Kodiak Sells To
“Around
The Ball Park”
By Dave Fremming
Ed. Note: The Kodiak Mirror
wishes to publicly express it’s ap
preciation to Dave Fremming who
has devoted his time and effort in
providing us with a column on the
Little League each week. This
week’s “Around the Ball Park” col
umn will be Dave’s last . . . until
next season we trust.
Lititle League wound itself up
this week with the Braves taking
the honors for first place team.
Krafts and the Outdoorsmen are
in a second place tie with the Red
Sox and the Alaska Ice and Storage
in a third place tie.
The Elks came on strong at the
end of the season with another
win, this time against the Red Sox
by a score of 13 to 11. The Braves
beat Kraft’s by a score of 17 to 13.
Last Friday the Red Sox lost to the
Kraft’s gang. The score there was
15 to 13. I still haven’t been able
to get the score on this one but
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Along
The
Waterfront
By Karl Armstrong
Main street is beginning to look
a bit better, what with several
business houses sprucing their
fronts up. During the past week we
note that Island Electronics and
Ship’s Tavern have indicated a
sense of civic pride by repainting.
Look’s real great. We suggest that
other business men step outside
and take a look at their places and
try to visualize things as a tourist
does. Oour good friends Charlie
Miller and Howie Hunter, who we
talked with as they stood on lad
ders and slapped paint on the Ko
diak Apartments building, are real
eager to see everyone take advant
age of “Kodiaks housepainting sea
son . . . which is right now.”
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ADF&G’s Protection Officer
Ovid McKinley is putting together
an album of photos of the various
types of foreign fishing vessels
operating in Alaskan waters. This
will enable anyone spotting a ves
sel to make an identification as to
the type, size and nationality of
such vessels.
&
Alaska visitors to Washington
last week included State Senator
A1 Owen and Lowell Wakefield ac
cording to Senator Bob Bartlett’s
weekly newsletter.
t
Senator Bartlett’s bill to estab
lish a comprehesive fishery re
search and development program
to restore the domestic fisheries
was approved by the Senate last
week. It would authorize the In
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J
CAVIAR CARRIER — Here to pick up the very first commercial
shipment of caviar ever manufactured in Alaska is the Japanese
freighter BANSHU MARU NO. 32. The above photo was taken as she
moored Thursday morning alongside Alaska Ice & Storage at whose
plant the salmon roe cavier is processed by an estimated 25 local
people under the tchnical supervision of Mr. K. Osawa, one of the top
three caviar manufacturing experts in Japan. (The above photo was
made possible by the cooperation of 9-year old Richard Sanford and
15 - year old Alvin Amason who took our photographer out in their
skiff.)
Pete Deveau Will Run For Mayor,
Naughton “Not Qualified” Says City
Before departing Tuesday for
Anchorage to attend the first meet
ing of the Alaska Centennial Com
mission, Pete Deveau advised the
Mirror that he would be a candi
date for mayor of Kodiak in the
fall elections.
He did not elaborate further
but in an earlier statement indicat
ing interest in the city elections
emphasizing that his main interest
was in “getting Kodiak prepared
for the influx of tourists that can
be expected when the ferryboat
begins operating next year.”
Deveau is the first potential can
didate to definitely declare an in
tention to run for mayor although
Wally Nelson, manager of Kraft’s
Hardware Store, has indicated a
continuing interest in the mayor
ality contest and is expected by
many to be a candidate.
City Clerk Doug Preston has ad
vised the Mirror that a third po
tential candidate for mayor, Ed
Naughton, would not be eligible to
be listed on the ballot due to the
fact that he had lived several
months last year outside the city
limits.
Naughton declined to comment
on this development excepting to
say that he had never himself been
informed about the fact and that
he “finds it interesting and almost
flattering that my possible can
didacy had warranted such atten
tion fro mcity hall.”
A spokesman for the committee
being organized to support Naugh
ton for mayor stated “the commit
tee was aware that Ed Naughton
had lived a short time of his 25
year’s residency here outside the
city limits and we are prepared in
the event city hall rejects his peti
tion for nomination and candidacy
and a place on the ballot... We in
tend to give the people of Kodiak
a chance to vote for Ed Naughton
for mayor even if it means an in
tensive write-in campaign.”
In the city council contest, where
three seats will be up for election,
Chuck Powell of Alaska Transfer
& Storage advised he would file
for one of the seats. Powell has also
been active in community civic af
fairs and last fall was a candidate
for the legislature fro mthis dis
trict and racked up the largest vote
ever given to a Republican candi
date in this heavily Democratic
legislative district.
FIRST DEER
First deer of the season was
taken yesterday by Robbie Robin
son according to the bulletin board
at the Rendezvous.
Japanese Boat Banshu Maru Picks Up
10-Ton Shipment Of Kodiak Caviar
Shortly after the Japanese
freighter Banshu Maru No. 32 tied
up alongside the Alaska Ice & Stor
age plant at City Dock late Thurs
day morning, there developed a
sight guaranteed to give a com
munist commissar of eavier con
sumption convulsions!
A shipment of approximately 10
tons of “Kodak Caviar”, manufac
tured at the local cold storage
plant by local labor from salmon
eggs taken from fish caught by Ko
diak fishermen, was loaded aboard
the Japanese vessel which will
take the caviar direc to Yoka
homa, Japan.
Heretofore the bulk of eavier, a
popular dish in Japan, was obtain
ed from the Soviet Union. The Jap
anese have indicated a strong de
sire to purchase the product from
Alaska.
Alaska Ice & Storage Manager
Bix Bonney stressed the fact that
a basic foundation clause in their
contract to supply the Japanese
with the caviar is the one agreeing
that such products must be com
pletely caught and processed by
local Alaskan labor and that only
the finished product would be ship
ped to Japan.
The 10-tons loaded aboard yes
terdy afternoon constituted an
-‘experimental shipment” with the
potential Japanese market for Ko
diak Caviar exceeding several hun
dred tons per season.
The Banshu Mara will return
later this season to pick up another
shipment of caviar after the sal
mon season ends. Eggs being pro
cessed now are being flown in from
the San Juan cannery at UganiK
Bay.
Other than the Japanese caviar
expert, who is supervising the
techniques involved in processing
the eggs into cavier desired and
specifically suited to the Japanese
domestic palate, all the labor, in
cluding the crate assembling, is
done by local labor.
The processing of the salmon
eggs involves separation of eggs
by specie (pinks, reds, dogs) and
by grades. Pink salmon eggs are di
vided into three grades, red and
dog salmon eggs into two grades
each. The eggs of the dog (chum)
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Deveau Is Named
Chairman Alaska
Centennial Comm.
Pete Deveau may have second
thoughts about running for mayor.
It would appear from the following
article that he will have his work
cut out for him for the next three
years.
Anchorage—Former state legis
lator Pete Deveau of Kodiak was
named chairman of the Alaska Cen
tennial Commission’s executive
committee at the first organization
al meeting of the commission here
Wednesday.
Named to the executive commit
tee were Mrs. Alice Harigan of
Sitka, representing southeastern
Alaska; Don Perkins of Nome, the
northwestern area; Deveau, the
southcentral area; and Vernon For
bes of Fairbanks, the central area.
Lew Dischner of Anchorage was
named member-at-large of the ex
ecutive committee.
The commission met again Thurs
day to assign tasks to the executive
committee, discuss financing of the
centennial in 1967, and lay down
guidelines for its executive direc
tor, Bob Arnold, former Anchorage
newsman and teacher who now re
sides in Juneau.
Gov. William A. Egan addressed
the commission at the opening oi.
its two-day meetng Wednesday. He
emphaszed the work of the group
s of great importance to the state
and said he considers he centennial
a truly statewide event.
To Accomodate Ferryboat Tourists
Above is Architect Donald N. McDonald & Associates
sketch of the Kodiak Inn which Frank Irick expects
to have under construction on the old Pinch Apart
ments property along the base road. The project,
estimated to cost $350,000 will contain 24 motel
rooms as well as a cocktail lounge, restaurant and
commercial space. Irick hopes to have the project
completed in time to accomodate tourists aboard
the inaugural voyage of the Kodiak-Homer ferry
boat M/V Kodiak Islander.