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KODIAK, ALASKA, SEPTEMBER 28, 1957
PRICE 10 CENT*
Work Stops On By-Pass
Shut Down To Last Til Spring
The Base-Town by-pass project
hring constructed by Morrison
Knxtdsen Company shut down for
the winter at end of work Friday
Completion date was originally sel
inr January 1 and work was to con
tmire until that time.
The shut down has been authori
»d by the Territory Bureau of
fabtic Roads and word was receiv
ed from them Friday morning.
Work will cootihue in the Spring
When Morrison-Knudsen Company
wiH be issued with a re-commence
ment order.
Reason for the closure is that
road material at the job is too sat
urated by rain to be handled at the
present time. The job has pro
gressed as far as it can go without
cntting into the present road and
making a detour for traffic. The
state of the material made it im
practical for a detour to be built
Charging Bear
Shot By Nelson
Oscar Nelson, veteran Kodiak
guide, came face to face with a
charging Kodiak bear last week,
which be dropped within ten feet
Nelson was guiding fwo hunters,
Titus of Omaha, Nebraska
Don C. Simpson, Wichita,
when the incident occjir*
bear, a large 9 foot 2 in.
by Simpson and .severely
but managed to ruti into
ivy brush nearly; fNelson
_son Sammy, tracked him
flftlfn and as they came in sight the
sfiiSir charged Nelson.
4t was the closest call I’ve
'** Oscar stated.
days befor eSimpson shot
and wounded the charging bear,
tkos bagged his bear—an eight
m>|rr— the first day out at Sseri
taa'Bay. Th eparty left Tuesday of
bit week oh the Marie M and re
Sunday night.
libiir i in il Am
Offered in
Course
Am additional course is to be
) to the adult classes to be
^ in Kodiak tfais^winter. It will
n course in Citizenship for those
people who are sot yet citizens of
the United States but who are in
terested in becoming so.
Director of adult education, Dr.
said that the course will
training necessary before citi
can be obtained.
It will cost $8.00 and there will
25 hours of instruction. Regis
for this course' and any
of the courses offered in the
Education {program for Ko
will continue next week in
pie New High School from,S p.m.
to«
p.m.
1 I Vkrther Manpower Cuts
: Apchorage (AP). Animated
m--mm mm
w3T*% Elmendorf AFTB will be
*f«pdnated before dune 30, acpetsd
b^to the Alaska® Air Command
psa result of manpower cut
Newly installed B.P.R. resident
engineer for the job, Harriso
Hawkins, said “The closure wa
not forseen when the job wa
started. A lot of the materia
which was thought to be solid roc!
turned out to be loose materia
which could not be handled durin
the winter months.”
Poll Open To All
On Hospital Title
Both residents living within th
city limits and non-residents ma
record their vote on the Publi
Opinion Poll regarding the Griffi]
Memorial Hospital title, to be heli
October 1.
Council decided at a meetin
Monday that as the poll was not ai
official election for the City, not
residents are entitled to expres
their opinion on the matter.
The ballot forms will pose th
question “Do you favor the trans
fer of the Griffin Memorial Hoi
pital title to the Grey Nuns?" am
voters are requested to indicat
whether they are residents or no
of the City of Kodiak.
The result of the poll will no
necessarily mean that the Terri
tory, who now holds the title, W*l'
transfer the title according ° tin
feeling of the majority. But thej
have indicated that an expressioi
of the people would help them t<
make the decision.
McKinley Made
Deputy Marshall
Ovid McKinley has been appoint
ed Deputy U.S. Marshal few K©
diak and his resignation *rom
City Police Department to whicl
he has been attached for the pasi
five years, becomes effective Sep
tember 30.
McKinley is now on vacation anc
will after go to Anchorage when
he will participate in an indoctri
nation course. ..
Thomas Screeny, now relief foi
McKinley; will replace him per
manently on the Kodiak Polk*
Force. f
PNA Announces
Winter Schedule
Announcement of new winte]
schedules at Pacific Northern Air
lines city ticket office was mad<
Thursday by Eay Martin, Agent
The schedule will come into effec
on October L
Under the new schedule then
will be one flight only on Satur
day—depart Anchorage at 7 a.m.
arrive; Kodiak 0:i«) a.m. Leave Kc
diak 10:35 a.m., arrive Anchorage
at 1 p.m. to make connections wit!
the Constellation which departs a
2 p.m.; and arrives Seattle 9:35 p.m
Volunteer Firemen will mee
Monday, September^ ai d p n ii
the Fire Hall. All interested art
invited p ipMMt..
Kodiak Legion
May Sponsor
i Swimming Pool
s
s An indoor swimming pool foi
1 the use of residents of Kodiak maj
c be financed by the Kodiak Post oj
1 the American Legion.
? At a meeting Thursday, Septem
ber 19, members discussed the pos
sibility of using $11,000 in th<
building fund to finance the pro
ject. Newly elected post Comman
der. George Cornelius suggested
ihat possibly the money could be
e used as a down,payment on a pack
(r age-deal swimming pool.
c A building committee consisting
1 cf Henry Neseth, Gene Irwin and
1 John Boucher was appointed to as
certain possible locations for the
= pool and other details to presenl
1 to a meeting to be held on Octobei
■ 26 when Joseph Chillington, Na
s tional Field Representative of the
American Legion visits Kodiak.
B During the meeting Karl Brun
h stad said that something needed
to be done for the children of the
* community and that a swimming
* pool would answer their needs.
It was decided that the Police
- Department and Chief Vickery
’ should be approached to supervise
the project if it is definitely decid
| ed upon at the October meeting*
| At the end of the hour long dis
t cussion every one present declared
| themselves whole-heartedly in fa
vor of the Kodiak Post of the Am
erican Legion sponsoring and fi
nancing the building of swim
ming pool for use by Kodiak
residents. '
Council
Briefs
A suggestion to . council at
their meeting Monday night that
l the city should examine the fran
> chise granted to the Kodiak Tele
’ phone Company was made by
George Cornelius. He stated that
poor telephone service he had ex
perienced recently was costing
him money, amt he wondered if
! franchise regulations were being
complied with.
Council informed him that they
understood that the company, was
having trouble in getting neces
sary, equipment for their new in
stallations. They agreed that ser
* Vice was poor, but that the cause
- was a combination of things out
i side the company’s control.
„ II I »
1 Member of the Road Committee,
Councilman DeWift fields report
! ed that he had examined a lot at
* Cope Street through which it had
* been suggested the city should
■ build a roadr and * recommended
- that, the road should be built '
1 ; ije reminded council that Bill
1 Wofth and Raul Jeager .had offer
* pd jto buy. the' lot' *and donate.the
right of why to the' city ‘if the' Cits
Would ^uild the , access , . road..\o
t Cope Street.* Pete Deveau v moved
* "that the City Street Sisperiatm*
\ dent shoakt examine the grade
Bigger Vote
Predicted
' Speculations are being made
that the number of votes cast at
the General Municipal Election on
' Tuesday, October 1, will beat last
year’s record figure of 402.
Voting will take place in the
‘ new city hall—the old Shupp,
■ Chase and Tolbert building on
1 Brooklyn Avenue—from 8 a.m. to
8 p.m. Tuesday. Those eligible to
■ vote are city residents who have
; been residents of Alaska for one
year up to the day of the election.
Candidates running for election
to council are:
Mayor, 2 year term: James h.
Brightman, Merrill Coon.
Councilman^ 3 year term: De
Witt W. Fields, J. W. “Blaekie”
Patterson.
Councilman, 2 year term: Will
iam Worth, Carl Huer.
Councilman, 1 year term: Rich
ard Berg, Robert Spencer, I. O.
Gilbraith. t
Candidate for election to school
board is Gilbert A. Jarvela.
Candidate for Municipal Magis
trate. for a 2 year term is Karl
Armstrong. t
. Judges who will count the votes
are Mrs. Alf Madsen, Mrs. Irene
Lawhead, Mrs. Ruth Breckburg.
Clerks are Mrs. Dorothy Haag,
Mrs. Charles Edris. Alternate
Judge is Mrs. William Fitzgerald,
alternate derk is Mrs. Basil Clark.
Bill Poland
Appointed A$
City Manager
Bill Poland,. who has lived in
Kodiak for 16 years, was appointed
by a unanimous vote of council
Wednesday as new City Manoger.
His' new position becomes effec
tives as from October 1.
dn a probationary basis for
six ' months, Poland is to be on a
$10,000 .a-fyear salary for that
period. A recommendation is to
be brought befdi^ iiew council
tfiat he should lie given a raise in
pay1 after that fime/. ;
During his interview Wednesday
with council members, Poland was
gifen an outline of What bis duties
woiild be. Pete Deveau expressed
the; thought that “The city man
ager of any city can only be as
good as the council behind him.”
Poland is 45 years old, married
and5 has three children. After
graduating from High School, he
spent two years at the University
of f^ansas.
| FVom 1934 to 1940 he was a
salesman for the Phillips Petro
lfeuib Company. He was super
intendent of the Fuel Depot at the
^la\ial Station in Kodiak , frpm
*94i - 1947. ' - v
I Hie has spent the last ten years
d guide and fisherman, and,; ts
e jpre&idWnt of the* Kodiflc ^tslJsid
uiies Association. Poland is also
member of.^he Chamber of
otfmerce and"’Alaska Visitors
, Association. •' -
He was selected for the post of
City Hiftager fro® 21 applicant.
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Along The
Waterfront
Only news from Jack Johnson
do wnat City Dock this week was
that the freezer boat “The Alert,Jr
was in from Homer for a houple:
of days before leaving to fish for
drab in Kodiak wateT?. Skipper is
Vir Hansen. The boat will spend
the season catching crab and can
ning them on board. Fishing for ,
her is the. Ruth L.
Rumor has it tratafish*boat be
longing to Alaska Packers was
wrecked last week *at Karluk. We
hear that it was called the APAA—•
Stan Alvine is working on Pete
Wolkoff's boat “Adak” from Ouzi»
kie this week. He is repairing some
damage srstained when the boat
ran aground this summer.
Report made un
Garbage Dump
The problem of where to move
the city Garbage dump was dis
cussed Monday at the last regular
council meeting before the mvaur
cipal elections. • ' t
Dick Berg, chairman of the
Utilities Committee,. reported to
councjlmen that; the j commute*
had met to discuss the nxroct.
deemed necessary after a pe-titio*.
from residents living near the \
present dump was submitted tt (
council earlier this month/ •
The committee, he said, had
looked at prospective sites at Pied
mont Point and a cliff at Monaska
Bay between the rock quarry sit* v
and the cemetery. “Dumping the
garbage over these cliffs would
not be feasible unless we find out
where the currents would take the
garbage,” Berg said. “We discov
ered that no current charts f for
that area were available in Kodiak ■
so we have written to Seattle fto"
copies.”
He then stated that the com
mittee had discussed a sanitary
fill proposition and had looked at -r
a site, on-Mitt Bey Road where J
swampy land would be suitable for
a fill. ' i
Incinerators had also been co»~ l
sidered but the . feeling was, said ,
Berg, that a city incinerator may |
be too expensive. “We were deft- f
nitely in agreement that the dump
had to be moved—but what to do
with it is the crucial question,”
added Berg. 1 .
The committee recommended l© -
council that when the current
charts arrive, tests should he
made. The garbagp dump, question
is to be placed!oii the agenda to be
brought to the attention of the »
new utilities committee or the new
city manager.
Fisheries Hearing
in Bksi dub j
Unless the Specif Committee !
Ma*i»i$nd f^herite, j
scheduled to bold a public meeting
here pn Thursday, October 3, haw ■
‘tthtr plans, tentaiiw’ 'arrange- 1
menu have been.made to hold the
meeting in the Elks Club.
The hearing wW start M10 am