rrNews of ^America s Last Frontier
VOL 12 NO 30
KODIAK, ALASKA
SEPTEMBER 27, 1952
PRICE 10 CENTS
City Election Oct. 14 On
Bond Issue For Streets j
Kodiak taxpayers will be
asked to approve a $480,000
bond issue for a city-wide
street improvement program,
at a special election to be held
on October 14.
An ordinance calling for the
election was passed by the
city council at its regular
meeting Monday night.
Estimated cost of the pro
posed street improvement pro
gram is around $745,000, of
which the city would pay half,
and the Alaska Public Works
half.
The street project depends
on passage of the bond issue,
which would enable the city
to borrow money if necessary
to pay its share of the cost.
Last year, voters in the city
and school district approved
bond issues of a similar nature
for the present water and
sewer project and new grade
school. As yet, no bonds nave
been issued for either project.
The street improvement pro
gram, as prepared by Thomas
Bourne Associates, consulting
engineers to the city, calls for
the asphalt surfacing of Sheli
kof highway from the city
limits, Marine Way from
Krafts to South Mill Bay rd.,
Mill Bay road and Mission
road to the city limits, and
Brooklyn avenue to the hous
ing area.
Sidewalks would also be con
structed along some of these
roads. The main streets,
paved several years ago,
would have to be re-surfaced
for a depth of two inches.
Tne city would have adeq
Louise Gregoroff
Dies After illness
Mrs. Louise Gregoroff, 76,
resident of Kodiak for the past
20 years, died Sunday at her
home. She had been ill for
several months.
Mrs. Gregoroff had been
honored for the past several
years at the annual Elks Mo
ther’s Day program, where she
was consistently awarded with
the prize offered the “oldest
mother” present.
The widow of Senafont
Gregoroff who died in 1932,
Mrs. Gregoroff was born in
Kenai, on July 19, 1878.
The family lived in Afognak
for several years, and came
here in 1932. Mrs. Gregoroff
made her home here with
several of her children.
Surviving are the following
children: Mrs. Fritz Lorenson,
Port Bailey, Mrs. Albert
Naughton, Mrs. Oscar Nelson.
Mrs. Louise Hayes, Mrs. Wil
uate income to repay a loan I
provided for by the bond
issue, Mayor Lee C Bettinger
pointed out. A special 3-mill
levy to be set aside for road
improvement would bring in
close to the $17,000 required
each year to repay such a loan,
over a 20 year period.
Persons listed on the real
estate tax roll for the city for
1952 will be eligible to vote in
the special election, which will
be held the same day as the
territorial balloting, from 8
am to 7 pm.
Judges for the special elec
tion,1 named by the council
Monday, will be Mrs. Gus
Myers, Mrs. Basil Clark, Mrs.
V. W. Root, Mrs. V. G. Ellis,
and clerks will be Mrs. Joe
Raymond and Mrs. John
Rohwer. Mrs. Jack Hinckel
will be alternate judge and
Mrs. Homer Lightfoot alter
nate clerk.
Fifty-five percent of the
votes cast in the bond election
must favor it, for the issue to
be approved.
Plans for a new water distri
bution and sewer system, for
which an appropriation has
already been made, were in
spected by the city council
Monday night. Carl Caldwell,
engineer for Bourne Associ
ates, explained them to the
council.
Currently under construction
is a new city reservoir. The
appropriation made for that
did not include the distribu
tion system, for which funds
were allocated at a later date.
lard Hall, Kelly and Benedict
Gregoroff, all of Kodiak; Mrs.
Hans Olsen, Afognak; Mrs.
Ole Locken, Arlington, Wash.,
Mrs. Marie Rowland, Seattle.
Also surviving are a sister,
Mrs. Nadia Larsen of Seattle,
and 33 grandchildren and nine
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Gergoroff will be held at 2 pm
today at the Russian Orthodox
Church, and will be conducted
by Father Gerasim Schmaltz.
Miss Kathleen Lepper has
been assigned to Kodiak as
Public Health Nurse and will
arrive here sometime next
weekend.
* Clarence Dizney. president of
the Kodiak Health and Wel
fare Council, received word
Thursday from the office of
the district nursing supervisor
in Anchorage, of Miss Lep
per’s appointment to the
vacancy here.
(See earlier story on page
3.-Ed.)
Single Slate Up
For City Ballot
Mayor Lee C. Bettinger will
again be a candidate for mayor,
in the city election this year.
He was nominated Monday
by the Progressive Party at
its annual meeting at the Elks
Club, and was unopposed at
their meeting for the nomina
tion.
The Progressives nominated
the following for two-year
council terms: V.W. Root, A1
Miller, and Bill Worth, incum
bent;. one-year term, Bud
Metzgar.
William Stone was nomi
nated for the five-year term
on the Kodiak Independent
School District board. Stone’s
present term expires this year.
Filing for local and school
candidates closed midnight
Monday with no other names
being offered for the city
positions.
For the school board posi
tion, Stone will have as oppo
nent Gil Jarvela,who was nom
ina ted by a caucus of out-of
city residents at a meeting
Sunday.
In charge of the Progressive
Party campaign will be Mar
shall Crutcher, Vic Ellis and
Tim Gilmore.
HIGHWAY PATROLMAN HERE TO
DETERMINE CITY’S NEED
sgt. Hi. U Mayfield of the
Alaska Highway Patrol has
been in Kodiak for the past
two weeks making an investi
gation to determine whether a
permanent highway patrol
man is needed here.
Recently, the Chamber of
Commerce expressed the need
for such an officer here.
Sgt. Mayfield has worked
here with the local law en
forcement agencies, marshal,
police and military police, and
said he has found them all
“very cooperative and recep
Window Shoppers See Gold-Plated Slip,
Model Railroads While Browsing
A slip with a $695 price tag
on it has been on display in
the windows of Kraft’s Dry
Goods department this week,
but any prospective buyers
have been turned down.
The slip made by the Luxite
company, which makes lin
gerie and hose, is nylon,
sprayed with 24 carat gold,
and is used only for advertis.
ing purposes.
John Putnam of Seattle
salesman for the company, is
traveling around the territory
with the item, to promote his
company’s line of ladies
underwear.
Popeye il Drifts Ashore;
Missing Since Sept. 11
A Whittier man, missing for
over two weeks, was found on
the beach near N arrow Cape
Thursday by William Robert
son, Jr. and John Chya.
The 58-year old skipper of
the Popeye II was collecting
drift wood for a fire when the
two Kodiak men, out to hunt
ducks, saw the missing boat
and her captain. Tom Eley.
The Popeye II was the ob
ject of an intensive search by
the 10th Rescue Squadron
after the vessel was reported
overdue on Septemper 6 on a
trip from Whittier to Seward.
Eley was in a weakened con
dition and was down to two
potatoes and four matches
when Robertson and Chya
found him. When the Popeye
II left Whittier it was pro
visioned for a one week trip
for two men. Eley was the
only one aboard. Early reports
said an unidentified passenger
was also on the 36-foot midget
tug.
The 110 Chrysler engine
quit while near Cape Resurrec.
tion when a piece of seine
fouled the screw.
Eley said he drifted from
September 11 until around 2 am
tive to my requests for mfor-1
mation.”
Mayfield recently returned'
from taking a special course at l
the FBI National Academy.
Wednesday and Thursday
he met with Chief of Police
Ovid McKinley and his force j
to instruct them in the latest
methods of making investi
gations and arrests.
Sgt. Mayfield declined to;
state whether or not he found
a need for a permanent high
way patrolman in the Kodiak
area
i An exiDit oi moaei trains
I made by two members of the
Kodiak Model Railroad club is
[currently to be seen in the;
window of the insurance de
partment of the bank.
The trains on display are
the work of Vic Ellis, insur-,
ance department manager, |
and Lee F. Bettinger.
Ellis is eager to have hobby
displays or exhibits of any
other nature in which the
public might be interested, in
the window. Persons who
have something to show that
they think the public would
1 like to see are urged to con
[tact Ellis.
the 23rd when the vessel
grounded on the Kodiak Island
beach.
During the lonely trip he
spotted planes on two different
days and saw land once. He
attempted to attract the atten
tion of the planes by rigging a
distress signal made from a
dish towel on a fish pike. The
Popeye II has no mast.
When asked what he
thought of most on the trip he
said, “My wife’s worrying
about me.”
Eley tried to rig a tarpaulin
for a sail so that he could gain
steerage way on the tug but it
proved unsuccessful. When
the trip started he had 50 gal
lons of water aboard but after
a few days it turned rancid.
Chya and Robertson brought
Eley to town and he was given
food and shelter by Deputy
Marshal Clarence Dizney.
Thursday evening he sent a
wire to his wife.
The Popeye II had been mis
sing once before and found.
“I was so glad to see those
two men who found me I
couldn’t even thank them,"
Eley said.
Skinner Case
Being Heard
A 12-man jury yesterday be
gan to hear the case against
Charles Skinner, jail guard,
charged with refusal to permit
an attorney to see his client.
Skinner allegedly refused
Paul Dupler permission to see
Alex Mazoff, at the jail on
August 6.
Special Commissioner V. G.
Ellis heard the case, which will
be followed by a preliminary
hearing before him, on a
charge of assault. Skinner is
also charged with assaulting
Mazoff.
Paul Dupler, complaining
witness on the first charge,
presented the government's
case to the jury after the U. S.
attorney’s office in Anchorage
advised it could not send a
prosecutor. P. J. Kerrigan re
presented Skinner.
Members of the jury were
Henry Haag, Eugene Bromley,
Fred Rave, Barney Corgatelli,
Mrs. Ed Connors, Robert
Acheson, Frances Bowman,
Val Stella, Emil Knudsen, E.
L, Lightfoot, Vince Daly and
Clyde Hatfield.
Dies At Afognak
Mrs. Mary Boskofsky, 77.
of Afognak, died at her home
there Sunday, according to
word received here.