"New* of ^Americas Last Frontier’
VOL 11 NO 4b
KODIAK, ALASKA
JANUARY 19, 1952
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A petition calling on the
Post Office Department and
the Maritime Commission to
provide a vessel of ‘ ‘at least
2,000 tons” for better mail
service to the residents of
Kodiak Island and communi
ties along the Alaska Penin
sula was circulated in town
this week.
Copies of the petition are
now at the following stores:
Kraft’s, Knudsen’s, City Mar
ket, Donnelley and Acheson,
JBert’s, Insurance Department
of the Bank of Kodiak, Paci
fic Northern Airlines office and
B & B Bar.
The petition asks that the
Post Office Department and
the Maritime Commission
make the above type of vessel
available to the Berger Trans
portation Company.
A part of the petition
states: “We, the undersigned
residents of Kodiak, Alaska,
believe that the best interests
of the residents of Kodiak Is
land and of the communities
along the Alaska Peninsula
require better mail service
than can be furnished by the
MS Garland.”
The Garland currently holds
a contract with the Post Office
Department for the delivery
of mail from Seward to Ko
diak and westward along the
Aleutian Chain.
The petition also states that
“such a vessel should provide
freight, mail and passenger
service for the area which has
been served heretofore by the
Garland.”
U.S.O. Men Dus
To Arrive Here
Two USO representatives
are due to arrive at Kodiak
Naval Station this week to be
gin organizing a club here.
Elliot Hymans has been
named director of the Kodiak
USO. John A. Van Bis Jr.,
architect, will accompany
Hymans to Kodiak to draw
plans for the interior of the
building formerly occupied by
the Kodiak Variety Store.
The Variety Store has not
announced where it will open
for business. Stock and sup
plies from the store were be
ing moved from the building
and stored this week.
Hymans notified the Navy
that he also plans to organize
a Junior Hostess Group which
will work with the USO.
The Variety Store was lo
cated in the Kodiak Apart
Continued on Page 4
Fire Siren Info
For Everyone
During the past week the
MIRROR has received re
quests that a list of the fire
signals and the number for re
porting fires be published.
The following signals on the
fire siren indicate the area in
which the fire has been re
ported.
One long blast from the
siren is to call attention to the
fire. The blast is from 7 to 10
seconds long.
One short blast immediately
following the long one in
dicates that the fire is in the
city dock area, along Sheli
koff Hiway or at a house on
the side of Pillar mountain.
This includes the houses on
Carlson Hill.
1 wo short blasts means the
fire is in the business district.
This includes the School,
Donnelley and Acheson dock
and hotel.
Three sh»rt blasts is the
area along Mill Bay road and
North Brooklyn Avenue.
Four blasts is Mission and
Tagura Road. When reporting
a fire dial 2345. Do NOT dial
this number unless you wish
to report a fire. Jail guards at
the U. S. Federal Jail receive
the calls and sound the siren.
The handling of the fire calls
is a co-operative arrangement
with the city fire department
and is not included in the
regular duties of the guards.
Walter 0. Hamilton, USN,
and Noma A. Scott of Cali
fornia were married recently.
Water Project Bids
Due In February
Kodiak’s water and sewer
project and the Kodiak Inde
pendent School District new
building are expected to be
placed under contract in the
early months of 1952, accord
ing to a press release from the
Alaska Public Works.
The two projects are among
21 others that will come up
for bid. Of the 35 projects
now active, 14 are under con
tract and scheduled for com
pletion this year, the report
said.
The water and sewer pro
ject for Kodiak calls for a 40
million gallon reservoir, filter
plant and new chlorination
equipment, water distribution
and sewerage collection lines.
Hubbell and Waller Engineer
ing Corp., Seattle, prepared
the plans. The final review of
the plans is now going on.
The estimated construction
cost is $511,000.
The press release lists tne
ICD application as follows:
“grade school building of re
inforced concrete and slow
burning frame construction,
one-story, twelve classrooms;
architect, Wm. Arild Johnson
and Associates, Everett
Wash: finai plans in prepara
tion; estimated construction
cost, $465,000.”
The Alaska Public Works
Act authorizes a program for
the construction and sale of
public works to public bodies
in Alaska, up to June 30,
1955. On completion the pro
jects are sold by the govern
ment for 50% of the actual
cost. Long range financing,
at 2% interest is available to
the requesting public bodies.
Kodiak Without Boats
Until Late In February
Red Cross Nurses
Taking Course
Almost through with their
class work and already well
into their hours of pratical ex
perience are ten local women
who are training as Red Cross
volunteer nurses’ aides.
Sister Mary Frances at
Griffin Memorial Hospital is
holding a two and a half hour
class each Monday evening for
the women, and during the
week each one gives two or
three hours, whatever time
she can, to floor duty at the
hospital.
forty hours ot classwork
and the same number of hours
of supervised experience are
necessary before the women
will receive their caps and
Red Cross certificates as
nurses’ aides, sometime in the
spring.
Women in the group are
Mesdames Margaret Light
foot, Bonnie Jarvela, Hazel
Sutliff, Alice Given, Dorothy
Haag, Doris Hansley, Doris
Hoffman, Jeannine Keplinger,
June Wilson and Antjie Huer.
As nurses’ aides, the wo
men will be an organized
group of volunteers to act in
emergency situations and to
meet local community nursing
needs, by helping at the
hospital a specified number of
hours annually.
Mrs Sutliff is chairman of
the committee which is in
charge of the local nurses’
aide program. The Red Cross
originally initiated its nurses’
aide program in 1916. »
JOURNEY’S END FOR FLYING ENTERPRISE
The bow of the U. S. freighter Flying Enterprise points skyward (left) shortly before,
the ship plunged beneath the waves of the stormy Atlantic some 30 miles off Falmouth, Eng }
land (Jan. 10). Capt. Kurt Carlsen of the freighter, and Mate Kenneth Dancy, of the British
tug Turmoil, leaped from the freighter and were rescued. (AO wirephoto via radio from
London)
Kodiak merchants cannot
expect an Alaska Steamship
Company freighter to call here
until late in February. There
has been no ASC freighter
in port during the month of
January.
A wire from F. A. Zeusler
of the ASC to the Chamber of
Commerce told of the next
sailing which is scheduled for
January 30.
Zeusler further advised the
C of C that the steamship
company would be unable to
route its next vessel to Ko
diak before calling at the port
of Seward.
Last week the C of C wired
the ASC and requested that
the next vessel, which was
scheduled to sail Janurary 23,
call at Kodiak before going to
Seward.
The C of C requested the
change in route to avoid the
freezing of perishable mer
chandise a nsigned to Kodiak.
The wire claimed that when
the hold was open for unload
ing in Seward the merchandise
froze. Temperatures at main
land ports have been reported
as below zero for the past two
weeks.
The C of C received the fol
lowing telegram this week
fromZeusler: “Army require
ments necessitate substituting
Liberty type vessel January
23 to Prince William Sound
ports only and reschedule Ko
diak call for January 30 sail
ing stop prior commitments
for handling explosives to Se
ward Jan. 30 to come within
Coast Guard expiration date
of February 15 preclude rout
ing vessel to Kodiak before
Seward. We sincerely regret
that we have to take this ac
tion. (signed) F. A Zeusler.”
Bids Submitted
On Navy lob
San Francisco (A*) — The
following bids have been made
for a Navy project at Kodiak
Naval Station:
Johnson, Drake and Piper
and Puget Sound Bridge and
Dredge made a joint bid of
$5,248,000. The J. A. Jones
Construction Company bid
$6,175,000; Haddock, Mc
Clure, Gerrick and Swinerton,
$6,295,000; Rue Contracting
Co.. $6,995,000.
The Navy Department said
it could not release the
government estimate and that
an award will be made on the
above bids after they are
studied in Washington, D. C.