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KODIAK, ALASKA
JUNE 2, 1951
PRICE 10 CENTS
Two Airlines Receive
Aiaska-Seattle Flights
Seattle (■£*)— Officials of
two airlines, granted air
mutes from Portland and Se
at le to Alaska are mapping
plans to start service to the
territory.
Pacific Northern Airlines
fcas been authorized by the
Civil Aeronautics Board to
% between Anchorage, Se
attle and Portland and A
faska Airlines has been
granted a Portland-Seattle
fturbanks route.
PNA will operate here from
Boeing Field using DC-4s. A
laska Airlines’ headquarters
is at Paine Field but that air
port is being reactivated as a
jet base and Alaska will fly
either from Boeing or Seattle
Tacoma airport.
The CAB decision sets up
the following Northwest-A
bska air routes:
Northwest, a direct Seattle
Anchorage route.
Pan American, Seattle to
Fairbanks, via Ketchikan,
Janeau and Whitehorse.
PNA, from Portland and
Seattle to Anchorage, via
Jfcmeau, Yakutat and Cordova.
Alaska Airlines, Seattle and
Portland to Fairbanks without
intermediate stops.
The announcement last
week end of the direct A
laska-Seattle routes disclosed
that the CAB voted last Sep
tember to grant the new
route to PNA only.
However, when this deci
sion went to the White House
to be initialed by the presi
dent, Mr. Truman returned it
with the suggestion that both
airlines be given new certifi
cates.
The CAB said the president
noted the importance of A
iaska in the national defense
program and he said his
recommendation reflected im
mediate needs for ' ‘additional
air transport between the
territory and the states.”
Halverson Completes
20 Year Perfect Record
Olaf Halverson, principal of j
Nome High School, has com
pleted his 20th year of teach
ing with a perfect attendance
record. He formerly was high
school principal in Kodiak.
Halverson has completed
his fifth year with the Nome
school and writes the weekiy
astronomical news for the
school column which appears
in the Nome Nugget.
The Defiant, halibut boat,
was at the Donnelley and!
Aeheson float this week. J
VFW Club
Closed For Audit
The Veterans of Foreign
Wars club has been closed
since May 8, when Jack
Davis. VFW department com
mander for the territory,
made a visit here and request
ed that a complete audit of
the books be made.
George Sonntag, member
of the club and former post
commander of VFW posts in
the east, has been named
chairman of the investigating
board.
Davis is also a member of
the Territorial Highway
Patml and his visit to Kodiak
early in May was also in con
nection with the business of
that office.
His investigation of the
local club was made at the re
quest of members of the
organization. A report of his
findings is expected to be
sent here soon, a member
said yesterday.
Stone Elected
Rotary Prexy
William “Rocky” Stone,
superintendent of the Kodiak
Baptist Mission, was elected
president of the Kodiak Ro
tary Club for the 1951-52 year.
He will succeed Leon Johnson
whose term expires with the
last meeting in June.
The local club held its an
nual election Tuesday at the
Montmartre Inn following the
weekly luncheon. Six direc
tors were elected by the mem
bership and the directors in
turn elected the officers for
the year.
William Lamme was chosen
as vice president, J. G. Martz
was elected secretary and
Jorgen Fredrickson, Leon
Jonnson and Dr. A. Holmes
Johnson were chosen as direc
tors. Marshall Crutcher was
named treasurer. He held the
position last year.
BPW Official Meets
With Local Club
Mrs. Pat Galey, national
egislative chairman of the
Business and Professional Wo
men’s Clubs, was in Kodiak
this week.
A special meeting ot the lo
cal club was planned at the
home oi Mrs. Maurice Gunder
son. Mrs. Galey is making a
tour of all the BPW clubs in
Alaska. While here she atte d
ed a luncheon at the home of
[ s. Henry H ag.
Whiz-Halferty
Begins Operations
Salmon canning operations
will begin at the Whiz Ijlal
ferty, Inc., cannery this week
as soon as the Ambassador,
tender skippered by George
Howland, arrives here from
Cook Inlet.
Fishermen began catching
king salmon on May 28, the
day the season opened in the
inlet. The Ambassador has
been dressing and icing the
fish and will bring them here
for canning. The Mary J II,
barge chartered for the sea
son from Martin Jensen, is a
supply tender for the fishing
boats.
Fishing in the Kodiak area
opens on June 6, and the
cannery will then get into
“full” operation, Orin Kuhn
ley, superintendent of the
local plant, said yesterday.
The following women have
been signed to work in the
salmon operations: Lucy
Gregorioff, Susan Mikelsen,
Emily Nekeferoff, HelenKing.
Oacy MacDonald, Betty Heg
lin, Katy Rogers, Nida God
frey and Justine Chichenoff.
Mrs. Esther Magnusen will
assume her duties in the can
loft of the cannery this season
under the supervision of El
mer Jacobson of Cordova,
Kuhnley said.
Other salmon canning per
sonnel will be recruited from
the clam canning section of
the cannery, Kuhnley ex
plained.
Peter Tr«nes is foreman of
the cannery. Jim Conners is
bookkeeper.
Cook Inlet Season
May Be Cut
Drastic reductions in the
fishing season in Cook Inlet
may result this year if the
threatened migration of
fishermen to that area ma
terializes, Albert M. Day,
director of the Fish and Wild
life Service, announced early
this week.
“The paramount objective
of the FWS during the critical
Alaska salmon season will be
to achieve adequate escape
ments to the spawning
grounds,” Day declared..
A great increase in fishermen
and gear, especially gillnets,
has been evident in the Cop
per River area.
The FWS anticipates in-,
tensification in fisheries of
Brist 1 Bay and Cook Inlet
during the 1951 season and
has regulated the fishing to
only half-time throughout the
continued or. page 1
Rats Threaten Health
Of Entire Town
Rats in Kodiak have caused
25 cases of Weil’s disease, a
form of jaundice, since the
fall of 1950 and will be the
source of further health as
well as economic problems un
less an immediate and effective
campaign against them is
waged.
Such is the information con
tained in a report of a survey
of rat infestation here, made
by James A. Westbrook, as
sistant director, division of
sanitation and engineering, of
the territory. The survey was
made early in May.
The reDort from Westbrook
was received this week by
John Gibbons, president of
the Kodiak Health and Wel
fare Council.
Because the outbreak of the
disease, which is still continu
ing, “has caused considerable
concern to the city officials,
members of the Health and
Welfare Council and interested
citizens, the survey was made
to determine the problem and
find the best solution”, the re
port states.
The causative agent for
Fishing Season
Less At Cordova
An additional 24 hours of
closed fishing time will be in
voked each week for the re
mainder of the king and red
salmon gillnet seasons on the
Copper and Bering Rivers.
The total weekly closure of
72 hours in effect when the
season opened on May 1 is
now increased to 96 hours,
fishing being permitted only
from 6 am Monday to 6 pm
'Tuesday and from 6 pm
Thursday to 6 am Saturday
from now until June 20.
This drastic reduction is '
made necessary by the
phenomenal increase in
amount of fishing gear being
employed on the Copper River
during the current season.
Fish and Wildlife repre
sentatives believe there is
grave danger of permanent
damage to and perhaps the
virtual destruction of the
Copper River salmon unless
there are sufficient periods of
complete fishing closure so
adequate spawning escape
ments can be achieved.
The Commonwealth, tender
for the Ouzinkie Packing
Corporation, was at the Don
nelley and Acheson dock
Tuesday to pick up some can
nery men who were d ie it j
own by plane
Weil’s disease is contained i®
the blood and urine of patients
and the feces and urine of
rats, Westbrook states. Hu
mans usually acquire the in
fection from taking food or
water contaminated by the e> -
creta of infected rats, from
bathing in contaminated water
or by handling infected rats.
Infection may enter through
abraded or unbroken skin.
The survey made in Kodiak
shows that the diseases are
found in two specific areas, ac
cording to the sanitation re -
port: Mission- and Tagura
roads from the KEA plant to
Mission Road at a point east
to the small boat yard, and
Brooklyn Avenue in an awe
west of the school.
Responsible for the rat b»
festation of the city are the
prevalence of wood structure**,
improper storage of garbage
discarded articles and piles of
unused lumber and debrin,
careless dumping of garbage
along the waterfront, absence
of protective devices on ships
and boats at docks, and ope:
sewer lines emptying abov •
low tide.
Failure to remedy these cor
ditions, Westbrook adds, can
bring fuither disease: typings
fever, plague, food infection,
rat bite fever, and trichinosis
“From an economic static
point, rats destroy property,
food and cause fires. For these
reasons, it is essential that
rats be controlled in Kodiak,”
he writes.
A number of recommenda
tions for cleaning up the city
and ridding it of rats are listed
by Westbrook.
He suggests a combination
of trapping and use of poison
bait on a town-wide program:
cleaning up of alleys, yards,
vacant lots and streams; stop
page of the practice of dumfr
ing garbage along the beach,
and storage of garbage in
tightly covered containers on
racks above the ground.
He also urges the discarding
of the present city dump and
location of a new one further
east on Mission Road.
“The city of Kodiak should
adopt and enforce an ordin
ance regulating the construc
tion of all new structures with
relation to rat proofing of
buildings,” he also recom
mends.
Toward this end, be reports,
the Public Health Service
Alaska Departmert of H
and F’sh and WiYl'ife Serv'oe
are willing to work, teat-os-.