Let Garbaf e
Contract
An ordinance witndrawmg
! disposal of garbage from private
enterprise and providing for its
j disposition with regulations and
; penalties was passed at the city
council Monday night. At the
same time a contract was ap
proved whereby garbage haul ng
in Kodiak will be handled by
PatricK Lynch & Co.
j Under the ordinance the City
Health Officer and-or the health
committee will classify all homes
and establishments as to class of
service to conform to health re
quirements. This classification
! determines the hauling charge.
The ordinance provides as
follows:
1. Garbage hauling is declared
to be a monopoly of the city and
disposition of garbage is placed
within exclusive regulation and
control of the city.
2. Any private person, per
sons or corporation may haul or
dispose of garbage on premises
owned or lawfully possessed by
him or it by obtaining for each
such hauling or disposition a
permit signed and approved by'
the City Health officer and city
clerk.
3. The city shall designate the
agent for hauling by contracting
to an interested party under
such terms and conditions as ap
proved by a two thirds vote of
the council.
4. The city clerk shall mail to
customers regular monthly state
ments covering charges for pre
ceding month, such charges pay
able on the 15th of the month
and if not paid prior to due date
a 10 per cent penalty is provid
ed.
The schedule of charges is:
Hauling 7 days a week—$25
monthly. Hauling 3 days a
week—$15 monthly. Hauling 2
days a week—$10 monthly.
Hauling 1 day each week ('com
mercial)—$5 monthly. 1 day
each week (residential)—$2
monthly.
5. Tne city health officer or
health committee shall classify
the users.
6. Any person violating any
I provision of the ordinance shall
be deemed guilty of a violation
I of the public health and safety
of the city, and on conviction
may be punished by a fine of not
less than $10 nor more than
$100 and-or impiisonment in
jail for a period of not more than
30 days for each separate
offense.
The garbage contract with
Patrick Lynch & Co. is to take
effect as of December 1.
Mrs. Evelyn Todd left this
week for Blythe, Calif., where she
! will visit her parents and her
husband’s parents. Sgt. Todd
expects to join her later. While
in Kodiak Mrs. Todd has been
employed at the Kodiak Foun
tain and for the Kodiak Amuse
ment company.
Emogene Peterson, nurse, who
arrived recently from Seattle, is
employed at the GM hospital,
wit/i CWUf the steamers of
The Alaska Line “went to war” nearly three years ago. The
use of the space aboard these steamers—both passenger and
freight . . . the points at which these steamers call . . . arrival
and departure dates and sailing schedules . . . have properly
been decided on one basis only: how can the war effort he most
benefited?
>jc The Alaska Steamship Company is proud to have gone to
war” ... glad that its ships, its skilled personnel, its long expe
rience were ready to serve America . . . eager to back up the
people of Alaska in their intensive effort to bring the war to
a rapid and victorious close.
At the same time, the personnel of the Alaska Steamship
Company has never lost sight of the passenger and freight
requirements of the Alaskans and their great fishing, mining,
lumbering and commercial enterprises — so important to
wartime and peacetime America. We have consistently made
every possible effort to serve them. And, we will continue
to do so.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY