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7QL14 NO 6_KODIAK, ALASKA APRIL 17, 1954,__PRICE lQ.CENTS-^
Kodiak Bank To Host
Bankers Convention
Bank of Kodiak will be host'
next week, from Thursday
Aoril 22, through Saturday
Aril 21. for son? 41 visiting
bankers and their wives from
all over the Territory of Alaska
and several of the States.
These bankers will be gather
ad here for Alaska’s Sixth An
anal banking Convention. Our
awn Marshall Crutcher, pres
ident of the Bank of Kodiak .is
the president of the associa
't»n this year.
With the exception of Thurs
day, when the Chamber of
Commerce will entertain the
tankers and their wives at the
Momarte Inn, all the official
tasiness of the convention will
be held at the Elk’s Club.
Main speakers at these meet
ings will include J.M. Leisner,
viee president from the Seattle
Branch of the Federal Reserve
Bank of San Francisco, C.R.
tiosset president, from Sioux
(Sty Iowa’s Security National
Bank, and E.W. Wells Ervin,
president, from Alaska’s Terr
iterial Banking Board.
This ’'convention is held
every year at one of the*major
cities in the Territory to
discuss banking problems,
policies and legislative matters
pertaining to bankingand gen
eral economy. The Bink of
Kodiak was appointed to be
host this year at last year’s
convention, and some other
city will draw the honor, for
next year, during the conven
tion at the meetings held next
week.
1 Some time during the con
vention local artists will hold
an exhibition at the U.S.O. for
the visitors. And the wive3 of
the visiting bankers will be
taken on a tour of Kodiak's
places of interest by the wives
of the directors of the Bank of
Kodiak.
On Friday, between 2pm and
4pm. Mrs. A Holmes Johnson
and Mrs. Bob Acheson, assist
ed by Mr3. W.A. McDavid.
will give a Tea for the wives
of the visiting bankers.
Mrs. Marshall Crutcher and
Mrs. Wm. L. Smith will give a
luncheon for the delegates
wives Saturday at noon, April
24th.
The convention is expected
to be comoletei sometime Sit
uriiv afternoon. A bmouet is
schedule! for Saturday eve
inar at the Elk’s Club. All the
hankers and their wives will
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Orrin Kimball Dies '
In Seattle Saturday
Orrin Kimball, Alaska
Steamship Agent for Kodiak
until he resigned, died sud
denly last Saturday of a heart1
attack. Kimball, 45 years °f
age, was born in Seattle and
came to Alaska in 1933. While
in Alaska he worked for
various transportation com
panies. At the time of his
death he was employed by the
Boeing Airplane Company in
| Seattle.
Orrin was a member of Ark
Lodge No. 126, Free and Ac
cepted Masons, the Elks and
the Moose. 1
He was a graduate of Frank
lin High School and attended ,
the University of Washington
where he was a member of
Zeta Psi Fraternity.
Those surviving are his
father, William B. Kimball,
Sr , of Seattle and a brother,
William B. Jr., of Juneau,
Alaska.
Funeral services were held
last Thursday at 7 pm in the
Clark Rafferty Funeral Home .
followed by cremation.
Fairbanks (A*) — Employ
ment officials said Thursday
that a total of 2,789 people are
seeking work in Fairbanks.
Construction is not scheduled
to get underway until May
1st. The job seekers are ar
riving in town, app'ying forj
work at the rate of 10 a day.
Mir tin Issues
PN4 Schedule
Ray Martin, district traffic
manager, for Pacific Northern
Airlines, announced recently
that PNA has changed its pat
tern of service into Kodiak to
Anchorage effective April 15th,
to two flights daily.
The first flight will leave
Anchorage at 8:45 am and ar
rive ins Kodiak at 11:15 am.
stopping at Kenai and Homer,
and the flight will make stops
going back to Anchorage at
Kenai and Homer for local
traffic. This flight will leave
Kodiak at 12:10 pm and arrive
in Anchorage at 2:30 pm.
The evening flight will leave
Anchorage at2:45 pm and will
stop at Kenai and Homer ar
riving in Kodiak at 5:10 pm.
This flight will leave Kodiak
at 5:40 pm and fly non-stop to
Anchorage arriving at 7:45 pm
This flight will make connect
ions with the Seattle flight
leaving Anchorage at 8:30 pm.
MISSION TO RECEIVE $$$
Montesano, Ariz. -Most of the
$20,000 estate of Hardin
Thomas Layman of Aberdeen
will go to the Kodiak Orphans
home of Kodiak, Alaska, and
the First Babtist church of
Aberdeen, papers filed in
Grays Harbor county superior
eourt show.
Layman, who died recently
at Tucson, Ariz., left a will
bequeathing $5(0 to each of
four survivors and directing
that 70 percent of the remain
der go to the orphans’ home
and 30 percent to the church.
Girl Scout Director Visit Kodiak
To Help Group Leaders Organize
Miss Dorothy Petron, Di
rector of the Regional Girl
Scouts and Mrs. Elmer E.
Rasmuson, president of Susit
na Girl Scout Council will ar
rive in Kodiak April 21, to as
sist the leaders and committees
in getting the Girl Scouts and
Brownies fully organized.
Leaders, committees, spon
soring committees and all in
terested persons in town and
on the Naval Base are urged
to attend the meetings to be
helcf Wednesday night and
Thursday morning.
On Wednesday night April
21 the meeting will be held in
High School Hall at 8:30 pm
for the leaders, and commit
tees, and mothers of the Girl
Scout Intermediate group. This
meeting will be for the dis
cussion of this particular
group.
Thursday morning at_10:00_
am. a meeting win ne neia in
the Quonset Hut at High
School Bldg, for leaders, com
mittee and mothers of the
Brownies. Of course every one
is welcome to attend both
meetings and take advantage
of the limited time these of
ficers have in Kodiak. ,
Miss Petron and Mrs. Ras
muson are qualified to answer
any and all questions pertain
ing to Scouting and as there
is such a grert need for more
leaders for the girls in order
to get them registered in
Headquarters take advantage
to get becter acquainted with
Scouting.
Remember no girls is a
scout until she is registered
and each troop has to have a
leader and committees. So
please attend these meetings
and help the girls who want
j to become Scouts.
Red Gross Gives
First Aid Classes
The Kodiak Chapter of the
American Red Cross wishes to
announce an official class in
First Aid, under the auspices
of the American Red Cross, to
be given, starting April 20th.
This class will meet at 6:30
to 8:30 every Tuesday and
Thursday for four weeks and
everyone is invited to join and
receive a Red Cross Certificate
in First Aid.
The course will he held at
the Kodiak High School in the
chemistry room.
Especially urged to take the
course are all policemen, fire
men and civil defense wardens
and workers.
Lee F. Bettmger is an au
thoaized instructor and all
interested persons contact
him.
Kansas City, Mo. (A*) —
Louis Shoulders, former St.
Louis police officer, was con
victed Thursday of lying to
the Grand Jury which investi
gated the Greenlease kidnap
ping case.
The jury found Shoulders
guilty of perjury- the same
charge of which suspended
policeman Elmer Dolan was
convicted two weeks ago.
C-D Head Ta
| Mr. Harold Pomeroy, Direc
tor of Civilian Defense, Teri
ritor y of Alaska, is in Kodiak^
to re organize the city into*
Civilian Defense Units. City*
Manager, Robert Sharp has
been appointed as City Direci
tor of the activity.
The first steps taken in the'
re-organization program was*
to start classes in firs* aid, to
^ give citizens "Some technique®
to handle people who have
been injured in the wake of *
j catastrophe.
| Methods and procedures to
] follow in case of bombings,,
i how to protect ones self
] against disaster of this kind;:
; the do’s and don’ts; in short
to relieve those with the prop
l er knowledge so that a few
wiM not have the total burdeiv
on their shoulders.
Evacuation of city populace
is an important factor that-,
will require minute organiza
tion. if we should be invadeci
I or bombed.
Remember Pearl Harbor.
An ounce of prevention isj
■ worth more than a pound of
cure. «*■*''"
Mrs. Arr.o’d Ewing returned*
returned home last week from
«
i a trip outside^ J
Coming Out
Twins Caren. left, and Carol Von See of Griffith, lmi.
are a couple interested spectators at the Museum of Science
and Industry. Chicago, 111., as they watch a chick emerge
from its shell. It was part of an Easter display at the Mus
eum. Top: chick is just leaving the shell, bottom: Caren is
real serious, but Carol smiles as she gets a closer look at the*
new chick. (^Pwlrephoto)
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