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VOL 12 NO 45
KODIAK, ALASKA J AJN UArCi U,
Washington i
Hears KNS ;
Problems
New plans for Navy person
nel, facilities at the Naval
Station and a request for more
civilian doctors and dentist in
Kodiak was made recently to
Navy Headquarters in Wash
ington, D.C., by Rear Admiral
John Perry, commandant 17th
ND and the Alaska Sea Fron
tier.
Adm. Perry recently return
ed from the Capitol where he
discussed problems with top
Navy officials.
New proposals for Navy
personnel rotation were of pri
mary interest, a Navy release
said. Recommended and ap
proved in theory by BuPers
was a plan that would cut
single men’s tour to one year.
Key men at the station would
receive immediate housing and
men with families living in
town, in Navy approved
houses, would serve a two
year tour of duty.
“Another problem we
brought up in Washington,” I
Adm. Perry said, “was the i
critical shortage of medical >
and dental care in town.”j
Both he and Dr. Speir appeal-1
ed to the top Admirals in the
Medical and Dental Corps in |
Washington and they are now j
taking it up with the American j
Medical Association and the;
American Dental Association.
The plea is for more civilian
doctors and especially dentists,
since under present Navy re
gulations the Navy dental
clinic can take care of depen
dent’s emergency cases only.
In his statement the admiral
estimated the basic yearly
operating costs of the base at
four and one half million dol
lars. “Take away dependents,”
he pointed out. ‘ ‘ and you cut
it in half.”
On the Washington trip, the
admiral made arrangements to
bring surface and aircraft into
alignment with jobs here.
Starting in April there will be
seaplanes at Kodiak.
Another axe the admiral j
took to Washington to grind,
was the paving of station
roads. He brought back a pro
mise from Washington for the
construction of a new Navy
Exchange. Plans call for con
verting the present boat house
into a two story modern ex
change.
The present crowded con
dition to the exchange is the
reason for the new one. The
new exchange will be built
with salvaged materials.
Give to the March of Dimes
AHA Receives
Kodiak Land
Washington (H1)—The gov
ernment transferrd 44.27 acres
of land in Kodiak to the A
laska Housing Authority yes
terday for use of sites for 400
homes.
The deed to the land was
given to Lee C. Bettinger, Ko
diak’s mayor, at a ceremony
in the office of Marion Claw
son, director of the Bureau of
Land Management.
“The transfer of the land is
the latest in a series of pro
gressive and cooperative
moves during the past 12
years in which the department
of interior has aided the City
of Kodiak in the development
from a small town into a
modern city,” Clawson said.
The new housing in the
city’s “bowl” area will double
the number of homes there,
the Associated Press dispatch
said.
The Interior Department
said the Kodiak housing pro
ject, which was set up by the
AHA had been advanced four
million dollars by Housing and
Home Finance Agency on a
construction loan and by Fed
eral Housing Administration
in insured loans. The homes
will be built by Aleutian
Homes, Inc., a Portland com
GDP Committee May
Prepare Legislation
A committee to study and
suggest legislation desired by
the people of this area will be
formed if enough interest is
shown, Emil Knudsen, Repub
lican committeeman said yes
terday.
Recently the Republican
Women’s Club of Anchorage
announced a similar intention.
Knudsen said the Republican
committee invites suggestion
on new legislation or changes
in existing statutes.
Letters may be mailed to
Emil Knudsen, Postoffice Box
A-9, Kodiak. The local com
mittee plans to analyze all
proposals received before sub
mitting them to the legislators
for drafting into bills, memo
rials or resolutions. The fini
shed product will be presented
at the coming session of the
Territorial Legislature.
A meeting of all aircraft
owners and persons interested
in obtaining a sea place float
and facilities was held at 8 pm
Thursday at the LJ.S. Mar
shal’s office.
Clarence Dizney, U. S.
deputy marshal, is commiitee
chairman of the Aircraft
facilities committee of the
Chamber of Commerce.
I Next Governor
Heintzleman Says
| Oregon Paper
S Washington (A3) — Douglas
! McKay, who will be the next
j Secretary of the Interior in
I Ike’s cabinet, said yesterday
* that Frank Heintzleman ‘‘is in
the picture" for the Alaskan
'■governorship.
j He emphasized, however, he
|had made no formal recom.
i mendation to the successor of
' Governor Gruening. Asked
j about the report concerning
• Heintzleman, McKay told
1 newsmen: "I haven’t recom
mended anyone officially al
though I talked the matter
l over informally with Sherman
(Adams (Eisenhower assi
stant).
Portland (A3)—Douglas Mc
Kay, former Oregon governor,
will pick Frank Heintzleman
{as the next governor of Alaska,
jthe Portland Oregonian pre
' dieted in its Friday editions.
The newspaper said it
learned from authoritative
sources in Anchorage that
j Heintzleman would be selected
I but it did not identify them.
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Photo Contest Set
For Rendezvous
A photographic contest will
be held during the annual Fur
Rendezvous in Anchorage this
year.
The contest is open to all
Alaskans and is divided into a
black and white and color slide
division. Each of these will be
seperated into five categories:
(1) portraiture (2) scenic (3)
abstractions and still life (4)
human interest (5) nature
which Includes animal and
floral shots.
No hand tinted or color
prints will be accepted. Black
and white entries or greater
in size must be mounted on 16
by 20 inch matte mounting
board. Color slides must be
35 mm or 2 1-4 by 2 1-4. No
other size will be considered.
Out of town entrants may
mail entries to the Alaska
Trails Photographers, care of
the YMCA, Anchorage. All
inquiries concerning the con
test should be similarly ad
dressed.
Police believe they have sol
ved the many month old mys
tery of the peeping tom. They
questioned a 14 year old boy
this week who admitted to be
ing on the streets late at night.
A younger companion of the
boy admitted to looking in
windows and the cracks
around windows in some of
the houses where a peeping
| tom has been reported.
Canadians Dam water
For Skagway Plant
---- ? Ottawa —The 400 mil
Policy Meet !
Held By Police
A meeting to discuss policy, 1
review the duties of thej
police and appraise the local j
enforcement problems was
held the past week by police
and councilman.
Councilmen V.W. Root Al'
Miller and C. H. ‘ ‘Bud’ ’ Metz-!
gar and Police Chief Ovid
McKinley met for the meet- \
ing. \
Traffic problems and enfor- j
cement were among the prob
lems discussed.
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Airforce Supplies j
Floating Island
A C 54 of the 54th Troop
Carrier Squadron . completed
the final re-supplv mission of
the Alaskan Air Command for
Fletcher’s Ice Island Thurs
day.
' On March 1, the response- ,
bility for the logistics and
operations of th:s polar out- .
post of the 7th Air Weather j
Group will be turned over to ]
the Northeast Air Command,
whose headquarters are in )
Newfoundland. t
The flight marked the j
second time a four-engine j
plane had landed and taken j
off from the floating outpost. (
On Wednesday two landings ]
had been made by the C-54
which consisted of 17,000 t
pounds of food, fuel and com- j
munication and scientific, r
equipment. The island is pre~| £
sently floating some 240 miles j t
from the north pole.
i
Two Loot'S Men <
Receive Fines
Two local men were found 1
guilty of disorderly conduct 1
Tuesday by City Magistrate (
Robert Hedloff and fined. t
Alex Mazoff was fined $35 1
and Alvin Miller $25 after a
hearing before the magistrate. 1
Mazoff and Miller broke a win-15
dow in John SpringhilPs Bar- <
ber shop during an altercation 1
last Saturday night. Miller a- £
greed to replace the window 1
to the barber shop.
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Otto Muller was fined $50! ^
and had his drivers license*
suspended for six months early!
this week when he was found
guilty of drunken driving in
City Magistrate Robert Hed
loff’s court. I
The magistrate said this >
was Muller’s second offense, j
ion dollar Alcoa project at
jkagway hit a snag this week
when Resources Minister
Robert Winters rejected a pro
posal that Canadian water be
jsed to power the huge Ameri
lan project.
He told I.W. Wilson, presi
lent of Alcoa, in a letter i»
December that the Canadian
government’s responsibility
was to see that the waters
were used for the ‘ ‘maximum
penefit” of Canadians.
The Alcoa company wants
to power the plant by harness
ing the Yukon River, which
puts through Alaska but which
iias its headwaters in the
¥ukon in .Northern British
Columbia.
It connofc do this without
permission of the Canadian
government.
Juneau —Skagway’s mayor,
Max Kopa iski, in reporting
:he turn-down report yester
lay to the All-Alaskan Cham
ber of Commerce meeting in
fttneau, said hopes for obtain -
ng the necessary water rig'hts
lave not been abandoned.
There have been previous
eports from British Columbia
hat the Yukon water rights
nights be used as a bargain
ing issue in horse trading ne
gotiations for a guaranteed
utlet for Canadian gas in the
’acific Northwest States.
Several Alaskans “jumped
he gun” on the project and
nvested heavily in Skagway
eal estate before the formal
nnouncement of the planned
iroject.
(few Phone Book
taming Out Soon
A new 1953 Kodiak tele
ihone book will be published
n February, Mrs. Martha
Pushing of the Kodiak Tele
ihone Company, announced
his week.
The book will be published
ty the Kodiak MIRROR. Per
ons desiring to place adver
isements in the book have
intil Saturday, January 31, to
end their copy to the MIR
tOR office.
Listings for the new book
/ill be prepared by the Kodiak
’elephone Company. The last
iook published was distributed
he first of August.
Mr. and Mrs. John Gibbons
■eturned to Kodiak Thursday
>y plane after spending sev
eral weeks visiting on the
iVest Coast and in Idaho.