TOL. 6 NO. 17
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Juneau, Alaska
KODIAK, ALASKA JUNE 22, 1946
PRICE 10 CENTS
4th Prizes
Lined Up
There is less than two weeks
left to get your tickets for the
big 4th of July raffle, and Ray
Martin, chairman, announced to
day that all the prizes are now
lined up for the drawing.
In addition to the grand prize
of a 1946 Ford Sedan, which is
here and ready to be driven
away, the tickets will also give
chances on the following:
1. A 1946 electric washing
machine
2. A 1946 electric range
3. One outboard motor
4. One Argoflex camera
The prizes are on display at
the Island Fountain, and all will
be distributed to the lucky win
ners on the drawing on the 4th.
Arrangements are underway
for the big one-day program for
the 4th and events and contests
of interest to children and adults
are being planned, with a free
dance to be held in the evening.
Milk Price Readjusted
Liquor Official
Confers Here
W. G. Eddy, executive secre
tary of the Alaska Retail Liquor
Dealers Association, of Juneau,
arrived here this week and con
ferred with local liquor dealers at
a meeting held Wednesday mor
ning.
It was Mr. Eddy’s first trip in
this area and he is travelling
throughout the Territory in a
survey aimed to better condi
tions in the industry he repre
sents. Be said his organization is
combating influences seeking
Territorial control of the liquor
industry and is furthering self
policing and policies that would
make such control undesirable.
Mr. Eddy left yesterday, en
route to Nome.
Lee Cadell has purchased lot
5 of Block 19 for $450 from Mrs.
Charles Madsen
Phones Join Anchorage
Comnsrclal radio call service
to Anchorage is now available,
M-Sgt. Gervis B. Floyd, operat
or in charge of the local Signal
Corps, announced today. The
rate to Anchorage is $2.10 for
the initial 3-minute period or
fraction, and 70 cents for each
t additional minute or fraction
with no night, Sunday or holiday
rates. The figure does not include
the 25 per cent federal tax, and
there is no reduction on these
calls for military personnel.
A speech inverter unit is now
being used on all outgoing calls
to Seattle and points beyond, af
fording much more privacy of
conversation. A new Western
Electric phone booth has also
been installed in the local office.
On June 12 the Western Union
Telegraph company announced
a 10 per cent increase on tele
gram rates to points in the Unit
ed States This increase does not
apply to Alaska Communication
system lines but of course must
be added to total tolls when mes-!
sages go beyond Seattle.
Meetings Postponed
The American Legion Post 17
and the American Legion Auxili- j
ary meetings scheduled to be
held Tuesday, June 25th, will
both be postponed one week to
July 2nd, which will be the last
meeting until next fall, L. J.
Norman, Legion commander, an
nounced today.
The Denali is scheduled to
leave today from Seattle for iso
diak, and the Lakina is schedul
ed for the same ruu on June 25,
next Tuesday.
Closing Monday
The Community Center will be
closed next week start up Mnn
day, in preparation for the cent
er’s openinp, Ken Wade announ
ced today. (See story, page 2.)
Washington (T*)—The Senate
confirmed without dissent Presid
ent Truman’s appointment of
Secretary of the Treasury Fred
Vinson as chief justice of the
supreme court.
As the result of a trip to OPA
headquarters at Juneau, E. E.
Bell, local dairy owner, who re
turned here this week, has oo
tained a temporary adjustment
in milk prices.
The OPA in a statement said
that a complete investigation is
still underway, but that to pre
vent hardship the temporary ad
justment is now in effect
The new price for milk is now
35 cents wholesale (34 cents to
the Navy) a.id 40 cents retail.
Milk previously sold for 35 cents
wholesale and 45 cents retail un
til the order in March that cut
the price to 30 cents wholesale
and 35 cents retail. Following is
suance of the specihc price the
town was without milk deliveries
from March until June
Judgment Given
A judgment of $57.75 was
found for Ray Phillips, plaintiff,
by a jury in a civil complaint
heard Tuesday at the Commis
sioner’s court, and he and the
defendant, Amanda Price, local
cafe operator, were directed to
pay their own costs and attorney
fees.
Charging that he had furnish
ed material and labor for the de
fendant, Ray Phillips sought a
total of $273 75.
William H. Olsen was attorney
for the defendant and Talmage
Smith represented the plaintiff.
The jury consisted of Lee Bet
tinger, foreman; Mrs. Mary Hig
gins, John Gibbon^, T. A. Hors
man, W. A. Cannon and Jack
Allman.
Brilliant Concert Pianist Scheduled
4 Bids Received
For Jail Lot
Four bids on 3 pieces of prop
erty to be considered for a new
federal jail were opened Frida>
at the post office, Murray Dav
is, supervising engineer of the
Public Building administration,
Washington, D. C., announced.
The bids included: one by P.
J. Watkinson, lot on Bering way,
$6200; Harry Christopherson &
Erich Mueller lot on Brooklyn
avenue (Thompson estate)
$8000; Norman Noble property
(bid made by Richard Nixon,
option holder, and W F Erskine)
$10,000; and seeond bid on por
tion of the property, 116 feet
frontage on Mill Bay, $4,500.
Mr. Davis, who plans to leave
Sunday for Nome, said the bids
would be forwarded to Washing
ton with whatever recommenda
tion he makes. He said he had
also investigated government
owned property, including some
located on Signal hill and that
he had hoped to obtain a piece
of property, where a federal
building could be located next to
the jail, in the future. Mr. Davis
is making a survey of all govern
ment buildings in the territory,
including post offices.
Urges Native
Tuition Payment
Washington (Special)—Testi
fying before the Senate subcom
mittee on appropriations handl
| ing the Interior Department bill,
Dr. James C. Ryan, Territorial
commissioner of education, pre
dicted that in 2 more years 50
per cent of all native children in
Alaska will be attending Terri
Charged
With Theft
Waving his preliminary hear
ing, bail bond of $1500 was set
by U S. Commissioner G. W.
Bubendorf this week for Kenneth
“Beans” Anton, charged with
theft of government property
and he is held to answer for the
fall term of the grand jury at
Anchorage. Property bond was
furnished by Ray Martin and
Tom Nachand.
Beans Anton was arrested last
weekend by Paul Herring, depu
ty U. S. Marshal, upon a com
plaint signed by George B. Flet
cher, special agent of the FBI,
who has been in Kodiak several
days.
The theft is alleged to have
occured on or about May 11 at
Miller point, an Army installa
tion located a few miles north of
Kodiak, on the highway that
runs pest the Solberg ranch. The
complaint charges that Anton
took 2 oil stoves, 1 oil burner,
refrigeration units and 1 roll of
target cloth, all property of the
U. S. Army.
torial schools.
He said the board of education
is asking the Office of Indian Af
fairs to pay a tuition of $100 a
year for each student of native
blood attending a territorial
school, and emphasized that this
system of tuition payment is
common in the States.
There are now 6500 children
enrolled in Alaska Native service
schools and 7000 in Territorial
sehools, he said.
Attorney William H. Olsen is
leaving on Monday’s plane on a
business trip to Anchorage.
Juriso Recital Tuesday
Tickets are on sale this week
for the presentation Tuesday of
Hal Junso, pianist, of San Fran
cisco, iD a recital at the Orpheum
theatre, sponsored by the Kod
iak Business and Professional
Women’s club.
The concert will begin prompt
ly at 8:30. To enable a free mat
inee to be given for children, the
price of tickets was set at $1.50
each for the evening recital. The
free matinee will start at 2:30
and a program especially design
ed for childrea will be offered by
Mr. Junso. Both grade school
and high school students will be
admitted without charge at the
afternoon presentation.
For the evening recital Mr
Junso will present two groups of
numbers on the Solovox besides
his piano offerings. Feature of the
Solovox presentation will be two
of his own compositions, My
Theme Song and Gypsy Seren
ade.
The program will open with a
group of compositions of Sibel
ius, including Finlandia, and the
other works to be included will
be those of Brahms, represented
by his Rhapsody m G Minor,
Debussy’s Clair de Lune, Lisst’s
Liebestraum, Schubert’s Ave
Maria, and others.
To close the program Mr. Jun
so has chosen four Chopin com
positions, including thePolonaise
in A Flat Major, and for the
concluding numl>er the Scberao
in B Flat Minor.
Mr. Junso’s appearance will
mark a milestone in musical af
fairs in Kodiak and is being
eagerly awaited by local mueie
lovers as the excellent sale of
tickets indicates.
Only as many tickets as there
are seats in the Orpheum thee'
are being sold, so the so'
I limited.