Summer Officially
Begins Thursday
Next Thursday, June 21, is the
First Day of Summer and the Long
est Day of the Year according to
our calendar. However according
to the astronomical data furnished
us by the U.S. Fleet Weather Cen
tral here, the five days commenc
ing with Tuesday and ending next
Saturday will all have identical
sunrise and sunset times.
Tomorrow the sunrise will be at
3:08 a.m. and sunset will be at 9:13
p.m. On Sunday and through next
Saturday the sunrise will be at
3:08 a.m. Sunday and Monday sun
sets will be at 9:14 p.m. and from
Tuesday through Thursday, June
28, the sunset will be at 9:15 p.m.
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Four Convicted
One Not Guilty
John D. Barton was found not
guilty of the charge of operating a
motor vehicle while under the in
fluence of alcohol by Magistrate
Mabel Fenner this week.
Ronald Ungrad, Edward M. John
ston, and Daniel Montoya, three
servicemen from the base, were
charged with disorderly conduct
and each received 30 days sus
pended.
Harold B. Danielson was given
30 days suspended on a drunk and
disorderly charge.
POLICE SLOGAN
Death travels swiftly, but most
speeders can overtake it.
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Visit Century 21
The following residents visited
“Century 21” World’s Fair in Se
attle and signed the Alaska Guest
Book at the Alaska Exhibit on the
dates indicated:
May 31: Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ha
mann; June 1: Mr. R. Wallace, Wil
liam Sherin; June 4: Norman Sax
ton (enroute home from attending
college in Hawaii). June 6: Mr. and
Mrs. T. V. Devine.
ALASKA HIGHWAY BUSY
The Alaska State Police trooper
stationed at the Tok Post reported
936 cars with 2,138 passengers en
tered Alaska through the U.S. Cus
toms and Immigration Station at
Tok during April, 1962. During the
same period, 869 cars with 2,316
passengers entered Alaska through
the Port of Entry at Snag, Yukon
Territory, Canada.
Katmai Ereuption
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were sound asleep in no time.
After the eruption was over word
got to the MANNING that there
were destitute natives arriving at
Afognak. Captain Perry sent me
over there on a tug to take charge
of them. They numbered one hun
dred and sixteen from three vil
lages, one of them Katmai Village.
It was lucky indeed for the inhabi
tants of the latter place that some
days before, all of them had gone
to “Fish Kugak.”
Two problems at Afognak
turned out to be unique. The first
was communications. It was of
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prime importance to ease the wor
ries of the destitute natives, but
assurances had to weather two in
terpretations. This was because no
one available knew English and
Aleut, however there was no dreath
of those who knew English and
Russian, likewise those who knew
Russian and Aleut. So—one sen
tence at a time I made what must
have been a record speech in re
spect of halts—English to Russian
to Aleut.
The other problem was medical
for at Afognak there of course was
no doctor. A most casual look at
the refugees revealed that some
needed treatment, and the Pajo
mans who had one of the general
stores told me of others ill in the
village. The supply of medicines
was practically nil, but the Pajo
mans thought the school teacher
had some in his quarters in the
schoolhouse. The teacher was on
vacation “outside,” meaning in con
tinental U.S., so the only thing to
do was to break in the school and
see what we could locate. There
were some simple pills there, but
what was equally useful, a small
pocket manual describing human
distempers and what one could do
for same.
The rough and ready solution to
the medical problem was there
fore to hold “Sick Call” every
morning and dole out pills. If the
case had complicated symptoms I
would remember them, consult the
school teacher’s pocket manual in
private, subsequently, then pre
scribe. Two cases were quite be
yond me—an old woman with rheu
matism, a young Aleut girl with a
runny ear. (The latter got treat
ment later from a genuine doctor,
I’m sure.)
My “practice of medicine” at
Afognak in 1912 had an amusing
sequel. In the spring of 1931 I was
in command of the TALLAPOOSA
when she entered Kodiak for the
first time. My good friend Mr. Er
skine told me that on his way down
to call on the ship he happened to
meet a former Afognak native and
asked him who was captain of the
newly arrived cutter. The native
replied: “The Doctor who was at
Afognak just after the Katmai
eruption.’’
Captain Perry for his consumate
handling of affairs at the time of
the eruption of Katmai, received a
letter from President Taft com
mending him in highest terms. As
I look back at that great emer
gency it is a pleasure to say that
the then inhabitants of Kodiak car
ried on. It was what was best “for
all hands.” Their young descend
ants may take pride that, due to
the courage of their forebears and
their own energies, Kodiak in 1962
is a far cry from Kodiak of that
fateful June 1912.
Cordially yours,
C. H. Dench,
Captain, USCG (Ret.)
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