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VOL. 23, NO. 26_KODIAK, ALASKA, JUNE 28, 1963 FRICK TEN CE* IS
There Will
Be A
PARADE!
LATE BULLETIN
There will be a parade! Disre
gard whatever you might hear or
read to the effect that there will
be no 4th of July parade.
Gene Sundberg, the man who
does all the arranging for parades
in Kodiak has advised the Mirror
that a change in the schedule of
the Navy Band makes it possible
for the band to be here bright and
early at 9 a.m. in the downtown
schoolyard where the parade will
form up.
Units of Marines, Navy, Ameri
can Legion, VFW and Boy Scouts
are among those participating in
this year’s parade.
Council To Hold
Open Meeting For
Citizens Gripes
If you’ve got any gripes on your
mind about the way the city is
being run then July 11 is the day
to be at the state courtroom above
the postoffice at 7:30 p.m. to voice
your grievances.
An open city council meeting is
lo be held at that time to give cit
izens an opportunity to be heard
on any subject whatever. A sim
ilar meeting held three months
ago was packed and resulted in
spirited discussions between city
officials and members of the au
dience. The meeting should pro
vide an excellent opportunity for
everyone to be heard, especially
prospective candidates for office
this year.
Reefer King Has
Major Breakdown
Wakefield Fisheries’ large proc
essing vessel, Reefer King, is now
in Cordova with a broken crank
shaft according to word reaching
Kodiak.
The Reefer King was enroute to
Port Wakefield with supplies and
provisions for the coming king crab
season aboard.
Tak Miyahara, general superin
tendent of Wakefield’s was in town
yesterday but unavailable for de
tails before press time. He was in
Cordova Wednesday making ar
rangments for the vessel to be
towed into Port Wakefield by tug
according to Cordova sources.
PNA May Build
$100,000 Air
Terminal Here
PNA hopes to build a $100,000
air terminal at the naval airstrip
according to Ray Martin.
Martin advised the Chamber of
Commerce that naval officials here
are all for it but that land on the
reservation is holding up the proj
ect. The matter has to be worked
out in Washington, D.C. The Cham
ber is sending letters of approval
on the project to members of the
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$100 Prize In
Halibut Derby
Kodiak Outdoorsmen Club’s An
nual Halibut Derby gets underway
Thursday, July 4th; continues
through the 7th and opens again
on July 12th through July 14th.
First prize is $100. There will be
other prizes as well.
It costs only $1 per day to enter
and tickets are available at Curley’s
Barbershop and Knudsen’s.
There will be someone at the
small boat harbor between 6 and
8 p.m. on each Derby day to check
and weigh your fish.
Nick Rauch New
C Of C President “
Nick Rauch was elected Presi
dent of the Kodiak Chamber of
Commerce at Thursday’s election
of officers meeting.
Elected to serve with him for the
coming year were: John Butler, 1st
vice president; Ed Franklin, 2nd
vice president; and Don Bullock,
Jim Barr, Board of Directors.
Rauch, an executive-engineer at
the White Alice Project for RCA,
is presently out in his 22-foot
sports boat “Sea Hawk” proving
that Kodiak Island waters are
among the world’s finest sports
fishing waters.
Leite Sewer Bids
Rejected; Will
Negotiate Award
Representatives of the two com
panies which bid on the Leite Ad
dition Sewer Project will meet
with city officials to negotiate a
contract.
Two bids on the Leite Sewer
Project were received and rejected
as being too high at last night s
city council meeting. However, the
council instructed the city man
ager to meet with representatives
of the two companies to negotiate
a contract for the project “within
the funds available.”
Funds available for the project
amount to $114,000. Locher Pipe
line Company bid $135,457 and
American Service Inc., of Anchor
age bid $132,198.50.
A representative of the Locher
firm who is here now said that his
company could begin construction
Monday morning should they be
awarded the negotiated contract
The firm is presently constructing
the Pillar Creek Water Pipeline
here.
Russ Tangle Gear
Fleet Sighted
Near Cherikof
A fleet of Russian vessels using
tangle gear for king crab has been
reported sighted four miles oif
Cherikof Island, according to a
Canadian fishermen. The fleet
consists of six relatively small fish
ing vessels and one large mother
ship. The catcher boats have nine
men aboard according to the re
ports received here. ADF&GG is
seeking further information on the
Soviet tangle gear operation.
World Champion?
Starting out at 2 a.m. this morn
ing (Friday) Vic Marconi is still
rolling them down at the Elk’s
Bowling Lancs in his drive to cap
ture the world’s record for mara
thon bowling currently held by a
Kenai man who recently became
champion by bowling 1,009 con
tinuous games in 71 hours and 15
m'nutes. Vie is using all six lanes.
He knocks the pins down in one
alle,? and immediately rolls them
in the next one. Vic will continue
day and night until he has rolled
the magic number of 1,010 which
will make him World Champion
Marathon Bowler, and he “may
keep right on rollin’ ’em beyond
that number, it depends on how I
feel at that point,” he told the
Mirror.
“Around
The Ball Park”
By Dave Freniming
There was a real battle Wednes
day night at the Carl Coon Me
morial Field. The Outdoorsmen
had it their way until the bottom
of the last inning when Frank
Biernacki of the Braves clobbered
a fast grounder and brought three
men in to win the game 8 to 7.
At the base the Alaska Ice and
Storage gang trounced the Red Sox
by a score- of 9 to 3. Coach Iver
Malutin of the Alaska Ice and Stor
age team tells me his boys did a
real fine job, especially Keith
Hallstead who covered center field.
Only one game was played Mon
day night and that was the Out
doorsmen who were defeated by
Kraft’s. The final score was 13 to 8.
Stan Nelson tells me that a cou
ple of his Kraft boys were out with
injuries and Friday night’s score
attests to that. The Braves cloo
bered them 23 to 3. That same eve
ning Alaska Ice and Storage beat
the Elks in game that almost saw
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Ouzinkie Packing Offers Fishermen
Pink Price Tied To Sliding Scale
Fishermen will be considering :
the first written offer on fish
prices which has been offered by
Ouzinkie Packing Corp.
The offer, made in the form of
a sliding scale by Eric Bulmer.
president of the Ouzinkie company,
had not as of this morning been
officially received in the mail by
the United Fishermen’s Marketing
Association but Jan Beukers, busi
ness manager of the association
said the offer would be referred
to the negotiating committee for
action when it is received. A copy
of the letter was sent to the Mirror
and reads as follows:
“We will pay the same prices for
fish as were paid in the 1962 sea
son with the exception that pinks
will be tied up with a sliding scale
but with a minimum price.
“We propose to pay the 45%
cents per fish price for pinks based
on the fish running 17% fish to the
case of 48/1# Tails. In the event
the fish run smaller than 17% fish
per case we would pay one cent
less for each half fish more per
case, and hold the minimum to 20
fish per case.
“On the other hand if fish are
larger than the 17% fish per case
base, we would add one cent to
the 45% cents for each half fish
per case the pinks run, with r.o
limit. In other words, if pinks ran
as large as they did in the parent
year of 1961, when they ran 15 86
per case, we would pay off on the
basis of 48% cents per fish.
“Also for the mutual protection
of both packers and fishermen we
Rainbow Girls
Reception Sunday
A reception for the Grand Offi
cers of the Rainbow Girls will be
held this Sunday, June 30, from
2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Masonic Tem
ple.
iuggest a limit of six hundred fish
per man per day.”
Beukers declined to make any
comment on the offer except lo
>tate that it would be placed in the
lands of the association’s negotia
ing committee.
Along The
Waterfront
By Karl Armstrong
Early Wednesday afternoon Ev
srett LeVan arrived back in Kodiak
at the helm of his Roosevelt. Ac
companying him was his son and
crewman, Mike Scibor. They have
been fishing down Juneau way and
both seemed glad to be back in
“God’s Country.”
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Have you noticed the fancy ex
pert lettering on Oscar Dyson’s
Robbie? The man to see if you
want such work done is Bill Ross,
driver for Naughton’s Bakery.
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King Crab, Inc., has been op
erating on a six-day week basis
with continued heavy deliveries
of king crab. In fact catches have
been so good that.they have re
luctantly had to restrict acceptance
of crab and take deliveries from
only their own boats. They have
about 10 or 11 fishirig r(ow accord
ing to Supt. Ervin TRiessen. “It
keeps about 100 people working
here in our cannery,” he said. They
got in three dungeness crab and
decided to cook them up and see
what they were like . however
the fisherman that brought them in
scooped the three crab up and
took them home himself' . . . after
they were cooked.
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Skipper Fritz Deveau’s Kingfish
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Kodiak Fishing Fleet Blessed
The Blessings of God Almighty were asked for the Kodiak Fishing
Fleet, at a special Service of Worship last Sunday at the Small Boat
Harbor. The first service of its kind held in Kodiak, was arranged
by St. James the Fisherman Episcopal Church. The Rev. Don Bullock
conducted the Rite used by the Episcopal Church in many fishing
communities.