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Expansion Begins
Island Ran Sept. 3
A complete schedule of ports
of call and rates charged for both
passengers and freight were an
nounced this week by Capt. N. P.
Thomsen of the Aleutian Marine
Transport Company, Inc., whose
company begins this service for
the island of Kodiak September 3.
Ports of call were listed as Old
Harbor, Alitak, Karluk, Larson
Bay, San Juan and Uganik, Port
Bailey, Afognak and Uzinki.
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Sounthbound passenger rates,
which would be in the order as
above, would be less than if the
vessel was forced by weather to
go northbound. As an example,
fare to Old Harbor southbound
would be $15; northbound it would
be $40.
, Freight rate as announced by
Capt. Thomsen will be $1.30 per
100 pounds on general freight or
65 cents per cubic foot, which ever
is greater. Freight charges for
refrigerated shipments are higher.
The M-V Expansion has been
operating on the Aleutian mailboat
run for the past five years. The
company was recently awarded the
contract to carry mail to the- Ko
diak Island villages, in addition
to the run Westward.
The Expansion is a well-known
visitor to Kodiak. Its length is 115
feet, with a beam of 27 feet.
The ship can carry 120 tons of dry
cargo, and has a 5000 pounds lift
capacity. It has a 15 ton refrigera
tion capacity. Speed is 10 ^ knots.
Capt. Thomsen is well-known in
Alaska, and is a retired U. S. C. G.
officer.
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City Manager Bill* Poland Reports On
First Annual Alaska Road Conference
City Manager Bill Poland re
turned from Juneau late Saturday,
where he attended a State road
conference sponsored by the All
Alaska Chamber of Commerce.
Poland reports a very success
ful and informative conference,
with 51 representatives of various
cities, chambers of commerce, and
State and Federal agencies in at
tendance.
Informational reports were given
by Richard Downing, Commission
er of Alaska Public Works, and
William Niemi, Regional Engineer,
Bureau of Public Roads, on prob
lems concerning construction,
maintenance and financing of pres
ent and future roads in the new
state. It was pointed out that there
will be available from the Omni
bus Bill, Federal aid funds, and
highway gas tax receipts, a fund
of $124,500,000 for nse under the
federal-aid highway program for
expenditure between July 1, 1960
and July 1, 1963 for construction
and reconstruction of highways in
Alaska.
The State Department of Public
Works must use a portion of this
fund for reconstructing present
highways. If $24,500,00 is spent
for this purpose, the funds avail
able for construction would be
$100,000,000, which would build
several thousand miles of new
road.
“However, beginning July 1,
1962,” Polan<f stated, “Alaska must
provide from tax revenues appro
ximately $7,000,000 annually for
highway maintenance and admin
istration of the present 4100 miles
of highways in the Federal sys
tem within the State. The expendi
ture of such a sum as $100,000,000
for new construction would in
crease maintenance costs propor
tionately.”
“Further,” Poland pointed out,
“beginning July 1, 1963, the Om
nibus funds will be exhausted and
any Federal-aid funds allocated
after that date must be matched
with 13% per cent or $5,704,000,
from either tax revenues or bond
proceeds.
After this somewhat sobering
presentation of the financial pic
ture, Poland remarked, a com
mittee was formed for the purpose
of recommending new construe^
tion to the Commissioner of Public
Works. This committee decided to
list only the primary roads needed
to connect centers of population
with the state highway system.
Five recommendations were
made for such roads, as follows:
1. Ketchikan-Haines ferry system;
2. Homer-Kodiak ferry system; 3.
Cordova-€hitina road; 4. Anchor
age-McGrath road; and Fairbanks
Nome road.
Visiting Newsmen
Here Next Monday
A group of 23 newsmen, editors
of weeklies mainly and some dail
ies across the nation, will arrive
in Kodiak Monday aboard the PNA
flight at 10:10 a.m. Navy officials
and a civic group headed by Mayor
€oon will be on hand to welcome
them and act as their hosts during
their overnight stay here.
Following a briefing at the Lit
tle Red School House and the
showing of a 30 minute film on
Kodiak wildlife by Chief A1 Hook
er, the newsmen will tour the Nav
al Station.
Following luncheon at the Civil
Service Club, the group will board
a bus for town and will be taken
on a tour which will include City
highlights, and the White Alice
installation atop Pillar Mountain.
In the evening the group will at
tend a no-host dinner at the 49
Room.
A number of tours, boat, air
plane and bus trips have been
arranged for Tuesday morning
prior to plane departure time at
12:40.
The visitors are members of the
National Editorial Association and
are on an Alaskan study mission.
From here they return to the other
48 and then will continue on to
Hawaii, before returning home.
Names of the editors and their
home towns follows: Wm P. Baker,
Columbus, Ohio; Deskins' Wells,
Wellington, Texas; Clare J. Haw
ens, Bad Axe, Mich.; M. L. Leh
man, Berne, Ind.; Seymour Sterl
ing, Sanger, Calif.; Clarence Faulk,
Roston, Louisiana; W. A. Butler,
Holland, Mich.; James H. Hare
den, Foxboro, Mass.; Leslie K.
Hull, Waukon, Iowa; Joe E. Hurst,
New Philadelphia, Ohio; Donald
Brockhart, Crossville, Tenn.; Syd
ney Lazarus, Pottsville, Penn.1;
Ralph Shannon, Washington, Iowa;
A. W. Brentwell, Chico, Calif.;
Russell W. Frey, Rittman, Ohio;
Richard Robertson, Darien, Conn.;
R. G. Lyttle, Meeker, Color.; Clay
Littick, Zanesville, Ohio; Dan C.
Preston, Sherman Oaks, Calif.;
James M. Miller, Zanesville, Ohio;
Frank Spencer, Newark, Ohio;
John Fournier, Kent, Wash.; and
Edgar S. Bayol, Washington, D.C.
U. S. Coast Guard
Exams Feb. 23, 24
Competitive examinations for
entrance to the U.S. Coast Guard
Academy will be held nationwide
on Feb. 23 and 24, 1960, according
to an announcement this week by
Rep. Ralph Rivers. Applications
must be postmarked on or before
Jan. 10, 1960.
A candidate must be single, must
have reached his 17th but not his
22nd birthday by July 1, 1960, and
must be in excellent physical con
dition. A high school diploma is
the minimum educationl require
ment, although high school sen
iors assured of being graduated
by June 30, 1960 are eligible to
take the examination if they
have at least 15 credits by that
time. All applicants must have
three units of English, two of Al
gebra, and one in plane geometry
by graduation.
Cannery Watchman
Dies In Seattle
Tom L. Johnson, 63, died of a
heart condition on Monday, Avg
ust 3, at the University of Wash
ington Hospital in Seattfa, Mr.
Johnson, who has been Watchman
at Parks Cannery. Uyak Bay for
the past several years, has been
ill for some time.
Surviving the deceased are his
wife, Annie Norell Johnson; four
sons, Jimmy, Tommy, Gus and
Martin; and two daughters, Vir
ginia and Joan.
The body was brought to Ko
diak and services were conducted
by Rev. John Molletti at the Com
munity Baptist Church at 2 p.m.
Friday. Interment followed at the
Russian Cemetery.
King Crab May
Process Shrimp
Declaring it a “rough picture”
for seafood operation in this area,
Bob Resoff, superintendent of
King Crab, Inc., stated his comp
any was going to attempt to pro
cess shrimp in “a limited way”
to ascertain the quality of the
shrimp at this time of year.
It is planned to operate one shift
a day, he said.
Resoff said the shrimp boat ope
rators demand for 5 cents a pound
was unrealistic. He said the price
paid in Seward is the same as off
ered here or 4 cents a pound. In
Seldovia a price of 4% cents is
paid, but the operators are report
ed as closing down due to the quali
ty of shrimp, which is said to be
poor.
The situation is difficult of solu
tion, Resoff said. The operation is
still exploratory, and the comp
any’s plant represents a big invest
ment.
Last summer King Crab em
ployed more than 100 people in
the shrimp operation, this year
none.
Tea For Visitor
A tea honoring her aunt, Mrs.
Lowell Mason of Belle Plaines,
Kansas, was given by Mrs. Ruth
Breckberg at her home Tuesday
afternoon. Mrs. Chester Davis, who
with her husband, Mrs. Breck
berg’s father, is visiting the Breck
bergs, was also to have been a
guest of honor, but has been
ill of pneumonia apd spent the
week in Griffin Memorial HospitaL
The Davis’ are from Douglass,
Kansas.
Along The
Waterfront
The M. V. LA dENCIA, wfaicl
has been in Kodiak waters tht
past week, and in the small boar
harbor several days, is a Richfield
Oil Corporation ship.
Capt. J. B. (Barney) Owens, the
ships skipper, states they have
been in Alaskan waters since Ap
ril. They conducted seismographie
surveys in the Gulf of Alaska, and
geological tests to the Westward,
The LA CIENCIA is a 137 foot
er and is a YM$ coriverted. Home*
base is Long Beach, Calif.
We got the answer we expected
when we asked how the possibili
ties for oil looked. “That’s confi
dential information.”
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Roy Lindsley was in town for a
couple of days this week. He was
on a routine inspection of the area
Chuck Conhelley, FWS egent
here, just returned from a stream
checking, and reports the fish as;
scarce in most of the areas. AlitaX
and a few other streams are the
only ones showing anything.
The FWS Dennis Wmn, a patrol
boat, is due in on the way South.
Del Valentine reports Halfertys
have been canning since Tuesday,
but only small packs. 17,000 fish
were brought in yesterday. Cliff
Day, Don Cooper and Franfe Mc
Conaghy were in town this week
but left for Cordova.
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Bill Hingston, of the Washing
ton Fish and Oyster, was in from
Port Williams. He reports no fish
there either.
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* A fishermen and boatowneri
meeting is scheduled for August
13 at 9 a.m. at the Fishermen’s
Union hall.
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A number of fishermen appear
ed before the U.S. Commissioner
on charges of fishing with 7 inch
mesh nets, 1 inch over regulations
The cases were settled by an agree^
ment between cannery operator!
and the FWS.
In other cases, Ed Sargent was
fined $25 for fishing with illegal
gear and in an illegal manner,
Alf Anderson, the same fthc for
fishing with seine in excess of
maximum limit; Frank Kilpatrick
fined $25, illegal fishing; Guanar
Neilsen, Earl Erickson, Victor Ol
son, for fishing prior to opening
of season. Skipper fined $250,
others $200.
Kodiak will in all probability be
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League All-Stars Leave Tomorrow
The Little League All-Star base
ball team will assemble for depar
ture to Anchorage, tomorrow at the
PNA terminal on the Naval Sta
tion, at 12 noon. Departure time
for the plane is 1 p.m.
The Kodiak youngsters, known
as the Kodiak Bears, will partici
pate in the first Alaskan Little
League Baseball Tournament
which will be held in Anchorage,
beginning August 10. It is a one
game elimination event.
In the event the Bears win in
the Anchrage tournament, they
will then go to Portland for the
regional playoffs. Winners of that
event will then play in the world
series, which is held later this
summer in Williamsport, Pennsyl
vania.
A rousing sendoff is planned for
the boys Sunday morning. A big
crowd of well wishers is expected
Stirring music will be provided by
the visiting Fleet Marine Pacific
Drum and Bugle team.
Coach of the All-Stars is Cor
win Stark, who coached the league
leading Outdorsmen.
He will accompany the players
as Curly Wilson as manager
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