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VOL. 23, NO. 33 KODIAK, ALASKA, AUGUST 9, 1963 PRICE TEN CENTS
U.S. MAY SEIZE ALIEN FLEETS
Bartlett Proposes Law For Seizure
& Heavy Penalties On Alien Fleets
Seizure of foreign fishing vessels
in territorial waters of the states
is provided in a bill senator Bart
ett of Alaska introduced this week.
The action follows closely assert
ed sightings of Russian whaling
ships in Alaska territorial waters
and would provide for the first time
legal penalties against such intrus
ions.
“There have been alarming and
increasing reports of violations by
foreign vessels off the east and
west coasts,” Senator Bartlett said,
“and without legal ammunition we
can only fire back with words.”
The bill will carry a fine up to
$10,000 or imprisonment up to a
year, or both, for any master or
other person in charge of a vessel
seized in territorial waters.
“I have been advised that be
tween July 28 and July 30 eight
Soviet whaling vessels were sight
ed within % miles off Suitwik and
Makchamik Isands west of Kodiak,”
Senator Bartlett reported.
The Alaska Senator has been ad
vised by state representative Gil
bert A. Jarvela of Kodiak that doc
umentary “witnesses and photo
graphs” for some of these incidents
are available.
“Our laws are wholly inadequate
to deal with these increasing in
cidents,” Senator Bartlett continu
ed, “these recent Soviet activities
simply furnish another example of
the heedless fishing practices
which have been adopted all over
the world by fleets of certain coun
tries, constituting a grave danger
to world fish stocks. Another
Alaska example of this pattern was
furnished in early July when three
Japanese whaling vessels were
sighted between Hazy and Corona
tion Islands and another whaler
Ketchikan Firm Is
Low Bidder For
Boat Harbor Work
Odin Jensen & Sons, Inc. of
Ketchikan are the apparent low
bidders on the Kodiak boat harbor
project according to Department
of Public Works Commissioner
Richard A. Downing in Juneau.
Jensen’s bid was $73,594.80. West
ern Marine of Seattle bid $84,116.40
and Ramstad Construction Co. of
Anchorage bid $112,383.10. The
engineers estimate was a total of
$66,287.60.
Major units of the project will
consist of the removal and disposal
of 180 lineal feet of existing log
float and 23 float and stall pilling,
construction and installation of
9,854 square feet of polystyrene
float, a 22-foot x 81-foot gridiron,
furnishing and driving 25 float and
stall piling, and 15-3 pile dolphins
(3147 l.f.), drilling 7 pile holes
(56 l.f.) and placing 7 float piling
(266 .f.).
was sighted operating off Cape Ed
gecumbe, all in territorial waters.
The time has come when we mu^t
have a decisive federal policy to
protect our domestic fishing inter
ests and resources through the ap
prenending and penalizing of the
offenders. Our state efforts at con
servation will be meaningless with
out the backing and protection of
such a federal law.”
Jarvela Sparks
Moves To Protect
Alaskan Waters
Kodiak’s State Representative
Gil Jarvela acted with speed and
vigor in rounding up the informa
tion and facts about the 3 - mile
limit violations of foreign vessels
and relaying it to our elected of
ficials who in turn have brought
heavy pressure upon the State and
Defense Departments t o act
promptly to halt such invasions of
Alaskan territorial waters.
Jarvela wired Alaska’s elected
officials to report that on July 28,
four Russian whalers were sighted
inside the 3 mile limit at Nakcha
mik Island, Chignik Bay.
“Eye witnesses saw one whaler
with freshly killed whale along
side. Another whaler was in act of
firing its harpoon,” Jarvela re
ported, adding, “I have talked to
Chignik fishermen and they state
there have been other violations
on previous occasions.”
Jarvela said he discussed the
situation with the commanding of
ficer of the Coast Guard Kodiak
Air Detachment.
“He maintains stringent air sur
veillance in process but vast coast
line difficult to police even with
entire Coast Guard available. Also
states our available vessels can
match the whalers for speed. Local
experienced skippers seem to disa
gree. I do not have any facts on
this,” Jarvela advised in wires of
protest to Washington.
Last Friday, Rep. Jarvela wired
the members of the Alaska Con
gressional delegation stating, “Jap
and Russian catcher boats sighted
inside three mile limit. Have wit
nesses and photographs. Urgently
need federal assistance to seize
and arrest offenders. We need pro
tection now.”
In a wire to Governor Bill Egan,
Jarvela stated: “Just received re
port from crew members aboard
California Standard. Jap catcher
boats sighted whaling inside three
mile limit in Pt. Gore area. Now
Japs and Russians both violating
international 3 mile limit. Request
immediate action by state depart
ment by seizure and arrest of of
fenders.”
Governor Egan immediately re
pied: “On basis most recent foreign
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Speech & Hearing
Therapist Coming
The ACCA wishes to announce
Miss Peggy Hamilton, speech &
hearing therapist for this area, will
be holding a clinic next Monday &
Tuesday, August 12 & 13 in town at
the Community Baptist Church.
Wednesday, August 14, she will be
on base. Thursday, August 15, she
will be back in town. Anyone wish
ing information or appointments,
call Mrs. Shirley Womack at 487—
3311 on base or Mrs. Elsie Batche
or at 486—2818.
MIRRORS FOR SAILORS
One Thousand copies of the Ko
diak Mirror of the August 23rd is
sue (that’s the issue that comes out
one day before the huge aircraft
carrier U.S.S. Bennington and the
destroyer U.S.S. Benner come into
port) will be printed for distribu
tion aboard the ships.
The issue will carry a special
special two page, center spread
“Welcome” to the men and officers
of the ships. Firms and individuals
who wish to be listed on the “Wel
come’^ may_ phone the_ Mirror
(486—5123).
Pride & Envy Of The Second Grade !
Eight year old second grader Gus Morton, whose rifle is nearly as
tall as he, grins proudly as, assisted by his brother John Jr., holds up
the trophy head of the 150 pound buck he bagged on the first day of
hunting season and his own very first hunting trip. — Story Page 4
Mrs. Bob Bartlett
Visits Kodiak
Vide Bartlett, wife of U.S. Sena
tor Bob Bartlett, was in town from
Saturday through Monday last
weekend. She was with a group in
cluding Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury James A. Reed and Ad
miral Edwin J. Roland, Comman
dant of the Coast Guard.
While here, Mrs. Bartlett, ac
companied by Patricia Cannon and
Ruth Brechan, flew to Port Wake
field and toured the Wakefield
Fisheries king crab operations
there as a guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Lowell Wakefield.
No advance notice was given for
the arrival of the Treasury or Coast
Guard employees nor has any rea
son been suggested for their visit
here.
Charles E. Sutliff
Dies At Age 81
Charles Erwin Sutliff, 81, long
time resident of Kodiak and father
of Norman Sutliff, died at his home
August 1. He had been ill for some
time.
Mr. Sutliff was born May 1,
1882 in Corinth, N.Y., and is sur
vived by his son Norman of Kodiak
and a daughter, Ethel Campbell of
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Funeral services for Mr. Sutliff
were held Saturday, August 3.
Free Cancer Exam
Dr. Larry McKinley has advised
that he will give free examinations
for cancer of the mouth at his den
tal clinic on August 17th.
Dr. McKinley’s dental clinic is
located at 1683 Mill Bay Road. His
phone number is 486—2838. Hours
will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
no appointment is necessary.
Borough Elections
Slated Sept. 24th
Kodiak area voters will be called
upon to elect a dozen officials as
well as vote upon a borough for
the area in a special election to be
held September 24th, according to
Secretary of State Hugh Wade.
Wade phoned the Mirror Wed
nesday to advise that the Local Af
fairs Agency had approved the peti
tion for a borough for the Kodiak
area. According to Wade the pro
posed boundries had been enlarged
to include additional area in the
borough.
Deadline for filing of candidacy
petitions will be August 31. Candi
dates for election to borough of
fices are required to file petitions
containing the names of at least 50
qualified voters by August 31 in
order to be listed upon the ballots
for the Sept. 24 election.
Voters will vote upon the
borough itself and also vote upon
whether they wish to have the
borough administered by an elect
ed official or by an appointed man
ager.
They will also vote for a Chair
man of the Borough, five school
board members, and five assembly
men, two of whom will be elected
by and from the city council, Wade
said.
Along
The
Waterfront
By Karl Armstrong
Edgar J. Huizer, whom some of
you may recall was assigned to the
king crab study in this area back
in 1953, was recenty promoted to
the position of Water Rights Co
ordinator in the Division of Com
mercial Fisheries and will be re
sponsabile for coordinating sur
veys of proposed water use sites
and will make recommendations to
assure the protection of fisheries
habitat.
Skipper Hans Mikelsen’s shrimp
er Tradewind lost it’s cooling sys
tem and developed engine troubles
and the past week has been moored
down at city dock getting repairs.
&
A number of stateside college
kids will be shortly pulling out to
return to their respective colleges.
Some of our local boys who have
seen these outsiders working in
our local canneries while they were
unable to find work will not be the
least bit unhappy to see the depar
ture of the campus crowd who will
now take all their money with them
to spend elsewhere. We might add
that we have even been receiving
reports that these outsiders were
given work while local guys along
side them were laid off during
slack times.