Aleutian Mail
Contract Renewed
The Post Office Department has
notified the Alaska Marine Trans
portation Co., of Seward that its
contract fo Aleutian Island mail
service is being renewed until
June, 1963.
The contract would bring the
company $242,947.20 the same as
the present contract.
The action was taken despite re
quests for negotiated bidding from
Rep. Thomas M. Pelly, (R-Wash.)
PELLY SAID he would ask the
House Post Office Committee to
hold a congressional investigation.
“The amount of money involved
is small Pelly said, “but the prin
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SAILING FROM SEATTLE
June 28, 1961
MS TAT ALIN A
Seward (Mail Only), Women’s Bay,
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cipal — tax money saved by com
petitive bidding — is imperative.”
Post Office officials said they
could not call off the notification
message but would hold up signing
the contract until Pelly had been
consulted further.
The new Aleutian mailboat is
expected to make its first run this
month, replacing the Expansion
with a faster and more up-to-date
service. Better passenger accommo
dations is being provided, it is said.
Capt. Neils Thompsen is presi
dent of the firm and operates the
mailboat.
GRANDMOTHERS TO MEET
The Kodiak Grandmother’s Club
will meet Monday, June 12, in the
DeKaJe Room. Hostess is Mrs. Dera
Brunstad.
The meeting will begin at 8 p. m.
Legal Notice
INVITATION TO BID
The Kodiak Independent School
District requests the submission of
bids to supply standard furnace
oil, delivered to the school storage
tanks, for the year beginning July
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For Appointment Call 486-2960
1, 1961, and ending June 30, 1962.
Bids should be addressed to the
Clerk of the Board, Kodiak Inde
pendent School District, Box 886,
Kodiak, Alaska, and be postmarked
not later than 6:00 p. m., July 7,
1961, (bid opening July 10, 1961).
The Board reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
Clerk of the Board.
Dorothy E. Clark,
Publish: June 2, 9 and 16, 1961.
Pupils at Seattle’s Mercer Island
high school thought up a great gag.
They checked out books from the
school library until the shelves
were nearly bare. Then Principal
Don Landers served notice that
every student who had taken out
3 or more books would have to
write a book report on each text
There’ll be a lot of midnight oil
burned. School lets out June 7th.
sammm
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