Clean-Up Drive
The annua! clean up cam
paign was underway this week j
with pick ups being made on •
the 20th and 27th. There is no I
charge for the pickups. j
The campaign will be under !
the direction of the city coun- ]
cil. Residents are requested to j
pile debris and rubbish near I
the street so that the working i
crews may easily load their'
trucks, |
The Boy Seouts will assist]
in the clean up drive. Resi-i
dents are requested to keep'
papers and magazines seperate j
from other refuse. The Scouts j
will collect the paper and
magazines and will dispose of
them.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Wood
of KNS plan to leave via NWA
for Chicago soon.
Madsen Recalls Struggle
For Life Sr» Bering Sea
A desperate fight for life a
gainst the relentless Bering
Sea was told members of the
Rotary Club Tuesday by one
of the survivors of a 1913 ship
wreck.
Charles Madsen, well-known
big game and outfitter, and
five men spent six days adrift
in a small dory without food
or water after Madsen’s trad
ing schooner the Wasp foun
dered in heavy seas. The tape
recording of the adventure is
a part of a forthcoming book
by Madsen.
Madsen named this chapter
of his book A Battle For Life.
In August of 1913, Madsen,
Frank Waskey, a Mr. Evans,
an engineer named Johnson
and two Eskimo hunters left
Nome for a voyage to various
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Shortly after leaving the
Wasp sprung a leak, it had
earlier been “squeezed” ir
the Arctic ice pack, an Arctic
stoom struck and after severa
desparate hours of trying tc
plug the leak and manning
the pumps the men were
forced to abandon ship anc
take to the dory.
In boarding the dory Evans
slipDed and hung onto the
painter (rope). The heavj
seas and overloaded boat made
it impossible to take him a
board. Madsen ordered the
Eskimos to heave some of the
stuff overboard. In their panie
the Eskimos threw everythin!
away including the compass
Evans was eventually saved.
Earlier a huge wave, the
| one that finally finished the
j Wasp, took the barrel of drink
j ing water overboard.
! The ordeal for the six mer
j then began. They were with
jout food, water, compass anc
J had only a vague idea of theii
! position, Mads-n said.
| Prior to abandoning the
| Wasp they were heading foi
Nunivak Island. The storrr
j continued for days. Waves
dwarfed the small dory and
I the men began to suffer from
| thirst.
j At the end of the fourth daj
, Madsen spotted a small strif
of land. He debated for seve
ral minutes before telling the
others for fear they would
jump up in joy and swamp the
boat.
They finally reached the
land to find it a bar. The main
land was still several miles
distant. On finally reaching
shore they experienced diffi
culty in getting across a
slough. They were forced to
return to the dory and remain
over night.
The next morning they
found three Eskimo hunters
on the beach. After a long
trip by kyak and hiking over
land they reached St. Michael
and finally returned to Nome.
Other recordings of Mad
sen’s experiences at trading
and hunting in the Arctic have
been heard by the club.
Sgt. & Mrs. Chambers
Return To Kodiak
Sgt. and Mrs. Walter Cham
bers and two children arrived
here early this week from Se
attle.
Sgt. Chambers is a membei
of the ACS and was assigned
to Kodiak in 1948-49. He left
here four years ago. He served
one year in Seattle, two in
Fairbanks, another in Seattle
, and was then ordered to Ko
'diak.
I The new Civil Defense re
volving siren was installed
and tested Wednesday after
noon.
The siren is atop Signal Hill.
It is sounded by pushing a
button at the U. S. Federal
Jail. It gives out a “rising and
falling wail” George Sonntag,
[director, said.
Alan Drowns
After Poor Leap
The turbulent waters of
Shelikof Strait claimed a
nother victim iast week wrhen
a cannery worker from the
barge Valk/ra attempted to
leap from one fishing vessel to
another.
Doime S. Maki, Paulsbo,
Washington, was aboard a
small vessel being towed by
the barge. Ke tried to jump
from the vessel to another
which was also being towed.
There was no communication
between the barge and the
two smaller vessels and ap
proximately two hours elapsed
before a search could be made.
A Kodiak Coast Guard PBY
took off from the local base at
7:21 am June 13 upon receiv
ing orders from Comsar 2. The
’plane and the three vessels
I made a circular search in the
Talki Island area which is
near the Peninsula and across
the straits from Uganik Bay.
Early reports reaching Ko
diak started a rumor that the
victim was from the Island
| Seafoods’ floating cannery
I which left here around the
t'me of the accident for Chig
nik.
The Vaikyra, registery and
skipper unknown, reported by
1 radio to the CG that they were
] enroute to Chignik. After a
j five hour search the barge re
1 quested permission to proeeed
to Chignik,
1 Maki’s body was not re
-covered.
! Fowler Martin and John R.
Lashley of the Pacific National
Bank of Seattle were in town
f last week. They attended tl*e
Chamber of Commerce meet
ing Thursday as the guest of
Marshall Crutcher.
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