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Continue The Fight
Kodiak’s campaign to curb Weil’s disease and to stamp
out the principal carriers of the sickness started this week
with the planting of poison bait all over the town.
To make the program successful the following sugges
tions from the Baltimore City Health Department should be
observed:
1. Eliminate the source of the rats’ food supply by re
moving garbage in alleys, yards, open containers and remov
ing decayed or uneaten retuse which has been thrown in
open lots. ~
2. Remove or destroy the rats’ home by properly stor
ing lumber, removing accmulations of trash, debris and other
miscellaneous material.
3. The alteration or removal of existing structural har
borages as well as making it mandatory for new structures ts
be built so they are rat proof. (This should be made in the
form of a city ordinance).
The above suggestions were received from Baltimore by
Oscar Drake, former Kodiak public school teacher, last fall.
Drake became alarmed by the large rat population in
Kodiak and began a campaign to rid the city of rodents.
While the baiting program may prove successful and
Kill many rats it is necessary to remain alert and continue to
light them as it has been found that within six months after
eradication procedures have been taken, the rat level will be
back to the original figure because of the rapid rebreeding of
the rodents.
William Sallow, chief, division of rodent control, for
Balitmore wrote the following to Drake: “We would like to
see your efforts devoted to a permanent type of program
rather than a “major” campaign” against the rats”
We can all make it a permanent campaign if we will
keep our garbage cans covered and observe the suggestions
of the Baltimore City Health Department.
Mrs. Doris Lang and Mrs. i
Lucille Scogin, sisters of Dave'
Gibson arrived in town Wed-!
nesday aboard the Denali for!
a visit.
Bennie Norton Koonce, 20,
USN, and Sondra Mae Robin
son, 17, Kodiak Naval Station
plan to be married tomorrow.
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| LETTER TO EDITOR
Dear Editor:
I read with interest the
news item on the Alaska De
li partment of Fisheries experi
1 ments to be made on Kodiak
j and Afognak islands. How
i ever Mr. C. L. Anderson,
. Director of the ADF, in his
quoted statement, is in gross
error in regard to the hydro
electric projects on the Colum
, bia river when he said, “No
| attempt whatsoever was made
j to elevate the mature Sal
omon over these edifices.” ‘As
a result these spawning areas
were completely written off.’
“It would seem, that, if just'
a part of the creative genius
[required to build these struc-'
tu res, had been applied to the
problem, suawning salmon
would still be going above
these dams to complete their
life’s mission and their off
spring would be coming down
safely to sea.”
The writer was employed
five years as a Designing
Engineer on the Bonneville
Project, on the Columbia
river, from its beginning in
1933 to the completion of the
engineering work in 1938.
Three of those years were
spent in designing the fish
[ ways structures and ma
chinery and making hydraulic
studies.
1 For the general enlighten
ment of the Public, contrary
to Mr. Anderson’s statements,
the facts are these: Seven
million dollars were spent on
the Bonneville fishways to
build every conceivable practi
cal means of getting the ma
ture migrating salmon above
! the dam and to get the
fingerlings back downstream j
to the Pacific ocean with a
f minimum of loss and distur
: bance.
i At Bonnville dam three ot
the largest fish ladders ever
built are provided for the ma
ture salmon to get above the
dam on their journey up
stream. One ladder at each
end of the dam is thirty feet
: wide and a ladder at the Brad
ford Island end of the power
. house is forty-two feet wide
where it enters the upper
' pool. The weirs of these lad
ders, and the water flows are
adjustable to suit the condi
tions most ideal for the various
species of salmon. In audition
tto these ladders there are
three pairs of fish elevators,
six in all. Each elevator is
| twenty by thirty feet and
through a system of valves
and hydraulic controls the fish
are kept under a constant
j head of water while they are
! being hoisted to the upstream
! pool. Also it is possible to at
I tract the fish into the naviga
tion lock at times when the
runs are heavy. Thus salmon
are locked upstream much in
the same manner as ships are
taken upstream. Extensive
means are provided for gett
ing the fingerlings back down
stream when they are ready
to return to the Pacific to start
their life’s cycle. To prevent
destruction of the fish by go
ing through the turbines,
whether they are fingerlings
or mature salmon, electric
screens are provided at the
entrance and exit of all tur
bine draft tubes.
On the Bonneville project
the Federal Government em
ployed some of our best quali
fied biologists to study the
problem of fish migration in
the Columbia and the facilities
at Bonneville were designed to
fit the needs in the best man
ner that could be devised at
the time. Likewise at the Rock
Island dam, built by a public
utility corporation, there are
both ladders and elevators for
the salmon.
The principal reason fish
ways were not provided at i
Grand Coulee dam is that the
fish studies, made over many
years, showed that relatively,
few salmon went above that
point for spawning. Most of
them found their way up the
many tributaries of the Colum
bia lower down. Salmon as
well as other fish are planted
above Grand Coulee dam for
sporting purposes.
Contrary to many opinions,'
engineers and scientists are,
as a class, not the people who
have a ruthless regard for
wildlife. On the contrary they!
are trained in the conservation :
of natural resources. The'
greater number of them are
profound thinkers and many, j
being sportsmen and wildlife;
conservationists, are genuine- j
ly in sympathy with any pro- \
gram that will benefit our.
natural resources. |
In all fairness to everyone, J
and to his own veracity, it is1
my opinion that Mr. Anderson!
should publicly retract or at!
least correct the statements
which were attributed to him
in the July 21st. issue of the
Kodiak Mirror.
Yours very truly,
Glenn A. Diehl
Director
Design Division
District Public Works Office
Naval Station, Kodiak.
Washington (A>)— A con
tract for a billion and a half
cubic feet of Alaskan pulp
timber was signed by the U.
S. Forest Service and the
Ketchikan Pulp and Paper
Company.
It is the largest sale of tim
ber ever made by the Forest
Service. The timber will be
sufficient to supply the pulp
mill with a 500 tons daily ca
pacity for 50 years. Lyle
Watts, chief of Forest Ser
vice, said the sale culminates
30 years of efforts by the de
partment to establish a pulp
industry in Alaska.
The plant will be at Ward
Cove near Ketchikan and will
employ 800 men. The company
was granted a certificate of
necessity for the construution
of its 40 million dollar plant.
Present plans call for the
production of high g'rade
rayon, cellophane and nitro
cellulose. No paper will be:
produced. I
Chamber Talks Of
Civic Projects
A general discussion of cur
rent civic projects and prob
lems followed the regular
luncheon of the Chamber of
Commerce Thursday at the
Montmartre Inn.
Vice President Tenora Rock
ney told the group that plans
to entertain the round-trippers
and tourists from the Denali
had been arranged but the
early sailing of the vessel pre
vented them from being put
into action.
The Denali arrived at 1 am
Wednesday and sailed at 9 am.
There were 52 round trip pas
sengers aboard.
The oiling of the dusty Ko
diak streets was discussed and
it was pointed out that it was
too costly to purchase oil for
the work. Earlier this summer
a supply of worn out oil was
used and the dust problem
was controlled for several
weeks.
Ma.vor Lee C. Bettinger
said that an architect, an en
gineer and party were in town
surveying for -streets in the
east addition where the hous
ing project is to be located.
He said he did not know when
the actual construction would
begin as that depended on the
firm of Hubbell and Waller,
Inc., completing the water
and sewer system.
He added that the city plan
ned to complete the road work
on Sixth street, which runs
from Mission to Mill Bay
Road, soon.
The preliminary blade work
on the road was done late last
year.
Hospital Hews
BIRTHS:
To Mr. and Mrs. Albert R.
Bigley, a son, July 23, weight,
7 lbs., 3oz., name, Albert
Richard.
To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L.
Vosgien, a son, July 21,
weight, 5 lbs., 9oz., name.
Richard Paul.
Medical attention: Paul
Bond, Martin Jensen, Tom
Johnson, Clyde Sample, Henry
Gonzales, Ralph Unger, Sue
Ann Ramaglia.
Tipton Goes Out
For Medical Care
John Roy Tipton, 72, one
time Kodiak resident and hold
er of the Carnegie Medal left
Seward General Hospital late
this week for the outside
where he will receive treat
ment for cancer.
Tipton was the first Alaskan
to receive the medal.
In 1935 Tipton was packing
supplies to a mine over the
Valdez glacier and came across
four men trapped in a blizzard
on the ice cap.
He shared his clothing with
the men and succeeded in get
ting two of them to a cabin.
The other two died. Tipton’s
toes were frozen during the
rescue and as a result they
were amputated. He came to
Alaska in 1909.