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VOL. 16 NO. 27
KODIAK, ALASKA, JULY 7, 1956
4th Events
©n Today
Fourth of July plans will be
carried out today as previously
announced. This, of course, is con
tingent on good weather.
All scheduled events, with the
exception of the parade, will be
run off today, in the event it does
rain. Predictions, based on the
changing winds and conditions in
the storm areas, furnish one bright
hope for good weather. If condi
tions are cloudy, the entire pro
gram will be run off.
The planning committee has
made tentative plans to run off
the various events including the
races, soap box derby and others,
starting at I o’clock on Sunday,
if the schedule is postponed from
Saturday.
In the event the program is not
run off as scheduled today, a cur
tailed program will take place
Sunday, as follows:
1:00 p.m.—Parade
2:00 p.m.—Childrens Races
3:00 p.m.—Soap Box Derby
4:00 p.m.—Ice Cream Give-away
Marathon and Bicycle Races
5:00 p.m.—Boat Races
6:30 p.m.—Horse Races
The Committee makes no plans
beyond Sunday.
Sea Area Fishing
Banned At Bristol
Secretary of the Interior Seaton
has banned fishing except by troll
ing beyond the three mile limit in
the Bristol Bay area. He has sign
ed an emergency order putting
ban into effect immediately.
The ban is aimed to protect the
salmon which come into the bay
area and streams to spawn. At the
same time, John L. Farley, Direct
or of the Fish and Wildlife Service,
said a similar order probably will
be issued within two weeks to ex
tend the prohibition along the en
tire coast of Alaska. He said the
order is designed to prevent es
tablishment of deep sea salmon in
dustry in the area. Seaton said
the order was issued at the urgent
request of the U. S. section of the
international North Pacific Fish
eries Commission and the Adminis
trator of the Alaska Commercial
Fisheries.
The Secretary said the informa
tion had been received from
Alaska disclosing serious threat of
early establishment of high seas
fishery which would jeopardize the
department’s salmon conservation
policy in Bristol Bay area and
would further delay salmon re
habilitation program which is so
necessary to the welfare of Alaska.
DON BEVAN HERE THIS WEEK
Don Bevan, who is with the
University of Washington Fisher
ies Research Institute in Seattle,
spent a few days in Kodiak this
week. He was enroute to several
other points of the Island on offi
cial business.
Bevan recently concluded an
assignment in Seattle as modera
tor on an eleven week long TV
program relative to the Research
Institute activities.
TB Cases Occur
But Few Deaths
Alaskan deaths fro. rculo
sis dropped to a new low of 50 in
1955 but new cases ^f the disease
were siill occurring at an average
of 80 a month with a total of 955
for the year, Dr. Charles R. Hay
man, acting commissioner of
health, reported this week.
"The 955 new cases found in
1955 mean that many undiscovered
cases still remain as spreaders #f
infection in the territory,” he said.
"To break this chain of infection
these cases must be found and
hospitalized. This will require
yearly chest X-rays and tuberculin
testing of all residents as well as
anti-tuberculosis (BGG) vaccina
tions for infants where tubercu
losis incidence is known to be
high.”
The difficulty and expense of
making yearly X-ray and tubercu
lin test surveys in remote and iso
lated communities is one of the
reasons for the continued high
rate of new cases, he explained,
because many active cases have
remained undiscovered and ot
home as sources of infection for
other people. He cited poverty,
malnutrition, overcrowded living
conditions and lack of sanitation
and hygiene as other reasons that
so many new cases continue to
occur.
The gratifying drop in tubercu
losis deaths from 240 in 1950 to
50 last year is the result of inten
sive work in finding new cases
where surveys could be carried
out and getting the patients under
treatment earlier, utilizing more
hospital beds, new tuberculosis
drugs and surgery methods, and
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Free Passes For
Safe Drivers
P?, :i Northern Airlines and the
Orphtum Theatre are cooperating
with t >e Police Department in an
enieavor to reduce vehicle acci
dents in Kodiak. They have joint
ly announced a program of awards
to safe drivers.
Free passes to the Orpheum
Theatre will be given away each
week to drivers of vehicles who
qualify. Members of the Police
Department will judge observed
cars and drivers according to the
following program:
1. Stopping for stop signs.
2. Speeding
3. Courtesy shown other drivers
4. Parking in the proper places
5. Illegal parking
6. Obeying proper traffic signs
7. Reckless or negligent driving
8. Double parking
9. Hand signals
10. Proper license plates as well
as City vehicle stamp
11. The condition of the vehicle
The names of the winners will
be published each week in the Mir
ror. Three drivers will be select
ed. As their names are published,
the free passes can be picked up
the Police Station.
U.S.C.G. CUTTER WINONA
DUE AT CITY DOCK TONIGHT
Tl\p U. S. Coast Guard Cutter
Winona is due to arrive at the
City Dock at seven o’clock this
evening. The Winona, which pro
vides medical and dental services
to isolated villages on the Main
land and Chain, is on it’s annual
cruise.
The cutter will refuel at the Na
val Station before proceeding on
the cruise July 11.
Mrs. M. Drane
Killed In States
Mrs. Margaret Diane, wife of
Captain William M. Drane, form
er Commanding Officer of the Na
val Station, Kodiak, died July 3 in
an automobile accident near Clark
ville, Tennessee.
Captain and Mrs. Drane, with
their daughter Margaret were re
turning to Clarksville, Captain
Drane’s former home.
Captain Drane and his daughter
Margaret survived the accident
with minor injuries.
Mrs. Drane was a native of
Washintgon, studied at the Nation
al Art School and the Corcoran
School of Art and was a portrait
painter having exhibited on
West Coast.
Captain Drane is slated to be
come professor of Naval Science
at the University of Iowa at Ames.
Mrs. Drane also leaves two
other daughters, Mrs. Frances
Powdrell, Reno, Nevada and Don
na Drane, a student at the Univer
sity of Arizona, and her mother,
Mrs. Frank Parsons of Washington
D. C. Two brothers also survive.
They are Frank Parsons, Jr.,
Chevy Chase, Md., and Donald J.
Parsons, Gunston, Va.
Funeral services were held
Thursday July 5 at Trinity Epis
copal Church, Clarksville, with
burial in Clarksville.
VISITOR FROM ILLINOIS
Mrs. Margaritha Jones of Olney,
Illinois is visiting her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and and Mrs.
Marvin Wilson, on the Naval Sta
tion. Mrs. Jones arrived a week
ago and plans to stay indefinitely.
Research Grants Further Arctic Study
Thirty-one research grants in
fifteen areas of study have been
awarded by the Artie Institute of
North America for investigations
In arctic science in 1956. This is
an increase of nine over the num
ber of projects sponsored last
year, and brngs to over 200 the
field studies conducted by this
organization to date.
Seven of the current projects
are geological investigations and
two glaciological. The program,
which will be carried out by
scientists from nineteen universi
ties and other institutions in the
United States and Canada, includes
also archaeology, marine biology,
physiology, climatology, soil stud
ies and appraisal of sea-ice distri
bution.
Financial support is derived
from the Office of Naval Research
of the U. S. Navy, from the Sir
Frederick Banting Fund, adminis
tered by the National Research
Council of Canada, and from in
dustrial and individual contribu
tors. The grants-in-aid program is
part of the Institute's overall effort
to advance scientific understand
ing of northern North America
through field and library research,
publication and the integration of
research interests concerned with
this area.
William Spackman, Jr., Depart
ment of Geology, Pennsylvania
S^ate University, will initiate an
intensive study of the nature of
arctic coals, a subject on which al
most no information is available
at present. He is one of the ten
AINA scientests who will conduct
their summer studies at the Arctic
Research Laboratory of the Office
of Naval Research at Point Bar
row, Alaska. Robert L. Rausch,
parasitologist of the Artie Health
Research Center, Anchorage, Alas
ka, will attempt to correlate the
prevalence of tapeworm infection
with anemia, in an Eskimo village.
Dr. Geza Teleki hopes to develop
criteria for forecasting sea-ice con
ditions from air photography.
James L. Giddings, Curator of the
University Museum, University of
Pennsylvania, expects to date arch
aeological remains on the Seward
Peninsula by means of the climatic
record revealed in tree rings at
the northern tree line.
Canadian investigators include
Geoffrey Power, of McGill Univer
sity, who has developed a field
technique for measuring the oxy
gen consumption in fish. Another
McGill party under Donald Oliver
will study fish and seals in Net
tilling Lake, Baffin Island, the
largest body of fresh water in the
Canadian Artie Islands. Another
large Baffin Island Lake is being
studied by a party from the Uni
versity of Toronto to determine
whether glacail clays, which have
been assumed throughout the
world to be annual deposits and
which have been used for much
geological dating, may in reality
be daily deposits. J. R. Mackay and
W. H. Mathews of the University
of British Columbia are to study
the geological aspects of an arch
aeological site on the lower Firth
River, Yukon Territory. The great
age of this site is indicated by the
fact that the lower strata appear
to lie below a marine deposit now
250 feet above sea level.
Of the two women who have re
ceived Arctic Institute grants this
year Ingrith J. Deyrup, a physiolo
gist of Barnard College, will com
pare certain changes in tissues of
arctic rodents with those of ani
mals in temperate zones in an ef
fort to clarify physiological surviv
al mechanism in low temperatures.
Florence P. Rucker of the U. S.
Geological Survey will fly her own
plane in order to study central
Alaskan sand dunes, whose source
and age are still unknown. The
1956 projects will operate in the
field for varying periods until mid
September.
The Arctic Institute is the only
North American organization en
tirely devoted to furthering funda
mental research in the northern
regions of our continent. It was
founded in 1945 and maintains
offices in Montreal, New York and
Washington.
Along The
Waterfront
Hundreds of bouts dot the shore
line of Kodiak these days, some in
their new coats of paint and
others in a semi-finished state.
Most of them will be heading out
the channel in the next few days,
with the long awaited season open
ing Monday. •
Fishermen and cannery work
ers are in town on the way to their
various areas of operation. Many
have been grounded after arrigihg
here, due to low ceilings. Many
more are due in, awaiting fail
weather.
Bob Resoff reports little actiyii#
down at the King Cra't tanne^.
He expects the tender Majestic in
today. Johnny Jorgenson is the
skipper. Kory Karstadt is expected
in with the Totem. His boat will
be used as a tender this year. He
has installed new tanks so that
his boat is now completely refrig
erated. '
Resoff expects to have a crew
of thirty working this year. Gene
Hervin i3 foreman. He hails from
Seattle, and is well-known around
Kodiak. He was formerly with the
Washington Fish & Oyster Com*
pany.
Down at the local boat work*.
Stan Alvine reports the crew te
keeping pretty busy, getting the
boats in shape for the big push
In fact he says they have been be
hind the eight ball—meaning Pete
Deveau's jitney, “8 Ball.” Also lor
the same company, they changed
a few planks on the Tanner. Work
on the Shuyak is about completed,
The skipper. Bob Von Scheele, has
installed a new 165 GMC on hei.
Some of the boats noted along
the wharf were the Seafair, Swal
low, Arthur H, Pafco 20, Howkan,
Sea Ladd, Seven Bros., the Pafco
19 and the Pafco 18. There a»c
many more scattered along the
waterfront from Fisherman’s Bay
to the City Dock.
Bob Logan docked yesterday
morning with the Cordova Salvor
He developed engine trouble on
the way over from Cordova. The
barge is now out at the Base in
drydock for repairs.
The City Dock has been busy, a- -
cording to Jack Johnson, City
Wharfinger. Two boats arrived
this week, discharging and load
ing cargo. The Coastal Rambler
was in earlier in the week, and
loaded 15,611 cans of clams and
over 3000 cans of salmon. She
loader more than 400 tons of out
bound cargo. The Lucidor docked
the 4th of July and discharged
929 tons of freight.
The Expansion is due in Tues
day on her Westward jaunt.
Halferty's Cannery’s tenders,
Jannette F. Frigidland and Krk
tine are in at the company’s dock.
All are expected t.o clear for the
fishing grounds today or tomor
row. The Commander brought in
4700 fish, most of them reds from
the Karluk area. These were being
canned yesterday.
The U. S. Coast Guard Cutter
Storis is due here from Juneau tit
day for refueling. The Storis wjJI
then head to the North, to wot*
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