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Kodiak Crab Industry Is
Closed For Six Months
The King Crab Industry re
ceived a severe blow o
day of last week wl.
was received in a tele^iu..
from the Washington Fish &
Oyster Company of Seattle.
This firm handles the crab
pack from Kodiak through
their Northwest brokers. The
wire affecting Kodiak was as
follows:
“We request you discontinue
packing as soon as you can
give proper notice to fisher
men. Suggest finish not later
than December 10th. With in
ventory on hand and further
packing next ten days we will
have sufficient stock to carry
sales program next 5 or 6
months even with closed sea
son.”
Washington Fish & Oyster
Company.
The sudden drastic action
which brought on the King
Crab canning curtailment was
the word received last week
and carried in the MIRROR as
an editorial, dealing with the
lowering of the tariff on Jap
anese canned goods because of
“the deplorable economic con
dition < f the poor Japanese
fishermen.”
“ The reduction in tariff men
tioned above is ‘in committee’
prior to its presentation to Con
gress. If passed this will cause
the local packers to lose $4.00
a case on the pack which is
already in Seattle ready for
marketing, at a value of $525,
000.00
To show what the Kodiak
Crab pack means to Kodiak,
,u>e following figures were
i mpiled from the 3 canneries
operating in the City of xvodiak
and rele ased by Ed Huiser, the
Junior Biologist of the Territ
orial Department of Fisheries.
Year Pack in lbs. Fishermen
1950 64,882 5
1951 199,162 86
1952 538,115 66
1953 817,397 129
1954 3,264,204 170
There were 3,264,204 lbs. of
live crab delivered to the three
Kodiak canneries since Janu
ary 1, 1954 for packing.
Another compilation of fig
ures of the 3 Kodiak canneries
are:
Cannery workers in Kodiak 89
1954 Kodiak payroll $181,588
Value of canneries $350,000
Number of boats used 60
Value of boats $840,000
Number of fisherman 170
Value of 1954 pack $975,795,00
From the wording of the
wire from the WashingtonFish
and Oyster Company, the local
canneries will be closed for the
next 5 or 6 months. This caus
es idleness for 259 workers
and 60 boats which would nor
mally be in use either fishing
the crab, or bringing them in
to the cannery for packing.
The Kodiak Chamber of Com
merce has already taken a
stand on the issue and wired
responsible people in Wash,
ington and the Northwest to
forestall the passage of a Bill
that would so nd the death
knell to a Kodiak industry.
Here's a good one for people who toss around at night.
_ ,. • . ffrAwn hot water bottle and a cycle created from
a metal bedstead make this stunt man the hit of the parade,
arnetai u Zealand, department store procession to,
J.J.Preston Found
Alive At Seattle
Airport Nov 13 h
Julius John Preston, 44.
missing since November 12,
when he dropped out of sight,
has been found.
U. S. Marshal Clarence Diz
ney, sent a wire to the U. S
Immigration Department at
Seattle and received the fol
lowing reply:
“One Julius Preston arrived
Seattle Tacoma Airport, No
vember 13, 1%4 via North
west Airlines Flight 586 and
was admitted as a U. S. citi
zen. No other information
available. Same date on North
we't Airlines flight 582, one
Harry Preston admitted Se
attle-Tacoma Airport as U. S.
citizen. No other information
available.'*
This telegram was received
by Marshal Dizney from John
P. Boyd, U. S. Immigration
and Naturalization Service,
Seattle, Washington, on De
cember 1st.
Thus the case of John Pres
ton, missing person has been
closed by the Territorial De
partment of Police.
In closing the case most of
the known facts have been
established. By a signed
statement from a Ba e em
ployee, who wishes his name
withheld, Preston is known to
have boarded the afternoon
PNA flight for Anchorage on
Friday. November 12th. This
information came into the
Marshal’s office last Tuesday
evening, prompting Marshal
Dizney to send a wire to the
Immigration Department in
Seattle. It also was known
that a Harry Preston was
aboard the same plane, but
any connection between the
two names could not be es
tablished. This signed state
ment went on to describe the
clothing that Preston was
wearing and his description
allied perfectly with the
clothes he is known to have
been wearing when last seen.
The only mysterious part of
the case is how Preston eluded
the Marine sentry when he
boarded the PN \ plane at the
Kodiak Airport and what
name Preston travelled under
on his flight to Anchorage.
Charges Preston faced here
in Kodiak for not reporting an
accident have been dropped
by the Marshal’s office and the
case is considered closed.
TAGURA ROAD FIRE
The Kodiak Fire Depart
ment answered a call to one
of Walt Muller’s houses on
Tagura Road last night,
West Coast
Big Strike-1
San Francisco (A1) Thecreeo
ing paralysis of the WestCoast
Radiomens strike is spreading
through the Pacific Coast
oorts and delaying the sailing
of saveral vessels and forcing
changes in schedules for
others. The number of vessels
tied up in Portland, San Fran
cisco and Seattle is likely to
reach 160 before long, unless
a settlement is reached be
tween the Pacific Maritime,
Association and the CIO A
merican Radio Association
members. The strike started
when ship owners notified the
Union Wednesday, that the
PM A would not honor the con-!
tract signed with the Union
last June.?
“No contract no work, ” Un
ion leaders announced.
Some ships have been re
leased by the Union, however
including two Alaska Steam
Company vessels, the Lucidor
and the Chena.
They were scheduled to sail
on December 3rd.
It was not clear whether the
two Alaska ships were releas
ed by the Union because the
Radiomen were already signed
on before th, strike was called
Tied Up By
.ucidor Sails
or because Seattle’s Mayor s
Maritime Advisory Committee
had requested exemption fot
the Alaska ships.
The ships are not being
picketed but are being held in
port by agreement of other
Union’s ships which will not
be manned until the dispute is
settled.
Some pickets were used at
the beginning of the strike but
they were withdrawn to per
mit the longshoremen to work
where possible without being
hampered by pickets. How
ever, the boats will not sail
until the strike is settled.
The sailing of the Lucidor,
with its many tons of Kodiak
1 cargo, was a necessity for
! Kodiak to have a holiday s«a
; son. Much of the cargo bound
Kodiak was holiday mereh
! andise consigned to local mer
‘ chants.
The cargo also includes a
carload of feed for Crooked
Islands herd of cows belong
ing to A1 Nixon. Nixon made
the statement when informed
of the strike, “If I don’t get
1 some feed for my herd by
December 10,1 will be forced
i Continued on page 4
Mrs. Lorraine Eaton Clark, 28, mother of three
children, leaves a Salem, Mass., court (Nov. 29) after she
received a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment on a plea
of guilty to second degree murder in the shooting-stabbing
death of her husband. The young husband was shot twice and
twice stabbed during Palm Sunday weekend, last April. Mrs.
Clark reported her husband had disappeared after a bitter
quarrel and later sued for divorce. His body was found in
Juse near the Merrimack River, into which Mrs. Clark said
she dumped it after dragging it from their cottage into the
family car. At left is a Massachusetts State trooper. (A?)