Circling The Island’s Coastline .< ■■
Added Up To A Pleasant Voyage
• (This is the second of a series
of articles describing a trip around
the Island aboard the Expansion
on her first trip of a scheduled
monthly run. The first article
described a visit at Old Harbor.)
Leaving Old Harbor, the travel
ler is then on the lookout for
Three Saints Bay, the first settle
ment of the Russians in Alaska
and on Kodiak Island. To our
knowledge, there is no one living
there. It seemed almost desolate
from a distance. Apparently a well
sheltered bay, it was obvious why
is was chosen by Shelekhov aboard
the ships Three Saints in 1784 for
settlement.
We next passed the Trinity Is
land group at the South end of
the Island, going into Lazy Bay,
and docking at the PAF Cannery
wharf at Alitak.
We spent most of our time in and
near the cannery, after we learned
the village was about six or seven
miles away.
But the six hours spent there
quickly passed as we conversed
with the genial, courteous and
kindly storekeeper, Hod Bradley,
Jim Monroe, chief engineer at the
cannery, George Smith, a cannery
worker, now' retired, and our old
friend Harold “Whitey” Young.
The latter is pretty well-known in
Kodiak. We indulged in the usual
run of cosversation, but it was a
pleasant interlude from aboard
our floating home.
We were sorry to learn Alitak is
so far without a school teacher.
Dick Avey is not there this year,
and the teacher slated to take his
place is not coming. But it may be
that other plans will be worked ou.
The big news at Alitak, of
course, is PAF’s new crab opera
tion, which is expected to get
under way this fall. This will help
to provide work for some of Ali
tak’s inhabitants and others.
We upped anchor about mid
night, continued our course, this
time around the west side of the
Island on the Shelikof Stria its
side. Fearing the worst, we expect
ed heavy seas would make us pitch
and toss, and we’d possibly miss
a meal or two. But it was sur
prisingly calm ,a landlubber’s de
light. We continued on into Kar
luk, which we reached about noon.
The sea was rolling a little here,
and the small boats that came out
to pick up the freight pitched and
tossed around a little. Many 01 ine
passengers, however, went ashore.
Three intrepid fishermen, a Dr.
Banks, Dr. Tom Colford and Jack
Basinger, were taken up the Kar
luk river and soon were having
the time of their lives pulling in
the big Silvers. We, of course, had
fish ior dinner that night.
Several of us went across the
river, many steps to the Melety’s
Memorial Church. This Russian
church was built June 11, 1888 by
Charles Smith Hursh. It is said
when Hursh first arrived there,
before he had even built his home,
he said: “We must build a church
The church is typical of Russian
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churches on the island, and has its
share of fine ikons—beautiful
paintings of the Churches saints.
Had a short chat with Fred
Sproul, who is teaching there this
year. He and his wife, Elizabeth,
were at Woody Island last year.
Capt. Thomsen called us aboard
with a blast from the ship’s
whistle, and we continued our way
alohg the island through Uyak
Bay and into Larsen Bay. The
first person to greet us as we
stepped on to the wharf there was
Mrs. Lloyd Howe, a former Kodiak
resident. While she went aboard
for fresh vegetables, we continued
up the long dock, through the can
nery ,and were then greeted by a
swarm of little gnats who had a
field day while we attempted to
get “shots”of the landscape. We
had to retreat sooner than we
wanted to. It wasn’t long before
we were on our way again, circl
ing around a large chunk of land
and into Uganik Bay. We arrived
at the San Juan dock late that
evening ior a oriei stop, runnong
into the first rain of the trip, a
slight drizzle. This bay is perhaps
one of the most interesting of any
on the island, with its many arms
and islands.
The ship skirted Vikoda Bay
and entered Kupreaof Straits. The
passage to Afognak called for close
scrutiny of radar and the fothome
ter, and called for anchorage some
distance from Afognak, where
the Expansion was met by Mike
Mullens in his skiff .After he
loaded freight and mail, we con
tinued on to Uzinkie, our last
stop before returning to Kodiak.
This last passege was marked by
rough sea, rain, but served only
to emphasize how fortunate we had
been for the four days aboard, as
we had enjoyed excellent weather,
good fellowship, a capable captain
and crew, and fine food.
We mentioned earlier the con
trasts and similarities seen on the
trip. The similarities we alluded
to were the problems of each vil
lage, in need for more of the com
forts of life; better facilities; more
needed services; more opportuni
ties. The people seemed contented,
unhurried, friendly. Isolation and
a dependence on^each other has
made them so.
Comedy Featured
In Week’s Movie
There is quite a variety in thea
tre fare in this week’s offerings
at the Orpheum Theatre.
The outstanding picture of the
week is that playing Thursday and
Friday when John Wayne appears
in “The Barbarian and the Geisha.”
But throughout the week will be
shown pictures starring the come
dian George Gobel and Diana Dors,
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis—
more comedy, of course and a
shocking expose.
Saturday
The George Gobel piece, "I Mar
ried A Woman” also stars Diana
Dors. The vehicle is said to be
an outrageously comical concoc
tion of marital fumbles, feminie
foibles and masculine martrydom
all churned together in the grey
flannel jungles of Madison Ave
nue.
Miss Dors, Britain’s top feminine
box-office attraction, plays the part
of a former beauty contest winner,
the unpredictable wife of a hot
shot idea man for an advertising
agency.
Adolphe Menjou is cast as Go
bel’s boss. Designed for laughs.
Sunday and Monday
Dean Martin is considered the
fastest man on a draw among
movie cowboys. He is said to be
a far better shot than the cowpoke
of the wild West.
i
From all reports, Dean’s fi
nesse with a 6-gun comes in handy
in "Partners.” The Technicolor
Western has Jerry Lewis as the
tenderfoot sheriff of a tough Ari
zona town and Dean his two-gun
sidekick. With Jerry bungling his
way in and out of saloon brawls,
gun fights, bank robberies, and
dynamite plots, Deans needs all his
speed just to keep Jerry in the
picture until the final scene.
Tuesday and Wednesday
“Damn Citizen” is Universal
International’s movie depicting
Louisiana’s celebrated “racket
purge” of a few years ago.
Filmed entirely in and around
New Orleans, the picture stars
Keith Andes, Maggie Hayes and
Gene Evans.
Thursday and Friday
“The Barbarian and the Geisha”
stars John Wayne, who is said to
perform tellingly as Townsend
Harris, first United States consul
to Japan following the initial sign
ing of a treaty promoted by Ad
miral Perry.
The film is exceptional fo^ itr
acting, but it is said its is that
its physical properties alone
— the sheer beauty of the
Orient captured in Cinemascope
and De Luxe Color and the scope
and spectacle attained in scorer
of sequences, not the least of
which is the burning of -a Japanese
village—makes the production a
memorable one.
Two Japanese are said to turn
in excellent perfromances. One it;
beauteous Eika Ando, as the Gei
sha, and So Yamamura, who por
trays a stubborn war lord.
Action and romance are supplied
in the outstanding picture directed
by John Huston.
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