Citizens Respond,
Heavy Rainfall
Curb Water Crisis
“Kodiak residents responded
to the city’s appeal to conserve
water,” City Manager Bill Po
land said today and as a result” a
critical situation has been
avoided.
Poland estimated that domes
tic consumption dropped about
50 per cent after the appeal wras
made in last week’s Mirror for
cooperation of Kodiak residents.
He also stated that Alaska
Packers Association has volun
teered the use of its tenders to
haul water from the base and
pump into the city mains should
the situation become that crit
ical, and said the offer was indi
cative of the manner in which
the entire community responded
to the situation.
Third Mercy Mission In Three Weeks
Crew members of the USCG Cutter Bittersweet were summoned
for the third time in three weeks to rush a Russian seaman to the
Kodiak Naval hospital for medical treatment. The seaman, Victor
V. Chudakov, 25, was reported suffering from peritonitis. He was
evacuated from the Russian vessel, the SS Dozornij.— (Photo by
Lykin, PH3, U.S.N.)
APA Announces Completion Of Crab
Expansion Doubling Plant’s Production
Kodiaks’ economic picture and
future looked brighter than ever
today with the announcement by
Alaska Packers Association that
they have completed an expansion
of their local cannery’s processing
capacity which “approximately
doubles our previous rate of pro
duction of King Crab.”
Installation of the new ma
chinery as well as construction
work was accomplished without in
terruption of the plant’s normal
canning operation which continued
as usual.
“We have a number of obliga
tions, not the least of which is to
our crab fishermen and our can
nery workers and are highly grati
fied that we were able to continue
normal operations while the ex
pansion installation and construc
tion program was carried out,”
State Is Winner
In Suit To Tax
Freezer Vessels
JUNEAU (/P)—Territorial wa
ters of the State of Alaska in Bris
tol Bay are those waters within the
line from Cape Newenham to Cape
Menshikof on Alaska Peninsula,
First District Superior Court ruled
Wednesday.
The decision of Superior Judge
James A. Von Der Heydt repre
sented another victory for the state
in a prolonged legal battle over
state’s right to tax freezer ships.
The long involved case was
touched off in 1951 when the legis
lature imposed license tax on freez
er ships and floating cold storages
equal to four per cent of value of
fish products obtained for process
ing through freezing.
The test case went through
the courts to the U.S. Supreme
Court whcih ruled freezer ships
are in a taxable business if con
ducted in Alaska Territorial Wa
ter. The Von Der Heydt decision
defines one such area.
plant superintendent Ralph Jones
said.
Doubling the rate of production
of the local APA cannery will not
only bring about “a corresponding
increase in the fishing effort” but
also mean a “considerable increase
in employment opportunities,” ac
cording to Jones.
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Record Number
At Kodiak High
A new enrollment record was set
this week when 282 students en
rolled at Kodiak high school, ac
cording to Supt. Ivor SchotC
Total enrollment Friday morn
ing was 962 with 780 registered
in the elementary grades.
Thursday’s Storm
Brings 1-1/4 Inch
Kodiak received more than one
fourth of its annual quota of 4.10
inches on Thursday as 1.25 inches
of rain came down in the past 24
hours, according to Fleet Weather
Central at the Kodiak Naval base.
This added to another .07 re
ceived during the week made a
total of 1.32 inches—enough to al
leviate the serious water shortage
in town for the time being but
still more is needed.
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Legal Population
Suddenly Triples -
. .. Or Doubles
Two legal aides, a set of twins,
a boy, 7 pounds, 10 ounces, and a
girl, 5 pounds, 12 ounces, appeared
on the Kodiak scene early Friday
morning for Attorney and Mrs.
Roy Madsen at Griffin Memorial
hospital.
The Madsens are also parents of
another set of twins, a boy and a
girl, nine years old.
Borough Meeting
Set For Sept. 13
A public meeting which will
also include members of the City
Council and the School Board
will be held in the district court
room in the postoffice building
on Sept. 13 at 8 p.m.
Representing the Department
of Local Affairs from Juneau
will be Joe Matyi.
State laws call for formation
of boroughs no later than June
30 of 1963. For more informa
tion on borough program and
law see Page 2 of today’s Mirror.
Third Mercy Mission For Russians
Made This Week By U.S. Coast Guard
SERIOUS CONDITION
Victor Chudakov, 25-year-old
Russian seaman, who was evacu
ated by the Kodiak unit of the
U.S. Coast Guard Wednesday
underwent surgery at the Na
val Station hospital, Thursday
afternoon. He was placed on the
hospital’s serious list.
Crew members of the Coast
Guard Cutter “Bittersweet” and
Navy personnel were called upon
Wednesday to make their third
rescue mission in as many weeks
as a 25-year-old Russian seaman,
Victor Chudakov, was evacuated
from the Russian vessel “SS Do
zornij” reported to be suffering
from peritonitis.
Coast Guardsmen met up with
the Russian vessel about eight
miles southeast of Cape Chiniak—
about 60 miles from Kodiak, after
the vessel’s radio operator had
called for help for the stricken
man whose condition was reported
as good Thursday.
TWO RETURNED
Two Russian fishermen, Mrs.
Vera Povh, 31, and Valentin
Alekssevich Chishov, 24, who were
Drought to the Kodiak Naval hos
pital on Aug. 15 and 17 for emer
gency operations were returned to
a Russian fishing trawl off Chiniak
by Coast Guardsmen on Tuesday,
being met by the SS Dozornij.
The August mercy trips were
also made at the request of the
Russians who have a large fishing
fleet about 60 mlies southeast of
Kodiak.
— Kodiak K apsules —
(By Bill Mason)
We particularly liked the ap
proach used by the Comniittee
la-Charge of the All-Naval Base
picnic scheduled for last Satur
day.
In frequent radio and tele
vision broadcasts, listerners were
reminded that if weather pro
hibited the affair on Saturday,
it would be held on Sunday. And
if the weather was still bad it
could be held on Monday.
Just another advantage of hav
ing long weekends.
No announcement was forth
coming on a three-day bad week
end, but we assume the cycle
would have started all over
again.
* * * *
And before we get too far off
base, we paid a visit to the hos
pital there a fortnight ago to talk
to the two Russians who are being
treated there, and we walked away
wondering if American fishermen
would be treated in a like manner
if emergencies arose somewhere in
the vicinity of the USSR.
While at the hospital meeting
the courteous personnel there, we
couldn’t help remembering the
yarn about the two proud mothers
in our home town telling of the
progress of their two sons in the
service.
One, with an air of pride, an
nounced “My boy is attending elec
tronic school, and soon will receive
his commission.”
The second, not to be outdone,
answered, “Well, my son is now a
naval surgeon.”
The first one replied, “My, but
they do specialize these days.”
* * * *
Although we are not eligible
to cast our ballot in Alaska this
year due to our short residency
in Kodiak, we have reached a
solid conclusion after two
months in Kodiak.
Each day, the mailbox brings
us a scad of releases from gov
ernment ranging from the De
partment of Public Works, De
partment of Highways, Depart
ment of Health, Education, etc.
—and sometimes we get three
to five copies of each release
telling us just how much each
department is doing for us poor
old taxpayers: one will be ad
dressed to the editor, another to
the business manager, another to
the Mirror and still another to
the Island Publishing Company
and another to the publisher.
They’re all the same and most
all of it has little or no news
value. But just the same it’s
costing you and me thousands
of dollars.
At this stage wer are about to
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Arrangements for the return of
the two fishermen were made
through Washington channels, of
ficers at the Kodiak Naval Base
stated.
Along
The
Waterfront
By Karl Armstrong
With the salmon season over, a
number fo town residents have
returned from various canneries
around the island. Well-known
Chuck Walker returned this past
week from Kadiak Fisheries Port
Bailey cannery—one of the most
modern and up-to-date canneries
in the state. For a time it appeared
they might hit a 200,000 case pack
there and though it slacked off to
ward the end of the season they
did put up a record 188,000 cases.
They had their water problems
down there too. The extended dry
season combined with the extra
heavy run of fish and subsequent
extra canning activity almost . . .
but not quite . . . run ’em dry.
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Skipper Merrill Hennington of
the Pacific Fisher returned this
week from Poulsbo, Washington,
where he underwent a physical
checkup.
&
Along about suppertime on Tues
day, Skipper Oscar Dyson pushed
the starter button on the Robbie,
listened intently for a few seconds,
dashed down the ladder into the
engine room to join his partner,
Seldon Nelson, where they both
looked and listened intently and
both broke out with broad grins
with the knowledge that they had
a spanking new 350 h.p. Caterpil
lar Engine installed in the Robbie.
“We will put the Robbie up on Al
vines’ grid Thursday-Friday, make
a trial run this weekend and hope
to be back out fishing King Crab
for our local APA plant about the
first of the week,” Skipper Dyson
advised. The new 350 h.p. engine
replaces an approximately 200 con
tinuous h.p. “Jimmy” (G.M.)
which has been installed in the
power barge Lex jointly owned by
Fred Brechan and Skipper Dale
Kramer.
&
Kodiak Island put up the largest
area salmon pack in Alaska, ac
cording to the ADF&G pack re
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$500 Reward
A $500 reward is being of
fered by Les Daniels who lives
on the Mill Bay Road for the
identity of the person who shot
out the eye of his prized Golden
Labrador dog.
The incident, which Daniels
described as needless and in
humane, took place this week.
Daniels indicated that the
person or persons responsible
would face charges for the act.