"News of oAmericas Last Frontier’
KODIAK, ALASKA FEBRUARY 3, 1951
VOL 10 NO 48
PRICE 10 CENTS
ACC A Seeks
Members
The Kodiak Chapter of the
Alaska Crippled Children’s
Association has actively joined
the campaign to raise funds ,
by mailing letters giving in
formation on the activities of
the chapter and asking the
renewal of memberships.
A part of the letter reads:
"The ACCA was formed to
care for Alaskan crippled
children. The funds retained
ha the Kodiak Chapter take
care of such things as the pur
chase of glasses, corrective
shoes, X-rays and medication,
for local children, as well as
transportation to Mt. Edge
eumbe Orthopedic Hospital in
Sitka.
“The territorial ACCA
fund, which is matched by the
Federal Government dollar
for dollar, keens Mt. Edge
combe Hospital operating. It
requires $3,000 per year to
keep a child there. 25% of the
money collected locally is re
tained for our local expenses.”
The membership goal of the
focal campaign is 500. Mem
bership in the ACCA is only
$1 per year, and any addi
tional donations are greatly
appreciated.
The local chapter has en
closed a membership card in
the letter which you are urged
to keep. You are requested to
ill out an attached form and
return it with your contribu-.
tion. All contributions should
be addressed to Orrin H. Kim
ball, Treasurer Kodiak Chap
ter, ACCA, Kodiak. '
Alaska Army
Duty Extended
Anchorage (A1) — Foreign
service tours for Alaskan
Army personnel were extended
as additional six months by a
Department of the Army
directive, the Anchorage
Times reported.
Effect of the extension, the
second of its kind in six
months, is a one-year increase
m the original two-year A
laskan tour of duty.
No further extension of en
listments other than that
ordered earlier has been an
nounced.
Gar/and Starts
Westward Run
The Garland, westward
mailboat owned by the Berger
Transportation Company,
made its first stop in Kodiak,
under the company’s new con
tract for mail delivery, Sun
day.
The vessel is skippered by
€aptain Elmer Dow.
Weather Breaks,
Groundhog Hides
Old Man Weather sent his
thickest fog and rain to Ko
diak Island this week and
held up the Pacific Northern
Airlines scheduled daily trips
from Monday to Thursday.
Many impatient Kodiak
travellers postponed depar
tures and fretfully sent off
telegrams cancelling hotel
reservations and appointments
during the three day lull in
air traffic.
| Thursday two PNA planes
j landed at the Naval Station
j airstrip, unloaded a three days
■ accumulation of mail and pas
sengers from Anchorage,
loaded the Kodiak mail,
freight and passengers and
returned.
Friday, the sun came out
and the "Giound Hug ’ got a
glimpse of his shadow and,
according to the old story, he
has gone back underground
because there will be six
weeks more of winter.
Late Bulletins
By Associated Press
Washington—High officials
are reported to have decided
that United Nations troops
shcu'd stop at th* 38th
1 aral el if they are able to
drive that far' in Korea. The
intent appeared to be an ef
fort to create a basis for a
settlement of the war.
Lake Success—The U. N.
General Assembly found Com
munist China guilty of agres
sion by a vote of 44 to 7.
Tokyo—Allied forces smash
ed an enemy trap in central
Korea and rolled north on the
western front against Chinese
Reds. The enemy was hard
hit by superior firepower.
The allied troops reached
positions 40 miles from the
38th parallel.
Washington—In a move to
speed Navy high priority con
struction the House Armed
Services Committee appropri
ated funds which include
$835, OuO for Kodiak Naval
communications project.
Mrs. W. J. Wheeldon, Mrs.
Ben Kraft and Mrs. Bea
Nac ltweih left this week by
plane for Seattle. From there
they plan to drive south
through California, for about
a month.
Mrs. Wheeldon plans to go
to Conrad, Iowa, to visit her
husband’s sister.
Howard Wakefield, Herring
reduction plant operator, of
Port Wakefield, was an incom
ing plane passenger last Fri
day.
Man May Be
Lost In Fire j
Trygve Carlsen, a})out 48,I
known locally as Gasoline!
Gus, is believed missing from
his home at Carmel where he J
is winter watchman for the;
cannery operated by Kadiak
Fisheries.
Early this week, Robert von
Scheele. island mail contractor
reported to the marshal’s of
fice that when he arrived at'
Carmel he found Carlsen’s
cabin burned to the ground
and no sign of Carlsen. The
only neighbor, a mile away,
said he had not seen Carlsen
for two weeks.
Chuck Turner, Kadiak Fish
eries superintendent now at
Port Bailey, went to Carmel
to investigate, and later ad
vised Deputy iviarsnal Ciar
ence Dizney that bones were
found in the ashes.
He was due here late
yesterday or today with the
remains, and an examination
will be made to determine if
they are human. If so, an in
quest will be held.
Dance Planned
To Aid Team
The Kodiak High School
basketball team is giving a
dance Feb. 10 to raise money
for its trip to Anchorage.
The dance will be from 9 to
12 o’clock and Donald Clark
will be master of ceremonies.
High school students are
drawing posters telling about
features of the affair, and the
refreshments.
Betty and Willy Hall will
furnish the music for the
dance, to be held at the com
munity center.
Tickets will sell for one
dollar and will go on sale this
week.
Bill Would Benefit
Sick Fishermen
Juneau (A*)— Rep. C. C.
“Red” Carlson, Cordova
fisherman, is back again with
another bill for the aid of sick
and disabled fishermen. A
similar bill fell by the way
side in the 1949 session.
The bill proposes 40% of
money from fishermen’s
licenses would go into the
new fund. Benefits would be
paid for injuries to fishermen
at work or for occupational
disease. There would be a $2,
500 limit on any single case.
The bill provides for a board
of seven, including the labor,
health and tax commissioners
and four licensed fishermen to
be appointed by the governor.
March Of Dimes
Nets $650
The local March of Dimes
drive sponsored by the Kodiak
i Business and Professional Wo
men’s Club, netted about $650,
| it was announced yesterday.
[ The dance last Saturday
1 night brought in $593 and
: dime jars around town pro
duced almost $235. Dance
receipts included $60.50 ob
tained by auctioning a 10
1 pound box of candy.
Expenses will be less than
$200, the group said. Still to:
be heard from is Woody Is- ]
land which each year contri- j
butes a large sum to the
j cause.
Cheechako Liquor
Store Sold
Mrs. Helen Halliday and
Bobby Rice, the latter of
Woody Island, have purchased
the Cheechako Liquor Store
from Martin Jensen, they
announced yesteaday.
The sale of the business,
located in the Kodiak Clean
errs building, was. effective
Feb. 1.
Mrs. Halliday has worked at
the Club Liquor Store and
PNA office for several years
Rice is with the CAA.
The store will remain head
quarters for Ace Cabs, they
added.
Jensen said he “plans to re
tire and become the scow king
of Kodiak.”
I _
, Sitters Exempt From
Minimum Wage
j Juneau (A*) — The “baby
' sitter” seems to have become
{a legislatively-recognized pro
fession. --
A senate bill on a $1 mini
mum hourly wage and a house
j bill for a $1 minimum wage
S and a 40-hour maximum week,
| without overtime, both in
cluded baby sitters among
i exempt groups.
The legislators haven’t for
gotten the school girl picket
line of the 1949 session. The
' girls showed up with picket
: banners after discovery that a
wage-hour bill threatened
! their profitable business.
• Fairbanks (A1) — William
G. Strand, managing editor of
the Fairbanks Daily News
Miner for the past three years,
has resigned, effective Feb. 1,
and John J. Ryan, former
I managing editor of the An
chorage News and Alaska
United Press manager, has
been named to succeed him.
Strand’s plans were not dis
closed.
Legislature
Is Quiet
By Jim Hutcheson
Juneau (A5)—On the basis
of the first two weeks,
1951 may go into A
laska history books as the year
of the quiet legislature. It is
so quiet you could hear a head
drop. But if anyone is trying
to lop off any heads they
haven’t come into the open
yet.
Through Thursday, only
‘ seven bills were introduced
j in the Senate, mostly minor
j ones, and 20 in the house.
“We just don’t have many
bill droppers this Senate,”
.Gunnard Engebreth, Anchor -
| age Republican and senate
j president said.
i The quiet is in sharp con
j trast to the 1949 legislature.
One fight appears in the off
ing over a House bill to create
a four-member committee to
. investigate territorial affaire
on a year-round basis.
The general understanding
is that the Palmer Airport
Deal, in which Stanley Me
Cutcheon. Anchorage Demo
crat, was involved as attorney,
will be the target.
The Third Division solid
Democratic house delegation
is expected to line up against
the House bill. Sponsor Glen
. Franklin, Republican, h»s
denied the “witch hunting”
label some Democrats have
put on the bill.
While both parties seem in
tent on balancing the terri
torial budget and avoiding any
new taxes they have only
passed one measure. It pro
vides $124,000 for session ex
penses and $15 per day living
allowance for each legislator.
' Almost all other action has
been in approving memorials
which legislators introduced to
please constituents and whieh
whisked through on “you
scratch my back and I scratch
yours” basis.
The flag of the United Na
tions, believed to be the first
of standard size displayed ir
Kodiak, and four others will
be installed behind the Kodiak
, Rotary Club’s president's
chair Tuesday at the Mont
martre Inn.
The flags represent the
United States, the Territory
of Alaska, Canada, the UN.
! and Rotary. They are
^mounted on standards and
trimmed in gold fringe.
The club has always dis
played a United States flag of
standard size and has minia
ture flags of every country
that h?s a Rotary Chib.