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KODIAK “BULBING BEE” EBECTS LANGE NEW BUILDING IN TEN MINUTES
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3:00 P.M.—This is the way the building which will
house the “Mill Bay Cabinet Shop” appeared at exactly
3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon just before friends and
neighbors took their places to begin Kodiak’s first
“building bee.”
3:05 P.M.—The crew of 20 men has erected one wall of
the 31’\80’ structure which wili house the joint busi
ness venture of Millie “Winchester” Markham and Stan
Lee. Later this spring a second story containing apart
ments will be added.
3:10 P.M.—Both walls of the “Instant Building” are
now raised in place. The new business will specialize
in all types of furniture repair including upholstery
work as well as cabinet building. It is located about
one block past the Montmartre Inn.
Boat Stranger On Right Cape Rocks;
Three Local Fishermen Are Rescued
Three local fishermen were res
cued off desolate Right Cape after
their fishing boat “Stranger” broke
up on the remote rocky shore at
the entrance to Kiliuda Bay.
Stranger Skipper Ed Liljegren
and crewmen Bill Shuravaloff and
Bill Kvasnikoff were picked up by
the crew of the shrimp boat “Vita”
on Tuesday afternoon about 4:30
p.m. The three had been stranded
on the beach since Sunday when
their craft went aground and began
breaking up.
According to Skipper Liljegren,
they had anchored up at 4:30 Sun
day evening due to nightfall and
heavy fog, on the first inside bight
on Right Cape.
“After dark the vessel swung
around on the anchor line and
struck the rocks about 200 yards
offshore at 7:30 p.m. Attempts to
pull her off with anchor line and
engine failed. By 8:30 the vessel
was holed and pumps were unable
to keep up with the flow of water.
From 7:30 to 9 p.m. they tried
to make radio contact with the
Coast Guard or other fishing ves
sels but their distress calls were
unanswered.
After the boat was holed they
tried to make it ashore in the skiff
but a heavy swell caught the dory
and smashed it against the larger
vessel.
They then waited aboard the
stricken Stranger until low tide
when they were able to make it
ashore. Drenched and cold they
were unable to locate any firewood
in the dark. By daylight Monday
morning very heavy swells were
running and the Stranger began
breaking up. The 42-foot crab fish
er is believed to be a total loss.
Marine Surveyor Bill Damery has
not been able to get to the scene
of the disaster due to weather.
By Tuesday the crewmen were
able to get a fire going. Smoke
from the fire attracted the atten
tion of the Vtia.
Sen. At Owen Asks
For Loan Agency
State Sen. A1 Owen reports from
Juneau that he is spending consid
erable time prior to the opening of
the legislature working on the pos
sibility of having a Federal Savings
and Loan firm located in Kodiak
in the near future.
The means of aiding new resi
dents to build homes here would
be facilitated by an office of this
type, and the growth of our island
economy would be further stabi
lized by offering prospective home
buyers a method of financing a
new home in this area. Sen. Owen
says he is encouraged by his work
thus far, and hopes to have a more
conclusive report within a month.
— Kodiak Kapsoles —
(By Bill Mason)
A young mother, up the
street from us, has been having
quite a problem with her five
year old daughter who picked
up a number of profane words
from older playmates. The young
mama has used soap, threats and
spanking without a great deal
of success.
Last week our problem child
was invited to a birthday party
and her mother called up the
mother of the other little girl
whose birthday it was and said
that “If Susie says one bad word
you send her right home, even if
the party isn’t over.”
Came Saturday and the day
for the party and Susie was all
' scrubbed up and sent off with
the present. In about 20 minutes
she came home, and her mama
without saying a word gave her
a good spanking and sent her up
to her room sobbing.
When Susie’s Dad came home
from work at 6 o’clock, he asked
about Susie and Mama explained
what she had done. They both
relented and called Susie down
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Week’s Weather
Date High Low Prec.
Jan. 11 41 37 .51
Jan. 12 42 36 .07
Jan. 13 45 36 Tr.
Jan. 14 45 39 None
Jan. 15 41 38 .11
Jan. 16 41 36 .02
Jan. 17 41 36 .29
Week’s high wind velocity on
Jan. 13 at 19 knots.
Postal Receipts
Here Hit Record
High Past Year
Post office receipts, which in
clude only stamp sales and box
rents, are considered a good busi
ness barometer, so Kodiak en
joyed a new high in 1962 accord
ing to figures released today by
Postmaster William Lamme.
Receipts for last year were $59,
783, an increase of 17 per cent over
the previous year, and the fourth
year of continuing increases, Post
master Lamme said. From 1959
through 1962 the post office has
shown a total of 44 per cent in in
creased revenues.
Christmas showed some surpris
ing statistics. Last year many pa
trons mailed early for the last
Christmas boat, which left Nov. 29.
This year, with parcels being
trucked out six days a week from
Anchorage after being flown there
from Kodiak, all the early mailers
turned into late mailers with the
result that November showed a
slight drop (3 per cent) but De
cember soared to an all-time high
of a 76 per cent increase over the
year before. Of this, about 50 per
cent was attributed to outgoing
parcel post, the remainder to first
class mail, the postmaster said.
At the request of the Mirror the
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Fisheries Meeting
Draws Sen. Owen
On Jan. 22 Sen. A1 Owen will be
in Chicago to attend a meeting of
U.S. Dept, of State officials and
fishing industry advisors from
both coasts. Ways and means will
be sought to strengthen the United
States position with respect to the
intrusion of our fishery by foreign
countries.
Legislative Goof Will Stymie Vocational
School Until Next Year, Gov. Egan Says
(Kodiak Mirror Exclusive)
The State Vocational School to
be erected in the Kodiak-Aleutian
Chain will probably not become a
reality until 1964, Gov. Bill Egan
informed the Kodiak Mirror today.
In an exclusive letter to the Mir
ror, the Governor said that this
project originated from the 1962
Legislature cooperating with the
Dept, of Education and the Board
of Education and that no directive
had been issued until the proposed
bond sale was approved by the
voters.
At the present time, the chief
executive wrote, there are no
funds available for planning, en
gineering or anything else. Me con
tinued, “The Legislature, unfor
tunately, inadvertently authorized
certain funds to be used from the
general fund for such purposes if
and when the people approved
such bonds, as was the case on Nov.
6, but failed to appropriate funds
which were authorized under the
enactment.
The Governor said that the bond
Kodiak Motors, Inc.
Buys Patterson’s
The sale of the Patterson Station
by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Patterson
to Kodiak Motors, Inc., was an
nounced this week by the former
owners.
The firm was started in early
1946 by “Blackie” Patterson.
The Pattersons announce that
their plans for the future are in
definite.
Kodiak Motors, through Wilton
White, said there would be no
change in operation of the estab
lishment.
KODIAK FEATURED
One of Kodiak’s most important
industries, King Crab fishing, again
is featured in the recently re
leased brochure of Pacific North
ern Airlines.
Mrs. Marian Johnson, wife of
Dr. Bob Johnson, is shown attired
in a scuba uniform holding a huge
crab with the caption “Giant Ko
diak King Crab measures up to 5
feet across.”
sale is set for March 6. 1963, and
following that sale, preliminary
funds will be available for proper
study of sites, advance plans and
design.
Gov. Egan concluded “The ear
liest possible time that I can vis
ualize we can hope for actual con
struction of your area vocational
school to begin would be sometime
in the summer of 1964.”
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Waterfront
By Karl Armstrong
The boat harbor is virtually
cleared of king crabbers now and
canneries are beginning to hum
more steadily again as crab deliv
eries begin to pick up. And this
morning the new shrimp cannery
began test runs on shrimp brought
in by the boat Vita.
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Red Burnham reports that his
Kodiak Welding works has been
busy on a number of small jobs for
various vessels during the past
week. Now everyone is in a hurry
to get out on the crab grounds
again.
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Eastpoint Begins
Shrimp Test Runs
Eastpoint Seafoods cannery be
gan test runs of shrimp this morn
ing, according to Superintendent
Jim Major.
Approximately 15 cannery work
ers began processing some 20,000
pounds of local shrimp which was
brought in by the boat Vita.
Weather has prevented the Vita
from going out for more shrimp
and the Fortress is moored in the
boat harbor due to engine troubles.