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Fish ^ill Is
ondemned
The Wahgren Fish bill was
}(ilemnedm strong terms this
efk by the United Fishermen
'Alaska when the local union
jopted a resolution urging that
zery ef'oit be made to “prevent
actment of the same into a
iffasit is an unjust and un
merican deprivation of the
>ople of Uaska of a voice in
ie disposition of the most valu
)le natural resource of the Ter
tory”.
The resolution, copies of
hich were sent to President
oosevelt, Delegate Dimond,
rnest Gruening and the chair
an of the Fisheries Committee
the House of Representatives,
id:
“The bill discriminates against
ebun— fiT .evident fishermen
Alaska and makes their live
lood and economic condition
pendent upon the whim of a
ivernmental bureau.
“It tends to create and per
tuate vested interests in traps
d fishing locations in the Ter
ory.
' It tends also to deprive the
rritory, or the future State
Alaska, of any and all control
licensing righis pertaining to
d fish traps or fishing
ations.”
The local union’s action fol
ded similar condemnations at
chorage, Ketchikan, Cordova
iJuneau.
Governor Gruening approved
ilocal’s action in a wire,- say
“Am in complete accord
h your opposition to the bill
I have sta: ed so emphatically.”
Hie Fishermen’s union is also
lorsiug E. L. Bartlett for
egate
1 term of the District Court
I be held in Kodiak starting
10 am on May 22, according
tford received here yesterday
n Anchorage.
ance Tickets
) Go On Sale
taly 225 tickets are being
*d on Sale for the Griffin
Mortal Hospital Guild’s
>ng dance to be held Satur
evening, April 22, at Blinn’s
he tickets will sell for $5 a
Pie, ladies free, and will be
ftle at the Bank of Kodiak
fy afternoon from 1 to 2:30
Weekdays beginning Wednes
i April 19, according to Mrs.
rren A. Taylor, chairman of
ticket sale committee,
hject of the dance is to raise
^ to be used for hospital
is.
Boys & Girls
Here is a chance to do your
bit in the War effort.
Merit pins will be given by
the OPA to all boys and girls
who will volunteer to distribute
Government OPA posters.
If you would like to earn a d n
call at the OPA office, in the
Lyric theatre building, today.
Flip Of Coin
Decides Tie
A flip of a coin Monday night
at the council meeting decided
the election tit between Char es
Hopp and Jack Delane in favor
of the latter, who thus won the
seat of councilman for one year.
Charles Hopp was appointed
later as superintendent of streets,
sewers, water and public build
ings, with a salary for the new
pos tion yet to be set. Only
other appointment made was
tbat of Mrs. Catherine Blanken
burg, as city clerk; salary for
this position and of other city
positions were not named and
other appointments were post
poned pending probable salary
changes.
The school board was instruct
ed to get plans and estimates on
a gymnasium in lieu of convert
ing the school attic into a study
hall.
A committee consisting of
Warren Taylor, James Martz
and Lawrence Wodlinger was
created to act on all matters a
rising of a military nature.
A restaurant liquor license ap
plication,made by Jalmer Spring
hill, of the Finnish Steam baths,
to be used at that location, was
tabled.
Brother Safe
In South Pacific
Very welcome news has been
received this week concerning
the safety of Rollin Ayere, broth
er of Forest Ayers of this city,
who is a naval officer and pilot
in the South Pacific and who
previously bad been reported
“missing in action”.
The favorable report was sent
directly by Lt. Comdr. F. R.
Udahl on his return from avia
tion duty on the same mission.
Lt Comdr. Udahl was recently
a house guest here of Mr. and
Mrs. Ayers.
The local OPA office stressed
this week the importance of
people cooperating in >aving on
gasoline and tires by carrying
all small packages home from
stores. This practice has become
established in the States and is
urged here in all cases except for
large deliveries too heavy to
carry
Man Has Narrow Escape When
Boat Gets Lost In Snowstorm
2 Properties
Change Hands
The Kodiak Library, curio
and book store, located on Alas
ka Way next to the former
Brown Bear site, was sold this
week by Cecil Helsel, owner of
the Helsel Photo company, to:
Mrs. Catherine Blankenburg.
Sale included stock, equipment
and lease on the building, which
is owned by Mrs. Jessie Nelson I
The shop will be opened next
Monday with Mrs Dorothy
Haag as manager.
Sale was announced this week
of the building and land of the
Kodiak Cleaners (form rly Kadi
ak Steam Laundry; by Joe
Loughran, founder of the laun
dry, to its present owner and
operator, Emmett Jennings.
Amount involved in the trans
action was not made public.
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Hospital Mistake
Kills 4 Infants
New London, Conn (.3d)—
Boric acid powder mistakenly
substituted for a dextrose feeding
formula caused the death of four
babies born to Naval men and
their wives in recent days at the
Lawrence Memorial Associated
hospitals The nstitution disclos
ed that all were less than a week
old and 6 others are seriously ill
Hospital administrators said
the mistake was made by a wo
man pharmacy school graduate
who is now a patient at the hos
pital suffering from nervous col
lapse.
Bill Torsen, 17, of Ouzinkie,
underwent an emergency appen
dectomy at the GM hospital last
Friday evening.
L. C. Peters, of the Depart
ment of Interior, arrived in Kod
iak this week on a routine trip
during which he will visit other
points on the island.
The Beachcombers, formerly
the Chicken Inn, now owned by
Jorgen Fredrickson and Ray
Martin, opened Wednesday night
to a packed house after being
closed since before the first of the
year. The club has been newly
re-decorated and is being manag
ed by Tom Jones.
Notification of granting of a
liquor license for the club was
received Saturday by wire from
Anchorage.
The club at present is opening
at S each afternoon.
Pardieu Named
As Postmaster
Jacque P Pardieu received
word this week of his appoint
ment as acting postmaster, mads
on the recommendation of Dele
gate Anthony Dimond, and at
midnight Tuesday took over in
his new position He has heen
employed at he local post office
the past few months
He replaces Al King, who has
been postmaster since Apiil, 19
4U, and who plans to enter some
branch of the armed services
After May 1 the city clerk’s
office will he housed in the ci v '
hall and hours will remain at
1 to 5 on weekdays except
Saturdays.
The local Selective Service
Board which has occupied the
city hall, will move to new I
quarters in the city-owned resi
dence in front of the city hall,
which a'so houses the travel
control bureau.
Five out-of-town patients were
admitted to the GiVl hospital this,
week: they are Florence Ander
son and Emma Grimert, Chig
nik; and Spiro Kaboures, Axel
Andraeson and Daniel Wilson,
Unga
Stanley McCutcheon, candid
ate for nomination as Territorial
representative, arrived in Kodiak
Thursday He will speak at the
special meeting of the Central
Labor Council to be held tomor
row.
'
Mrs. Annie Summers and
Mrs. M. Oleune Wallace left this
week for their home in Alabama.
They have been employed in the
upstairs store at Erskine’s.
A. W. Wilkins, representing
the tax department of the
Federal government, arrived
in Kodiak this week on a busi
ness trip. He is a brother-in-law
of Martin Jensen.
6 Anchorage
Planes Destroyed
Anchorage (Special)—Flames
consumed the hangar of the Mor
ris-Knudsen Co. at Merrill Field
Tuesday, hospitalized Miles Dar
nall, a mechanic, and destroyed
6 planes. Origin of the blaze was
undetermined.
Included in the loss was the
company’s new Beachcraft plane
valued at *80,000.
Sverre Nilsen, 52, is in the
Griffin Memorial hospital this
week recovering from i'<<st bite
and severe exhaustion suffered
when he became lost n a snow
storm on his way from Kodiak
to his home at Pineapple Cove,
3 miles from Ouzinkie, <he fore
part of the week. He was making
the trip in a dory with an out
board motor and was towing a
smaller dory.
According to Mr. iNiisen ne
left Kodiak Monday afternoon
and was somewhere opposite
Mill Bay when blinding snow
began falling. Not being able to
see he ran into a bed of kelp and
fowled his motor and was unable
to get it re started.
He began rowing he said, but
had no compass and could see
only a few feet ahead of him
The snow continued through the
night as he rowed blindly, alter
nating the rowing with period'-'
of resting by sitting in the bot
tom of the boat.
With the coming of daylight
and the slackening of snow he
saw land but didn’t know where
he was. He said he cut the
small dory loose then to try to
make the beach, which, although
he didn’t know it then, was on
Long Island, in the opposite
direction from what he had in
tended.
About this time a boat with
military personnel came along
and saw the boat offshore. The
military boat fried to put in to
it but the water was too
shallow so they picked out
another spot along the island
and got ashore and then waded
out to Nilsen’s beat.
I hey reported that Nilsen was
in the bottom of his boat sitting
in about 6 inches of water anti
appeared unconscious. They
said there were no oars in th**
boat and that the first sign of
life Nilsen showed was when
they removed him from the boat
and he began muttering inco
herently.
They carried him some dist
ance to a first aid station where
he was given medical treatment.
Wednesday he was brought to
the local hospital and only ill
effects of the adventure are two
badly swollen bands.
Chris Mathisen was admitted
at the GM hospital this week
from Port Bailey with a fractured
foot bone, suffered when he fell
from a gangplank.
Miss Ruth Thompson, book
keeper for the Kodiak Candy
Company and Kodiak Bottling
Works, left this week for a vaca
tion in the States.