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"News of Americas Last frontier
VOL 12 NO 42
KODIAK, ALASKA
DECEMBER 20,'1952
PRICE 10 CENTS
Santa ToVisit This Week;
Many Events Planned
Many church activities,
parties for children, a pageant
and other Christmas events
are scheduled for the holidays
in Kodiak and at Kodiak Naval
Station.
The traditional Rotary spon
sored Christmas Party for all
children will be held Wednes
day afternoon. Schoolwill be
dismissed at noon. Movies will
be shown at the USO Club and
at the Elks Club for the child
ren.
Following the movies pre
sents will be distributed at the
big Christmas Tree located in
the lot between Dads Barber
Shop and the Log Cabin Liquor
Store.
The Nativity Pageant “Let
Every Heart Prepare Him
Room” will be presented at
the Kodiak Naval Station
gymnasium on December 21
and 22. The pageant proved so
popular last year that Mrs.
Peter McPhee, general chair
man, decided to schedule it
for 1952.
Every church and religious
mvanizntmn in t/iwn and nn
N. Wilkinson, said yesterday.!
Father Thomas Maher,
of St. Mary’s Catholic Church
' has issued a warm invitation
1 to everyone to attend a Solem
[High Mass Christmas Eve,
which will be held at the USO
| Club.
The church choir will sing
and services will start at mid
night. Christmas Day services
will be conducted at Griffin
Memorial Hospital at 7:30 am
and at St. Mary’s Church at
9:30 am, Father Maher, said.
(For additional services see
calender).
Tonight the Parent Teachers
Association will hold a Christ
mas party at the USO Club.
Party starts at 8 pm.
B.P.O.E. 1772 and the Em
blem Club are throwing a1
Christmas party tonight and
on Dec. 31, will give their
annual New Years Eve Dance.
The Chnrch of God plans to
hold a Christmas program to
morrow, Dec. 21, at 7:30 pm.
Everyone is invited to attend
the event.
iVlahopsc Provides
Xmas For Family
Ten Ozinkie children whose
father was recently committed
to Morningside Sanitarium
and'whose departure left them
almost penniless, will have
their Christmas after all.
The wife and children of
Richard Boskofsky will be
given their dinner by officers
and men of thei USd Mahopac
of the Kodiak Naval Station.
With a collection which they
have taken up among them
selves, the men of the Maho
pac will buy a "supply of gro
ceries and gifts of toys for the
Ouzinkie family and will per
sonally deliver the Christmas
gifts to them.
Sometime next week, while
on a routine voyage, the Ma
hopac will dock at Ouzinkie,
to take the food and other
gifts to the mother and chil
dren.
And while the ship is in
port the entire family will be
taken aboard her on a brief
tour of inspection.
The oldest Boskofsky child
is 17 and the youngest three
months old.
the base will participate in the
pageant.
The USO has a full schedule
for the holidays (see Holiday
Calendar in adjoining
columns). The VFW Auxiliary
Children’s Party will be held
Sunday, December 21, in the
dubrooms. Last night the
Senior Class of Kodiak High
School held a dance at the
Elks Hall.
The Marine Enlisted Men's
Club at Kodiak Naval Station
will throw two parties this
year for personnel. The parties
will be held Christmas and
New Year’s Eve.
Santa Claus will visit all the
children at Kodiak Naval
Station at 1:30 pm December
24, in the gymnasium, Lcdr .
J.C. Brandenberger, welfare
and recreation officer, told the
MIRROR.
Parents must accompany
their children to the KNS
annual party. Toys and other
gifts recently arrived by Navy
hip.
The Community Baptist
Church has suspended all the
evening activities on Dec
ember 21, in order to permit
the local congregation to view
the pageant at KNS. (For a
complete program of Baptist
Church activities see Holiday
Calendar.)
The annual Sunday School
program at the Baptist Church
will be held December 22 at
7:30 pm. There will be treats
for the children, the Rev. R.
CHRISTMAS CALENDAR
December 20
P. T. A. Party U. S. 0. Club 8:00 pm
Elks and Emblem Club Party At Elks Lodge
December 21
Church of God Christmas Program 7:30 pm
Nativity Pageant KNS Gymnasium 8:00 pm
VFW Auxiliary Party Club Rooms 2:00 pm
December 22
Nativity Pageant KNS Gymnasium 8:00 pm
Baptist Church Sunday School Program 7:30 pm
December 24
Rotary Christmas Kiddies Party Shows 2:00 pm
Presents given by Santa Claus following
snows at big Christmas Tree
Kodiak Naval Station Party Gymnasium 1:30 pm
Baptist Church Senior High Youth Fellow
ship meets at church 6:00 pm stop at
various homes to sing Christmas carols.
Return later to church for refreshments.
Solemn High Mass at USO Club midnight.
St. Mary’s Catholic Church choir to sing.
Everyone invited
December 25
Mass at Griffin Memorial Hospital 7:30 am
Mass at St. Mary’s Catholic Church 9:30 am
December 28
Baptist Church Senior Choir present Cantata
, December 31
Elks and Emblem Club New Years dance
Elks Lodge
Catholic Thanksgiving Service Griffin
Memorial Hospital at 7:00 pm
Baptist Church Annual Watch-night Ser
vice Starts 9:00 Complete program, refresh
ments. Public invited to attend
January 1, 1953
Mass St. Mary’s Catholic Church
• TiVne: 6:30; 8:30; 10:30 am
Navy Closes Base Road
Until Slide Area Safe
/ Bulletin
Bill Miemi, chief engineer of
the Alaska Road Commission,
will arrive in Kodiak Monday
to investigate the “slide area”
and determine ways to make
the road safe for use at all
times.
Friday, members of the city
council called Juneau by tele
phone and told them of the 12
hour closure betweeu 7 pm and
7 am.
The serious loss to mer
chants and businessmen by
the 12 hour closure prompted
the action.__
Housing Project
Bright Again
Washington — Federal
government approval of the
352 unit housing project for
Kodiak is expected momen
tarily, Mayor Lee C. Betti nger
said Thursday. He told news
men that only last minute
details are delaying an agree
ment on “interim financing”
by the Housing and Home
Finance Agency.
He said Federal Housing
Administration had agreed to
provide mortgage insurance
totaling $6,200,000. A govern
ment housing spokesman de
clined to comment.
The 352 units of prefabri
cated wooden construction are
to be built by the newly organ
ization Portland, Oregon firm,
Aleutian Homes Inc., Bettin:
ger said. The Portland firm is
headed by Ray Woodbury. The
homes have two and three
bedrooms.
Kortlana— Kay wooaoury,
head of the Aleutian Homes,
Inc., said any definite state
ment regarding plans of the
Kodiak Housing Project will
be premature until Raymond
Foley of Housing and Finance
Agency signs the necessary
papers at Washington, D.C.
“However,” Woodbury
said, “if early approval is
coming we have hopes to have
the first houses on the way to
Kodiak by February 1.”
He added that the houses
would be shipped by Coast
wise Lines and that the entire
project would be complete 1 by
mid- summer. The Carlton
Lumber Company of Portland
will handle the pre-fabrication
work.
The Pacific Alaska Contruc
tion Company of Tacoma will
do the clearing grading and
install the foundations at the
|site in thevast addition. The
S?3 Elit orial Page
An official order from head
quarters at Kodiak Naval Sta
tion has closed the Base-Tow*
Road from 7 pm to 7 am be -
cause of the danger of slides.
The 12-hour closure went
into effect Thursday. Danger
to motorists from slides and
falling rocks was given as the
reason for the order. The road
will be closed to all traffic dur
ing the 12 hours until the road
is believed to be safe.
During the past month the
Alaska Road Commission has
been blasting and removing
earth and rocks from the dan
gerous slide area between the
city dock and the Marine Gate.
The road is the only land
route between Kodiak and the
Naval Station that is passable.
The closure will cost mer
chants thousands of dollars in
Christmas trade. One store
owner said Thursday, ‘Til
estimate that I’ll loose $10,000
worth of business.”
James Loan, manager of
Kodiak Transit Co., Inc. con
ferred with Navy officials
early this week about elemina
ting the bus service between
town and the base after 6:30
pm. Loan told a Navy officer
that he did not care to risk ‘‘a
bus load of passengers to the
possibilities of a slide.”
The last Kodiak Transit bus
will leave the bus station at
Tony’s at 6:30 pm for the base
until the slide area is deemed
safe, a Navy official said.
The ARC is presently
widening the road in the slide
area jand has been blasting
above to free it of earth and
rocks which cause the slides.
The USS Mahopac and the
USS Bagaduce will run be
tween the Naval Station and
the city dock in case of emer
gencies, Cmdr. Searcy, execu
tive officer KNS, said Thurs
day.
Civilian employees at the
base who work the night shift
will be affected by the seven
pm closure. ‘‘It is our problem
and we will find a solution,”
Cmdr. Searcy said.
No More MIRRORS
Until Next Year
As in the past, the Kodiak
MIRROR will not be published
in the week between Christ
mas and New Years. The next
issue of the MIRROR will ap
pear on January 3, 1953.
Dickie Sutliif, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Sutiiff
celebrated his fifth birthday
recently with a party.