Ray Marti! Cats Adversary Cake
IT WAS CAKE CITTING TIME Tuesday as Eaj Martin, agent
here for P.NA, acted as host to friends and customers of the Air
lines. in celebration of PNA’s 5#th anniversary. He is pictured
■ itb Thelma Johnson.
Pacific Northern has enjojed several “firsts" over the coarse
of the years, being the first air carrier to fly more than lb#ht3.bW
passenger -miies in a single year in .Alaska service. In If5S it »as
the first carrier to carry passengers in Alaska service
and in March. 1X2 became the first to fly more than one billion
passenger-miles. Pacific Northern is the oldest carrier in Alaska
still operating under the original management with .Arthur G.
Woodley, founder of the company, non being president and general
manager of the corporation.
Later this month PNA will inaugurate service between SeatUe
Tacoma and the Alaskan cities of Anchorage, Juneau and Ketchi
kan. with Boeing ?2#'s.
Kiddies Parade
To Be Featured
Or.e of the mam highlights of the
King Crab Festival Parade, to be
held Saturday morning. May 5. will
be the Kiddies Parade” with
many appealing and some out-of
this world costumes and decorated
bicycles and wagons. Gene Sand
berg, parade chairman, announced
today.
“All you boys and girls should
start getting your costumes ready
now. ‘Chairman Sandberg said,
“and it is not necessary' to register
for this portion of the parade.
“There will be prizes for all the
kiddies who take part," he added,
“so come down in front of Kraft’s
Super market with your bikes, wa
gons and costumes on the morning
of the parade at 9 30 sharp."
The parade this year is building
up into one of the biggest and best
yet. Sundberg said, and is being
sponsored again by the Kodiak Na
tional Guard Unit Mrs. B. A. Ny
strom. of the Naval Station, will
be grand marshal for the kiddies
section.
More entries both floats and
units, are be ng seugbt and any
organizations interested should
contact the parade chairman by
letter to Box 346 or by calling
436-2306
With the King Crab Festival less
than a month away everyone will
have to start getting ready now to
make this a ready b;g parade,
Chairman Sandberg concluded.
More announcement will be made
at a later date.
Student Recital
Students of Mrs Ella Mae War
ren will present a piano recital,
Sunday, April 15. at 2 p.m. at the
Community Baptist Church.
The public is invited.
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Dr. A. H. Johnson
Heads Red Cross
Dr A Hoimes Johnson was elec
ted chairman of the Kodiak Chap
ter American Bed Cross at a meet
ing of the group held Thursday.
April 5 at tne Community Baptist
Church
Otter officers include Rev.
Lewis White Tice-chairman Mrs
L W Newman secretary-: Mrs.
R. C Wilson treasurer. Chairmen
appointed were Mrs J £ Ballard.
Home Service; Mrs Norman Sut
li£L Volunteer Services: Boland
Vickery. First Aid and Water Safe
ty Mrs. George Cornelius. Junior
Red Cross Dr R Johnson. Disas
ter: Mrs L K W odunger. Canteen:
Mrs Doug Preston. Production;
and Mrs. Jack Hmkel. Gray Ladies
Army Recruiter
Here On Monday
■'Unde Sam Wants YOU!”
And that is why M/Sgt Joseph
T- Prunier. US Army Recruiter
and Counselor for Alaska will vis
it Koaiak :>r Monday. April 16th.
During the Sergeant's visit, he
will be available at the local ACS
station to answer quest, ons on the
present Selective Service policies.
Military Obligation Law. and to
explain the various program;
available to young men and
women for Job Training. Travel
and Adventure
Waterfront
Ten men escaped without injury
from the 80-foot fishing vessel
Maramia after she struck a reef
on Unga Island across from the
village of Sand Point a? 1 aun.
March 26th daring a snow storm
Skipper and part-owner Art Ed
wards and his crew of nine es
caped from the stricken Marcoma.
which quickly sank, in a life raft.
An inshore »ffld took them ashore
on Unga Island where they were
stranded until 8.30 am when the
vessel Verdan arrived from Sand
Point and took them aboard. The
Marconia will probably be a total
loss, according to Bin Damery.
t
The boat Chigmk fl broke loose
from the dock at Ivanvoff Bay
during a storm recently and broke
up on the beach near the cannery
and is reported a total loss
E. Getty
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sided on the station. The deceased
diak in November, 1945 They re
was a charter member of the Ma
sonic Lodge at Shelton, and was
active here also He was a mem
ber of the Kodiak Shrine Club. He
was also affiliated with the B.P.O.
Sks Lodge here. He was a mem
er of the Griffin Memorial Hos
pital Advisory Board for the past
several years.
T
Besides his wife, other rirvivors
are two sisters: Mrs. Margaret
McKay and Mrs. Hazel Tiffany,
both of Shelton, Wash.; three
brothers: Roy and David of Shel
*on and Oscar of Lake Chelan,
Wash.
Funeral services will be held at
the Naval Station Chapel, Satur
day at 2 p m., and will be conduct
ed by Chaplain Robert Vaughn.
Masonic rites will also be held.
Pallbearers will be Masons and
fellow workers at the power plant
on the station
Burial will be in the family plat
at Shelton.
It is requested that no flowers
be sent. Memorials may be given
to the Shrine Crippled Children i
Hospital through John Lotz on *he
station or Patterson's Service Sta
tion in Kodiak.
All Chiniak Bay
Closed To Fishing
Closure of Chiniak Bar to all
K.- r Crab fishm? has been an
Tu»irBr«i Hy ♦¥>» Department of
Fist and Game The closure
which became effective on mid
n.gnt. Thursday. April 12. affects
the entire area inside of a line
from Cape Chiniak to the south
ern tip of Long Island to Spruce
Cape
The closure was initiated to
protect soft shell Km? Crab, the
department adnsed
In addition the department re
minded all fishermen that it is il
legal to possess or transport soft
shell Kmg crab or Dungeness crab,
and the legal size for commercia. -
It taken Dungeness crab is seven
inches 7') across the carapace
measured 90 degrees to the body
axis.
Senior Class Play
Tomorrow Night
The sounds of hammering and
the smell of fresh paint have been
escaping all this past week from
behind drawn curtains on stage at
the Kodiak High School Gymna
sium. as members of the senior
class re-created the interior of the
home of the Yanderoff clan which
is the setting of ‘ You Can’t Take
It With You." This amusing com
edy will be presented by the sen
ior class at 8 o’clock tomorrow
night at the high school.
The play is genuinely funny and
offer* the citizen* of Kodiak an
opportunity to take an interest m
the activities of thi* town * young
er set.
Tickets may be purchased at the
door adult* SI and children 50
cent*
Lou Veerman
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men who make thi* Navy—the en
listed men "
Outgoing president, AJ Hocb
berger, asked that the Navy “let
us know when we can be of ser
vice.'*
Adxn. Bakutis was presented a
a medallion commemorating the
50th anniversary of the Navy
League, by incoming president
Lou Veerman.
The member* voted to appeal to
the national headquarters of the
Navy League suggesting that a
State meeting be held here at Ko
diak during the Armed Forces
Day observance May 19. Main
business will be the election of
State officers of the Navy League.
One new member, Maurice
Red" Burnham was brought into
the League. Present as guests
were Rear Adm. Bakutis, Li.
Cmdr Bruce Nystrom. Cmdr. El
sey, Cmdr. “Barney" Bernard,
Cmdr. George Kemper, and Moe
Kimes.
THE LEVELER
Criticism is a fine thing—it
helps all of us to keep our feet
on the ground.
Congratulations to Pacific Northern
Airlines on its 30th anniversary...
For it* enviable record in supplying air transportation through
the years, and for its promises of greater things to come.
KODIAK BRANCH
NATIONAL BANK
OF ALASKA
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
•nd Federal Reserve System
Ruth and Ginny
Announce that the
Village Bar
IS NOW OPEN FROM 10 A.M. til 3 A.M.
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