Magician Wins $775 in
Suit Against Club
Herbert A. Riley, magician
failed to pull one out of his
hat in his suit for sums total
ing more than $6000 against1
the Civil Service Club, its
past and present directors and
officers, and was awarded only
$775 damages from the club
itself in a civil suit heard last ■
weekend in District Courts
here.
Riley charged that the club j
and the several defendants ‘
had allowed magician’s
«quipment which he allegedly
stored there to become de
teriorated and lost, and asked<
$1690 for the equipment, j
$4000 for loss of stateside e»-;
gagements and $1000 for loss
of Alaskan engagments.
His demands for the latter
two sums were not allowed by
Judge Anthony J. Dimond
who termed them “specula
tive profits”, The court also;
ordered that present officers ■
of the club named in the com
plaint could not be considered
defendants as the alleged
action took place before their
term of office.
Because the jury, in a ver-'
diet reached after only two
hours of deliberation, found
only against the club and not
against the defendants in
dividually named, the latter
were considered to have won
that aspect of the suit and
therefore were awarded $650
attorneys’ fees to be paid by
Riley.
The club itself, in addition'
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to the $775 damages will pay
Riley $300 for attorney fees,
the court ordered.
The verdict was returned by]
the jury of twelve just before I
5 pm last Saturday.
Riley was represented by
Talmage L. Smith, and the
Civil Service Club and its
officers and directors by Wil
liam Renfrew of Anchorage
and John C. Hughes.
Sam Nelson’s
Essay Chosen
With the essay appearing '
below, the MIRROR con
cludes publication of the six
papers written by high school'
students on the need for a 1
new school.
The six essays were judged \
by the Parent Teacher As
sociation which sponsored the
' contest. This one, by Sammy
Nelson, senior, is one of three
to receive honorable mention,
i It is titled What Do You
Think of Our Heating Sys
jtem.
I
j Citizens of Kodiak, do you.
1 know what it is like in the
high school rooms in the main
building and our quonset
huts? Well, our heating fa
cilities seem to fluctuate. Dur
ing the last couple of days,
when the winds were strong
J and cold, rooms one and two
of the high school didn’t have
any heat. This condition
made all students uncomfor
, cable.
I Our local custodian tried
' everything he could ir '"’n
| plying heat for the tulliiBf
Our main difficulty witu
■ furnaoe is that it doesn’t give
j enough heat to produce a
pressure of steam which cir
culates in pipes throughout
the building and into radiatiors
and fans in the rooms. ,
Our quonset huts have a
poor heating system also.
There are stoves in every hut
which give off lots of heat
during the first months of
school and also the last three
months they are like “ice
boxes.” They are not adapted,
for cold winter days. j
This is just one of our main*
difficulties with our heating at *
the present time, but what is 1
it going to be like in the j
future? Are you going to do
anything about it?
Kay Wade To Be J
Aviation Cadet ;
Kay Wade, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ken Wade, now of Fair
banks, has passed his exami
nations and been accepted for
training as an aviation cadet,
according to the Fairbanks
Daily News Miner.
Young Wade, now a senior
at San Francisco State Col
lege, was graduated from the
Kodiak High School. He is a
star athlete and holder of
several swimming records in
the Far Western Conference.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Hernyak left Wednesday for
a two months’ vacation in the
states and Canada. Hernyak I
works at the base and Mrs.
Hernyak at Bert’s Drug Store.
Ryan Quits As
School Commiaalonor
Juneau (JP)—Dr. James C.
Ryan has resigned as Alaska’s
commissioner of education,
after holding the post for ten
years.
He announced his resigna
tion to the territorial school
board of education but said
there was no personal clash j
with the board involved.
“The real reason is that)
I’ve been working under such 1
tremendous pressure for ten |
years, understaffed and with
no real relief in sight,” Ryan
-aid.
Later at Fairbanks, the
school board announced it had
offered Ryan the position of
superintendent of the Fair
banks schools and that Ryan
had promised to answer the
offer in about ten days.
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New Housing
Planned At Base
New housing, to co3t ap
proximately two million dol
lars, is scheduled to begin this
summer at the naval station
in the junior officers and mar
ried enlisted men’s quarters
areas, district public works
has announced.
The housing will consist of
56 two and three bedroom
famiiy units. Depending upon
the low bid of the contractor,
they will be either duplex or
eight family apartment struc
tures. They will be of perman
ent construction and will have
basements. , '
Capt. W. F. Wesanen, pub
lic works officer, said that
“in all probability” some ’ of
the apartments will: bp " avail
able for occupancy in Noy?
ember or December this year.
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