direction. Neither anticipated rev
enues or expenditures are abso
lutely firm. Since the anticipated
revenues were largely prepared
several months ago, some upgrad
ing in certain areas may be possi
ble.
“The school district budget in
its final form was received June 6.
with a letter of explanation ad
dressed to the Council. This letter
suggests that, of the $138,624.43 re
quested as the City share of the
proposed budget $123,129 be con
sidered a 12M* mill tax levy, $8
010.07 be considered a repayment
1o the school district of raw fish
taxes erroneously paid the city for
the years 1954-1961. and the bal
ance of approximately $7,500 pre
sumably from the city sales tax or
other sources the council may con
sider.
“I submit that the only equitable
method of apportioning costs for
support of the school is by the use
of a common denominator, in this
instance the real property tax.”
a candidate for reelection “in all
probability.”
Wally Nelson, manager of Kraft’s
Hardware, though still not an
nouncing officially that he will be
a candidate for mayor council,
stressed “harmony” and the fact
that ‘‘Kodiak is just on the verge
of much bigger things and this will
be a time for everyone to pull to
gether without undue bickering
amongst ourselves.” Nelson has
made it clear his interest in recrea
tional facilities for the area, “par
ticularly for young people.
Also still unannounced but show
ing an increasing interest in civic
affairs is Ed Naughton who ad
vised he is especially interested
“in seeing what form the city
budget for the coming year will
take.” “I am most concerned about
getting Kodiak prepared for those
of us who actually live here now
. for instance, it has been nice
being able to breath air instead of
dust. The streets and roads are
now due for another sprinkling of
oil.” said Naughton.
Others being mentioned as possi
ble candidates include Harold Heg
lin, Tom Frost, Jr., Jim Egge
meyer, George Magnusen, Chuck
Powell, A1 Anderson and Pete
Ramaglia.
The Mirror will present more
comments each week from various
prospective candidates.
Jim Sandin made it into town
Wednesday to say howdy . . . he’s
on the Rio again this year. Was
amazed so few boats and people
were in town.
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