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brother they can shanghai if the
need arises.
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Skipper Arnold Hansen began
wearing smiles again Tuesday
after taking his Sea Quail out of
Alvine’s Marine Repair for her sea
trials—which she passed handily.
They still have to check out her
refrigeration and a few minor
things they tell us, but she should
be back in the stream for APA
again shortly. Alvine's are justly
proud of their accomplishment. . .
she was a major operation ... in
a sinking condition . . . and just
plainly in bad shape altogether
when they towed her into Alvine’s
sick bay.
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Perhaps you’ve noticed the boat
Victory here . . . Skipper Jergen
Thomsen brought her in from Sitka
and she will be crabbing here. If
she seems to look familiar it might
be because she is the sister ship
to Skipper Lloyd Cannon’s Oceanic.
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Alaska Ice & Storage Manager
Bix Bonney tell us that the last
of the halibut (270,000 lbs.) was
loaded aboard the freighter Chena
on Thursday. They are getting
ready for the upcoming halibut sea
son now that they are completely
cleaned out of last season’s catch.
Bix also advises that the Holm’s
Reefer II, which has been moored
alongside the cold storage plant
dock, departed this week for Jap
Bay.
Down at Red Burnham’s Kodiak
Welding Works there is all kinds
of work going on . . . ADF&G and
cannery jobs and crab pots. During
the week they straightened the
rudder and two props for the Pa
cific Pearl, a shrimper, and did
some minor work for the Pacific
Pride, a crabber. Red left for An
chorage Tuesday according to his
right hand man, Tuck.
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Numerous people drop by the
Mirror office to ask about maps of
Kodiak or various areas on Kodiak.
While we do not have any maps
we are happy to advise everyone
that maps and charts are available
from Carl Rodli’s Kodiak Suppliers
located in the Deveau Electronics
building facing the small boat har
bor.
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George at the Town Club tells
us that Curley Doyle, skipper
owner of the boat Arrow has been
down with a touch of pneumonia.
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We hear from a most reliable
source that Everett LeVan may be
heading north before long. He
went out to look for a boat and
was successful . . . gonna be bring
ing the 50-foot former halibut boat
••Roosevelt" (still a loyal liberal
Democrat we see!)
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We were amazed at the interest
in our Kodiak fisheries of Col. Wil
lis H. Davis who was here to make
the IG inspection of the National
Guard unit. He asked so many
questions about our fisheries,
boats, canneries, etc., that we su
spect he must be planning on go
ing out commercial fishing here
when he retires! We didn’t hear it
from him but from Juneau comes
the scuttlebutt that our Kodiak Na
tional Guard unit may be in line
for special courses in seamanship
and other nautical subjects . . .
gonna be sorta amphibious. This is
a very sensible idea especially in
light of the possible need for using
the Guard to deal with Japanese
or Russian fishing intruders again.
During lunch hour t’uther day
shared a table at LilTs Cafe at
which several “white collar” peo
ple from each local cannery was
seated. A pretty young cannery
worker joined the group and pro
ceeded to remark on the merits of
crab of one cannery compared to
another saying “I don’t know why
our crab isn’t that white.” Were
upon, out of personal curosity, I
asked her which cannery she
worked for. . . . When she prompt
tly told me, I couldn’t resist grin
ning at the fellow who sat oppo
site me ... he being the office
manager at that particular cannery
... and without batting an eyelasn
he confirmed the fact that the
pretty young thing worked there
saying gravely, “Yes, she DID work
for us.”
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Stopped by the Casino with a
fisherman who’d been there the
night before with a group who’re
really dedicated to listening to the
nimble fingers of guitarist Red
Riley. “Did you get home alright
from the party last night," asked
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Rachel Rogers as she sat up a cou
ple of cool ones. “No trouble at
all,” the firsherman replied, “ex
cept that just as I was walking
down towards the boat harbor some
fool stepped on my fingers.”
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The most expensive water in
town, incidentally, is at Tony’s . . .
one freeloading-freddie came in
as the free lunch was laid out on
the counter . . . proceeded to make
himself a coupla hefty dagwoods
and then laid down a dollar and
imperiously asked i>eri for a glass
ot water and pack of cigarettes,
uutituily nert produced Doth and
gave the squawking spendthrift 10
cents change, explaining, “It’s 40
cents for the water . . . the lunch
was free” (never been so humili
ated in my whole life!).
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That Nome feller of the “ice
berg bloc” don’t make much
sense to me in his howling about
ADF&G’s budget being too high.
First crys it’s too high and then
complains cause there has been
a “lack of biological research in
the North Bering' Sea, etc. . . .
Doesn’t make no sense. Fact of
the matter is the budget is too
small from our point of view.
There should be at least $100,
00 included in it to research
razor clam resources and more
modern methods of harvesting
them. There should be more
money included to make possi
ble an expansion and speed-up
of the ADF&G’s program to stock
salmon-barren lakes and streams
on Kodiak Island. There isn’*
enough money being appropri
ated for these vital programs
and research. The British Colum
bians spend more on research
of the salmon run in just ONE of
their streams . . . than this state
is spending on its entire research
program! And they have more
biologists researching that ONE
stream than this state has in its
entire statewide management
payroll!
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They must be awful busy down
in the legislature this session:
A bill, sponsored by 14 repre
sentatives, has been introduced in
the legislature to “designate the
king salmon as the official fish of
the state. Not to be oudone, we
think it only appropriate that he
bill be amended so as to designate
King Crab as the official crab of
the state, razor clams as the official
clam of the state and Kodiak
shrimp as the official shrimp of
the state
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and Dr. A Holmes Johnson, second from left, president of the Amer
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recently to be used in their work. The contributions were by the
central committee of combined charities for RCA Service. Nick
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Mail boxes are again available
at the local post office with instal
lation of 270 new boxes this week,
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nounced today.
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transients for a limit of 30 days,
this will enable many in that sec
tion to obtain boxes, he said, as
well as individuals who have been
sharing boxes wtih others because
of the shortage. Postal regulations
provide that only members of the
same household may use the same
box.
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three months.
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