L ibrafy-Museum
Juneau, Alaska
"News of cAmericas Last Frontier”
OL. 6 NO. 20
KODIAK, ALASKA JULY 13, 1946
PRICE 10 CENTS
lust Keep
PA Data
Alaska retailers, business firms
ad all persons who have been
ubject to OP A regulations are
dvised of the urgency of pre
erving all records previously re
tired by those regulations
rhie warning was issued today
a a statement made by Territor
il headquarters of the Alaska
)PA in Juneau, which announc
s that enforcement activity will
roeeea on price violations and
iay other failure to comply with
)PA regulations in effect prior
» July 1—if such offenses occur
ed or were incurred on or before
one 30, 1946.
Irdinances
*assed Monday
The zoning ordinance, pub
ished in the Mirror last month,
•as passed by the council Mon
lay. Skid shack owners in zoned
reas will have a year to bring
hem up to the standard of the
•strict they are in.
The jail lot ordinance, provid
ig for gift of part of the city
all property for a federal jail
ite was also passed. It must be
atified by the voters.
The ordinance providing for
nuance of revenue bonds for
urchase of a site and construct
on of a cold storage plant, had
* second reading and passed
nanimously. This ordinance
»«8t also be the subject of an
leetion
larluk Decision
hie Thursday
The Karluk fish reservation
ase, heaid in Fairbanks this
reek before Judge Harry E.
*ratt ended with the case being
afeen under advisement, with
he decision to be rendered next
Thursday, July 18.
The suit was brought by the
5rimes Packing company and 6
rther Kodiak fishing and canning
tompanies and resulted in a re
training order and directed the
fch and Wddlife service to ap
«ar to show cause why they
hould not be permanently en
oined from enforcing an order
gainst fishing in the Karluk res
:rvation waters by other than
Karluk natives.
Local people interested in the
trial flew to Fairbanks for it, re
turning on Friday’s PNA plane.
’fan Outing Club
All persons interested in form
ng an Outing club are cordially
nvited to attend a meeting for
■hat purpose to be held at the
Community Center Monday ev
«ing at 8.
Softball Tonight
A softball game is scheduled
tonight (Saturday) at 6:30 at the
school grounds, Ken Wade, Cen
ter director, announced today.
All interested are invited to
attend.
Speed Dreyer
Not Found
No trace has been retorted of
Speed Dreyer, local pilot, and his
3 passengers, who left Kodiak
June 16, presumably bound for
Anchorage.
This week the CAA reported a
check had been made of all their
stations without results.
Drey er had filed a flight plan
the day before his departure for
a trip to Anchorage, stopping at
Homer, but cancelled it, and
then left without filing a new
plan. The plane did not stop at
Homer after leaving here, it has
been learned.
Dreyer’s passengers were Mr
and Mrs. R. N. Glasgow and Bill
Hostetter. The plane, a Beech
craft amphibian, had no radio.
Garbage bills after the current
billing will be sent monthly, and
service will be discontinued for
non-payment. Those who have
the service cut off will be subject
to prosecution under the health
ordinance.
Action on the matter was tak
en by the council after it was re
ported there is a tatal of $1933.10
due on delinquent garbage bills.
Two Union Oil Co. officials,
W E Davenoort, Seattle district
manager, and Don Livingston*
Alaska manager, visited here
Sunday and Monday on a four
of inspection of Alaska.
Work Continues
The town-base road will be
open at noon today, but men
and equipment will be working
for some time and traffic condi
tions will be hazardous un
til the work is completed.
Only essential traffic should
use the road, according to base
officials, and delays may be ex
pected.
The road was closed most of
each day the past week for blast
ing and placement of cu'verts.
Port Bailey
Worker Dies
Teofilo Cacatian, of Seattle,
Filipino cannery worker from
Port Bailey, died yesterday while
being brought to Kodiak for
medical attention.
Death was ascribed to cerebral
thrombosis. The deceased had
been a patient at the hospital
here earlier in July. <
B-29ToHop
Over Alaska
A nor-stop 40-hour flight,
from Honolulu to Cairo, Egypt,
is to be made next Monday by
an Army B-29, which will ap
proximately follow the great cir
cle route. The plane will fly over
Juneau, near the North Pole,
and over Greenland and Rome
to its destination.
The local CAA office will be in
contact with the plane during its
flight. It is the longest non-stop
flight ever attempted.
Announce
‘Doings’
Who is the best (or luckiest.)
ciibbage player in Kodiak?
That is tne question the Kodi
ak Community center will at
tempt to answer Tuesday, July
16, when cribbage players are
invited to participate in the first
of a series of tournaments open
to men and women. Play will
start at 8 pm. The center will
furnish cards and boards. Players
who have their own pet cribbage
boaids, or scoring slabs of unus
ual construction, are invited to
bring them along. Prizes will be
awarded the champion and run
rer-up.
Boys and girls are invited to
participate in a field day pro
gram this morning (Saturday)
under the sponsorship of the
center. The program will be held
at the school grounds at 11 am
if weather is nice, otherwise in
the Center hall. Athletic com
petition, mass play, relays and
other games wdl be featured.
Youngsters must have a Com
munity Center membership card
(issued free on application and
approval of parents) to partici
pate.
Tonight. (Saturday) is Request
Dance night The center’s entire
collection of more than 500
dance recordings of the best
bands in the land will be avail
able and requests will be played
throughout the evening. Admis
sion is free.
Horseshoe pitchers have their
inning tomorrow (Sunday) when
the July barnyard golf tourna
ment gets underway at 3 pm.
rhe center had new tournament
pits, installed last wt ek by Ee!
Meader, Curt Noble, Marcus
Meyer and Frank Beals. Meader
June champion, and sailor Bud
Lemmoii, who won the Inde
pendence Day tourney, will be
on hand to meet all comers.
Capt. J. Coyne and Sergeant
Htady of the Army, doubles
champs, also are expected to de
fend. Prizes will be awaided the
winners.
Folks who like to sing are in
Flight Planned
Another PNA excursion flight
is planned Sunday if about 15
more sign up for it, Ray Martin,
agent, announced today. Those
wishing to make the flight should j
make their reservations as early ]
today as possible <
- 1
2 Bear Cubs
On Display
Pat Cannon returned Wednes- 1
day from a trip to Larsen’s bay 1
where he picked up 2 Kodiak
bear cubs that he is going to
send to a zoo in the States.
The cubs will be on display all
this week at the Kodiak Com- 1
munity Center, where all who
have not had an opportunity to
do so may see what a youthful
Kodiak bear looks like.
The cub* were born in Febru
ayy and are already la'ge enough
that they must be caged.
vited to rally round the piano
with Mrs. Mona Heady at 4 pm
Sunday for an informal session
in the center.
Monday is Badminton night
with play from 7 to 9 pm. The
center has equipment and will
furnish birds. Players are re
quested to wear tennis shoes.
Juuior dancing instruction,
open to both boys and girls, is
conducted at the center Tues
days and Thursdays at 2 pm.
Ailten Wade is instructor.
“Swing your partner” will be
the call at the center again next
Wednesday evening, July 17
when Caller Ken Wade invited
all interested adults to ‘take
your places, straighten up your
faces, tighten up your braees,
loosen-up your belly-bands,
squeeze your partner’s hands
and swing out ” Dancing starts 1
at 9 pm. Plenty of polkas, schot
bisches, waltzes and circ e dances 1
intersperse the squares. *
Signing of Tom Naehand, fo> I
mer Navy middleweignt cham- '
pion, as community center box- <
ing coach was announced this
week. Buys desirous oi obtaining 1
boxing instruction are invited to I
meet Mr. Naehand at the center ‘
Thursday, July 18, at 7 pm. <
Prospective boxing class mem- s
bers must have permission of f
their parents. Instruction in the ’
manly art will be provided every 1
Thursday evening. A champion- I
ship tournament is planned for 1
next fall.
Ballroom danc.ng instruc ion, t
For adults seriously interested in c
learning to foxtrot, waltz, etc., is 1
now offered at the center on i
Thursday nights at 8:30. The 1
Misses Lorna Campbell, Theron
Torgerson and Alice Madsen, i
and Charles Wameling will act <
as instructors
The July ping-pong champion
(continued on page 4)
Post Man
Snaps City
Larry Keighley, color photog
apher Tor the Saturday .Evening
’oet, arrived at the base Tues
lay via Naval Air Transport
>lane from Seattle, on his first
rip to Alaska.
On cloudy Wednesday he visit
id in town, and on sunny Thurs
iay was again in town taking
jictures
He said the Post plans about
1 articles from his trip; 1 on the
talnion industry, to be filmed at
Bristol bay, 1 on naval establish
ments in the Aleutian^ and
ibout 2 other civilian subjects.
He left yesterday for Bristol
nay, will make the trip down the
Aleutian chain, and will then go
;o Anchorage and Fairbanks
Pictures Mr. Keighley took
iere included shots of Kodiak
;rom the side of Pillar mountain,
2 Kodiak bear cubs, bathers in
Mission lake and the base Ski
3halet area and Bell’s dairy.
Skid shack permits were issued
to: T T Jackson, 4 on Mission
road; Warren Flechtner, 1 past
Montmartre; Community Cen
ter, 1 for a hobby room; Pat
Lynch, 3 to the Jordan place on
Mission road; Oscar Nelson, 1
'or a warehouse on the channel
aeach.
Hereafter permits must be ap
proved before any skid Rhacks
ire moved. (See Notice in this
ssue)
Twin Tumbles
Injure Tots
The two sods of Mr. and Mrs.
Stan Austerman, AlIeD, 3, and
Dickie, 2, both fell from the fam
ly car at two different times
md both suffered scalp lacera
ions that required medical.treat
oent at the GM hospital Tues
lay
Mrs. Austermau was driviBR
he car on Mdl bay road with
he children in the back seat.
Apparently Dickie grabbed the
loor handle of the sedan to
teady himself an 1 the d * op
n d and he fell onto the r> a»tJ
v <y. Bleeding from a cut on his
lead, Mrs. Austerman hurriedly
tut him in tne front seat with
ier and started for the hospital
She had gone only a short dis
ance when Allen fell out "f the
ar from the same d. or, which
tad appirent.ly n t been latched
ecurely in Mis. Austerman’s
laete. His herd was cut also.
Re lieving Allen Mrs. Auster
nan drove into town, and the
ihildren weie taken to the GM
tospital, where Allen had 1
i itch taken in his cut and D.cfe e
lytd several.