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KODIAK. ALASKA. May 5, 1956
Registration By F.W.S.
Began Last Wednesday
New Regulations,
Area Licensing
In Effect This Year
Area licensing for 1956 of all
boats and fishermen began last
Wednesday, according to,Roy Lyid
sley, of the Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice. This licensing applies to sal
mon taken in Alaskan waters with
nets, and includes purse seine,
beach and round seine and, gill
nets.
Licenses may be obtained from
the local representative stationed
in various ports. They may be,ob
tained by applying in person, or
by mail. Mail applications may be
sent to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service officer here in Kodiak, by
fishermen in this district or to any
district office located at Ketchikan,
Petersburg, Juneau, Anchorage,
Sand Point or King Salmon. ' : J
The licenses will, in effect, per
mit the taking of salmon by nets
in only one prior selected district
of Alaska. In additon to licensing,
boat and gear registration forms
must be completed as normally
done in the past.
Boats will be licensed oiy boat
card, and fishermen, including
boat captain, will be licensed on
fshermen card. Such licensed boats
and fishermen may take salmon
with nets in one licensing area
only.
Under the heading of Hardship
Cases, the FWS has issued the fol
lowing instructions:
(1) Captains and fishermen may
transfer to other craft only within
area in which they are licensed.
(2) Another boat may be substi
tuted for a licensed boat which be
comes inoperative during the sea
son within the same area. (3) Dur
ng the 1956 fishing season only,
the 30-day requirement for prior
licensing may be waived. (4) Ap
plication for area licensing after
the beginning of a fishing season
will be considered on the basis of
the circumstances involved. In
other words, all hardship cases as
noted above, are subject to approv
al by the local representative of
the FWS.
The Department advised that the
original of the fisherman license
will be given to the fisherman and
should be carried on his person at
all times.
A licensing area is a regulatory
fishing area or combination of sev
eral areas such as Bristol Bay,
Aleutian Island, which includes
Alaska Peninsula and Chignik; Ko
diak; Cook Inlet and Resurrection
Bay; Prince William Sound, Cop
per River, Bering River and Yaka
taga; Yakutat and Southeastern Al
aska.
Actually, as one FWS official
pointed out, this is not a licensing,
but rather a registration. There is
no cost involved. Continued in
creases from year to year in the
movement of the mobile salmon
fleet from area to area in Alaska,
has been noted. It has been deter
mined that such movement must be
curtailed in the interests of sound
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Kodiak May Be Site
For Fish Program
A long range program involving
3 million dollars for the rehabilita
tion of Alaskan salmon, may be
started jin 1957. Sen. Magnusen
said he was optomistie about it,
and further stated a conference
with officials of the Bureau of the
Budget and the Fish and Wildlife
Servic^ , indicated that $700,000
might be available under the Sal
tonstall act. The first stages will
be concentrated in the Kodiak-Af
ognakflslands area.
;; i -Mhghusen said the conference
indicated two possible sources for
the funds: (1) the $700,000 in the
Sallonstall Act funds for the pro
gram of stream and lake improve
ments. These would be coupled
jwith stfonfc predatdr control meas
ures, <2) Direct supplemented ap
propriation of the amounts. He
skid he jwas holding a second con
ference with both agencies Mon
day.
Ttye Senator said the first phase
of the 4 year program outlined
for start in the year beginning
July 1, includes $100,000 intensifi
ed predatory control; $25,000 for
direct feeding of Red salmon in
Peronosa Lake, Afognak Island;
$50,000 to start rehabilitation pro
gram in eight lakes near Kitoi Bay
Station; $175,000 stream and lake
fertilization of two larger lakes
on Afognak; $2000,000 for the con
struction of a portable hatchery
in the Kodiak-Afognak area with
a capacity of between four and
eight million fry.
CRITTENDEN HERE
GOES TO SITKINAK
Richard Crittenden, former resi
dent of Kodiak, arrived in tow*
earlier this week from Bremerton,
Washington.
Crittenden was formerly Quar
terman at the Pipe Shop on the
Naval Station. He left here several
years ago and has been working
for Lentz Plumbing and Heating
Co. Since leaving here he has
worked on a number of jobs in
the States and the big pipe line at
Haines. He will go to Chiniak for
a week, after which he will go to
Sitkinak to work on the construc
tion job there.
His family will remain in Brem
erton during his absence.
WEATHER DICTATES TO
OUKINKIE VISITORS
Members of the Junior Hi and
Senior Hi Fellowships of the Bap
tist Church went to Ouzinkie Sun
day to present a program there.
They went by Alf Anderson’s boat.
While there fog rolled in and
they had to remain all night. Some
of them flew in by Kodiak Air
ways Monday. Some returned with
the boat Tuesday, five more flew
in Wednesday. Some are still over
there at this writing.
Rev. Molletti reports it the long
est afternoon trip on record.
Huge Sum Asked
In NS Libel Suit
Three separate libel actions, to
talling over $750,000.00, were filed
in District Court Thursday, May
3, against Capt. W. M. Drane, Com
manding Officer of the Naval Sta
tion, Kodiak.
The suits were filed on behalf
of Mrs. Elizabeth L. Hardin, Mrs.
Shirlee A. Wick and Mrs. Peggy J.
Shreve by attorney John Mansuy
of the law firm of Dupler and Man
suy, Kodiak. Drane Was not charg
ed as an officer in the Navy, but
as an individual. '
The women are asking for dam
ages for defamation of’‘character.
The complaints read, in part,
“That defendant signed and caus:
ed to be published by delivery"
through Navy Personnel Office
channels, a certam ’Notificatiori of
Personnel Action” dated March fe,
1956 pn U. S. Government Printing
Office Standard Form 50, charging
plaintiff with misappropriation of
government propetry, and nbtfying
said plaintiff that she was remov
ed from her position of employ
ment as checker for cause.”
Hrs. Hardin, 23, is asking dam
ages in the amount of $242,207.00,
while Mrs. Wick and Mrs. Shreve
are asking $257,207.00. The
amounts asked were computed on
the expectancy of their future
earnings had they not been dis
missed by such action.
The actions further charged that
“said publication was false and de
famatory, malicious and unprivi
leged, and exposed plaintiff to ridi
cule, contempt and obloquy, and
caused her to be injured in her
reputation and deprived her of
her means of livelihood.”
The plaintiffs, wives of enlisted
men attached to the Naval Base,
and each a mother, had been em
ployed at the Base commissary.
Mansuy stated yesterday: “The
young ladies have demanded an
opportunity to clear their names
since a charge of this kind may
well preclude their employment
for the rest of their lives.”
HEALTH CENTER CLOSED
NURSE’S FATHER DIES
The Kodiak Health Center will
be closed for two weeks, according
to an announcement by Mrs. Roger
Clough, Health nurse in charge.
Mrs. Clough was called suddenly
to Detroit, where her father pass
ed away. She will spend one week
there, following which she will go
to Anchorage to attend a Mental
Hygiene Workshop, to be held
there from the 14th to the 18th of
May. She will return to Kodiak
shortly after. The Health Center
will be reopened May 21.
City Water Good
Water flowing through your tap
is fit to drink again.
Dr. A. Holmes Johnson City
Health Officer made this state
ment after he had checked the
water in the reservoir and tank.
Residents will no longer need to
boil the water, he said, as it is no
longer being pumped from the
lakes. Besides the clorinator is
working.
Eddie Pagano returned this week
from the States.
Baby Show 7 otnorrow
It’s Baby Show time tomorrow.
A capacity crowd is anticipated
for the popular annual event stag
ed by the VFW Ladies Auxiliary.
The show is scheduled to be held
at the Orpheum Theatre Sunday.
Trophies have been on display
at the Bank Of Kodiak Insurance
Office all week. Kings and Queens
will be chosen in three divisions.
Many prizes will be given to the
winners.
Judges will be Adm. Kenneth
Craig, Howard Demarest and R. D.
Bettinger.
Naval Officials
Outline Position
A committee from the Kodiak
Chamber of Commerce met Tues
day afternoon with the Comman
dant of the 17th Naval District,
Adm. Kenneth Craig, and the Com
manding Officer of the Naval Sta
tion, Capt. W. M. Drane, for the
purpose of discussing the proposed
sales tax on rentals. IS‘
This highly controversial aspect
of the proposed sales tax wa?
thoroughly discussed and the Nav
al officials outlined their position.
They indicated it would work a
hardship on Navy personnel, and
affect the Government’s operation
in this area. Adm. Craig assured
the committee the Navy was not
“fighting” the City Council or the
people of Kodiak. He said they
had no opposition to a sales tax
except as it applied to rentals.
Mayor Johnson, speaking for the
Committee, and not as a member
of the City Council, stated that the
Chamber had passed a resolution
favoring the sales tax as present
ed. He said the ordinance had not
yet been prepared for Council ac
tion and there would be further
hearings on the subject.
The Committee, following the
discussion, described as “very ami
able,” voiced an opinion favoring
recommending to the Council the
tax on all rentals be dropped. They
favored the tax on utilities re
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Explorer Sea Scouts
Will Attend Regatta
Local Explorer Sea Scouts, Ship
726, sponsored by the Kodiak Ro
tary Club, will fly to Anchorage,
thence by train to Whittier and
board a ship for Seattle, where
they will attend the Regional Re
gatta of Region 11, scheduled to
be held May 25, 26 and 27.
The exact date of departure has
not yet been set. Scouts will join
the Anchorage Ship, entrain to
Whittier, where they ..will go
aboard either the M S. T. S. Fun
ston or O'Hara, in sufficient time
to reach Seattle for the opening of
the regatta.
In Seattle, they will be guests
of the Sand Point Naval Air Sta
tion, at the three day regatta. They
will be taken on tours of Naval
installations in the Seattle area.
A dance is planned, at which a
Bridge of Honor will be conduct
ed. There will be competetive
events such as knot tying, ring
Along The
Waterfront
This is the week along the water
front that one industry practically
quits operations, and another one
is just about to start, with that lull
in between that gives your calum
nist furrows in brow deep enough
to plant potatoes.
The waterfront' personalities
are beginning to show up, how
ever, preparitory to the salmon
season opening. Roy Lindsley of
the FWS reports fishermen and
boat owners are coining in for reg
istration. The new regulations are
out as reported elsewhere in this
issue of the Mirror. A number
fishermen have beached their"
boats, and putting on fresh paint,
and generally fixing them up after
the winter’s layoff. Fishermen
from around the Island have been
coming for supplies and seeming
ly the last “fling” before the sum \
mer’s fishing grind. Cannery work i
erp and Halferty’s have arrived at
a wage scale, and the scene is all
set for canning clams as soon as
the tides are favorable next week
Bob Resoff, of King Crab, Inc
reported a little activity this week
Llpyd Cannon with the Juneau
came in with 2027 King crab
These weighed 18,617 pounds. The
GPC 19 brought in 436 crab weigh
ing 5,090 pounds. He expects the
Lois in, and also the Totem. Cory
Karlstad, skipper of the latter, has
a load in his live tanks, which hr
expected to deliver in Seattle, but
since there is no market there at
present, i they will be processed
here.
Bill Dikus is having a fishing
boat built in Seattle, which he ex
pects will be ready for this years
season at Uganik.
The City Dock was the scene el
much activity this week. The Lau>
dor arrived with a large shipnfcmd
of freight. The Expansion docked
shortly before, but left in tinny
without creating a problem of eon
gestion. “Fireball” Thomsen i?
still skippering the Expansion
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toss, heaving lines, bos’n poping
boat inspection. For Scouts select
ed by each Ship there will be as
orientation flight in a Naval air
craft.
Verne Draper, who has bet •
Skipper of the local Ship for sev
eral years, will accompany the
boys, as will M. L. Whittier as
Mate.
Scouts making the trip include
Leo H. Bromfield, Walter W. Co
han, H. Grant Hakenson, Robert At.
King, Roger Williams, Daniel
Toshwak, Stephen Foster, Mike
Swenson, Robert L. Smith, Lariy
Liptrap, Ronald Spencer, Walter
R. Bent, Danny Oisen, Joseph M.
Phillips, and Tommy Shugak.
The entire trip will be made lor
an estimated sum of $35 for each
boy. The Scouts will return via
M. S. T. S. They are expected bat k
in Kodiak about June 5.