Nine Candidates Hie For State Offices;
Interest Mounts In Primary Election
Nine candidates are entered in
the race for seats in the State
Senate and House of Representa
tives from Election District 13 and
Senate District I, in the primary
election which will be held Tues
day, August 9.
The Democratic race for State
representative will be the hottest
contest in the election with four
candidates looking to the vote of
the electors for two seats in the
House. These are Rep. Pete De
veau, present incumbent, Gil Jar
vela, Eudora Preston and Charles
Weir.
In the Senate race for District I,
present incumbent Sen. A1 Owen
is being opposed by aspirant Fred
Brechan. Both are Democrats.
On the Republican side there is
no opposition. A. Holmes Johnson
is the lone candidate for State
senator for District I, and Emil
Knudsen and John Trent seek elec
tion as State representative. Two
seats are open in the primaries.
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AL OWEN
RE-ELECT
★
Senator
Irene
RYAN
★
A PROVEN record of ability,
experience and integrity
on behalf of ALL Alaskans!
IRENE RYAN-Democrat
Alaska State Senate
Sen. A1 Owen, seeking re-elec
tion to the Alaska Senate as a
Democratic candidate, is no new
comer to politics.
Owen polled a large vote in the
election in 1958 when the electors
favored him as the first State
senator following statehood. He
was first elected to the territorial
legislature in 1948 and the terri
torial senate in 1954.
In the Senate, Owen is chairman
of the State Finance Committee.
He and his wife, Hazel, live at
Uganik Bay, where he operates a
small cannery. He has been a resi
dent of Alaska for many years,
living for a time in Anchorage
before coming to Kodiak. He was
in business here for a short time
before moving to Uganik.
He seeks re election on the basis
of his experience in the legislature,
where, he says, he has served the
people of the Kodiak area well.
FRED C. BRECHAN
Fred C. Brechan, Democratic
candidate for the Alaska State
Senate, Election District 13, and
Senate Districts E and I, enters the
State political scene after serving
for the past two years on the City
Council.
Brechan was born in Tempe,
Arizona in 1912, the year, he says,
Arizona became a state. He has
been a resident of Alaska the past
19 years and a resident of Kodiak
for five years. He has worked at
construction until 1951, and since
that time has been self-employed.
He and his wife Ruth, live in Ko
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diak. There are four children, three
of whom are in Kodiak.
Fred Brechan is mainly inter
ested in the development of Alas
ka’s fisheries and "getting things
done for the Kodiak area.”
Mollettis Attend
Church Conference
Dr. John Molletti, formerly pas
tor of the Community Baptist
Church here, was in attendance at
the Evangelism Conference, held
at Green Lake, Wisconsin, which
closed July 30. Mr. Molletti, and
their four children, Evonna, Bar
bara, Rhonda and David, accom
panied him.
Approximately 100 delegates in
cluding public school teachers,
school administrators, PTA mem
bers and parents of school children
were in attendance. “The Witness
of the Church in the World” was
the theme of the conference, which
studied political, racial and eco
nomic problems encountered in
public school education.
Truth Cures Everything
“Your wife used to be terribly
nervous. Now she is cool and com
posed as a cucumber. What cured
her?”
“The doctor did. He told her that
her kind of nervousness was the
natural result of advancing age."
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