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FLbKUAKl 21, 1953
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Sears Win Two Games;
Meet Nome Tonight
Kodiak High school s bas
ketball team was at the half
way mark yesterday in their
fourth Class B Championship
in the Western Alaska Athle
tic Association Tournament at
Anchorage.
The annual tournament is
one of the main attractions of
the Annual Anchorage Fur
Rendezvous.
The Kodiak Bears are the
defending champions. They
have held the title for three
•ut of the four years they
have played in the tourna
ment. They are seeking their
fourth championship cup this
year.
Wednesday, Coach Howard
Carpenter’s boys defeated Val
dez by the score of 45 to 32.
Thursday they downed Wasilla
43 to 28.
Last night they were sched
uled to play Cordova and to
night at 7:30 they meet Nome,!
their toughest foe. |
Ihe class b tournament is a
“round robin” tournament
which means that each school
or team will play all teams in
the class B division. In pre
vious years it was an elimina
tion tournament.
Members of the Kodiak bas
ketball squad are Wayne Mor
rison, James Anderson, Wil
liam Frost, Mike Fitzgerald,
Robert Norton, Alfred Tor
gramson, Tommy Swensen,
Buddy Squartsoff, Brad Po
land and Russell Gallagher,
manager.
U- S. Commissioner A. M. |
Vokacek has agreed to accept j
the position of citv magistrate
on a temporary basis. Robert
Hedloff, city clerk, resigned
the position two weeks ago.
Commissioner Vokacek said
she had accepted the position
only until the city council can
make a permanent appoint
ment.
AI a s I c (a i1 V o I c a 11 o E r u pts
Volcanic activity in The Val
ley of Ten Thousand Smokes
appeared to be subsiding late
yesterday after a week ofj
eruptions.
First reports of renewed ac
tivity in the celebrated Mount
Katmai region were radioed to
Kodiak by a Navy pilot who
was on a routine flight from
Adak to Kodiak Sunday.
Twin Girls Born
Thursday
Twin girls were born to Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred L. Gasper of
Kodiak Naval Station Thurs
day morning at Griffin Mem
orial Hospital.
The little girls arrived at
10:05 and 10:16 am. Christine
Carol weighed four pounds,
one ounce and was born first.
Margaret Mary arrived 11
minutes later and weighed two
pounds 14 ounces.
The Gaspers have one other
:hild, a boy.
Trident volcano, shown on
some charts as The Trident,
was identified by members of
a Navy patrol plana Wednes
day as the volcano sending up
the brownish ash and smoke.
Trident is approximately four
miles southwest from famous
Mt. Katmai.
Mt. Mageik, which erupted
in 1951, was sending up white
eolnmns of steam, greater
than its normal output. Other
craters in the area were also
smoking.
Rear Adm. John Perry,
commandant 17th Naval Dis
trict and The Alaskan Sea
Frontier, has daily sent his
Navy planes over the volcanic
area to keep close surveillance
an the smoke and ash belching
mountain.
Thursday, Richard R. Mc
Donald, seismologist, Geophy
sical Branch, U. S. ' Geology
Survey, flew over the volcanic
area with a Kodiak NS crew.
He was brought here from
Adak by Admiral Perry “in
the interest of safety and
science,” a Navy official said.
Old time Kodiak residents
received the news of the new
eruption Sunday with some
apprehension, remembering
the 1912 catastrophe when Mt.
Katmai blew with tremendous
force. Ash from the 1912 erup
tion covered Kodiak Island
with ash to a depth of IS
inches.
Monday, Mel Crawford, Ko
diak Mirror editor, flew over
the scene An area approxi
mately 2,500 miles was cover
ed with ash, turning snowy
peaks and valleys brown.
Many white trails were visi -
ble down the sides of the
mountains which were caused
by avalanches from the hot
side.
The plane picked up ash on
the windshield when the party
was 60 miles from the center
of activity and strong sulphur
Conti usd On Page 4
KODIAK BEARS PLAYING FOR FOURTH CLASS B CHAMPIONSHIP
The Kodiak Bears, class B defending champions in the Western Alaska Athletic Association Tournament in Anchorage, pose for a picture prior t° go
ing to the tournament. Standing from left to right: William Frost,. Wayne Morrison, James Anderson, Mike Fitzgerald, Buddy Squartsoff, Lexie Fadaotf.
Bottom row: Brad Poland, Tommy Swenson, Robert Norton, Alfred Torgramson, Russell Gallagher.