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BPR Plans Road Survey
On Ouzinkie Road Soon
JUNEAU (UP)—The Bureau of
Pnblic Roads has approved plans
to survey the proposed Monashka
Bay—Ouzinkie Road at Kodiak,
Sen. A1 Owen (D-Kodiak) an
nounced.
Owen said the BPR survey work
Will begin in the very near future,
and the actual programming for
the project will be considered at
file road planning meeting this
month.
The Democratic lawmaker said
it is still too early to know
whether the actual construction
will be approved for the next fis
cal year.
~Rut it’s progress,” said Owen,
who has been working on the
Island’s road needs since before
the legislature convened “Even a
survey is more than we have been
able to obtain before.”
Meanwhile, Owen remains a
strong advocate of the legislative
salary bill that was passed by both
toe House and Senate this week.
The Senator, who voted with the
majority when the bill passed the
Senate on a 11-9 vote, said the
Stale’s lawmakers “have to receive
•uough to be independent of ves
ted interests.”
The two Kodiak members of the
House, Reps. Peter Deveau and
Henry Haag,' also supported the
salary bill as it passed the lower
•hamber, 30-10. The bill calls for
$3,000 annual salary, and per diem
ed $40 for a 02 day session.
In other action during the slow
second week of the legislative ses
sion, Owen reported a mounting
■Merest in a bill to revise the
State business license tax.
The bill in Owen’s finance com
mittee calls for a one-quarter of
one per cent levy on gross busi
ness receipts of $20,000 to $100,
000 a year, and one-half of one
»er cent over $ 100,000. It’s now
•ne-half of one per cent under
$ 100,000, and one-quarter for
larger receipts.
Owen has scheduled the first
public hearing of the session on
thie bill this Saturday. The mea
sure is expected to be reported
out of the committee next week.
Nick Phillips
Claimed by Death
Death followed this week the
short illness of Nick Phillips, a
resident of Alitak. Phillips had re
cently returned to Alitak with the
body of his wife, Mary, who had
died January 19. He was suddenly
strikcn with illness, and rushed to
the Griffin Memorial Hospital late
last week. His death followed Wed
nesday.
The striken man was fifty-six
years old, having been born May
17, 1902. His birthplace was All -
tak, where he has lived all of his
life. He was Chief in the village
at one time. He was a fisherman
for P. A. F., and was well-known
and well-liked around the island.
He Is survived by one son,
George, who also lives at Alitak.
There are two foster children,
Marge and Martha.
His body will be returned to
Alitak for burial.
New York Times
Writer in Kodiak
Hanson Baldwin, military edi
tor of the New York 'Dimes,
arrived here yesterday afternoon
for a brief stay.
He was met upon arrival by
Rear Admiral Arnold McKechnie,
Capt. R. B. Jacoby, Capt. G. D.
Roullard, and a group from the
City which included Mayor Coon,
0. K. Kincaid, Jack Hinckel, John
Gibbons and Sig Digree.
“Guidance" Is
Subject of Panel
“Guidance: The Road to Ma
turity” will be the subject of a
panel discussion at the PTA meet
ing Thursday, February 12. Vari
ous speakers from town and the
Naval Station will speak on dif
ferent phases of the subject.
Mrs. Dera Brunstad, guidance
counsellor and teacher at the
Kodiak high school, will open the
discussion with a talk on “Phil
osophy of Educational Guidance.”
Lt. €mdr. Stewart P. Robinson,
Protestant Chaplain on the Naval
Station, will then speak on a sub
ject to be announced.
Mrs. William C. Foster will
speak oil the subject of “Guid
ance in the Home,” and will
give her views as a parent. “The
Critical Period” will be the subject
discussed by Mr. Winford Hoov
er, Superintendent of the On-Base
schools. The speaker to follow will
be Father Raymond L. Talbott,
S. J., Rector of St. Mary’s Church.
His subject will be “Gaining Con
fidence.” The last speaker will be
Miss Ethel McCurry, director of
the U. S. O. here. Her subject. is
“I Wish I Had Known.”
Summarization and questions to
follow will be handled by Mr.
Curtis Saxton, president of the
Kodiak Education Association.
The program is sponsored jointly
by the Adult Education Program
and the Parent Teachers Associ
ation.
In addition to the panel dis
cussion, the program will consist
of a talk on Founders Day, to be
given by Mrs. John Molletti. She
will give sa short history of the
founding of PTA.
PTA is sponsoring a dance for
teenagers at the Labor Temple,
February 21. Arrangements for
the dance are under the direction
of T. T. Jackson.
CUSHING ARRIVES
John Cushing, Co. owner of the
Kodiak Telephone Company arri
ved in town yesterday. His home is
in Sitka.
As white students stay in the background, aeSsncn interview twd of the five. Negro students as*
djgood to Norview High School in Norfolk, Va., Feb. 2. Norview was one of six Norfolk schools which
opened Feb. 2 on tA interpreted basis. It was the first time in the history of the state that schools became '
integrated. <AF Wire photo)
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E,s^hower
WASHINGTON —Senator Er
nest Gruening last week took
issue with a . proposal by the
Eisenhower administration that
“the time has come to begin an
orderly withdrawal from the air
port grant program.”
Commentting on an administra
tion airport bill and contrasting
its provisions with the more lib
eral ones contained in a bill of
v—'rb he is co-sponsor, Senator
Gruening stated a conviction that
the administration’s program is
less an orderly withdrawal than a
deliberate retreat from the feder
al government’s responsibilities.”
Because of differences in the
proposed formulas for matching
and in the proposed total expen
diture under the two bills, Alaska
would receive $11,250,000 in air
port aid over the next four years
under S. I., the bill introduced by
Senator Gruening and a group of
Democratic colleagues, but only
$ 7,783,134 in the next five years
under the Eisenhower administra
tion’s bill.
Airport needs in Alaska, ac
cording to a survey by the Fed
eral Aviation Agency, amount to
$ 36,444,000 for air commerce
airports and $ 1,327,000 for gen
eral aviation airports. The alter
native proposals now before the
Senate would permit a start on
the program.
; Senator Gruening,. testifying for
the first time in his Senate career,
before the Aviation Subcommittee
of the Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee, declared
that “America’s destiny depends
to a large extent on how well we
develop our transportation and,
through it, develop our resources
and build our economy.”
Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett of
Alaska is a member of the com
mittee and was present to hear
the Gruening testimony in the new
hearing rooms in the new Senate
Office Building. Presiding was
Senator Mike Monroney (D.-Ok
la.) whose bill for airport aid was
vetoed by President Eisenhower
last year.
“Vetoing our presence in a
modern world can only lead to
disaster,” Senator Gruening told
the subcommittee. He noted that
the administration has not made
any suggestion for “orderly with
drawal” from aid to foreign coun
tries. He urged that the Congress
consider our domestic interests
“at least on a par with those of
foreign nations.”
Alaskans fly from 30 to 40
times more than do other Ameri
cans, the senator testified. He
said that in the 12 months ending
last March the average Alaskan
spent, for travel within the terri
tory only, about five times as
much as was spent by the average
\meriian citizen for all air travel.
Senator Gruening declared that
Alaska “should and will become a
Tontier of opportunity for Amer
cans if ‘tmly we can receive not
e^uaUfyC<&^t?e$tment
which it has been denied but
also the compensatory treatment'
which will enable Alaska to
achieve equality by gradually
catching up in respect to what it
has not received m~ the .past.” • • • •
' ’ Figures compiled “by* the Fed
eral Aviation Agency at Senator
Gruening’s request indicate that
from 1947 to fiscal 1959 Alaska
would have received more than
$26 million in airport aid had it
been treated like a state, wherea?
actually it received only a tttth
more than $ 7 million.
The chairman at the &»i - oi
Senator Gruecmg’s; tastkr*ony
thanked him “for the very infor
mative, colorful and strong state
ment with relation to the" vital'
needs of Alaska ahd for an
adequate airport program^” H<
added that the witness had "help
ed develop Alaska as territorial
governor, and as senator yop are
continuing this very effective and
patriotic role."
The Democratic airport aid bill
is expected to pass the Senate
within the next week, and to be
presented to, President Eisen
hower sufficiently early in the
session that if he vetoes it an op
portunity will be provided tc
override the veto; Last year the
airport aid bill was killed by a
veto after Congreris adjourned.
Along The
Waterfront
An upswing in the amount of
tonnage passing over the City
dock during the visit this week of
the ASC Tatalina is a healthy:
sign. The two canneries, too, are
pretty busy.
Inbound freight unloaded from
the TataHina amounted to 532
tons, according to ASC agent Lou
Veerman. Outboard tonnage was
276. Both figures represent art Ln
crease over previous tonnage,
handling. Cargo outgoing was
mainly crab, shrimp, some <£ it*
canned and some frozen.
With a good stiff wind blowing
part of the time, loading and un
loading operations were slowed.
This was particularly true of a
shipment of about 40 tons of « :ab
from Shelikof. The latter came in
from Alitak, and lay along side.
The crab was swung over Ihe
Tatalina’s deck, to the dock, then
swung into the hold of the fbip.
Dal Valley receive^ his new
sawmill equipment.
At King Crab, Inc., the %ap
nery crew is busy on both crab
and shrimp. The Totem arrived in
town with a load of shrimp. The
Afognak and the Eldorado also
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