Kodiak Women
llama From Orient
Mrs. Catherine Blankenburg
Mrs. Glenn Loundree re
turned last Saturday from a
fehree months trip through the
Orient.
Mrs. Vera Pierce, who left
recently to join the two, scent
fire weeks in Bangkok instead
and is now in Hong Kong,
planning to return here around
August 1.
Mrs. Blankenburg and Mrs.
loundree flew via Northwest
Airlines to Tokyo, went by
Danish freighter to Hong
Kong, and then by Dutch pas
senger vessel to Singapore.
Their tour also included In
donesia, where they visitec
Djakarta, Bangkok, then back
to Hong Kong, then to Manila.
'From Manila they fle w back
! again to Hong Kong, stopping
! at Okinawa and Formosa, then
j to Tokyo, and home via Anch
orage.
{ Mrs. Blankenburg, who
made an around the world
'trip two years ago, found the
Orient most fascinating to her
, at that time and immediately
expressed her desire to return j
' there for a more extended
tour at a later time. This was
Mrs. Loundree’s first trip a
broad.
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Jack Allman
In Juneau
Jack Allman, former Kodiak
resident, died July 9 in Juneau
where he had been ill with
cancer for the past two years.
The well known Alaskan
came to the Territory a half
century ago, arriving in Skag
way at the age of seven. Be
fore he was 20 he joined A
laska’s last great gold trek,
the Chisana Stampede.
He was in Kodiak during |
World War II and was police1
and fire chief for a time and j
engaged in various business |
enterprises. He left here and j
went to Fairbanks where hej
was in business later going to
Juneau and purchasing Ton
gass Lodge at Excursion In
let and preparing it for a
tourist and sportsman’s lodge.
The Allman addition, a
series of lots, in Kodiak bears
his name. His colorful career
includes service in World War
I in France, a foreign corres
pondent’s job in Paris, con
ducting a national radio pro
gram from New York City and
feature writing for a national
boy’s magazine.
In 1935 he returned to A
laska and was the founder and
first editor of the Matanuska
Valley Pioneer during the
colony’s construction days. He
wrote over a million words of
fiction about Alaska. He sign
ed his own name to adventure
yarns and wrote dog stories
under the name of ‘‘John
Stanford.”
His wife, the former Ruth
Coffin, niece of Judge Jas.
Wickersham, survives. A
daughter by a former mar
riage died while he was in Ko
diak and is buried here. Mrs.
Allman, Warren Taylor, his
long time partner, and close
frienc's were with him when
he died.
Rent Controls
Continue Here
Federal rent controls will
continue in Kodiak and vici
nity for one more year, accord
ing to Glenwood J. Sherrard,
director of Rent Stablization.
However, after July 24 the
Kodiak critical defense hous
ing area now being admini
stered by the Anchorage office
will be placed under the su
pervision of the Fairbanks
Area Office. According to e
letter from Sherrard to Harrj
E. Spencer, chairman of the
Kodiak board, the Defense
Areas Advisory Committee
has decided that the Anchor
age critical defense housing
area does not meet the require
ments of a new law.
Public Law 23, passed b;
'the present Congress ane
j signed by President Eisen
hower provides for the contin
uation of Federal rent contrc
in critical defense areas fo
another year.
The commercial halibut fish
ing season in the Kodiak are;
(3A and 1) closed on July 7.
Principal Hired
For High School
Don A. Morgan, guidance!
director, Wilbur Schools, Wil-|
bur, Washington, has been(
hired as Principal of Kodiak J
High School for the coming'
j.year, Dr. A. Holmes Johnson, {
president of the board, an-|
nounced yesterday. )
The new principal hasde-;
grees from the University of'
Utah and Washington State j
College. He is married, has|
two children and is a veteran
of World War II. Mr. andi
Mrs. Morgan and children will
arrive here two weeks before |
school opens. Dr. Johnson
said.
Superintendent Ivor Schoot.
who is now in the states, will
make his office in the new
school building, Dr. Johnson
said.
Tax collections by the Terri
torial Department of Taxation
amounted to $9,130,004.50 for
the first half of 1953. The col
lections have been reported to
the Governor’s office by R. D.
Stevenson, acting tax commis
sioner.
The Third Division was the
heaviest contributor to the
territorial tax chest. $4,827,
133.44 or over half of the total.
Principal source of income for
the territory was the Alaska
Net Income Tax.
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