rrNewi of (^Americas Last Frontier’
VOL 12 NO 33
KODIAK, ALASKA
OCTOBER 18, 1952
PRICE 10 CENTS
GOP TAKES HOUSE; BARTLETT ELECTED
City Asks Court Motion
In $63,000 Suit
rhe City of Kodiak has i
asked the Third District Court I
for an order directing H. F.
MacDonald and Alfred Tor
gramsen to file a bill of parti
culars with respect to the
f63,000 suit the plaintiffs have
lodged against the city.
Early this month MacDonald
and Torgramsen filed suit,!
through their attorney, George1
B. Grigsby of Anchorage, i
charging that the city j
'‘wrongfully, forcibly, by
criminal prosecution and by!
threats of future criminal pro-1
seeution” compelled them to
stop work on the reeonstruc-!
tion of the Lyric Theatre.
The city, through its attor
aey, Paul A. Dupler, has asked
fiat a bill of particulars be
fifed by the plaintiffs on the
•round that they have been
averred in the Complaint with
■et enough particularity to en
able the Defendant to prepare
aad file its answer.
Following the filing of the]
complaint the city was given
30 days to file an answer.
The complaint alleged that
the plaintiffs entered into a,
contract with the city,
**wherby and wherein for a
valuable consideration” the
plaintiffs should have the
right and privilege of recon
istructing the building.
The motion for a bill of par
ticulars by the city asks that
the plaintiffs give “ the pur
poses and nature of the con
tract allegedly entered into
. . . whether said contract
was oral or written .... and
if written, for a full, true and
J complete copy of the contract
to become a part of the Com
plaint. filed.”
The motion by the city also
asks that the date of the fire
alleged in paragraph III, or if
date is not known and cannot
be ascertained the relation of
said date to the date of the
contract mentioned.”
The complaint states thatthe
fire occured prior to October
1946. Records here show that
the fire occured in 1947,
The plaintiffs have asked
for $35,000 jointly. Mac Don
ald asked for $17,500 and Tor
gramsen for $10,500.
Fifteen new Mercury vapor
type street lights will be in
stalled here in the near future.
The lights were purchased
from Carl Morton, Anchorage,
who was here to help select
the site for the lights.
The decision to purchase the
lights was made earlier by the
city council.
Judge Advises
Private Council
Judge Anthony J. Dimond
of the Third District Court
wrote a letter to George Sonn
tag early this week in answer
to a letter of protest on the
October 7, City of Kodiak
election.
Sonntag and the signers of
the letter were requested to
seek the advice of an attorney,
Sonntag said Wednesday. He
added that Judge Dimond said
he could not rule on the legal
ity of the election at this time
because he might be called up
on to hear the case in the
event Sonntag wished to take
it to court.
The letter from Sonntag sta
ted that the signers had been
denied the right to vote in the
city election because they had
not voted in the special el
ection in September.
The letter to Judge Dimond
also said that the signers be
lieved that the ordinance gov
ering city and special elections
was contrary to the Territorial
Code.
Wednesday, Sonntag said he
was considering writing to an
Anchorage attorney.
H. N. Peterson, general
traffic manager for Alaska
Steamship Company, was in
town for two days recently
calling on customers.
Adm. O’Neill
Due Here
Vice Admiral Merlin O’Neill,
commandant, U.S. Coast
Guard, and party will arrive
at Kodiak Naval Station Wed
nesday for an inspection of
Cosat Guard installations and
for a visit with Rear Adm.
John Perry, Commander, Al
aska Sea Frontier.
Officers accompanying Adm.
O’Neill will be Rear Adm.
Raymond J. Mauerman U.S.
C.G. operations officer, Capt.
W.W. Kenner, commandant
17thU.S.C.G. District, June
au, Capt. Leon A. Morine,
Lcdr. Bill Jenkins, aide to
Adm. O’Neil.
This is believed to be the
first time the commandant of
the U.S. Coast Guard has ever
visited KNS.
Pilots of the aircraft bring
the party here will be Cmdr.
James N. Schader and Lt. Jim
Maher.
Chester A. Emerich, deputy
commissioner of customs, and
Mrs. O’Neill are also in the
party.
Miss Gertrude Wetzel, hos
pital consultant for the Alaska
Department of Health, was in
Kodiak this week. She eon
ducted an inspection of Griffin
Memorial Hospital.
ONE TYPE OF HOUSE TO BE BUILT BY ALEUTIAN HOMES
Pictured above is one of the
Identical houses which Aleu
tian Homes, Inc, of Portland,
Oregon, intend to build in the
City of Kodiak. The house
shown is one of the three bed
room houses with a built-in
garage and storage space, and
is one of several models to be
included in the 350 house pro
ject. Others will include two
designs of two bedroom units
oi.e with garage and one with
out.
The living room paneling
will include a full wall of
beautiful grained African
woods and will be furnished in
warm rich mohogany tones.
The ultra-modern kitchen
will include a range, refrigera
tor, clothes drier, washing
machine and metal cabinets.
All houses will be heated with
hot air furnaces. Provision has
been mala for an abundance
of cupboards and closets. Built
in dressers will be included
in some of the bedrooms. The
cedar shake exterior will be
broken with a variance design
by vertical siding as shown in
the picture.
When completed these,
homes will be occupied by 350 j
Navy families.
Gorsuch, Robison
Egan Win
Senate Seats
Late returns yesterday from
the Alaska election add up to
the Republican Party’s big
gest Territorial revival since
the start of the New Deal. The
Republicans are sure of con
trol of the Alaskan Legisla
ture, although the voters re
turned their Democratic Dele
gate-E. L. Bartlett-to Con
gress.
Alaskan elections have the
reputation of being a weather
vane for the coming National
balloting, An Alaskan figure,
Governor Ernest Gruening.
said in 1948: “As Alaska goes
so goes th e nation. ’ ’
Anchorage(Special)-At noon
yesterday nine Republioan
candidates for the Territorial
House from the Third Division
were sure of election, A close
race raged between Wendell
Kay, (D) and Fred William
son.
Delegate E.L. Bartlett de
feated Bob Reeve by over 2,0
00 votes in the division as re
turns from 67 of the 87 pre
cincts were tabulated by the
staff of the Anchorage Times.
In the Third Division, the
race between Neil Moore and
Anita Garnick was close. How
ever, Moore held almost a 6,000
vote lead in all four divisions.
Irving Reed (K), was lead
ing Frank Metcalf by a few
hundred votes for the office of
Highway Engineer.
The Times figures for the 67
precincts gave John Gorsuch
(R) 4,960 votes and William
Egan (D), 4,425. Steve M«
Cutcheon (D) and Marshall
Hoppin (R) were trailing with
4,119 and 4,045, respectively,
for the four year Senate term.
Paul Robison (R) had a 400
vote lead over Democrat Jack
Conright for the two year
term.
Complete returns from 67 of
the 87 precincts according to
Anchorage times were: Bar
bara Dimock, 5,061; Dorothy
Prior. 5,022; L. McKinley.
4,517; B. Rutherford, 4,703:
M. Snodgrass, 4,502! H. Pol
lock, 5,189; C. Rentschler.
4,408; L. Olsen, 4,621; H.
Stringer, 4,484; Williamson,
4,219.
Democrats had the following
votes: Wendell Kay, 4,195; P
Gibson, 3,345; P. Kalamarides..
3,649; Z. Loussac, 3,638; B.
Nes-bett, 4,08/; A1 Owen,
3,8(2; C. Pollard. 4,048; Iren.
Ryan, 4,036; R. Young, 3,810;
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