Capt. Kenner New
Coast Guard CO
Capt- William W. Kenner,
TJSCG, has assumed command
of the 17th Coast Guard Dis
trict. He relieved Rear Adm.
Joseph Greenspun who has
gone to CG headquarters in
Washington, D C. as the new
Inspector in Chief.
Kenner, 48, entered the ser
vice as a cadet at the Coast
Guard Academy in New Lon
don, Conn, in 1922 and re
ceived his first commission in
1924. He served in Alaskan
Waters on the Coast Guard
Cutter Northland in 1930-31.
During the war years of 1943
44 he was in command of a
division of destroyer escorts
in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mrs. Herbert Spiegel is
again working at Knudsen’s.
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Water and !
To Start In
Water supply improvement
for the city are due to be un
der construction this summer,
with the opening on March
26 of bids for the waterworks.
The Notice of Bids from the^
Alaska Public Works district
headquarters in Juneau is cur
rently appearing in the MIR
ROR.
The city’s water supply will
be impounded in Lake Bettin
ger (locally known as the
Beaver Pond). Two dams will
create a reservoir with a cap; -
city of 38,000,000 gallons in
the lake, officials state. The
lake’s present capacity is
6,000,000 gallons.
Plans and specifications for
the waterworks have been
prepared for the City of Ko
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KODIAK to HOMER $18.25
KODIAK to JUNEAU $105
Tax not included in fares
Ray Martin, agent Phone 4131
Sewer Work
Summer
liak by the Seattle firm of
rIubbell and Waller Engineer
ing Corn.
One of the dams to be con
structed will be 32 feet in i
maximum height and 180 feet]
tong, .and the other 30 feet!
high and 225 feet in length.
Besides the dams, the pro
posed job includes a pumping
station, 1,100 feet of ten-inch
supply line leading to the
existing 100,000 gallon tank
built about 10 years ago, and a
new chlorinator station.
With the supply of water
which this project will pro
vide, engineers estimated that
2,000 gallons of water per
minute could be called uuon
for fire-fighting.
Improvement of the exist
ing Upper reservoir with a
capacity of 3,000,000 gallons
is not included in the present
plans. Future construction will
include a ten inch gravity sup-(
ply line from the Upper reser
voir to the 100,000 gallon
tank, a 14-inch supply line
from R-25 creek feeding the
same reservoir, and sewage
collection and water distribu
tion facilities in the East
Addition.
Garden Club
To S*iow Movies
A joint meeting of the Ko
diak Garden Club and the
KNS Garden Club will be held
Wednesday evening at the
Montmartre Inn. The two
groups will gather for dinner
at 7:30 pm and at 8:30 two
movies will be shown.
The movies are titled Better
Gardens for Better Living and
Background for Beauty. The
public is invited to see the
movies. Those wishing to at
tend should call Mrs. Lee F.
Bettinger at phone number
2631.
1 During the regular meeting
Wednesday night Mrs. John
Given was elected president
for the coming year. Mrs. V.
W. Root was elected vice
president and Mrs. Eleonor
Barthlomew was chosen as
secretary-treasurer. The meet
ing was held at Mrs. Given’s
home on Mission Road.
Adak Navy Team
17 ND Champa
The Adak basketball team
will represent the 17th Naval
District in the Far Western
Armed Forces Basketball
Tournament in San Diego this
month.
Adak defeated the Kodiak
Naval Station team early this
week two games out of three
to take the championship cup
for the 17th ND. The score of
the final game was Adak 67,
Kodiak 60. The Kodiak team
flew to Adak for the games.
The city council approved
the transfer of a taxi cab
license from Fred Alexander
to Elmer Dean during the
regular meeting Monday i
night.
Five Contractors
Ask For Plans
Five construction companies
have written to the District
Director, Alaska Public
Works, Juneau requesting
copies of plans and specifica
tions for the Kodiak water
and sewer system.
Bids on the project will be
opened on March 26,1952. The
companies requesting the
documents are Munter Con
struction Company, Inc. Se
attle; Scheumann and John
son, Seattle; Denali Construc
tion Co. Inc., Anchorage; Ben
C. Gerwick, San Francisco,
California, and R. H. Brown
and Company of Portland.
It was reported at the coun
cil meeting Monday night
that Johnson, Drake and
Piper and Puget Sound Bridge
and Dredge have requested
the specifications. The com
pany currently holds a con
tract for building at Kodiak
Naval Station.
The Island Construction
Corp. plans to build ten houses
in the Erskine sub-division
this year, Ralp Shupp told the
council Monday night.
Shupp asked if the city
would extend the city sewer
main to the proposed site for
the houses. Work on the first
house is scheduled to start
this summer.
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