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VOL. 22, NO. 26 KODIAK, ALASKA, JUNE 29, 1962 PRICE TEN CENTS
Roy H. Madsen-“Home Town Boy”
Appointed New City Attorney
Roy H. Madsen, “a home-towi
boy” who graduated from Kodiak
High School before pursuing his
law degree at Oregon State Col
lege and the Northwestern College
of Law in Portland, last night be
came Kodiak’s new city attorney
when the city council approved a
retainer agreement between him
and the city.
Madsen’s appointment as city at
torney becomes effective July 1,
1962, upon which date the resigna
tion of John Mansuy as city attor
ney becomes effective. Mr. Mansuy
has moved to Anchorage where he
has set up his law practice.
Originally born at Kanatak,
Alaska, Roy lived most of his life
here in Kodiak as a youth.
He is a veteran of World War II,
having served with a P.T. Squad
Halibut Price Up
Ketchikan (JP) — Halibut prices
edged upward to just below the
record level of last week. E. C.
Phillips & Son and Ketchikan Cold
Storage paid $33.35 for large. Last
week’s record was $33.50.
NO PARKING ON FOURTH
There will be no parking allowed
in the small boat harbor area on
the Fourth of July, according to
Police Chief R. E. Vickery. Cars
parked in the area will be towed
away.
And until after the parade, there
will be no parking allowed on
Alaska Way from Benson Avenue
to Mill Bay Road nor on Marine
Way from Mill Bay Road to Kraft’s
Hardware Store on Marine Way,
the chief warned.
iron in New Guinea and the Philip
pines from January, 1943, to No
vember, 1946. After he was hon
orably discharged from the service
in 1946, Madsen returned to Kodiak
where he guided with his father,
the late, famed, big game guide
Charles Madsen in 1947, 48 and 49.
Madsen was admitted to the Ore
gon State Bar Association in Sep
tember of 1953.
(Continued on Page 13)
Art Brooks Head
Of Chamber Group
Art Brooks, insurance agent
here, was elected president of the
Kodiak Island Chamber of Com
merce at the noon meeting of the
group Thursday at the Town Club.
Other officers elected were Bob
Simon, 1st vicepresident and How
ard Wakefield, 2nd vice-president.
Directors named were Chuck Pow
ell, retiring president, Roy Madsen
and Dr. Bob Johnson.
The Chamber office, now located
in the bank building, is to be
moved across the street in the for
mer John Mansuy office.
The sum of $1,300 has been col
lected for the 4th of July kiddies
prizes and fireworks. The fire
works are here it was reported.
Midshipman Ron Short, who is in
Kodiak for the summer, will dem
onstrate parachute jumping at an
unscheduled time.
The Civic Projects Committee
reported favorably on the Cham
ber sponsoring a rodeo this fall.
It would promote Kodiak’s cattle
industry, it was said.
Council Approves
School Budget
After voicing both their individ
ual and collective feelings of chag
rin over failure of the school board
to invite them to “sit in” when the
school district budget was being
drawn up and discussed, city coun
cilmen last night approved unani
mously, if a bit grudgingly, the
school district budget.
Ivor A. Schott, superintendent of
the Kodiak Independent School
District, was on hand to present
and explain the school budget for
1962-63 and advised the council
men that he would relay to the
school board the request of the
council that it be given an oppor
tunity to meet with the board mem
bers when the next year’s budget
is being considered.
In answer to Councilman Nick
Frost’s inquiry as to why the school
budget is so delayed, Mr. Schott
explained that the school board
must prepare the budget in time
to submit to the state department
of education for approval on Jan
uary 1st. However, the state did
not return the budget for final ap
proval by the city until this week.
“This year (1962) will be marked
by a sharp drop in total value of
property assessed because personal
property values will not be as
sessed. That will be accompanied
by a sharp rise in millage levy for
school taxes. The school does not
share in the city sales tax, a por
tion of which is replacing personal
property taxes. The District must
show its source of revenue due
from local sources in property tax
rate only,” Schott’s report stated.
Council Approves
Paving Project
Kodiak may get another paved
street yet! Maybe even this year!
City Councilman Nick Frost re
ceived the council’s approval last
night on two motions aimed at get
ting the asphalt paving machines
rolling.
His first motion was to get coun
cil approval of a proposal to pre
pare for paving that portion of
Mission Road between Main Street
and Tagura Road. His second mo
tion was to authorize a loan from
the healthy ($120,000) small boat
harbor fund to the bankrupt street
construction fund which City Man
ager Bill Poland advised was now
empty.
Councilman Maurice -‘Red”
Burnham then moved to let the
paving project out on contract. A
call for bids is to be issued for the
project which City Engineer Jim
Barr estimated might cost approx
imately $50,000. However, Barr ex
plained to the council that this
amount would not be entirely “out
of-pocket” inasmuch as the city
will rent out machinery and pro
vide certain materials to whom
ever does the project. The city has
invested approximately $70,000 in
paving equipment and materials,
including asphalt.
City Manager Bill Poland ad
vised the council that the boat har
bor fund is not critical in that state
funds are available for boat harbor
work contemplated.
(Continued on Page 4)
Plans Complete For 4th Celebration;
All Day Events End With Fireworks
Plans are complete for the cele
bration of the Fourth of July in Ko
diak with a parade, the traditional
flag raising ceremonies, the chil
dren’s races, Rotary train, the mid
way, and a host of events through
out the day, ending with a fire
works display at 11 p.m.
Emphasis this year in the parade
will be on a display of the Amer
ican flag. Ranchers in the area will
ride horses forming a color guard
to lead off the parade. Many novel
entries are expected to be entered.
Kids are being asked to dress up
their bikes, motor scooters, etc.,
and enter them in the parade. A
host of prizes are being offered.
Western entertainment may be
provided also, with a nationally
known and popular musical combo
in the parade. Charlie Ryan’s “Tim
berline Riders,” a trio consisting
of Billy Dodson and Walley Pulley,
who are coming to Kodiak for an
Newly elected Rotary Governor
for District 504, Dr. A. Holmes
Johnson begins his duties July 1.
He returned this week from a six
weeks trip during which time he
attended the district conference
where he was elected, then going
East to Lake Placid, N.Y., for a
governor’s conference held
there. Following that he at
tended the Rotary International
convention held at Los Angeles.
District 504 over which he will
have jurisdiction, is composed of
Rotary clubs in Washington,
British Columbia and Alaska.
World Fair Pics
Shown At Rotary
Slides of the World’s Fair at Se
attle were shown at the Rotary
Club meeting Tuesday noon in the
49 Room.
Scenes from atop the space nee
dle, and inside several of the build
ings were included in the slides
shown by Skipper Knudsen, who
returned from Seattle recently.
Dr. A. Holmes Johnson, new Ro
tary governor for the District,
spoke briefly.'
Among the guests present were
Bill Butler, Mrs. Anna Mae Voka
sek, Ralph Moody, Pat Huston,
John Keers, W. S. Miller, Howard
Wakefield and Alf Madsen.
engagement at a night spot, may
also appear in the parade. Ryan
is a well-known recording star.
(Continued on Page 4)
City Sales Tax
Revision Asked
Two prominent Kodiak business
men appeared before the city coun
cil last night and strongly urged
that the city sales tax ordinance be
rewritten so as to not discourage
fishing boats, particularly halibut
boats, from making Kodiak a regu
lar base for refueling and re-bait
ing.
Councilmen, after considerable
discussion, approved a motion by
Councilman Nick Frost to table the
matter until the city manager has
an opportunity to study and re
search into the sales tax ordinances
and practices of other Alaskan
ports.
Making the appeal for reconsid
eration of the sales tax ordinance
were Jack Hinckel of Union Oil
and Howard Wakefield of Alaska
Ice & Storage. Both pointed out
various inequities to fishermen’s
interests under the present exist
ing ordinance and pointed out that
the revenues realized by the city
from sales taxes levied upon the
sale of fuel, bait, ice and fishing
gear doesn’t offset the damage that
could result from resentful fisher
men who might re-provision at
other ports.
“It is to the benefit of the entire
community that these boats make
Kodiak their re-provisioning base
and we should do everything possi
ble to encourage them to come in.
The sales tax discourages them and
even antagonizes some of them,”
Hinckel told the council.
Hinckel compared the applica
tion of the sales tax to transient
fishing boats to the prohibition law
and pointed out that many local
merchants were absorbing the sales
tax themselves rather than apply
a tax they feel is not equitable or
right, even though they were aware
that it is illegal to absorb the sales
tax unless it is absorbed for all
customers. He said that he had
received complaints from halibut
boats in particular and had lost
business to Seward. Mayor Merrill
Coon advised the council that he
had not encountered such ex
pressed resentment of fishermen
at the Standard Oil operation.
In rebuttal, City Manager Bill
Poland had City Clerk Douglas
Preston read letters received from
other Alaskan ports stating that
they charge sales taxes. Letters
from the city administrations of
Sitka, Ketchikan, Seward and Ju
neau were read stating in general
that sales taxes were applied to
fishing boat provisioning purchases
in those ports. The letter from
Juneau was considered somewhat
vague and the council asked the
city manager to research the Ju
neau ordinance in particular.
In general, councilmen evinced
hopes that an equitable formula
could he found which would be sat
isfactory to all concerned.