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News of oAmenca s Last frontier
VOL 12 NO 25
KODIAK, ALASKA
AUGUST 23, 1952
PRICE 10 ©BN ib
School Opens Sept. 8;
Teaching Staff Complete
Ihe Kodiak Public School
faculty for the 1952-53 year is
tow complete, Ivor Schott,
superintendent, announced
yesterday.
Classes will begin on Mon
day, September 8. School en
rollment will be September 5.
The children will be dismissed
after enrolling, Schott said.
All grade 1 children must
present a birth certificate
when enrolling and must be
six years of age by November
1. A teachers meeting has
been set for Tuesday, Septem
ber 2, in the main school
building for 10 am.
Grade 1 teachers for the
coming year are Helen Schott
and Miriam Dorman. Grade 2
teachers will be Lois Burnham
and Ramona Moffitt. Eloda
Metzgar is grade 3 teacher.
Eunice Neseth will teach
grade 4 and Mary Beam and
Wanda Fields grade 5. Sixth
grade teacher is Ellen Daw
son and Mary Dandeneau will
teach the seventh. June War
wick is eight grade teacher.
Dera Brunstad will teach
Mathematics and commerce in
the high school and Neal
Warwick is music teacher.
Howard Carpenter will be in
charge of physical education
and will also teach commerce.
George Wick will be in
charge of history, shop, and
biology classes and Alice Rude
has home economics and gene
ral science classes.
Frances Gray will have
English, social science and
Latin classes. Ruby Walker
will be librarian and will
teach Spanish and public
speaking.
Cancer Crusade
Ends This Week
The Kodiak Cancer Cru
sade sponsored by the Busi
mess and Professional Wo
men’s Club will end this com
mg week. Contributions to
date total $757.
More contributions are com
ing in and members of the
BPW hope to reach their goal
of $1,000 for this year. Several
collection jars are to be picked
up and counted before Wed
nesday- Persons wishing to
donate to the crusade may
still do so, either by mail or
by handing the money to a
chib member.
Money received by the
American Cancer Society is
used to educate the public to
cancer’s danger signals and
to provide laboratories for
combating the disease.
One contribution jar at thes
Idle Hour Bar yielded $70.
Work Continues
On New School
Heavy equipment and car
penters were at work this
week on the foundation for
the L-shaped new Kodiak
school building on the school
site between Mission and Mill
Bay road.
Workmen under Warren
Chilgren, foreman for Sam
Bergesen, Tacoma Contractor,
and a crew from Shupp Chase
and Tolbert are doing the
work on Signal Hill.
Shupp, Chase and Tolbert
hold a sub-contract with Ber
gesen. A small office building
has been built on the site.
The front of the building
will be 178 feet long and 72
feet wide. The wing or top of
the L will be 200 feet long,
according to the plans. Sup
plies for the building are be
I ing hauled in over the newly
completed Sixth street which
runs from Mill Bay road to
the school site.
The KEA has run a power
| line from Mission road to the
top of the hill where the
building is being built.
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Marshal Says
Flra Siran Must Go
U. S, Deputy Marshal Clar
ence Dizney has notified the
city council and Fire Chief
Georg6 Magnusen that the
fire siren on top of the federal
jail must be removed.
Earlier, an order was issued
from U. S. Marshal Walter
Huntley’s office that no more
city prisoners’would be lodged
in the federal jail. The order
followed the filing of charges
against Charles Skinner, U. S.
Federal jail guard, for the al
ledged slugging of a city
prisoner. The charges were
filed by Paul Dupler who also
charged that Skinner refused
to let him see a client.
Formerly, the sounding of
the city fire siren and the
handling of city police calls
were done at the federal jail.
Until some new arrangement
is made fire alarms may still
be called to telephone no. 2345.
Several suggestions for the
lodging of city prisoners,
sounding of an alarm for fires
and the receiving of city police
calls were offered this week.
However, no immediate solu
tion to the city’s problem was
evident late yesterday.
Harry Paxton of the Kodiak
Transit Co. left for Seattle
Monday via PM A.
k
FWS Releases
Pack Figures
The Kodiak Island salmon
pack for the 1952 commercial
fishing season was 481,215
cases, Roy Lindsley, FWS
agent, revealed Thursday.
The total case pack of red
salmon for the island was 82,
117; pinks, 268,514; chums,
124,780; cohos, 3,881 and
kings, 1923.
A breakdown of the total
cases shows that 33,445 oases
of red salmon canned by Ko
diak Island canneries were
fish caught in Cook Inlet the
past season.
The 1952 pack shows an in
crease over 1951 of over 200,
000 cases. The case pack for
the past years were: 1951
pack, 278,111; 1950 pack,
448,092; 1949 pack, 347,530.
In 1945 the total case pack
was 716,440. In the following
years it dropped. For 1946 the
FWS figures were 691,125
cases for Kodiak Island. Ini
1947 it was 605,954 and ini
1948 the total was 491,428.
Elk Permit
Awards Monday
The selection of the 35 hun
ters who will receive permits
for the October 1 to 15 elk
hunt on Afognak Island will
be made Monday at 2 pm, J
Russell Hoffman, FWS agent,
announced yesterday.
Over 150 hunters and sports
men have sent applications to
the U. S. FWS. The selection
of 15 alternates will also be
made.
U. S. Commissioner A. M.
Vokacek will be Governor
Ernest Gruening’s representa
tive and Joe Kerrigan, busi
ness agent and secretary of
the United Fishermen’s Union,
AFL, will aid in the selection.
Mrs. Vokacek, Kerrigan and
Hoffman will meet at the MIR
ROR office to make the se
lections. The event is open to
the public.
“The 35 permitees will re
ceive a form letter notifying
them of their selection. Upon
receipt of $15 the FWS office
will then issue a permit. Per
sons chosen who have decided
not to hunt are urged to im
mediately notify the FWS so
that an alternate may be given
an opportunity to get a per
mit,” Hoffman said yesterday.
Requests for permits have
been received from hunters in
Anchorage and Fairbanks as,
well as in Kodiak and at Ko-!
diak Naval Station.
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Talmage L. Smith, at- j
torneV. left Wednesday fori
Anchorage. He did not say j
how long he would be gone. 1
KEA Linema
Yesterday 0
Cannon Resigns
As UFA Head ,
W. A. “Pat” Cannon has
resigned as president of the
United Fishermen of.f Alaska,
AFL, he announced yester
day.
Cannon has held the posi
tion for the past six years. A
letter of resignation was
mailed to the executive board
Friday.
“I have served for six
years, I feel that someone j
else should have the job,”
Cannon said.
The annual meeting and
election of the U FA is held
each year in October.
During the past six years
the membership in the union
has increased from approxi
mately 500 to around 1,200.
Assests have increased from
less thaji $1,000 to over $50,
000, Joe Kerrigan, secretary
of the UFA, said.
Garden Entries
Sought By Club
Entry forms for the Garden
Exhibit to be held on August
31 have been prepared by the
Kodika Garden Club, to assist
the group in arranging thej
show.
Prospective exhibitors in |
the show are asked to fill out;
the form, and return it to the
dub, or give it to one of its
members.
Gardeners who do not fill
0ut the form at this time may
still enter exhibits in the
show. The club points out
that “an early knowledge of
the planned exhibits will help
prepare a finer show.” There
is no limit on the number of
entries.
The show will be held from
1 to 10 pm in the USO Club,
use of which has been donated
for the show.
Of special interest in the
show will be the five arrange
ment classes which are as fol
lows: table centerpiece, ac
cessories permitted, minia
tures, overall dimensions six
iuches or less; driftwood ar
rangements; monochromatic
compositions, one color, foli
age permitted; and decorative
arrangements.
In the last group accessories
are permitted, and the ar
rangements may be seasonal,
for formal or special occasions,
for hallway, buffet, or man
tlepiece.
Give to the cancer Crusade 1
fund.
n nmea
n Pole
A Kodiak Electric Associa*
tion lineman was killed in
stantly shortly after 2 pm
yesterday when he came in
contact with a high voltage
line while working on a pole.
John Farrow, 40, was pre
paring to run a power line
from Mission Road to the site
of the new school building
site' when the accident oc
cured.
Leon Johnson, KEA super
intendent, was on the ground
near the pole when Farrow
apparently slipped and struck
the high voltage line with his
head. Johnson immediately
notified the KEA plant to shut
off the power.
The fire department was
asked to send a truck with a
ladder so that they could get
up the pole. Farrow’s safety
belt caught and held him
after he hit the wire.
The body was taken down
by linemen of the KEA and
Kodiak Telephone Co. and
taken to the Kodiak Mortuary.
Farrow is survived by his
mother and father in Renton,
Washington, a siste r in Bal
lard, Wash., and a brother,
Bud Farrow, of Kodiak Na
val Station.
City Tax Sale
Starts Monday
The sale of properties ap -
pearing on the delinquent
tax roll will open Monday at
10 am at the main building of
the Kodiak Public School.
Only eight lots will be of
fered for sale.
Tax payments, plus interest
and penalties, during the past
five weeks has greatly re
duced the number of names
in the tax roll.
Robert A. Hedloff; city
clerk, will conduct the sale.
Each lot shall be sold sepe
rately. If enough is not bid to
cover the back taxes and the
interest and penalty the city
clerk is authorized to pur
chase the lot for the city.
The sale was ordered by
Judge Anthony J. Dimond of
the Third District Court. If
the sale is not completed on
Monday it will continue until
all lots are sold.
New Plane Arrives
For Local Pilots
An 85 hp Aeronca owned by
John Morton and Don Craw
ford arrived here Wednesday
aboard the Square Sinnet, A
laska Steamship Co. freighter.
The yellow and brown float
plane was purchased from
Washington Aircraft of Se
attle.