Parachutists Up In The Air Hext Week
Parachutists fluttering through
the sky will again be the order of
the day during the King Crab
Festival next week, as the Nation
al Guard group perform for the
Festival crowds both Friday and
Saturday.
The group, members of the Na
tional Guard Sports Parachute
Club of Anchorage, will arrivve
here for jumps Friday morning
as well as noon Saturday. There
will be twelve members in the
party, most of them taking part
in the various jumps that will pro
vide chills and thrills to the
spectators.
Officials staging the events em
phasize, however, jumping is con
tingent on “weather permitting.”
Sgt. Archie Zehe. commanding
officer of the local ACS office,
who is in chare of arrangements
A Reminder To
Crab Fishermen
A $50 prize is being offered for
the largest crab and an additional
$50 for the heaviest.
Judging will take place on the
Midway at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Big crab, especially heavy ones
are scarce at this time of the
year, but there have been some
big ones brought in lately. The
big one will net the lucky fisher
man at least $50 and possibly
$100, as they could be one and
the same crab.
The crab shaking contest, al
ways a popular event, will be held
on the Midway at 2 p.m.
here, stated that a number of
boats are needed in the channel
adjacent to the small boat harbor,
in the event a quick rescue will
have to be effected of a parachut-j
ist who lands in the water. Boat;
owners are urged to contact him|
offering their services.
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Canadian Navy
To Visit Kodiak
The HMCS ST. LAURENT, an
escort vessel of the Canadian navy
is scheduled to visit Kodiak this
weekend for logistics and crew’s
recreation.
The ship, with a complement 0
14 officers and 200 men, will be
berthed at Nyman’s peninsula on
the naval station.
Public visiting will be permitted
between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m., Sat
urday and Sunday. Children un
der 10 years of age must be ac
commpanied by an adult. There
will be no cameras or photographs
allowed aboard the vessel.
Next week, the U.S. Navy sea
plane tender, USS CURRITUCK,
wi'l arrive at the naval station for
opemtions in Alaskan waters.
Accompanying the CURRITUCK
to Alaska will be planes and per
sonnel of Patrol Squadron 47.
Their expected arrival is Wednes
day, May 2.
MENACE
People who ignore traffic safety
rules are always on the verge of a
serious smashup.
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Local Skipper Milton Pagano of Crab
Boat “Sue” Is Youthful Fishing Vet
By Karl Armstrong
Interviewing King Crab boat
skippers tends to indicate that
such boat masters fall generally
into two categories—Outside “old
timers” who are veterans of the
halibut, codfish, and herring fleets
which operated out of Stateside
fishing ports, and Local “young
sters” (relatively speaking) who
despite their youthfulness, are vet
erans of salmon fishing and oper
ated out of Alaskan fishing ports
(usually their home town).
One of the perhaps better-known
(among Kodiak residents) of the
latter category is 32-year old Mil
ton Pagano, skipper-owner of the
boat Sue.
Having fished for over eleven
years and owned and operated his
own boat for the past seven years,
Skipper Pagano was born right
here in Kodiak. He attended Ko
diak schools until he was old
enough to attend high school at
Eklutna where he graduated in
1947.
Prior to becoming engaged in
the King Crab fishery, Skipper Pa
gano almost exclusively devoted
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his fishing efforts to the annual
quest for salmon in these waters.
For a number of years he contin
ued to put aside his crab pots and
gear to fish salmon. However in
the past two years, Skipper Paga
no has foregone the salmon fish
ery and kept his Sue in the almost
year-round King Crab game which
he regards as “more reliable.”
The master of the Sue, like oth
er fisherman, is properly appreci
ative of the small boat harbor but
adds his voice to those who point
out the “pressing need for more
facilities.”
“It is apparent that there is a
need for more than just one grid
in the small boat harbor,” said
Pagano.
And although his 40-foot (over
all) Sue, which has an 11-foot
beam and packs from 11,000 to 12,
000 pounds of crab In her hold,
would not be classified as one of
the “big” crab boats, Skipper Pa
gano, undoubtedly with an eye to
the future, agrees that “there
shouuld be grid facilities for the
larger vessels in the King Crab
fishery.”
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"At any rate it is becoming ob
vious to every fisherman that one
grid just is not sufficient to han
dle the increasing number of fish
ing boats here,’ he added.
Pagano operates his Sue with
the aid of one crewman—Allen
Chernoff, with whom he attended
school here, and who, like himself,
is the son of a local pioneer fam
ily*
Skipper Pagano has two older
brothers who have fished here in
years past. One brother, Frank,
is an officer on the Kodiak Police
Force and the eldest, Edward, is
a Captain in the National Guard
and presently is full-time aide to
the Alaska Adjutant General in
the Juneau headquarters.
Nature’s
gift to
us assures
you consistent
refreshment
pleasure
whenever you
enjoy Olympia.
"It's the Water ’