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"News of aAmerica’s Last Frontier3
VOL 13 NO 4
KODIAK, ALASKA ARPIL 4, 1953
PRICB?10 CENTS
Easter Services Planned
For Early Tomorrow
i wo sunrise faster services
will be held tomorrow.
The Community Baptist
Church and the Church of
God have planned early ser
vices. Mass at the hospital will
be held at the usual time of
6:30 am.
The Baptist services will be
held at Eagle Point, near the
M. H. Smith residence, if
weather permits. In the event
•f inclement weather it will
be held at the church. Rev.
Clifford G. Hansen will be the
speaker.
Easter Services at the Rus-1
sian Orthodox Church began j
at 6 am this morning. The I
next service will start tonight
atll:30pm. The church bells
will ring tonight as they have
for the past years. Father
Alexander Popoff will conduct
toe services.
Following the sunrise ser
vices at the Church of God a
a breakfast will be given at
toe home of Erwin Gilbreath,
ifcev. Judson Masters announ
ced yesterday.
Father Raymond L. Talbott,
SLJ., will conduct the services
at St Mary’s Catholic Church.
Mass will be held at 8:30 and
16:30 am.
Father Talbott replaces
Father Thomas Maher, S.J.,
who left on Thursday for the
states. The new priest has re-(
eently been released from ser
vices with the Armed Forces.
Transportation to Eagle
Itont will be provided and
l*ersons wishing to attend the
services should be at the Bap
tist Church at 6:15 am, the
Rev. R. N. Wilkinson said
yesterday.
The annual Easter Sunday
School program will be held at
the church at 9:45 am, Rev.
Wilkinson added.
Late Bulletins
By Associated Press
The Communists have pro
posed and the United Nations
agreed, to start negotiations
Monday for the exchange of
sick and wounded prisoners of
the Korean fighting.
The Allies have moved five
colonels into Munsan to pick
the location for checkiner off
the sick captives.
The big gimmick in the
Communists plan could be
this: They want us to place in
neutral custody those Red pris.-1
oners who are “afraid to go
home.” There are about
11,000 such captives. Now, the
Commies say they want to be
able to explain to these cap
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VFW Baby Show
Ready To Go
Little Mister and Miss Ko
diak will be selected tomorrow
from a large list of entrants
as the VFW Auxiliary annual
Easter Baby Show comes to a
close.
The show will begin at 2 pm
and will be held in the U.S.O.
Club on Main Street.
Four trophies or loving cups
will be presented to the win
ning boys and girls in the ba
bies in arms and the walking
classes.
Stan Nelson has agreed to'
act as the third judge in the]
contest. The other two judges!
are Lcdr. Don Coogan of KNSi
and Lew Chenier of the
Alaska Steamship Company.
An additional prize of $5
from the Kodiak Shopper has
been added to the list publish
ed last week. The entry blanks
for the contest are available at
Knudsen’s and Bert’s Drug
Store and may also be obtained
at the U.S.O. However, they
must be tilled out and the $1
fee paid prior to 2 pm tomor
row.
The trophies are now on dis
play in the Fnsurance Depart
ment window at ^he bank.
I
Two Sixth Graders
Win Elks Award
Jill Acheson and Stanley
Thorsheim, sixth grade stu-j
dents in Kodiak Public School, i
won the local awards in the
Elks National Youth Leader
ship Contest.
Robert King and Carol Tol
bert were declared second;
place winners by the judges.!
The four students will be pla
ced in the Territorial contest
which must be complete by1
April 15.
The awards were based upon
scholarship and leadership.
Each contestant was required;
to write a 300 word letter tel- j
ling what they have done and
what they would like to see:
done in the community.
The local awards, in the:
form of Defense Bonds, will!
be made during the first week j
in May at the dedication cere- j
monies of the Rotary play-!
ground on Mission Road. 1
The Benevolent Protective!
Order of Elks are sponsoring]
the contest on a nation-wide'
basis. The winners of the Ter
ritorial contest may enter the
National.
Judges for the local contest
were William Smith, Elliott
Hymans and Leon Johnson.
Mrs, Biar.kenbwrg 1
Buys TownC lub
Mrs. Catherine Blanken’mrg
purchased the Town Club from
Mrs. Vera Pierce and took '
over the management of the j
business Wednesday. ^
Negotiations for the sale
have been conducted during
the past month. The Town
Club is one of the popular
night spots in Kodiak.
Mr. and Mrs. Norris will oc
cupy the apartment at the rear
of the club and Mrs. Pierce
will move into the house owned
by Mrs. Blankenburg near the
Frontier Sh®p.
Mrs. Blankenburg has been
a resident of Kodiak since
early in 1940. She has operated
a bookkeeping and accounting
business here for many years.
She was also the founder and
proprietor of The Frontier
Shop for several years. She
recently sold it to her daugh
ter and son-in-law.
Mrs. Pierce has been a resi-1
dent of Kodiak for several
years. Wednesday, April 8,
Mrs. Blankenburg and Mrs. 1
Glenn liOundree plan to leave
for a three months trip';
through the Orient. They will
fly PNA to Anchorage and
there board a NWA plane for
Tokyo.
They will board ship in
Yokohoma for Singapore, |
Hong Kong, Bangkok and the
Philippines. They plan to re
turn by NWA from Tokyo.
Upon their return Mrs.
Loundree will take over the |
operation of the kitchen at the,
Town Club. She was formerly j
owner of the Island Fountain. I
Housing Work
Slows Down
Rock and dirt hauling at the
site of the housing project in
the east addition came to a
temporary halt this week but
the brush gang arid the
“Cats” continued to work.
The high cost of obtaining
the rock and fill was given as
the reason for the partial shut
down. Philip Strand, president
of Pacific Alaska Contractors,
who holds a contract with
Aleutian Homes, Inc. for the
work, flew to the states Mon
day. He is expected to return
this weekend.
Brooklyn Avenue was closed
for several days the past week j
while preliminary road work .
was being done on the pro
perty below land owned by
the W.J. Erskine estate.
It was reported locally that
Strand flew to the states to
consult Aleutian Homes Inc.
regarding obtaining rock and
dirt for fill at a lower cost. j
Roy Lindsley Wins Record'
For Largest Alaskan Bear
Boone-Crockett Club
\Msk<is The Award
I The world’s record Alaska
I Brown Bear was taken on Ko
idiak Island in the spring of
j 1952 by Roy Lindsley, accord
ing to a recent announcement
by the Committee On Records
1 of the Boone and Crockett
Club.
Under the new official scor
ing system for North Ameri
can big game trophies, adopted
by the club in 1950, Lindsley’s
bear has a score of 30 12-16.
It is based on skull measure-1
ments. I
The former record was |
30 9-16 and had been the re
cord since 1908. 'Toe new
world’s record bear is now
mounted life-size and forms)
part of an Alaska Brown Bear!
habitat in the Los Angeles!
County Museum.
Lindsley, U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service fisheries
management representative,
shot the big bear at the re
quest of the L. A. Museum
Senior Curator.
Early last spring, Melvin
Lincoln, curator, Robert
Sewell, artist, and Herman
Beck, taxidermist, flew to Ko
diak Island to obtain a large
male bear. Lindsley and other
Kodiak FWS representatives
accompanied them to Karluk
Lake for the hunt.
The big animal was killed
with a 30.06. It is the only
Kodiak bear Lindsley has ever
shot. “I’ve seen hundreds of
bears in my work with the
FWS but that is the first 1
ever shot,” Lindsley ex
plained.
While at Karluk Lake thej
hunters observed several bears
and with field glasses finally
spotted a big one who was
breaking through the frozen
crust of snow as he moved j
along high on the mountain
side. Other bears observed
were able to walk on the top!
of the frozen surface. |
Lindsley and Beck began a
stalk of the bear. They went
down wind from the direction
he was travelling and climDed
to the level he was believed to
be on. As they neared a clump
of alders they “spooked” a
a bear and it went crashing
through the brush.
The two sat down to rest
thinking they had lost the
Mrs. Roy Harcourt and Mrs.
Wiley Boney, Bank of Kodiak
employees, were honored at a
stork shower Thursday even
ing, given by their co-workers.
The party was held at the -
home of Mrs. Don Crawford. :
“big one”. Suddenly Lindsley
saw a bear coming along tbe
side of the mountain on a
direct course to their position
“I wasn’t certai n the bea*
coming toward us was the one
we had- been stalking. The
museum people wanted’ a
large male and I didn’t v/ani
to shoot one unless they could
use it. The bear never chang
ed course, I’m certain he
didn’t see us. Suddenly I rea
lized we couldn’t get out of
his way. I raised the 30.06 and
sighted for a spot below his
eye. Beck was urging me tc
shoot. I fired. The bear went
' down and rolled about 100 feet
down the mountain,” was the
way Lindsley described the
- encounter.
When the bear stopped rol
ling he tried to get up. Linds
ley fired another round
or two into the animal. The
first shot entered the bear’s
head und >r the eye and
emerged at the back, breaking
several vertebraes in his
spine.
Lindsley said he believes the
first would have been fata'
but he wanted to be sure.
The big bear weighed 1, Im
pounds. The “green skin”
without being fleshed meas Bl
ed 11 feet 2} inches in width <
and 9 feet inches in length.
The hide, every bit of flesh
and intestines were weigh ee
so tnat Beck could make the
bear as life-like as possible
when he mounted it.
The new Boone and Crocket!
Club measuring system re
puires that the skull bi
measured at the greatest
width and the greatest length
measured between perpendic
ulars to the long axis of the
skull WITHOUT the lower
jaw. Measurements cannot be
taken until 60 days after the
bear was killed.
lirancei ruz, nuuonan>
known writer and photo
grapher of big game and &
member of the committee that
developed the new scoring
system, flew from New York
to Los Angeles to take the
measurements of the bear. Ht
plans to write a magazine
article about the hunt.
The new recnd bear is a
part of a “family group" at
the museum A female and*
two cubs are also in the group..
Of the 48 record heart ;
listed in the Bcone and Croc
kett Club official records* 15
have been taken on Kodiak.
Island.
Ursus Middendorffi is the
official name of the AlSaaksa
Brown Bear