rrNews of oAmerica’s Last Frontier”
VOL. 16 NO. 36
KODIAK, ALASKA. SEPTEMBER 8, 1956
PRICE 10 CEtfttl
Dedication Services
Will Be Held Sunday
The program for the dedication
of the new Hign School nas just
been announced by Dr. A. Holmes
Johnson, president of the Kodiak
Independent Schoci District. The
Band from the Naval Station will
play the opening selection, which
will be followed by short speeches
by civic and visiting dignitaries,
who will be in attendance.
Following the program, refresh
ment* will be served in the school
cafeteria by the IT A. Inspection
of tne building with Girl Scout
Troop members serving as guides.
A Steinway Concert Grand
piano will be presented the school
by Mrs. Madeline Alvine, Presi
dent of the PTA. William La mine..
President of the Rotny Club,*will
present the United States and Al
askan flags.
The complete program for ihe
dc;.icttion ceremonies is as fol
low?:
Opening Selection, United States
Navy Band with D. L. Daley, ME3,
conducting; Salute to the Flag led
by Kodhk Boy Scout Troop 625,
Star Spangled Banner led by Mrs.
Betty Springhill; Invocation, Rev.
Roman Sturmer, Russian Ortho
dox Church; Remarks and Intro
ductions, Dr. A. Holmes Johnson;
Responses, Leon H. Johnson, May
or, City of Kodiak; Capt. D. W.
Olney, USN, Commandant, 17th
Naval District; and Capt. R. W.
Allen Commanding Officer, Ko
diak Naval Station; Selection,
United States Navy Band; Dedica
tory Prayer, Rev. John Molletti,
Community Baptist Church; Pre
sentation of Gifts, Steinway Con
cert Piano and United States and
Alaskan Flags.
Remarks — "What the School
Should Mean to Koiiak” by Ivor
A. Schott, Superintendent of
Schools; Benediction, Rev. Ray
mond Talbott, S. J., St. Mary’s R.
C. Church; Closing Selection, Un
ited States Navy Band; Refresh
ments in the Cafeteria, served by
Kodiak PTA; Inspection of the
fiuilding, Girl Scout Troops, ush
ers and guides.
School Cafeteria
Proves Popular
Cafeteria ir.eals at the new
school are proving popular with
ihe students Many -epovt. good
food, tastily served and '-eason
ahle. Next weeks menu, published
herewith, is indicative of the bat
cnced diet offered the students.
Monday: Baked beans & weiners,
t» le slaw, bread and butter and
milk.
Wednesday: Spanish rice, chop
ped lettuce salad, green beans,
bread and butter and milk.
Thursday. Beef stew, carrot and
raisin salad, bread and butter and
milk.
Friday: Baked fish, buttered
peas, peach dices bread and but
ter and milk
CUB SCOUTING PLANNED
Anyone interested in Cub Scout
ing is asked to meet in the Science
room of the old school at 2 p. m.
Saturday.
755 Enrollment
At School Opening
Total school enrollment reached
755 on the second day of school,
according to Superintendent of
Schools, Ivor Schott. The elemen
tary school had the majority of
the children entered. Its total en
rollment reached 573. The bal
ance of the 182 enrolled in the
high school.
This is slightly short of the 800
anticipated previous to the school
opening. The number is expected
to grow as the season advances.
Thirty-two high school student
were transported from the Naval
Station by bus.
The new school corridors rang
with the voices of students eagerly
seeking to register, to procure
lockers, and seek out their class
rooms. It was in striking contrast
to the old high school building,
whose wooden floors and walls
have served educational require
ments these many years. The re
inforced concrete build ng is de
signed and equipped to house two
hundred and fifty students.
A beautiful and spacious gym
nasium greeted the students. This
was a new experience for many oi
them, since the old building never
had a gymnasium. The gym is
large enough to provide a standard
basketball court or two playing
courts, two volleyball courts, or
four badminton courts. At a later
date, it will be equipped with fa
cilities for a complete physic,il ed
ucation program.
The gym is designed to be
used as an auditorium also. Blea
cher seats can be pulled from the
walls, and will seat six hundred
people. A large and beautiful
stage centers one wall.
The balcony serves as the cafe
teria also, and will seat one hun
dred and sixty students at one
time. It is separated from the
auditorium by means of a heavy
curtain, which can be closed by
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District Governor Ralph Bartholomew and Rotary President dill Lamme.
(US Navy Photo)
Forged Checks
On Mainland
Fairbanks (AP). Territorial po
lice and U. S. Marshals continued
investigation of City swindling op
eration involving eounteii'eit pay
checks drawn against Morrison
Knudsen Construction Co. A total
of $8000 in worthless checks turn
ed up in Anchorage banks. Fair
banks merchants wore bilked ap
proximately $3000, much of which
has been recovered. Three men
were apprehended.
U. S. Marshal A1 Dorscli alerted
Seattle Police to watch for checks.
These were all drawn for the sum
of $280 or thereabouts, and bore
the offK.al Mon laon-Knudse r
Company markings. They were
signed with the forged-name of
the former timekeeper at MK’s
Galena project.. Police believe
forged checks are printed and
drawn up in the States.
It is believed the quick action
by the authorities foiled a plot to
pass thousands of dollars of con
struction checks in Anchorage and
Fairbanks over the Labor Day
holiday, as such checks “Good as
Good” in the territory. ,
Charges of passing forged in
struments filed against Claude TT.
Brownfield, 36, Eugene Eekley, 38,
and Robert Hausman 35, all listed
as from Chicago or Peoria and hav
ing aliases.
None of the checks have shown
up in Kodiak, but Chief Vickery
warns against accepting any of the
company checks by local mer
chants, as there is a possibility
they may reach here also
DISTRICT SEEKS BIDS
District Public Works is serv
ing out invitations to bid on pro
jects on the Naval Station. Re
moval of a warehouse and the con
struction of a parking area are the
two projects on which the Depart
ment seeks bids.
The first project is the construc
tion of parking facilities adjacent
to the Naval Station Theatre build
ing. This includes excavation, back
fill, surface course, grading, con
crete paving curbs and sidewalks
a.iu altc-mons of exiting catch
basins an t manholes.
PTA Meeting
Next Thursday
A PTA meeting will be held
September 13 in the cafeteria of
the new school. The meeting will
begin at 8 p. m.
The mothers of kindergarten
children will be hostesses.
The annual membership drive
will start with this meeting. The
grade room having the largest at
tendance of parents present at
the meeting will receive an award.
Prior to the meeting the Execu
tive Committee will meet in the
Principals office. This meeting
will start at 7 p. m.
Teachers will be honored during
the dedication ceremonies to be
held at the new school, according
to Mis. Alvine, President of PTA.
The PTA will serve refreshments
following the ceremonies.
Prospector Course
Slated For Sept. 17
The University of Alaska School
of Mines Extension Course in Pros
pecting and Geology will be held
in Kodiak beginning Monday, Sep
tember 17, according to George
Cornelius.
Cornelius stated that Leo Mark
Anthony, U. of A. Geologist, will
conduct the six weeks course. Clas
ses will be held from 6:30 to 8:00
p.m., Monday through Friday, in
the Science Room of the old High
School building.
In past years, the course has
also been held on the Naval Sta
tion, but Naval Authorities in
formed us that they have as yet
not received any information re
garding the program.
Cornelius stated that the last
two weeks of the course will be
devoted to Geo-chemical prospect
ing. Mr. Anthony is a co-discoverer
of that system of prospecting.
There is no charge for the
course.
Ed Pagano, Jerry Valen and
Marion T. Howe left for Anchor
age yesterday to attend an admini
strative conference of the Nation
al Guard.
Along The
Waterfront
Boats are coming in daily frcm
the fishing grounds.
The chprus of fishermen say.
“no luck.’-V
Once in a wh^le one of them
says, “Made out pretty good."
Others say, “Where I was, there
were no fish.”
The docks.,, are lined with the
small fishing waft. Many more are
lying at anchor in the harbor.
McConaghy it still sounding his
whistle and some Silvers are going
into the cans - nobody is getting
rich by the take, however.
The CUy rDock boyj are again
busy shunting freight around from
the Lucidor, which came in Thurso
day
Fishermen in Nortnwest now go
40 miles offshore to fish Effect is
felt by trollers. One of them said:
“The amount of troll-caught sal
mon being brought n is hardly
enough to grease the skillet.”
Other CG ships in this week
fro mthe Bering Sea were the Cit
rus, Sedge and the Storis The lat
ted has already left for its homo
base.
Local Scenes In
Art Show Monday
Mrs. Jeannie Laurence well
known Alaskan Artist, is featured
in an art show at the Bank of Ko
diak Monday night. The show n
open to the publ.c and will be
sponsored by the Business ar*d
Professional Womens Club. The
show begins at 7:30p. m. and wLM
continue until 10 p. m.
Mrs. Laurence has been in Ko
diak for the past two months. She
has devoted most of her time to
painting local scenes. These «ui*
be featured at the showing. The
artist is the widow of the famous
Alaskan painter, Sydney Laurence
She is an artist in her own right,
and brings to the canvas paintings
of wild flowers as well as typical
landscape scenes.
The show has created consider
able interest locally, as the artist
has been requested to paint the
local scenes by many citizens of
Kodiak. Mrs. Laurence has stat'Jd
she found Kodiak a beauteous spot
in which to paint, and has attempt
ed to capture on canvas scents
that have caught her fancy.
The artist will remain hero
about three more weeks. She will
then go (o Hawaii, when; she will
remain until May of no t year.
She plans to go to Europe, follow
ing her stay in Hawaii,
A feature of the show will be
the show of Mrs. Laurence’s org>
nal book of wildflower paintings,
which will appear in book form at
a future date.
Chailt: V. Norton ieCt this week
for Wh.tmar College in Oregon.