K.H.S. Vocational Class Adapts To Marine Industry In Classroom Projects.
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Boat Builders: Instructor Herb Carpenter observes Ar
thur Olson and Harold Katelnikoff.
Marine Mechanics: Frank Heglin, Don Nekeferoff, Del
Jackson and Freddie Zharoff.
Marine Tool Designers: Gene Read and Ronnie Simeon
off design small but vital fishing tools.
Students Construct Skiffs Marine
Tools; Will Be Available To Public
Kodiak High School Industrial
Arts Instructor Herb Carpenter
this year initiated a program de
signed to adapt his subject to our
• ; local marine industry.
The new approach has proven
• highly successful to date as the
above photos of energetic and en
thusiastic students indicate. Stu
dent response to the program has
been “very satisfying,” according
to Instructor Carpenter.
“I’ve been highly pleased with
the keen interest with which my
boys have entered into this pro
gram to adapt the class studies
and activities to our marine and
fishing economy here,” Carpenter
said.
“The boys learn the proper use
of the right tools as well as correct
operational methods,” he contin
ued.
A number of the students, with
mechanical interests, have been
overhauling a Ford Six marine en
gine the past several weeks. An
other group is busy constructing
an 8-foot skiff. The skiff, a pram
type, was started lost Wednesday
and is almost complete now. Plans
for the pram were provided by
Harold Miller of the Naval Base.
It is being constructed with marine
plywood, waterproof glue, brass
screws . . . “all the best marine
materials.” The skiff is but the
first of a number the class expects
to build. They hope to produce
them at the rate of one per week.
The skiffs will be made available
to the public and the proceeds of
such sales will go into the Indus
trial Arts Department fund for use
in purchasing needed class ma
terials and tools. They will take up
to a 71/6 h.p. outboard motor., Car
penter stated.
One class member, Gene Read,
has designed a King Crab measur
ing tool, while another, Ronnie
Simeonoff, has come up with his
own skiff bailer. Both items are
small but necessary tools of the
fishing industry. They will pro
duce these two items in quantity
and make them available on the
same basis as the skiffs. Persons
interested in purchasing any of
these items may leave word at the
high school office or contact Mr.
Carpenter or one of his students.
Other members of Carpenter’s
class who are not pictured above
are Richard Johnson, Lonny John
ston, Richard Mize, LeRoy Spin
harney and John Vosgien.
X-Ray Unit Will
Be In Community
For Three Days
Tuberculosis — once the most
dreaded disease on Kodiak Island
—is gradually being overcome,
thanks to modern science and early
detection, and now once again cit
izens of the community are joining
forces in an all-out fight against
the disease.
Arrangements have been made
by the Alaska Department of
Health Tuberculosis X-ray team to
make X-rays here on Oct. 25, 26
and 27.
The X-ray unit will be located
at the Health center and will be
taken from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on those three
days.
Most cases of tuberculosis can
be cured but the earlier it is dis
covered and properly treated the
more certain is the cure.
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Brooks Buys D-A
Insurance Agency
Purchase of the Donnelley and
Acheson insurance organization
by Brooks Kodiak Insurance has
been announced this week by Art
Brooks.
Effective as of Oct. 4, the Brooks
Kodiak agency will represent Mary
land Casualty and Firemen’s Fund
organizations formerly repre
sented by D and A.
One Reader Has
Suggestion List
At least one response came
from the Chamber of Com
merce’s appeal for suggestions
for improvements in Kodiak in
the application printed in the
Kodiak Mirror this past week.
The return, which was not
signed, suggested that traffic
laws, such as enforcing the speed
limits and the stop sign laws be
strictly enforced; that a drive-in
mail box be set up at the post
office; fthat the Chamber print
more brochures which can be
mailed outside, and that the
city launch a street improvement
program to rid the community
of chuckholes.
12 Court Cases
On Docket Here
Seven divorce actions, one sep
arate maintenance agreement, two
condemnation actions and a suit
seeking a divorce and a dissolution
of partnership and a partnership
dissolution are on the Kodiak Trial
calendar of the Superior Court of
Alaska beginning Oct. 15.
All of the divorce actions are
scheduled to be heard on Monday,
Oct. 15, while the civil matters and
partnership dissolutions are set
for the following day.
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Chamber Suggests
Off-Street Taxi
Parking To City
Kodiak taxicab drivers will be
forced to park their vehicles on
off-street locations, if a motion
approved by the Chamber of Com
merce receives similar treatment
by the Kodiak City Council.
The Chamber, Thursday, adopted
a motion that to improve parking
facilities in the downtown area
that cabs park in offstreet loca
tions.
The proposal was suggested by
Al Hochberger, chairman of the
Civic Improvements group, to al
leviate parking problems. He said
that most of the cabs are radio
equipped and central parking was
no longer an important phase of
the business.
Jim Barr, city engineer, said that
much of the parking problem is
also caused by merchants who park
all day in front of their businesses
or the business next door.
Seeking Erskine
Home For Project
Hopes of obtaining the Erskine
House as a National Park Site are
still alive, and the Kodiak Chamber
of Commerce has appointed a com
mittee to see if the structure is
available at a reasonable purchase
price. •
The project was first initiated
by the Kodiak Historical Group
and has been kept alive by promise
of government help to maintain it
if selected as a site.
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