... . / * • nger
^no is completing his seventh
n.:is nayur ana who is not
seeking re-election plans t
leave shortly for tk<- east. He
^' Iro to Johns Hopkins in
Baltimore for special medical
attent on.
Bettinger plans to be gone
for abauc a year, he said.
Or. Lee McKinley, Anchor
age dentist who is opening an
office in the Blinn Building
b.sre, will arrive on Oct. 9, in
■a chartered DC-3, he has ad
vised Jess Blinn.
The plane will bring Dr.
McKinley’s dental office equip
ment here, as well as his tech
nic:an and nurse.
tfotei s To Decide On
City Manager Tuesday
\z Ai. _4._«n i
rvouiaK voters wm re ssKed
■ to decide if the City of Kodiak
a ready ior the City Manager
Plan of Government in the
i General Election October 6.
I If a majority of the voters
favor tlie plan the common
council shall then declare such
a plan adopted and tne busi
ness and the affairs of the city
shall therealter be conducted
in accordance with the city
' manager plan, according to an
ordinance now in effect.
I The city manager will hold
his office at the nleasure of the
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.■-M.uii ami may be removed
< <r cau e at anytime by a
majority vote of that body.
The salary for a city mana
;er will run anywhere from
ilO.ObO t< $i5.U0U yearly. The
dgure is oased on the salaries
paid city man me s in other
Ala-kan and stateside cities.
Ttie common council has f< r
two years discussed the adop i
• tion of the city m mager plan
jof government The increas
ling amount of business and
j the continuously increasing
j number of civic problems has
, been the big factor in their
j decision to place the issue be
! fore the voting public in this
[coming eJe.ton.
A city manager, according
i to the ACLA 1949, provides
that in addition to his duties
assigned him by the council
a city manager will: “1. pre
pare and recommend to the
council an annual budget. 2.
j execute and enforce all ordi
(nances and carry out all con
j tracts entered into by the city.
j 3. appoint and remove the
heads of deoartmerts. boards
and bureaus, and all other offi
cers and employees of the city
(except the city treasurer and
j sity attorney. 4. makerecom
. mendations to the council and
' once a year render a detailed
I statement of what has been
'■done during the past year.
The city manager will have
(the power to remove any per
j son from city office for cause
and the compcns tion of city
'employees shall be fixed by
j ordinance and may be changed
at any time.
The new ordinance provid
ing for a city manager was
written by Paul Dupler, city
attorney, and adopted by the
i council at a recent meeting.
I However, the city manager
j form of government will not
go into effect unless it receives
| the approval of the majority
I of the voters in the October 6
I election.
New ACS Frequencis
r Internationol frequency al
locat'on treaties which have
‘been recently concluded make
it necessary that a change in
radio transmitting frequen
cies of all Alaska Communica
tion System fixed coastal radio
stations in the maritime mo
bile radiotelephone service,
Col. M. R. Kunitz, command
ing officer of the system said
recently.
The change is to become ef
fective November 1.
The following ACS stations
operating in the Alaskan coas
tal harbor service are effected:
Ketchikan will change from
2960 kc to 2600 kc; Cordova
and Valdez from 2970 kc to
2300 kc; Anchorage, Barrow,
Craig, Cold Bay, Naknek,
Petersburg, Seward, Sitka,
Skagway, Unalaska, Whittier
and Wrangel from 2970 kc to I
2312 kc and Juneau, Kodiak j
and Nome from 2970 ko to J
2784 kc.
0«izinkie Family
Needs Assistance
An effort to aid an Ouzinkie
family is being made by a
local group. On September 23
the Peter Squartsotf family
ost their home .and all their
jossessions in a fire.
Mr. and Mrs. Squartsoff
have ten children. 1 heir ages
run from two months to eleven
years. Persons wishing to
make cash donations mav
leave th< m with William Stone,
superintendent of the Baptist
Mission, Mrs. Roy Lindsley,
Joe Gale, Mrs. Stanley Alvine,
Emil Knudsen, Mrs. Robert
Dawson, Mrs. Robert Acheson,
I
Oscar Hanson or at the Kodiak
Mirror office.
j A two year old child of the
Squartsoff was burned in the
’ fire and was brought to Ko
diak for treatment.
| Two skid shacks at Ouzinkie,
I owned by the Ouzinhie irad
| ing Company, will be convert
i ed into a house for the family.
| The resident^ of Ouzinkie
! have taken care of their neigh -
, bors and started the drive to
j raise funds. The Kodiak group
j js working in cooperation with
' the Ouzinkie people.
Ben Kraft was an incoming
1 passenger Tuesday from Se
attle. He has been in the states
for several days on business.
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Vote Yes
For
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CITY MANAGER
IN THE ELECTION
Tuesday Oct. 6
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