Alaska BPW Urges
Gov’t Protection
For Fishermen
At the regular June Business and
Professional Women's Club busi
ness meeting held at the home of
Mr. Justine Hinckel Monday, June
3, plans were made for the official
visit of the National Membership
Chairman, "Mrs. Dorothy Woodall
of Decatur, Alabama.
Mrs. Woodall will be accom
panied by her husband (who was
stationed with the Army Engineers
at old Fort Greeley from 1941-44)
and by Mrs. Arta Conant, of Fair
banks — newly elected president
elect of the Alaska BPW clubs.
They will arrive on Saturday noon
so it is hoped that all the members
of the Kodiak club will meet at 8
p.m. at the home of Mrs. Bob John
son’s on Saturday, June 8, to meet
Mrs. Woodall and Mrs. Conant.
Following the business meeting
Mrs. Melanie Draper gave a brief
resume of the state BPW conven
tion which she had just attended
in Ketchikan from May 30-June 2.
Mrs. Draper was able to drive from
Anchorage to Haines with mem
bers of the Anchorage and Spen
ard clubs and travel from Haines
to Ketchikan on the ferry Mala
spina..
One important item of business
was acceptance of the following
resolution:
The Alaska Business and Pro
fessional Women’s Clubs go on
record urging the government to
take more interest in strengthening
policies toward the fishery re
sources and protecting American
fishermen. This resolution is to be
sent to the National Business and
Professional Women’s Clubs Con
vention to be held in Dallas, Texas,
July 14-18, 1963, for consideration.
Alaskan Writes
Salmon History
A new book, written by an Alas
kan about the Alaskan salmon in
dustry will become available at
bookstores this summer and prob
ably will be required reading for
anyone associated with the salmon
industry.
Dr. Richard Cooley, Juneau, con
sulting economist, has received the
top award of the Western Political
Science Association for a recently
completed study entitled “Politics
and Conservation: The Decline of
the Alaska Salmon.”
The award was given to the doc
tor at the recent annual conference
of the Political Science Association
at San Diego, Calif. Dr. Cooley’s
work analyzes the 90-year history
of the Alaska salmon fishery.
The study is being published by
Harper and Bros., Publishers, and
will be available in book stores this
summer. U.S. Sen. Ernest Gruen
ing wrote the introduction. Cooley
conducted his research under a
grant from the Conservation Foun
dation of New York City.
The original manuscript served
as his doctoral dissertation at the
University of Michigan in 1962.
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tion of the Community Baptist
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Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Dr. Keers is to be commended
for his letter of warning (Re Ko
diak Mirror, May 10 issue) against
possible health hazards of raw milk
consumption. It’s likely the doc
tor’s public service letter
squelched the dairyman’s prospec
tive commerce hence attenuating
what I fear are too many disease
factors seemingly ignored by sani
tarians on Kodiak.
Is it a fair, accurate assumption
that civic leaders here are either
averse or apathetic to remedial ac
tion again contaminative, vermin
ous conditions here? Perhaps hav
ing been recently and long accus
tomed to civiliziation in the
“Lower 48’’ I’m now expecting too
much. Never-the-less, in stating
such elements I suspect are health
hazards it’s my aim to seek peace
of mind from publicly presented,
evident proof that such hazards
are non-existent or, if they exist,
my intent is to enhance public con
cern about them. A list follows of
some of these seemingly obvious,
unhealthy elements.
Element No. 1: Many open
trenches throughout, at least, Aleu
tian Homes Tract—said trenches
reeking noxiously from refuse and
water which stands unflowing and
stagnant as invitations to mosqui
tos, flies, bacteria, etc. and alarm
ingly accessible to hundreds of
children.
Element No. 2: Refuse, garbage
and animal feces in and around res
ervoir area and lack of fence for
protection against same.
No. 3: Countless mounds of
trash and garbage dumped around
the countryside which are disgrace
ful and unsightly. These garbage
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heaps not only feed rats but their
decomposition and rust cause
harmful impurities in the island’s
streams, lakes, springs, etc.
No. 4: Seemingly erratic distri
bution of purifying agents in tap
water, i.e.; Alternating powerful
chlorine odor for a few days and
then alleviation then a total lack
of odor for another few days. Cou
pled with intermittant strong chlo
rine is the strange fact that domes
tic fish and birds die from tap wa
ter when chlorine is strongest and
thrive on odorless water.
No. 5: Rusty tap water from at
least, Aleutian Homes’ faucets
Whether fault for excessively rusty
water lies with the plumbing and
Aleutian Homes’ management or
the city water commissioner it,
none-the-less, should be an investi
gative matter for the health depart
ment.
I may have been spoiled by lux
urious, big-city, living in the
“Lower 48” however I feel that a
city as large as Kodiak with nearly
2,700 residents is long overdue
some of the above “luxuries” which
this municipality owes its taxpay
ers. It’s my opinion that it takes
much nerve to ask for volunteers
to perform tasks that are the right
ful duty of state and city workers
who are paid to perform them. The
price for the latter is well paid by
the former in revenues.
Sincerely,
Barbara E. Gentis
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