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EDITION
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City Council Seeks Federal Funds
For Street and Road Improvement
The City of Kodiak is making
a strong bid to secure matching
funds for the construction of
roads throughout the City. Under
present plans, $500,000 would be
available for City streets. ,
A total of $6,178,599 is avail
able to Alaska on a 101 matching
basis. At the meeting of the
Council held Wednesday night,
Mayor Coon called the Councils
attention to the $50,000 now in
the_ sales- tax_ funds,- which- is
dedicated to street construction,
which he said is available for
matching funds. On a 10-1 basis,
the $500,000 would be available.
The one important limi ition
on the expenditure of these extra
highway funds, including the
matching funds, is that they must
be placed under contract by
December 1, 1958. This require
ment is in line with the anti
recession purpose of the appro
priation.
Alaska Division Engineer E.H.
Swick of the Bureau of Public
Roads had stated that getting this
constructiin under contra 1 by
that date would require great
effort. City Manager Poland stated
that Kodiak is in a particularly
favorable position, with plans on
hand from Hubbell and Waller
Engineering Corporation, for a
Cloudy Skies and Rain Usher in
King Crab Festival Celebration
The long-awaited King Crab
Festival got underway yesterday
amid cloudy skies and a light
rain, with the arrival of Col.
Thomas P. Carroll in the after
noon. Others here for the festival
are C. L. Anderson, director of
the Alaska Department of Fisher
ies, and Dr. William Smoker,
biologist.
A round of receptions followed
Col. Carroll’s arrival, when he
was met at the airport by Navy
officials and John Gibbons, presi
dent of the Chamber of Com
merce. A reception was held for
him at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Edris in the afternoon.
Mrs. Edris is his; mother.
In the evening he was honored
guest at a no-host dinner at the
Town Club and ‘ attended the
Queen’s Ball at the Labor Temple
in the evening. Col. Carroll is the
personal representative of Gov.
Stepovich, who was unable to at
tend.
A crowd was in attendance at
the ball, but results of the queen
previously considered A.P.W. pro
ject covering construction of
streets, sidewalks, gutters, storm
drains, etc.
The City Council voted to send
the City Manager to Juneau, to
present the City’s favorable
position at a meeting of the Board
of the Alaska Highway and Public
Works Department. The meeting
will be held May 6.
Alaska’s share under this act is
$6,178,599. To this would be added
the Territory’s matching 10%,
$617,860, making a total available
of $6,796,459.
AERONAUTICS BOARD MEET
IN ANCHORAGE NEXT WEEK
Legislation now before Con
gress relative to the Federal Aid
Airport program will be among
the items under consideration at
the Spring meeting of the Alaska
Aeronautics and Communications
Commission.
Bills pending if enacted will
change the matching fund ratio
from 7.>% to 90% and will extend
the Federal Aid Airport program
to fiscal year 1963. The Commis
sion will review plans for new
construction for the coming sea
son and requests for new con
struction.
contest were not available at time
of going to press.
Today’s events will begin at
10:30 a.m. with flag raising cere
monies at the downtown grammar
school, when Col. Carroll will de
liver a speech. His speech will be
followed by a drill performance
by the Navy C.B.-9 drill team.
Highlights in today’s events
will be the crab cooking and crab
recipe contest at the Elks Club at
12 noon; crab shaking contest at
the Labor Temple at 2 p.m.; judg
ing of the largest and heaviest
crab, also at the Labor Temple, at
3 p.m. Street games and a tug of
war will be staged in front of the
USO from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Groups
entering a tug of war team are
asked to contact Walt Muller,
phone 4242, prior to the matches.
A huge crab feed at the Elks
Club will be served from 6 p.m.
to 10 p.m. All you can eat for
$1.50 is promised.
Concluding event is the Festival
Queen’s Ball at the Labor Temple,
beginning at 9 p.m.
BLM Investigates
Range-land Fires
Kodiak has kicked off the 1958
Alaska fire season with a series
of range-land grass fires. Official
ly the fire season begins April 30.
Officials from the BLM were in
Kodiak this week conducting an
investigation.
“These are fires, which can and
do, cause severe damage to the
natural resources,” stated Archie
D. Craft, Fire Control Officer of
the Anchorage District, Bureau of
Land Management, who was here
this week. He was accompanied
by John Merrick, BLM representa
tive at Homer. “Uncontrolled
burning results in accelerated
erosion, particularly when burning
occurs on steep hillsides and in
the upper breaks of our water
sheds,” Craft said.
“The 5 million acre loss of
forest and range lands last year
was a record,” he continued, “and
the unusually mild winter and
low snow fall has created unusual
ly dangerous fire conditions for
this summer.
Craft stated he was particularly
concerned over the grass fires
which have been started on Kodiak
Island during the last few days.
He warned that ranchers wishing
to burn over their lands for the
purpose of improving their range
should do under strict supervision
and not allow the fire to go be
yond the boundaries of their own
property. The Territorial Fire
Control Act requires prudence in
starting a fire and stipulates pro
vision sound be made for safe
burning by constructing fire
breaks and other control meas
ures.
The Act further provides that
anyone starting a fire must stay
with it continuously until it is out
and he must have the necessary
tools and equipment on hand to
insure it being kept under con*
trol.
Those who have grazing leases
with the Bureau of Land Manage
ment and wish to burn as range
improvement measures should
make application to do so to the
Operation Supervisor, Bureau of
Land Management, Box 480,
Anchorage, Alaska.
Eggemeyers on
6 Weeks Vacation
Leaving this weekend for De
catur, Illinois are Jim Eggemeyer,
his wife, Marlys, and son, Jess,
aged two, and daughter, Tenley.
The Eggemeyers expect to be
gone about six weeks. Jim Egge
meyer will atte.nd the State As
sociation Convention of the B.P.
O.E. of Illinois. He is a former
member of the Decatur Lodge, but
is now a member of the Kodiak
Lodge of which he is Steward.
District Engineer
Officers Here
Col. Bill Cribble, Assistant Dis
trict Engineer, Corp of Engineers
and Don Josselyn, Assistant Chief
of Construction, are visitors in
town this week.
The two men are conferring
with Manson-Osberg and M-K
Company officials on matters con
cerning the small boat harbor.
TO REPORT ON CONVENTION
Dr. A. Holmes Johnson is tenta
tively scheduled as the speaker at
the next PTA meeting to be held
Thursday, May 8, at 8 p.m. in the
auditorium of the high school.
Dr. Johnson will speak on his
recent trip to Miami, Florida,
where he attended a convention
of the National School Boards As
sociation.
ROTARIANS GO TO JUNEAU
Jess Ballard and Dr. Bob John
son left this week for Juneau,
where they will attend the Dis
trict Assembly of Rotary Clubs.
The District is made up of Clubs
from Alaska, British Columbia
and Washington.
Dr. Bob is President and Jess
Ballard is the newly elected Sec
retary of the Kodiak club.
Bill Lamme Appointed Postmaster,
Maurice Briggs Retired April 30
William Lamme became the
new Postmaster here this week.
He replaces Maurice Briggs who
retired at the end of April after
15 years service. Swearing in cer
emonies were held at the Post of
fice Wednesday afternoon.
Announcement of the appoint
ment was made by C. A. Hover,
Post Office Inspector from Seattle,
who has been in Kodiak the past
several days. He was accompanied
by Bryant Brady, District Director
of ithe Post Office Department for
Alaska. Several applicants for the
position were considered.
Bill Lamme and his wife Lillian
came to Kodiak in 1940. He firsi
worked as auditor on the Naval
Station.
In 1941, he became editor and
publisher of the Kodiak Mirror.
He and Mrs. Lamme published
the weekly until 1948. Lamme
then worked in the Post Office for
two years. The couple then went
on a world tour, returning here
in 1955. Lamme then joined the
staff of the post office, a position
he held until he became affiliated
with the Bank of Kodiak. He was
Assistant Cashier up to the time
of his appointment as Postmaster.
Maurice Briggs, who has served
in that capacity since his appoint
Along The
Waterfront
We don’t often start thi?
column with a write-up on a.
social event, but this time it seem*-;
fitting. About a hundred people
were on hand to assist Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar Dyson celebrate a'
housewarming in their new home
on 7th Avenue near Mission Road.
Oscar is well-known as a boat
owner and fisherman hereabouts.
His new- home was taxed to
capacity by the many well-wishers
who attended the party.
Coast Guard Movements
The U.S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey ship EXPLORER docked
at the Naval Station Monday
morning for a brief visit.
The ship, under the command
of Commander G.C. Mast, USCGS,
will operate out of Adak during
its tour of survey work in Alaskan
waters this summer, until some
time in September.
The task of the CGS, a branch
of the Department of Commerce,:
is to explore, survey, and chart
waters of the Unit<$ States, its
territories, and possessions.
Lt Hobdy of the Coast Guard,
reports the cutter CLOVER is at
Nusbgak Bay, servicing aids to
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menif as acting Postmaster, July,
1945, He came here in April, 1941,
to work on construction for Seims,
Drake, Puget Sound. Prior to that
he lived in Yakima for ten years
and Elienburg for a period of ten
years He worked for the contract
ors for two years and followed
with two years of service with the
Army Engineers here. Mrs. Briggs
came here in August, 1941.
The retiring Postmaster plans
to remain here indefinitely. Mrs.
Briggs, who also works at the
postoffice, expects to retire this
fall The couple then plan to
spend approximately six months a
veai here and six months travel
ling, mainly in the states.
“I have heard a great many
people congratulate Mr. Lamme
on being appointed Postmaster,”
Briggs stated. “I feel that Kodiak
is to he congratulated for their
good fortune in securing a man of
Bill’s calibre to serve as Post
master.
“I want to thank all the people
of Kodiak for their wonderful sup
port and co-operation during my
term -of service,” Briggs stated,
“and am glad now to join with all
the patrons of this Post Office in
giving full support to Bill as our
new PvVd,master.”