Mrs. Bix Bonney
New Girl Scout
Troop Leader
Mrs. Bix Bonney is the new
leader of Girl Scout Troop 245.
Mrs. Howard Anderson is the new
Assistant Leader of the troop.
New officers for the organiza
tion are: Tessa Kraft, president;
Dixie McWherter, vice president;
Linda Veerman, secretary and
Pamela Soule, treasurer.
In fulfilling requirement for 2nd
Class Badges, the girls have been
raising tulips and learning their
girl scout songs. They also have
been working on a skit which will
be presented at a Mother’s Tea.
At the last meeting Mrs. William
Soule instructed the girls in the
field of First Aid.
Other members of the troop are
Marie Vickery, Ellen Shumway,
Marsha Weisser, Melanie McFar
land, Loraine Resoff, Karen Les
ter, Charlotte Madsen, Francisca
Vega, Viola Sundberg, Pauline Se
lig, Donene Walkoff, Cynthia Fan
nin, Ginger Farber and Tara Bon
ney.
Waterfront
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tion has approved a $164,000
loan and an outright $108,000
grant to the City of Seldovia for
expansion and improvements to
its water system which will per
mit one existing fish cannery to
expand operations and two more
to be constructed. The work will
create 75 new jobs for privately
employed fishermen and save
100 jobs in existing canneries
which have had to curtail opera
tions because of inadequate wa
ter facilities. Oh, well, seems we
missed the boat again!
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Over Dillingham way they are
about set to start construction and
installation of 3,840 square feet of
polystyrene floats and 770 lineal
feet of float piling for construction
of boat harbor facilities there,
There still has been no action here
on the matter of constructing that
new grid for our fishermen in the
boat harbor.
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Governor Egan disclosed this
week that attorneys for the Gen
eral Services Administration
have joined Alaska in protesting
increases proposed by the Alaska
Steamship Company in general
freight rates to westward Alaska
and to salmon cannery outposts.
The GSA asked the Maritime
Commission to find that Alaska
Steamship has “failed to show
that its proposed rate increases
are just and reasonable and to
reject and canc 1 such rate in
creases.”
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Alaska Steam’s Nenana was the
first vessel to come out of their
winter reserve fleet which has been
in hibernation in Lake Washing
ton this winter. The Nenana sailed
April 18 to begin calls at cannery
ports from Yakutat to False Pass,
including Kodiak Island.
The second Alaska state ferry,
the M/V Taku is in Ketchikan hav
ing a minor mechanical difficulty
corrected. And we have received
an invitation from the Governor of
Alaska to accompany the official
inaugural voyage of the M/V Mala
spina. The trip begins at Prince
Rupert, B.C., and ends at Juneau.
We wrote asking when our return
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trip tickets to Kodiak would arrive
but so far have received no word
. . . undoubtedly you gotta arrange
your own transportation to Prince
Rupert and home from Junea J
Anybody wanna take our place as
our official news representative
please drop in the office.
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Those of you interested in sports
fishing within national wildlife
refuges throughout the state (in
cluding Kodiak National Wildlife
Refuge) are advised that copies of
the 1963 regulations are available
from Raymond Wooford, Acting
Regional Director, Bureau of Sport
Fisheries and Wildlife, Juneau.
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ABF&G’s Guy Powell left for
Juneau on Wednesday on depart
mental fisheries business and
expects to be gone about one
week.
Gordon Nelson, skipper of he
Western Clipper has been moored
inside the small boat harbor along
with the rest of the shrimp fleet
most of this week due to the high
winds and icing conditions. Gor
don, who fishes shrimp now for a
mainland processor is going to ex
periment in the use of chilled sea
water for holding shrimp. Tis the
same system as used for salmon
and his vessel is already equipped
for this. If successful Gordon will
have found a method by which
mainland processor’s shrimp fleet
could stay out fishing several days
longer than they now do. His
charming Missus, Dorothy, is gonna
accompany them on the next trip
out ... try her hand at picking
scrap fish from the shrimp. “They
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already presented me with wet
weather gear,” she said. In case
Gordon’s crew don’t know it, Dor
othy will be no novice at the fish
ing game — having accompanied
Gordon out for crab as wel as sal
mon before. She is also a very ca
pable newspapermanwoman and
served on the Cordova Times staff
before coming here.
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Friends of Roger Malutin, who
spent the last four years along
the waterfront as a sailor in Un
cle Sam’s Navy, will be glad to
hear Roger arrived back home
here on Tuesday . . . “for good,”
as Roger said.
&
Jerry MacDonald, over at Kraft’s
Meat Market, sez Doug Putansu
phoned up to tell him he will be
enroute North in time to arrive
here on June 1st. Doug has
switched over to king crabbing and
advised he can bring up from 200
to 300 dungeness pots complete
with poly lines, buoys and bait
boxes ... all in very good shape
. . . should anyone be interested in
them at $48 apiece.
£
Weather has hampered the
shrimpers and caused some slack
days down at Eastpoint Seafoods,
according to Superintendent Jim
Major. They have been operating
only one of their two lines and
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