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^OL 14 NO 17
KODIAK ALASKA.
JULY 3. 1954
PRICE 10
4th Parade
Mon. 10 AM
The Kodiak Chamber of
Commerce and the Command
ing Officer of the Naval Sta
tion have announced that the
Fourth of July will officially be
celebrated on the 5th of July
this year.
The festivities for the day
will get under way at 10 am
with the usual big parade. The
parade will be made up of a
platoon of Sailors, a platoon #f
Marines, the Navy Band, the
Marine Color Guard and other
mrching units and groups
from the City such as VFW,
the American Legion and both
of their auxiliaries, Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts and Rain
bow Girls.
This years reviewing stand
will be in front of the Bank
where dignitaries will sit to
review the parade and the
Judges for parade awards. The
parade will terminate at the
high school grounds where
Kverend Moletti of the Com
munity Baptist Church will
deliver a patriotic address.
The childrens races are
slated to start at 11:15 am on
Marine Way. These include
the usual races, dashes, three
legged and the bag races. Pri
ses will be given to every par
ticipant and each winner. For
program particulars see the
full page ad in the MIRROR.
Walter Muller, chairman of
the races on the 5th of July
announces that ALL contest
ants caring to enter the Base
to Town Marathon, the bi
cycle races, the Junior Mara,
than and the Boat Races must
register before Saturday nigh t
at 7 pm with either The
Special Servicer on the base or
Walter Muller. Late entries
%ill not be accepted.
Ue Franklin Selected
Bartenders Union Head
, The June meeting of the Io.
cal bartenders was held at the
Union Hall on Monday and the
following Kodiak men were
elected to serve the Union as
its officers for the ensuing
year.
President, Lee Franklin; re
placing Harry Lindgren; Ste
wart Nuckols, Vice President;
replacing Lee Franklin: Secre
tary, Treasurer and Business
Agent, Louis Savoy; replacing
Urn Gilmore and Cliff Lattish.
Thirteen members of the
Union were present at the
meeting and the choice for
President was unanimous.
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Sid Olds arrived in Kodiak
aboard the Costal Monarch on
June 30th.
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The Lehi, a yellow-painted raft aboard which five men hope to drift from San Fran
cisco to Hawaii as a preliminary to a more ambitious voyage from Persia to Panama, is
shown after it was launched at Sausalito, Calif. The strange craft, 32-feet long and 16-feet
wide w'll carry a square-rigged sail but no provisions or water as crewmen hope to live on
sealife and rainwater during the 2,200-mile trip to start July 4. (iPwirephoto)
August J. Strigga
Wins 40 Yr. Award
August Strigga, Civilian
Employee from the Naval Sta
tion Kodiak has completed
forty years employment for
the Federal Government and
was awarded a forty year pin
at a ceremony at the Naval
Station last Monday.
Combined with this pre
sentation were the awarding
of ten year pins to 15 Civil
Service Employees who have
spent the past ten years at the
Naval Station Kodiak. Those
receiving the award were:
John Andrecsh, Anton An
dersen, Henry Breckberg,
Florian Briner, Eugene Brom
lejK'jr., 'Sig Digree, Thomas
Frost Sr., .Ed Getty, Charles
Hamilton, Harold Lawhead,
Orval Nye, Lester Sorum,
Georgia Bell, August Strigga
and Joseph Taylor.
These fifteen employees
have spent the last ten years
or more at the Kodiak Naval
Station. Captain W. K.
Rhodes made the presenta
tions.
Th» next meeting of the
Grandmothers Club will be in
the form of a picnic at Holiday
Island with Mrs. Edna Kraft
as Hostess. The picnic will be
held on July the 8th and all
the grandmothers planning to
attend should ce at the D&A
dock at 10 AM on Wednesday
morning for the trip to the
Island. In case of rain the af
fair-will be held on another
day to be announced later.
Uganik Bay Grass Fira
Brought Under Control
A grass fire threatened to
destroy all the plant and ani- >
mal life at Broken Poiat on
Uganik Bay on the southern
end of Kodiak Island, on Sun
day July 27,th. One whole side
of one of ^e.mountaips jn the
area was, copsvifned by the
flames which, were apparently,
set by some careless fishermen
who had faU$}. ip stomp out a
small fire they .had started
on the beach. j
Jim Scott and three of his
Forest Servicemen from Horn-,
er were flown to the area hy,
the Local Fish and .Wildlife
plane to battle .the blaze and
three of the local unit of the
Fish and Wildlife personnel,
Chapados, Clark and Foster,
hastened there in the ,F&W
boat the: ;Shearwater to stand
by. A timely rainstorm aided
the men in their fight against
the blaze.
Abston In Vat Hosp.
Pat Abston, well known
bartender in Kodiak, i3 co n
fined in the Veterans Hospital
in Seattle. Abston left here
the latter part of Mry to en
ter the 5005th Amy Engi
i neers Hospital in Anchorage
j to be treated for an arthritus
condition that has been troubl
ing him ever since his World
War II days.
The Army doctors decided
that he needed special treat*
! ment that they couldn’t give
! him in Anchorage so he was
itransfered to the Seattle in
! stitution.
The Kodiak Shopper will not
maintain its daily schedule on
Sunday July 4th due to the ex
odus of town folk to the VFW
picnic at Antone Larson Bay.
However the regular schedule
will run all day on the 5th of
July during the Kodiak Cele
bration. .
Kodiak P. O.
First Class
' United States " Postal Au- ,
thorities notified the Kodiak
Postmaster, Maurice Briggs
that the Kodiak office is now
classified as a first tlass post
office. The difference between
a first class and second class
rating is a matter of the
amount of sales, the second
class rating being over $8,000'
and to be first class the sales
, must be over $40,000 annually<
1 The Kodiak Post Office be
came first class on July the
first. This change will not ef
fect the hours of operation or
the present staff employed in
I the local office. _
Vokacek Replacement
Still Deep Dark Secret
The Republican replacement
for the position of U. S. Com
missioner in the Kodiak area
is still a deep dark secret.
Anna Mae Vokacek the
positions incumbent for the
past number of years, can
shed no light on her replace
ment. It was rumored that
Mrs. Mabel Fenner was to b-*
given the appointmen t b
Judge McCarrey but on com
tacting Mrs. Fenner ^
subject a great dea:) of nega
tive denial was forth coming. >
., Make your Fourth a safe;
and Bane one. V»
The burned tail structure of a CC97 strato tanker is
pictured where it crashed on Box Springs Mountains, not far
from March Air Force Base, Calif., early June 27. Fourteen
men, a crew of 7ahd seven passengers, were killed.
ficials said the ill-fated plane was on a routine training flight
from the Altus, (Okla.) Air Force Base. (A>wirephoto)