FHEITAK
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KODIAK, ALASKA
MARCH 7, 1953
PRICE 10 CENTS
VOL 12 NO 51
PUD Formation Hangs
On Election Tuesday
me question or tne iorma
tion of a Public Utilitary Dis
trict No. 1 will be decided
Tyesday by an election. The
polls will be at the Union Hall
and will be open from 8 to 8
pm.
Residents of the district who
possess the qualifications of a
voter and who have lived in
the territory for one year and
the proposed district for six
months are eligible to vote. Of
those voting the majority
must favor the measure for it
to pass.
Five directors will be chosen
by the voters from a slate of
nine candidates. Those listed
on the ballot are Carl Huer,
A.L. Fenner, Harold Pratt,
Ray Van Buren, Mrs. Tenora
Rockney, William Stone, Dr,
A. Holmes Johnson, Elvin
Foster and James Garoutte.
Interest, as voting time ap
proached, continued to mount
with those in favor and those
opposed to the formation of
the P.U.D. being formed eq
ally strong in their opinions.
Judges for the election are
Mrs. Ed Johnson, Mrs. A. S
Strigga and Mrs. Ray Van
Buren. mmx
Boat Tie-Up
Settled Thursday
Seattle (A3) — The maritime
dispute involving the AFL
masters, mates and pilots as
sociation and the CIO Ameri
can Radio Association with
the West Coast Shipowners
was settled Thursday.
The unions won a 9.5 per
cent pay raise which is effec
tive as of March 1. Captain
C.W. Barnhart, deck officers
and Norman Goll, radiomen,
said they would negotiate for
retroactive wages to last June
15.
ASC steamer Baranof was
scheduled to sail yesterday for
Alaska. The ASC freighter
Sailors Splice is scheduled to
leave Monday for westward
points.
Upon instructions of their
patrolman, the Masters, Mates
and Pilots association refused
to sign on the Alaska Steam
ship Company steamer Nadina
Tuesday.
The radio operator advised
that his union had indicated
that he was authorized to sign
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RIISNAES IN FLIGHT]
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Norway’s Jon Riisnaes, 21-year-old student at the Uni
versity of New Hampshire, takes off in one of the graceful
leaps which won him che North American title and first place
in the Kiwanis Ski Tournament at Iron Mountain, Mich. The
cream of the nation’s ski jumpers competed before* 35,000
winter sports spectators.
(JP WIREPHOTO)
Local Man Active In Legislature;
House To Study Fishing Measures
Boat Harbor Funds
Asked For Kodiak
^ A resolution calling for the
appropriation of $250,000 to
provide small boat harbor
facilities at the City of Kodiak
was introduced Monday by
Barbara Dimock, Third Divi
sion representative.
The resolution asks that the
money be appropriated from
I the “Roads, Airfields, Water
and Harbor Facilities Fund”
and that work on this project
; shall start at the earliest
practicable date.
Thirteen other measures
were introduced into the
House Monday. One would
I take schools with over 100 en
' rollment away from territorial
control by requiring the estab
lishment of a school district
I for their own administration.
I Another measure would for
' bid any municipality or dis
trict from holding an election
on the territorial election day;
prohibit electioneering within
200 feet cf the polls.
I
btalm Reported
Dead By Tass
London (iP)—The Moscow
radio said Friday that Joseph
| Stalin is dead.
The announcement came
just after 4 am Moscow time
(8 pm EST time Thursday).
The 73-year old Russian
Prime Minister, the most
powerful dictator in history,
had been stricken with a brain
hemorrage Sunday night. The
10 physicians attending him
| had reported his heart falter
| ing.
Speculation as to his succes
sor ran high in countries in
side and outside the Iron Cur
tain. The broadcast was by
the official Soviet agency Tass.
Samuel Swope
Dies Tuesday
Samuel Swope, manager of
the Tom Nelson ranch, drop
ped dead Tuesday while chop
ping brush, He has been
managing the ranch for D. M.
Rock.
Swope is believed to be 59
years of age and has four chil
dren living in the states. A
daughter at Olympia, Wash,
was notified by telephone of
his death.
His body will be shipped to
New Mexico for burial.
Swope formerly lived in
Olympia and tended bar at
the Anchor Tavern there.
Rep. Dimock Fights
Jap Fishing Treaty
An appeal to U.S. govern
ment heads to thwart a re
ported Japanese plan to send
a large scale king crab fishing
expedition into Alaskan
waters was introduced into the
territorial house this week.
Rep. Barbara Dimock.
Anchorage Republican, intro
duced it as a memorial. The
expedition hopes to take over
a million crabs between April
and September.
W.A. Cannon, A. J. Cichos
;ki, Kodiak residents, and
| Howard Wakefield and
Clarence Anderson were called
to testify.
Local Axmen
Sever Cable
Two Kodiak men hacked 75 j
feet of telephone cable from |
the telephone line running)
from town to the Navy base
Wednesday and completely
severed communications for
several hours.
Nick Walkoff and Patrick
Anderson embarked from near
the city dock early Wednesday
to do some “beachcombing.”
They included a hack saw in
their equipment for the ex
pedition.
Below the slide area they
! discovered several, hundred
feet of cable which appeared
to have been abandoned, or so
they later told Acting Chief
of Police Ovid McKinley.
The two landed and began
to cut up the cable, planning
! to sell the metal. Suddenly
conversations terminated be
tween callers at the base and
town without due notice.
McKinley was notified of
the disturbance and began a
check. He observed a skiff ap
proaching the dock with two
men aboard. He waited and
asked, “have youse guys been
cutting a cable in two?” “Sure
Mack.” one replied, “why do
you ask?”
McKinley reportedly grasp
his brow and groaned, “never
mind why 1 ask. Just come up
here and we will go and see
the commissioner.”
The two later told McKin
ley that they saw the cable on
the ground and thought it was
just “something the military
bad left there.”
The Junior-Senior Prom will
be held on April 25, it was an
nounced this week.
Cichoski Spars
With Senators
Juneau (JP) -A. J. “Tiny”
Cichoski, Kodiak fisherman,
appeared in lop flight company
this week as a witness in the
Territorial Senate during the
debate on a bill to repeal the
Territorial Property Tax law
The Senate called three wit
nesses, Attorney General Wif
liams, H. P. Faulkner, one of
Alaska's prominent attorneys,
and Cichoski.
The big Kodiak fisherman
held the witness chair for half
an hour against the repeal of
the tax lav/. Before it finisned,
half the Senators had plied
him with questions ranging
from conditions at the Karluk
school to the conditions of the
Kodiak district school finan
ces.
He held his own, sparring
with Senators and brought
numerous laughs with his re
torts, “after all I’m not a
lawyer; I’m just a fisherman.’*
Senator Lyng suggested
that Kodiak might solve school
finance worries by expanding
the district to take in all can
neries on the island. Cichoski
said he had never heard of
such a thing but ‘ ‘sure would
look into it when he gob
home”.
Kodiak-—W. A. Cannon and
Cichoski have been in Juneau
lobbying for new fishing regu
lations and laws.
Former Resident
Joins Stubbs
Mrs. Edith H. Clarke, for
mer manager of the Kodiak
Hotel and a school teacher,
will join Jesse “Barrow or
Bust” Stubsb in his trek to
Point Barrow.
According to an Anchorage
rimes article Thursday Mrs,
Clarke resigned her position
with the Alaska District En
gineers and will devote her
full time and effort to prepar
ations for the long, hard trip
she and Stubbs will make
from Fairbanks to Point Bar
row.
Stubbs, boyhood friend of
Will Rogers, plans to erect a
shrine for his friend near the
site of the fatal crash of
Rogers and Wiley Post.
“I figure women same as I
do men,” the traveler de
clared. He earlier gave hi»
full-fledged consent to Mrs
Clark’s proposal to join his
expedition.