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VOL- 23, NO. 11_ KODIAK, ALASKA. MARCH 15, 1963 PRICE TEN CENTS
2nd Class Borough
Heavily Favored
In Tuesday Voting
By an overwhelming majority
those favoring a second class bor
ough for this Kodiak area voted
54 for, while there were 8 votes
cast for a first class borough held
Monday night at the district court
room.
The courtroom was packed, and
at the conclusion of the voting two
chairmen were named to set up
committees to report back on
March 27 as to the pros and cons
of the power of this type borough.
Jim Barr will head up one com
mittee and Attorney Roy Madsen
the other.
Approximately 64 were present
for the voting Tuesday—one of the
largest to attend a borough meet
ing thus far.
After a petition is formed, it is
forwarded to the Local Affairs
Agency of Alaska and later put to
a popular vote.
Ferry Bids Will
Be Opened Mar. 21
Bids on the Kodiak Ferry
which were scheduled to be
opened on Thursday, March 14,
will not be opened until March
21, the Commissioner of Public
Works Richard Downing wired
Pete Deveau who sponsored the
ferry bill in the state legislature.
The week’s delay was re
quested by bidders to have more
time to study the plans and speci
fications.
Downing’s wire read: “At the
request of various shipyards bid
opening date for Kodiak Ferry
postponed one week from March
14 to March 21. This postpone
ment believed in best interest of
state.”
QUEEN CANDIDATES
Queen candidates for the King
Crab Festival must sign up by
March 20. Ray Martin, Festival
Chairman, urged all applicants and
organizations anxious to be spon
sors to contact him immediately.
Vacation For Kids,
But Not Teachers
It will be spring vacation for
some 1,000 Kodiak school chil
dren next week, starting March
18, but not necessarily so for the
teachers.
Most of the faculty members
will leave here Wednesday morn
ing on a chartered plane for the
first statewide Alaska Education
Conference which will be held in
Anchorage.
The teachers plan to return
home, Saturday about 4:30.
Late Bulletin
Skipper Ken Klockenbrink and
his drew escaped from his 48
foot crab boat, Mist, this morning
before she capsized and sank in
the area between the Triplets
and Peril Cape on Afognak.
The distress call was picked
up at 10:15 a.m. and the boat
Vagabond picked up Klocken
brink and his crew who were
adrift in their small skiff in
heavy seas and high winds.
Klockenbrink’s crewman is
Jim Brightman.
Elks And Emblem
Club Will Honor
St. Patrick’s Day
Be’gorra and old St. Pat’s Day
will be observed in a fitting man
ner as the Elks and Emblem Club
members hold their annual St. Pat
rick’s Day smorgasbord and dance
Saturday night, March 16.
Chef Commissar Kratchovil
promises the best feed of the year.
Serving will start at 7 p.m., and
later there will be dancing.
Still later after the 11 p.m, toast
Ed Ogborn and a committee of
Emblem Club members have
have planned a “This is your life
program” which promises to top
anything presented to date in Ko
diak.
All proceeds go to the Cerebral
Palsy fund sponsored locally by the
Elks Lodge No. 1772.
-- Kodiak Kapsules --
(By BUI Mason)
Walter Kraft received this let
ter this past week, and for the
life of us we can’t see why the
request wasn’t filled. It reads as
follows:
Chicago, Illinois
I am very interested in ob
taining a certain souvenir of
Alaska and am hoping that you
will be able to help me. The ob
ject I want is a claw from a Ko
diak bear. This is a first choice
and I certainly hope there is
some way of obtaining it. If this
is at all possible I would appreci
ate a reply telling me how to pur
chase this. If it is not possible to
get the claw from a Kodiak bear,
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NEW CHURCH EDIFICE TO BE DEDICATED
Berean Baptist
Church Building
Dedication, Mar. 15
Formal dedication services ol
the new Berean Baptist Church
will be held on Friday evening,
March 15, at 7:30 p.m., Pastor
Cletis Leverett announced this
week.
Guest speaker will be Virgil Red
mond of Sterling, chairman of the
Alaska Area Field of Baptist Mid
Missions.
Special music will be provided
by Violet Able of Old Harbor and
Dave Selden, Mission Builder.
Everyone in Kodiak is invited to
attend the ceremony and to visit
the magnificient church structure.
Alaska Ice Firm
Here Gets A.R.A.
Expansion Loan
The Area Dedevelopment Ad
ministration approved Saturday
a $260,000 industrial loan to
Alaska Ice and Storage Co., Inc.,
of Kodiak to finance expansion
of fish processing and cold stor
age facilities here.
Supplementing the loan which
will run for 15 years at four per
cent the First National Bank of
Anchorage will loan $80,000;
Kodiak Development co., $40,000
and the company itself $20,000.
Among the major stockholders
are Richard (Jake) Sweazy of
Anchorage, John Cushing, for
mer owner of the Kodiak Tele
phone Company and now owner
of the Sitka Telephone Company.
Most of the smaller stockholders
reside in Kodiak.
Bix Bonney is the manager of
the organization.
Local ARA Group
Meets Tomorrow
Walter Kraft, president of the
Kodiak organization of the Area
Redevelopment Administration,
announced today that a highly
important meeting of the or
ganization will be held Saturday,
March 16 (tomorrow) at the City
Hall at 2 p.m.
Navy Has Plans
For Constructing
250 House Units
A 250 unit housing project pro
posed for construction on the U.S.
Naval Station here came under fire
at the Kodiak Area Chamber of
Commerce meeting Thursday noon.
No formal recommendation on
the project will be taken until
Monday noon when the Chamber
meets in special session at the
Town Club.
A special committee appointed
by Chamber President Art Brooks
met with M. G. Gebhart, executive
director of the Alaska State Hous
ing Authority, yesterday afternoon
to explore Navy plans and Kodiak
housing needs.
The committee will recommend
to the Chamber Monday that the
Navy build no more than 100 units
of the proposed 250. To construct,
all 250 would endanger opportuni
ties for private capital to finance
building of apartment houses to
meet increasing housing needs in
Alaska’s fastest growing city.
According to Gebhart the Navy :
has at present 78 substandard units
which would be replaced plus an
additional 172 three and four bed
room apartments. A1 Hochberger, j
chairman of the special committee,
said any extra housing on the Base I
over the replacement units, plus i
a few 4-bedroom units would be ;
superfluous. <
5 Chief R. E„ Vickery
Resigns, Manager
Seeks Applicants
The resignation of Police Chief
R. E. Vickery was announced to
the City Council, Thursday night,
by City Manager Bill Poland who
said that Vickery will remain
with the department as a desK
clerk.
It was also announced that
the city is seeking applicants for
the post but that the successor
would not be chosen from mem*
bers of the department here.
Chief Vickery has served as
police chief for 10'/2 years. He
came here from Fairbanks where
he wras a sergeant with the police
department. He has had over 25
years of police experience.
Hunt Intensified
For Wheel Plane
Coast Guard planes from the Ko
diak Naval Station were carrying
on an intensified search, Thursday
afternoon, for a Aeronca single
engine wheel plane which was last
reported between Shuyak and the
Barren Islands about noon.
Piloting the plane was Larry
Nabozany and his passenger was
Lloyd L. Hughes of Seldovia.
Clark’s residence is 509 Flower
Street in Mountain View.
The two men arrived at the Ko
diak airport two days ago.
Thursday morning they filed a
flight plan with the FAA about 10
a.m., but were warned by a private
plane operator in Kodiak not to
attempt to go to the mainland. The
operator, Bill Harvey, theorized
that they got as far as Homer
where landing conditions were
zero-zero and the same at Seldovia.
Then, Harvey believes they re
turned to Kodiak but made no at
tempt to refuel and started out
again about 11:30.
The last radio call from the
plane said that it was between Shu
yak and Barren Island and they
were down to 1000 feet with no
place to land.
The Coast Guard was immedi
ately dispatched to that area.
The Coast Guard from Kodiak
sent out three amphibian planes
and the Cutter Storis with a heli
copter aboard about 1 p.m. to
search for the plane but they were
lampered by fog, rain and snow
and called off the search at 8 p.m.
However they were back in the
irea at 2 a.m., Friday.
A Coast Guard spokesman said
hat a radio report was received
n Homer that the small plane was
it an elevation of 1500 and was
litching.