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VUL» 1Z NO 19
KODIAK, ALASKA JULY 1Z 1V&Z
IKE WINS NOMINATION ON 1st BALLOT
Cordova Cannery Burns;
Gear, Pack Total Loss
The Western Fisheries
Company crab plant, web |
house, Filipino bunk house, .
all the seines and all silver '
and red salmon gear was des
troyed by fire around 4 am 1
yesterday at Cordova. ]
The main cannery building r
and warehouse were not s
burned. The loss in gear alone 1
will probably run around 50 or f
60 thousand dollars. i
The Halferty cannery along :
side the Western Fisheries
plant was not damaged in the 1
fire. Around 2,500 cases of 1
one pound cans of salmon 1
were destroyed in the fire, i
The cannery was located on <
the Ocean dock.
Deposits Reach ;
All Time High
Bank deposits in Kodiak '
have attained a new high '
mark. On Monday of this
week deposits in the Bank of J
Kodiak amounted to $4,000,- 1
016.00 which is the first time 1
deposits have exceeded $4,- i
000.i00.00.
TllP Runlr rtf ITArlloir C
its doors on March 4, 1940. By ]
Jane 1941 deposits amounted 1
to $1,183,000.00 which was a 1
remarkable record for a new 1
bank.
By October of that year,
they had climbed to $2,100,- (
000.60, which was another
extraordinary increase.
In June 1912 they crossed
the $3,000,000 O'O mark and in
January, 1943 amounted to
$3,825,000.00 which was the
highest reached during the
World War. After that they ■
fell off to $1,593,000.00 in
September 1946, which was
the lowest point of the post
war recession.
Woody Island Gets
School Building
A small school on Woody
Island to serve the children of
government employees there
will be built this year, L. R.
Durkee, regional representa
tive of the Housing and Home
Finance Agency, has informed j1
Mayor Lee C. Bettinger.
Bettinger received copies of i1
notices of bids to contractors |
for distribution to local con- j1
tractors. Captain J. C. Tily of I <
Kodiak Naval Station also re- H
ceived copies.
Specifications call for a one-j i
classroom school building
Lundeberg O.K.’s
Boat Unloading
Frank McConaghy, an of
icial of Halferty Canneries,
nc.. recently arranged for
'5,000 cases of red and king
lalmon to be unloaded from
he strike-bound Alaska
Steamship Co. freighter
lusitna, to be unloaded in Se.
ittle.
McConaghy flew to San
•’rancisco to confer with
iarry Lundeberg, Sailor’s
Jnion Of The Pacific boss, re
garding the moving of the
argo.
Alaska Steamship Company
ressels, freighters and pas
enger, have been tied up for
he past five weeks by a
trike. No cargo has been
landled since the strike
>egan.
McConaghy spent only a
ew minutes in conference
vith Lundeberg in arranging
or the unloading of the can
led salmon.
The Susitna had been at the
lock in Seattle for two weeks
vith the canned salmon in
ts’ holds. McConacrhv re
urned to Kodiak Monday!
rom the states.
Work Continues
On Local Building
Lighting fixtures for Kraft’s
lew super market at the cor
ler of Alaska Way and
Brooklyn Avenue were being
nstalled this week.
New refrigeration equip
nent has arrived and plumb
srs were installing rest room
tnd heating fixtures.
Jay Wolf’s new Kodiak
Cleaner’s building on Alaska
Vay had windows installed
his week Both buildings are
■einforced steel and concrete
:onstruction. They are being
milt by the Island Construc
ion Co. of Ralph Shupp, Jay
folbert and John Chase.
Samuel Roberts of San Juan
Wishing and Packing Company
vas flown from the cannery
o Griffin Memorial Hospital
>y B:>b Hall on Thursday for
reatment.
Roberts lost the tips of
hree fingers in a accident at
he cannery. He is now at the
lospital.
Miss Carolyn Acheson is
vorking in the office at D and
^ this summer.
Alaska Steam
Breaks With PMA
San Francisco LP) — The
Alaska Steamship Company
has split with the Pacific
Maritime Association and is
seeking its own agreement
with the striking Sailors
Union of the Pacific.
General manager D. E.
Skinner said his company was
forced into this position be
cause Coastwise Line was
“taking away cargo.” Skinner
said nothing definite was j
settled in talks with the
sailor’s union but further
meetings were planned.
Earlier, a break was
rumored in the six-week old
strike. Shipowners set up a
subcommittee empowered to
nake a settlement. 1
Meanwhile, Governor Er
lest Gruening appealed to
Harry Lundeberg, union
leader, to settle the dispute
with ASC seperately if it was
possible.
The Governor wired Lunde
berg: “I suggest now that if
it is possible the Alaska situa
tion be seperated from that
involving other steamship
companies to see whether a
settlement cannot be pro
cured.”
He also took Lundeberg to.
task for not replying to an
earlier invitation to discuss*1
the dispute. I
Missing Teen-Agers
Found On Island
Roy Sanford and Jack Frost,
teen-age youths at Kodiak i
Naval Station, were the object
:>f a search by the Marshal’s
office and police last weekend.
The two youths left the
dock around 10 am July fourth
in a small skiff. They lost it on
Holliday Island. The two
spent the night on Holliday
Island and on the morning of
July 5 they made a crude raft
and floated to Near Island.
They were seen on Near
Island and a boat went
acooss the channel and
brought them to town.
Assessment notices will be
mailed this week to property
owners, Rev. John Marshal,
city assessor, said yesterday.
The city council will sit as a
Board of Equalization shortly
after August 1, for the pur
pose of reviewing assess
ments.
Assessment forms on local
businesses should be turned in j
at the city hall by Aug. 1. j
Minnesota Turns Tide
On First Balloting
Snider Had Foot
In Both Doors
Chicago (A3) — Alaska’s
three delegates to the Re
publican convention voted
with the Taft forces Monday
in the first test of factional
strength.
Gerrit “Heinie” Snider of
Wasilla, member of the ter
ritorial senate, is one of the
three Taft delegates. Earlier,
tie presented some furs to
Mrs. Eisenhower which he
claimed were worth $400 and
which he had trapped himself.
Dutside Fishermen
Die In Storm
Three fishermen were killed
md eight are believed dead in
i Bristol Bay storm. The
;hree dead fishermen are from
San Francisco.
Nine fishing boats were lost
ind so much other fishing
?ear that some canneries in
;he area have had to slow
lown canning operations.
The storm struck at the
leight of the heaviest salmon
•un in Bristol Bay area in'
fears. The refusal of the
ishermen to leave the rich 1
ishing despite the storm re
sulted in the loss of life and
ishing craft.
Winds reaching a velocity
)f 80 miles per hour and rain
nade visibility almost zero,
rhe boats, some of sail and
jther with power, were over
turned in the huge waves.
' Resident Bristol Bay fisher
men who know the ways of
the sea in that area took
shelter at the approach of the
storm. The dead are mostly
stateside fishermen.
Kodiak fishermen who flew
to Bristol Bay for the fishing
were not casaulties of the
storm. Ten local fishermen
are now at Bristol Bay. ,
Two Cattlemen Lose
Stock To Bears
Two head of cattle were
killed recently in the Pasag
shak area by bear. Bob High
tower lost a two-year old
heifer and Joe Zentner lost a
ane year old. i
In April Zentner lost,
another yearlinsr. A bear was'
killed by Zentner within 50
yards of where the slain
cattle were found. j
Chicago (AJ) — Genera1
Dwight Eisenhower was nomi
nated as the Republican
candidate for president yester
day on the first ballot. He
won on the first ballot when
Minnesota gave all its votes
to Ike the moment the roll
call was finished.
Minnesotas’ votes gave
Eisenhower enough to put
him over the 604 necessary to
win the nomination. On the
first call, Minnesota had cast
19 votes for Stassen and nine
for Eisenhower.
On the roll call, Eisenhower
first received 595 votes to 502
for Senator Robert Taft. But
before the vote could be an
nounced the Minnesota switch
put Ike across with 614 votes.
Texas and other states which
had split their votes then be
gan to climb on the Eisen
hower band wagon. It was a
landslide in the end.
Official results of the first
ballot after the switches were
announced were Eisenhower
345, MacArthur, 4; Taft, 280;
Warren, 77.
Republican B. Carroll Reece,
Southern campaign manager
for Taft, said; “Of course I’m
ItVilllllVV
gviug liW V V/I1V/
but I feel Eisenhower’s man
agers should apologize to
Senator Taft for their con
spiracy to stigmatize him.”
Eisenhower himself was not
in the convention hall. As
custom dictates, he waited at
his hotel for the balloting to
be completed. Later he met
Taft at the Senator’s head
quarters.
Other candidates for the
nomination failed to develop
strength. At the end of the
regular roll call, before
switches started, Warren had
80 votes, S tassen 20 and Mac
Art.hur 10.
Alaska voted two for Taft,
one for Eisenhower on the roll
call. Gerritt “Heinie” Snider
of Wasilla announced himself
for Eisenhower in a last
minute switch just before the
balloting started. Earlier he
had claimed he was for Taft.
The GOP adopted a plat
form bristling with denuncia
tions of the Truman adminis
tration. They accused them
of losing the peace abroad and
trying to set up a socialistic
state at home.
Senator Henry Lodge an.
nounced late yesterday that
Senator Richard Nixon of
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