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Juneau,
Changing Capital
Expensive Project
Kodiakans Told
“Moving the capital from Juneau
would not only create confusion,
but could destroy the credit of the
state of Alaska,” two businessmen
from that city, Marshall Erwin and
Wayne Johnson told a meeting of
Kodiak residents, Wednesday eve
ning at the council chamber of the
city hall.
Erwin said the costs are too large
(at least $150,000,000) for such
a small population (less than Ta
coma, Washington), and it could
endanger the bonding capacity of
the state as well as municpalities.
State government costs will also
rise if the capital would be moved
to Western Alaska necessitating a
five to seven per cent wage differ
ential in all personnel classifica
tion.
The Juneau men challenged the
accessibility of such an area JO
miles from Anchorage which could
call for expensive roads, airport
construction and other projects to
the capital building.
The state of Alaska needs that
$150,000,000 for education, roads
and many other projects more than
to set up the capital in an isolated
spot, they concluded.
Crab Fishermen
To Stop Fishing?
Unless an offer is forthcoming
from the canneries by Friday,
Oct. 26, members of the United
Fisheries Marketing Association
will pick up their gear and quit
fishing, Lloyd Cannon, president
of the organization said Friday.
The canneries have made the
same offer as last year—9 cents
a pound, while the marketing
association is asking for a two
year contract at 12 cents a
pound.
Quintet Selected
As Project Heads
Chairman Nick Frost Of the Ko
diak Chamber of Commerce In
dustrial Committee announced
last week appointment of five
heads of sub-committees to work
with his committee in drafting
plans for development of the area.
Appointments are: Howard
Wakefield, fisheries; Bill Poland,
harbors; George Cornelius, lands;
Chuck Weir, transportation; and
Russell Wright, roads.
Sub Surfaces In Downtown Kodiak
Somehow this “Mystery Sub” came up through the mud and pools
of water in downtown Kodiak to the amazement of scores of pe
destrians. However, many Kodiakans feel that there are a number
of pools around the city streets sufficient to float craft of various
size with the main hazard being the fathomless goo along the edges.
We do not know whether the sub was able to submerge through
the mud or not.
Eight Lettermen
Among Aspirants
For Cage Squad
Eight lettermen were among the
21 candidates who turned out for
the first basketball practice of the
season Monday to Coach Terry Mc
Mullin.
The new KHS mentor, in his
first year here, was impressed by
the enthusiasm of the candidates
as well as the large turnout.
The Bears will have three weeks
of practice in preparation for their
first home game only a short three
weeks away.
Returning lettermen include
Dick Mize, Stan Sargeant, Clete
Leverette, Ron Franklin, Harry
Wilson, Richard Johnson. Art Ol
sen and Dell Jackson.
J.V. lettermen making bids for
the first squad are: Tom McCor
mick Wayne Kozak, Rick Lowry,
Mel Borton, Larry Deitzler.
Other candidates out for the var
sity squad are: Mike Nixon, John
Lester, Larry Cannon Ron Stroupe,
Tim Murphy, Jerry Fleming, Jim
Tricarico, Bill Dodson and Ian
Fulp.
— Kodiak Kapsoles —
(By Bill Mason)
PREPARE AN APOLOGY
After last week’s visit to Ko
diak by Undersecretary Herring
ton and other federal officials,
our fishermen had better pre
pare an apology to the Russian
fishing fleet off our shores for
permitting our crab pots and
buoys to become entangled in
their gear. We may be asked to
pay for the damage.
* * • •
ALTERNATIVE ANSWER
Tests, as you know if you are a
parent, are getting the full atten
tion of educators these days and
we hear tell that in Homer one of
the questions asked on a character
test in the junior high was: “If
you were in the rest room and saw
a boy knock a hole in the plaster
with a baseball bat, you would: (a)
tell proper authorities; (b) laugh
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Unicef Funds Drive
Slated For Oct. 31
Children of the Community Bap
tist Church and the Church of God
and St. James the Fisherman Epis
copal Church will be collecting
funds for the Unicef on Oct. 31
from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. by ele
mentary grade youngsters and the
older youth will canvas other des
ignated areas from 6 p.m. to 7:30
p.m.
ATTENDING MEETING
George Cornelius, owner of the
Kodiak-Aleutian Realty company
and vice-president of the Alaska
State Realtors’ Association, is in
Fairbanks this week attending a
meeting of the organization in that
city. Important legislative matters
will be discussed, Cornelius said
on this departure Wednesday.
Police Business
On The Upgrade
For giving false information on
a chauffeur’s license, Robert A.
Bertram was handed a 10 days
suspended sentence and the li
cense revoked by the Kodiak Po
lice Department, while Paula Bra
stajn received a suspended 30 days
sentence and ordered to care for
her children on a child neglect
count.
Intoxication was the charge in
eight cases: Russell O. Coyne was
turned over to the state and given
a 60 day sentence, while Herman
A. Carlsen was handed a $25 fine
and 30 day suspended jail sentence
for being under the influence. Lars
Larsen was given a 30 days sus
pended sentence on a drunkeness
count.
Two others, John Zunganuk and
Alvin H. Kaer forfeited $25 bail on
intoxication charges, while George
Nekeferoff was fined $300 and
given 30 days on the same charge.
Coast Guard Amphibian To Try Again
For Kodiak To Florida Non-Stop Hop
The U.S. Coast Guard aircraft
attempting a long-distance record
hop from Kodiak to Florida this
past Monday which was forced
down in Canada at Edmonton is
expected back in Kodiak today for
a second attempt to set a 3,000 mile
distance record, according to
Cmdr. Wallace D. Dahlgren, in
charge of the project.
The two-engine Grumman Alba
tross amphibious plane landed at
Edmonton’s municipal airport
early Tuesday after one engine
failed.
The present record of 1,613 nau
tical miles was set by Italy in 1954.
The Coast Guard crew of three,
along with Ron Ellico, an official
of the National Aeronautic Ass’n.,
was at the Kodiak Naval Base for
about a week before their attempt,
waiting for favorable wind condi
tions.
Along
The
Waterfront
By Karl Armstrong
“HERRINGTON SAYS DAM
AGE BY REDS NOT INTENTION
AL” reads a front page headline
in the Oct. 13th Anchorage Daily
Times. The story goes on to state
that Herrington “does not believe
Soviet fishermen operating off Ko
diak Island deliberately destroyed
American crab pots.”
Said Herrington: “It is my belie!
the Soviet Union will cooperate.’
After thinking this statement over
deeply and taking into considera
tion the halfhearted approach
made by the federal state depart
ment in this matter it just might
be considered an encouraging re
mark at that . . . after all, who
could speak more authoritatively
as to just what the Soviet Union’s
reactions might be!
We are, however, quite hopeful
that somebody on our side might
encouragingly say: “It is my belief
the United States will cooperate
with us!” So far the federal state
department has yet to make a for
mal protest to the Soviet govern
ment- It may be that the striped
pants eggheads in D.C. are worried
about the Soviet Russian “good re
lations!”
However a bit more on the en
couraging side is the report, in the
same article, that Herrington
“added that the United States will
not permit American fishermen
to be crowded out of their fish
eries.” The only thing ironic about
him saying that is the fact that
while he was here in Kodiak at
the hearings most every fisherman
there testified to the effect that
they had already, as a matter of
fact, been driven off their fishery
at Two Headed Island!
He simply ignored such testi
mony just as he is ignoring the rest
of what our fishermen said so that
he, and apparently he alone, could
arrive at a conclusion nobody else
arrived at. Most certainly he didn’t
allow the facts as presented by our
fishermen to interfere in any way
whatever with the preconceived
conclusion, undoubtedly arrived at
in advance in Washington, that he
has released to the public.
As one fisherman stated after
reading the Anchorage article:
“Sounds like maybe they figure on
filing a formal apology with the
Russian government for our boys
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Late Bulletins
Pilot Gil Jarvela safely landed
a Kodiak Airways Grumman
Goose at 3:10 p.m. Thursday
after the right cowling tore loose
at about 1800 feet altitude and
struck the tail section. He
landed in the middle of Kiliuda
Bay and taxied the craft into the
Sheerwater Cannery where the
seven passengers, enroute from
Old Harbor, were picked up by
another Airways plane.
The tender Anna A today re
ported that the Russian fleet
has withdrawn from the Two
Headed Island crab fishing
grounds and is now located ap
proximately 50 miles offshore on
a bearing of approximately 110
degrees.
‘Childish’ Prank
Close To Fatal
A “'childish prank”—childish in
only one respect caused a near
fatal mishap on Pillar mountain
late Sunday night when N. E. Din
widdie, employe at the White Alice
project atop the mountain, was
blinded by lights forcing his car
off the road.
Dinwiddie, enroute to work,
rounded a corner and at that mo
ment lights from a parked car were
flashed into his face, blinding him
and forcing him over the embank
ment. The car which flashed on the
lights meanwhile sped away.
Dinwiddie incurred a cut leg but
the injury could have been fatal.
Two mishaps were reported
Wednesday—one a Kodiak teacher
ran a car into a ditch after striking
a rock, and a pickup overturned
on Mission Road. There were no
serious injuries.
CG Academy Exam
Here On Feb. 18
Congressman Ralph J. Rivers
announced this week that the com
petitive examination for entrance
to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
will be held Feb. 18 and 19 in 150
cities including Anchorage, Fair
banks, Juneau, Ketchikan and Ko
diak.
A candidate for the Academy
must be single, having reached his
17th but not his 22nd birthday by
July 1, 1903. A high school diploma
or those who will receive one by
June 30 is required.