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Civil Def 'nce helmets and
arm bands for area and block
wardens are now at the USO.
Wardens, firemen and police
men of the CD are requested
to pick them up before to
morrow.
Members of the local CD
will accompany the new Jeep
firefighter in the parade to
morrow.
Cdr. James V. Barry arrived
at Kodiak Naval Station re
cently and will relieve Cdr.
S. S. Searcy as executive of
ficer of the Naval Station.
Gdr. Searcy will report to
the Naval War College, New
port, R. I. for duty in August.
Mrs. Barry and two children
eccompanied the commander
to Kodiak.
Tim Chernoff Drowns
Sunday In Channel
The blue-green waters of
the channel claimed another
victim Sunday afternoon.
Tim Chernoff, Jr.. 24-year
old fisherman, sank without
an outcry while swimming as
a score of witnesses strolled
and fished from the Halferty
dock.
■ Bill Hartman, aboard the
fishing boat Pronto, dived into
the channel and went down
six times in an effort to find
Chernoff and bring him to the
surface. Two hours later his
body was recovered and’
brought to the dock by U. S.
Coastguardsmen and citv po
lice.
John Boucher,- city patrol
man, directed the search for
Chernoff and was responsible
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for setting in motion the a'ctb
that resulted in the fast re
covery of the body. Usually a
body is not recovered once it
goes below the surface of the
•hannel. If it is recovered it
usually takes several weeks.
Around 1:50 pm Boucher
was notified by Gene Tenny
that a man had drowned at
the D & A dock, lie immedi
ately called the Coast Guard
for assistance and the Navy
Shore Patrol for an ambu
lance.
, . When he arrived at the dock
Chernoff had disappeared only
a short time. -Several fishing
boats pulled away from the
dock to search.
Chernoff is reported to have
gone aboard the Pronto to
'talk to Hartman and Rudy
Anderson. He then decided to
go swimming. He slid over the
side and paddled around
for a few minutes. Sud
denly a man aboard a
no.ther boat called to the Pron
to and said, “your buddy’s
gone down and hasn’t come
up.’’ Hartman immediately
dived in to try and find him.
W-0 W. S. Mathis, C. B.
Williams, D. K, Ships and G.
E. Kehl of the Coast Guard ar
rived and began grappling for
the body. At 3:15 pm it was
brought to the surface. Bou
cher and A1 Miller took it in
Millers boat to the dock,
i Chernoff yvas wearing a
white T-shirt, brown trousers
and his shoes.
Timothy Edwin Chernoff,
Jr., was born June 27, 1929, in
Kodiak and spent most of his
life here. He attended Kodiak
Public School and was a vete
ran of the Korean. War. He is
survived by his parents, a sis
ter, Betty, living in Seattle, a
brother, Allen, Kodiak resi-:
dent but currently in Seattle1
and three aunts, Mrs. Justine
Sholl, Mrs. Charles Madsen
and Mrs. Nydia Hubley.
Fisherman Brought
Here By CG
Jose Zuanich, a fisherman
from the vessel Strickland,
was flown to Kodiak from Port
Heiden early Monday morning
in a Coast Guard PBY for
medical attention.
The patient had been ill for
several days. The PBY from
the Kodiak Air Detachment at
Kodiak Naval Station left the
base around eight pm Sunday
and returned at 1:53 am Mon
day.
A landing was made on the
air strip at Port Heiden. The
patient was taken from the
Strickland by dory and trans
ported to the strip in an Army
vehicle.
Pilots of the PBY were Lt.
William Wallace, Lt. W. E.
Sale. Crew members were W.
Clubb, W. Burke, M. Harder
and W. Sheridan. A Navy doc
tor and corpsraan went on the
flight to aid the patient.
He was transferred from
KNS to Griffin Memorial Hos
pital by Navy ambulance.
Slates Abo Suffer
Heat Wave
The local “heat wave’’ has|
cracked a few Alaskan records i
but for something ready high
in the way of temperature
md records an Arkansas town
has this to report:
Stuttgart (*P)— It got so
hot at Stuttgart today that a
concrete strip literally “ex
ploded,”
A strip of Highway 79 er
rupted at a joint and cracked
the pavement about 10 feet;
in each direction from the
joint.
A filling station operator
said he felt the ground quiver
and “thought it was ah earth
quake. ” He said he heard a
report like a shotgun blast.
The i editor of the Stuttgart
I Daily Leader laid a thermom
, eter on the pavement and re
! moved it when the mercury
skyrocketed to the 120-uegree
mark.
He said unofficial thermom
eters in town registered 1015
degrees in the shade
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Beegle
gave a shooting exhibition
Sunday. They are representa
tives of Remington Arms, Inc.
and Peters Ammunition Co.
The exhibition was held at
Fort Abercrombie.
B. D. O’Briant of Kodiak
Naval Station and Louise
Maddaline Pinesehi of Rose
yjUe, California were married
at St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Tuesday evening at 8 pm.
The ceremony was perform
ed; by I’ather Raymond Tal
bott, S.J. a
Mrs. Martha Cushing and
two children left Friday by
plane for Sitka to spend a
month.
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