News of oArnenca s Last Frontier
VOL 13 NO 27
KODIAK. ALASKA
SEPTEMBER 12, 1953
PRICE 10 CENTS
Labor Party Selects Card !
For October Election
The Kadiak Labor Party se
lected five candidates for the
«»ty council and one for mayor
during a meeting Sunday at
the Union Hall. However, late
yesterday some of the candi
dates were uncertain of ac
cepting the nomination.
Vivan Kilgore, president
®f the United Fishermen of
Alaska, presided at the meet
ing. Sixteen representatives of
'were present.
Wilton White, manager of
Kodiak Motors, was selected
by the group as their candi
date for mayor. White is cur
rently serving on the council
as a replacement of William
Worth who resigned several
months ago.
The five candidates for the
council are Basil Clark, Joe
Kerrigan, W.A. “Pat” Can^
nan, Zora “Curley” Wilson'
and Jake Foley.
According to the minutes of;
the meeting “if one of the
nominees dropped out the i
next high man be elevated to j
vacated spot on ticket. ’ ’ j
George Sonntag will be a j
candidate in the event one of
the nominated council candi
dates fails to run for office. ,
Thursday, White told the
MIRROR that he was defi
nitely not a candidate for city j
office.
Kilgore appointed Jorgen
Frederickson, George Sonntag
and D.N. Hoylman as a com
mittee to consult all candi
dates to determine their will-,
ingness to run for city office, i
Kilgore also “appointed the
entire body (16) as a standing
committee to do such things
and expend such monies as
might be necessary to further
the cause of the candidates
and that a regular meeting be
held at 8 pm each Saturday
until election to discuss sug-1
gestions,” the minutes said. I
P. J. Kerrigan, secretary of1
the UFA, recorded the minutes
of the meeting.
The city election will be held
in October. In part years the
Progressive Party have sub
mitted a slate of candidates.
To date no caucus has been
held by that group.
The new number for city
police and emergency calls is
now 2011, Roland Vickery,
ehief of police, announced
Thursday. The number for
fire calls remains the same and
is 2845. i
Mrs. Margaret Magnusen
returned this week after sev
eral weeks outside.
Labor Secretary
Resigns Job
] Washington (A5) — Martin |
| Durkin quit as Secretary of >
Labor with an angry blast ac
| cusing the Eisenhower admin
istration of breaking an agree
ment to revise the Taft-Hart
ley Law.
I Durkin is the only Democrat
, in the cabinet who supported j
his own party’s presidential I
nominee in last year’s presi-1
dential election. He told a news I
! conference he would not label
1 the administration as friendly}
or unfriendly to organized
labor until it takes a position
j on the labor-management law.
! The 58 year old labor man
will resume his post as presi
dedt of the AFL United As
sociation of Journeymen
Plumbers and Steamfitters.
Presideut Eisenhower com
mended Durkin’s brief career
as a member of his cabinet.
Rainbow Girls
Meet Tonight
Kodiak Assembly, Order of
the Rainbow for Girls, will
hold an open meetng tonight
at the Masonic Temple on Mill ^
Bay Road at 8 pm.
The meeting is for the in-'
stallation of officers. A prac- j
tice meeting will be held at 11
pm this afternoon.
Thursday an advisory meet- j
ing was held at the home of j
Mrs. Audrey Naldrett of Ko-1
diak Naval Station.
Doris Turner, daughter of
Louise Turner, was a NWA
and PNA passenger from Se
attle to Kodiak recently.
To Conduct Mission
In Kodiak
Father Luke L. Kruezer, S. J.
Club Liquor Store
Seized For Taxes
By U. S. Agents
All stock, fixtures and fur
niture of the Club Liquor
Store, owned by Ray Martin,
were seized yesterday by the
Bureau of Internal Revenue.
A public notice that the
property was “seized for the
account of the United States
under warrants for distraint
issued for non payment of as
sessed taxes due” was posted
on the door of the establish
ment.
A. Verle Collar, internal
revenue agent, said the taxes
due were in “excess of:
$30,000.”
A public auction of the prop
erty will be held within the
next 20 days. A legal notice
will apoear in the September
19 issue of the MIRROR re- j
carding the date and time of j
the sale.
The buyer of the property l
must qualify with all terri
torial statutes governing the'
operation of a liquor Store to'
purchase the property.
The building and property is
owned by Ben Kraft. The ac
counts receivable of the Club
Liquor Store were also seized
by the government.
Seaplane lob Goes
To Kodiak KVIan
John E. Schreiner of Kodiak
submitted the only bid-$7,950
on a seaplane float to be built.
here. Territorial Aviation Di
rector Tony Schwamm an
nounced. 1
£The bid was opened Wednes
day in the Aviation Depart
ment offices. Schwamm said i
he expects the bid to be a
warded within the next few
days and work will start im
mediately afterward. i
The float should be finished
this fall, Schwamm said.
Schreiner is owner of a aaw
mill on Island Lake. I
Miss Margo Archibald and
Miss Sandra Perkins left
Wednesday for the University (
af Alaska where they will be
sophomores.
Mrs. Jack Sinnes, mother
af Mrs. Dorothy Anderson,
arrived this week from Bell
ingham, with Mrs. Anderson’s j
three children, who have been!
spending the summer with
her. Mrs. Sinnes will remaiu
for a couple of weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Car
penter arrived here from the
states by tins week. Carpenter'
s a teacher at the Kodiak
School.
2 Local Children Drown
In Construction Ditch
Petition Out For
City Manager
A petition for the adoption
of the City Manager plan was
being circulated in Kodiak
this week. Not less than 25%
of the registered voters in the
city must sign the petition for
it to appear on the ballot of
the next regular city election
or at a special election for that
purpose.
The proposal that the city a
dopt the city manager plan
has been discussed at council
meetings and during the
Thursday meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce.
A majority of the voters in
the October City Election
must favor the plan for the
city to hire a city manager.
Salaries for such a position
run from $10,000 up. The
council cannot hire a city
manager unless the voters ap
prove of the measure.
Benson To Aid
Needy Fishermen
A meeting in Juneau on
September 29 to “meet the
human problems created by
the failure of the fish run this
season throughout Alaska, has
been proposed by Commis
sioner of Labor Henry Benson
and Delegate E. L. Bartlett.
Benson was a visitor to Ko
diak this week to hold con
ferences with local fishermen,
discuss their problems and
take care of “wage payment
matters.”
The commissioner proposes
to ask Congress for $1,000,000
to meet the emergency, he
told the MIRROR yesterday.
He explained that the poor
season for most fishermen in
Alaska would create hard
ships. “The average money
received by most southeastern
fishermen was $600. No man
that makes fishing his year
round business can support a
family on such money,” Ben
son declared.
If Congress will award e
mergency funds to the terri
tory a plan is being made to
provide fiahermen with work
in surveying streams, looking
for obstructions that prevent
returning salmon from spawn
ing, and to prepare maps of
areas that may support the
propagation of salmon.
C. L. Anderson, director of
the Alaska Department of
Fisheries, has prepared the |
progoam.
(continued on page 4) /
Registration Day at tne
school ended in tragedy for
two families this week. A first
grader and a child of kinder
garted age drowned in a ditch
near the school building.
Mildred Phister, six year
old daughter of Sfc and Mrs.
Paul Phister, and Kathleen
Wolf, five year old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Don Wolf,
were found in the recently
made ditch around 8:20 pm.
The two children were the
object of a three hour search
by their parents, friends, po
lice and the 1). S. Marshals
office.
The little girls bodies were
taken to the hospital where
they were pronounced dead by
Dr. A. Holmes Johnson.
The children are believed to
have slipped into deep water
while playing near the exca
vation. Funeral services for
Kathleen wore held Thursday
at the Kjdiak Community
Baptist Church.
Mildred’s body was flown
to Anchorage and will later be
sent to the states. The Phis
ter’s have tjiree other chil
dren. Kathleen was the only
cliild of the Wolfs.
New Call Letters
For Fishermen
Owners of fishing vessels
and other craft are advised
that ACS will change their
transmitting frequency effec
tive November 1, 1953.
ACS will transmit on 2784
kilocycles instead of 2970 kilo
cycles which is now being
used. For further information
contact the ACS office.
The fall season for the Kp
diak Elks Club will be opened
tonight with a dinner and
dance at the club rooms on
Brooklyn Avenue.
For reservations call James
Bennett, club steward on
Phone 2044. The event is for
Elks and their ladies.
Robert Acheson was an out
going PNA passenger for the
states Thursday. He expects
to be gone one week.
Miss Ellen Perry, sister of
Adm. John Perry, and Miss
Margaret Barker, sister of
Mrs. W. K. Rhodes, left on the
Denali Monday after visiting
at the naval station this sum
mer.
Miss Dolores Jones was an
'incoming PNA passenger on
Wednesday’s plane.