No Wonder We Are Operatin’ In Red;
12 Readers For Each Copy Of Mirroi
lbJOO Greenwood Lane
Monte Sereno, Calif.
Nov. 13, 1962
Dear Mr. Mason:
Sincere congratulations on the
local news coverage in the Kodiak
Mirror. The papers are almost two
months old by the time they reach
me, but the local news never gets
too old to be of paramount inter
est.
You estimated, in one of the pa
pers, the number of people who
possibly read each issue. The pa
pers are sent to me monthly by
Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson
(Margaret Lightfoot) Solvang,
Calif. After reading them from
cover to cover, including the ads,
with thorough enjoyment (and
sometimes sadness) I bundle them
up and send them to Mr. and Mrs.
Alvin (Beanie) Summerlin. Beanie
was Marshal in Kodiak years ago,
then served as Chief of Police. He
also skippered a tender for Me
Conaghy and Georgia worked for
McConaghy’s cannery also. Geor
gia also worked for the Kodiak
Mirror, for Bill and Lillian Lamme.
Summerlins now live in Crescent
City, Calif.
Summerlins send the papers on
to Portland. Oregon, to my daugh
ter, Mrs. Herbert Norris (Gail
Blankenburg). Gail went through
school in Kodiak. She had a by-line
in the Mirror when in High School.
She also counted out the papers to
the delivery boys on Saturday
mornings.
Alter sne ana Herb read the
Mirrors—they are then several
months old but still good reading
and of great interest with all that
local news—and I am sure that
Lee and Kathy Bettinger in Port
land are the next to get them.
I have a special interest in the
success of the Kodiak Mirror, aside
from 20 years in Kodiak. I kept
the books through three owner
ships—Bill and Lillian Lamme—
Mel and Jeanne Crawford — and
Jim Bennett.
Again—congratulations for put
ting out such a fine paper.
Yours very truly
Catherine E. Lowe
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Waterfront.
(continued from page 1)
merous protests by Kodiak fish
ermen of Russian destruction of
gear . . . and perhaps more sig
nificantly, come in the wake of
increasing demands by the press,
industry and political figures for
armed protection by gunboats
from Russian depredations. Such
apologies and assurances are
about as believable as any Com
munist promises. The need for
gunboats remains. We should not
be lulled into apathetic compla
cency merely on such dubious
promises.
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One needs only to remember
that these assurances were given
PRIOR to the most recent Russian
activity which caused the loss of
seven pots from the Oceanic, two
pots from the Ginny C. and one
pot from the Robbie. Oscar Dyson,
skipper-owner of the Robbie said
that Skipper Johnson of the Ginny
C. clearly observed the Russian
trawler in that area just prior to
the pot losses that night. The
Coast Guard has issued a state
ment that no Coast Guard vessel
was in that area at that time and
so could not have been mistaken
as the miscreant vessel which was
observed and reported by the
Oceanic Skipper Coogan Anderson.
There has been a wild rumor
making the rounds of the town,
particularly the bars, that there
was no Russian vessel, that it was
a coast Guard vessel, that there
was no gear loss. In short the ru
mors would indicate that the in
cident never happened.
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The only thing false however,
are these wild rumors. Coming
just at the time the important
fisheries meeting is being held
in Seattle, it would appear that
the Russians have friends who
perpetrate such rumors in the
apparent hope of discrediting
the protests of Kodiak fisher
men. This in turn would jeapor
, dize American interests at the
l meeting in Seattle. It should be
noted that this set of wild ru
i mors were not only widely cir
culated through town . . . they
also reached Juneau and Seattle
. . . and were whispered about
there in the right places in the
hope of arousing suspicion of
American reports of such inci
dents. It would be interesting
indeed to trace down just where
and how such irresponsible wild
untrue rumors got started here.
It would not be the first time
Americans, in this case our
selves, became duped by clever
Communist propaganda activity.
Surh rumors undermine our
cause and only benefit the Com
munists.
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Two Cal-Pak engineers arrived
in town last week “in connection
with studies relating to the APA
Kodiak and APA Larsen Bay can
neries.” One, Fred Herrero, is a
structural engineer; the other, Al
lan Zeis, is an electrical engineer.
On Wednesday they flew to Lar
sen Bay after spending most of
Tuesday in the Kodiak plant.
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CG And D & A Cage Winners
The Coast Guard walloped the
High School Independents 60-33
as Allen scored 22 points for the
Guard team, Thursday night, J
and Franklin racked up 12 for
the losers.
In the second game I) and A’s
thumped the National Guard 60
46 with Slitor pacing the win
ners with 15 and Michelli the
losers with 21.
It was announced today that
the Kodiak Jayvee squad will
play its first game on Dec. 3—
not Nov. 30 as previously an
nounced.
SAILING FROM SEATTLE
DEC. 5, 1962
MS TANANA
Womens Bay, Kodiak
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