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Russian Trawl Fleet Returns
Pioneer Resident
Bill C. Anderson
Dies At Age 64
William C. Anderson, affection
ately known by local people as
“Blue-Eyed Bill,” died here Thurs
day at the age of 64 after a brief
illness.
Mr. Anderson was born and
reared in Kodiak and lived the
greater part of his life here. He
was a noted boatbuilder and long
time fisherman. He also was a
member of the Longshoremen’s
Union here.
Surviving are three children, Ru
dolph, Leroy and Irene. The two
sons are Kodiak residents and the
daughter now lives in Anchorage.
Other survivors include one
brother and three sisters. They are
his brother Charles who lives in
Seattle, two sisters. Helen Rock
stad and Ann Wolborg, both of
Seattle. Another sister is Mrs. Hil
dur VanBuren of Kodiak.
Funeral services will be held at
the Russian Church, 2 p.m. Monday
afternoon.
JUDGE DAVIS WAS HERE
State Superior Court Justice
Edward V. Davis arrived in Ko
diak Monday, held court and de
parted Wednesday. Copies of the
court calendar and results of the
court proceedings have not as
yet been made available to the
Mirror.
Along
The
Waterfront
By Karl Armstrong
You sportsmen and hunters may
be interested in knowing that we
have 100 copies of the “1963 Alaska
Hunting and Fishing Guides" on
hand here at the Mirror office and
they will be made available on a
first come first served basis. The
price is $1.
&
A new fisheries firm, Alcan Fish
eries, will go into operation over
in the Kenai area this season. Al
though they say they will ultimate
ly will be interested in various
products of the sea, they will prin
cipally deal in silvers which they
will refrigerate and ship. They will
wait till the end of the commercial
cannery season ends on the Inlet
before they start buying direct
from fishermen. They will want
500,000 silvers as a minimum this
year.
t
Over Seward way they have of
fered a contract for managing the
Seward small boat harbor to the
Johnson and Gentles Co., contin
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Queen Of The King Crab Festival
QUEEN ZOYA ABSTON
It’s now known by everyone and hardly news, but it is still the “thrill
of my life!” to lovely Miss Zoya Abston, that at last Saturday’s Coro
nation Ball, she became Queen of the King Crab Festival. Sweet
sixteen and in her sophomore year of high school, Queen Zoya gra
ciously received her crown, sceptre and regal robes of royalty, after
the Coronation Ball crowd, waiting breathlessly for the big announce
ment of the evening, was told that Zoya had won. She is the daughter
of Mrs. Verna Steadman. One of Queen Zoya’s first acts after the
crowning ceremony was to phone her father, Hugh “Pat” Abston,
who lives in Louisville, Ky., to tell him her exciting news. She was
sponsored by Naughton’s Bakery, The Teen Club, Base Civilian Club,
The American Legion and VFW Auxiliary. Queen Zoya had kind
words for everyone, including the six girls who were vying with
her for the coveted crown and title. They were Rikki Barnett, Hildur
Rockstad, Connie Short, Mary Jane Madsen, Pam Monroe and Dar
lene Denio.
Kodiak Rotarians
To Attend Meeting
Rotary District Governor Dr. A.
Holmes Johnson and other Kodiak
Rotarians will join some 400 Ro
tarians and Rotary Anns from
Alaska, Washington and British
Columbia this weekend in Anchor
age for the service organization’s
49th Annual District Conference.
The four-day conference opens
Saturday at the Anchorage-West
ward Hotel and will terminate on
Tuesday evening with a Governor’s
Ball.
Distirct Governor Dr. A. Holmes
Johnson of Kodiak will address the
conference.
Kodiak Rotarians planning to at
tend the gathering include Roy
Madsen. John Butler, Jack Hinckel,
Bill Lamme. Nick Rausch and Red
Burnham.
BOCAST APPOINTED
William Bocast, who was man
ager of the Kodiak Telephone sys
tem for four years has been named
administrative service supervisor
of the Anchorage telephone sys
tem.
Nick Frost Resigns
From City Council
City Councilman Nick Frost ten
dered his resignation from the
council at last night’s meeting. Ef
fective date of his resignation is
May 31st.
Councilman Frost, whose family
are pioneer residents of Kodiak, js
serving the first year of his second
three-year term of office as a coun
cilman. He served as city clerk and
was elected city magistrate previ
ous to election to the council. He
is the only person on the city coun
cil who was actually born here.
Frost, who is very active in local
Baptist Church affairs, will be
leaving around June 18 for Cedar
ville, Ohio, where he will enter a
Baptist Bible College. His wife,
Peggy, and their three children
will accompany him. He is associ
ated with Kodiak Airways
The council will appoint some
one to serve in his place until the
next city election at which time
voters will elect someone to serve
out the remaining two years of his
term.
88 Russian Ships Offshore Kodiak
Trawling In Historic Halibut Bank
A huge Russian pirate fishing
fleet, 88 in total number according
to officials of the Kodiak Naval
Station, is now located off the Two
Headed Island area with some ves
sels now just off Chiniak Cape.
The Navy’s report to members
of the Navy League meeting at the
Officers Club on Wednesday con
firms earlier reports from the
Alaska Department of Fish and
Game, the Coast Guard as well as
private and commercial pilots of
this area and apprehensive halibut
fishermen.
The Coast Guard Cutter Bitter
sweet returned to Kodiak this week
after patrolling in the Chignik
area to make sure the Soviet pirate
vessels did not violate the 3-mile
limit.
A number of Russian pirate ves
sels, supposedly engaged in fishery
operations were reported hanging
around Cape Chiniak last fall. Cape
Chiniak is the site of a missile
tracking station operated by the
U.S. Air Force.
Other Soviet vessels, presumably
fishing in the Two-headed Island
area’s traditional king crab grounds
of Kodiak fishermen, caused exten
sive gear damage to Kodiak vessel’s
crab gear with their trawling ef
fort last fall. Feelings ran so high
at that time among Kodiak iisher
mcn that it brought about a con
gressional hearing with represent
atives of the State Department
present to hear the complaints of
local fishermen. Also Governor
Egan made a trip to Kodiak and
boarded a C.G. cutter from which
he was able to observe the tremen
dous Russian pirate fleet.
The Commie fishing effort is re
ported to be taking place in areas
which have been the traditional
fishing grounds at this time of the
year of the American and Canadian
halibut fleets. Reports indicate a
number of halibut boats are un
able to put out their stationary
long line halibut gear due to the
hf>avy trawling effort of the Red
vessels which arrived just prior to
the opening day of halibut season
in the area.
The Navy League is sending
wires of protest to Governor Wil
liam Egan and members of the
Alaska congressional delegation as
well as other interested persons.
1st National Bank
Of Anchorage To
Open Branch Here
The First National Bank of An
chorage will open a branch bank
here in Kodiak, “within 90 days,”
according to Vice President Red
Murray before departing for An
chorage.
“We received approval for open
ing a Kodiak branch several days
ago from the Comptroller of the
Currency in Washington and
should be open there within 90
days,” Murray said.
The new branch will be located
across the street from the Orpheum
Theatre in the building formerly
occupied by the Fashion Heights
Shop to begin with, Murray said.
It Was A Glorious Morning!
Kodiak was blessed with cloudless skies, brilliant sunshine and balmy
seabreezes during its annual King Crab Festival. Of course that is
normal weather for Kodiak . . . known also as “The Ireland of the
Pacific,” and “The Riviera of the North Pacific.” Lief Norman of
Norman’s Photo Shop climbed atop his building to take this snap
shot of the parade and, as you can see, caught the U.S. Marines
briskly and smartly marching up our paved street. Most everyone
had a good time, including about 100 halibut fishermen aboard the
30-some halibut schooners that stopped over here during the week
end. As if in answer to the prayers of those weary of the choking
dust, worried about the Pillar Mountain fire and the lack of water
in the reservoir ... it rained on Monday!