Korean Veterans Now Stationed at
Kodiak Want To See War Finished
U. S. Naval Station, Kodiak.
Alaska, Oct. 29—Several Navy
and Marine Corps combat veter
ans of the Korean fighting have
reported here for duty. Among
these veterans is Cpl. George Lar
sen, son of Mr. Sverre Larsen,
box 396. Wrangell, Alaska, who
served with the 7th Marines for
six months.
His outfit went into action at
Pusan and saw their first casual
ties. “It didn’t feel too good to
see a dead man,” Cpl. Larsen ex
plained. He participated in the
8-day retreat from the Chosin
reservoir.
Marine Sgt. Earl Stidam, a ma
chine-gunner with the 5th Ma
rines, received a purple heart and
three months hospitalization from
a leg wound received on “No
Name” Ridge. The action on that
ridge turned into a bloody hand
to-hand fight. Stidam’s comment'
!;Our guns were all in good work
ing order, but we kept running
out of ammunition.”
Another veteran of nine months
in a mortar section of the 5th
regiment was Sgt. John Harring
ton. “They’re crazy, that’s all! All
of them are doped-up with opium
and crazy fanatics,” he said.
Although Sgt. Harold Kumba
luk never got to the front, he saw
what the war did to the civilian
population. “It was an awful
mess,” said the sergeant. He was
a cook with the combat service
group.
The four marines summarized
the morale of the leathernecks,
of which 90 percent were not
World War II veterans, as being
extremely high. They had plenty
of confidence in their commis
sioned and non-commissioned of
ficers, who tag Korea “The rough
est Marine action.” They all nod
ded in assent when Sgt. Stidam
exclaimed, “We’d just as soon go
back and finish it!”
Boilerman, first class, Ingram
Paulson served in the navy for
20 years, but was called from his
fleet reserve retirement to help
man the Navy’s Ahiphibous Force
command ship USS Eldorado. He
spent 14 months in the Korean
area, and went through several
bombardments and air attacks.
His Kodiak billet is aboard .the
USS ARD-31 (a floating repair
dock).
Before the united nations’ for
ces could make their amphibious
landings, sea lanes had to be
cleared of rec mines. Heading
mine-sweeper division 31 was Lt.
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Comdr. Darcy Schouldice, USN,
now 17th naval district assistant
war plans officer at Kodiak. Out
of an estimated 2.000 mines laid
by the communists, his division s
“sweeps” destroyed approximate
ly 1,200. The tiny ships were con
stantly in danger of shore bom
bardment and undetected mines.
During the 15 months that
LCDR Schouldice commanded
Mine-sweeper Division 31, four
United States sweeps were lost
by contact with Red mines and
five Korean sweeps were de
stroyed. This division did the
mine sweeping chores at Pohang.
Inchon, Jusan. Wanson, Hung
dun, Sangjin; and Chinampo be
fore landings were made by the
U. N. forces.
For his meritorious service with
mine-sweeper division 31, LCDR
Schouldice was awarded the navy
cross. His comment on the Ko
rean war was, “I agree with the
four marines, it’s a rough, dirty
war-I hope we see it thru
to the end. Too many brave boys
have died in this war.”
WINTER FEED SUPPLIES
FEARED SHORT IN VALLEY
A big increase in the Mata
nuska Valley’s cow population in
recent months plus poor fall har
vest conditions have created a
shortage of feed for the coming
winter. Many Valley farmers are
not alarmed as yet. They expect
to get in those oat-pea shocks
some time before spring.
Others, swinging to brome
grass in the last year or so, man
aged to get in more adequate
quantities of silage and hay, al
though hampered by lack of ma
chinery. Baled bromegrass hay is
reported selling at $75 a ton at
the present time.
New Babies
A son. John Eston, was born to
Mr. and Mrs. John Luster of Chic
kaloon at Valley hospital Thurs
day, October 25. He weighed eight
pounds, six ounces. John Luster,
Sr. is well known locally as a
trapper and guide.
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Carpenters Local 2251
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EXTENSION SERVICE
By RICHARD BLUE
M.V.B.A. at Kellogg Farm
The next meeting of the Mat
anuska Valley Breeders Associa
tion is scheduled for 8 p.m. Nov.
6th at the Miss V. Louise Kellogg
residence. One of the main busi
ness features will be the action
by the membership on the graz
ing lease offered by Vic Falk to
the Association. Mr. Sweetmah
of the Experiment Station will
bring us up to date on the ex
perimental work conducted at the
Station. All in all, it promises to
be an interesting program, so
plan to be there.
Swedish Farm Life Report
Herb Lang, recent graduate of
the University of Alaska, has just
returned from a summer spent
working on a Swedish farm. Herb
expects to be called to active duty
in the near future but plans tj
spend some time in the Territory
speaking to interested groups
about the agriculture of Sweden.
Many people try to compare Al
aska with the Scandinavian coun
tries but few have actually had
a chance like Herb's, to do it on
a practical basis.
1952 ACP
The Extension Service plans to
open the 1952 ACP program in
the near future. As soon as we
get a little more information from
the Fairbanks office, you will be
invited to apply for assistance foi
the various conservation prac
KOW CHIEF NAMED FOR SPECIAL MASS FOR ,
ARC ENGINEERING DIV. ALL SOULS DAY
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Alaska Road Commission, replac
ing George M. Tapley who has
i joined a consulting engineer firm.
, according to an announcement
| from the Alaska Road Commis
sion.
Mr. Shultz joined the engineer
ing staff of the Alaska Road Com
mission in March, 1949, as chief
of the bridge design branch. Dur
ing the past several years he has
designed and prepared plans and
specifications for the modern
highway bridges of steel and con
crete which are being built as a
part of the ARC’S extensive high
way reconstruction and paving
program now in progress.
tices. There are some changes this
year in that more specifications
have been included in some of the
practices. The land clearing speci
fications have been completely
rewrritten to better adopt it to fit
conservation practices and not as
a subsidy for land clearing.
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iniee consecutive masses, me
first to start at 8 p.m. will be said
by Rev. James P. Snead Friday
morning, November 2 in com
memoration of All Souls Day.
This is a day of devotion on which
the Church commemorates the
souls of all the departed.
All Saints Day was celebrated
with an eight o’clock mass said
by Rev. Snead, this morning.
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