Efldiah Mirror
**Sweats of America's Last frontier
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
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Entered in the Postoffice at Kodiak, Alaska as Second
Class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1878.
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Attention, Voters
Few people in Kodiak know that if the city council
wishes fiiey may be barred from attending all council meet* I
ings with file exception of those devoted to public utility rate
hearings.
The opinion was given by Ralph J. Rivers, attorney
General of Alaska during 1947 through 1949, and published in
the Report and Selected Opinions of the Attorney General,
Territory of Alaska. j
Rivers gave the opinion in answer to a question by Hal
W. Hunt, former editor of the Seward Polaris, after he re-'
quested the attorney general’s opinion with reference to the
legality of his exclusion from council meetings of the City of
Seward.
Suoh a ruling has »ever been invoked by the Kodiak
City Council. In the past the council and mayor have repea
tedly stated that they welcome the public to all meetings.
The report by Rivers states: “In many jurisdictions the
statutes specifically provice that meetings of a council are to
be open to the public, but our law is silent in this respect.
4 The weight of authority is that in the absence of
statutory requirement, meetings of a municipal council are
not open to the public and early cases hold that meetings of a
municipal council are, as a rule, not public meetings, and
members of the public, newspaper reporters, or even tax
payers of the municipality have not right to attend such
meetings without the consent of the council. (43 Corpus Juris
497, and 38 American Jurisprudence,669).”
The laws of the Territory of Alaska can stand a lot of
rmendments and many should be repealed and replaced with
new ones which give a clear and correct ruling for the ad
ministration of city councils.
Most council’s regard for public goodwill and public
policy involved insist that the public attend all council meet
ings.
While there is little danger of the Kodiak council invok
ing the archiac territorial statute it would be well for voters
to remind candidates, now campaigning, for the territorial
house and senate of the ruling and ask them to take corrective
measures when they meet in Juneau next winter.
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19 APRIL—NAVY NIGHT—Avast there Mate, The '
Fleet’s In. Scuttlebutt is out that this affair
is super. Brother Pete and his blue-coated
cohorts are going all out with a dazzling
array of entertainment, a super buffet lunch
and hotcha music. Don’t miss Brother!
25 APRIL—Regular Meeting. Initiation
3 May—The Kodiak Jockey Club presents the first runn
ing of the Anchoragean. Elks from all over A
laska have been invited to attend.
WAPITI WISDOM.
“To Thine Own Self Be True, And It Must Follow I
As The Night The Dav, Thou Canst Not Then Be /
False To Any Man.”—Shakespeare.
WILBUR the WISTFUL WAPITI \
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FROM THE PRESS BOX
by
Lefty Craft, JOC USN
Baseball’s renowned travel
ing man, Bobo Newsom, bob
bled un in th<? majors again
this week. The Washington
Senators hired the 43 year old
talkative Bobo for the fifth
time.
Satchel Paige, ageless won
der of the St. Louis Browns
was fined one hundred dollars
for failing to show up for an
exhibition game between the
Browns and the Pittsburgh
Pirates at Cot p as Christi,
Texas, last Monday night.
Johnny O’Brien, Seattle U.
all - time great basketball;
player and worlds record
holder for most points scored;
in one season slammed three1
home runs in a double header
recently.
i Something new in Pacific
Coast League rulings: Players,
are not allowed to leave their
gloves on the playing field
while their side is at bat. AH
YES! PCL will someday be
come a third major league, so
states Commish Pants Row
land.
| LATEST—The Army told
an inquiring U. S. Senator i
this week the superintenden j
of West Point has been
authorized to encourage
promising high school athletes
to enroll there if they have
‘ ‘the necessary scholastic
attainments.” 1951 Score:
Navy many points, Army
little points. . Nuff said.
, Hugh McElhenny, All
1 American fullback who gain
ed 2,499 yards for University
of Washington in three sea
sonsl signed a contract with
the San Francisco 49 ers of
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KRAFT’S
MEN’S STORE
i
Open Friday evenings
until 9 pm
the National Football League.
At a sp'ortswriters banquet
in the Bay Area last month
sportscaster Bud Foster
cracked.” wonder how much
of a cut Hustling Hugh tooK.”
The Chicago Cubs remain
the only holdouts in the : ma
jors against night baseball.
Drive Collects $1,013
The Kodiak Ked Cross drive
has collected funds totaling
$1,013.40, Mrs. Merrill Coon,
chairman, announced yester
day. This money is from town
only, and does not include
any from the naval base.
Those assisting with the
drive this year were the Mes
dames Robert von Scheele,
Pat Mitchell, Bernard Smith,
Leon Johnson, Esther Magnu
sen, Inez Graff and Norman
Sutliff.
Miss Candace .. Crawford,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Melton L. Crawford, gave a
party Thursday in observance
of her first birthday.
Susses For Concert
Two Kodiak Transit Co. Inc.,
busses will be at the corner
near the Bank of Kodiak Wed
nesday night to transport A
laska Music Trails Association
members to the concert at
Kodiak Naval Station.
The busses will be in front
of the Nayy gym following
the concert for the return
trip.
The crab shells used by the
BPW for the manfacture of
hats which delegates will
wear at the Biennial Conven
tion in Boston from June 29
J to July 4 were furnished by
[French's Seafood Company
j and not by the Island Seafoods
i Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Ewing
have purchased Swede Breck
burg’s property past the end
of Mission rd. and will move
there shortly, from their pre
sent home at the naval station.
World War II
Veterans
you in every way possible to do so.
Come in and see me anytime.
j In the meantime, keep up those payments on your
National Service Life Insurance,
i Without obligation, consult
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Insurance Department - Bank of Kodiak
Phone 2233
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