Hunter Erlin^ Hansen and Trophy Bear
Record Bear Downed By Seattle Man
To prove that all the big ones
haven’t been taken from Kodiak
Island, the record bear shot by Roy
Lindsley, which has stood as the
worlds record, is now replaced by a
Seattle man’s trophy in the Boone
and Crockett competition. Measure
ment of the skull found it to be a
full 30-13/16”.
So keen is this competition be
coming, that this is only 1/16 great
er than Linsley’s trophy.
Erling Hansen, a Seattle man
who hunted last fall with Alf Mad
sen, local guide and outfitter, was
the lucky hunter who bagged the
huge brownie. Prior to his going
on the hunt, Madsen and his guide
Walter Panamaroff, had spotted
the brownie, and felt he was of
trophy size. But Madsen said he
never could get close enough to
him to be sure. With a snowfall
and tracks to go by, Hansen and
Panamroff followed the bear for
many hours. He was finally down
ed at 25 yards with three shots
from a 30-06-180 Silvertip load.
The first inkling of a record bear
came when Dick Hensel of the Ko
diak office of the FWS took a
measurement on it and said he
Navy Leaguers To
Go To Conference
Nine members of the Kodiak
Chapter of the Navy League leave
next Tuesday for Coronado, Calif,
where they will attend the 1962
Western Regional Conference,
which will be held in that city,
Jan. 10 through Jan. 13.
Late Bulletin
SBA Approves
Washington, DJC. (/P). The Small
Business Administration announc
ed the approval this morning of a
5300,000 loan to the Alaska Ice &
Cold Storage Company at Kodiak.
The loan will be used to com
plete budding and facilities now be
ing constructed.
thought it might be a world re
coi’d. He measui'ed it officially at
3G-13/16” which subsequently prov
ed to be correct. The skull was sent
to Seattle and at the end of the 60
day drying period it was measured
and found to be the same—and a
new world record was established.
The work of bringing the huge
pelt out of the canyon was done by
Walter Panamaroff, veteran guide.
It was floated on a cottonwood log
for over six mires.
“This bear proves that the lar
gest bears come from Kodiak Is
land,” Alf Madsen stated. “It is my
belief that even larger records
than this will be taken-in the years
to come.”
Madsen has made several repro
ductions of the bear, which are
available in some of the local
stores.
Legislators Eye
60-Day Session
State Senator A1 Owen has al
ready departed for Juneau to at
tend the 60-day session of the
Alaska Legislature which begins
the morning of January 22.
Kodiak’s two representatives in
the lower house, Representative
Pete Deveau and Representative
Gil Jarvela, plan to depart Kodiak
for Juneau around January 15tn
according to Jarvela who advised
today that he plans to spend some
time enroute in Anchorage to dis
cuss legislation affecting “bush”
airstrips on Kodiak island with of
ficials of the state department of
Aviation.
Jarvela also advised that Ko
diak’s legislative delegation would
be in Juneau early in order to take
part in several pre-session com
mittee hearings preceeding the of
ficial opening of the legislative ses
sion.
Recognition Given
Kodiak’s Record
For Safe Driving
Recognition of the City of Ko
diak by the American Automobile
Association by award of a certifi
cate for safe pedestrian, traffic for
the years 1958, 1959 and 1960 has
been announced by City Manager
Bill Poland.
Poland lauded City Police Chief
R. E. Vickery and his force as be
ing directly responsible for the
award.
“This award represents no pe
destrian traffic fatalities during
the period of the above three
years,” said Poland.
“It is through the efforts of Chief
Vickery and his men that such an
award is merjted,” he added.
Chief Vickery attributed earn
ing of the recognition by the com
munity in large part to “the fine
and sensible co-operation of most
area drivers who are to be com
mended.”
Impetus Given
Capitol Move
One week now remains during
which Kodiak residents can sign
the official petitions calling for re
location of the State capital, ac
cording to local sponsor Dr. Bob
Johnson.
Persons desiring to sign one of
the official petitions are urged to
contact any one of the following
sponsors in this area:
Dr. Robert Johnson, George
Cornelius, Walter Kraft, Jack
Hinckel, Frank Irick, 'Norman Sut
liff, Dr. A. Holmes Johnson and
Chuck Powell.
“There seems to be a strong and
optimistic trend to move the capi
tal of Alaska to more accessible
location and this move for progress
is particularly noticeable in com
munities, towns and cities outside
of Anchorage, and seems to be
equally popular among laboring,
business and industrial people. The
proposition to relocate the capital
of Alaska seems certain to be on
the next ballot, and equally certain
that if the voters of Alaska have
the opportunity to do so, that the
majority will vote “Yes,” members
of the Capital Relocation Commit
tee stated this week.
5 Day Fishing In Kodiak Area In 1962
Few Changes Revealed In Regulations
Kodiak salmon fishermen will
once again fish a five-day week in
the 1962 season, it was revealed
this week in a report released by
Walter Kirkness, Commissioner of
the Alaska Department of Fish and
Game.
During the 1961 salmon season,
Kodiak fishermen were restricted
to fishing only 3 days per week.
Other highlights affecting the
Kodiak area in the new 1962 com
mercial fishing regulations were
as follows:
Larger sanctuaries for milling
salmon will be established in a
number of bays.
Setnetting will be confined in
general to the areas now being uti
lized by setnetters. The major pink
salmon seining areas will be closed
to setnetting.
A mid-season closure from June
22 to July 16 was set for the Inner
Karluk and Uyak sections of the
Kodiak district.
The Alitak and Moser-Olga Bay
sections of the Alitak district will
open on July 16. The remaining
districts and. sections of the Kodiak
area open June 4.
Purse seiners will be required
to have the seine attached to the
seining vessel and only the inshore
end of the line can be anchored.
Highlights of the new regula
a r e a involved the following
tions as they affect the Bristol Bay
changes:
In spite of the low prediction
for the 1962 Bristol Bay red sal
mon run, the Board acted to per
mit a commercial fishery though
special restrictions were adopted
for the Egegik and Naknek Rivers.
The Egegik fishing area was
severely curtailed and limited to
set nets while a special Naknek
River section was created in the
Naknek-Kvichak district and it, too,
was limited to set nets only until
“adequate escapement appears as
sured.”
The gear-timetable, which has
played a large part in determining
the amount of fishing time in past
years, was abandoned and all per
iods during the main run will now
be set by field announcement of
the management staff.
The minimum gillnet mesh size
adopted for 1962 was 5-3/8 inches—
the same as that permitted during
the past season. The final major
Kodiak Insurance Sold To Art Brooks
Sale of the insurance business of
the Kodiak Insurance and Building
Corporation to Mr. Arthur F.
Brooks was announced this week
by A1 Hochberger, president of the
firm.
Mr. Brooks came to Kodiak from
Yakima, Washington in October
1956 to take over the management
of the firm’s insurance department.
“Art Brooks has had many years
of experience in the insurance bus
iness and he has given a very good
account of his abilities in the handl
ing of our insurance business here.
We sincerely and honestly solicit
the public’s continued patronage
and support of Mr. Brooks in the
future”, commented Hotchberger
in announcing the sale which was
effective January 1, 1962.
The Kodiak firm is a subsiduary
corporation owned by the Kodiak
Branch, National Bank of Alaska.
Directors presently serving the
corporation are: A1 Hochberger,
Dr. A. Holmes Johnson, R. S. Ache
son and William Lamme.
Vessel Burns
The fishing vessel Lynn caught
fire Christmas eve while near the
outside buoy coming into Kodiak
channel.
The owner, Bill Nielsen escaped
the burning vessel in a skiff. The
vessel drifted over to Long Island
where it burned to the waters ed«?e
and sank.
change adopted was to establish a
system of personal checking of ves
sels during transfer between dis
tricts of the Bay.
Looming over the entire Bristol
Bay picture is the shadow of un
certainity clouding the 1962 oper
ations of the Japanese high seas
fishery. In making provisions for
a fishery in the face of a small anti
cipated run, the Board based their
decision upon the premise that the
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Holiday Marred
By Plane Crash
The Christmas holiday season
was marred for many when a Ko
diak Airways amphibian crashed .
shortly after takeoff at Old Harbor,
Sunday, Dec. 24, killing one boy
and injuring the pilot.
Little ten year old Emil Kahutak,
of Alitak, one of the four passen
gers, was drowned as he attempted
to swim away from the plane. The ,
other three, Catherine Yakanak,
Barbara E. Innes, both adults, and
Daniel Yakanak, aged ten, were re
scued.
The pilot, Gene Kingston,
though badly injured, managed to
extricate the passengers from the
plane. All but the Kahutak boy
were uninjured suffering only
from exposure.
Mr. and Mrs. Kingston left re
cently for Seattle, but will return
following medical treatment for
the pilot in that city.
JC’s To Gather
Trees For Burn
“Operation Tree Lift”, the na
tionwide Junior Chamber of Com
merce project to instill Christmas
fire safety conciousness in the
home, will be put into, effect in Ko
diak tomorrow morning as local
Jay-Cees begin picking up Chrirst
mas Trees.
The annual big tree burn and
skating party at Mission Lake will
be held at a date to be announced
later this month. .,
Those having trees to be picked’
up are urged to place them near
streets tomorrow morning.
Bears To Kenai
The Kodiak high school basket
ball team will make a charter
flight to Kenai next Friday, Jan
uary 12, according to Coach Joe
Floyd.
The flight will leave Kodiak at
3:30 Friday afternoon and return
at 2 p.m. Sunday. “Our boys will
be out to avenge two earlier sea
son defeats we suffered at the
hands of the Kenai Kardinals here
at Kodiak, ” Floyd stated.
The Bears will match the Kard
inals in two games scheduled for
Friday and Saturday nights in
Kenai. Anyone wishing to make the
trip over with the Bears is urged
to leave their names with Coach
Floyd as early in the week as pos
sible. Approximate cost of the
round trip fare will be around $30,
said Floyd.