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"News of cAmencd’s Last Frontier’
VOL 12 NO 1
KODIAK, ALASKA MARCH 1. 1952
PRICE 10 6ENTf
KEA Meets
Monday
The annual meeting of the
Kodiak Electric Association
will be held at 8 pm Monday
at the Elk’s building on
Brooklyn Avenue.
The yearly meeting is held
to elect a board of nine direc
tors and to amend various sec
tions of the existing by-laws
and for the transaction of
such other business that may
properly come before the
meeting.
It will be proposed during
the meeting that Article 1,
section 6, covering withdrawal
of membership from the co-op
and Article 1, section 7,
covering transfer and ter
minination of membership be
amended.
Article 2, section 5 covering
voting will also be proposed
for amendment. The by-law
concerning qualifications and
obligation of members will be
proposed for repeal so that it
will not conflict with the
amendment of Article 1, sec
tion 7.
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Persons wishing to vote but
who are unable to attend the
meeting may do so by clipping
the “proxy coupon” appear
ing in the KEA advertisement
in today’s MIRROR. Full in
structions for those who vote
by proxy are included in the
ad.
Nine persons will be chosen
from the following slate to
6erve as directors: Wilton
White, Basil Clark, Morris
Burnham, James Garoutte,
Joe Kerrigan, William Fitz
gerald, Marshal Crutcher,
Dick Lightfoot, Harry Spen
cer, Tenora Rockney, Leo
Sears, Oscar Nelson, Henry
Neseth, Eugene Sullivan,
Harold Jonas, Cecil Wilson
and William Worth.
A report of business con
ducted during the past year
will be given. Refreshments
and entertainment will be pro
vided, a spokesman for the
KEA said yesterday.
USO Architect
Arrives Thursday
John Van Dis, architect, ar
rived in Kodiak Thursday to
begin work on plans to re
model the USO building’s in
terior.
The remodeling work will be
done by a local contractor,
Elliot Hymans, USO director,
said.
The Kodiak USO is the first
overseas unit opened since
V-J Day.
Herbert Heglin is working
at Kraft’s
Bears ‘B’ Champs
For Third Time
The Kodiak High School
Basketball team won their
third class B championship in
four years in the Western A
laska Basketball Tournament
in Fairbanks Saturday.
The Kodiak Naval Station
High School quintet came out
second best this year. They
were defeated in the final
game by the city team by the
score of 39 to 35.
Led by Anderson and Dick
Skinner, in the scoring,
Coach Howard Carpenter’s
Bears came from behind in
the second half to win.
The Bears won the B title at
Anchorage in 1949 and 1950
but lost to Nome in the finals
in 1951. This year Nome elect
ed to play in the A division.
They dropped from the tour
nament early on two defeats.
The Bears earlier defeated
the Navy Five in the semi
finals. The KNS team then
played Cordova and defeated
them 60 to 54. The Bears then
defeated the Navy Five in the
finals for the second time dur
ing the tournament.
Dick Skinner and Al Ander
son were given all-star posi
tions for their play in the
tournament. Skinner’s selec
tion to the all-star team this
year was for the fourth
straight time, a feat no one
else ever accomplished.
Anderson was named to the
all-star team for the second
year.
Members of the Bear’s
squad are Anderson, Skinner,
Gene Sundberg, Billy Frost,
Wayne Morrison, Jimmy An
derson, Lexie Fadoff and Bob
by Norton. Douglas Dawson
is manager of the team.
Each member of the squad
received a silver basketball
with 1952 and the word cham
pions engraved on them. Skin
ner and Anderson also re
ceived trophies for placing on
the all-star team.
In addition to bringing home
the B Championsnip Trophy
the bear6 were awarded the
Sportsmanship Trophy for the
tournament.
Mrs. Carpenter accompanied
her husband on the trip and
chaperoned the two yell lead
ers, Nancy Norman and Do
lores Jones.
Wolf Plans Building
Jay Wolf, owner of Kodiak
Cleaners, returned from Se
attle this week. He has been
osftside to purchase material
for his new building. The
building will be constructed on
the lot between the VFW
building and the old burned
out Lyric Theatre.
Navy Launches Campaign On Rats
To Prevent Weils Disease Epidemic
Navy Team Gives
Plan Of Action
The city-wide clean up
drive and move to eradicate
rats which are causing Weil’s
disease will begin Monday.
Monday was designated
as clean-up day for the city,
by Lt. E. L. Walter, officer in
charge of the Naval Epi
demic Control Team.
Tuesday pick-up teams com
posed of four Navy trucks,
will begin the rounds of the
city at 8 am picking up all
junk and rubbish.
On Thursday the disease
control team, assisted by
members of the Navy Shore
Patrol will inspect the city and
will place unsanitary areas
“off limits to all military per
sonnel” the Navy officer said.
“Realizing the importance
of this clean up phase of the
rat control effort Kodiak Naval
Station has consented to give
the City of Kodiak the servi
ces of four dump trucks with j
drivers,” Lt. Walter said.
Residents are requested to
place the rubbish and debris
near the street on Monday so
that trucks may make the
pickups speedy and with little
difficulty.
The Epidemic Disease Don-1
trol Program planned by the
team will start with the clean
up campaign. This includes
removing all rubbish from
around houses; junk from
vacant lots and “off limits’’
postings.
Second phase is the War
farin poisoning program. Ap
proximately 100 permanent
poison bait stations through
out the city will be baited.
Domestic Animal control in
which all dogs must be pen
ned or tied and the elimina
tion of stray dogs in the third
phase.
The fourth phase is ship to
shore rat control. Rat control
measures will strictly enforced
at the dock area.
Daly Purchases
New Plane
Vince Daly, local pilot, flew
a Grumman Goose to Kodiak
from the states Thursday. He
has been in the states for
several months to purchase
the plane.
Daly plans to operate his
own airline here with Kodiak
as his base of operations. He
was formerly chief pilot in
Kodiak for Alaska Airlines.
Emil Norton flew to Port
Bailey Thursday.
Chamber To Support
Program
The Chamber of Commerce
pledged its support to the
Navy’s disease control team
in the war on Weil’s disease
carrying rats.
During the regular meeting
Thursday the group decided to
again write to the city council
requesting action against pro
perty owners who have ruined
and run down buildings on
their property. Old buildings
are a haven for the rats.
Last June the chamber
drafted a letter to the council
listing over 15 properties that
are in a run down and non
repairable condition. The let
ter asked that action for the
razing of the ruined structures
be undertaken. To date no ac
tion has been visible.
At the time of the June let
ter the city was actively en
gaged in a war on the disease
carrying rats.
President Merrill Coon se
lected a committee to make
another survey of the city and
to add to the original list of
old and dilapidated structures.
Dr. A. Holmes Johnson
said that although no deaths
occured last year during the
epidemic of Weil’s disease, in
some localities the death rate
has gc ne as high as 50% of
those affected.
Statehood Bill
Defeated 45-44
Washington (^P)—By a vote
margin the Senate sent the
Alaska Statehood Bill back to
committee for further study,
virtually ending any possi
bility that the Territory will
be given statehood by this ses
sion of Congress. The vote
was 45 to 44.
The vote was on a motion to
return the bill to Senator O’
Mahoney’s Interior and Insu
lar Affairs Committee with
instructions that it study the
possibility of a constitutional
amendment to give ‘ ‘common
wealth status” to Alaska and
Hawaii.
Under this proposal the
Territories would be permitted
to elect their own governor
and local officials; participate
in presidential elections; name
voting representative of House
and have one non-voting
senator each.
Mrs. Etta Sullivan of Salt
Lake City, Utah, is visiting
Miss Marvis Heard of the Mar
Lou Dress Shop this week.
City Wide Clean Up
Necessary Says Officer
Kodiak is a rodent’s para
dise the city council heard
Monday night from a Naval
Epidemic Control Team of
ficer as he outlined steps to be
taken this coming week to
combat Weil’s disease and rid
the city of rats.
Lt. Jg. E. L. Walter, US
NR, outlined a four point pro
gram of the Navy’s he plant
to use to eliminate the source
of numerous cases of Weil’s
disease reported here the past
year.
“The source in this instance
is the common Norway rat,
and it must be eradicated be
fore the spring breeding sea
son begins,’’ Lt. Walter told
the council.
Reports of approximately
100 cases in the Kodiak area
resulted in the Navy sending
the contro team to Kodiak.
Lt. Walter heads the Navy
disease control team and is
assisted by Navy Chief W. G.
Cunningham. Both men were
ordered here and to other
parts of the Alaskan area by
the Navy Department in
Washington, D. C.
The men were recalled from
duty in Hawaii and Korea for
the Alaskan job.
Full cooperation from tint
city has been pledged by city
officials.
All restaurants and build
ings housing Naval personnel
within the city limits and sur
rounding area will be inspect
ed. If a place is found to be
infested or unsanitary it will
be “off limits to all military
personnel,” Lt. Walter de
clared.
“There is only two ways t®
make this program a success.
Get the city to cooperate and
help set up the program <w
declare the whole town off
limits,” Lt. Walter told the
council.
He added that ne did not
believe such drastic action
would be required but that
possibly several establish
ments may be “off limits” for
a time.
The lieutenant said he rea
lized that a clean up at this
time of year was difficult be
cause of the ice and snow.
However, he added, ‘‘it must
be done now or the disease
which has been increasing in
virulence throughout the win
ter will flame up again this
summer as a serious menace
\ to life in Kodiak.”
I Members of the city coun
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