"News of oAmencas Last Frontier9
VOL 11 NO 23
KODIAK, ALASKA AUGUST 11, 1951
PRICE 10 CENTS
City Files Complaint
Against Local Builder
Norman 0. Dalton pled noti
guilty when brought before
City Magistrate Myrna Per
kins Monday, charged with
altering, remodeling, and add
. ing to buildings, located with
in the city limits, without a
permit.
Dalton was released on
recognizance of his attorney,
Talmage L. Smith, and his
trial was set for August 20, at
10 am. Smith said he would be
absent from town until then
and could not represent his
client.
Dalton applied to the city
council for a permit in Febru
ary to remodel two buildings
which were located on lot 1 of
the Leite Subdivision. The
council did not act on the ap
plications at that time but
instructed H. E. Spencer,
city building inspector, to
examine the property and see
if the plans met the city’s
building code.
Following receipt of the in
spector’s report the city coun
cil denied the building per
mits during the March 12
meeting.
The complaint against Dal
ton was signed by 0. R. Mc
Kinley acting chief of police
and patrolman. Complaints
about Dalton’s construction
without a permit were re
ceived by the council.
Science Lecturer
Speaks Tuesday
Arthur C. Whitney, widely
known lecturer on Christian
Science, will speak at the
Orpheum Theatre Tuesday
evening.
Christian Science: A Reli
gion of Answered Prayer, is
the topic of Whitney’s ad
dress. There will be no ad
mission charge to the lecture.
Members of the local Chris
tian Science Group have in
vited all interested persons to
attend.
Marie Cope To Enter
Nurses School
Marie Cope, graduate of
Kodiak High School in the
1951 class, plans to attend
Keuka College, Keuka, N. Y.,
where she will take nurses
training.
Miss Cope received a
scholarship from Keuka. A
reception will be held for her
at the close of the 7:35 pm
services at the Baptist Church,
Rev. R. N. Wilkinson said
yesterday.
Committee Plans
Rent Discussion
Rental problems will be dis
cussed this week when mem
bers of the Chamber of Com
merce base-town committee
meet with Navy officials.
During the regular C of C
luncheon Thursday it was re
vealed that servicemen were
receiving rent receipts from
landlords stating they had ob
tained housing for their state
side families so that the Navy
would issue orders bringing
their dependents here.
It was pointed out that the
servicemen did not have hous
ing, but only a receipt, and
hoped to obtain quarters for
their famlies before they
arrived.
It was revealed that the
Navy plans to investigate
future cases before issuing the
necessary trave 1 orders. The
practice of charging high
rents for inferior houses was
also discussed.
Meetings between C of C
representatives and Navy of
ficials have been held monthly
for the past year and a half.
President Merrill Coon asked
Frank McConaghy of Whiz
Halferty Inc., and 0. H.
Kimball, Alaska Steamship
Co. agent, to write letters to
the U. S. Corps of Engineers
pointing out the need and the
benefits that would be de
rived from the building of a
small boat harbor in Kodiak.
Letters written by cannery
representatives last year on
the need of a boat harbor in
Kodiak were lost from the
files.
McCord High Bidder
On Used Equipment
Jack McCord, Kodiak
rancher, was high bidder for
the World War II, Navy radio
beam station on Chirikof Is
land. McCord bid $767.
He gets half a dozen build
ings, stell towers, diesel oil,
oil drums and other equipment
and supplies left on the is
land. The Bureau of Land
Management had placed a
minimum value of $600 on the
property.
McCord recently sold his
cattle herd on Chirikof and
said he had no plans for the
installations he purchased.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Crooks and children were out
going Denali passengers Wed
nesday.
Kodiak School
Renovated
Kodiak children entering
school this September will
find new individual lockers,
book shelves in the six rooms
of the main building, and
other new chairs and desks in
some of the rooms.
All of the rooms have re
ceived some new equipment
and all of the quonset huts
adjoining the main building
have been painted and re
paired.
A conference room has been
built near the center of the
main building adjoining the
main hall and a new labora
tory storage and display case
has been purchased.
Quonset No. 3, the library
and study hall, has been com
pletely renovated and a 50,
000 BTU Coleman heating
unit installed. New library
tables chairs, book shelves,
fluorescent lights and a new
paint job give the building a
completely new appearance.
The carpentry work at the
school is being done by C. E.
Anderson, former shop teacher
in the school, ctnd by Irvin
Gilbreath. The painting is be
ing done by H. A. Riley and
Louis Page.
The locker room is located
in the basement and the walls
and ceiling have been covered
with plywood and a new door,
leading to the outside, in
stalled.
Additional shop equipment
has been purchased as well as
new laboratory equipment.
Some new typewriters have
been added to the commerce
room.
Clam Dinner Planned
By Masonic Club
A clam dinner for the bene
fit of the Masonic building
fund will be held at the Mont
martre Inn August 19, from
4 to 8 pm.
The Kodiak Masonic Club is
sponsor of the dinner and the
food will be prepared by A1
Miller, co-owner of the Mont
martre Inn.
Rotary Club Seeks
Volunteer Workers
Kodiak Rotary Club 5533 is
seeking volunteer workers to
complete the Rotary sponsored
and financed playground on
Mission Road.
Interested persons are re
quested to report to Jorgen
Fredrickson, Rotary chairman
for the playground, or be at
the site of the project by 8
am tomorrow.
Shuyak Marine Monster
identified By FWS
Baptist Meeting
Starts Tuesday
Members of the Alaska
Baptist Convention will pro
bably begin to arrive in Ko
diak tomorrow and Monday.
The sixth annual conven
tion is scheduled to begin Au
gust 14 and run through Au
gust 16.
The opening session will be
held at 1:30 pm Tuesday. Wed
nesday and Thursday the
morning sessions will convene
at 9:30 am. The afternoon
meetings will begin at 1:45
pm and the evening programs
will start at 7:30 pm.
The public is cordially in
vited to attend all sessions,
Rev. R. N. Wilkinson said.
Special music and Bible
studies will be held during
each session.
Harbor Plans ■
To Be Checked
A meeting will be held Tues
day at the Union Hall to dis
cuss and examine plans for a
small boat harbor for Kodiak,
Merrill Coon, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, an.
nounced late yesterday.
Kenneth Hoyt, Anchorage
member of the U. S. Corps of
Engineers, is expected to ar.
rive Monday with the plans.
The time of the meeting has
not been decided. Interested
persons are requested to call
Coon at 4303 Tuesday morn
ing for time of meeting.
Elks Butcher Beef
For Kids' Picnic
Ray Boggs, official chef for
BPOE 1772, plans to barbecue
a beef from the herd of Sid
Old for the annual Elk’s Pic
nic for children on August 19.
The annual affair will be
held at Holiday Beach on Ko
diak Naval Station. Arrange
ments have been made to hold
the picnic indoors in the event
of inclement weather.
The local Elks Club will be
host to all children of school
; age and under.
A car driven by Alfred
Christofferson and owned by
Ben Rice crashed into a cab
driven by Earl Graves around
5 am yesterday.
The cab is owned by Henry
Haag -who has filed suit
against Christofferson to be
heard at 10 am Monday in
commissioner’s court.
me mystery or tne neacr
less “marine monster” found
near Point Banks on Shuyak
Island last month has been
solved.
It is a Suborder Mysticeti
or a whalebone whale.
Victor B. Scheffer, Fish and
Wildlife Research biologist in
Seattle identified the animal
from parts of a “finger” bone,
photographs and a sample of
the skin sent him by the Ko
diak FWS office.
“The monster found on the
Shuyak beach is a Whalebone
Whale, headless and in a
badly decomposed condition.
You can speculate freely as to
how the whale lost its head. .
by a mine, a ship’s propeller.,
or what have you,” Scheffer
wrote Roy Lindsley, local
FWS enforcement agent.
According to a book by W.
J. Hamilton, Jr. on American
Mammals the Whalebone
Whale or Suborder Mysticeti
have no functional teeth. In
their place are plates of whale
bone which are attached to
the palate.
The whale feeds on plank
ton and small fish. There is
other evidence of them being
in northern waters.
Lindsley said it was possible
that killer whales had attack
the one found on the beach
and had chewed off his (or
her) head.
The body of the whale was
covered with hair approxi
mately three-quarters of an
inch in length and was of a
brownish-yellow color.
Photographs of the whale
were made by Mr. and Mrs.
Kim Clark and Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Hall of Kcdiak Airways
when a party flew to Shuyak
to see the then unidentified
mammal.
Annual Garden Show
Cancelled For 1951
The annual Kodiak Garden
Club show will not be held
this year, an officer of the club
said yesterday.
Earlier, plans for the show
were made and a date set.
The flower show was cancelled
last year because of the ab
sence of flowers due to a wet
summer.
The cancellation this year is
because there are not enough
members in the club to do the
work.
Mrs. Sophie Anderson, Ko
diak resident, was an incom
ing Denali passenger Wed
1 esiay morning. She has
been outside for several
months.