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VOL. 21, NO. 92 KODIAK, ALASKA, NOVEMBER 3, 1961 PRICE TEN CENTS
Alone The Waterfront
The general picture on the king
crab operations remains fairly
quiet. Both Alaska King Crab and
Alaska Packers report thin catches.
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King Crab, Inc., however, report
a fair activity, running over the
last weekend and 3-4 days this
week. They have had some shrimp,
but report them not too plentiful.
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Del Valentine and family left
this week for Ketchikan, where he
will take over the Alaska Packers
cannery. There has been no offic
ial word on this from the company.
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The Alaska Packers boat the
Tula is in trouble. She lost her rud
der Southeast of Ugak Bay. The
company tender Herrin came to her
rescue, taking the Tula in tow. The
Herrin in turn developed trouble
when her steering quadrant broke.
The Alaska King Crab boat Jaguar,
a few miles away, was contacted,
and proceeded to the scene, and at
press time had taken the Tula in
tow and was heading for shelter in
Ugak Bay. The Herrin also is pro
ceeding to shelter.
A Coast Guard Air Detachment
plane was" on the scene earlier, and
at press time the CGC Storis is en
route to give assistance.
Hannes Westman is the skipper
of the Tula.
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The Kadiak Fisheries vessel Mar
mot Cape was launched and the
Evangel was hauled out at Alvine’s
Marine Repair.
The vessel Kasilof is having a
section of keel installed on the dry
dock.
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Gene Olney’s vessel the Marguer
ite struck a rock in Jap Bay and
damaged her propeller and tail
shaft. The tailshafit was so badly
bent that it will be necessary to in
stall a new one.
The Columbia River tug Nez
Berce was tied up at the Standard
Oil dock Monday. The Nez Berce
is a powerful river tug with five
propellers and five rudders. For
power it has five 6-71 GMC Diesel
engines. It has been up in Bristol
Bay all summer and is now heading
south. ,
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At 'the Alaska Packers dock this
week were two new steel fishing
vessels built this year—the Brandt
and the Falcon.
A.D.F.&G. Board To
Act On Proposals
The proposed changes in the
Commercial Fishery Regulations
for 1962 which were accepted for
further consideration by the Alas
ka Board of Fish and Game are
available at (the Commercial Fish
eries Management Office at 12
Harbor Avenue.
Final action on the proposals
will be taken by the board at a
meeting to be held at the Loussac
Library in Anchorage from Decem
ber 1 to 7, 1961. A public hearing
will be conducted on December 2,
starting at 9:00 a. m. Interested
persons are welcome to testify, or,
if unable to attend, submit a writ
ten brief to Juneau not later than
November 23, relative to the pro
posed changes.
Repairs are still underway on
the Chisik Island which is moored
in the small boat harbor.
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An' ironworker at the cold stor
age plant, Joe King, was taken to
Griffin Memorial Hospital yester
day after he fell off the roof.
He suffered several fractured
ribs, but is soon to be discharged
and will go to Seattle.
I960 Commercial
Catch Is Listed
A report containing the 1960
commercial fisheries catch and pro
duction statistics for 1960 has been
completed and is ready for distri
bution by the Alaska Department
of Fish and Game, according to
E. S. Marvich, Deputy Commis
sioner.
The report’s eleven tables pro
vides data an the number of oper
ating units, the catch and value to
the fishermen, the catch by year,
the number of salmon caught by
district, average weights of salmon,
number of firms and employees
manufacturing fishery products,
the poundage and values of each
fishery product by species, and the
number of cases and value of each
species that was canned.
Copies may be obtained by writ
ing the Alaska Department of Fish
and Game, Subport Building,
Juneau, Alaska.
Sen. Gruening
Here On Monday
U.S. Sen. Ernest Gruening will
arrive in Kodiak Monday and will
be the principal speaker at a no
host dinner at the 49 Room either
Monday or Tuesday evening.
The senator is making a non
political visit here, and plans to
visit several ranches on the island.
Sen. Gruening will speak on the
Rampart Dam project and other
matters pertaining to Alaska, and
will answer questions regarding
legislative matters. The date of the
dinner has not been determined.
Optometrist To
Open Office Here
Don Fenner, son of Ardis and
Mabel Fenner of this city, arrived
home last week, after spending the
past four years as an optometrist in
the USAF. He was stationed at
Richards-Gebaur AFB, Missouri.
Fenner plans on opening an of
fice here as an optometrist as soon
as his equipment arrives. He will
have his office in the old commis
sioner’s office on Mission Road.
Don Fenner spent his early youth
here. He went through grade
school from the second grade here
and graduated from the Kodiak
high school. He received his doc
tor’s degree in Optometery at Pa
cific University, at Forest Grove,
Oregon, which is rated as one of
the two top sohools in that field in
the nation.
NAVY DAY 1961 — Rear Adm. H. H. Caldwell (right), USN,
Cmdt. 17th Naval District, and Mr. A1 Hochberger, Kodiak Navy
league President, cut a cake in observance of Navy Day, at the Ko
diak Naval Station, October 27.
In the background is Capt. E. E. Hedblom, USN, District Medical
Officer, acting as master of ceremonies.
Appropriate to the occasion, and tied in with the 50th year of
Naval aviation, are the Navy’s Polaris missile in the background and
the aircraft-carrier-shaped cake.
Cutting of the cake followed the dinner and a program presented
in a humorous vein which localized famous sayings of heroes in
American Naval history. Emcee was Capt. R. F. Burnett.
(Official U. S. Navy Photo)
Mirrored Reflections
By SIG DIGREE
What happened to the Trick or
Treaters? Many report the few who
rang their doorbells. We, for one
family, had lollipops and money
handy as did others, resigned to the
task of answering the doorbell, but
few callers. Are those goblins and
ghosts afraid of the dark?
Some of these Trick or Treaters
were without ethics, or don’t know
the meaning of the phrase. Even
wthen given something, they still
soaped up windows and doors. Win
dows of stores naturally not open
were marked up with dirty words
or soaped up. There ought to be
some sort of code even among gob
lins. Besides this is a good way of
discouraging people to give any
thing.
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Congratulations to the children
who collected for UNICEF. A very
worthwhile endeavor.
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FIFTY-FIFTY—FIFTY THOUSAND accident-free hours of fly
ing, in the Fiftieth Year of Naval Aviation, are commemorated by
Navy Patrol Squadron 17 at the Kodiak Naval Station, October 30.
Capt. C. D. Huston (left), USN, operations officer for the Alas
kan Sea Frontier, presents aviator’s wings symbolic of the occasion
to Cmdr. W. J. Pressler, USN, VP47 commanding officer.
Crewmembers of the just-completed, recordsetting flight are
assembled in the background.
Through the combined efforts of all squadron personnel, VP-17
has been the recipient of Pacific Fleet safety awards since 1955. In
1958, they received the Chief of Naval Operations’ Naval Aviation
Safety Plaque for their type aircraft.
Their last accident occurred in December 1954.
(Official U. S. Navy Photo)
Chest X-Ray Team Here Next Week
Free chest X-rays will be avail
able for everyone when the Alaska
Department of Health chest X-ray
team visits Kodiak, Tuesday
through Thursday of next week,
Nov. 7-9.
X-rays may be obtained at the
Kodiak Health Center from 1-5
p. m. and from 7 - 9 p. m. on any
one of those days.
X-rays are free and are part of
the Health Departments program
in its fight against TB. Health au
thorities say that tuberculosis is.
no respector of age, money, or po
sition and usually does not give
any warning symptoms. They urge
that everyone in Kodiak avail them
selves of the opportunity to have
this health check.
Episcopal Bishop
Here Next Sunday
The Rt. Rev. William J. Gordon,
Episcopal Bishop of Alaska will
visit the newly formed St. James
the Fisherman Episcopal Church
here Sunday. He will be accom
panied by Father Hugh Hall of
Seward.
An all-parish dinner is planned
for 7 o’clock Sunday evening at
the Kodiak Armory. Holy commun
ion is planned for 8 a. m. and
church school at 9:45. Morning
prayers will be held at 11 a. m. The
dinner and all services will be held
in the Armory.
Fallout Reading
In Climb Here
WASHINGTON (A*) — Weather
Bureau estimated the radioactive
debris from the Russian super
bomb was riding the winds 30,000
feet over the Aleutian Islands
Thursday, with an invisible cloud
passing over parts of Alaska Thurs
day night.
The Public Health Service said
that Jacksonville, Florida, had the
highest level of radioactivity in the
air in the country Wednesday with
16.7 micromicrocuries per cubic
meter of air. In Alaska a high of
5.37 micromicrocuries were re
ported at the new sampling station
at Kodiak on Wednesday. Readings
were 2.75 on Tuesday and 1.2 on
Monday.
The Health Service said the con
sistent levels being reported were
no cause for public concern.
Need Permits To
Trap In Refuge
Trapper’s permits must be ob
tained by anyone trapping in the'
National Wildlife Refuge. This em
braces most of the Island.
There is no charge for the per
mits, according to Dick Hensel of
the U. S. Fish and Wildlife office
here. The permits will assist in
providing information necessary to
the management of fur-bearing ani
mals.
The season on land otter and
muskrat opens Nov. 16 and extends
to March 31, 1962. The beaver sea-'
son is tentatively set to open Jan.
1 and this date will be substanti
ated at a State Fish and Game
Board meeting in December, ac
cording to Hensel. Muskrat may be
trapped from Nov. 16 through
June 10, 1962.
Seabee Battalion
Leaves November 9
U.S. Naval Mobile Construction
Battalion-Ten will board the
U.S.N.S. Sultan, Thursday, Nov. 9
for Port Hueneme, Calif., it’s home
port, after deployment here since'
March. /
250 of the Battalion’s approxi
mately 500 men were employed on
the station here and the remainder
at Adak. The ship arrives here
from the Far East and brings the
Adak group with her.
Commanding officer of the Bat
talion is Cdr. R. L. Divoll, CEZ,
USN, and the executive officer is
LCDR J. D. Cochran, CEC, USN.
A more complete run-down of
the battalion’s activities while here
will be carried in next week’s edi-!
of the Kodiak Mirror.