"News of oAmericas Last Frontier9
/'*L13 NO 42
KODIAK, ALASKA JANUARY 2. 1954
PRICE 10 CEMTS
New Year's Baby To
Receive Many Gifts
Many beautiful drifts await
the first little Miss or Mister
born in Griffin Memorial
Hospital in 1954.
Local business have con
tributed the gifts which will
be delivered to the mother at
the hospital. The awarding
gifts to the first baby born in
Kodiak during the new year is
becoming an annual event.
The following gifts have
been offered:
Kraft’s Dry Goods, dozen
diapers.
Bert’s Drug Store, John
son’s DeLuxe Baby gift box.
City Market, baby food.
Mar’ Lou, $5 credit for
mother.
Bank of Kodiak, savings
bank and $1 to open savings
account.
Ronnie’s Cafe, a dinner for
the father while mother is in
the hospital.
Spiegel Electric, a night
light, pink for girl and blue
for boy.
tiiarK 8 oarage, tana oi gas
for parents’ car.
Carol’s, gold crocheted slip
pers for mother.
Norman Photo, baby ring
and necklace.
Orpheum Theatre, gift cer
tificate for $5 at store of par
ents’ choice,
Flower basket — bouquet
for the mother.
Also offering gifts to be se
lected after the baby is born,
are Rhoades Furniture, Knud
sen’s, Frontier Shop, and
Donnelley and Acheson.
Last year’s New Year baby
was Katharine Ann Lutz,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Lutz who was born on
January 3. The Lutzes re
turned to the states this sum
mer.
A Radio Club is being form
ed in Kodiak and the first
meeting will be held Thursday
evening at the Baptist Church,
All persons interested in
amatuer radio are invited to
attend the meeting. Plans for
a series of talks and courses
to qualify beginners for their
FCC license will be discussed
during the meeting.
The club will be composed of
men, women and service per
sonnel.
Timothy P. Gilmore has
been named steward of the
Kodiak Elk’s Club replacing
Jamea Bennett who has re
signed. Bennett plans a trip
* to the states.
Ed Cushing
Dies Outside
Ed Cushing, 53, well known
Kodiak resident for five years
died at his mother’s home in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, short
ly before Christmas.
Cushing and his brother,
George, were the men who
supervised and helped in
stall the Kodiak Telephone
Company system in 1948. Ed,
as he was known to all his
friends here, knew most every
one in town and was active in
the local Elks. He was a mem
ber of the Sitka Chapter,
where he spent many years
before coming to Kodiak.
Cushing was preceded in
death three weeks by his
father. Jonn Cushing of Mil
waukee. Ed had been in ill
health for several months
prior to leaving Kodiak in
January of 1953 for the states
to obtain special medical at
tention.
Hidmond L. Cushing was
born in Peshtigo, Wisconsin,
in 1900 and was the oldest of
five children born to Mr. and
Mrs. John Cushing. Besides
his mother, who lives in Mil
waukee, he is survived by his
two daughters, Carol, 17, and
Mrs. Paul Willitts of Juneau,
his brothers, John, Jr., and
Dick of Sitka, Alaska, Char
les in Wisconsin and George
of Kodiak.
Burial was in Milwaukee.
The Kodiak Amateur Radio
Club met at building 74 on
Aviation Hill New Year’s Eve
to see and hear the birth of
the New Year.
Members and guests enjoy
ed a full program of motion
pictures and contacts by
radio (QSO’s) with friends in
the U. S. A.
The 1954 program for the
Naval Base Amatuer Club
looks ahead to an intensified
service program for new
comers interested in the pas
time, a member of the club
said yesterday.
Lilt:
ivt^uiai mrc Lingo
group are held on the second
and fourth Wednesday of
each month. Visitors from Ko
diak are welcome to the Janu
ary 13 assemly of the group
which starts at 8 pm.
Kodiak Amatuer Radio
Club Strtion K17AWR is
anxious to support the newly
formed amatuer radio club in
the town of Kodiak, a suokes
man for the group declared.
Crab Boat Lost
Near Alitak
The Tide Rip, a 50 foot crab
boat was lost before Christ
mas after it struck a rock on
Tanner Head near Cape Ali
tak.
The three crew members
aboard escaped without in
jury. The men were dragging
for crab off Cape Alitak and
were heading for Lazy Bay
for the night when the vessel
struck the roak. Dave Murphy
was skipper of the Tide Rip.
Stanley Alvine, Marine, sur
veyor, went to the scene to
make a survey and declared
the vessel a total loss. The
men remained aboard the ves
sel after striking the rock but
a stiff wind came up during
the night and “beat the ves
sel to pieces.
Tickets On Sale
For Base Carnival
Tickets for the Kodiak Na
val Station Red Heart Carni
val went on sale this week.
The big two day event will be
held February 13 and 14 in
hangar no. 1.
Each ticket sold counts as
votes for the Naval Station
queen of 1554 and entitles the
purchaser to obtain a Bel Air
Chevrolet, a boat and outboard
motor or a radio-phonograph.
All departments and units
or civilian organizations on the
station may nominate a candi
date. Commander N. K. Brady
is chairman of the carnival.
The money received from the
carnival goes into the United
Charity Fund.
Each dollar spent counts for
100 votes for the queen. Ballot
boxes will be placed through
out the station and in town.
The winning candidate will
receive an engraved wrist
watch and her coronation will
be held at midnight on the
last night of the carnival.
Services For
Cliff Lillethun
Services were held in Seattle !
on, December 17 for Clifford
C. L illethun, former Kodiak \
resident. He died December <
12 in the Virginia Mason Cli
nic following an operation.
He is survived by his wife,
Patricia, his mother, Mrs. i
Margaret Lillethun, two
brothers and sisters.
Lillethun was born in Mis
soula, Montana on November
29, 1904. _
Paul Stover was an incom
ing PNA passenger recently.
He has been outside visiting
in California and Canada.
Last Minute Filings
On Property Made
ioj rue property
With Commissioner
Only 183 property owner
ship declarations were on file
in the commissioner’s office
Thursday as the deadline for
Late Bulletins
By Associated Press
Juneau—Attorney General
J. Gerald Williams said
Thursday he intends to hold
Land Commissioner W. S.
Chipperfield to the letter of
the law in imposing penalties
and foreclosures of non-regis
tered property owners in the
territory.
Earlier, in Anchorage, Chip
perfield had expressed doubts
the penalty ($5.00) and fore
closure provisions of the act
could be enforced due to lacl£
af Territorial funds.
Williams got into the act by
ieclaring that if Chipperfield
doesn't enforce the act he will
be guilty of nonfeasance of
affice.
Chipperheld has six monins
to prepare the hst of non
registered property owners
who must pay the five dollar
penalty for failure to register
before January 1, 1954.
Panmunjon—Cpl. Claude J.
Batchelor of Kermit, Texas
has been named by the UN
Command as another Ameri
can prisoner of war who has
isked repatriation. He is 24
/ears of age and has been a
Communist prisoner since May
jf 1951.
He spent part of his im
prisonment with Frank “PaD
py” Noel, Associated Press
photographer, in the same
prisoner of war camp. Noel
said they both plotted escape
;ogether.
A New Year’s Party for the
ihildren will be held today at
0:30 am at the Orpheum
rheatre. The host is Ben
£raft.
ine party is open iu an
rrade school children in Ko~
liak and from the Naval Sta
;ion and Woody Island.
The picture is titled My
31ue Heaven. It is in Techni
:olor and stars Betty Grable,
3an Dailey and Mitzi Gaynor. <
Mothers of all the “small
:ry” are invited to attend.
Each year Kraft leases the
;heatre for the children’s
aarty.
Fred Rave was a PNA pas
senger for Seattle on Decem
ber 30.
nnng came 10 a Close.
Under the terms of the
Land Registration Act passed'
during the last session of the
Territorial Legislature, all*
property not registered by
next July 1 can be sold by the
territory.
Whether the act will actu
ally be enforced remains to be
seen. W. A. Chipperfield, ter
ritorial land commissioner
charged with the administra
tion of the act said it would
not.
However, attorney-general1
Gerald Williams was one of
|the first to comply with the
law in the Anchorage district
!He also took issue with Chip
perfield’s prediction.
t According to the Anchorage
Times a five dollar penalty
will be assessed on property
owners filing after December
31, 1953.
A. M. Vokacek, Kodiak com
missioner, had mimeograph
registration forms prepared
for local property owners
wishing to register. In An
chorage confusion reigned in
the filiner office hecause no
forms were available.
When Williams registered
his property early in Decem
ber he took the covers off the
unnoticed law and started a
mad scramble of property
owners.
Ch'pperfield said nothing
had been done to publicize the
law because his office did not
have sufficient funds to fur
nish forms or compile the in
(formation received.
I Following an editorial in the
!MIRROR on December 12,
which criticized the Territoria
officials for not giving more
notice and publicity to the
law, a letter and news release
dated August 4, 1953 was re
ceived from R. N. "Bob” De
Armond, special assistant to
Governor Heintzleman.
DeArmond stated that a
^opy of the enclosed news reh
lease was mailed to news
papers and radio stations on
August 4, 1953.
However, members of the
MIRROR staff all said they
have no recollection of re
ceiving such a news release.
The Anchorage Times was
the first newspaper in the ter
ritory to give publicity to the
Land Registration Act.
According to a wire receiv
ed by the commissioner per
sons holding or claiming pro
perty under restricted or na
tive deeds are also required to
register their property.