"News oj oAmencas Last Frontier”
VOL- 2 NO. 7
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KODIAK, ALASKA, APRIL 18 1942
PRICE 10 CENTS
Army Said Reaching Stage For Offensive
KODIAK .
DIARY ...
There were a couple of stiffs at
be Bank of Kodiak Monday. . .
le stiffness was the result of a
Kmntain climb up one of the
Ihree Sisters, made by Robert
1 Dawson and Harvey Brown,
lie boys camped near the base
(the mountain Saturday night
id made the climb in good time
inday They had clear weather
id a grand view of the sur
Kinding territory .. . they cap*
ired some of th; view cn film, in
uding Kodachrome...
Speaking o,f pictures, you
buld know that you are not to
ike pictures of identifying coast
leorof military objectives. . .
e latter include fortifications,
icks, railroads, airfields public
ilities, industrial plant of vital
iportance and those engaged in
*rwork.. .office buildings, res
tates, churches and other struc
iresnot occupied by war in
®try are not military. . .you
in take practically all the seen
8you want, but not, of course,
a forbidden area. . .example
the latter locally, the Signal
ation area.. .
bid you see the headlines this
ink . .Kay Martin Heads Ko
*k Fleet. . .Tony' Kvas Sued
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Mason Meet Has
Large Turnout
A large and enthusiastic group
' approx:mately 50 Masons
l)® various parts of the United
fites and Alaska answered the
W of Forest G. Ayers, organ
N chairman of Kodiak’s first
honic club, last Sunday. The
Nog was held in the lobby of
'Bank of Kodiak by courtesy
^ A. Torgerson, bank pre
sent.
There were representatives
,t[> the citizens of Kodiak, the
toy, Navy and Defense work
1 The first order of buisness
18the selection of officers for
8 meeting. Mr. Ayres was
chairman, and Capt.
^rt Johnson, fire marshall,
Greely, secretary.
Altera discussion of steps in
^ing the club, the chair ap
“ted three Past Masters,
Erickson, Mr. Peterson
1 Sgt. Howe to act as a nomin
58 committee and draw up
tative constitution and by
s> with instructions to report
next meeting,
nexl meeting will be held
^ie Kodiak school building at
^P-m. Sunday, April 19.
KEA To Elect 9 Directors May 4
Bottling Works
Buys Location
The Kodiak Bottling Works,
owned by L. C. Bettinger and
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pierce, this
week announced the purchase of
a two story frame building on
Marine Way as the new location
of the company’s plant. The
structure was bought from
Sverre Hansen at a reported
price of $3500.
‘ The move from our former
location, which we were forced to
vacate, has caused some delay in
filling our orders,” company
officials said, “but completion of
the installation of our machinery
in our new plant will enable us
to give better service and to ex
pand our facilities to better
handle orders ”
The company was the fiist
bottling plant established in
Kodiak.
Civilian Defense
Head Resigns
Ex-Mayor R. H. Chadwick has
tendered his resignation as Chair
man the Civilian Defense
Committee, to Mayot-Elect
Miell who will assume the duties
himself or appoint a new chair- j
man. It is understood Ex-Mayor
Chadwick’s action is due to his
being obliged to make a long de
layed business trip to the States
just, as soon as he can complete
the work connected with his
former office as Mayor, and it
is important that the Civilian
Defense Committee have an
active head during his absence
All qualified members of the
Kodiak Electrical Association,
which includes approximately 150
persons who have paid the $5 fee
required by law to receive its ser
vices, are eligible to attend a me
eting for the purpose of electing
a board of directors, and of tra
nsacting other necessary business.
The meeting will be held at 8
p. m. May 4, at the American
Legion hall
Nine directors will be elected
to serve for one year beginning
May 4 The nominating commit
tee, consisting of Warren A.
Taylor, Bryan Thorsheim and
0. A. Torgerson,has placed in
nomination the following 11 bona
fide residents and members of
theKEA: Charles Hopp, Leo
Sears, Thomas Horsman, Cecil
Helsel, Ivar Carlson, John Ste
ffgen, Norris Porter, Charles
Madsen, Harvey Edwards, Emil
Knudsen and William P. Smith.
Additional nominations may
be made over the signature of
15 or more K E A members, not
less than 15 days prior to the el
ection Such nominations should
be placed in the hands of the sec
retary for proper publication oh
or before April 20 Further no
rarnations may also be made
from the floor during the meet
ing.
Better Blackouts
The Civil Defense Corps
points out that many of the
hastily constructed tar paper
blackouts are not keeping light
from showing and advises thai
they be replaced with more ef
ficient and permanent ones of
plywood or other material.
Man Committed
To Institution
Willis William Cowell, about
30, was adjudged insane at a
bearing Thursday before Probate
Judge C. C Naughton and was
committed to the asylum for in
sane at Morningside, Portland,
Oregon. Jurors were Ray Martin,
Frank Hermann, Charles Marsh
all, C. R. King, George Blinn
and J. H. Pierce.
Cowell came to the base re
cently to go to work in the time
keeping department, but was
taken for observation from the
boat on its arrival. Doctors test
ified it was necessary to keep him
in a straight jacket and that he
suffered delusions of persecution
and other ipanifestations of in
sanity.
$7000 Raised
For Emergency
Results of the local one-week
drive for funds for emergency re
lief. conducted by the Red Cross,
showed a total of $7809.42
donated by Kodiak, the Army,
the Navy, and the contractor’s
employees at the base. The base
employees went over the top by
contributing more than six thou
sand dol ars, and the Army c ime
in second with almost a thousand.
Of the mony col'ected 15 per
cent stays here for local emer
gency preparations inc ud:ng the
purchase of first aid supplies and
foods for the canteen service
The remainder goes to nations
headquarters from which Kodiak
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New Meat Market Open Today
What was Kod'ak’s first meat
market with cold storage today
became the largest here and one
of the finest in Alaska with the
grand opening of the new 0.
Kraft & Son meat department
and cold storage facilities in a
modern 24 by 48 feet addition
to the former store.
"We are proud of the invest
ment in our new store.” Ben
Kraft, owner, said, “and pleased
that we will be able to give
better service at a saving to our
many customers. The steady
growth of Kodiak indicates the
need of modern cold storage
facil ties and we are pleased to
be able to offer them in conjunc
tion with our larger, sanitary
meat market.”
The old cold storage facilities
were established in May, 1823
and for 17 years Kraft’s was the
only market with cold storage.
Modern is the word for the
new meat department, with its
big plate glass windows gleam
ing white paint and up-to-date
machinery. New show cases have
been ordered and will be installed
as soon as they ariive.
Cool is the word for the cold
storage rooms, twin compart
ments 14 by 14 with 10-foot
ceilimrs, with refiigeration main
tained by a new 3 HP Frigidaire
Freion plant The freezing room
will be kept at zero temparature
and the cool room at 20 degrees)
which i t 30 degrees colder than
the standard set for safe home
refrigeration The new room will
make it possible to handle a
complete line ot frozen Iruits and
vegetables m der ideal conditions
as well as carry all meat and
diary products in a safe, sanit
ary manner
A. J. Cichoski was contractor
for the building and he and his
crew of 4 men completed it in
approximately 6 weeks The
meat department is under the
management of Paul Swanson,
head butcher
Everyone is extended an invit
ation to the opening of the
market today and are welcome
to inspect the fac Iities, offered
Ben Kraft said “to show our ap
preciation of the patronage of
our customers and as part of our
efforts in giving Kodiak a com
plete store, modern in every
respect.”
Washington {.¥)—Secretary
Stimson said MaeArthur is in
complete charge of “strategic
direction” of the United Nations’
wai effort in the southwest Pac
ific. He told his press conference
that MacArthur’s authority was
fully agreed to by the Austral
ians and Dutch in an agreement
signed April 3.
“So far as the Army is con
cerned,” Stiinson said, ‘we are
getting pretty near the stage
of being ready to start the offen
sive, however difficult it may be.
Things are beginning to move
and move, in the right direction.
I am now more than ever con
vinced that we are going to get
on the offensive and do so at the
earliest practicable moment.”
He stressed, however, that pre
parations of offensive in a war
that involved the entire globe s
a long and difficult process. “Be
fore we can lead this nation in
long sustained offensives we
must be as sure as we can that
certain key rtoints in our armor
are as safe as possible.”
Job Deferment
Defined Anew
A new interpretation on occup
ational deferment from service
in the armed forces for men en
gaged in civilian activities act
ually necessary to war product
ion, or essential to the support
of the war effort, was an- ounceil
today by National He idquarteis,
Selective Service System.
“Many of the benefits, con
veniences and comforts which
the people of this Nation have
enjoyed in peace time must nec
essarily be given up in the nat
ional interest Now only those
civilian activities which are
really necessary to war produc
tion or essential to the support
of the war effort can be accord
ed the protection of occupation
al defeiment from military ser
vice in the arme I forces.”
“Selective Service Regulations
provide that in Class II A sha 1
be placed any registrant who is
found to be a 'necessary man’ in
industry, business employment,
agricultural pursuit, governmen
tal service, or any other service
or endeavor, the maintenance of
which is essential to the national
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Registration Approaches
Apri. 27 has been designated
as registration day for all men
who were 45 years of age on or
before February 16 1042, and
who have not reached their 65th
birthday on or before April 27,
1942. Full details of the registra
tion here will be published in
next week’s issue of the Mi ror.