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VOL. 23, NO. 51 KODIAK, ALASKA — DECEMBER 6, 1963PRICE TEN CENT8
Cry” Group to
Incorporate; Or.
Bob President
A major step towards produc
ing the historical pageant-drama,
“Cry of the Wild Ram” was taken
last night at the home of Dr. Bob
Johnson.
Thirty-one persons gathered to
adopt articles of incorporation and
by-laws for the Kodiak-Baranef
Productions, Inc., the non-profit or
ganization which will present the
outdoor theater attraction.
Dr. Bob Johnson was elected
president by the board of 12 trus
tees who were also chosen at last
night’s meeting. Other officers in
clude Capt. J. D. Fulp, Jr., vice
president; Mrs. Lola Harvey, sec
retary and Steve Collins, treasurer.
Trustees elected to three year
terms on the board were Dr. John
son, Roy Madsen, the Rev. Don
Bullock and Mrs. Harvey.
Serving two year terms are Dr.
A. Holmes Johnson, Walter A.
Kraft, Captain Fulp and Collins.
One year trustees are Mrs. Doris
Simon, Mrs. Jane Melarvie, M. M.
Routzzahn and Dr. Larry McKin
ley
Plans call for the “Cry of the
Wild Ram” to be presented first
in 1965 in the outdoor theater to
be constructed by the corporation
Routzahn and Dr. Larry McKin
nashka bay.
In 1967 the pageant will be of
fered as part of the Alaska Cen
tennial observance.
NBA Opens Branch
On Naval Station
The National Bank of Alaska
this week announced the opening
of a branch on the Kodiak Naval
Station as of last Monday.
The facility is located in the
rear of the Regimental Adminis
tration Building formerly occupied
by the Credit Union. Hours of op
eration will be 1100 to 1300 hours
Monday through Friday and 900
to 1300 hours on military paydays.
Moose Boss,
Will Troyer,
Here Tuesday
Will Troyer, former manager of
the Kodiak National Bear Refuge
and now manager of the Kenai Na
tional Moose Refuge, is expected to
arrive back in Kodiak Tuesday.
Troyer will present a speech be
fore the Kodiak Toastmasters’
Glub at 6:15 Tuesday night. It is
not known if his speech will pos
sibly cover the proposal to trans
plant some of his moose wards to
Kodiak Island.
His many friends and any inter
ested persons are invited to attend
the Toastmasters meeting which
will be held in the basement of
the Montmartre Inn.
OUZINKIE POSTMISTRESS
Mrs. Merrie L. Carpenter has
been appointed acting postmaster
at Ouzinkie according to word re
ceived from Congressman Ralph
Rivers in Washington, D.C.
Poland Resigns; Urges Appointment of
Professional, Experienced Trained Man
City Manager Bill Poland this
week tendered his resignation to
the city council.
Mayor Pete Deveau and all coun
cil members received the resigna
tion which was in the form of a
memo early this week.
Poland stressed the fact that
the work load of the city manager s
position had increased to the point
where the post should be filled by
“a person with professional train
ing and experience in this field.”
“I believe the problems facing
this city are so numerous and com
plex that such action is manda
tory,” Poland advised the council.
Poland’s resignation thanked the
city council, “both past and present,
who have given me so much coop
eration and made the job much
easier.”
He indicated that he would re
main on the job until a successor
is appointed.
“If the city council so desires, I
can stay on until March 30th, 1964,
or any time prior to that date that
the council replaces me,’ he stat
ed. . . ,
Normal procedure for hiring of
a city manager which has always
been followed in the past and as
observed by other Alaskan cities
calls for advertising the position
both locally and throughout larger
cities in the state.
Mayor Deveau today said he
wished to publicly express the
thanks of the people of the com
munity for the long, faithful and
sometimes trying service Bill Pol
and has given to us all in his po
sition as city manager.
Expect Foreign
Fish Fleets Back
In March-April
There are no Japanese fishing
vessels in either the Bering Sea or
the North Pacific at the present
time according to Jim Branson,
high seas enforcement officer of
the UjS. Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice. There are no Russian ships in
the Gulf of Alaska now either, he
said.
However, Branson said the mass
ive fishing fleets of both nations
can probably be expected to show
up again in the Gulf of Alaska in
March or early April.
The last of the Japanese vessels
were fishing for shrimp near the
Pribilof Islands and they appar
ently departed about ten days ago,
he said.
RAY MARTIN BACK
Ray Martin Sr. returned last
week from a month long vacation
trip that took him through 12
states. He visited the place of his
birth in Oklahoma, a place he nam
ed that is difficult to say and im
possible to spell, and spent a good
plft of his trip in the Miami, Fla.
sun.
Private Group Files on Tidelands; Tustumena Ferry
Dock Development May De Delayed, Mayor Says
Firm Plans More Than Million Dollar Dock Here
Kodiak may not have docking
facilities prepared in time for ar
rival of the ferryboat “Tustumena”
due to filing by a private group on
the tidelands on which the city had
planned to build the ferry docking
facilities, according to Mayor Pete
Deveau.
Deveau was on the long distance
telephone several hours this morn
ing conferring with various offi
cials, including Governor William
Egan, and said that an investiga
tion is being made into the legal
aspects of the new development. He
is to confer with the State Attor
ney General later today he said.
“Commissioner of Commerce A
H. Romick advies us that the Ko
diak Land Co., Inc., under which
name the private group Hied, has
no business license and has no pap
ers on Hie identifying members of
the corporation.”
Deveau revealed that the city
had been aware that a group of
private persons were interested in
filing on the tidelands involved and
that he has “twice invited repre
sentatives of the group to meet
with the city council and other city
officials to discuss the matter. We
have felt that if this group could
show that they were capable of co
ordinating their plans and objec
tives with those of the people of
the city that we would have no
reason for objection. However,
they have ignored our invitations,
Deveau stated.
“This i3 a stab in the back and
will cause delays which might very
well prevent us from having a
NEW EMPLOYE
S. Wayne Kotula, linotype oper
ator and printer, has recently been
added to the staff of the Kodiak
Mirror.
docking facility ready in time for
the ferryboat,” Deveau declared.
The Director of the Division of
Lands, Roscoe E. Bell, in Anchor
age, has advised the city that the
Kodiak Land Co., Inc. has made
application to lease for 55 years a
tideland area located adjacent to
the City of Kodiak.
“The proposed use is for con
struction of warehousing and dock
ing facilities with supporting com
mercial activities,” Bell said.
“If you wish to comment upon
our issuance of this lease to the
highest bidder as determined by
a public outcry auction to be held
in Kodiak after legal advertising,
please do so by Dec. 15, 1963, Bell
added.
The application to file on the
tidelands was accompanied by a
map of their preliminary plat and
it shows the group would be filing
on 1736.88 feet of waterfront prop
erty and encompasses all of the
tidelands situated between the city
limits anri the naval station boun
dary. The city planned to extend
the city limits so as to include the
area involved, according to De
veau.
For several weeks the city, in
conjunction with the state, has
been making the preliminary engi
neering and just recently the city
council was advised that the site
was suitable for the docking fa
cility.
“We were getting ready to pre
sent the entire matter to the legis
lature in February to obtain state
funds for construction of the dock
ing facilitie for the ferryboat,” De
veau said. He pointed out that the
state provided docking facilities
for the ferryboats in SE Alaska.
A spokesman for the Kodiak
Land Co., Inc. who did not wish
Tustumena Schedule Subject of Early
Meet Here with Anchorage Delegation
Mayor Pete Deveau, who has
been keeping a jealous watch over
Kodiak’s ferryboat “Tustumena,”
and a wary eye on moves of An
chorage interests to convert the
vessel into a “floating convention
hotel and tour boat,” today told
the Mirror that Anchorage Cham
ber of Commerce Manager Clair
Banks had telephoned him to ad
vise that a delegation of Anchor
age businessmen would come to
Kodiak around the first of Janu
ary to discuss and study the ferry
boat’s scheduling.
“I have been aware for some
time now that there are some peo
ple in Anchorage who would like
to use the vessel for purposes oth
er than what it was intended for
and I have been most concerned
about these developments, Mayor
Deveau said.
“Now they propose to meet here
with us and that is fine with me,”
Deveau stated, adding, “I am in
viting representatives from Hom
er. Seward, Kenai, Soldatna and
all other Kenai Peninsula commun
ities to be here for this meeting,1'
he revealed.
The Anchorage delegation will
be made up of representatives of
the trucking industry, grocery
wholesale and auto parts businesses
as well as the Port Commissioner
and Chamber manager. They wish
to meet with the general public
and industry heads of this area for
discussion and study of the tenta
tive schedule of the Tustumena,
which will be launched tomorrow
afternoon and is scheduled to be
in operation within six months.
Recent moves by Anchorage in
terests to interfere with the ferry
boat scheduling has in recent
weeks threatened to break out into
“open warfare’ between the main
land metropolis and smaller towns
on the Kenai Peninsula and Kodi
ak Island. It is understood that the
meeting here will serve to avoid a
rupture in the good relations of
Anchorage and the small cities, ac
cording to Devcau.
to be identified by name, called
the Mirror during noon hour to
day and said he wished to present
the firms position in the ferry
dock controversy.
“We are not doing anything
crooked. It appears that this boils
down to being a question of wheth
er public money should be used to
build the ferry dock facilities or
whether private enterprise should
be allowed to do it,” he said.
“We sent our papers of incorpo
ration into the state about throe
weeks ago along with our check.
The papers were returned to ns
for two corrections or changes
which would explain why the pap
ers are not on file at the moment/*
he pointed out.
“If we get the land we intend tp
go ahead with our plans for this
development which involves the
construction of a $1,500,000 facil
ity including a 1400-foot long pity
and several buildings on it. Mlh
order for the hfty to build a facility
it will involve the expenditure Off
public money either from the city
or the state or both.
“We deplore the fact that thfr
controversy has developed but have
every intention of going ahead with
our plans. We have a working or
ganization, some of the engineering
work is done and considerable tinty
and money is already involved”, hjs
stated. I
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Along
The
Waterfront
By Karl Armstrong
Skipper Miles Rice of the Gla
dys R. has a Vodka bottle which
has a note written in Russian in
it. He would like to find out wluft
the note says. Any of you who can
decipher or interpret Russian
writing could put your knowledge
to use on this. We also would be
interested in what it says. The not&
is dated August 1963. j
st ;
Our good and lucky friend Jer
ry Williams tells us that he is not
sure just when big brother Lloyd
Cannon and his missus are expect
ed back but said it probably would
be in about ten days. He did men
tion that Lloyd and Pat made a
sojourn to the Hawaiian Islands
recently.
& J
For several issues new we heife
at the Mirror have been meaninig
to express our thanks to Jim Mon
roe, Sr. his son Rocky, and Alab
Austerman as well as Herb Car
penter, industrial arts instructor
at KHS—all of whom played ah
important part in getting the Mir
ror into print during a recent cri
sis in our back shop machinery.
Due to their individual skills, ef
forts and innovations we were able
to keep the press running until
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