Civic Projects
A swimming. pool,... a . library,
building to be- partially financed
by tax money, a proposed sanitary
fill playground and a landscape
project were among projects dis
cussed at the last Rotary directors’
meeting and reported by Morris
Burnham to the Rotary club at
the luncheon Tuesday in the 49
Room.
It will be suggested to the city,
he said, that a 1 mill or similar
fax levy be made and earmarked
for an economy type library build
ing. The city has the land for it,
provided by the Rotary club, loca
ted across Mill Bay road from the
Kodiak hotel. He said also an in
vestigation will be made of % the
possibility of making a sanitary
fill for playground purposes in the
low spot near the Russian church,
and of landscaping the Little Lea
gue baseball diamond.
A proposal that a swimming
pool be built near the KEA plant,
the water to be heated from waste
plant heat, will be gone into by
a - committee consisting of Dr.
Bruce Keers, Jim Eggemyer, Rob
ert Miller arid Walter Muller.
Also at the luncheon a report
on the recent Rotary conference
at Bellingham, Wash, was given
by president-elect Peter Ramaglia,
and secretary-elect William Stone,
who attended.
The program was completed by
playing a tape recording made by
Dr. Eugene Sullivan, dentist, who
recorded it in Hermosa Beach,
Calif:, and told of his convales
cence after having his right leg
amputated above the knee, and of
breaking ^his - wrist in a fail later.
He said he expects to be back in
Kodiak about June 15.
Guests at the meeting included
D. A. Torgerson, A. S. Bennett,
A. Clark, and student member
John Reft
P. O. To Close
Next Saturday
The post office will be closed
all day next Saturday, May 30, for
Memorial Day, William H. Lam
me, acting postmaster, announced
today. Incoming and outgoing
mail will be worked.
There is still some confusion on
the, changes M plane schedules
due to inauguration of the direct
flight, he added.
On Tuesdays and Fridays, he
pointed out the direct flight to
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