''News of ^Americas Last Frontier’
VOL 13 NO .6
KODIAK, ALASKA ARPIL IS, 1953
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New Nurse
ArrivesHere
Kodiak again has a public
health nurse.
Miss Olive Walker arrived
here Wednesday to take over
the job which has been vaca
ted three times in the past
couple of years.
Miss Anne Zaldaris, nursing
supervisor from Anchorage
for the Department of Health,
accompanied Miss Walker here
and will remain until Tues
day.
Miss Walker comes here
from two years of public
health work in Willmer, Minn.
Her home is in Hutcheson,
Minn. She was graduated
from Abbott Hospital and the
University of Minnesota, both
m Minneapolis.
She came to Alaska and to
Kodiak, she said yesterdav,
because “the job sounded in
teresting”.
Alaskans Testify
For Statehood
By Associated Press
Washington—Alaskans may
get the chance to elect their
own governor this year but
witnesses before the House1
subcommittee continued to go
all out for statehood.
The Alaskan witnesses ac
cepted as a step in the right
direction an announcement by
Chairman Butler (R-Neb) of
the Senate Interior Committee
that the Senate “will go along
with you”. Bnt they made it
clear it was considered only
a step.
Judge Anthon^’ J. Dimond
of Anchorage said the elective
governor proposal was “like
giving a lollypop to a baby”
to stop its crying.
Butler, who opposed state
hood for Alaska, appeared
briefly at the House hearing
Thursday to announce the
Senate Committee would be
unable to hear Alaska witnes
ses as planned because of
Senate sessions on submerged
land legislation.
“The election of your own
governor in 1954 is our ob
jective”, Butler said. He ad
ded that the Senate committee
will make full use of the House
hearings and visit Alaska this
summer.
The actual committee work
on the bill will begin next
week.
Vince Daly, local airlines
operator, is expected to arrive
in Kodiak this week. He has
been in the states during the
winter.
Mrs. dark Throws
in The Sponge
Mrs. Edith H. Clark, former
manager of the Kodiak Hotel,
has decided she doesn’t want
to accompany Jesse Stubbs.
72, on his pilgrimage to the
site where Will Rogers and
Wiley Post crashed to their
death.
Stubbs took off from Fair
banks for Pt. Barrow early
this week by plane. He had
earlier announced he would
walk from Anchorage to Pt.
Barrow.
Mrs. Clark loudly proclaim
ed that she would accompany!
Stubbs from Fairbanks to Bar
row. At the last minute she
changed her mind.
Twin Girls Born
On Wednesday
Twin daughters were born
Wednesday to Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Kozak at Griffin Mem
orial Hospital.
The girls arrived at 12:26
and 12:32 pm. Laurie Marie
was born firit and weighed 7
lbs., 4 oz.” and Lana Marie ar
rived six minutes later and
weighed 7 lbs., 6 oz.
The Kozaks have two other
children, a boy six and a girl
four years old.
This is the third set of twins
born at the hospital since the
first of the year.
Spring Must
Be Here Now
Whether the weather in
dicates it or not, Spring must
be here.
Pete Gilmore, Alaska
Salmon Industry representa
tive, is due in town to discuss
fish prices with local union
representatives, and a Pacific
Northern Airlines plane is
scheduled to bring 30 cannery
workers here for the San Juan
Packing Company.
Gilmore, Juneau resident
when he isn’t flying about the
territory on ASI business, has
arrived here for several years
at the same time spring comes
to Kodiak. He is considered a
“harbinger of spring” by the
MIRROR staff. They look for
him instead of for the first
robin.
Dalmond Valley, sawmill
owner at Afognak, recently
purchased the property owned
hy Mr. and Mrs. Lars Pana
maroff on Mission Road. The
property adjoins lots owned by
Valley where he has erected
some new houses.
The houses are completely
built from local lumber milled
at his saw mill
Mr. and Mrs. Panamaroff
plan a trip to the states.
John Gibbons
Elected Chairman
Red Cross Chapter
John Gibbons was elected
chairman of the Kodiak Chap
ter of the American Red
Cross at a meeting of the
board Thursday.
Larry Wod linger, who has
served as chairman for several
years, was named honorary
chairman.
Also elected were Mrs. Pat
rick Lynch vice-chairman;
Mrs. Henry Haag, secretary;
and Mrs. Mel Crawford, trea
surer.
Committee chairmen ap
pointed are as follows: Oscar
Hansen, disaster relief; Mrs.
Lynch, home service; Miss
Olive Walker, home nursing'
service; Dr. A. Holmes Jonn- '
son, first aid and life saving;'
Mrs. Johnson, volunteer ser-'
vices; Mrs. Henry Neseth,
junior Red Cross; and Mrs.
John Springhill, roll call.
lhe thanks or the chapter i
were extended to Mrs. Merrill j
Coon, who has served as iol!
call chairman for the past
several years.
The 1953 roll call will be
held shortly. Gibbons an
nounced, with the date to be
announced in the near future.
The Garland was in port
Wednesday on the return voy
age from out the Aleutian
Chain. It will go to Seward
and then to Seattle.
Police To Take Property
To Satisfy Debt To City
If your name was on the
personal property delinquent
tax roll tnat appeared in the
MIRROR recently, and the
police chief knocks at your
door sometime soon to take a
table, chair, fur coat or refri
gerator in payment, he is
within the law.
A city ordinance empowers
the City of Kodiak to issue a
warrant of restraint. This
means that if a taxpayer is
delinquent in his personal pro
perty taxes, property worth
the amount of taxes due can
be confiscated by the city, to
be re-sold. j
The ordinance governing
such a method of extracting
tax payments was enacted by!
the city council back in 1940
but this is the first time it has
been put to use. j
The warrants have been f
prepared by City Attorney
Paul Dupler who will deliver
Freighter Changes
Sailing Schedule
The Alaska Steamship Com
pany freighter Ring Splice
will leave Seattle April 21 in
stead of April 24 as stated in
the ASC advertisement. i
Lew Chenier, local ASC
agent, received notice of the
change after the first section
of today’s MIRROR was
printed.
CHARGED WITH THEFT
Joseph P. Ryan, president of the AFL International j
Longshoremen’s Association, talks with newsmen on his ar- ]
rival at the office of N w York District Attorney Frank Ho
gan Moments later Hogan's office announced that Ryan had
been arrested “in connection with an indictment that charges
theft of $11,3)0 from the funds of the ILA ” Ryan, lifetime
boss of the east coast longshoremen, had been under grand !
jury investigation since last January when a state crime hear-l
ing brought out he had used union money for personal ex- j
penses. (A* WIREPHOTQ)
them to City Clerk Robert
Hedloff. He in turn will put
them in the hands of Acting'
Chief of Police Ovid McKinley.
Persons delinquent in their
taxes will have until April 27
to pay up, before the ominous
knock will be heard at their
door.
Protection by restricted
deeds and native possessory
rights does not apply to per
sonal property. The city has
not in the past recognized such
deeds when listing taxes for
real property, although such
property was removed by the
court from the city’s list of
taxpayers delinquent in real
property.
A portion of Section 16,
Ordinance 12 defines personal
property “to include all house
hold goods, effects and furni
ture, chattels, goods, wares
and merchandise, boats or ves
sels.automobiles or other
[vehicles a .d all property. . . .
not included in the term real
property. ...”
Some possessions of the de
linquent taxpayer are safe
from the city’s “tax collec
itor”. He cannot take any
money you may have hidden
in the house or on deposit,
gold dust, stocks, bonds, and
securities, debts due the
owner.
Once a persons personal pro
perty has been distrained, or
taken by the city, a notice of
sale must immediately be pub
lished. This notice must ap
pear twice and the sale must
be held within 10 days after
the last notice.
If the property sold brings
I more than is due the city in
taxes, plus interest and other
costs, the balance must be se
turned by the city clerk to the
owner.
The owner may redeem his
property any time within 12
months by paying all the costs
plus 12% interest to the pur
chaser of his property.
Jeep Fire Truck
Marked For Kvtiiik
I Seattle (A>) — Communities
from southeastern Alaska to
the Arctic are scheduled to re
ceive Jeep fire trucks for
j Civil Defense use.
Kodiak is listed to receive
(one of the fully equipped little
fire fighters. They were manu
j factured at Toledo, Ohio, and
ihave equipment which in
cludes pumps, hoses, ladders,
I portable fire extinguishers.
Nearly every town in the ter
ritory is scheduled to receive
one or more of the Jeeps.