Host Of Prizes Await Winners Of ’63
King Crab Festival Set For Early May
Best “pot pickin’ ” news of this
year was the announcement today
of the annual Kodiak King Crab
festival to be held here, May 3-4-5.
General chairman for this year’s
festivities will be Ray Martin, Sr.
With the dates announced, now
begins the exciting arrangements
for one of the highlights of the
festival, the crowning of the King
Crab Festival Queen.
Again this year the young maiden
who sells the highest total of tic
kets for the drawing will be
crowned Queen and receive a trip
to Seattle as Kodiak’s representa
tive to the Seafair.
Prizes for winners of the festival
drawing will be traveling too. Six
prizes will be given, and everyone
of them will be a “trip of a life
time.”
First prize will be a round trip
for two persons to Acapulco, Mex
ico, and a week’s all expenses paid
stay at one of the famous fabulous
hotels in the Mexico resort city.
Should the winner not desire to
take the trip, he will be paid $1,«
000 in cash.
Second prize is a trip worth $600
for two to Las Vegas and return.
Also hotel expenses for one week.
Other prizes include two round
trip tickets to Seattle. Also Alf
Madsen, Kodiak’s renowned hunter
and guide, has offered two exciting
trips. One is a flight to The Valley
of 10,000 Smokes, and the other is
an all-day fishing trip to Madsen’s
Hidden Canyon lake camp on Ko
diak Island. Both trips would be
for two persons.
Martin, in announcing plans for
this year’s Festival Queen contest
urged all organizations to enter
contestants now as the tickets will
be printed immediately.
He also said girls who would
like to enter but do not have spon
sors, should see him and arrange
ments can be made.
To be a candidate for Queen a
girl must be 16 years of age and
not more than 20, and, of course,
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single. Girls should register with
Martin at the FNA office.
Queen candidates will receive 10
per cent of their cash sales of tic
kets. The Queen in addition to her
trip to Seattle, will get 20 per cent
of her ticket sales money as a cash
prize.
Again this year there will be a
number of booths for amusements,
displays and eats along the water
front. Organizations desiring to
rent booth space are asked to con
tact Emil^ Knudsen at Knudsen’s
store. Applications must be sub
mitted by April 1.
Legal Notice
ADVERTISEMENT
RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS:
Sealed Proposals on forms pre
pared by the Engineer will be re
ceived by the City Clerk, City of
Kodiak, Alaska, at the office of the
City Clerk in the Kodiak City Hall
until 4:00 p.m. (local time) on
April 22, 1963 for the construction
of the Pillar Creek Water Supply
System consisting of a diesel driven
pumping installation and intake
works and approximately 6200 ft.
of 14” water pipeline for the City
of Kodiak at Kodiak, Alaska, in
accordance with Drawings, Specifi
cations and other Contract Docu
ments prepared by Hubbell & Wal
ler Engineering Corporation.
PROPOSALS WILL BE PUB
LICLY OPENED AND READ at
4:00 P.M. (local time) on April 22,
1963 at the Kodiak City Hall, Ko
diak, Alaska.
OBTAINING CONTRACT DOC
UMENTS: Drawings, Specifications
and other Contract Documents may
be obtained upon application at the
office of the City Clerk or from
Hubbell & Waller Engineering
Corporation, 416 Queen Anne Ave
nue North, Seattle 9. Washington
after 8:00 A.M. on March 18, 1963
upon the payment of $10.00 per
set. The payment shall be in check
form and shall be drawn payable
A Monument
Need Not
Be Expensive
A monument or marker over the
burial place of your loved
one can be inexpensive.
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Call Us At
486—5110
For Further Information
THE KODIAK MORTUARY
to the City of Kodiak, Alaska. No
refunds for plans will be made.
PROPOSAL GUARANTY: Each
Proposal shall be accompanied by
an acceptable form of Proposal
Guaranty in an amount equal to at
least five (5) per cent of the
amount of the Proposal payable to
the City of Kodiak as a guaranty
that if the Proposal is accepted,
the Bidder will execute the Con
tract and file acceptable Peform
ance and Labor and Material Pay
ment Bonds within ten (10) days
after the award of the Contract.
OWNERS RIGHTS RESERVED:
The City of Kodiak, hereinafter
called the Owner reserves the
right to reject any or all Proposals
and to waive any formality or tech
nicality in any Proposal in the in
terest of the Owner.
Publish: March 15, 22 and 29, 1963.
Legislative Act
Calls For Refunds
A bill has been introduced
which, if enacted, would appropri
ate refunds of the tax on non-profit
electric and telephone membership
to municipalities, independent
school districts, public utility dis
tricts and boroughs and providing
for an effective date.
The sum of $118,602 would be
appropriated and this amount the
City of Kodiak would receive
$6,915.
Kodiak Low Man
On Visitor List
Not many tourists coming to
Alaska make it to Kodiak, accord
ing to the findings of V. K. Kiely
of the University of Alaska who
surmised through questionnaires
4,970 outbound highway, air and
boat travelers between June 15,
1960 and November 15 of the same
year.
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Sixty-seven per cient of the vis
itors went to Anchorage, 60.7 per
cent to Fairbanks, 24.4% to Seward,
22.3% to Ketchikan, 7.5 per cent
to Homer and last on the list was
2.7 per cent who came to Kodiak
Island.
SEA GULL
The Aleut name for Kodiak
means “sea gull.”
Know you’ve PASO
KODIAK BRANCH
NATIONAL BANK
OP ALASKA
Mambar Fadaral Dapotit insuranca Corp.
and Fadaral Rasarva Systam
How to tell a Tempest
from just any low-priced car
Does it have Wide-Track?
Does it have a lively 4?
Does it offer a phenomenal V-8*?
Does it look like this?
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*OptionaI at extra cost
Now there are two kinds of Wide-Track cars—Pontiac and Tempest
SEE YOUR AUTHORIZED PONTIAC DEALER FOR A WIDE CHOICE OF W1 DE-TRACKS AND GOOD USED CARS, TOO——
DONNELLEY & ACHESON MOTOR COMPANY
Foot of Main Kodiak, Alaska