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Wakefield Speech Stirs Storm
Her Royal Highness
NAVY DAY QUEEN — Pretty 19-year-old Ann Gee after she was
crowned last Saturday night following >a 30-minute television spectac
ular over AFRTS Kodiak, Alaska. Queen Ann, the daughter of Capt.
and Mrs. Roy P. Gee, will reign over JKodiak Navy Day festivities Oct.
25-26. Her Majesty will be in Anchorage Wednesday as guest bf the
Anchorage Navy League. The former student Of the University of
Utah won the crown from six other contestants—Locally, the Queen
appeared at the Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday, Oct. 22 land at the
Chamber of Commerce luncheon Thursday, Oct 24. She was accom
panied by her Court which is composed of Princess Pat Hammond and
Princess Toni Dotson. U. S. Navy Photo
To Celebrate Navy Day On Station
With Queen, Programs and Parties
The Naval Station here is all set
to celebrate this weekend the 188th
anniversary of the United States
Navy.
Navy Day Queen Ann Gee, who
was crowned following a 30-minute
TV spectacular over AFRTS Ko
diak last Saturday night, will reign
over various commorative func
tions.
Her Majesty and her court com
posed of Princess Toni Dotson and
Princess Pat Hammond, will make
appearances at the Station Officers’
Club and the Chief Petty Officers’
Club Friday night. Saturday night
the Enlisted Men’s Club will host
her grace at its own Navy Day ob
servance.
Previously scheduled club and lo
ASSAULT CASE DISMISSED
A charge of assualt and battery
against a 21 year old man was “dis
missed due to insuffient evi
dence.’’ by Judge Mabel Fenner
Tuesday afternoon. The complaint
was brought by the city police and
involved an alleged assault with a
knife upon a 15 year old girl.
cal functions prevented simul
taneous celebration of Navy Day
in all three clubs.
The date falls on Sunday this
year but will be celebrated 48
hours ahead.
Lt. L. R. Dobler, this year’s
Navy Day projects officer in Ko
diak, said that the Officers, CPO,
and Enlisted Man’s Clubs are fea
turing special entertainment and
menus as a tribute to the founding
of our Navy 188 years ago.
City Leases Swim
Pool Site For SI
The area behind the Armory and
adjacent to the high school Manual
Training Shop has been leased to
the city by the Defense Depart
ment far recreational facilities,
according to Mayor Pete Deveau.
The 250 x 200 foot lot, compris
ing 1.61 acres, has been proposed
as the site for the swimming pool
and recreation center. The lease,
which runs for 55 years, costs $1
per year, Deveau said.
Wakefield Not Speaking For State Says Governor Egan
Nor For Fishermen Says Mayor Devean & Oscar Dyson i
HERE’S WHAT
WAKEFIELD SAID
(Editors’s Note: Due to the
length of Mr. Wakefield’s speech
the Mirror regrets it is unable to
present it in it’s entirety. However,
following are quotes taken from the
speech which apparently has arous
ed a bitter reaction among local
fishery circles. Judging from the
comments made by local fishermen,
we would say that due to his speech,
Mr. Wakefield, if he were to ap
pear at a fishermen’s meeting here
would find himself about as po
pular as Madame Nhu in a Bud
dhist Temple!
Wakefield, in his prepared ad
dress entitled “iCan We Stop ’’’he
Russian Armada?”, stated flatly,
“We cannot stop the Russian fish
ing armada, or the similar one from
Japan. They are big. They are self
sufficient. They operate outside
our jurisdiction, in international
waters.’
He said that while it was pos
sible that the U.S. would in the
next few years adopt some fishery
jurisdictional limit such as 12
miles that, “It is completely un
realistic to expect the U.S. to go
beyond a 9 or 12 mile limit in the
foreseeable future.”
“I’m not at all sure that even if
we could stop them we would want
to. With billions of pounds of good
food going to waste along our coast
line, and with millions of our fel
low human beings undernourished
could we in all conscience object
to this harvest? he said.
“Foreign fishing activity in
Alaska waters, at or even above
levels, is something we will have
to learn to live with,’ Wakefield
stated, adding “Gear conflicts will
intensify.” Taking note of the dif
ferent backgrounds, loyalties and
language of the Japanese, Russians
and Americans, Wakefield, who
served as an advisor at the recent
treaty renegotiation efforts in To
kyo, warned that “all hell can break
loose.’
“We need a great deal more ac
complishment at the international
conference table than we have yet
been able to achieve. We need clear
workable treaty protection, such as
we temporarily now have in large
measures for salmon and halibut,
continued for those fishes and ex
tended to crab. And we need better
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Attention
Area Fishermeii
The Kodiak Fisheries Advisory
Committee will hold a public hear
ing on proposed changes in com
mercial fishing regulations at 2 p.
m. Saturday, Nov. 2, in the State
Courtroom above the Postoffice.
Copies of the proposed changes
in regulations are now available at'
the local ADF’&G office according
to Dexter Lall.
Local Chamber Asking Treaty Advisor )
Appear & Explain At Special Meeting \
Local reaction was bitter and
angry in local fishery circles this
week as reports reached Kodiak of
the contents of a speech delivered
by Lowell Wakefield, President of
Wakefield Fisheries, before the
Alaska State Chamber of Com
merce Convention held in Juneau
last Saturday, Oct. 19th.
CHAMBER MEET SET
A Special Meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce will be held to
morrow (Saturday) at 12 noon in
the Mecca 49 Room. The Fisheries
Committee will report during the
meeting.
At yesterday’s local Chamber of
Commerce meeting, Oscar Dyson,
skipper of the crab vessel Robbie
and member of the ADF&G state
board, brought attention to Wake
field’s speech showing members
a copy of a mainland newspaper
which gave the speech article ban
ner headlines.
Dyson indicated strong disagree
ment with most of Wakefield’s
stand as it was reported stating
“This is a bad statement for one
of the important advisors of oui
delegation to the North Pacifi<
Treaty renegotiation talks in To
kyo.”
“I am hopeful that the Governor
will protest the statements made
by Wakefield, Dyson said.
In a telephone discussion regard
ing Wakefields statements, Gov
ernor Egan assured Dyson that
“Wakefield was not speaking for
the State of Alaska.’
“On matters such as this nobody
speaks for the state but me,’ Egan
told Dyson.
Admiral Bakutis
Lauds Base-Town
Relationship
Last night (October 24) Rear
Admiral Fred E. Bakutis, USN,
Commandant, 17th Naval District
and Commander, Alaskan Sea Fron
tier, spoke before the assembled
delegates at the 13th Annual Con
vention of the Alaska Municipal
League.
Before about 150 of the dele
gates meeting at the Harbor Din
ner Club in Seward, Alaska, the
Admirals topic was “The Military
and the Municipal Community.”
Admiral Bakutis expressed his
appreciation for the cooperation he
has received from the City of Ko
diak and the representatives of its
municipal government. In par
ticular, Kodiak’s former mayor
Merrill Coon, was praised and
thanked by Admiral Bakutis for the
present state of “Base-Town Rela
tions.”
“I wish to make it clear that Mr.
Wakefield was not speaking for me
nor for any other fishermen I
know around here,” Dyson said.
Mayor Pete Deveau also made
clear he was not in agreement with.
Wakefields statements and urged
the Chamber to request Wakefield
to appear before a special meeting
of the Chamber to explain, defend
and debate his stand as presented
in his speech.
The chamber overwhelmingly ap
proved a resolution asking Wake
field to attend such a special meet
ing. At this writing the date and
time of the meeting, tentatively set
for Saturday, had not been estab
lished positively due to the fact
that Mr.' Wakefield is in Seattle
and hadn't been reached yet.
Dyson said that “about the only*
thing Mr. Wakefield said witl*
which I might be able to find some*
agreement with was where he said
we need a great deal more accom
plishment at the international con*
ference table than we have ye%
, been able to achieve.”
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MARKETING ASS’N MEET !
All members of the board of dii%
: ectors of the Fishermen's Market
. ing Association are requested to
contact Oscar Dyson regarding a
call for a special meeting of th»
board. He can be contacted by
phoning 486—5303.
Councilman MfortTf
Resigns; Dyson
Slated For Seat
City Councilman Bill Worth re*
signed from his seat at last night’*
council meeting. Worth, who has
served on the council longer
any other man, resigned due o
poor health.
According to the precedent es
tablished for filling vacancies on
the council, fisherman Oscar Dyson,
skipper of the vessel Robbie, who
lacked only 16 votes of winning a
council seat in the Oct. 1st city elec
tion, is slated for appointment to
the vacancy. The appointment of
Dyson will provide fishermen with
their only direct representation >n
the council. Actual appointment
will be made at the next council
meeting.
Although Kodiak’s main industry
is fishing, and is the center of the
North Pacific Fisheries, no fisher
man has served on the council in
recent years. Dyson’s opponent in *
the Oct 1st election was Carl Rodli
who wa# originally appointed to the
council to fill a vacancy after nar
rowly missing out being elected.