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Kodiak Fishermen May Arm Vessels
Kodiak fishermen, embittered
ever the ruthless and deliberate
destruction of their crab pot gear
in recent weeks and continued
harrassment endangering their ves
els and lives by Russian fleets,
made clear to Attorney General
George N. Hayes at last Saturday’s
hearing that they intend to fight
to protect their interests from now
on.
Press Wire services carried the
story of the plight of the Kodiak
fishermen to the nation and many
newspapers carried photographs of
the Russian vessels provided by the
Coast Guard.
Testimony of the angry fisher
men was taken under oath and the
Attorney General is providing the
congressional delegation with cop
ies.
Lloyd Cannon, president of the
Fishermen’s Marketing Association
representing over 1,000 fishermen
in this area, testified that his or
ganization has now decided that ail
boats will travel in packs of from
at least four to five vessels and
said, “we are preparing now to
take matters into our own hands
... we have tried with no avail
to obtain federal aid and assistance
in dealing with these foreign fleets
and their deliberate and ruthless
destruction of our gear. Now we
will act to protect our own in
terests ourselves.’
Another fisherman leader, Oscar
Dyson, a member of the state
ADF&G board testified that “We
are not going to stand by any
longer ... we are going to find
some way or means of protecting
our property in our own way.”*
He recounted how the Russian
ships had done these same things
last winter and how the federal
A
government took no action except
to tell the fishermen to mark their
buoys and gear better.
“Now these Russians are here in
even greater numbers and haras
sing us everywhere we go even
right into Marmot Bay which we
regard as our back yard,” he said,
adding “something drastic has to
be done to preserve our fishery.”
It was also brought out that the
present Russias crab operations
would completely wipe out the
Kodiak king crab stocks within
from three to five years if allowed
to continue.
The Nome Nugget (newspaper)
had a front page headline reporting
the Russian activity. The front
page headline read: “Commies
Winning Kodiak Cold War."
Here in Kodiak crab fishermen
were increasingly discussing the
merit of 50mm mortars and 20mm
anti-tank rifles as compared to 14.5
mm anti-tank rifles, 25mm can
nons and 60mm mortars. One fish
erman advised the Mirror that ail
such armaments were available
to anyone wanting them from a
firm in Alexandria, Va.
City Hall Bans Ballot Write-ins
Deveau & Nelson
File For Mayor
Wally Nelson and Pete Deveau
have both filed their petitions to
run for Mayor according to City
Clerk Doug Preston who also ad
vised that Carl Rodli has filed for
the 2-year council seat and Dave
Fremming has filed for a 3-year
term.
Reports indicate that petitions
are bein/g circulated on behalf of
Oscar Dyson, Fred Breehan and
Wilton White for 3-year terms.
White is presently serving on the
city council as is Rodli. Filing dead
line is 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23.
It is not known if supporters of
Ed Naughton will defy city hall’s
newly announced ban against
write in votes and pursue their
write in campaign to put Naughton
into the Mayor’s chair.
Kodiak Votes On
Borough Tuesday
Kodiak Island voters will go to
the polls Tuesday, Sept. 24, to de
cide:
1. Whether to incorporate as a
second class borough.
2. Whether to have an elected
Borough Chairman or appointed
Borough Manager form of govern
ment.
3. To elect a borough chairman,
five members of the borough school
board and, in the case of those
residing outside the city limits,
three members of the borough as
sembly.
FERRY DOCK SITE
The new ferry dock site is to
be located on the other (base) side
of Union Oil according to Pete
Deveau who said that a piledriver
will shortly begin probing the bot
tom there.
4 Year College
Scholarship May
Be Contest Prize
A four year scholarship to the
University of Alaska has been
recommended as the prize for the
winner of the contest to design the
emblem of the Alaska Centennial
according to Pete Deveau, chair
man of the centennial commission
which met this week in Anchorage.
The scholarship can be given away
by the winner to anyone else.
Deveau again urged that Kodiak
residents enter the contest
Ambassador Wires
Kodiak Chamber
Ambassador Benjamin Smith
II, in charge of the American sec
tion of the International North
Pacific Fisheries Commission that
is currently meeting in Tokyo, sent
the following wire to the Kodiak
Chamber of Commerce:
“Sincerely appreciate your inter
est in North Pacific Treaty Nego
tations. Rest assured that I and
other delegates will do our utmost
to protect the American fisheries.”
A Basic Freedom at Stake
(Guest Editorial)
l
There’s an old saying: “Be careful what you want—for you are
sure to get it.’
We wonder what the framers of the proposed City Charter wanted
when they fashioned that “privileged clause” in the qualifications for
a city councilman and mayolr. To close the doors of freedom to any
American citizen who is a resident of the state and city but has no
property in his name on the assessment rolls, smacks of government
of the elite, government by the landed gentry.
It is not government of the people, nor does it in any shape or form
follow the intent of the Alaska Constitution.
We quote Article 1, Section 2 of the Alaska Constitution: “All
political power is inherent in the people. All government originates
with the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted
solely for the good of the people as a whole.”
We would suggest that the City Charter commission may have not
wanted this freedom for the citizens of Kodiak. If they had desired
government of and for the people of Kodiak, its members would have
seen fit to adopt qnalificatiins in keeping with those of state office,
or or the local borough. N
One desiring public office in the State or Borough need only sat
isfy the resident requirements and be a qualified voter. Nothing
about being a property owner, who is qualified to vote in general
obligation bond elections.
The real issue on voting for or against the City Charter on October
1, is a moral one.
To accept the City Charter in its present form would be to approve
the sacrifice of an individual’s freedom. It would suddenly reverse
man’s constant and relentless search for true freedom which has
been the goal of politics down through the years.
The citizen who is without property can no longer exercise his
full personality.
In a democratic society the person is primary, not the society.
The city or state exists for the citizen, and not the citizen for the city.
As the Charter is now proposed for councilman and mayor qualfi
cations, a citizen without property merely exists. He can have no
real representation, no active voice or opportunity to work with and
for his fellow man. He has lost the right to make a choice, which has
been a God given freedom since time belgan.
To approve the City Charter in its present form is to advocate that
the standards of one group of people in a soqjety can take the place
of the more exacting and demanding standards of the individual.
—The Rev. Donald M. Bullock
To Alter Election Ballots To Prevent
Write-in Votes For Ed Naughton
Write-in voting is out altogether
in Kodiak city elections this year.
That was the word given the Mir
ror yesterday by City Clerk Doug
las Preston.
Preston told the Mirror that City
Attorney Roy Madsen had advised
him that write-in votes were no
longer legal and would not be
counted in the Oct. 1 election at
which a new mayor and three coun
cilmen will be selected by city
voters.
STATE MAY INTERVENE
State Representative Gil Jarvela
moved swiftly in an attempt to ob
tain a legal opinion from Attorney
General George N. Hayes as to the
legality of a move by city hall of
ficials to prevent write in votes
from being cast in the October 1st
city election at which a mayor
and three councilmen will be
elected.
“The city attorney said that ac
cording to the municipal code of
the state statutes, voters were not
permitted to write in or vote for
anyone who was not officially
listed on the election ballot,” Pres
ton said.
Mother Of Eight
Drown In Well
Funeral services for Anna May
Hallstead, 32, mother of eight
children and wife of Keith “Tuffy”
Hallstead, were held Wednesday
and she was buried in the Russian
cemetery here.
Mrs. Hallstead died from drown
ing early Sunday morning, Sept.
15, after she had fallen into a well
located near their home on Mill
Bay Road. She was discovered in
the well by her husband. Routine
investigation by the State Trooper
and autopsy reports showed that
death was caused by drowning.
She is survived by her husband
Keith, eight children all of whom
are under the age of 12. Other sur
vivors include her father, Alex
Ivanoff of Kenai and four brothers
and sisters.
“There just aren’t any provisions
for write in voting,” Preston stated,
adding by way of explanation, “the
law explicitly requires that each
candidate file a formal declaration
of candidacy.’ ’
When the ballots are printed
up for this election there will not
even be any lines or spaces to per
mit voters to write in names of
their own choice in the event they
do not Ike any of those listed on
the ballot.
The move was apparently de
signed to discourage supporters of
Ed Naughton from going ahead
with a campaign to get voters to
write in Naughton for May
or. About a month ago the city
clerk had advised that city hall
would not accept a nominating
petition from Naughton for a print
ed listing on the ballot because
they had found in advance that he
had lived outside the city limits
for several months last year.
Naughton said that he had lived
in a trailer court just outside the
city limits for some weeks shortly
after he had gotten married. “A
few weeks out of over 30 years
residence in Kodiak,” Naughton
said.
Blocked thusly by a legal techni
cality from being listed on the
ballot, Naughtons supporters had
been planning for an extensive and
intensive write in campaign.
However this course of action
now also appears blocked by adroit
city hall action. Research into past
records indicates that Kodiak and
Alaskan voters have always tradi
tionally and historically possessed
the right to write in names of can
didates other than those listed on
the ballots put before them. In
recent years Ole Johnson was elec
ted mayor by a write in vote here.
All city ballots in prior years,
both before and since the advent of
statehood, provided voters with
vacant lines and spaces for such
write ins as voters wished.
All state election ballots contain
such spaces as did ballots in ter
ritorial status days.