Annual Carnival
Set for October 31
The big annual high school car
nival will get under way at 7 p.m.
> FHdtay, October 31, and will be
staged in the gymnasium of the
high school.
This affair, which attracts big
crarwds, young and old, is a means
•f raising funds to send the high
school basketball team to Anchor
age to participate in the Fur
Rendezvous basketball tourna
ment held there every year.
The Kodiak High School .Stu
dent Council has been busy mak
ing plans for this years carnival.
It is hoped to make this the big
gest ever. Classes and clubs have
picked out their concessions and
committees are in operation.
There will be the usual carnival
attractions, with prizes offered,
nwih a few innovations added.
With the carnival falling on
©efvber 31, it offers an opportu
nity for the celebration of Hallo
wee®. The carnival runs from 7
pink to 12 p.m.
MLL KING SALMON
EXPERIMENT AT KETCHIKAN
SIOWS EXCELLENT PROMISE
Fifty fall king salmon have re
tamed so far this year to the
Ketchikan hatchery where they
were released as fingerlings two
jears ago, C.L. Anderson, Director
ef the Alaska Department of Fish
and Game, has announced. More
are expected during the month of
Cteteber.
These kings, running from five
ta ten pounds in weight, are re
tarns from an initial release of
NyMQ fall king salmon fingerlings
lent the hatchery in 1956. Fall
Ring salmon return in greatest
mashers in their fourth year of
Kfir. Thus, a substantially greater
ran from this planting is expect
ed in 1959.
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This experiment, to determine
if Jail king salmon could be suc
cessfully introduced into Alaska.
Regan with a shipment of 100.000
eyed eggs from the Washin .’ton
State Department of Fisheries
hatchery at Soos Creek near Au
burn, Washington in November
1955. The fish were hatched and
held in an outside rearing pond at
the Ketchikan Deer Mountain
Hatchery where they were fed
until ready to migrate to sea in
July 1956. At that time they
weighed about 200 to a pound.
Public Welfare
Budget Approved
The Board of Public Welfare, in
their meeting held in Juneau
October 1, 2 and 3 approved the
department’s budget of $2,832,
865.67 to be presented to the 1959
legislature for the period cover
ing July I, 1959 through June 30,
1960. The department will also
submit a request for a deficiency
appropriation of approximately
$71,000 for the purpose of con
tinuing board and care payments
during the last five months of the
present biennium for children
committed to the department un
der the Juvenile Code. Funds ap
propriated for this program were
entirely inadequate and will be
completely exhausted on or abput
February 1959.
In discussing the subject of
government reorganization under
statehood, it was the opinion of
the board that the Departmnt of
Public Welfare being one of the
major departments in Alaska
should remain a single depart
ment and should continue to have
a board under provisions as pres
cribed in the state constitution.
In the report by the director,
Henry A. Harmon, on programs
operated by the department, it was
pointed out that the caseloads in
the Old Age Assistance and the
aid to Dependent Children had
gradually decreased over the year.
There were increases in caseload
in the Aid to the Blind and the
General Relief Subsistence pro
grams. In the operation of the
Juvenile Code program, the direc
tor reported that the funds made
available for that program had
proven to be totally inadequate
and that the department had start
ed out the biennium by projecting
a deficit at the end of the bienni
um in excess of $150,000.
FREE
Public TB X-Rays
Endorsed by Kodiak PTA
Monday — Wednesday — Thursday in Kodiak
Tuesday — On the Naval Station
For Grownups and Children
See Schedule, page 1, Kodiak Mirror
SMORGASBORD
Sponsored by Order of Eastern Star
Sunday, October 19
Masonic Temple
Spm to 7 pm
Donation: Adults $3.00 —
Children $1.50
Everyone cordially invited
Please come
V.F.W. Officers
Receive Awards
Awards for outstanding leader
ship during the past year went to
Post Commander Charles Chris
toffersen, Past Post Commander
Phillip Dinglasa, Past Post Com
mander and Post Service Officer
Chaplain George Sonntag, and
John Churchill, by James Fennel,
commander of the Department of
Alaska of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, in a speech before a joint
meeting of the Post and Auxiliary
Tuesday, October 7.
Also present was Jim Burnette,
Department of Alaska Service
Officer - Adjutant Quartermaster,
and A1 Brevik from the Anchorage
office of the Veterans Adminis
tration.
Fennel stressed the importance
of community service, youth ac
tivities and Americanism, Loyalty
Day, and Veterans Day programs.
He was appointed recently the
chairman for Veterans Day activi
ties throughout Alaska by the
governor.
The first place flag given in the
National Membership Sweep
stakes, was displayed during the
meeting for the first time in Alas
ka as tribute to the help given by
Post No. 7056 in the V.F.W.’s
drive.
Many officers, members and
guests of the post and auxiliary
attended the meeting and enjoyed
the buffet dinner that followed.
This was served by Eddie Sargent,
Mr. and Mrs. A1 “Cowboy” Syl
ling. Bill Shuravloff, Mr. and Mrs.
John Churchill, Margaret Norem
and Mrs. Darrel Smith, under the
direction of “Pye” Watson, who
had charge of the arrangements.
Letter to the Editor
Dear Friend and Neighbors;
Homefolks.
I will not consent to an easement
for the widening of North Brook
lyn Ave.
I am informed that a width of
60 feet is required to qualify
among other requirements for fin
ancial assistance from the Terri
tory of Alaska in order to estab
lish proper road-bed and black
top part of Brooklyn Mill Bay,
6th or 7th or both; and I believe
“J” St. northerly from new school
to potato patch lake. You are pre
mature on this project in more
ways than one. I understand that
4 ft. is expected from the westerly
side of Brooklyn and 12 ft. from
the easterly side; 16 ft. plus the
original 30 ft. does not add up to
60 ft.; at least, it didn’t when I
was in school.
If the 4 ft. expected from the
westerly side is included for a
new street; (the part apportioned
for sidewalk purposes) where will
the poor, humble pedestrian walk
with a minimum of safety?.
Where will the additional 3 or 4
ft. come from to re-establish a
right-of-way for pedestrians, par
ticularly school children who
must go to and fro along this spe
cific projected course.
The cost of cutting back all ex
isting buildings for additional al
lowance for public pedestrian tra
vel on the westerly side of Brook
lyn Ave., especially the first two
blocks along Brooklyn, would be
prohibitive and said cost " would
more than offset- any added im
provements or value that a paved
street would ever add to any par
ticular unit of real estate within
this given area. It w7ould likewise
increase both tax and assessment
to individual property owners.
The taxes are already too high and
the valuations as well.
Why this sudden hue and cry
for a wider avenue of car traffic
along Brooklyn Ave. Is that the
silent but effective voice of Aleu
tian Homes, Inc.?
Kodiak has already grown too ,
big for its britches—believe
I know, and I feel quite sure it
will undergo a process of shrink
age in size as to population.;. .
Kodiak may perhaps even become
a ghost town.
Why the big necessity of having
to borrow financial credit ad
vances with all its additional costs
from either the Territorial or Fed
eral Government Loan Agencies?
_ What has happened to our
money from the local sales tax—
which has been operative for two
years and supposedly earmarked
for two specific objectives? The
community of Kodiak is as of this
date already hocked to the eye:
brows—why go deeper to the point
of strangulation by a parent gov
ernment
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