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Stars-Red Sox
In Sunday Tilt
Climax of the Little League
season, following the district
playoffs at Anchorage, will be a
tilt between the All-Stars and
the Red Sox Sunday at 2 p.m. in
the town park.
Members of the Red Sox team
who played with the Little
League All-Stars at Anchorage
will be playing in Red Sox uni
forms, according to John Butler.
The game is rated as a toss-up.
There will be one more sched
uled game on Monday evening
which will write finis to the 1962
season.
Along
The
Waterfront
By Karl Armstrong
Fishing continues to hold up
good with generally good setting
weather prevailing in most areas
according to reports. Flew into
town last weekend on Gunner Gun
derson’s two-seat Aeronca from
Saltry Cove (Ugak Bay) where
about 35 seiners have been busy
scooping up humpies. While most
salmon fishermen stand to make a
good payday this year after having
sustained a number of poor years,
the happiest fishermen in the is
land’s fleet are Alaska Packers
boys who alone among all the fish
ermen are not held down by a
limit. Many fishermen are puzzled
over the limit imposed on them
by other canneries in that the
tenders are willing to accept the
“overs” fish but will not credit the
extra fish to the fishermen. The
tenders advise that the canneries
will credit the “over” to a fisher
man’s fund of some sort. At any
rate the “limit” is unappreciated
by the fishermen who pointedly
praise APA’s planning, preparation
and foresight and successful ef
forts to continue accepting all the
fish their boats deliver for their
Larsen Bay cannery which is op
erating on an around-the-clock
schedule to handle the catch.
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It is perhaps inevitable that hali
but fishermen will eventually move
to Kodiak with their families and
establish their permanent resi
dence here now that the cold stor
age is in operation. But to perhaps
speed this up, Ed Naughton has
come up with an idea that has con
siderable appeal. He had advised
us that Naughton’s Bakery will
give the first bonafide halibut boat
owner-operator who establishes his
home here and makes Kodiak his
base of operations, a free loaf of
bread a day for three months!
Mentioned this to Curley Wilson
of Curley’s Barber Shop and he
sez he will give the halibut fisher
man and his family free haircuts
for three months. The Mirror, of
course, will put up a one-year free
subscription. Anyone else wanna
get in the act?. ... If so, drop us
a call or note. Many kudos to Ed
Naughton for coming up with this
constructive civic promotion.
Taking To Swimming Pool Like Ducks
Scores of youngsters were on hand this past week for swimming
lessons at the Pete Deveau pool which are being taught by Chief of
Police R. E. Vickery of Kodiak. The Chief maintains that if all the
parents in the community could witness this scene it wouldn’t be too
long until Kodiak had a pool of its own.—Mirror Photo
Chief R. E. Vickery Begins Tenth Year
As Kodiak’s Law Enforcement Director
Kodiak’s Chief of Police, R. E.
Vickery, began his 10th year as
the head of the local department
on Wednesday, Aug. 1.
The congenial chief started his
law enforcement career in Miami
Beach, Florida, where he spent
about 18 years in patrol and beach
work. From there he came to Fair
banks. After 2Vz years as a patrol
man he was promoted to captain.
From Fairbanks he came to Ko
diak.
One of the highlights of his ca
reer in Alaska was his selection
as the outstanding chief of the
Alaskan Territory in 1954. He re
ceived a plaque from the Mission,
Texas, Chamber of Commerce for
this honor.
MASSACHUSETTS NATIVE
Chief Vickery was born in Lynn,
Mass., and spent a hitch in the
COUPLE MARRIED
Miss Bernice Cordray was united
in marriage on July 31 to James
Olin Escue in a ceremony per
formed in the district courtroom
by Magistrate Mabel Fenner.
Appeal Of Ferry
Ruling Planned
JUNEAU (JP) — Attorney Gen
eral George N. Hayes said Alaska
will join Washington State in ap
pealing to U.S. Supreme Court a
circuit court ruling requiring pay
ment of personal transportation
taxes by users of state-operated
ferries.
Hayes said the outcome is of ex
treme importance to users of Alas
ka’s new ferry system.
COMIN' EVENTS
August 5—Attend the church of
your choice today.
August 5—Little League Exhibi
tion game between the All-Stars
and Red Sox, 2 p.m., town diamond.
August 7—Rotary Club meets at
12 noon, Mecca 49 Room.
Entertainment
The Montmartre Inn — Exotics:
Dallas Darlene, Cerlette, Jeanne
Satellite.
Beachcombers — Alaskan Hill
billies.
Navy before getting into police
work.
The Vickerys have four daugh
ters, Mrs. Frances Sherman of Ko
diak; Mrs. Rolanna Crosley who is
working at Century 21 in Seattle;
and Jo Ann, 16, and Maria 8. One
of the girls was born in Brooklyn,
two in Florida and the youngest
in Alaska, which covers quite a
geographical spread, the chief ad
mits.
The Vickerys will celebrate their
silver anniversary next April, and
the entire community of Kodiak
wishes the chief continued success
beginning a decade of service to
the island.
Record Salmon Catch Almost Certain;
Pack Report Jumps 154,173 Past Week
The salmon catch and deliveries
continued at a record clip this
week as indicated in the salmon
pack report made by Dexter Lall
of the Alaska Department of Fish
and Game through July 29 as it
revealed the salmon pack in the
past seven days totaled 154,173
cases.
The report the fore part of this
week showed 346,414 cases as com
pared to 192,2401/2 on July 22.
Case distribution in the various
categories were as follows: 107
Kings; 30,497 Reds; 1,726 Cohos;
271,684 Pinks and 42,400 Chums.
The 346,414 case pack compares
with 187,028 at approximately the
same time in 1960—considered a
good year and 130,384 in 1961 re
garded as a so-so year.
Weather conditions hampered
fishing operations the early part
of this week with the result that
the canneries upped the delivery
limit to 1,500 fish per day per man
on Tuesday morning and raised it
again to 2,000 in the afternoon.
Officials at the Kodiak office of
the ADFG predicted the remainder
Absentee Ballots
Are Now On Hand
Magistrate Mabel Fenner said
this week that she has received a
supply of absentee ballots avail
able for eligible voters in this dis
trict who will not be at home to
vote on Aug. 14.
Mrs. Fenner said that they could
be mailed to eligible voters by re
questing them in writing to her at
P.O. Box 1367.
We Can Expect Moisture, Clouds, Wind
Cool Weather And Even Some Sunshine
We’ll have weather, whether or
not it’ll please you during August
of 1962, according to Commander
A. L. Dodson, Commanding Offi
cer U.S. Weather Central at Ko
diak who previews the situation
ahead by what has happened dur
ing the month since 1952.
Average daily mean temperature
is 54.9 degrees with the average
daily maximum and minimum of
59.7 and 50.2 degrees respectively.
Average daily sea water tempera
ture is 53.8 degrees resulting in a
daily mean air-sea temperature dif
ference of 1.1 degrees.
Prevailing wind direction in the
month is Northwest with an av
erage hourly speed of 7.1 knots.
Precipitation of at least 0.01 inch
occurs on an average of 13.8 days
resulting in an average total
amount of 3.64 inches. Maximum
amount of precipitation which has
occurred in one 24 hour period is
1.50 inches.
Over three-quarters of the time,
or 76.6 per cent, the sky cover is
at least six-tenths with clear con
ditions occurring only 5.2 per cent
of the time or a total of 38.7 hours.
Days are getting shorter too. For
example, the sun rise today, Fri
day, Aug. 3 was at 4:08 a.m. and
sunset at 10:23 p.m. On the last
day of this month the sun rise will
be at 5:08 a.m. and sunset at 7:50
p.m.
Back-To-School
Edition, Aug. 21
The Mirror’s annual “Back to
School” edition will be published
on Friday, Aug. 21, it was an
nounced by the Mirror staff to
day.
The special edition will fea
ture apparel for the kindergar
ten through high school and
those attending college by Ko
diak merchants.
Kodiak business firms desiring
to reserve advertising space in
advance for the special edition
may do so by calling 48G- 'O9'?.
ARRESTS REPORTED
Two arrests were made by the
Kodiak police department during
the past week as Arvid B. Iverson
and Alex Naumoff were both
charged with intoxication and for
feited $25 bail, according to Chief
R. E. Vickery who rated it as a
quiet week.
of this week would continue to be
good fishing and into the first part
of next week.
Apparently, officials keeping
tab of the catch and pack, predict
that 1962 will be a “record catch
year” for the Kodiak area, but be
cause of the size of the salmon it
will not establish a new pack rec
ord.
Halibut Storage
Business Thriving
The salmon industry isn’t the
only one occupying Kodiak Island
at this time, as Howard Wakefield,
manager of Alaska Ice and Storage
reports that 8.800,000 pounds of
halibut have been processed there
since the plant opened this year.
Presently there are 1,300,000
pounds on hand at the plant, and
Alaska Ice and Storage was busy
this week looking for a spot to
store some 150,000 pounds.
“We’re packed to the roof-top,”
Wakefield said.
Kodiak Kapsules—
(By Bill Mason)
It will be all over but the
counting in about 10 more days,
and enthusiasm over the primary
elections is at low tide here in
the Kodiak area, even though
we’ve had three candidates for
governor, Egan, Stepovich and
Taylor, and one for Congress,
Lowell Thomas, Jr., and one for
U.S. Senator, Frank Cook, paying
us a visit on the island the past
two weeks.
Even the local race for the
House of Representatives among
Pete Deveau and Gil Jarvela,
who served in the last session,
and Chuck Weir, has failed to
stir the populace.
Blame it all on the good sal
mon season.
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For those with a mathematical
trend of mind, there’s the story
of the three squaws who were ex
pecting at about the same time.
Each had a different kind of hide
for a bed.
The squaw with the bear skin
had a boy; the squaw with the deer
skin had a girl; and the squaw with
the hippopotumus hide had twins,
a boy and a girl. All of which
proves that the squaw of the hip
popotamus is equal to the sum of
the squaws of the other two hides.
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Things are back to normal at
the Mirror as work of putting to
gether 1,500 copies of the new
telephone book was completed
Monday of this week in time for
a pre-August delivery.
To meet the deadline, it was
necessary to hold up a few other
jobs, but we’re happy to an
nounce everything is back on
schedule for your letterheads,
tickets, announcements and
other printing needs. And
thanks for bearing with us.
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A good example of community
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