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VOL. 23, NO. 50__KODIAK, ALASKA, NOVEMBER 29, 1963 PRICE TEN CENTS
Local High School Students Urged to
Enter Elks Youth Leadership Contest
High school students of the Ko
diak area have 18 days (until Dec.
16) to enter their applications for
the annual Youth Leadership Con
test in which they could win as
much as $1300, according to Archie
Zehe, State Chairman of the Elks
Youth Activities Committee.
Each year the Elks Lodge spon
sors the contest from the local
communities where the winning
boy and girl each win $100 U.S.
Savings Bonds on up to the state
and national levels, Zehe said.
“The contest is open to all high
school students who will not have
reached their 19th birthday by
July 1, 1964,” he stated.
"We strongly urge those inter
ested to check with Ruth Belcher,
career counselor at the high school,
who has the application forms.
These must be back in her hands
by Dec. 16th,” he pointed out.
Judges for the local contest will
be selected from local leader^ The
winning boy and girl will automat
ically be entered in the state level
where winners will receive anoth
er $100 U.S. Savings Bond, plus ar.
additional $100 bond from the
Grand Lodge. The two state win
ners are then entered in the na
tional contest where additional
$1,000 bonds can be won.
The outstanding boy and girl
will be judged upon leadership,
citizenship, appreciation, perser
venance, resourcefulness and sense
of honor, neatness and arrange
ment of application and compliance
with instructions given on the ap
plication form, Zehe said.
Group Planning
$544,000 24-Unit
Apartment Here
Word reached Kodiak this week
tfi plans of a group to construct a
$544,000 apartment building on the
Dumas property located along the
waterfront near thfe old Paul Walk
off home.
According to reports, the struc
ture would contain 24, 4 V4-room
apartments. The property is jointly
owned by several Kodiak residents.
Involved in the enterprise are An
chorage architect and former may
or Maynard Taylor and Stanley J.
McCutcheon, prominent Anchorage
attorney.
Kodiak Mapmakers
Literally "putting Kodiak on the map," is what the three Kodiak
lads above have been doing in their Industrial Arts Class at Kodiak,
Rich School, according to their instructor, Herb Carpenter, left
Standing behind one of their 4* x 5’ fibreglass maps of Kodiak Island
are Kenny Lester, Charlie Magnusen and James Sholl. All are
Juniors The boys worked six weeks perfecting the master mold
from which they will be able to produce one map a day now. The
raised topographical maps are handpainted in seven colors by the
hovs One of the maps was requested by Governor William Egan
tor display in his office. Others are being made for display aboard
all four vessels of the Marine Highway system, travel agency offices,
airline terminals and offices, and one will be displayed In the Alaska
Fxhibit at the New York World’s Fair. Various local business
houses have placed orders for the maps which can be obtained for
$80. Proceeds are used to obtain materials and supplies for the In
dustrial Arts classes.
Bob Hubbard Purchases 133-Acre
Clarke Homestead for Development
Purchase of the 133-acre Clarke
Homestead from the Erskine Estate
was revealed today by Bob Hub
bard, Anchorage builder.
Hubbard, who is currently build
ing the Kodiak Commercial de
partment store structure and plans
to start construction of the four
story ultra-modern Shelikof Hotel
here, advised the Mirror this morn
ing that he and two Anchorage in
vestors, John Fray and Glenn
Gould, had successfully completed
negotiations for purchase of the
Clark Homestead property much
of which rings Big Lake.
Hubbard said that their plans
for developing the property would
be coordinated with the develop
ment and expansion of Kodiak. He
advised he would be in Kodiak next
week and is contemplating the pos
sibility of building his home here
now.
“1 think perhaps it might be
more appropriate now to refer to
me as a ‘Kodiak builder’,” Hub
bard told the Mirror.
Purchase price of the acreage
was not revealed.
Jap & Red Fleets
Departing, But to
Return Here Soon
Foreign fishing fleets have large
ly departed from our Alaska fish
ing grounds according to a report
printed in the Oot. 28 issue of the
“Pink Sheet”. (U.S. Market News
Service).
But they will return, the arti
cle stated.
Following is the article:
“With the onset of autumn Rus
sian and Japanese fishing vessels
have curtailed their fishing activ
ities in waters off Alaska, accord
ing to the Regional Director of the
U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fish
eries at Juneau. From a high of
more than 400 Russian and Japa
nese vessels engaged in the fish
eries during July, during the past
few weeks foreign fleet strengths
have dwindled to about 45 6hips.
Shrimp fishing north and west
of the Pribilof Islands is the sole
remaining Japanese fishery in the
eastern Bering Sea. Nearly 200
other vessels which were harvest
ing king crab, whales, Pacific ocean
perch, cod, and flatfishes have re
turned to their Japanese bases.
Japanese operations in the Gulf of
Alaska are now restricted ttf two
stern ranvp factory trawlers fish
ing off southeast Kodiak Island.
These trawlers are intermittently
serviced by various types of sup
port vessels. Recent observations
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“La Dolce Vita”
Show Tonight
The first of a series of four for
eign films to be shown here is
scheduled for this evening. An Ital
ian film, it is entitled “La Dolce
Vita.’
The showing will be at the St.
James Episcopal church and will
begin at 8 p.m.
The movie has received very fav
orable reviews throughout the
country and has received acco
lades from Time and Newsweek
magazines.
“CRY” MEETING
Anyone interested in helping to
promote the production of “The
Cry of The Wild Ram’ is urged to
(attend a special meeting to be held
Dec. 5th at Dr. Bob Johnson's
home. At this meeting will be elect
ed the directors of a non-profit
corporation which will handle the
production.
Mike Smith Lost at Sea As Raging
Gale Capsizes Crab Fisher Audrey V
Kodiak’s fierce, turbulent, win
ter waters have claimed their first
fisherman for this season.
Mike MacRay-Smith, crewman
aboard the M/V Audrey V, lost his
life last Sunday evening during a
raging storm in which the vessel
capsized while under tow by the
Coaist Guard Cutter Bittersweet.
Skipper Jerry Williams was pull
ed nearly dead from the sea after
being in the water an estimated 22
minutes.
Smith, 28 years old, was clinging
to a cluster of large king crab pot
buoys when a huge sea swept him
from the vicinity of the capsized
42-foot vessel and out of sight of
Williams who managed to maintain
a hold on the slowly sinking ship.
The Bittersweet located the
stricken vessel with searchlights
and two scuba divers entered the
icy waters to attempt to assist Wil
liams who finally had to give up
his hold on the stricken Audrey V
and struck out to swim through 30
to 35 foot seas to the side of the
cutter. With assistance from the
two scuba divers he managed to
reach the Jacobs ladder and was
pulled, numbed and totally speech
less, aboard the cutter where im
mediate treatment for severe ex
posure and shock were adminis
tered successfully.
Smith was never located after be
ing swept from the vessel and is
presumed drowned. He came to Ko
diak from Bellingham and is known
to be survived by a three-year old
daughter, and his mother, Mrs. E.
Gnadt of Nooksack, Wash.
The Bittersweet went to the as
sistance of the Audrey V after
word was relayed to the Coast
Guard by the Sea Quail that the
Audrey V had a fouled line in her
prop and was powerless. The cut
ter took them under tow off Cape
Chiniak and due to the force and
direction of the storm was bringing
them in by going around Long Is
land. The fishing vessel capsized
during an attempt to make a 180
degree turn in the vicinity of Wil
liams Reef. The tow line jumped
out of the bow chocks as the small
er vessel lay broadside to the storn
swept 35 foot high seas and the
combined pull of the tow and a
heavy sea turned the Audrey V on
her side.
Williams is the son of Mrs. Bar
bara Williams of Kodiak.
$750,000 Hotel
Given Go-Ahead
By Go I
The Kodiak city council by unan
imous vote approved the develop
ment of an area in the small boat
harbor for a year-round tourist re
sort hotel facility.
Bids will be called for city
owned tidelands needed to provide
parking area and access to the pro
posed 60-room hotel to be built on
the breakwater.
Earl Hillstrand, Anchorage bus
inessman has planned the unique
structure. Because of his pioneer
ing the project, the council sug
gested that preference be given to
Hillstrand in every possible way.
By law city owned tidelands must
be offered for bid. Council action :
further decreed that the success-,
ful bidder on the land proposed ;
for the hotel be required to put
up $50,000 cash performance bond.
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Varsity Seniors
The six Seniors on the KHS varsity who saw action last weekend
when the Bears tangled with the West Anchorage Eagles are pictured
above. Standing (1 to r): Stan Sargent, Wayne Kozak, Mike Nixon;
kneeling are Larry Deitzler, Ron Franklin (captain) and Aloys
Kopun. Not pictured here but on the starting five Is Junior Jim
Fleming.