Foot Pedals On Jeep Operated By Hand
For 2 Hours By Injured FAA Mechanic
Have you ever operated the foot
pedals of your automobile with
your hands and driven a distance
of one-half mile or for two hours?
Howard Anderson, 37, of An
chorage, relief mechanic for the
FAA, did that Sunday morning on
Shuyak Island, about 60 miles
north of Kodiak, after he fell from
a bluff for a distance of 20 feet
and suffered a triple fracture of his
right leg. After his fall, Anderson
was forced to crawl a distance of
300 yards to his jeep and unable
to use his legs he lay on the floor
bords and drove the vehicle for
one-half mile in about two hours
until he could radio for help which
reached him some two hours later.
The FAA dispatcher at Woody
Island contacted Gil Jarvela, chief
pilot of Kodiak Airways and asked
the Navy for a medical Corpsman,
and Jarvela and Corpsman Burris
started out in marginal weather
on the rescue mission. The Corps
man administered morphine and
They Really Don’t
Mean It (Russians),
Herrington States
U.S. Sate Department advisor
William C. Herrington said in An
chorage Friday that he does not be
lieve Soviet fishermen operating
off Kodiak Island deliberately de
stroyed American crab pots.
“I’m inclined to believe it was
not intentional,” he said, and sug
gested that better marking of
American crab pots” would be a
constructive move.”
Presently the U.S. taxpayers are
underwriting these fascinating
studies by the National Institute of
Health: (1) Empirical tests of a
theory of interpersonal behavior,
$17,250; (2) studies of silent think
ing, $26,565; (3) behaviorial and
physiological concimitants
of dreaming, $20,700; (4) the social
role of the aging wild ungulate
(horse to you), $8,205; (5) the
ontogeny (not phylogency) of Eng
lish phrase structure, $2,100; (6)
a sterotactic atlas of the beagle
brain, $9,775; (7) blood groups
genetics of Southampton Island
Eskimos, $11,500, and the Alliance
of Progress has Ok’d $280,000 for
a soccer club in Rio de Janeiro.
Maybe the U.S. can find $500 so
that we can mark our pots better.
Barge, Equipment
Sinks Friday A.M.
A barge, loaded with heavy con
struction equipment, rolled over
and sank in the straits between
Kodiak and Shelikof early Friday
when its cargo shifted.
Owned by the Rothwell Tug and
Barge Co., it was being towed from
Cold Bay to Anchorage, where it
had been used at the former loca
tion for paving an airport.
The tug, Mary M., was not dam
aged when the barge overturned
after being hit by a swell.
The four-man crew, headed by
Capt. David Frank of Cordova,
was not injured.
The loss of the barge and its
cargo was estimated at $200,000
by Ira Rothwell, who said that the
equipment owned by several An
chorage contractors was valued at
$150,000 and the barge, which was
uninsured was worth about $50,
OOO.
fixed a splint for the injured man
and he was flown to Kodiak for
medical treatment.
Anderson told Darrell Chaffin,
station manager for the FAA, “I
just knew I had to crawl to the
jeep and I did it.”
Chaffin said that if Anderson
had broken his back or had been
knocked unconscious the high tide
would have swallowed him up and
no one would have known what
happened.
Anderson was flown to Anchor
age on Wednesday for further sur
gery, but apparently is making
good recovery after his ordeal.
Kodiak Acreage
Still Available
According to Alaska Land Lines,
publication of the Department of
Natural Resources, Division of
Lands. State of Alaska, there are
20 lots ranging in size from .57
acre to 4.55 acres of land available
for “over-the-counter” sale rang
ing in price from $142 to $1,238.
Further information may be ob
tained by writing the department
at 344 6th Avenue, Anchorage.
The publication also relates that
a patent will be awarded soon to
Washington Fish and Oyster Co.
for 10.791 acres on the NW shore
of Port Williams on or before Dec.
1, 1962, and that a patent had been
issued to Alaska Packers Associa
tion of Kodiak.
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Unemployment checks in Kodiak
still were at the low ebb mark dur
ing the month of September when
only a total of $2,856 was paid out,
as compared to $3,867 in Sitka;
$6,811 in Soldotna; $4,224 in Palm
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The Labor Department stated
that $122,568 was paid out in un
employment insurance benefits
during the month.
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