Cannon After
Clam Contract
Pat Cannon, president of*
the United Fishermen of A
laska, AFL, left thi6 week for J
Aberdeen, Washington to
negotiate a clam contract with
representatives of G. P. Hal
forty Company for the 1952
season. i
Cannon will confer with
representatives of the Alaska j
Salmon Industry while in |
Washington regarding the!
coming fishing season, he said
Wednesday. He expects to be j
gone one week.
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Eric Blankenburg, owner of
the Kodiak Jewelry Co. is in
Seattle and Auburn on busi
ness.
Fire Sweeps Wrangell;
Loss Set At Million
Wrangell (iP)—A fire wiped
out more than half of Wran
gell’s business section last
Saturday, destroying 20 frame
buildings and a residence per
ched on pilings along the
town’s main street.
The damage was estimated
to be close to a million dollars.
Eighty-five persons were made
homeless before the flames
were brought under control.
Thte fire raged for approxi
mately four hours.
Crews of two Coast Guard
Cutters joined firemen in the
fight. The blaze started in a
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hardware store when a boiler |
exploded.
Mayor George Beck of
Ketchikan offered support of
that town in caring for the
homeless. Governor Ernest
Gruening and Beck were due
to arrive in town. A plane
was reported bringing Red
Cross supplies to aid victims
of the fire.
Dynamiting of buildings in
the path of the raging blaze
failed to stem its advance.
Not until the collapse of the
only hotel in town was the
fire, controlled.
Only one casualty was re
ported. Cpl. Darrell Miller,
ACS, was hit on the head by a
flying timber following the
dynamiting. His injury was
not serious.
The entire water side of the
town’s single business street
was a scene of destruction,
j For four blocks the narrow
beach was littered with the
smouldering remains of build
ings.
Every able bodied man tur
ned out to fight the fire which
was the worst since 1906 when
the buildings on the land side
of the street were destroyed. ,
Briggs Returns
From Trip
Maurice L. Briggs, Kodiak’s
postmaster, returned home
Saturday after spending seve
ral weeks in the states. While
outside he visited his home-j
town, Greenfield, Iowa, after J
an absence of 50 years.
While in Greenfield he at
tended the 50th anniversary
of the Clara Chapel church, in
the old neighborhood in which
he spent his boyhood. He met
a number of his old friends
there. During his stay there
he was the guest of Walter
Piper in Richland townsite.
He and the Piper boys for
merly lived on neighboring
farms.
To arrive for the 50th an
niversary of the church was
an Odyssey for Briggs. He
flew from Kodiak to Seattle
and rode a bus from Seattle to
Omaha. He went by train from
Omaha to Creston and took a
taxi from there to Greenfield
arriving in time for the ser
vice.
The church Briggs attended
was the one in which his
mother and father had their
membership.
Briggs also visited Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Briggs, his son
and daughter-in-law, and
grandchildren in California.
Lammes Scheduled
To Sail Today
Mr. and Mrs. William Lam
me are scheduled to sail today
from Seattle for Paris, via the
Orient, for a year abroad.
Since they left Kodiak a
month ago they have been
visiting relatives in Caldwell,
Idaho, and Eugene, Ore., and
have also spent some time in
Portland and Seattle.
Lawrence Larsen ,
Drowns !
Funeral services for Law
rence Larsen, 23, were held
March 18 at Larsen Bay. Lar- >
sen was accidentally drowned
March 15, around 9:30 pm!
while attempting to change a
shear pin on an outboard
motor.
His body was discovered
under an overturned 12-foot
skiff by Mr. and Mrs. William
Jager.
Lawrence Larsen was born
at Larsen Bay on July
1928. He spent most of his life
on Kodiak Island. He is sur
vived by his mother, Mrs.
Fanny Hughes, his step
father, William Hughes, two
sisters, Ellen Carlsen and
Emma Larsen and two
i brothers. _
The Palisina, ASC freighter,
I was in and out port at Kodiak
Naval Station this week. __
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