fOL. 4 NO. 38
"News oj ^Americas Last Frontier”
PRICE 10 CENTS
KODIAK, ALASKA FEBRUARY 3, 1945
Tax Bill Is
Introduced
Juneaa (Special)—A graduate
tax of 2 per cent on $2000 to 4
per sent on $10,000 with an in
termediate scale on net incomes
of Alaskans and non-residents
was introduced in the Senate
Thursday. Provision is made for
withholding tax payments from
salaries.
A special tax is proposed for
seasonal workers for $130 on total
wages of $6000 and $4.50 on
wages less than $500.
A tax on corporations and
banks is set at 4 per cent of net
income from sources within the
Territory. The bill also provides
that a supervisor of taxation be
appointed by the Governor.
Birthday Ball
Nets Over $600
The President's Birthday Ball
Tuesday evening proved to be
one of the most successful dan
ces of the year, with high praise
going to all concerned with ar
rangements for it. W. A. Can
non, ticket chairman, reported
that ticket sales cleared $479.65,
and with $131.25 from sale of
pictures a total of $610.90 was
made on the dance, of which
half is to be turned over to Pub
lic Health Nurse Marion Curtis
for child welfare work in Kodiak.
Expenses were $74.10 plus the
Federal tax of $138.60, which
made gross take on the affair of
$825.30.
The auctioning of pictures by
Sgt. Paul Bond proved to be one
of the outstanding features to
the dancers packing the beauti
fully decorated hall. A large pas
tel of President Roosevelt
brought the largest amount, $65
from William Fitzgerald. Other
pictures went to Clarence Selig,
Frank Kempton, Myrtle Kemp
ton, Tommy Clampffer and
Staff-Sgt. Tommy Sanders.
Mrs. O. A. Torgerson was
general chairman of the dance,
and committee heads were Stan
ley Nelson, Walter Sipperel, W.
A. Cannon and Emil Knudsen.
Mrs. Torgerson expressed her
thanks to the Army Special
Service Office, radio station WV
CQ which broadcast from the
dance, the high school for post
ers and advertising, Sgt. Paul
®ond, the committee members
“d “everyone who helped to
make it a success”.
“The dance proved to be a
real community affair with real
eommunity spirit,” Mrs. Tor
gerson said, “and that spirit
•hould point the way to many
more successful community ven
tures.”
Mrs. Torgerson entertained
®0mmittee chairmen’Xand their
Ryan Urges Action For New School
Shady Business
The groundhog’s shadow was
cast, sharply and clearly yester
day, on Groundhog Day, which
means if tradition is correct that
Spring will be delayed 6 weeks.
Bids Sought
The local post office is seeking
bids on two mail routes, and
forms and information may be
obtained from the local postmas
ter. Bids must be submitted on
a roend trip basis within the
next 10 days.
One route is from Kodiak to
the Naval Air Station, the other
from the post orfice to Erskine’s
doek and Army pier.
Sponsor Returns
Mrs. Marjory Knudsen, wife
of Mayor Emil Knudsen, and
daughter Jo Anne, her flower
girl, returned to Kodiak via the
recent Lakina after their trip to
the States for the purpose of of
ficiating at the launching of the
S. S Kodiak Victory.
They visited with relatives in
Washington and Oregon while
waiting for the launching and af
terward during the holidays.
Mrs. Knudsen said they had a
wonderful trip and that the
launching was a thrilling experi
ence.
Juneau (Special)—The House
passed the Senate measure pro
viding that when citizens become
18 years old they have the right
to vote.
Juneau (Special) — McCut
cheon and (Warren) Taylorintro
duced a joint memorial asking
Congress to grant statehood to
Alaska.
wives at dinner at the Victory
Cafe yesterday evening.
The “problem of a new school
building must be faced in the
very near future”, according to
James C. Ryan, Territorial
Commissioner of Education, who
inspected the local school in
October last year.
The official rating of the
school as a result of the inspec
tion is unsatisfactory, but Mr.
Ryan added that conditions
show a “great improvement”
and that the school board, super
intendent and faculty are doing
“the very best they can under
very adverse conditions.”
It is Mr. Ryan’s suggestion
that the present building be
revamped for the elementary
grades and that a new high
school in combination with a
gymnasium and auditorium, be
constructed
Heading the unsatisfactory
list in the official report sent by
Mr Ryan to the local school
board were lack of a gymnasium,
lack of a study hall and auditor
ium and an unsatisfactory build- •
ing and grounds
The present study hall is used
as a classroom at the same lime,
the 6th grade has too many
pupils for one teacher, the 8th
grade room is too small and is
too noisy when typing classes
are in session at the same time,
Mr. Ryan pointed out. The
superintendent, should be re
lieved from teaching, he also
said, and his office should not
also be a classroom as it now is.
In reporting on the faculty,
the commissioner said the ad
ministration of the school is in
capable hands and all teachers
received a satisfactory rating on
teaching experience.
The greatest service the school
board can do to improve the
school situation, Mr Ryan said
in a closing recommendation, is
Sand Point Resident
Dies At Hospital
George Smiloff, 39, from Sand
Point, passed away Friday morn
ing at the Griffin Memorial hos
pital. Dr. A. Holmes Johnson, at
tending physician, said death was
due to miliary tuberculosis. Mr.
Smiloff had been in Kodiak the
past few weeks under the care of
the public health nurse.
He is survived by his mother
and a son at Sand Point and ef
forts were being made yesterday
to notify them of his death.
Manpower Bill Passed
Washington—Brushing aside
every pronosed major change
the House passed and sent to the
Senate legislation to coeicc men
between the ages of 18 and 45 in
to war plants by a roll call vote
of 246 to 165. Passage of the mea
sure, requested by President
Roosevelt came ufter backers
staved a mighty drive by oppon
ents to substitute a voluntary
plan for meeting manpower
needs. The substitute was back
ed heavily by Republicans. Ear
lier the House decisively rejected
amove to incorporate in the
legislation the so-called “anti
closed shop’’ amendment.
George McKay, driver for the
Thompson Transfer company,
purchased a lot and frame build
ing on Tugora road from Charles
Hopp for $300, according to rec
ords filed this week at the U.S.
Commissioner’s office.
to keep urging the city to build
a new high school building.
“You cannot expect the superin
tendent and faculty,” he said,
“to build a fine and efficient
high school organization under
the present handicaps.”
Youngsters'
Clinic Is Set
A clinic for small pox vaccina
tion and diphtheria immunization
will be held next Thursday, Feb
ruary 8, at 1:30 pm at the office
of Dr. A. Holmes Johnson, Pub
lic Health Nuise Marion Curtie
announced this week
Parents are urged to 6ee that
all infant and pre-school children
take advantage of this clinic, as
the vaccination and immuniza
tion will prevent costly and seri
ous illness and possible epidemic.
The recent experience of the city
of Nome, which had a diphtheria
epidemic which resulted in sever
al deaths, should be a warning
example to parents interested in
the welfare of their children.
According to records of Miss
Curtis there are 145 pre-school
children in Kodiak at this time,
of which only 31 are immunized
for diphtheria and 34 vaccinated
against small pox. For effective
disease control a goal of 100 per
cent of the children should be ob
tained, Miss Curtis said, and the
responsioility for seeing that the
children go to the clinic next
Thursday rests directly with the
parents.
By Associated Press
News Highlights
Paris—American & French
troops cleared 30 miles of the
left bank of the lthine below
Strasbourg & laid heavy artillery
barrage on Ncufbrisacii, railroad
escape bridge, from less than a
mile away. In the center of the
Western front American 3rd
Armies probed deeper into the
thinly-manned Siegfried line and
advanced up to 2 miles on west
ern slopes of Eifcl mountains op
posite the late Ardennes bulge.
A half dozen German hamlets
were taken, more lines of dragon
teeth tank barriers passed A
scores of pillboxes, maBy unde
fended, captured. Passive Ger
man resistance in center streng
thened the suspicion that the eB
emy might be falling back to the
Rhine from 20 to 60 miles to the
East.
London—Russian forces made
one attempt to storm across the
Oner in their onslaught toward
Berlin, German broadcasts said.
Other Berlin reports indicated
Soviet patrols might already
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With Berlin given Chicago’s
location, the European war fronts
(heavy lines) aie drawn to seale
on a map of the United States
Black areas are Germany proper
and East Prussia.