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VOL. 21, NO. 83 KODIAK, ALASKA, SEPTEMBER 1, 1961 PRICE TEN CENTS
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Record Enrollment This Year Seen J?h°o1 Fu"ds. World Shocked, China Favors
As 893 Enroll In City Schools Monday Says Dr. Norby Russian Lifting Of Nuclear Test Ban
Enrollment of eight-hundred and
ninty-three in the Kodiak schools
on Monday was the highest, in the
history of the local schools.
Ivor A. Schott, superintendent of
schools, is making the announce
ment stated this was a gain of 60
over last year’s count at the end
of the first week of school. Fifty
more are expected to enroll, he
said, on Sept. 5 when school ses
sions begin.
The downtown school building
will have to be utilized again this
year, at least in part. Four class
rooms in the school will be oc
cupied. One first, one third, one
fourth, and one fifth-sixth grade
will be placed in that building.
Mrs. Burnham, Mrs. Hamann,
Miss Merkel and Miss Schrottke
will teach these classes. Only those
pupils living in the vicinity of the
downtown building will attend
classes there.
A breakdown of enrollment fig
ures follows: kindergarten, 90;
grade one, 89; grade two, 65; grade
three, 75; grade four, 75; grade
five, 65; grade six, 68; grade seven,
73; grade eight, 64; grade nine, 68;
grade ten, 67; grade eleven, 52;
grade twelve, 42.
Of the 229 high school students,
69 live on the Navy Base and will
ride buses to school.
The Senior class this year rep
resents the largest graduating
class in ths history of the school.
The high school staff consists of
Claraellen Dawson, principal; Ruth
Belcher, guidance and librarian;
Thomas Jones, Helen Pruessing,
Nancy Thomas, and Jack McFar
land, English and Modern Lan
guages; Alfred Craig and William
Rodda, Social Science; Shirley De
Lozier, Deward Halsey and Hugh
Smith, Mathematics; William Greg
ory, Deward Halsey and Evelyn
Knudson, Science; Hugh Smith and
George Wick, Industrial arts; Joe
Floyd and Evelyn Knudson, Phys
ical Education; Eugene Schulz,
Music; Merle Garrett, Home Eco
nomics; Louise Walker and Shirley
DeLozier, Commerce.
Members of the elementary
school staff are Betty Springhill,
principal; Mary Cornelius and
Helen Schott, kindergarten; Verna
McFarland, Patrica Merkel and
Gladene Stewart, grade one; Edith
Fearn, Virginia Siegle and Emma
Cavitt, Bertha Hamann and Gertie
Otness, grade four; Ruth Breck
berg and Mildred Rexstrew, grade
five; Donald Blaisdell, Lois Burn
ham and Ona Ramsey, grade six;
Guyneth Cessna, Peter Resoff,
Bank Robber Now
Kidnap Suspect
Tulsa, Okla. UPi—A kidnapping
charge was filed here Thursday
against a man convicted of the
first bank robbery in Alaska after
the territory became a state.
Richard Alvin Woodring, 38, is
accused of abducting his former
wife, Mary Woodring, at a Tulsa
parking lot Tuesday and forcing
her at gunpoint to drive him to
Grove, Okla.
Woodring was convicted in June,
1960 of robbing a Fairbanks, Alas
ka, bank of $14,014.
grade seven; Connie Dandeneau
and Curtis Saxton, grade eight; and
Thomas Jones, French; George
Wick, Industrial Arts; Merle Gar
rett, Home Economics. Marion
Lynch is the school nurse and
remedial teacher.
Cushings Here
For 2 Month Stay
Martha and John Cushing, own
ers of the Kodiak Telephone Com
pany, arrived Monday for an indef
inite stay. They were accompanied
by their two daughters, Cheri and
Jay-Jay.
The Cushings have spent a busy
summer attending conventions.
They went to the California Tele
phone Association convention held
in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 28 to
July 1. Mrs. Cushing was a speaker
at the convention. She is president
of the Alaska Telephone Associa
tion.
Mrs. Cushing remained in Hono
lulu for six weeks with her two
daughters, while her husband re
turned to the mainland, continuing
on to Miami, Florida, where he at
tended the B. P. O. Elks convention
in July. He was chairman of the
Alaska Elks attending.
Returning to Sitka, the Cushings
remained there until the Alaska
Telephone Association convention
held in Palmer, Alaska, August
21-23. Following the convention,
the Cushings joined a party of 44
who entrained to Fairbanks, re
maining there for two days. On
August 26, the group flew to Bar
row, Kotzebue and Nome. They at
tended cut-over ceremonies for
Nome’s new dial telephone system.
The Cushings expect to remain
here for the next two months.
Kodiak Telephone
To Add Equipment
An expansion program will oe
started by the Kodiak Telephone
Company within the next two
weeks, according to an announce
ment by John Cushing, president
of the company, who is here now.
An additional 200 lines are
planned for the local system, and
an additional 100 numbers. Two in
stallers from the Stromberg-Carl
son Co. of Rochester, New York
are due to arrive after Labor Day.
It is estimated that the job will
take about two weeks.
The pew equipment will make
available additional service, and
also speed up the handling of calls.
Cushing stated that the company
believes in the future of Kodiak.
“We are willing to make the addi
tional investment because of that
belief,” he stated.
Martha Cushing, secretary-treas
urer of the company, is also here.
Working with the Stromberg-Carl
son Company men will be R. J.
Cushing, general manager of the
Sitka Telephone Company, who is
here now.
JUlNEAU (A5) — Alaska’s incor
porated school districts were ad
vised July 29 how much state aid
they would receive during the 1961
62 school year, Dr. Theo J. Norby,
education commissioner, has stated.
Norby said the prorated amount
each school district would receive
in state aid was mailed at the same
time the approved state budgets
were mailed to the incorporated
districts.
The approved budget covers all
allowable state aid under statute
and regulation. Payment of the to
tal amount of aid provided for in
the approved budget is dependent
on the availablility of funds.
Norby said the approved budget
for the 29 incorporated school dis
tricts totaled $10,596,299.27. The
districts had asked for state aid
amounting to $10,691,207.08.
The amount of state funds act
ually available, however, was only
$9,640,615.
Norby said the amount of state
aid available to the incorporated
districts during 1961-1962 had no
relation to the teacher salary in
crease voted by the 1961 Legisla
ture.
New Teachers
At Island Schools
Most of the Kodiak Island vil
lage schools will have new teachers
this year, according to an announce
ment by the Department of Educa
tion. One village, Alitak, has no
teacher listed.
Robert P. Hayes returns as head
teacher at Afognak. His wife, Kath
leen also returns. The sohool will
have one new teacher, Mrs. Jac
quette M. Stout, who transferred
from Alexnagik, Alaska.
Fred W. Sproul, head teacher,
and Mrs. Elizabeth Sproul return
to Karluk for another year. They
are the only two listed. At Larsen
Bay, Meredith L. Johnson is the
teacher-in-charge. Mrs. Marian
Howe taught last year.
Two new teachers, Mrs. Adelle
Brown, as head teacher, and Mrs.
Katharine C. George, are at Old
Harbor this year. At Ouzinkie, new
teachers are Van Oren Chaney,
head teacher, and Alice S. Chaney.
At Port Wakefield’s new school,
Mrs. Kathryn M. Johnson replaces
Miss King. At Woody Island, Mrs.
Bonnie E. Conner is the teacher
in-charge. She transferred from
Ouzinkie.
Teachers listed for the Alaska
Peninsula and Aleutian Chain are
as follows: Akutan, Ricel L. and
Mrs. Patricia Keith; Belkofski,
Quentin R. Avey; Chignik, Guil
bert G. Thompson; Chignik Lagoon,
Eugene E. Floeger; Cold Bay, Mrs.
Nancy P. Rowland; Pauloff Harbor,
Fred R. Soth; Perryvillc, Fremont
B. and Mrs. Harriet L. Johnson;
Sand Point, Thomas C. Davis, Mrs.
Thalah R. Davis and Arthur H.
Hamilton; and Squaw Harbor, Wil
burta K. McGlashan.
These are state-operated-schools
and are situated outside of incor
porated cities. There are 114
schools in Alaska operated by the
State, eight of which are on mili
tary bases. No information was sup
plied for the Naval Station school.
By The Associated Press
The Soviet Union’s decision to re
sume the testing of nuclear weap
ons shocked unallied countries as
well as the West but received firm
backing from Communist China.
Premier Khrushchev’s Peiping
ally, often at odds with him on de
tails of Communist philosophy,
quickly took up his line that the re
sumption of testing is necessary
in a world threatened with war. It
blamed “persistent machinations
of the western powers to obstruct
and sabotage an agreement on gen
eral disarmament.”
Wednesday night the Soviet gov
ernment, in a 6,000-word statement,
ended negotiations and announced
it was going ahead with the testing.
More than that, Khrushchev told
his scientists to proceed to try out
new weapons ranging up to bombs
with a force of 100 million tons of
TNT. That is far beyond anything
in the American arsenal and 5,000
times more powerful than the bomb
the United States used against
Hiroshima in 1945.
It seems most probable that the
United States now will resume test
ing too. President Kennedy de
Surcharge Lifted
On Japan Cargo
A 20 per cent surcharge on ocean
freight shipments from Japan to
Alaska has been suspended by
shipping lines, according to word
from Gov. William A. Egan and
Sen. Earnest Gruening.
The Trans-Pacific Freight Con
ference, a rate-setting organization
of 26 ocean carriers, had dropped
the penalizing rate on Alaska
bound cargo. Rates will be the same
as for other Pacific Coast ports,
they said.
nounced the Soviet action as carry
ing the threat of a thermonuclear
holocaust. He said the United
States must decide what its own na
tional interests require. He set up
emergency conferences with con
gressional leaders as well as his
diplomatic and military leaders.
BELGRADE (A5)—The Soviet de
cision to resume nuclear tests blew
a chill wind through the conference
of 24 nonaligned nations as it as
sembled yesterday.
There were indications, however,
that the Kremlin action might pro
voke the uncommitted countries
into new and stronger demands for
a world curb on nuclear arma
ments.
Some officials, Yugoslavs among
them, suggested the drastic Rus
sian announcement might force the
conference nations to “take sides
against our will” in the world
power struggle.
Stockards Leave
For Retirement
Two long-time residents of the
Naval Station, Coy (Doc) and
Helen Stockard, left Kodiak today.
Mr. Stockard first came to Kodiak
in 1942 as a civilian employee of
the Army, later transferred to the
Navy, in the Real Estate Division.
Mrs. Stockard joined her hus
band here in 1947, and they have
lived on the Naval Station since
that time.
Mr. Stockard has recently retired
and the couple plan to live in Sea
side, Oregon, where they pur
chased a home last year.
Mrs. Stockard is a past president
of the Kodiak Grandmothers Club
and has been active in the Civilian
Women’s Club.
Mirrored Reflections
By SIG DIGREE
If we don’t learn anything else
from Don Bevan’s remarks which
appear elsewhere in this issue of
the Mirror, it is easily seen that
scientists in both countries are
out for the same end results—to
increase the productivity of the
sea, to seek a more efficient means
of utilizing the resources of the sea,
and to determine the best methods
of conserving these resources.
The Russians are aiming at a
tremendous expansion in their fish
eries, however, according to Bevan.
The reason for this is largely be
cause they need the fish for their
diet; because fish serves as a lever
in world trade; and also to stop im
portation into their country of fish
products as much as possible—all
commendable objectives.
Strangely enough, the consumer
in Russia counts for little as fisher
ies go, whereas in the U.S. the con
sumer is everything. His demand
controls supply, controls prices,
the overall effort.
Bevan calls the Russian buyer
the “neglected consumer.” He is
able to buy only when the State has
a surplus—for export or other pr
poses. But he is promised that
sometime in the future things will
be different. In the meantime,
Bevan says “the Russians not only
fail to meet the consumer’s needs,
but seem to be making a deliberate
attempt to make shopping difficult.
A sellers’ market is constantly
maintained; possibly this is a gov
ernment policy, or it may be caused
by difficulties in distribution.”
Dr. Bevan’s next words are sig
nificant: “Being a sellers’ market,
the producer is not required to pro
duce a first-class product that is
packaged and prepared according
to the consumer’s demands. In fact
the consumer has no demands . . .
The fact that what he is getting
now is better than what he was get
ting before contributes to keeping
him satisfied with goods of low
standard.”
Of course, fish isn’t the only com
modity that comes high in Soviet
Russia. Many of you have read the
remarks of Capt. Jorge Navarro, a
Cuban sea captain, who has sought
refuge in the U.S. He said his ship
delivered Cuban sugar to Russia.
He said the Soviet government
buys sugar at the equivalent of 2.5
cents a pound in Havana. It is sold
at prices in excess of 40 cents per
pound to the Soviet people.
In the Baltic, the price of a pair
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