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150 People Expected Here Today;
Events Scheduled For Navy League
Approximately 150 people will
attrhre here from Anchorage
Friday afternoon. They are mem
bers of an Anchorage delegation
mi the Navy League and their wives
who will remain here until Sun
day.
The group will arrive here
aboard chartered PNA planes at
4 pm. today (Friday). The newly
organized group of the Navy
League here wifll join them in a
program of cocktails, sightseeing,
luncheons, business meeting, din
ner and dancing.
The program Friday includes
cocktails ait the Officers Club at
the Naval Station from 6 p.m. to
8 pjm., followed by a buffet din
ner and hail and farewell party.
Saturday, a breakfast stag will
be served ait the Officers Club at
9 am., followed by a briefing at
JO. A tour of the Naval Station
will commence at 11, concluding
with a luncheon at the Mecca 49
Room. A business meeting is
scheduled there for 1:30. Wives of
ihe members will meet for lunch
at the Town Club, also at 12:45.
A tour of the city Is scheduled
tar 2:30, followed by cocktails at
7 p m. A dinner will be served at
the Elks Club at 8 p.m. Speaker
at the dinner is Adm. F.xtrom
Child Authority
To Speak to PTA
Mrs. Maragaret Hafemeister,
regional representative for the
Western area, Department of Pub
lic Welfare, will be the speaker
and participate in the program of
the Kodiak PTA to be held Thurs
day, April 14.
Mrs. Hafemedster is a well
known authority on child welfare.
PTA officials ore urging all
parents to plan to attend the
meeting.
At the March meeting the
Juvenile Protection Committee
reported that the Kodiak PTA
cannot endorse the Teen Canteen
which meets at the Island Foun
tain as a club for high school age
diHdren.
The atmosphere of the Island
Fountain was reported as being
■well lighted and supervised, but
that the group was of young
adults, not school age youngsters.
The committee reported further
that any high school student, hav
ing parental consent to date this
adult age group, would find the
Canteen an acceptable place to go.
Welfare Agent
Ip? New Quarters
Mrs. Eugenia Strigga, Kodiak
Agent, Alaska Division of Public
Welfare, has announced that her
office hours ane from 1 to 5 p.m.
an Thursday in her office in the
building next to the Labor Temple,
Mrs. Stmigga can be reached at
other times during the week at
pboue 2743.
who will give an address on “The
Navy’s Role In Todays World.”
Dancing will follow the dinner.
Breakfast at the Officer’s Club,
10 am. Sunday is scheduled. De
parture of the Anchorage delega
tion is set for 1 pun.
Elks Elect Zehe
As Exalted Ruler
Archie Zehe, comm-inHinor
officer of the A.CS centerhere,
vi? elected E'Ciltei R iler o
the R.P.O. Elks Lodue at the
mee ing of the lodge last
w-eek.
Zehe succeed* Don Law
head, Lodge head lest year.
Other oiffcers elected are as
follows: Robert Dawson, lead
ng klight; T >m ny F*oC. Jr.,
oyal knight; J in S XX ^ *y
er , lecturing knight ; William
Unger, tiler; and trustee for
five years, Peter Ramaglia.
Officers appointed by the ex
alted ruler are Jack Metzgar ,
inner guard; Russell Panchot,
esquire; Wally Valen, chaplain.
POLIO
POLIO IMMUNIZATION CLINIC
A Polio Immunization Clinic
will he held April 2 from 1:30 to
11.00 am. at the Kodiak Health
Center. All four shots will -he
given, and there is a charge of 50
cents per dose for adults.
Chamber Protests
Citys Tax Hearing
The Chamber of Commerce at
its meeting Thursday noon at the
Island Fountain voted to protest
to the method set up for appear
ing before the Board of Equaliza
tion.
Under the present set up, any
one wishing to appear before the
Council on tax matters would
have to fill out a form and have
it notarized. A taxpayer would
only be able to appear on a speci
fied date. Chamber members voic
ed their opinion that this was un
fair. They also favored a longer
period for the Equalization
Board to meet.
The members also went on re
cord as not flavoring the annexa
tion of the outer islands adjacent
to Kodiak. They went on record as
backing the City Council iin seek
ing to have the islands removed
from annexation plans. Tre Jegis
lators from this district were
said to have gone against the will
of the people here in annexing
the islands.
Dr. A. Holmes Johnson read
from a report of a meeting of re
presentatives of the Senate and
House, labor leaders, school au
thorities and others on the need
for vocational training in Alaska
for natives. The report stated
that Mt. Edgecunsb has had more
than 250 applicants of eligible
students than it can take.
It was stated that Kodiak is
favored as a center for a voca
tional school.
Roy Rickey, chairman of the
King Crab Festival, stated that all
committees have been named.
He also said a permit is being
applied far to hold a queen con
test in conjunction with the
Festival.
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ADENAUER GREETED — West Gerais ^hincellor Konrad
Adenauer, center, shook hands with San Fran-is o Mayor George
Christopher at International Airport March 21 shortly after
arrival by plane from Los Angeles. The 84-year>old German
statesman arrived to address Charter Dfcy ceremonies of the
University of California in Berkeley. (AP Wirepboto)
Rescuers lift Mrs. Loyal Burns, 29, from wreckage of her car la
icy waters of Elk Creek at Drain, or*!., March 20 alketr afce
plunged over a 125-foct bank. She clung tc safety belt rings «a
floorboards to keep her head above the water, breathing tram
four inches of air space, (AP Wirephotd)
Low Fares Set
For Festival
Reduced round trip excursion
fares are being offered mainland
fttesidents who wish to come to
Kodiak for the King Crab Festival,
May 6. 7 and 8, according to: an
announcement by the Festival
committee this week.
Special arrangements have been
made with PNA for reduced fares
from Anchorage, Kenai and
Homer during those dates. Fares
announced by Ray Martin, agent
for PNA here ate as follows: fires*
Anchorage return, $43.75 fl»
$4.38 tax; from Kenai, $36.55 plat
$3.66 tax; and from Homer, $22.*>
plus $2.28 tax.
Tickets are effective for trawrf.
from 12:01 a,m., May 5, until !!:*•
p.m., May 9.
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WELCOME
Navy League
Last Of Music Trails Concerts
Features Baritone In Popular Classics
The tenth Anmiveosary Season
otf the Alaska Music Trail is cele
brating the first decade of great
music in the North. An exetimg
finale for the Tenth Anniversary
is the conceit of the brilliant bar
itone, Stephen Kernelyan. He will
be p.eeenited on Monday, March
28, at 8:15 pm in tne Kodiak High
Sihool Auditorium. One of the
West’s most popular singers, Kem
alyan is a Cal if o', man who has
made his Los Angeles home the
base for his fine nation-wide mus
ical reputation.
He brings to his concert appear
ances a wealth o-f experience in
the movies, on radio and tele
vision, and on the concert awl
opera stage. Again and again the
critical music press repots that
he “thrilled his audience”
tured his audience completely” —
“touched the heart of everyjislao
er.” At the request of the Alaska
Music Trail coordinator, Mrs.
Martin Livings', on, Mr. Kenwlyaa
has made his program one of pop
ular classics, sung largely in
English.
SPECIAL PROGRAM
In many of the Music Trail com
munities the guest artist will, for
•the time in Alaska Music
Trail history, be assisted by 1*
cal choral groups. For example,
the Ketchikan Community Chektis.
the Juneau High School Chorus,
tiie Anchorage Festival CfoarMa
and the University of Alaska Cher
us will be featured in their re
spective cities.
Hetre a special note of inter
est on the prog am will be provid
ed by Mr. Kemalyan’s co’Jabors
ting artist, Mr. Horace MartMed.
A fine pianist in his own n^t,
Mr. Martinez has consented t»
fulfill the many requests for a Mia
pit._nu_.L.r on the proj