Sports
Town League Basketball Tourney
Enters Final Rounds Next Week
. A double-header will be played
Monday night in the double-elim
ination tournament now being held
for the town league championship.
Each of the four top teams will
have two chances to win the cov
eted trophy, held by FNA, last
years champs.
On Monday night the losers of
last week’s games, NavComSta and
the losers of the PNA-American
Legion game will play at 6:30,
While Fleet Weather will meet the
winner in the featured game at
8:i5 p. m: One team will be elim
inated.
On Tuesday night the winner of
the loser’s game will meet the
loser of the winner’s game at 8:15,
while the preliminary game will be
played between the Base 8th Grad
ers and the 3rd Freshmen elimina
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Youth Leadership
Contest Awards
* Winners 1 in the Youth Leader
ship contest, •>sponsored annually
by Elks Lodge No. 1772, was an
nounced by Tom Frost, Jr., Chair
man of the local contest.
First place winner in the girls’
division was Jerelynn Celia Smith.
In the boys’ division, Robert Law
rence Richmond was the winner in
first place. Both receive a cash
prize of $75 each.
Second place winners in the
girls’ and boys’ division were
Caroly Rockstad and Courtney
Starbird. They each received $50.
The names of the two first place
winners are now entered in the
State competition. Winners in the
statewide contest will compete na
tionally.
Fannins Vacation
• In Four States
i Mr. and Mrs. Vern Fannin spent
the past several weeks on a holiday
> in the South 48. They visited in Las
' Vegas, Reno, Seattle and Portland.
1 Mrs. Fannin returned Tuesday
j and her husband is expected to re
; turn sometime this week. They left
' here Feb. 7.
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tion team.
Friday night the champion
ship game will be played at 8:15,
providing the winner of the win
ner’s bracket performs true to
form. In the event the loser wins,
then the finals will be held on
Monday night at 8 p. m., weather
permitting.
Olson-Buckingham
On All-Star Team
Kodiak high school placed two
men on the ten-man All-Star bas
ketball team, selected following
the finals of the Class “B” tourna
ment held in Nome Feb. 17.
The two were Danny Olson, 17
year-old senior and 15-year-old Don
Buckingham. The latter holds the
distinction of being the only soph
more to win this outstanding
award.
Danny Olson also had the dis
tinction of being the runner-up to
Russ Murkowski, who was voted
most valuable player in the
tourney.
CG Air Get. Hold
Award Ceremony
On 17 February the Coast Guard
Air Detachment, Kodiak, Alaska,
held awards ceremonies to honor
officers and men who had flown
successful rescue missions under
extremely dangerous weather con
ditions.
CDR. C. A. Richmond, Jr., com
manding officer of the Air De
tachment awarded letters of com
mendation to Lt. G. T. Seaman and
Chief Aviation Electronicsman F.
C. Sheehan, Jr., from the Com
mandant of the U. S. Coast Guard;
and letters of appreciation to Avia
tion Machinist’s Mate 2nd. Class D.
K. Seigler and Aviation Electric
ian’s Mate 2nd. Class J. P. For
rester from the Commander, 17th.
Coast Guard District.
CDR Richmond awarded per
sonal letters of appreciation to
LCDR J. F. Stanton, Lt. E. G.
Marsh, Aviation Machinist’s Mate
| All Members of The
Kodiak Outdoorsmen Club
are urgently requested to attend
the meeting Tuesday,
March 6, 1961
j Officers will be elected for
the incoming year.
LOU VEERMAN
Agent
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SAILING FROM SEATTLE
March 15, 1961
MS TATALINA
Seward (Mail Only), Womens Bay.
Kodiak, Port Williams, Seldovia, Homer,
Yakutat.
2nd. Class G. T. Gallagher, and
Aviation fclectronicsman 3rd. Class
C. J. Newmes.
The awards to Lt. Seaman, co
pilot, and to the men of the first
cited mission were made in recog
nition of a particularly hazardous
medical air evacuation of a 2%
pound premature baby and its ser
iously ill mother from the village
of Kaguyak, Alaska, on 22 May,
1960.
Also aboard the plane was Hos
pital Corpman 2nd. Class S. L. Mc
Gary, USN, attached to the Kodiak
Naval Station hospital.
LCDR D. R. Vaughn, pilot of the
aircraft, was transferred recently,
and will receive his letter of com
mendation from the Commandant
at his new duty station.
In his letter of appreciation to
LCDR Stanton, CDR Richmond
noted with pleasure your partici
pation as pilot of a Coast Guard air
craft on a SAR flight to Akutan,
Alaska on 24 October, 1960. This
flight was dispatched to evacuate
a seriously burned boy from this
remote village on Akutan Island.
In spite of heavy turbulence and
adverse weather conditions enroute
to and at the destination, the flight
was successfully completed. Let
ters to co-pilot Lt. Marsh, and to
the crew members, expressed ap
preciation for their assistance to
the mission. Dr. Pierre Sleightman,
Lt (MC) USNR, and Hospital Cor
man 2nd. Class J. N. Banks, accom
panied the flight to care for the in
jured boy.
Five men were promoted, ad
vancing to the rates indicated: Ra
dioman 1st. Class, C. D. Rainwater;
Aviation Machinist’s Mates 1st.
Class M. D. P. Bethel and R. T.
Satterlee; Aviation Machinist’s
Mate 2nd. Class R. W. Wilmoth;
and Aviation Electronic Technician
3rd. Class K. F. Sandahl.
New Barber At
Old Location
Robert Shumacher, barber at the
Ship’s Barbershop for the past sev
eral years has recently purchased
the business of Brian Thorsheim
on the corner of Main and Mill Bay
Road. Thorsheim recently left to
take up residence in the South 48.
The new barber shop is now
known as the Kodiak Barber
Service.
State Control Watched By Skeptics
ADFG Made Up Of Alaskan Residents
ALASKAN FISHERIES—PART 3
(Continued from Last Week)
By Miriam J. Angell
As Alaska prepared to assume
responsibility for her fish and
game, that is, all but the animals
contained in Federal refuges and
National parks and monuments,
the press, watching from the smug
advantage of long established
states, showed misgivings. Politics
and economics had slowed the
move to home control but when
the move became iminent, maga
zines and newspapers used less
than encouraging words in won
dering how the new state would or
could manage her own resources.
Roy A. Rickey, Regional Super
visor of the Westward Region,
smiled wryly and said, “I can show
you newspaper clippings from the
late 1950’s that say, ‘What’s going
to happen when these knotheads
take over the fisheries?’ At the
risk of being immodest, we were
congratulated by all these people
and by the fishermen and packers
at the end of the first year of man
agement. As to any particular
change at first? we had to do the
job instead of just talking about
it; that was the main thing. There
are many, many things you don’t
know until you do the job your
self.”
The annual report of the Alaska
Department of Fish and Game for
1958 states, “One of the undeclared
reasons for Alaska’s Territorial
Legislature establishing this de
partment (in 1949) was to have
ready an Alaskan agency capable
of assuming administration of
Alaska’s fisheries from the Fish
and Wildlife Service in event of
statehood.” From the time of its
creation the Department sought
and employed men with valuable
biological education and experi
ence, men who would want to make
their careers and homes in Alaska.
With several or more years in the
Department these same men were
ready to take on the responsibili
ties inherent in State control when
it became fact on January first,
1960.
Roy Rickey was one, Robert J.
Simon, another, and Guy C. Powell,
yet another. Mr. Simon is Area
Management Biologist for the Ko
diak area; Mr. Powell is a Shell
fish Research Biologist in Kodiak.
On one occasion, between tele
phone calls, radio messages on the
fishing boat band, and frequent
other interruptions, they talked
about their business, and a little
about themselves and their fami
lies.
All three men agreed that be
yond the associations with Alaska
in college through their research,
or knowing people who were com
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