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State Takes All
Available Lands
Virtually all of the public lands
recently released by the federal
government for entry and settle
ment on Kodiak Island has been
taken by the State of Alaska, ac
cording to the publication, “Alaska
Land Lines,” put out by the Alaska
Department of Natural Resources,
Division of Lands, in Anchorage.
Federal Land Order 2417 releas
ed most of Kodiak and adjacent
islands from prohibitive restric
tions applied during World War
II. However, under the provisions
of the Alaska Statehood Enabling
Act, the new state has the right
to make selections of state owned
lands within a certain period of
time following a federal land re
lease order.
A total of 395,467.52 acres of
General Grant selections were
made by the State on Kodiak and
surrounding islands during Dec
ember. Not included in that total
are 11,070 acres on Marmot Island
and 48,674 acres on Shuyak Island.
The state publication also reveal
ed the state had also acquired
another 115.98 acres under Com
munity Grant selection.
The greater part of Kodiak Is
land remains under federal jurisdi
ction as a National Wildlife Refuge
while virtually all of Afognak Is
land lies within a national forest
area.
CAB Inquiry Into
Air Crash Slated
An inquiry into the crash of a
Kodiak Airways plane on Old Har
bor on Dec. 24, 1961, is scheduled
to be held in Kodiak on February
14th by the Civil Aeronautics
Board, according to unofficial but
usually reliable sources.
The CAB inquiry will seek to de
termine the cause of the crash
which resulted in the death of a
ten year old boy and badly injured
the pilot, Gene Kingston. Deposi
tions of eyewitnesses to the crash
and others involved will be taken
during the inquiry.
Jack Scavenius of the Alaska De
partment of Aeronautics accom
panied CAB officials as an observ
er on their trip here last week in
connection with the crashed plane
which has been recovered and
brought into Kodiak. ,
The hearing will be open to the
public.
Return From Wing
Four Kodiak Civil Air Patrol of
ficers here returned from the Alas
ka Wing Area Conference in An
chorage.
Attending the meeting from the
Kodiak Squardron were: 2nd Lt. R.
Leonard, 2nd Lt. Margaret Cook,
2nd Lt. Eugene Harding, and
Senior Members Charles Hamilton.
During the two-day meet awards
were presented with Lt. Cook and
Lt. Leonard of Kodiak receiving
their Red (2-year) service ribbons.
Reports of the conference were
made at last nights meeting of the
local CAP unit.
Kodiak Corporation
Ordered Dissolved
Complaints of usury against
three officers of a Kodiak corpora
tion were dismissed by the District
Magistrate’s court in Anchorage
this week after the corporation en
tered a plea of guilty to the same
charge.
Island Investors, Inc., was order
ed dissolved and fined a maximum
of $500 after a plea of guilty to
usury was entered through its at
torney, Seaborn J. Buckalew of
Anchorage.
Assistant District Attorney Clyde
Houston said that complaints
against the three corporation of
ficers were dismissed. The officers,
he stated, were John Mansuy, an
attorney; Morris F. Egan, a certifi
ed public accountant; and Donald
Wolf, local businessman.
The corporation was charged
specifically with loaning William
Gregorioff $400 on the condition
that he repay $700 at the end of the
fishing season.
District Magistrate Hugh White
suspended $150 of the $500 fine on
the condition that they cancel all
Gregorioff’s indebtedness and dis
solve the corporation.
The legal interest rate, said
Houston, is six per cent, except for
small loan companies.
Mrs. Tatiana Mahle
Taken Wednesday
Mrs. Tatiana Mahle, 64, died
Wednesday night at the Alaska
Native Service Hospital in Anchor
age. She had suffered a stroke
several years ago and entered the
ANS hospital January 23rd for
treatment after her condition wors
ened.
Born in Kodiak on October 18,
1898, Mrs. Mahle lived here most of
her life.
She is survived by her husband,
Otto Mahle; daughters, Mrs. Mary
Frost and Mrs. Lydia Pemberton
of Kodiak, and four sons: Ole Mah
le, Kodiak; Marvin, Charles, and
Fred Meyer, all of Seattle.
Other survivors include her
brother, Rudy Sundberg of Kodiak;
a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Loughran
of Seattle, and several grandchil
dren.
Arrangements and date of fun
eral services which will be held at
the Russian Orthodox Church are
pending the return of the remains
from Anchorage.
Superior Court To
Hear Cases Here
State Superior Court will be held
in Kodiak for three days next
week, acording to word received
here by Deputy Magistrate Mabel
Fenner.
Presiding Judge of the Superior
Court, Judge Edward V. Davis, will
hold court on various civil cases on
Feb. 7, 8 and 9, in Fishermen’s
Hall, Judge Fenner advised today.
The new Company Commander
of the local Kodiak National Guard
unit, 1st Lt. S. Bruce Willard, re
turned to his home in Homer to
day after spending the past four
days here with Major Lloyd Mape,
regular army advisor, in prepara
tion for a coming “IG” inspection
of the unit.
Got Any Ideas?
Festival Wants!
From today until next Friday
has been proclaimed as “King
Crab Festival Idea Week,” accord
ing to Festival Coordinator Ed
Naughton, who is “avidly seeking
new ideas” for this years not-so
distant celebration.
“We would like the people to
give us suggestions and ideas dur
ing these initial planning stages of
this year’s festival. Any and all
ideas, no matter how far-fetched
they might sound, will be appreci
ated,” Naughton said.
“We want this year’s King Crab
Festival to be the biggest and best
ever, and we welcome the introduc
tion of new or original suggestions
or ideas on how to make the event
even more exciting than it has
been in the past,” he added.
Naughton can be reached “most
any time” by phoning Naughton’s
Bakery.
Spring Meeting
Of Game Board
Set For Fairbanks
The annual spring meeting of
the Alaska Board of Fish and Game
will be held at Fairbanks beginn
ing about April 5 to consider pro
posals for changes in the Game and
Guilding Regulations, Walter Kirk
ness, Commissioner of the Depart
ment of Fish and Game, has an
nounced.
All proposals for the Board’s
consideration should be sent to the
Commissioner of the Alaska De
partment of Fish and Game, Sub
port Building, Juneau. The dead
line for receiving these proposals
is February 20. Proposals received
after this date cannot be consider
ed for action at the spring meet
ing, though comments on propos
als submitted before this deadline
will be solicited.
Mirrored Reflections
By SIG DIGREE
Reading Dr. Meissner’s impres
sions of Kodiak as found elsewhere
in this issue was like a shot in the
arm giving a much-needed lift to
the morale reduced to a minimum
by the continued cold, the quick
thaws, icy condition and the pro
blems that these bring.
It was a little difficult looking
on Kodiak as a “paradise island”
with a shovel in your hand, shovell
ing water into a bucket. This is the
first time in this writer’s life that
he had ever shovelled water—up
to now it has always been dirt or
snow. But due to the City’s inabili
ty to keep the drains open in front
of the Mirror office, we will have
to arm ourselves with this “joy
stick” whenever there is a quick
thaw. It’s frustrating, to say the
least, and about the most non-pro
ductive work we can think of.
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We have even just about lost in
terest in having the street paved
in front of the office—despite the
fact that an appraiser is again in
our midst and it seems some action
is planned for early spring—all we
care about is to keep the water
out of our building.
The 17th Naval District is going
to get “something bigger than a
rowboat”, according to an article
by Phil von Herberg appearing in
the Fairbanks News - Miner the
other day. The fact was disclosed
last week during Senate hearings
on the nomination of Fred Korth
as Secretary of the Navy.
According to the article, “the
disclosure was made during an
amusing exchange between nomi
nee Korth and Alaskan Senator
Bob Bartlett ... As secretary of
the Navy, Korth will control the
lives and destinies of 653,000 Navy
men. As Navy Secretary, he will
have somewhere in the neighbor
hood of $11,846,000,000 to spend
during the 1963 fiscal year.”
Senators on the Armed Services
committee interviewed the nom
inee. Then it came Bob Bartlett’s
turn. “I was all the more inclined
to vote for Mr. Korth,” said Sen.
Bartlett, “when Mr. Korth visited
me the other day and told me that
one objective of his administration
would be to secure for the 17th
Naval District in Alaska, a boat
bigger than a rowboat, which is
about the biggest they have now.”
The article continues: “So, that’s
why Alaska can look forward to the
beefing up of locally stationed
naval forces. It’s a natural thing,
too, as Bartlett puts it.
“From Alaska, the U.S. can dom
inate effectively possible Russian
war operations from the Coast
of Siberia or the Arctic Ocean
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RotariansTold
About Falconry
The sport of falconry as indulg
ed in by knights of old and its
modern version was explained by
Dick Bennett in a speech before
the Kodiak Rotary Club Tuesday
noon at the Mecca 49 Room.
In his speech, Bennett outlined
the steps necessary in the training
of a falcon for use in hunting. As
he gave his speech, he had a falcon
perched on his wrist.
“The main thing necessary in
training is patience,” he said.
“They are hard to train, and when
the bird completes its first hunt,
you feel you have accomplished
something.”
Falcons have been clocked at 240
mph, Bennett said. They are flesh
eaters, and during training must
be fed a pound of meat a day. The
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Kodiak—Paradise At End Of World
(Ed. note: We are grateful to Mr.
A1 Hochberger, vice-president of
the Kodiak Branch, National Bank
of Alaska, for his translation of the
following article, which appeared
in a German newspaper.)
“Die Kleine Stadt Kodiak—Ein
Paradies Am Ende Der Welt”
To the non-German, the above
sentence would mean very little.
But contained therein is a fine
compliment to the place in which
you live. It means: “The Small
City of Kodiak—A Paradise on the
End of the World.”
An article, captioned as above,
appeared in far - a - way Munich,
Germany, in a Sunday newspaper
dated December 17, 1961. The ar
ticle was written by Dr. Hans Ctto
Meissner, who visited Kodiak in
September, 1961.
The principal theme in the artic
le indicates that Kodiak is definite
ly a paradise. Kodiak is only eleven
hours from Munich, he said, but
the cost of getting here would be
prohibitive to most—the price of
a small automobile.
Dr. Meissner views Kodiak as a
small town in which people are in
terested in each other. ‘They are
friendly and live a very peaceful
life and have a way of making a
stranger feel at home.” He says
the citizens of Kodiak have no hesi
tation in asking a stranger where
he is from and how long he intends
to stay and what his occupation is,
and so on. “Whereupon, they im
mediately invite you in and intro
duce you to other family members,
friends, and neighbors.
A picture of the small boat har
bor is shown, and under it this cap
tion: “An automobile is almost un
necessary in Kodiak, as the tourist
are invariably shown around the
Island in a small float plane.” He
said he couldn’t understand why
there weren’t more tourists com
ing here.
He writes about the King Crab
being the largest crab in the world
and about the first time that he
had eaten some of it. He found
that it tasted very good and was
similar to lobster. He mentioned
that the average crab will furnish
enough food for a family of four
for one meal and leave enough
over for the neighborhood pets. He
mentions that the king crab is un
known in Europe and that he
would wager that in many parts of
America it is also unknown, and
hopes that some day they could be
marketed in his country.
Dr. Meissner said he could see
possibilities in the beautiful dark
red crab shells being made into
various novelty items as lamp
shades and many other uses. A
picture captioned: “Most unbeleve
able is the size of the crab, which
contains a meat similar to lobster.”
This is a picture of Donald Nelson,
a local fisherman, holding up a
huge Kodiak King Crab.
The visitor apparently got around
the Island, perhaps more than
many residents of the area, for he
tells of visiting Karluk, Uganik
Bay and various villages and can
neries on the island. He was amaz
ed to see the salmon going up the
streams to spawn. He said he had
seen as many as seven or eight
bears in a stream with their large
paws throwing the salmon out on
the bank. He was amazed at their
size.
The writer constantly refers to
the beauty surrounding Kodiak and
Kodiak Island — the beautiful
green meadows, flowers and the
many different kinds of berries
which grow abundantly. He wrote
of the feasibility of the horseback
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