VOL. 18 NO. 12
KODIAK, ALASKA, MARCH 22, 1958
PRICE 19 CENT®
ACS Inaugurates
Toll Dial Plan
"A program to extend the bene
fits of the nationwide toll dialing
plan for the United States to the
Territory of Alaska was announc
ed Friday by Colonel Carl H.
Hatch, commanding officer of the
U. S. Army Alaska communica
tions system.
Under the program, ACS toll
centers at Anchorage, Fairbanks,
Ketchikan, and Juneau will be
equipped so that long distance
telephone calls between these
points and cities in the United
States can be dialed directly by
long distance operators.
Service froim , Anchorage and
Fairbanks will be inaugurated ear
ly in January 1959, when the Pa
cific Telephone and Telegraph
company places their automatic
toll switching equipment in oper
ation at Seattle, Washington.
Similar service will be extended
to Ketchikan and Juneau when
funds and equipment become
available.
Integration of the ACS with the
nationwide dialing plan will be the
most far-reaching advancement in
Alaska since the inauguration of
the submarine cable service to
Alaska in 19156,. Colonel Hatch
stated.
During September 1957, the
ACS transferr«Kl its responsibili
ties for operation of the army
command and administrative net
wori^to control of the 6th army in
the states. In January o' this
year, the Alaska portion c* this
strategic military communication
network was transferred to the
control of the U.'S. Army, Alaska.
Colonel Hatch commented that,
as a result of the ACS being re
lieved of the responsibility for
providing strategic military com
munications for Alaska, the sys
tem is now concentrating on pro
viding more efficient public of
fering service to the territory.”
Officers Named
To Head Legion
Officers for the coming year of
the newly vitalized American Le
gion. Jack Alman Post N. 17 were
elected at a meeting of the Kodiak
post held Thursday night.
George Cornelius was re-elected
Post Commandant; George Scnn
tag will serve as Vice-comman
dant; 2nd Vice-commandant is
Oscar Nelson, Other officers are
Adjutant, John Trent; Finance
Officer, Ben Kraft: Sergeant-at
Arins. Gene Irwin, Security Offi
cer, John Boucher.
The group has joined the Cham
ber of Commerce. They voted to
sponsor a queen candidate for the
King Crab Festival, and have se
lected Linda I’ucker.
The Legion post meets every
first and jthird Thursday of the
. month. Meetings begin at 7:30 and
are held jn the VFW hall. The
post has ^9 members.
Commission Meets
To Select Books
The Territorial Textbook Com
mission will convene ip Juneau
this weekend for its regular bien
nial meeting, according to Don M.
Dafoe, who is chairman of the text
book commission.
The textbook commission, estab
lished by territorial law, reviews
and evaluates textbooks and other
teaching materials and makes of
ficial adoptions for use in schools
throughout the territory. Mem
bers of the commission are ap
pointed by the president of the
territorial board and are charged
by Territorial law with the re
sponsibility of textbook selection.
The present commission mem
bers are: Sterling S. Sears, super
intendent of schools, Juneau; Ivor
A. Schott, superintendent of
schools, Kodiak; Miss Edna Ale
shire, elementary teacher, Anchor
age; James L. Simpson, high
school teacher, Ketchikan; Miss
Lois E. Meier, high school teach
er, Fairbanks; Mrs Imogene P.
Stockdale, elementary teacher,
McGrath; and the commissioner
of education, who is ex-officio
chairman.
Alaska Statehood
Way Go to House
WASHINGTON (ffl—Speaker
Sam Rayburn said the House will
give prompt consideration to Alas
ka Statehood if it cleared by the
Rules Committee, for floor consid
eration.
The Rules Committee hearing
scheduled for next-week on State
hood took on a new importance
with indications the Senate will
await house action before taking
up the bill itself. Senator John
son, Senate Democratic leader, re
ferred to the House committee
meeting, set for March 27, in talk
ing to newsmen and declared: We
will probably consider it after
they act”
Extra Plane Sat.
Announced by PNA
Ray Martin, station manager
for Pacific Northern Airlines, Inc.,
Kodiak, announces the following
schedules effective April 1, 1958:
Flight 16 arrives Kodiak at
10:10 a.m. daily
Flight 17 departs Kodiak at
10:50 a.m. daily
Flight 12 arrives Kodiak at
4:20 p.m. daily except Sun
day
Flight 11 departs Kodiak at
5:00 p.m. daily except Sun
day
Augmented service is furn
ished by an additional flight
on Saturday.
The city ticket office hours
are as follows: effective April 1,
1958. daily, except Sunday, from
8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Sunday,
from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The field ticket office hours are
as follows: daily, except Sunday,
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.; Sun
day—flight time only.
Six Candidates
Entered in Race
Rivalry is mounting as six queen
contestants are entered to date in
the King Crab Festival Queen
race. The Festival will be staged
May 2 and 3.
The Elks Club ha§ entered the
name of Beoma Blinn as their can
didate. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mi's. Jess Blinn. Anna Mae
Benson is the queen candidate se
lected by King Crab Inc and the
Orpheum Theatre, who are spon
soring her jointly. Miss Benson
is the daughter of Benny Benson,
designer of the Alaska flag. The
American Legion has chosen Miss
Linda Tucker, a Kodiak high
school senior as its candidate, and
George Cornelius of Culver Real
ty has announced the firms selec
tion of a queen contestant is
Francis Burke, also a high school
senior.
Two other contestants will be
entered from clubs on the Naval
Station, according to Eldon Les
ter, who is in charge of arrange
ments. Up to press time their
names were not available.
Interior Dept.
Opposes Bounties
WASHINGTON W—The Inter
ior Department told Congress it
opposes payment of bounties for
the control of fish predators, such
as hair seals, sea lions in the Pa
cific coast Alaskan fisheries.
Asst. Secretary Ross L. Leffler,
in a report on pending Senate bill
said the FWS found bounties gen
erally serve more as a means of
harvesting the annual crop of pest
species being bountied, rather
than as an effective measure to
control predators. “Under such a
system, predators are taken where
the take is easiest and leak ex
pensive, and not necessarily where
their taking does the most good.”
Leffler expressed a preference
for direct control measures and
the employment of professional
hunters and trappers who would
concentrate their efforts in prob
lem areas. He said such measures
are much more effective and less
expensive. He cited the use of
such direct control measures by
Alaskan Department of Fish and
Game in the Copper and Stikine
River districts, where hair seals
prey on salmon runs. In contrast,
he said, Alaska Legislature for
many years authorized bounties
on hair seals without any appre
ciable benefit to salmon or other
resources.
New Member Joins
Staff of Mirror
Myron Dick arrived in Kodiak
last Saturday and has joined the
staff of the Kodiak Mirror.
Dick will work on the produc
tion end of publishing the Mirror.
Prior to his coming to Kodiak, he
resided in Okinawa where he was
employed by the Morning Star,
an English-language, American
owned daily newspaper.
After leaving ^he Orient, Dick
made a tour through Asia * and
Europe.
Acheson Returns,
Gone Six Weeks
Bob Acheson, partner in the
firm of Donnelly & Acheson, ar
rived in Kodiak this week, after
an absence of six weeks in the
States. ,
Acheson spent most of the time
in and around Seattle on com
pany business. Asked as to wheth
er the effects of the recession
were apparent, he stated that
most of the businessmen he talked
to were not too concerned with it,
and regarded it as a “leveling off”
period. You cannot expect boom
conditions all the time,” Acheson
stated. Most of the business firms
he dealt with are expecting an
upsurge in business this spring.
Car buying has hit a slump
there as here, he found. But on
the whole, confidence was mani
fest, he said, and the firms who
got out and hustled were still get
ting the business.
'Education’ Talk
Meeting Highlight
The highlight of the dinner
meeting of Kodiak Business and
Progessional Women’s Club, held
at the Island Fountain Monday
night, March 17, was the* very in
teresting and informative talk giv
en by Dr. A. Holmes Johnson on
“Goals of Education.” He was pre
sented by Mrs. Helen Schott, Car
eer Advancement * Chairman.
Another talk of great interest to
the Club was given by Art Brooks,
Civil Defense Chairman for the
city of Kodiak. He ,stressed the
importance, of each and every citi
zen being familiar 'with the re
quirements of Civil Defense from
the personal standpoint, as well as
the over all picture of combined
efforts in time of disaster. He said
the watchword might veil be
“Work Together, Plan Together
and Survive Together.”
Five ladies were initiated into
the club by Etta Edris, Member
ship chairman, and President Fos
tina Johnson, and assisted by Ber
tha Hamann, Marian Johnson and
Ruth Torgerson. The new mem
bers were: Donna Keller, Melanie
Draper, Karen Peterson, Chlora
Clymer and Geraldine Hofer.
Guests of individual members
were Janet Soleim, Jo Driscoll,
Ersal Strash, Mary Kalinyak.
Charlene Kinkaid, Betty Acheson
and Pat Hebrig.
Muriel Valen concluded the ini
tiation with a clever satirical
reading “12 Ways to Kill an Or
ganization” which was received
with much merriment. Betty
Springhill, Music Trails Chairman,
announced that she had re
ceived word from a member of
the association stating that every
effort would be made to furnish
a replacement for the Parisot, con
cert which was cancelled, due to
the illness of the artist. This in
formation would be forwarded as
soon as plans could be made.
President Johnson announed that
the sign for BPW had been receiv
ed and would be placed on the
roadway toward the Base, beside
the Rotary Club sign.
Along The
Waterfront
Waters adjacent to Kadiak art*
stirred by winds, but the water
front newswise has nary a ripples
on it. Crab boats have been com
ing and going quite regularly
throughout the week, and King
Crab Ine has managed to keep the
wheels turning, with the flu bug
hitting the staff hard.
Resoff estimates about 30 per
cent of his crew down with the *
flu, which hasn’t made for ease
of operation. He states the can
nery has about one more week of
canning and^will mainly freeze the
meat after that.
At the City Dock, its unusually
quiet, with the in-between period
for boats causing a lull, and Dock
Superintendent Jack Johnson rat
tling around in the office by him
self with his Cashier and book
keeper, Lucille Hicks, in Anchor
age on jury duty. The Tatalina is
due in Monday or Tuesday and
will serve to liven things up a bit
for awhile.
Down at Alvine’s Boat Works',.
Stan had very little to report. He’s*
working on routine jobs — but,
“nothing exciting,” he says.
Union officials are negotiating;
with the boat owners Monday,,
when it is expected wages of fish
ermen will he'determined Accord
ing to Nick Frost, Business Agent.,
the Union is continuing negotia
tions with the Alaska Salmon In
dustry in fixing wages of eannerj?
workers.
^Halfeify’s cannery should scene
get ihto clani operation, which
will be the first prior to salmdfe
canning. Haughland is expected to.
arrive the first of the month t»
get the cannery in readiness.
The crab fishermen now are.*
keeping their eyes peeled for the
big crab. With a possibility of
adding $100 to their income, with
the catching of the crab weighing
the mast and one with the longest,
span, to be entered in the Crab
Festival contest, they have a teal
inducement.
Crabs to Earn
Big Cash Money
Two $50.00 bills wul be given
to the contestants who bring in
the King crab weighing the most
and the crab with the longest span
from leg tip to leg tip. Awards
will be made during the King
Crab Festival, May 3.
The crab weighing the most
must be alive, accoiiing to the
Festival Committee. Bob Resoft of
the King Grab, Inc.,, when asked,
as to the biggest crab lie had ever
seen, stated he had seen one that
weighed in at 23 pounds, 8 ounces.
The biggest crab turned in for
the Festival is one by Oscar Dy
son, which weighed 19 pounds.
Crabs in the Alitak area have
been averaging about ten. pounds v
according to Resoff.