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' Sf{e<ws of (America 's Last 'frontier
Action Is Needed
A sufficient majority of the vo
ters brought the sales tax as a
reality to Kodiak.
Everybody is in favor of good
roads and a small b®4t harbor for
Kodiak. But evenrtfedy catf*f agree
as to the best npns of Obtaining
them. Consequently thd small ma
jority of>vottS' favoring the sales
tax as a means of obtaining these
heeded improvements. Another tax
in this day and age-of tax on tax,
looms up as just another burden.
The money needed to get these
improvements is assured, but it
will bd over a long period of time.
Help is needed from the Federal
tive program for Kodiak, and to
government to implement an cffec
get it under way right now.
The .City Council would do well
to begin drawing up the sales ta*
ordinance as soon as possible, now
that the voters have favored it
Every day lost is time lost for
ever. And revenue, too.
Those who voted against it are
skeptical as to whether they wil
ever see road improvements and <
small boat harbor. The Couhci
now has the chance to show the]
meant business when they callec
for a vote.
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NEW"U. OF A. BUILDING
NAMED CONSTITUTION HALL
Alaska's constitutional conven
tion will be honored for all time
by the University of Alaska, Dr.
Ernest N. Patty, university presi
dent, disclosed today.
He said the board of regents
agreed to coname the new $600,000
Student Union Building, in which
the convention just ended, “Consti
tution Hall.”
Dr. Patty also disclosed that the
regents agreed to name the recent
ly opened married students’ dormi
tory “Stuart Hall."
This action honors the memory
of Walter T. Stuart of Ketchikan
who died Dec. 2, 1954. At that time
he was vice president of the board
of regent*. He served as a regent
for 14 years. In addition to his
many services to the university,
he was particularly active in the
land acquisition program for the
institution for several years prior
to his death.
Late Bulletins
By Associated Press
Washington (AP) — Delegat
Bartlett said the bill to give Alask;
control of its fish and wildlife re
sources will probably be approve!
by the House Territories Commit
tee. The Committee has schedule!
hearing on the bill next Thursdaj
Washington — The Civil Aerc
nautics Administration has an
nounced the allocation of $38,932,
000 in improvements of 319 aii
ports for the remainder of the fis
cal year ending June 30. New al
locations are in addition to 20
projects announced last August.
Mrs. Don Lawhead is a patien
at the Griffin Memorial Hospita
She entered the hospital Tuesda;
suffering from hepatitis, and ma
be confined there for an mdefinit
period.
Candle in hand, seven-year old leukemia victim Randy Eckmai
fixes his eyes on the altar in France’s famed Roman Catholic Shrin<
of Our Lady of Lourdes. Neighbors in St. Joseph, Mich., financed th<
pilgrimage of Randy and his mother, Mrs. Helen Eckman in the hop<
that divine intervention might halt the ravages of the usually incur
able disease. (AP Wirephoto
AREA WATERS OFFERS JOBS
(Continued from page 1)
want to give you the idea that de
veloping this or any other fishery
resource is all a very easy and
simple matter, that all you have to
do is invest your money and ihen
sit back and count the profits.
That would not be quite true.
There are limiting and complicat
ing factors, though I doubt that
any of them are insurmountable.”
“It is my opinion that if Kodiak
were to proceed with some of the
operations I have iust mentioned,
many of the problems would solve
themselves. For example, at pre
sent we do not have trained per
sonnel to fillet bottomfish or pick
shrimp, but neither did we have
expert crab shakers a few years
back, and now there are dozens of
them. The same reasoning applies
to other phases of the business.
“Right now we do not have ade
quate cold-storage facilities, but if
our industry continues to grow
through the development of these
and other operations, I feel sure
that before long a large cold stor
age plant will be a reality in Ko
diak. It seems inevitable to me, for
business attracts buisness; success
attracts success. When that day ar
rives not only will Kodiak be in a
better position to more fully de
velop its latent fishery resources,
but also to share in the lucrative
halibut business that now passes
us by. Think what that would mean
to Kodiak’s economy.
"Lindsley concluded his highly’)
informative talk with this signifi
cant statement “I don’t believe
Kodiak will ever be another San
Francisco, but 1 do believe Kodiak
could surpass alrtiost any other
town in Alaska in fisheries produc
tion.”
CITY HOSPITAL NEWS
Henry Gordon, 6 lbs. 14 ozs.,
February 7 to Matrona and Kal
umpi Larionoff of Alitak.
Rickey Gene, 7 lbs. 6 ozs., Feb
ruary 8 to Roberta and Irving
Olsen, Kodiak.
Walter Popoff, 7 lbs. 8 ozs., Feb
ruary 8 to Gallina and Alexander
King, Kodiak.
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