Uxodiak Klirror
*"ch{e<Q>s of (America's Last frontier
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
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Do You Plan To Vote?
It shouldn’t be necessary to urge an American to go to
the polls on an election day. However, thousands of Ameri
'e*ns, especially Alaskans, assume that some one else will cast
» ballot and so why take the time and bother.
Later, if some candidate or measure is approved that
they do not like, they gripe'and howl, forgetting that their
wote.might have been the deciding factor in the issue.
Unless a majority of Kodiak voters approve the vacat
ing of the present plat of the east addition, which enconmas
acs the 344 unit housing project, the plan to build houses may
fafi.
The entire project now hinges on the Special Election
net for Tuesday. Do you want the housing project? Your vote
could be the one that decides the issue.
Exercise your inalienable American right. Vote in Tues
day’s election.
Dr. Albrecht Visits
Here This Week
Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, ter
ritoral commissioner of health,
visited Kodiak early this
week and met with some of
the members of the Kodiak
Health and Welfare Council.
lie described his trip as a
routine visit. Mayor Lee C.
Betticger showed Dr. Al
brecht the site of the proposed
housing project, the work
done on the new reservoir and
the new school Tuesday after
noon.
Wilbur Schell, electrician,
has accepted a position as an
electrical inspector with the
U. S. Army and will travel
throughout the territory, he
aaid yesterday.
Schell said he would con
tinue to make Kodiak his
headquarters.
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Donald Lawvere, 44, former
superintendent of the Kodiak
Naval Station school, has been
employed as principal of the
elementary school at Hagers
town, Indiana, for the coming
year.
Mrs. Lawvere, also a teacher,
will teach the fifth and sixth
grades.
Edward Pagano, son of
Mrs. Margaret Heitman, plans
to leave Monday on the Den
ali. He will enter San Fran
Eisco State College for a year
of post-graduate work.
The Fireweed Social Club of
the OES will hold a card party
Tuesday night at the naval
station community center. The
public is invited.
Clayton Finnegan, McGre
gor clothing salesman, was in
town this week.
Skagway Boom
Predicted
A new city for Alaska-des
tined to be the second largest
in the territory-was about to
be born on Lynn Canal at
Skagway following the disclo
sure of plans for the nation’s
largest aluminum plant there,
the Anchorage Times reported
The new city will be built by
I the Aluminum Corporation of
America for a population of
i 20,000 persons. The spectacu
lar announcement of the 400
million dollar project was
made by Leon E. Hickman,
viee president of ALCOA,
during the All Alaska Resour
ces Meet at MtMckinley Park
last weekend.
■ James D. Growden, chief
consulting engineer for
ALCOA, was the man who
discovered the great power
potential and envisioned the
project which will be built.
He has been assigned by the
company to be in charge of
the project.
Growden discovered the
Taiya power project by a study
of maps and viewed it for the
first time in 1947.
f A new rush of speculators
and enterprisers was reported
underway as Alaskans and
others headed for the world
j famous area and gateway to
the gold fields ot 1898.
The plan will re awaken
Skagway which has slumbered
since its great days around the
turn of the century. The Skaer
way-Dyea will be the busiest
j waterfront in Alaska. It is est
(imated that a million tons of
i cargo will be moved in from
! the states when the mill is op
\ erating.
J The aluminum company will
establish its own steamship
j line to haul the heavy ton
nages. The huge supply of
cheap power was the key at
traction to establishing the
! ulant in Alaska, Hickman said.
Governor Ernest Gruening
I hailed the announcement as
! the “most importaut event in
I Alaska since its purchase from
I Russia.”
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VOTE "YES" FOR HOUSING
Kodiak needs the housing project. Our Mayor and !
couneilmen have worked faithfully to obtain it. Now it is I
up to the voters to vote YES for the street changes needed, j
. Don t leave it to the other fellow. Go to the polls
Tuesday. Take a neighbor with you. VOTE YES for Ko- .
diak’s future.
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' Reynolds Leave
ror Hawaii
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rey
nolds were scheduled to leave'
iast night for Seattle and
Honolulu where they plan to
settle.
Reynolds has been employed
it the base motor pool for the
oast four years, and Mrs.
Reynolds has been typesetter
for the MIRROR for over two
years.
Osmer “Pappy” Peyton,
Alaska resident for the past
nine years, planned to leave
last night for Seattle and
Hawaii. He will travel with
Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds.
Peyton has been employed
at KNS for the past four
years.
Former Resident
Hurt In Crash
Russel Ruyle, former Ko
diak High School student and
employe of Patterson's Ser
yice station, was seriously in
jured recently in an automo
bile accident in West Virginia.
Ruyle, who has been in the
navy for the past two years,
had just returned from Eu
rope, and was scheduled to
leave again for Jamaca.
He had hoped to be dis
charged from the navy and re
turn to Kodiak next January,
his sister, Mrs. E. W. Sinders
of Seattle, wrote the MIR
ROR this week.
Ruyle will be in the hospital
for several weeks. His address
is as follows: C. R. Ruyle, SN
735-17 04, U. S. Naval Hospi
tal, Portsmouth, Va.
Hospital News
Babies were born to the fol
lowing persons at the dispen
sary last week:
To Mr. and Mrs. Harry Da
vidson of Afognak, a son
August 21.
To Mr. and Mrs. Lester
Syren, a daughter, Roberta
Jane, 8 lbs lOi oz., Aug. 24.
The patients were taken to
the dispensary during the ab
sence of Dr. A. Holmes John
son who was attending the
medical convention in Anchor,
age.
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Farrow Services
Held Monday
1 Funeral services for John
Farrow, 40, were held Monday
afternoon at the Elk’s Club on
Brooklyn avenue. Chaplain
Peter McPhee of Kodiak
Naval Station conducted the
services.
Farrow was killed August
22, around two pm when he
came in contact with a high
voltage line while doing line
work for the Kodiak Electric
Association.
A large crowd attended the
funeral services. Burial was
in the Kodiak Cemetary under
the direction of Kodiak Mortu
ary.
John William Farrow was
born December 19, 1912, at
Kenton, Washington. He has
been a resident of Kodiak for
14 years. He is survived by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry L. Farrow of Renton,
two sisters, Ellen and Annie;
three brothers, H. D. Farrow
of Kodiak, Richard Farrow of
Renton and Thomas Farrow of
Twist, Washington; an adopt
ed daughter Alberta Ann,
eight years old.
Pallbears were Wilbur
Schell, Waldo Alho, Pete Kop
pang, John Rogers, Vivan
Kilgore and George Cushing.
| Cancer Crusade Fund
Over $1000 Goal
The Kodiak Cancer Crusade
fund climbed over the $1,000
j goal set by the local Business
' and Professional Women’s
jClub Thursday.
. The contributions totaled
i $1,460 late Thursday Mrs.
| John Springhill, crusade
chairman, said. The final count
is expected to go over $1,500
when all the contributions are
in, she added.
j "On behalf of the BPW I
; wish to thank all who contri
i buted and made the local cam
j paign a sucess, ” Mrs. Sbring
hill said.
| Pat Avery and Devona Ol
sen are employed in the soda
! fountain department at Knud
sen’s.
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