Library & Museum
Juneau, Alaska
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KODIAK, ALASKA, IANUARY 11, 1958
PRICE 10 CENTS
Wickersham Hall
To Be Dedicated
The University of Alaska will
formally dedicate Wickersham
Hall, new $910,000 residence hall
for women, tomorrow Jan. 12.
The hall will be named after
the late Judge James A. Wicker
shapn and his widow, Mrs. Grace
E. Wickersham, who resides in
Juneau. Judge Wickersham intro
duced in Congress the bill to es
tablish The Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Alaska in
1935. He laid the cornerstone for
■the institution and induced the
Territorial Legislature to accept
1933 1 o 1935, and of the univer
sity's board of regents until 1941.
An open house will follow the
dedication ceremonies which will
start in the hall at 1 p.m.
Mrs. Ruth Allman of Juneau,
formerly of Kodiak and niece of
Judge Wickersham, will unveil a
large bronze plaque of the Judge
and Mrs. Wickersham.
The University of Alaska A
Cappella Choir, under direction
oi Prof. Glenn Bergh, will sing
Shutz’s “Glory Be to the Father.”
Then Mrs. Dawn Magee, Wicker
sham Hall housemother, will light
a symbolic fire. She will be assist
ed by Miss Kathryn Kozloski, hall
president, and Jack Reed, presi
dent oi the Associated Students.
the land grant and appropriate
funds for buildings and equip
ment. Mrs. Wickersham was a
member of the Board of Tru rees
of The Alaska Agricultural Col
lege and School of Mines from
S.S. Mullen, Inc. started con
struct <n of the 24,400 sq.ft, build
ing in be fall of 1956. Completion
date was Oct. 10, 1957. M.R.
McEntire of Fairbanks was th#
architect.
One More Game
Then T o Seward
The Kodiak Bears will play their
last game Tuesday night, before
leaving for Seward. The opponents
for this game has not been an
nounced.
The high school team will play
the Seward Seahawks in a two
jrr~ - next weekend. They
will leave here aboard a chartered
PNA plane Friday. A game will
be played that night and Saturday
night. Twelve players, Coach Floyd
and manager will travel to Seward.
Several local boosters of the team
will accwMpany tU* players to
Seward.
The Naval Station Junior-High
team will accompany the Bears
and will play the Seward Juniors
lu an afternoon game preceding
the Seahawks-Bears game.
Those making the trip are: Jack
Johnson, Grant Hakinson, Bill
Damery, Otto Mahle, Roger Malu
tin, George MeCorkle, Gary Tighe,
Dave Fuller, Milton Souter,
my Shuygak, Terry Warner and
Hike Greeley. Local team ' "
crs Cecil Belcher, Morris Briggs
and Morris Burnham will also
travel along.
A National Guard plane will
take the local Guard team to Se
ward, also, where they will partic
ipate in the basketball weekend.
Base Employees
Receive Pay Hike
247 of the civilians employed
on the Naval Station here will re
ceive a pay hike, as a result of the
Federal pay increases just an
nounced. The increase goes to per
diem workers, and will bring
the salaries of government employ
ees more in line with that paid by
private industry.
The raise of approximately 14Mj
cents an hour will bring about
$5,300 additional per month for
the total employees receiving it.
140 at Adak are also affected.
It is estimated that more than
3,200 employees, most of whom
are stationed at Anchorage, Fair
banks, Kodiak, Adak, Big Delta
and Whittier, will receive more
than $1,000,000 annual increase.
Soot Es Born To
Wm. Modroks
A sen, William, weighing 7 lbs.
15 ozs., was born on January 5 to
Mr. and Mrs. William Modrok of
Spenard, Alaska Modrnk is
the former Mildred (Millie)
Simeonoff of Kodiak.
ALIENS MUST REGISTER
Aliens are required to register
during the month of January, ac
cording to Immigration Officials.
Light Vote
Favors Sale
A small but overwhelming vote
gave the go-head signal to the
City Council to complete negoti
ations with King Crab, Inc., in
sale of the waterfront property
on which the cannery is now locat
ed. By a vote of 91 for and 9 again
st, the hundred even voters re
affirmed the vote cast at the last
general election in October, 1957,
when the question was voted upon.
Voting v/ss slow throughout the
day, with not over fifty votes cast
by mid-afternoon. A short spurt
in the early evening brought the
vote up to the even hundred.
In the previous election, an
error was made in the description,
necessitating another vote. The
amount the City will receive for
the property is $25,000.
March Of Dimes
Campaign Is On
The 1958 March of Dimes cam
paign will get under way today,
when teenagers will appear on the
streets, offering Blue Crutch pins,
symbol of the polio drive for
funds.
This was announced by Archie
Zehe„ in charge of the campaign
for the Kodiak Elks Lodge, spon
sors of the annual drive again this
year. Zehe stated a group of teen
age girls have volunteered to tag
passersby on Saturday, as the first
of several staged events in the
month-long drive. The following
week Polio stickers will be offered.
The last Saturday of the month, a
bake sale will be held at Kraft’s
store, and funds so raised will go
to aid polio victims. The drive will
culminate with a big dance at the
Elk’s Club.
Two Little Boys
Killed By Plow
Anchorage UP). Two little boys
built a tunnel in the snowbank
Wednesday, unaware it would be
come their grave. Both were killed
outright when the blade of a huge
rotary plow was clearing snow
away.
Authorities identified boys as
Ross A. Kramer, 3. son of Capt.
and Mrs. R.A. Kramer, and Max
well E. Dicks, Jr., 2, son of Capt.
and Mrs. M. E. Dicks. Fort Rich
ardson Army officials sain mishap
occurred while plow was removing
snow from a parking lot in the
rear of the Forts family quarters.
Driver of the machine, an Army
civilian employee, who was not
identified, was treated for shock.
O. A. Torgerson
Goes To Fairbanks
O.A. Torgerson, President of the
Bank of Kodiak, left Tuesday
afternoon for Fairbanks, where he
will attend a meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Territrial
Bankers Association.
TICKETS TO BE ISSUED
FOR OVERTIME PARKING
Beginning Monday, January 13,
tickets will be issued to all cars
parked overtime in meter zones,
Chief of Police Vickery warned
this week.
Plans Available
Chamber Is Told
Plans of the inner facilities of
the Small Boat Harbor have been
received by the City Manager, it
was learned at the Chamber of
Commerce meeting Thursday.
The plans will be presented to
the Council at the meeting of that
body next Monday evening. Any
one interested in seeing the plans
may do so at that meeting, it was
stated. The meeting will be held
in the Council chambers at the
City Hall.
City Manager Bill Poland stated
the rebuilding ** City clorina
tion plant, which was destroyed
by fire recent!** will be out for
bid. He said he expected the plant
to be back in normal operation in
three weeks.
Ole Johnson, Manager *
reported to the members present
that the new generator was install
ed the Friday before Christmas.
The plants output is 2400 killo
watts. Formerly it was 1600.
The peak load during the holi
days, he said, was 1350 killowatts.
Mayor Merril Coon announced at
the meeting that there will be no
parking along Brooklyn Avenue
between Kraft’s Super Market and
the beach, as trucks will again be
gin hauling—this time for the
Southwest breakwater. The “no
parking” restriction, he said, is
for safety reasons.
Charles Edris, Roads Chairman,
reported the BPR will make its
first survey of the proposed road
from Larsen’s Bay to Otmeloi
Point this year. He said he
thought construction of the road
would begin in 1959.
Three guests, Mrs. Carolyn
Floyd, representing the BPW, Kip
Anchorage, and Maurice Egan,
of Egan, Sites and Lala who have
just opened an office in Kodiak,
were present at the meeting. The
aneeting was presided over by
President John Gibbons.
Cold In Alaska
Stops Work In Mo.
Springfield, Mo. (£). The lack of
transportation in an isolated sec
tion of Alaska is delaying the con
struction of a sewer line here.
City ’'repared an easment for
right-of-way through property own
ed by Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Murrell,
Pilot Station, Alaska. Murrell re
plied by letter he is holding ease
ment until he can find a notary.
He said the nearest one was 40
miles by dogsled, and it was 40
degrees below zero.
Pilot Station is on the Yukon, al
most 500 miles west of Anchorage,
Accounting Firm
Opens Office Here
Maurice Egan of the firm of
Egan, Sites and Lala, Certified
public accountants, has ope^d ?n
office here for the purpose of gen
eral accounting service and tax
return assistance.
Mr. Egan is formerly from
Everett, Washington, and more reT
cently from Anchorage. His firm
has offices in. Anchorage, Fair
banks, Seattle, Everett and Moses
Lake,
Along The
Waterfront
There’s getting to be a stir of
activity along the waterfront in
the small boat harbor area. M-K
has already started moving gravel
for the access road to the break
water. There ought to be a flurry
of activity when boat owners in
the area start moving their boats
off the beach.
The dredge Husky will again go
into operation Wednesday.. An
Molvar, dredge captain, states they
have about a weeks work dredg
ing. Later this month they will
begin “shooting”—dynamiting a
ledge facing the Southeast break
water.
You amatuer dam diggers will
have to wait awiiile before you
can go out after these delectable
bivalves, unless you’re
hell or high water” enthusiast who
uses a lantern, or can get your
wife to go along with a flashlight.
There are no good low tides in
daylight until possibly the on*
February 2nd, when there is a -1.3
at 5:58 p.m. Two days later at 7:17,
there’s a -2.0 tide, when the clams
ought be sticking their necks out
to inhale some of that rarified
surface air (or whatever it is the
clams stick their necks out for).
Come March if you can hold out
that long, it should be easy pick
ings. March 4, at 6:10 p.m., there’s
a -1.3 tide; March 5, at 6:50 a -1.4
and on March 6, at 7:29 pan.
there’s a -1.3.
We learn all this and a lot more
from the D & A Calendar, which
comes to us every year, with its
gold mine of information for water
front enthusiasts. This fine cal
endar, which has made its appear
ance as far back as we can remem
ber, gives you the high a^d low*
tides for the year, a correction
table for various parts of the
island, a map of the island, and a
weather forecast for the entire
U.S. What more can you ask be
sides what day of the month it is
Shiver as you read, but a storm is
forcast from the 12th to the 15th.:,
from the 16th to the 19th a cold'
wave will hit, but from the 20th
to 23 there will be a pleasant spell
Then to wind up January in good
style, storms are predicted in the
Northwestern states from the 24th
to the 27th.
And now for a fast trip up and
down the coasts of Alaska and.
British Columbia: An Alaska
Freight lines tug which broke
away from tug Tuesday was picked
up and brought into Yakutat . - .
The freighter .Columbia Trades-,
which \vus damaged during violent
North Pacific storms Monday was
having difficulty making its way
back to Adak, where it is expected
Saturday. Had a load of barley
bound for Japan . . . The last
Union Steamship Company’s ship
carrying passengers to points a
long the B.C. coast docked at Van
couver, B.C. Company furnished
trip along scenic B.C. coast for b7
years, but find it unprofitable, and
plan only cargo service.
ACTIVITY SHOWING
CLAM HUNGRY?