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PRICE TEN CENTS
Parents Protest Armory Rental Fees
Recently Established By Nat’l Guard
A score of parents, including
many on the Senior Council of the
Kodiak Youth Council, appeared
at the City Council, Thursday night
to protest recently imposed rentals
at the National Guard Armory, a
building which the Youth Council
has been using.
Lt. Ron Chase, executive officer
of the local unit, informed the par
ents on Nov. 21 that he had been
instructed that rental would have
to be charged for the use of the
Armory by any non-military group.
This would have amounted to $9.75
per night plus a $10 opening and
closing fee, and in addition civil
ians would have to follow certain
restrictions laid down by the guard
including a log book of those sign
ing in and out of teen-age dances.
It would also cost $16 a week for
three Scout meetings there.
Handling the Armory building
is a committee of three connected
with the Guard and two civilians,
appointed by and representing the
city.
Most councilmen said that the
agreement was that when the Arm
ory was being built that the Guard
would use it three nights a week
and the public four.
COMMUNITY BUILDING
City Manager Bill Poland
pointed out that the city contrib
uted considerable in completion of
the Armory including sewer lines,
and that the understanding was
it was to be a “community build
ing.”
Speaking in behalf of the Teen
Age Youth Council were Phil An
derson and Pete Marinkovich.
Councilman Nick Frost pointed
out that it was “an apparent in
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CG Plane Seeks
Men, Explosives
A Coast Guard Amphibian
from Kodiak started searching
Thursday for a six-man U.S.
Geological Survey crew working
explosives on the north end of
Chirikoff Islands.
The crew has not been heard
from since Sunday, and the
Coast Guard said that the Geo
logical Survey advised that the
men did not know of the extreme
sensitivity of the explosives they
were handling while in a special
container being used to transport
the explosives.
The search began after the
men failed to make a scheduled
10 a.m. radio check.
Chirikoff Island is about 190
miles southwest of Kodiak.
Capt. R. E. Hammond said
Friday morning that the plane
failed to reach the area, Thurs
day due to weather conditions
and flew out again today. No
further word has been received
by radio early this morning.
— Kodiak Kapsules —
(By Bill Mason)
Gordie Jensen, our telephone
company manager, stopped by
to relate that a Texas bear hun
ter stopped in the Kodiak tele
phone company the first part of
this week and while there de
cided to place a call to the An
chorage airport to confirm a
reservation.
Our Texan dialed the operator
and she instructed him to de
posit $2.35 in the pay slot.
He expressed great surprise
and announced indignantly,
“Why that’s ridiculous!” he told
the girl. “Back home in Texas
Once Again We’re
Trying For That
Mile Of Paving
A slight ray of hope for more
paving in Kodiak came again
this week as the Commissioner
of Highways again called for an
invitation to bid on 0.871 miles
of roadway on Brooklyn Avenue
from Alaska Street to Rezanoff
Drive and on Rezanoff Drive
from Brooklyn Avenue to Sev
enth Avenue.
An invitation to bid was is
sued earlier in November but
the only bid submitted was that
of the S. S. Mullen, Inc., of Se
attle for $830,069—nearly $300,
000 higher than the department’s
estimate for the job.
The Mullen bid was rejected
by the department.
we call down to hell and back
for a dime!”
“I know, sir,” the operator re
plied. “But that is a local call.”
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The Kodiak Mirror and Yours
Truly landed on the front page of
the weekly “Washington Exclu
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It Was The Bird
& All Trimmin’s
Roast Tom Turkey and Roast
Beef au jus vied with each other
for gourmet attention at the Base
Mess Thanksgiving Day, Thursday,
Nov. 22.
And then there was the tussling
of the trimmings—everything from
soup to nuts—tempting the many
officers and enlisted men who ate
their dinner here.
Capt. E. C. Smith, Commanding
Officer of the Naval Station, and
his family were honored guests
Lt. R. A. Driggers, Commissary
Officer, and Chief C. A. Garner,
Chief-in-Charge, were congenial
hosts.
SKIERS MEET
Lt. Tinker announces that the
ski patrol will meet Saturday, Dec.
8, at the ski chalet.
This meeting will include prac
tice in rescue equipment and con
tinuation of first aid instruction.
It was stated that the response
to the call for ski patrol volunteers
was very good.
Injured Russian Given U.S. Help
Swathed in facial bandages, Fegor M. Kazarkin, 27, a Russian fisher
man who reportedly sustained a fractured jaw in an accident aboard
his vessel “Aimak” Saturday in the Gulf of Alaska was brought to
Kodiak by the Coast Guard cutter Storis for medical treatment at
the Naval Hospital. Left to right, Lt. Cmdr. James M. Wilson, USN,
dental officer, Kodiak Naval Hospital, Kazardkin, and William J.
May, USCG, senior chief hospital corpsman, from the Storis.
— (Official U.S. Navy Photo)
Along
The
Waterfront
By Karl Armstrong
“Hey Toledo-” . . . dashed out
of me house early this week head
ing for cannery row . . . my haste
plus the rain-slickened ice on the
street were a combination that
had me flattened and howling be
fore I'd taken ten strides. Appar
ently no bones broken but might
just as well have for all the good
one leg does me now. So you see
“Toledo,” it wasn’t the prospect of
lifting 400 125-lb. sacks of salt that
has kept me away . . . honestly!
To the uninitiated I might explain
that everyone down at APA has a
nickname . . . the same one, To
ledo.”
While things picked up a bit at
APA this week none of the can
neries in town are operating at full
capacity. Weather still has a lot
to do with it and a few boats have
called it quits till the first of the
year. King Crab Inc.’s Bob Spring
hill tells us the Fidelity and Dol
phin are moored in the boat har
bor. APA’s Tula and Tahiti fin
ished up last week and will begjn
again the first of the year. Alaska
King Crab’s Emil Norton advises
that all his boats are staying with it
but some will “take ten” for Xmas.
Martin’s Fresh King Crab, how
ever, is going strong every day, we
are told.
&
We shall shortly be able to give
coverage to the happenings in
other island villages and canneries
thanks to the determined efforts
of Lowell Wakefield who has
nearly completed arrangements
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Christmas Goods
Sold For Benefit
Crippled Children
The various base women’s clubs
are selling Alaskan design Christ
mas cards, stationery, place mats,
cook books, sour dough, and other
articles for the benefit of the
Alaska Crippled Children’s Asso
ciation.
Profits will go toward a fund for
a Speech and Hearing Therapist
who will serve Kodiak, Seward,
Homer, and the Palmer and Kenai
areas. In Kodiak both military and
civilian children are being helped.
You may purchase these hand
some, original, and useful items
by contacting Mrs. Ninon Williams
of the Officers Wives at 7-5841;
Mrs. Foels of the Coast Guard Of
ficers Wives at 6-5652; Mrs. Marla
Nowak of Navy Wives No. 126 at
6-5535: or Mrs. Jackie Clark of
Coast Guard Wives at 7-5472.
The association will have a sale
at Kraft’s Supermarket, Sat. Dec.
8 to sell goods.
Fund For Bennie
Tops $1500 Mark;
50 Per Cent Goal
The Bennie Benson fund spurred
by big donations in the amount of
$200 from Alaska King Crab, Inc.,
$100 from the Carpenters Local
2162 and an $100 anonymous con
tribution has gone over the $1,500
mark this week.
Thus in less than one week more
than $1,000 was contributed to
wards the ultimate goal of $3,000.
Newspapers throughout the state
of Alaska becoming aware of Ben
son’s important contribution in de
signing the state flag as a 13-year
old school boy picked up the ban
ner with the result that checks
from Fairbanks, None, Seward,
Spenard, Anchorage, Juneau and
Sitka were arriving the latter part
of the week, and the contributions
continue to pour in from Kodiak
and other island communities,
ranging from $1 to $50.
Kodiak Airways employes, fel
low workers of Bennie’s who had
made an earlier contribution made
another in excess of $200.
83,300 HOSPITAL BILL
The full impact of the cost of
Bennie’s prolonged illness this
past fall came with a hospital hill
from Seattle amounting to approx
imately $3,300 this week. This does
not include the physician and sur
gery fees.
Due to the press of time and
space, acknowledgments of donors
will be compiled and published in
detail in next week’s Mirror.
Meanwhile, if you haven’t made
your contribution, you may do so
by bringing it to either the Kodiak
Airways office, the Kodiak Mirror
office or mailing it to P.O. Box
1307, Kodiak, Alaska.
Floating Factory
To Freeze Crab
The converted power scow
Reefer II left Seattle this week
as a floating king crab factory
for operation out of Kodiak.
The Reefer II will be the third
factory ship in the area for Pan
Alaska Fisheries. It is a 105-foot
vessel with a 350-ton capacity in
her refrigerator hold arid is
equipped to flash-freeze 1,000
pounds of crab per hour.
Shrimp Plant Sets Start Of Operation
In King Crab Building For Jan. 1, ’63
Kodiak’s economic picture took on another bright hue today
with the announcement that East Point Seafood Company would
start shrimping operations in the King Crab, Inc., building near
the City Docks.
Two key employes of the company whose principal office is in
Seattle, Jim Major and Howard Anderson have been here for some
time getting the plant in shape. Probably there will be a test opera
tion in December and the plant will operate at full capacity after
the first of the year with 14 to 15 men per shift.
Two shrimp boats, the Fortress and the Henning J, will operate
in this area for the company. The Fortress has already arrived here.
Nearest shrimp operation at present is at Seward with four
boats in operation but they are a day away from the Kodiak Island
shrimp beds.
Both Major and Anderson will bring their families here as
soon as they find housing. Aside from these two men, all help will
be local.
King Crab. Inc., carried on shrimp operations until May 31.