Old Harbor Celebrates Independence
Day In Traditional American Manner
(Editor’s Note: Kodiak was not
the only community in the area to
celebrate an old-fashioned Fourth
of July. Old Harbor, for the first
time in its history, had a fireworks
display, and a full day of activity,
many of the events which the rush
of civilization has passed by. They
are recounted here by Sophie Si
meonoff, Florence Christiansen
and Polly Tonuhon.)
Fair weather and temperature in
the 60’s, got the scavenger hunt,
for all the children off on schedule.
Patriotic music and chimes brought
the entire village to the impressive
flag raising ceremony at 10 o’clock,
men and women played an exciting
game of volley ball. Eleven o’clock
happy shouts brought everyone to
the peanut scramble. Penny toss,
donated by Shugak general store
and bubble gum toss for all chil
dren. The next event was a color
ful parade of tricycles, bicycles,
wheelbarrow, and baby parade.
Nora Jaegers’ bike won on the
decoration. Jerry Inga on the
trikes and baby, Lolyd Ashowak
on the baby parade, who slept
through like a little lamb on his
ride inside the decorated wheel
barrow.
Food At Booths
From 12 to 1 p.m. wieners, buns,
popsicles, cracker jacks, were sold
from temporary booths set up for
the day. The pleasant girls who
helped serve were Olga Inga, Mar
tha and Evelyn Inga, Valen Inga,
Clyda and Sally Matfay, Kool-aid
booths were in charge of Jerry
Sanders, assisted by Emil Chris
tiansen. Sophie Simeonoff was in
charge of the fish pond. Sven and
Mary Haakansen were in charge
of the penny toss booth, which
brought many happy children and
adults who received awards of
fizzie, tootsie rolls and bubble gum
galore.
All Kinds Of Races
From 1 to 2:30 races, everyone
had observed these exciting races
and Wheel! Iya-I look at them go.
The 3rd, 4th and 5th grade sack
race was won by Lucy Christiansen
and here comes Evelyn Inga whfi
won the sack race for the 6th, 7th
and 8th graders. The 100-yd. dash
winners were Carl Christiansen
and Nick Inga, for the 50-yd. dash
for women was Olga Inga. Now we
see Debbie Tunohun running as
fast as her little feet could carry
her in the preschooler’s race and
had won first place. Clara Inga
and Rocky Christiansen won on the
1st and 2nd grade races. For the
3rd and 4th graders Joe Inga won.
The races are still going pretty
strong yet, and here comes Toby
Shugak who won first place for
the 4th and 5th graders. About
five women took place in the drum
rolling race and hoops, two drums
banged one another and here
comes the two winners who are
Irene Capjohn and Vera Shugak.
The three-legged race was next and
Harold and Leo were winners.
Everyone clear from the road, here
comes the rolling pin throw and
oops someone almost got hit over
the head. The pin throw was won
by Sophie Simeonoff. Women’s
dory race was won by Martha Inga
and Florence Christiansen who
sailed the still waters of Old Har
bor.
At 2:30 p.m. Mt. Marathon be
gins, the whistle blew and up
climbed Carl Christiansen, second
James Chokwak, and third place
Nick Inga were winners. Now for
the girls we see Lisa Christiansen
in first place. Anna Chokwak sec
ond, and third was Susan Alexan
deroff who were winners of the
event.
Pie Eating Contest
Contests from 3:00 p.m. starts us
off with blueberry pie eating for
the women’s contest was won by
Sofie Ignatin and for the men, Al
fred Hansen. The delicious pie
winners. Pop drinking was next In
line for men and women. Lucy
Shugak and Carl Christiansen
were winners. Balloon bust took
place next. And oh, we hear a lot
of noise as Buddy Pestrikoff bal
loon popped with a bang followed
by Chuck Inga’s loud pop.
Fourteen participants took part
on the baby bottle feed. A real
hilarious time for all who watched.
Winners were Ralph Capjohn and
Irene Capjohn, who held the bottle
while feeding Ralph. Fish cleaning
event was next in line. Three
women were given three fish a
piece to clean as for smoked sal
mon. Sofie Simeonoff was the
quickest with her knife.
Fireworks, Too
Booths were reopened for hot
dogs, etc. From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.,
the awarding of prizes. Next was
the tug-o-war for everyone who
wanted to take part. From 7 p.m.
to 9 p.m. finds us spending a quiet
time at the Recreation Center
watching a film. At the end of a
4th of July we had fireworks for
the first time in Old Harbor and
everyone enjoyed seeing them.
Words of thanks was announced
to all who contributed in anyway
to make such a wonderful day for
the children and all. Special ap
preciation was expressed to the
B.I.A. construction men for their
help and to Shearwater Cannery
for their donations.
Our sincere thanks to Violet
Able and Pearl Wright who have
helped arrange this 4th of July,
and Sven Haaksen who took up
the voluntary donations.
FISHERMEN CLEARED
John Malutin and Ralph Hansen
of the boat Stork were found not
guilty on Monday by Magistrate
Mabel Fenner on a fishery viola
tion charge involving the use of
two anchors. Explanations given
by the two veteran fishermen
served to satisfy the court that no
violation of fishery regulations had
been made.
An optimist is a person who has
acquired the ability to see life in
the best possible light.
Miss Universe
Miss Argentina, Norma Nolan of
Buenos Aires, won the Miss Uni
verse title at Miami Beach, this
past weekend. She was chosen
over 51 other beauties from
other countries. She is a model.
POLICE SLOGAN
The old saying: “Everybody
loves a lover,” doesn’t apply to
lovers of speed.
Mosquitoes and Flies
Don’t be chewed to bit* by these blood
thirsty pests. Just burn s little BUHACH
wherever you want peace and comfort.
«C BUHACH
—Safa—losy To Usa—Iconomlcal—
Phone Calls Can
Bring Troubles
A warning was issued by Judge
Mabel M. Fenner this week regard
ing persons attempting to place
long distance phone calls and
charging tolls to fictituous num
bers other than their own.
“We have had several occurences
of this here. The most recent case
involving a 14-year old girl came
to my attention this past week. The
girl has been placed on probation
and her parents were required to
make restitution for the toUs in
volved,” Judge Fenner advised.
The court pointed out that 6uch
a violation involves the felony
charge of fraud and could result
in heavy fines and penalties for vi
olators.
With the ultra-modern electronic
equipment and methods used by
phone companies nowadays, it is
impossible to get away undetected
in such attempts, officials have ad
vised.
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