Rotarians Told
Of Rampart Dam
In the private opinion of an Alas
kan engineer, the Rampart Dam
was declared as financially feasi
ble, filling a need for power by the
time it is constructed and in use.
Mr. Frank Mapleton, of the U. S.
Army Corps of Engineers, address
ing the members present at the
weekly luncheon of the Rotary
Club Tuesday noon at the 49 Room,
described the project as an enor
mous undertaking, 2.8 times as big
as the Grand Coulee Dam, which
would be capable of supplying
Alaska, the Pacific Northwest and
eastward with low cost power. He
said cost of power would be 3 mills
per k.w.h.
Mapleton, however, state the fin
ancial feasibility of the project
must be shown before the Corps
of Engineers will recommend it be
constructed. Population trends over
the next 50 years will be a deter
mining factor in whether it will
be feasible. “There will be more
than 248 million people in the U.S.
in the next 50 years,” Mapleton
said. This is based on present
trends. The figures are arrived at
from studies being conducted.
The dam will be built in 17 dif
ferent units. It will take 7 years
to put the first unit into operation,
Mapleton said. Four of the units
will be built from a much lower
elevation.
The speaker brought out the in
teresting point that only three vil
lages would have to be moved in
constructing the dam. Cost of the
dam would be about one and one
third billion dollars. It was when
the speaker quoted this figure that
he said the financial feasibility of
constructing the dam had to be es
tablished before work would begin.
Mapleton envisioned great in
creases in population in the Pacific
Northwest, and felt the need for
increased power would be there by
the time the dam was in operation.
The dam, he said, would be capable
of producing 5 million k.w. of
power in the next 70 years, allow
ing for its transmission for greater
distances than now conceivable.
A movie was shown titled “Navy
Screen Highlights” which made up
the balance of the program.
Guests at the lunch besides Mr.
Mapleton, were “Skipper” Knud
sen, Roy H. Madsen, and Rev.
Macarius Targonsky.
Guest Speakers
At Baptist Church
Rev. Phillip Essex, associate pas
tor of the First American Baptist
Church of Anchorage, will be the
£.uest speaker at the morning serv
ice at the Kodiak Community Bap
tist Church on Sunday, beginning
at 11 a. m.
Rev. Robert Hall of the Commun
ity Baptist Church of Cordova will
occupy the pulpit in the evening.
The service begins at 7:30.
The two visiting ministers have
been in attendance at the Alaskan
American Baptist Retreat held on
Woody Island this past week.
Rev Leo Schlegel, general mis
sionary of Alaska, expressed him
U. S. WINS DAVIS CUP ZONE FINALS—Rafael Osuna, 22,
of Mexico hits a backhand shot at the net as Bernard (Tut) Bartzen
awaits the return in singles match of the Davis Cup zone finals at
Cleveland. Bartzen’s 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 victory gave the U. S. team a 3-2 de
cision in the three-day matches. (AP Wirephoto)
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self as very pleased with the suc
cess of the retreat, a first for
Alaska.
Two national leaders, Dr. Clif
ford Hansen and Dr. Elmer Adams,
added to the inspiration of the re
treat it was stated. Missionaries
from Ouzinkie and the Kodiak Bap
tist Mission, as well as Rev. and
Mrs. Lewis White dt the Kodiak
Community Church were also in
attendance.
Book Review
“The Future of Our Cities, by
Robert A. Futterman. Doubleday
& Company, Inc. Pub. Aug. 11.
CITIES IN DECLINE
With a deep shudder, a success
ful investor, builder and real estate
developer, takes a look at Ameri
can city life and urges the people
to “do something.” He also gives
pats of encouragement and hearty
congratulations where he thinks
they are deserved in his book, “The
Future of Our Cities,” published by
Doubleday on August 11.
Robert A. Futterman, a young
man who is the head of a real es
tate organization with properties
from coast -to coast, says that
among apparently prosperous cities
the observer can find candidates
for disaster within the near future
—plus a few cities that are sliding
gently down right now. Detroit and
Seattle are on the decline now.
Charleston, West Virginia and Mi
ami, Florida may begin to suffer
in the near future from over-con
centration in single industries.
Mr. Futterman pleads for pro
grams to clean up city centers.
“Herculean as it seems, the job
of cleaning up concentrated areas
in center city may prove small be
side the growing need to restore
humanity and grace to our spread
out miles of blighted countryside,”
he writes. “If a slogan were needed
for the postwar era, it might be
‘iRemember Los Angeles,’ once a
pleasant city of cockeyed but gen
uine civilization, now an enormous
housing tract, mile upon mile of
land built upon but not really
settled.”
In Part One of “The Future of
Our Cities” he discusses cities in
general with comments on indus
try, transportation, the develop
ment of suburbs, housing for min
ority groups, government’s role in
city planning and suggestion for
urban renewal.
Part Two is devoted to surveys of
nineteen specific cities. Here is
what he has to say about some of
them:
Boston—“No downtown in Amer
ica needs quite so much work as
Boston—or seems quite so unlikely
to get it.”
Kansas City — “A quarter of a
century ago this was the most raw,
violent and corrupt of major Amer-1
ican cities.
Chicago — “Temperamentally,
Chicago remains central to Amer
ica — a baffling and fascinating
study in contrasts, very rich and
very poor, handsome and hideous,
intelligent and idiotic. Chicago is
the home of the inventiveness
which created the balloon-fame
building and then the fireproof
structual steel skyscraper; the in
genuity which found a way to rest
very large buildings on a founda
tion of soft clay and sand. But with
the imagination, somehow came an
insensitivity which permitted the
nation’s worst slums and the most
wretched industrial blight in Amer
ica ... I do not like Chicago, per
sonally . . . But, professionally, I
can’t resist it.” ,
Dallas—‘Wot everyone admires
the Texas notion of doing things
big for the sake of their size, but
when you have a city to build there
is something to be said for it. Few
cities in America have grown so
repidly as Dallas in the last decade.
Norfolk—“Norfolk is already a
must-see on the list of everyone
connected with municipal planning
anywhere in America.”
Other cities which Mr. Futter
man discusses in detail include Los
Angeles, Washington, Atlanta,
Denver, Philadelphia, Louisville
Cmcinnati, New Orleans-Baton
Rouge, Akron, Grand Rapids, Tulsa
and San Francisco.
Christian Science
Society
Sunday School.9:30 a. m.
Sunday Service 11:00 a. m
Testimony Meeting .. 4th Wed
8:00 p.m.
Reading Room.Wed
7-8 p. m
Located on Sfoelikoff
near Cope St.
Church of God
6th & I Streets
Fred Mamaloff, Pastor
Sunday School.10 a.m.
Morning Worship.11 » m
Evening Service ,... 7:30 p.m
Mid Week Service ... 7:30 p.m
Wednesday
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cycles, 8 a. m. Sunday
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CHURCH OF CHRIST
Sunday School 10:00 A. M.
Worship Service 10:45 A. M.
Meeting each Sunday morning
in the Old City Hall Bldg.
For Information call 487-5846
Kodiak Assembly
of God Church
Mission Road
Pastor Wm. L. Cummins
Phone 486—2491
“Not By Might, Nor By Power,
But By My Spirit, Sutih the
Lord tf Hosts.”
SERVICE SCHEDULE
SUNDAY
Sunday School.10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship ... ii:00 a.m.
Christ’s Ambassadors 6:30 p.m.
Evangelistic Service .. 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
Women’s Prayer
Meeting.2:00 p.m
WEDNESDAY
Prayer & Bible Study 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Youth Meeting.7:00 p.m.
Prayer Meeting.8:30 p. m.
SATURDAY
Missionettes.2:00 p. m.
Berean Baptist Church
RJEV. CLETIS LEVERETT, PASTOR
L. B. LINDSEY, S. S. SUPERINTENDENT
A Bible Believing Baptist Church with
a Real Concern for Souls of Men.
SUNDAY SCHOOL 10 00
MORNING WORSHIP 11K)0
EVENING SERVICE 7:00
PRAYER MEETING (Wed.) 7:30
“For the Word of God and the
Testimony of Jesus Christ.”
The Community Baptist Church
fRev. Lewis White
f “The Big White Church on the Hill”
Sunday School—9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship—11:00 a.m.
Youth Fellowship Groups—-6:30 p.m.
Evening Worship—7:30 p.m.
Mid Week Service—7:30 p.m. Wednesday
“HOLDING FORTH THE WORD OF LIFE”
KODIAK DIRECTORY
KODIAK
HMBLEM
CLUB
N®. 187
Meets 1st & 3rd
Thursday at
8 p.m. at the
Elks dub.
KODIAK LODGE NO. 1772 BPOE
■ I ’ i
Meets every Friday
evening
at 8:30 p.m
Visiting Members Welcome
ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS
SYSTEM
Hours of Business
Monday thru Friday, 9 am to 6 pm
Saturday, 9 am to 12 noon
Sundays and Holidays, Closed
Wires may be filed during the
closed office hours by dialing 110.
KODIAK ISLAND JAYCEES
Meet the 1st. and 3rd.
Wednesday of each
month.
7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
In the Montmartre
Basement.
BARTENDERS LOCAL 875 AJM*
Meets on 2nd Sunday of every
month, 12 noon at Fishermen's
Hall.
KODIAK
LODOk
F. * A. M.
No. 295
Meetings — Stated 3rd Monday,
8 p.m. at Kodiak Masonic Tempi*
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BUSINESS ft PROFESSIONAL
WOMEN’S CLUB
Business Meeting—let Monday at
7^30 p.m.
Dinner Meeting—3rd Monday at
7:60 p.m. at Island Fountain.
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Regular meetings 1st and 3rd
Tuesdays, 8 p.m.,
at the VFW Hall.
JACK ALLMAN POST NO. 17
AMERICAN LEGION
Carl Rodli, Commander
Phone 486—5375
Larry Loomis, Adjutant
Phone 48&—5173