(Official U. S. Navy Photo)
3 Win “Man Of The Month” Awards
During ceremonies held following
an inspection of personnel March
3, three men were named “Men of
the Month,” aboard the U. S. Naval
Station, Kodiak, Alaska.
Captain N. R. Lincoln, Jr., naval
station commanding officer, cited
Clyde P. Chaffin, chief commissary
man, and Richard V. Lochmiller,
ship’s serviceman third class, nam
ing them “Chief of the Month” and
Sailor of the Month,” respectively.
Also cited was Owen K. Boyle,
civilian electrical lineman assigned
to the Public Works Department.
He was named “Civilian of the
Month.”
These three men are now mem
bers of the “Top Twelve Club,” and
will have their names inscribed
on the Top Twelve Club plaques
on view in the Navy Exchange
aboard the naval station.
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NOTED ARTIST TO TEACH
AT SHELDON JACKSON
Danny Pierce, Carnegie Visiting
Professor of Art at the University
of Alaska, wiil be a member of the
teaching staff of the Sheldon Jack
son Junior College Summer School
to be held from June 12 through
July 14. Mr. Pierce will be on the
campus for three weeks of the
school to give instruction in Print
making and Advanced Painting.
Easter Seals fight all crippling
conditions—from disease, birth de
fects, accidents.
Outer Area Residents Plan Own F. D.
A volunteer fire department was
planned by the Spruce Cape Prop
erty Owners Association at a meet
ing held March 13th at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Horn.
—CG Photo
CG Chief Receives
S50 Cash Award
A fifty-dollar cash award and an
accompaning letter of appraisal
from the Commander, Seventeenth
CG District, were given to Chief
Britt for devising, building and in
stalling a visual fire detector and
alarm system at the Loran Station,
Spruce Cape.
Senior Chief Electronics Tech
nic an James H. Britt received the
award which was presented by LT.
JG Robert L. DeMiehiell, Com
manding Officer, USCG Loran
Transmitting Station.
In addition, Chief Britt was
given authorization to wear gold
lace service stripes, having com
pleted twelve years of active, con
tinuous service in the Coast Guard.
Six of the years were served in
Kodiak at both the CG Air Detach
ment and the Loran Station. He
will leave Kodiak on or about June
3, 1961 for further assignment.
The twenty members present
also discussed furthering the pro
ject of moving the City dump from
Spruce Cape Road. A new location
for the dump has been found and
will be suggested to the City Coun
cil at its next meeting.
Other action included support
of T. T. Jackson, a resident of the
area, in his appeal to the Bureau
of Land Management. His property,
originally classified as commercial,
has recently been reclassified and
he has been given 90 days in which
to move buildings, etc. from the
property.
The members of the new organi
zation pledged themselves to a
co-operative effort in bettering liv
ing conditions for resident mem
bers. The Association is open to
every home owner living outside
the present City limits. A new
name for the organization is
planned to embrace the entire
areas, including Mill Bay Road and
Spruce Cape.
Jobs Available
With State Gov’t
Residents of Alaska desiring full
time and summer employment with
the various agencies of the State
government are asked to contact
offices of the Alaska State Employ
ment Service, according to Labor
Commissioner Gil Johnson.
Johnson said the Employment
Service is the recruiting arm for
needed manpower in State govern
ment. The Service has job openings
from the State for a wide variety
of full-time positions ranging from
stenographers and highway drafts
men to accountants and electrical
engineers. In addition, the Service
is also recruiting temporary em
ployees needed by the State Fish
and Game Department this summer
as biological aides and protection
assistants, and for engineering
aides for the State Highway Divis
ion.
Full details are available at State
Employment Service offices lo
cated at Fairbanks, Anchorage,
Juneau, Sitka, Petersburg, Ketchi
kan and Homer.
Someday You May Need The Red Cross
Kodiak Chapter Aids Local Residents
By MIRIAM J. ANGELL
Early this winter there were
floods at small villages near Nome
and Bethel. The many Eskimo who
lived in the villages were largely
flooded out of their homes and
lost most of their belongings, in
cluding two rather crucial commod
ities, seal oil and dried salmon they
had put away for their sled dogs’
winter food. Red Cross sent dis
aster workers to the areas; it was
not too difficult to replace cloth
ing and other human needs, but the
whale oil and dried salmon posed
a sticky problem since it is the
practise among the Eskimo to
cache only what each individual
family will use during the winter.
After much searching, Red Cross
located a man near Nome who had
an excess of these supplies and
from him the organization was able
to buy enough whale oil and dried
salmon to keep the sled dogs happy
until spring.
Bob Fleming, Red Cross Field
Director for the 17th. Naval Dis
trict, told us the story and added,
“Of course we don’t have that sort
of problem around Kodiak, but
Red Cross is very busy here, never
theless. We are really part of the
Kodiiak Chapter which takes in the
island of Kodiak, a portion of the
southern side of Kenai Peninsula
and part of the Aleutians. We work
in close co-ordination with the Ko
diak chapter. You know, in the
south ’48 a chapter usually covers
a county; in Alaska, the area in a
chapter is sometimes larger than a
whole state. There are fewer peo
ple in most of these areas but the
distances can make it hard to
reach them.”
Bob pointed to a map of Alaska
on which the chapter boundaries
were heavily drawn, and continued,
“In the interior, when Red Cross
wants to contact a family about
their boy in service, or some other
matter, they contact the school
teacher, or a minister, or priest in
the village; or often the message
goes on the Mukluk Telegraph. You
know, that is the radio program
Northern Commercial sponsors
every night for 15 minutes. In be
tween the personal messages, Red
Cross puts on its own.”
' We were wishing the Field Di
rector’s office to ask about the Red
Cross program in this Naval Dis
trict. In two small, semi-divided
rooms are crowded filing cabinets,
several chairs, and two desks, one
belonging to Mr. Fleming, the
other, to his secretary, Mrs. Clara
Herring. As Red Cross offices go,
(his one is pretty typical; it’s far
from posh. After we’d moved the
furniture around to set up our tape
recorder, Bob got on with the sub
ject.
“Well, from this office we handle
all the oases in the 17th. Naval Dis
trict and the 17th. Coast Guard Dis
trict, including Adak. We have had
contact at one time or another with
every one of the outlying Coast
Guard stations—Loran Stations,
lighthouses, ships. Mrs. Herring
and I are the only paid employees
in thhe whole area. At Adak, the
Personnel Officer acts as Field Di
rector, and he does a very wonder
ful job. Of course, we depend heav
ily on volunteers, as Red Cross
does everywhere, but there have to
be some paid workers for continu
ity.
“Our campaign? We’re conduct
ing it during the month of March,
both here and in town. You might
be interested to know that Red
Cross spent over $25,000 within the
17th. Naval District last year. By
and large it went for emergency
leaves and financial assistance.
Some of that will come back to us
in interest free loans, where it
doesn’t work a hardship on the man
or his family to return the money.”
We asked how much was given Red
Cross last year? “Including Adak,
■the proceeds from the 1960 cam
paign were exactly $1,476.76. This
was about average for Naval Air
Stations on the West Coast. The
way it works, all the money given
on the island goes into the Kodiak
Chapter; a small percentage of this
goes to National Red Cross, anc
we receive our funds from them
The part that goes to National is
for just such things: services to the
Armed Forces and to areas in
which no local chapter could te
expected to bear all the burden.”
National Red Cross, in turn, con
tributes to International Red Cross,
the one, world-wide, neutral organi
zation able to function as no gov
ernment can: (International Red
Cross is the only recognized and
acceptable agency for contact with
prisoners of war, and it negotiates
all prisoner of war exchanges.)
Getting back to the local services
perfomed by Red Cross, Bob Flem
ing continued, “On base we have
first aid classes — we’re running
one at the Junior Hight School
right now—and we have the Grey
Ladies and Staff Aids in the hos
pital. Last year, the women at the
hospital put in 1,150 hours of work
and the first aid instructors taught
a total of dose to 200 hours. I hope
people know that these volunteers,
like all the others., are never paid
anything, and buy their own uni
forms*
“We work closely with the Ko
diak Chapter in all our programs,
and when the town needs new Gr^y
Ladies, they train with the women
of the base at the base hospital. No,
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