VOL 14 NO 25
10 CENTS,
KODIAK, ALASKA.
Polio Drive
Commences
America’s National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis
reports this week, “Wesimoly
won’t be able to get through
the year without additional
funds.”
Basil O’Connor, president of
the National Polio Fighting
group, said, ‘‘We have been
hoping against hope, that this
would be^a light year.”
But the latest U. S., Public
Health Service reports show a
jump of 24% in the number of
polio cases over the past five
year average. The 7,689 cases
throughout the country, so far
this year are, slightly below
1953’s total, the third worst
year, on record in the nation.
‘‘Due to the present finan
cial crisis we are calling for
an ‘Emergency March of
Dimes’ started August 16th,”
said O’Connor.
In Alaska where* polio this
year is increased by several
hundred per cent over last
year, the Territorial founda
tion is planning to join the
National Emergency Drive.
The Kodiak Emergency
Polio Fund Drive committee
is headed by Mrs. Wes
Rhoades and has the following
fund raising campaign plan
ned.
Starting tonight through the
duration of the drive, during
intermission times at the
Orpheum Theatre a volun
tary collection will be taken.
Contribution jars will be
placed in all business houses
and a Tag Day will be held on
Saturday, September 4th.
Other activitiss will be an
nounced oyer the radio at a
later date.
O’Connor stated.'the Na
tional Foundation has spent
$4,500,000 so far this year as
emergency aid to polio vic
tims. This sum included about
$1,300,000 borrowed from
funds that were to be ussd for
research and education.
In general the public can
take the following precautions
to help prevent contacting the
disease:
1. Do not get chilled.
2. Do not get overly ti red.
3. Make every effort t0
stay in good health by avoid
ing fatigue, unwholesome
food, etc.
4. As much as possible,
have children associate only
with the regular crowd of
children they play with. Avoid
new contacts.
5. Keep hands clean.
6. Delay mouth and throat
operations if possible.
Bottom row; Clarence White, Henry Frasier, Robert Hall, Ron Roush, John Hill. Se
cond row: Gene Sitzmadn,. Sylvester Lege. Karl Rupp, James Scott, G. Garland Green. Third
row: Dave Crocker, Frank Bryan, Bill Mehle, Loyd Buettgenbach, Marnie Averitt and Char
les Richardson.
Bear Nine Annex All-Alaskan Tourney
The Kodiak Bears, local
Navy softball aggregation,
annexed the All Alaskan Arm
ed Forces crown to their
Seventeenth Naval District
championship laurels last
Wednesday afternoon by de
feating the Ladd Army of
Fairbanks, 4 to 0 behind the
one hit piching of their star
twirler Beuttgenbach. The
tournament just concluded at
Fort Richardson, in Anchorage
brought together all the ser
vice teams in the Territory in
a double round robin playoff
series.
The Navy threatened in the
opening inning when they
succeeded in getting two men
on with two away, but Meyers
■ the Ladd hurler, forced the
Navy batter to pop up for the
third put to retire the side.
However, the Navy was not
to be denied es the second inn
ing rolled around. John Hill,
Navy shortstop reached first
i on an infitldhit, stole second
! and reached third on an error
by the Ladd catcher and then
scored the 'first run of the
game by a passed ball,
! As the Navy came .to bat in
the thiid inning, Ron Roush,
reached first on an .error. Bob
Hall, whose three for four at
bat led the champions?:hit the
[second pitch deep into the
i right field corner for a two
! run homer which was the
j clincher. The fourth inning
saw Kodiak score their fourth
and final run, when Hill
reached first on a fielders
i choice and came on home on
! two successive singles by Ar
i veritt and Lege.
The super b pitching of Lloyd
Beuttgenbach, a 25 year old
native of Corvallis, Oregon, aj
member of the 1953 Washing- j
ton State All Stars in Seattle, j
made one of the most impres-1
sive softball pitching records'
for this 1954 tournament that
has ever been written into the
tournament’s many years of
competetion.
Beuttgenbach pitched a total
of eighteen and two thirds
innings in the tournament, al
lowing no runs, one hit and
struck out 28 batsmen and
walked no one. The one hit
that spoiled a perfect tourna I
ment record, was a first inn
ing single in the final cham
pionship game made by Ethe
ridge of the Ladd Army.
Score by innings for the
championship game:
Kodiak Navy 0 1 2 100 0-4
8 0
Ladd Army 0000 0 00 01 5
Nelson Maddux was found
guilty of assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill, by
a jury of eight women and
four men last Thursday. He
will be sentenced on Monday
at 10 am,
Rescue workers swarm over the wreckage of a Braniff Airways DC3 which crashed
i near Mason City, la., late (Aug. 22) during a severe thunderstorm. Eleven of the 19 persons
1 aboard were killed. The plane apparently struck a power line just before hitting earth. A
| left, body of one of victims is being carried to ambulance. (iPwirephoto)
Proposition
Voted Down
Kodiak’s special election on
Tuesday, August 24th, re
sulted in the defeat of the
proposition submitted by the
City Council giving the Mayor
and the six council members a
two year term of office. One
hundred and twenty-six votes
were cast, the result showing
82 against the proposition and
34 for.
'i'ne defeat of the two year
| term for both offices reverts
baek to an ordinance parsed
by the City Council in 1942 .
which set the term at a one
year term. In 1946 the Council
tried to pass an ordinance
setting the term of office at
two years, but due to an over
sight by the administration at ,
that time the ordinance was i
never ratified by the voters of
Kodiak. ,
A new Mayor and six new •
councilmen will be up for elec- ■
tion at the general election in ■
October. . .
School Begins Sept. 7.
The Kodiak Public School*
year begins September 1st at
10 a m. Classes for all children*
fromKintergarenthrough.High •
School begin Tuesday morning
at 9 o’clock, September 7th* .
the day after Labor Dqy. -j
All teachers will assemble ini
the High" School Library1
Wednesday morning. Septemrj
ber 1st, at 10 o’clock for a gen;
eral teachers meeting. *
Enrollment of all pupils, Kin,-i
tergarten through High School
is scheduled for Thursday
Septemcer 2nd, at 1 pm. Grades,
7 and 8 and all High SchoofT
classes will be enrolled in the
High School Building down
town.Kintergarden and Grades
1,2,3,4,5 and $ will be enrolled
in the'Elementry Schodl (new
building). ,
All Kindergarten first grade
children who enrolled last May
1st of this year need pot. enroll
again this fall; res nations for
those children ar) secured
through the springem ollment
High School stude 'ta only
are required to make a $5 booh
deposit when they enroll.
Dogs to Be Impounded
Chief of Police R. E. Vick
ery announced this week there
is going to be another drive on
stray dogs. The city is again
over-run with canine vagrants
and starting Monday, any
stray dogs without tags will
be picked up and placed in the
new city pound for the re
quired three day period and if
unclaimed by that period of
time, they will be destroyed