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EDITORIAL
. Great Need For Gold Storage Plant
Last week the Kodiak Cold Stor
age Company made an optimistic
report for the construction and op
- eration of cold storage facility at
Kodiak. Many of the residents of
Kodiak have long considered the
potential of the cold storage plant
at Kodiak, and the affects on the
local economy.
Ten years ago the construction
of a cold storage plant was started,
and due to lack of financing and
poor outlook for the business, the
facility was never completed. Ko
diak Cold Storage Company has
reviewed the changes in the last
ten years which now appear to
make a successful operation of a
cold storage plant at Kodiak possi
ble.
Kodiak was recently made Port
of Entry allowing Canadian vessels
to bring their catch to Kodiak for
processing. Halibut which appears
to be one of the major potentials
of the presently contemplated cold
storage plant is being fished for
shorter periods of time than in pre
vious years. The shortened season,
coupled with the voluntary inport
lay up observed by the fishermen
between each trip, creates a neces
sity for a market and service facil
ity close to the fishing grounds.
In addition to the foregoing,
there have been numerous changes
in the last ten years which enhance
the probability of a successful cold
storage operation at Kodiak,
in a typical New York apartment.
Made for laughs.
Among these are the ever increas
ing market for all types of seafood,
the creation of many new seafoods
consumer products which provide
an outlet for a greater variety of
fish including bottom fish hereto
fore considered economically im
practical to handle and improved
handling and processing tech
niques.
The cattle industry on the Ko
diak Islands has virtually devel
oped over the past decade. This
industry is generally considered to
have a tremendous potential and
could well find a considerable ad
vantage in having a cold storage
plant in the immediate area.
Officials of Kodiak Cold Storage
and the residents of Kodiak ex
press considerable optimism over
the future of Kodiak and the new
industries being developed. Ko
diak, with its ideal geographic lo
cation, and numerous other natural
assets, could well become the fish
ing capitol of the North American
continent within this decade.
Mirrored Reflections
By Sig Digree
Somebody’s face should have
been red. One of our residents who
it can be safely said leads a fairly
routine and exemplary life, and
who has an excellent record as a
wife and mother, was confronted
by three Marines as she stepped
off a plane the other day on re
turning from Homer. Imagine her
chargin and embarrassment when
they told her they had orders to
escort her off the Base. “Undesir
able.” Husband and wife checked
to see if they had the name correct.
They had. They produced a list
with her name on it. Quite a num
ber of names of ladies who also are
known to lead lives above reproach
—mothers, wives most of them—
these were also on the list. Their
only “vice” if it can be called that
is that they are bowling enthusi
asts.
Somehow, someone in security
came up with a wrong list. It’s just
lucky you ladies didn’t appear
about that time and an attempt
made to escort you en mass off the
station—lucky for the Marines who
would attempt it, especially if you
were equipped with your bowling
balls and equipment. Then as the
saying goes; “Hell hath no fury
like a woman scorned.”
* * *
Fortunately, incidents such as
the above rarely occur. But when
they do they can be embarrassing
to the party concerned. The Ma
rines who thought they were acting
on instructions were said to be
very courteous throughout the in
cident, which helped considerably.
* * *
Another dog was reported this
week as having been killed by
poisoning, this time again near the
dump. It might be well to look
further into the lethal powers of
formula 1080, the poison used in
killing off the rats at the old City
dump—does it continue to have the
power to kill long after the bait
used has deteriorated? Or is it
as has been suggested someone
who delights in killing off man’s
best friend, who is doing the pois
oning.
• «• m
The new approach of the Matan
uska Valley Chamber of Commerce
in advocating legislation to move
the capital to a more central loca
tion has merit, in that the site is to
be chosen by a committee com
posed of the Senior Senators from
each Senatorial District in the
State. This would make it bipar
tisan and non-political.
They further suggest the crea
tion of a new site on State-owned
land, the cost of building the fa
cilities to be borne by the sale or
lease of land in the area.
It would seem this question will
always be with us. The big problem
is accessability. The group in Pal
mer say it shouldn’t be within a
radius of thirty miles of Anchorage
or Fairbanks. Wonder how those
two cities are going to like that?
But the sponsoring groups ap
proach to the problem is the best
Arthur Poling, Chief of Month;
Carl Curtis Selected For Citation
During ceremonies held Febru
ary, 3 aboard the U. S. Naval Sta
tion, Kodiak. Alaska, two men,
Arthur H. Poling, chief ship’s serv
iceman, and Carl W. Curtis, elec
tronics technician third class, were
commended by Captain N. R. Lin
coln, naval station commanding
officer.
Chief Poling, for his “exemplary
performance” during the month of
January, was selected as “Chief of
the Month” for January.
Captain Lincoln, in commending
Poling, called attention to his “un
tiring efforts” and his “effective
supervision” in “improving the
quality and service of the laundry
and dry cleaning plant”; in “reduc
ing operational expenses,... there
by increasing profits contributed
to the command’s recreational ac
tivities,”
Chief Poling, who has been in
the Navy for 18 years, is a native
of Clarksburg, West Virginia. He
reported to the naval station here
I Kodiak) in January 1960.
Mr. and Mrs. Poling live on
the naval station.
Carl Curtis was “officially com
mended” by Captain Lincoln for
his “personal initiative and perser
verence” . . . (which) has bene
fited your shipmates and many of
our civilian neighbors.”
Curtis’ citation read, in part:
“Your off-duty time has been de
voted to the training of your ship
mates ... to enable them to obtain
FOC licenses. Your leadership lec
tures . . . have inspired the men
working with you. You have been
given complete charge of technical
repairs at AFRS-TV, and (in this
assignment) have demonstrated
outstanding technical ability and
knowledge. You have devoted
much of your own time in an effort
to improve the operation of the
television station.”
thought out and most realistic we
have seen so far. It is worth con
sidering.
• * *
We highly endorse the City Man
ager in his statement to the City
Council when they were discussing
the question of hiring a City en
gineer, when he said: If we can’t
hire a qualified one, I’d rather not
have one at all. As was brought out
in the discussion, this town has
needed one for a long time.
* * *
We have on file here at the Mir
ror office a copy of all the bills
that have passed through the
House and Senate in the State
Legislature. These are being sent
to us by Rep. Gil Jarvela. We are
happy to get them. Anyone who
wishes may come in and read them
or refer to them .
* * *
We also have copies of the Con
gressional Record, supplied us by
our Washington, D. C. lawmakers.
You may come in anytime and look
them over.
KODIAK PUBLIC
SCHOOL
MENU
Feb. 13-17
MONDAY — Spanish Rice, Scal
loped Asparagus, Applesauce,
Bread - Butter - Milk.
TUESDAY — Hot Dog on But
tered Bun, Macaroni Salad, Carrot
Sticks, Apple Cobbler and Milk.
WEDNESDAY — Baked Meat
Roll, Buttered Corn, Plums, Bread
Butter - Milk.
THURSDAY — Chili Con Carne,
Colesalw, Buttered Corn Bread,
Fruited Jello and Milk.
FRIDAY — Tuna Salad Sand
wich, Buttered Succotash, Cake,
Fruit and Milk.
(Soup for High School)
Curtis is a native of Russell, New
York, and has been in the Navy
since July, 1957. He reported to
Kodiak in July, 1960, and has been
assigned to the naval station elec
tronics department since that time.
Both Curtis and Chief Poling
are now members of the “Top
Twelve Club” and will have their
names inscribed on the top twelve
plaque, on view in the Navy Ex
change lobby on the naval station.
Bosses Night
Banquet Friday
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce Bosses’ Night Banquet will
be held Friday, February 17, at
the Montmartre Inn at 8:00 p. m.
The dinner will be preceded by a
one hour, no host cocktail party.
The evening’s program will in
clude an award to the community’s
most outstanding boss. The high
light of the evening will be the
Junior Chamber of Commerce’s
Distinguished Award to Kodiak’s
man of the year, to be announced
at the dinner. Guest speaker for
the evenings will be Bill Poland,
City Manager.
SPECIAL SERVICES FOR
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
All over the world people will be
uniting in prayer on Friday, Feb.
17, in observance of World Day of
Prayer.
There will be a special service
at the Community Baptist Church
Friday commemorating the 75th
anniversary of the World Day of
Prayer. All people of the com
munity are invited and especially
entire families are encourgaed to
attend by the pastor, Rev. Lewis
White.
Mrs. George Wick will be the
chairman of a program entitled
“With Tomorrow Yet To Come.”
Special music will be given.
Waterfront
(Continued from Page One)
tor. As Gronwald outlined the var
ious steps necessary before the job
can be started, which includes an
act of Congress, this observer could
see the years slipping by before
something is done.
A seagull can stand out there
in the harbor on the thinest of ice,
but that same ice no matter how
thin, can do a lot of damage to a
boat, as every boat owner knows.
We wouldn’t want to see another
30 years pass before something is
done about it—as in the case of the
harbor iteself.
Ray Lenier, economist with the
Corps of Engineers, was also pres
ent at the meeting. He is studying
the cost in the flood control pro
lect.
On The Screen
SATURDAY—“The Sheepman”
which stars Glenn Ford and Shirley
MacLain.
SUNDAY and MONDAY—Doris
Day and David Niven team up in
“Please Don’t Eat The Daisies,”
the screen version of Jean Kerr’s
best seller.
“Please Don’t Eat The Daisies”
tells the story of happily married
Kate and Larry Mackay and their
four irrepressible sons, ranging
from a nine-year-old, a seven-year
old and a one-and-a-half-year-old.
The hijinks that go on in this man
age cover almost every facet of life
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY—
“Cash McCall,” Warner Bros’ Tech
nicolor production of the Cameron
Hawley best-seller, stars James
Garner, TV and movie actor, and
Natalie Wood. Law and finance
are the background for love-mak
ing byplay between these two prin
cipals. A good cast including Nina
Foch, Dean Jagger, E. G. Marshall
and Henry Jones, offer an assist to
this one.
THURSDAY and FRIDAY —
Theatre manager Fletcher offers
what he calls “family entertain
ment” these two nights, with the
showing of Donald Duck in the
featurette “Don in Mathmagicland”
and also “The Boy and The Laugh
ing Dog,” which stars Walter Bren
nan, Phil Harris and Brandon
deWidle.
Chamber
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ber in its recent drive to add out
side memberships to its role. These
are Charles R. Griffin, Seattle;
Gould and Gould, Seattle; and
Northern Supply Company, Anch
orage.
Present at the meeting as guests
were George Hall, Mr. Kenny,
Jiggs Tice and Gale Gronwald.
Griffin Memorial
Hospital Notes
BIRTHS
A daughter, Cheryl Marie, weigh
ing 6 lbs. 15 ozs., was born on Feb
ruary 3 to Charlene and Paul
Kewan.
RUMMAGE SAUE TOMORROW
A rummage sale sponsored by
members of the newly organized
Episcopal Church is being con
ducted at Clark’s Garage tomorrow,
Feb. 11, from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Salable articles accepted. The
sale is open to the public.
New Jersey cropland yields
more cash per acre than that of
any other state, the National
Geographic Magazine reports.
An Orchid For Her
On St. Valentine’s Day,
Feb. 14
An Orchid is the one gift she would appreciate
on such a special occasion.
Kodiak Grown Orchids
John Given
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