VOL. 22, NO. 21 KODIAK, ALASKA, MAY 25, 1962 PRICE TEN CENTS
Cold Storage Plant Opens
Kodiak’s first and long-awaited
cold storage plant is in operation.
The arrival of 110 tons of bait
on the M.V. Tanana a week ago
marked the first actual use of the
facilities of Alaska Ice and Cold
Storage, Inc., located in the City
Dock area.
The bait, comprised of 70 tons
of Octupus from Japan and 40 tons
of herring from Ketchikan, is now
available to the halibut fleet.
Another 360 tons of herring will
arrive at a later date, according to
Howard Wakefield, general man
ager for the new firm here.
The firm hopes to have the plant
ready to accept it’s first deliveiy
of fresh halibut by Wednesday,
June 1st.
The holding room, where frozen
products are kept after being proc
essed in the -50 degrees tempera
tures of the freezing tunnels and
dipped in the glazing tank, had
been under refrigeration for sev
eral days prior to the arrival of the
bait. Temperature in the holding
room is kept at about -12 degrees.
The present holding room is es
timated to have a capacity of from
1,700,000 to 1,800,000 pounds of hal
ibut. Another holding room ten
125 To Graduate
From U. of Alaska
125 will graduate from the Uni
versity of Alaska when commence
ment exercises are held there,
Monday, May 28. Baccalaureate
services will be held the previous
Sunday, May 27.
During commencement exer
cises, honorary degrees will be con
ferred on Lowell Thomas, Sr., Dr.
R. Rolland Armstrong, Wayne As
pinal and Noel Wien. Dr. Arm
strong will deliver the sermon at
the Sunday Baccalaureate Service
and Thomas and Aspinall will be
the speakers at the Commence
ment.
Job Opening
Job openings for boat and res
taurant cooks are listed by the lo
cal office of the Alaska State Em
ployment Service located in the
bank building.
tatively slated for completion this
winter will add another 1,000,000
pounds of capacity to the plant,
Wakefield advised.
The new plant, described by Pro
duction Foreman L. C. Berg as,
“one of the best . . . the most mod
ern'up-to-date plants in Alaska,”
has four freezing tunnels each of
which can process 20,000 pounds
of halibut a day making possible a
total daily production of 80,000
pounds.
Should incoming fresh halibut
exceed the daily freezing produc
tion capacity, the plant has a spec
ial crushed-ice area to hold the
To Firm July 4th
Plans At Meeting
The July 4th Committee, com
posed of representatives from serv
ice organizations of the City, will
meet Thursday, May 31, at the
Elk’s hall, beginning at 8 p.m. All
interested parties are urged to at
tend.
Double Header To
Open Ball Season
The 1962 baseball season will
get under way Memorial Day when
opening ceremonies will take place
at the Little League ball diamond,
beginning at 1 p.m.
A double header will be played,
the first game following the cere
mony and the second at 3 p.m. Ail
town teams will play in the games
scheduled for that day.
Memorial Day
To Be Observed
Memorial Day services will be
observed at the small boat harbor
next Wednesday, May 30, it was
announced today by the Fleet Re
serve Association, which in con
junction with other service organi
zations is sponsoring the observ
ance.
Three chaplains will participate
in the services which will be high
lighted by the placing of a wreath
of flowers in the water. The pub
lic is invited to attend this special
observance of Memorial Day.
CONTROL OF TEMPERATURE is everything in the efficient op
eration of a cold storage plant. Above is pictured the temperature
control board, a maze of buttons and switches which operates the
plant’s various units. Staff Photo
surplus until it can be processed
by the freezing tunnels.
When a halibut boat makes a
delivery to the plant, the halibut
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6 Officials To
Arrive Monday
An official party of six state and
federal officials will arrive in Ko
diak Monday to make an inspection
tour of farms and ranches in this
area.
The group will be honored with
a no-host dinner open to the pub
lic at 7 p.m. at the Montmartre
Persons interested in attending are
requested to phone Millie Mark
ham for reservations.
At 4:30 Monday afternoon a
forum for the general public will
be held by the group in the court
room.
On Tuesday the six officials will
inspect ranches in the Chiniak and
Passagshak areas. They will be ac
companied by Rep. Pete Deveau
and local realtor George Cornelius.
Heading the group will be Floyd
Higbee, deputy administrator of
the Farmers Home Administration.
Accompanying him will be Robert
Pierce, FHA director for Oregon
and Alaska; and A. G. Stine, FHA
supervisor for Alaska.
Also traveling with the group
are: William H. Rowe, representa
tive of the Federal Crop Insurance
Corp.; Bart Oliver, State Soil Con
servationist; and Laura Olson, of
the office of Sen. Ernest Gruening,
(D-Alaska).
$15,000 Pledged
For Swimming Pool
President Chuck Powell of the
Kodiak Island Area Chamber of
Commerce has appointed Nick
Frost, Lou Veerman and Jim Barr
to the nominations committee of
that organization.
Powell announced there will be
a special meeting of the Chamber
next Thursday to consider pur
chase of fireworks for the Fourth
of July celebration. He pointed out
that a quorum will be necessary
and urged all members to be pres
ent.
Pete Deveau reported, that a to
tal of $15,000 in pledges for the
construction of a swimming pool
are already in. He advised of the
formation of a non-profit corpora
tion and said the papers will be
drawn up soon.
Deveau said the plans call for
construction of an 85-foot pool on
property adjacent to the National
Guard Armory. It is to be lined
with marine plywood and will be
covered, he said.
Barr Takes Over
City Contract
The city council last night ap
proved transfer of the city’s engi
neering services contract from the
firm of Hubbell and Waller to
James R. Barr. Mr. Barr is pres-,
ently employed by the city as city
engineer.
OLE JOHNSON IS SEEN shaking hands with Donald Buell, one of
three winners in the Kodiak Council of the Navy League’s essay
contest held in connection with Armed Forces Day. Sandy Sanders
and Alvin Amason were the other two winners. Awards were made
during an AFRS-TV broadcast Friday evening, during which Capt.
E. C. Smith, Commanding Officer on the station, spoke.
Official Navy Photo
Kodiak City Council Gives Green
Light To New Shrimp Industry
Kodiak’s city council last night
went on record in several economic
areas to indicate that this com
munity wishes to do its part in at
tracting new industry.
Richard Sweezey and Gene Craig,
spokesmen of the new cold storage
firm flew to Kodiak from Anchor
age yesterday evening accom
panied by City Attorney John Man
suy and two others to meet with
the city on matters pertaining to
the establishment by the cold stor
age firm of a shrimp processing
plant here.
Mr. Sweezey explained to coun
cilmen that his firm contemplates
the introduction of a new type of
shrimp processing plant and
showed the council copies of an ad
vertising brochure of the new
product.
He explained that he would De
flying to New Orleans and other
outside points today to meet with
industry officials interested in the
new shrimp product and needed
certain agreements or commit
ments from the council on three
major economic points.
Sweezey and Craig met with gen
eral success in obtaining the coun
cil’s qualified approval on the fol
lowing three points:
1. Proposals that grants of addi
tional adjacent land be made avail
able to the new plant.
2. A proposal to eliminate wharf
age charges at the city dock on out
going freight of a marketable type
produced locally.
3. A proposal for a five year sta
bilization of water rates for the
new shrimp processing plant.
On the first proposal the council
agreed to help make available ad
ditional land desired by the group
on both sides of their present land
holdings. The council approved an
ordinance making possible the
transferance of a strip of land aji
proximately 18 feet wide on the
Union Oil side of the present plant.
This will enable the plant to en
large its sharp freezer and holding
room capacity if demand necessi
tates.
On the city dock side the group
desired an additional 12-foot wide
strip which, would make possible
the firm’s contemplated shrimp
processing plant. On condition that
additional land be used for such a
shrimp processing plant, the coun
cil made clear it would encourage
the transfer of the strip of land in
volved. It was generally believed
by the council that city voters
would have to approve the transfer
of land on that side due to the dock
improvements thereon.
The council also approved a
move to eliminate wharfage
charges on outgoing freight of the
type produced by the new plant by
amending the present tariff so
that any locally, commercially-pro
duced marketable frozen products
that are moved directly to a van or
under a ship’s loading gear need
pay no wharfage fees but only be
charged for actual handling
charges.
After much deliberation and dis
cussion, councilmen agreed to en
ter into a specific contract with
the new firm which would in ef
fect guarantee that it would not
pay more than ten cents per 1,000
gallons of water in excess of 42,000
gallons per month. This, in effect,
would limit any water rate increase
to not more than about 43 per cent
within the next five years for the
new firm’s shrimp operation.
17-Year-Old Girl
Dies In Shooting
Lucy Katelnikoff, 17-ycar-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ka
telnikoff died enroute to the hos
pital Wednesday evening as a re
sult of a gunshot wound in her
chest.
Unofficial reports indicate that
she was with a party of five young
people from town out at Cliff
Point hooligan fishing when the
tragic shooting occurred. Since the
incident took place on the naval
station investigation is being han
dled by the FBI. Further details
were not available at press time.
McKinley park
The opening date for the McKin
ley Park Hotel is tomorrow, May
26, acc-onling to an announcement
made bv the National Park Service.