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KODIAK, ALASKA, MARCH 28, 1959 PRICE 10 CENTS
A LOOK AT JUNEAU
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Sixty-one Days of Sessions So Far;
Appropriations Bill Expected Soon
JUNEAU (*).—'The first State
Legislature moved into an un
official overtime session Friday
with serious budget problems
growing more critical.
Under statehood there is no
constitutional limit on the length
of the session.
The Democratic controlled legis
lature, past the 60 day adjourn
ment mark Thursday, is still pin*
ning its hopes for successful
launching of the new state on a
balanced budget and no new taxes.
To accomplish that, it appears
expenditures will be trimmed
back at least $500,000 under the
26% million proposed by Acting
€ov. Hugh Wade.
The half million cutback was
made necessary by the Federal
order closing Brisol Bay to fish
ing this year. The closure means
a loss this year of some $360,000
in raw fish taxes, an additional
$100 ,000 through related income
taxes, gear levies and license fees,
and an unknown drop in tobac
co taxes, gross business levies and
other revenue.
In. addition, tax revenue will
be lost also from closure of Prince
Williams Sound.
Meanwhile, a bill calling for an
other appropriation of more than
$76,000 to cover an additional 20
6ays of legislature was introduced
Thursday. It’s expected to get
prompt approval.
Still awaiting enactment in the
lemaining days of the session,
which is now expected to adjourn
between April 4 and April 15, are
budget, workmen’s compensation,
employment security, blue sky
legislation and a public service
commission.
GOVERNOR’S SALARY
A $25,000 annual salary has
‘'been made official for Alaska’s
governor. Acting Gov. Huge J.
Wade signed the salary into law
last week, and also approved his
‘ wd salary as secretary of state
at $18,000 a year.
HIGHWAY BILL OKd
The House this week passed a
hill to give the proposed commis
oeaer of public works control
aver allocation, of highway fund
money.
The vote was 17-10 with three
Members absent
The bill would eliminate a por
Imo of the present law which
Mtricts use of highway funds to
fhe judicial division where it is
telteeted.
Under the law, the Highway and
public Works'Board may adopt a
(-construction program and estab
lish priorities for its achievement
. as in a 1957 law.
The new bill also would bring
ferry systems under the highway
System.
B-GIRLS ELIMINATED
A bill to outlaw drink hustling
m bars by women sailed through
tibe Senate on a 19-1 vote, with
uafy Senate President William
Heltz (D-Unalakleet) voting
against it. A similar bill passed
' He House March 12
As approved, the B-girl bill
would exempt entertainers, hat
check check girls and other bona
fide employees of a bar from pro
visions of the proposed act.
BILL SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
HB48—Meekins. To p^e r m i t
state registration of automobiles
prior to shipment to Alaska by an
Alaska dealer.
HB8—Taylor. To provide a
party column primary ballot.
CS SB7. Judiciary Committee
substitute. To establish a state
Court system.
BILLS PASSED BY SENATE
Fischer and Taylor. To permit
waitresses to serve drinks in res
taurants licensed to sell alcoholic
beverages.
SB81. Owen and Coghill. To re
peal old section of Grazing Dis
trict Act.
SB22. Rules Committee, by request
of the Legislative Council. To
authorize the University of Alaska
to establish a marine biological
station.
BILLS INTRODUCED IN HOUSE
HB194. Local Government Com
mittee. To establish procedures
for adoption of charters by first
class cities.
HB198. Judiciary Committee, by
request of Hellenthal and Taylor.
To impose state income tax on
mail order houses, door-to-door
solicitors and express companies.
HB206. Local Government Com
mittee, by request. To authorize
political subdivisions to assess
penalty and interest charges on
unpaid sales taxes.
Council Reviews
City Wage Scale
Following a review of the wage
scale, now in effect between the
City and its employees, the City
Council left the schedule substan
tially the same as last year.
The position of sergeant was
established in the police depart
ment, making it an official rat
ing. John Boucher has had an
unofficial rating of sergeant for
-the past -two years.
The four patrolmen were given
a boost of $25 each per month.
This amount was in -the nature of
a bonus, and is made possible by
the abolition of the position of
dog-catcher. The police take oyer
the duties beginning April 1.
Ordinance Drafted
To Control Dances
An ordinance is under consider
ation by the City Council to con
trol dance hall operations in
Kodiak, especially those involving
public dances attended by minors.
Under the provisions of the or
dinance, dance hall licenses will
not be issued unless the operator
conforms to certain regulations.
They may be revoked when the
operator fails to comply with the
provisions of the ordinance.
Councilman Carl Huer agreed
with the ordinance in general as
read, and thought it was a “good
ordinance.” But he thought it
should contain a clause calling for
character references of operators,
similar to the one now in force
governing motor vehicle for hire
operators. This stipulation is to
be incorporated in the ordinance.
(Continued to page 10)
Kodiak P2V’s Spot Russians Fishing
Kodiak based Navy P2V bomb
ers spotted a large Russian fish
ing -fleet in the southeastern
Bering Sea earlier this week.
Rear Adm. Arnold McKechnie,
commandant of the 17th Naval
District stated his planes have
been tracking the Russians for
about two weeks.
MeKechnie’s report bore out a
statement in Washington Tuesday
by Adm. Arleigh Burke, chief of
naval operations, that the Navy is
maintaining a close watch on
movements of the Russians.
Wots of the P2V described the
fishing, fleet as appearing to be a
"regular, organized unit” engaged
in trawling for bottom fish. Pic
tures taken indicate a big refriger
ator ship and a fleet of trawlers.
The fleet is definitely fishing
boats, according to McKechnie.
Chuck Connelley, FWS Agent
here, stated the boats are on hali
but grounds.
The Russians were reported in
international waters, to which
they have legal entry, well east
of the 175th parallel not far from
the entrance to Alaska’s Bristol
Bay.
By treaty agreement, Japanese
fishing boats remain west of the
i
175th meridian. Russia is not a
signatory to the International
North Pacific Fisheries Conven
tion, however.
Fergus Hoffman, P-I business
and finicial editor, called the
Russian fishing invasion “its new
est attack in the economic cold
war” and said it may presage an
attempt to wrest away a U.S.
Canada fishery which yielded 2Vi
million pounds of halibut last
yw.
Clean-lip Survey
To Be First Step
With the calendar, if not the
weather, indicating that Spring is
here, Mayor Merrill Coon an
nounced today that prior to the
annual Spring Clean-up, to be held
sometime in April, a survey will
be made of the city by areas.
For each area a captain has been
appointed, and he will begin this
week determining the amount of
trash and loading schedules that
must be arranged so the results
of the clean-up can be hauled to
the garbage dump by the city as
in past years. If any sanitary or
health situations show up in the
survey they also will be reported
by the captain to the police or
health departments.
The captains as named by
Mayor Coon and their areas are
as follows:
Tom Gaillard—Aleutian Homes
•northwest of Brooklyn.
John Sautner—Both sides of
Mission road from Spruce Street
to city limits.
Howard Sloniger—From Spruce
on both sides to 6th Avenue.
William Unger—Tagura-Mission
road junction, all area south of
Mission road to 6th Avenue.
Archie Zehe—South of Mill Bay
and north of Mission between
Kashevaroff and 6th.
James Healey—South of Brook
lyn, north of Mill Bay, starting
at northeast corner of old school
yard to Mill Bay-Brooklyn junc
tion.
Lou Veerman—South of Mill
Bay, west of Kashevaroff to the
beach.
Jack Metzgar—North of Brook
lyn between Alaska Way and west
boundary of Aleutian Homes.
Frank Irick—North of SheUkof
between Alaska Way and city
limits.
Ray Martin—West of Alaska
Way and south of Shelikof to the
beach.
Albert Naughtpn—B e t w« e n
Alaska Way and Northwest fcoun
ary of old school yard, south of
Brooklyn and north of Mill Bay
road.
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King Crab Filming Now Completed;
Festival Shots Included In Movie
Filming of the king crab indus
try in this area has just been
completed by Amos Berg, head of
the education and information
division of the Alaska Department
of Fish and Game.
Berg spent a month in the fish
ing areas and returned to Juneau
Thursday. The movie, which is in
color and complete with sound, is
Chamber of Commerce sponsored,
together with other donors. He
will begin viewing the film and
prepare the movie. Sound effects
will be done in Hollywood.
Berg plans to return to Kodiak
in three weeks for the filming of
the King Crab Festival. A third
trip may be necessary to include
later scenes of Kodiak. The film
when made into a moviej wiM run
25 minutes.
Roy Rickey and Guy Powell, De
partment biologists stationed in
Kodiak are serving as technical
directors for the film. Rickey con
ceived the idea of the movie and
actively served as chairman of the
fund raising committee.
The movie will have wide dis
tribution throughout the United
States. Sequence will be as fol
lows: A prologue of Kodiak as a
picturesque historical fishing cen
ter, harvesting the king crab, bio
logical research, processing, and
the gala festival as the fishing
season ends. Originally the movie
was not made to include the king
crab festival, but after a recent
conference between Berg, O. K.
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Along The
Waterfront I
Kodiak’s Crab
Boat Romances
The LEADING LADY, SUSIE'
Q., met THE STRANGER. He took
her dancing at the ELDORADO
until SUNRISE. Then he took
SUSIE Q. for a VENTURE on the
DEEP SEA. They journeyed to
the CAPE XJGANIK. There, THE;
STRANGER met LINDA MAE. He 1
then told the LEADING LADY,:
SUSIE Q. that he had business at
AFOGNAK, this was the DECliP-J
TION. He was leaving with LIN^
DA MAE to go to Cape CHINIAK
SUSIE Q. was left on CAPE j
UGANIK. !
The LEADING LADY met the
COPPER PRINCE, skipper of the
COMET on CAPE UGANIK. He
was on CAPE UGANIK visiting
his uncle the KINGFISH, his aunt
RUTH L. and his sister JUDY K.
The COPPER PRINCE took SU
SIE Q., the LEADING LADY to
the TOTEM for a BARRACUDA *
dinner. He fell in love with SU
SE Q., and they were married.
Then he took her for a honeymoon
to JUNO on his boat the COMET.
The last that was heard of the
STRANGER, he had left LINDA
MAE, and was romancing MISS’
ARCTIC on CAPE HORN. LINDA
MAE had gpne WESTERN to
ADAK with ORANIOUS, to see.
her cousin SUE, and uncle SKIP
PY.
—Jackie Luquei
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CRABS KEEP COMING
Usually everything stops when
there is romancing in the air, bun
theSe crab boat skippers seem tel
be practical men, and the crabs
have been poming in as fast as the!
weather permits.
The author of the above ‘‘lovo
story” labels herself as the “Ko
diak Island Housewife.”
She is no novice to the field
writing, having written article^
which have appeared in the*Alas4
ka Sportsman, and other publicaj
tions. The Luques, Jackie and Ben)
live on the southern, or treeless i
end of KodiakMore speci
fically in Moser Bay.
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SUBCOMMITTEE HEARINGS
AT JUNEAU NEXT WEEK
ON SALMON IMPORT BAN
Juneau tA.—Much of next weeks
activity will center or. the April
1-2 bearing before Sen. Bartlett’s
Senate subcommittee on the bill
•to ban impart of Japanese canned
salmon.
Acting Gov. Wade is expected
to call a number of Alaska. Wit
nesses, mostly from the Bristol
Bay area.
Bristol Bay problems developed
a new twist earlier this week af
ter a Navy confirmation that the
Russian fishing fleet is now in
that area. Acting Gov. Wade
called for an international agree
ment with Russia, Japan, Canada
and the U.S. to preserve fishery
resources of the North Pacific and
Bering Sea area. L