City Reduces Rent For Shore Patrol;
Councilman Nick Frost Enters Protest
Ihe Navy will continue to rent
office space for the Shore Patrol
at the City Police station, but un
der a reduced monthly rate of $50.
City couneilmen last Thursday
approved a Navy request to lower
the rent from $100 a month to the
$50 rental.
In a letter from the Navy’s Bu
reau of Yards and Docks, it was
pointed out that the city’s $100
rental was exorbitant compared to
space rentals elsewhere in Alaska.
Councilman Nick Frost sug
gested a $75 rate, but Councilman
Wilton White proposed $50, which
Mayor Merrill Coon supported.
It’s an opportunity to show the
town can go along with the Navy,
and not align ourselves with the
pettiness going on between the
town and base,” Ihe Mayor de
clared.
The council voted 4 to 1 in favor
of the $50 rental, with Frost voting
against the reduction.
Said Frost. “I am sick of the
town acting like a puppy dog in
following the big dog Navy
around.”
WATER SEWER BONDS
Tn other action the city author
ized issuing bonds in the amount of
$375,000 for water and sewer proj
ects. Voters had approved a $500,
000 bond issue last year, and the
city feels that it needs only $375,
000 for proposed projects now.
The council approved transfer
of a liquor license from Jean Anna
Fletcher, owner of the Log Cabin
liquor store, to Von Straut.
Also approved was the taxi li
cense transfer by H. L. and D.
Haag !o Jerry Johnson.
'I he Mayor, with council ap
proval requested the Charter Com
mission elected last fall to organize
officially and get down to business.
Possibility of street signs for
Aleutian Homes was discussed,
and the City Manager was asked to
look into estimated costs for pigns.
Couneilmen also waived the zon
ing ordinance prohibiting commer
C l operations in the Aleutian
Homes, so that r.n Anchorage den
tist might open a practice in an
Aleutian Home.
A letter from Emil Knudsen to
the council requested the waiver
so that Dr. Larry McKinley might
move here and open up a practice
about March 1.
Soldotna, Alaska
February 17, 1963
Dear Editor:
To whom it may concern!
Or is there anyone that is con
cerned with the Kodiak basketball
team?
The Kodiak team played in Kt
nai on February 15 and 16. We
were shocked that no one traveled
with the team. Even at the lack of
support and boosters, , the boys
played a good game. They would
have played a better game, we are
sure, if they had just a few boost
ers from the side lines.
We are ex-Kodiakans and have
always been proud of our homo
town. We were very concerned that
such a lack of school spirit and en
thusiasm was shown by the towns
people.
Surely the “King Crab Capital
of the World” could afford to show
a little more enthusiasm for then
children’s basketball team. Even
the people of Kenai noticed the
lack of boosters the Kodiak team
had.
We have enjoyed reading the
Mirror since you have taken over
the paper and as far as we are con
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cerned the washed out, has been
newspaperman is doing a wonder
ful job.
Very truly yours,
Sheila Richart
Christine Tolbert
Soldotna, Alaska
DON’T F ORGET SUNDAY
Give the whole family a treat.
Take them to the dinner at the
Russian Orthodox Church on Sun
day. The entire family can eat for
only $6.
TOKYO MEET STYMIED
From Tokyo we learn that Sen.
Bob Bartlett did not get an oppor
tunity to speak to Russian observ
ers at the meet there. He said, how
ever, that Alaska Secretary of State
Hugh J. Wade will have authority
to discuss the matter of Russian
trawler destruction of Kodiak crab
gear at the Feb. 18 meeting of the
North Pacific Fur Seal Convention
in Tokyo. According to news re
ports as of Thursday a.m. the fish
eries meeting was bogged down.
LOU VEER , i .
AGENT
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