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Canneries are beginning to slow
down now and more days off for
the hard-pushed cannery workers
are in store now that the crab are
entering the soft shell stage.
Weather has been a hampering
factor insofar as the shrimp opera
tion at Eastpoint goes, Office Man
ager Shirley Fiilis tells us.
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Some of the fishermen have been
suggesting that the Alaskan ferry
boats be so constructed as to per
mit the placement of heavy guns
aboard in case they are needed by
the Governor to drive alien fleets
from our fisheries.
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Skipper Odd Ronstad sez “The
King of Norway is gonna haft wait
until later on in the year for his
King Crab cause I’m all done for
this season!” Odd put his gear in
the grass and will be taking his
North Beach out to Lake Union,
Seattle, for her annual overhaul.
“I’ll bring her back up around the
latter part of June, so the King
may get his crab in July,” Odd told
us. (He sed he “felt kinda sorry
for the King of Sweden cause he
didn’t think there were any Swedes
engaged in the tough-rough Kodiak
King Crab fishery!”)
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Skipper Clayton Harris has also
hung it up for this season and is
taking his Tahiti out to Tacoma for
overhaul, according to his able
crewman James Jaren who hails
from Aberdeen, Wash., but who,
like his skipper, is planning to
build his home here.
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T was a grand “Grand Opening”
Dorothy splurged with at the Mecca
March 11. The place was so packed
it was difficult to get to the feast
ing tables and Supermixologist
Howard and his staff of waiters
and waitresses had a rough go of
it trying to keep guests mugs filled.
And Pretty May tells us that the
Limbo dance originated with a hot
cigarette left in a bath towel!
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Skipper Herman Von Scheele’s
Marmot Cape. Ran into crewman
Johnnie Reft who said they got
towed in by Skipper Albert Tor
sen’s Marine Greer from Jap Bay.
Repairs are underway now at Cecil
Sholl’s expert hands.
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Jinney Wilson announced this
week that she is now sole owner
of the Village Bar, having bought
out Danny Ennslin’s interest. Jin
ney is also owner of the Inlet Bar
in Kenai but now maks her home
in Kodiak which she calls “My cor
ner of the world.”
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Edie and Legs out at the Beach
combers had a run on their spa
ghetti the past couple Friday nites
.. . over 300 showed up before mid
nite this week ... we almost
missed out on our free meal even!
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Did you know they serve tops in
Chinese foods at the Montmartre
Inn? Especially good are the pork
noodles . . . but extreme caution
must be exercised if you take a no
tion to swipe one teeny-weeny slice
off Big Les’ plate! The new beer
tender assisting Ray Wilson at the
Ships is Frank Bush incidentally.
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Increasing concern is being
voiced throughout the fisheries
about the spectre of our entire
waterfront being closed down
due to a shortage of fresh water.
Last year Alaska Packers saved
the day by hauling water from
the base. This year there has
been added the shrimp operation
which consumes fresh water in
vast quantities ... and it appears
there will be no snow holding
water. It is absolutely inexcus
able that this impending water
shortage should have been al
lowed to develop. The people
okay’ed that bond issue many
months ago . . . last year in fact
. . . and still there has been no
action. The day that the powers
that-be ever call up our canneries
again and tell them to shut down
their operations due to a water
shortage ... is the very day that
those officials should submit
their resignations for they will
plainly have failed this entire
community . . . fishermen, can
nery workers and everyone! This
community cannot stand such ir
responsibility on the part of its
officials. (Now watch ’em squirm
around trying to pin the respon
sibility on somebody else . . .
it’ll be interesting to see who is
made the scapegoat although it
is obvious to everyone whose
fault it really is that there has
been no action taken to get that
Pillar Creek project underway
months ago!)
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Reported to have come to Kodiak
from the Juneau area is the Ger
trude S which will be crab fishing
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