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VOL. 23, NO. 13_ KODIAK, ALASKA, MARCH 29, 1963 I'KICE TEN CENTS
Hurricane Force
Williwaw Gusts
Blast Kodiak
Hurricane-force winds with Wil
liwaw gusts hitting over 100 mph
on Tuesday and Wednesday caused
considerable damage in the Kodiak
area.
KEA crews were kept busy re
storing power as high winds
smashed trees across power lines.
Schools on both the base and
town were closed due to the terrific
winds which occurred under clear
skies and brilliant sunshine.
Kraft’s Supermarket suffered
considerable damage with six
store-front plate glass windows
blown out. Many residences and
other business houses suffered win
dow damage either from direct
force of the gale or from flying
debris. Kodiak Airways suffered
plane damage as did another plane
at Big Lake.
APA’s cannery crew successful
ly aided fishermen in freeing two
boats which were moored at their
float which snapped free and swept
into the Near Island Channel.
The roof of the old city hall
sailed away and struck a nearby
house. One smashing blast col
lapsed a garage in Aleutian Homes
and tore away part of the attached
residence, forcing the occupants to
flee to safety to neighboring
homes.
Two automobile owners reported
that windshields in their vehicles
popped out due to sudden decrease
in atmosphere pressure during the
peak of the wind storm.
Most Kodiakans were busy Fri
day trying to locate at least one
garbage can. If anyone still has the
one they started with, it is their
own fault.
FOR BOOTH BIZ
Organizations desiring booth
space for the King Crab Festival
are reminded that Saturday, April
5, is the last day for signing up.
Details and registration are avail
able through Emil Knudsen, in
charge of booths.
Williwaws Come To Kodiak
Young Dusty Boyer and his pals found this giant spruce (estimated
at over 100 feet) a wonderful playground after a Williwaw gust
of over 100 mph toppled it along Spruce Cape Road. The hurricane
force winds on Tuesday and Wednesday smashed numerous trees
over, blocking traffic on the road system in this area. One such
giant fell upon a quonset owned by Chuck Edris, sorta ruining it.
Last Call For Festival Queen Candidates
Elks And Krafts To Sponsor Aspirants
Last Call for Queen Candidates!
The Kodiak King Crab Festival
Committee today announced that
seven candidates for Queen of the
Festival have been entered, and
there is room for at least three
more.
However the sign-up period must
end Saturday, so the lovely candi
dates can begin the contest to de
termine this year’s winner.
Ray Martin, Festival chairman,
said both the Elks Club and Kraft’s
will sponsor a candidate if two girls
will sign up with him immediately.
Tickets for the Festival drawing
will go on sale as soon as all candi
dates for Queen are registered.
“We want every girl to have an
equal start, so all will begin sell
ing at the same time,” Martin said.
First prize in the drawing this
year is an all expense 7-day trip
for two to Acapulco.
Second prize winner receives an
all expense trip for two to Las
Vegas. Third and fourth prizes are
one round trip each to Seattle. Alf
— Kodiak Kapsules —
(By Bill Mason)
Sometimes you have to get up
early to get ahead of this younger
generation.
Peter, 10-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Dave Fuller, read the
front page of the Mirror last
week about the new dentist, Dr.
Larry McKinley.
The caption under the picture
read “Dentist Starts Practice in
Kodiak,’’ and so Peter pops up
with this one at the dentist’s of
fice, “Mom, is he just practicin’?”
* * * *
And personally we got a kick out
of George Cornelius’ want-ad in
last week’s edition which read
“ENJOY PRIVACY — Excellent
cabin on Island Lake 2.6 acres of
land. Excellent view. Won’t last
long.”
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Madsen has offered two prizes for
ticket winners—a flight into the
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes,
and an all day fishing trip to one
of his famous hunting and fishing
camps on Kodiak Island.
Bids On Kodiak
Ferry Separated
By $1-1/2 Million
One of the five bids for the Ko
diak ferry, the highest one, was
over $1*6 million over the low bid
der which was the Christy Corpora
tion of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
The five bids whcih were sub
mitted were as follows:
Christy Corp., $2,494,500; Todd
Shipyards Corp., Seattle, $2,796.
Strong opposition to appoint
ment of an out-of-towner as Ko
diak’s new police chief has devel
oped since the city manager an
nounced he had selected a man
from the Fairbanks police force
for the job.
One prominent local business
man has been circulating a strong
ly worded petition during the past
two days and it already contains
almost 100 names, many of them
business people.
The petition is directed at the
mayor and members of the city
council and originally was slated
to be presented at last night’s
council meeting. The council failed
to meet, however, due to a lack of a
quorum and the petition will be
presented at the next council meet
ing.
The petition reads as follows:
“We the undersigned wish to en
ter strenuous objection to the
selection of a new Chief of Po
lice for our city from another
community, and we also wish to
000; Southern Shipbuilding Corp.,
Slidell, La., $2,110,537; Norfolk
Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Nor
folk, Va., $3,199,000; and Puget
Sound Bridge and Drydock Co., Se
attle, $3,595,000.
Work consists of the construction
of an automobile and passengei
ferry 238 feet in length, with a ca
pacity for 200 passengers and 37
automobiles.
Award of the contract will be
made within 45 days. Delivery of
the vessel is scheduled on or be
fore July 1, 1964, at the port of
.Seattle.
PLAY POSTPONED
The All-School Play, “Dino,”
has been postponed and will not
be presented until April 12 and
13, it was announced this morn
ing by Director Ron Mills.
One Way To Keep Them On The Ground
The Naval Station has been under strong winds with gusts occasion
ally approximating 100 miles per hour for abou|t a day and a half
March 26 and 27. Working on the lines are Kenneth R. Erb, airman
apprentice, of San Diego, Calif., Terrill E. Wallace, aviation ord
nanceman second class of Cleveland, Ohio, and Richard Rose, seaman
apprentice, of Santa Maria, Calif.—(U.S. Navy Photo)
Strong Opposition To Appointment
Of “Outsider” Police Chief Develops
object to the announced policy of
the City Manager not to consider
a member of the staff for the
Chief’s position. What incen
tive is there for a man to work
up to a higher position? Nor was
any explanation given to the
public as to why Chief R. E. Vick
ery was demoted to a desk job
by the Manager.”
Circulation of the petition will
be continued the Mirror was told.
Along
The
Waterfront
By Karl Armstrong
With the exception of Eastpoint
Seafood’s shrimp operation which
continues processing full blast, the
local canneries are all pretty quiets
“Almost ground to a halt,” reports'
APA. “All our boats are in and
guess we are in for a rest now,”
sez King Crab Inc.’s Office Man
ager Ervin Thiessen, adding, “the
season seemed to halt very sud
denly.” Agreeing with him on this
was Alaska King Crab Office Man
ager Bill Lencer who described the
suddeness of the appearance of soft
shells as “very strange ... all of a
sudden the boats were getting only
100 good hard shells out of 500
caught down the south end.”
Though all the big processors have
just about called it a season, Mar
tin’s Fresh King Crab still keeps
its pots aboiling and is the place to
go if’n you wanna send one ot
these great delicacies to friends
anywhere in the South 48.
The halibut fleet has been sail
ing out from all Pacific Coast ports
enroute to our halibut grounds... .
“Sounds like old Scandinavia Week
on the shortwave,” is the way
Alaska Ice & Storage Manager Bix
Bonney puts it. A number of the
halibut vessels have put into port
here . . . some iced down at the
local cold storage before heading
on out to the Bering Sea area
where the season opened Monday.
“Due to construction going on at
the plant we won’t be able to pro
vide any ice for about another
week but we will be accepting hali
but anytime a boat comes in,” Bon
ney told us. The halibut boat 'hat
went on the reef in the Neai island
Channel last weekend was the New
Queen which Alvine’s Marine Re
pair is fixing up.
From Ketchikan comes word that
an attempt is being made to bring
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