Owen Gets
-abor Job <
Al Owen, former Kodiak!
esident, received an appoint- j
nent as apprenticeship repre
entative in western Alaska i
>'ith the Ala ka Division," U.!
k Department of Labor, 'f-j
fective March lk, according!
to the Juneau Umpire. |
The announcement was
made recently by Leonard!
Evans, Department chief for,
the territory. The western'
headquarters will be in An- •
zhorage. !
Owen is now in Seattle for(
•* training course and will go j
to Washington, D. C. fori
further training. lie will work!
ander Eugene Norton, general
representative for the entire!
territory. j
Owen has been an organizer |
for the fishermen’s union in
the westward district and is a
former inember ot the Kodiak
carpenters union and a for
mer member of the Kodiak
city council.
He was a member of the
House'-'of • Representatives
from the third division in thv
1949 Alaska legislat re.
Mrs Ken Wade, now of
Fairbanks, went to Juneau
last weekend to give a demon
stration of textile painting at
the Alaskan Arts and Crafts
exhibit there. She returned
to Fairbanks Tuesday.
Dick Butler was an outgoing
plane passenger for Seattle
last Saturday. Mrs. Butler
was a passenger later in the
week. They recently sold
Tony’s Bar to Harry and Eli
nor Gottschalk of Nome.
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rbor’s Economic
Outlined
os-e than ICO Kodiak
fip rmen, businessmen ami
ci' • boosters gathere Tues
dav.to tell bh briny ' or-ps.o-'
En-dnaers tii-- ; >no • b na
il! s that woo Id be drived,
- <’*om t. '- c * tr n of
a small boat harbor.
Lewis Stanley, of the An
chorage office, conducted the
meeting, he'd in the Orpheum
Theatre. He told the men pre
sent that his office recognized
the need of a harbor here but
that his report must show
that the harbor would be
“justified economically and
the annual benefits from it
would be sufficient to take
care of amortization of the
debts from building and main
tenance of the harbor.”
| Primary benefit of the har
I bor, fishermen reported.
• would be protection from their
boats during storms, and re
lief from damage which may
average $500 or $600 per year
per boat.
A small boat harbor would
also mean that fishermen
, would not have to drag their
: boats up on the beaches as
soon as the salmon season is
| over but could keep them in
i the water an additional four or
five months a year to do crab
| fishing, salmon trolling and
1 develop other possibilities in
, the area.
j The additional income from
j the increased fishing would
I bring much added wealth into
' town, the engineers heard,
j Loss of life, which can be
| measured in dollars and cents
j for such surveys, would also
j be cut down, Max LaLande
I told the engineers. He re
I ported that at least one life is
j lost each year here'that could
be saved, were boats tied up
in a harbor instead of to the
dock, and Stanley indicated
such a factor would be of
primary importance.
Several ftshdrmen stated it
is cheaper to take a targe boat
or barge to Seatte to dock it
ftft-tRe wirtter, rather than
i attempt %oHMp it in good re
l pAlr on the beaches here dur
ing the Winter,
; A tettfer fromAdm. C. A. F.
I Sprague, coftiirtaUdaftt 17th
naval district, was read at the
meeting, and gave his support
to!the project.
Adm. Sprague wrote that
[additional small craft thatj
would he attracted by a small
boat harbor could be used in
emergencies for navy patrol
work, and, , that the harbor j
would ,afso serve as an alter-\
nate base ‘for ' crash boats
which cannot, get into iced
over Woman’s Hay in thej
winter time.
Local cooperation is requir
ed in the event of the decis
ion of Congress to appropriate
funds for the harbor, Stanley
told the group.
The community is requir
ed to guarantee all rights of
way, a spoil disposal area,
andlito save the U. S. govern
nent from any damages, he
said. 4 v<n.
The community-- must also
•ut in the float system, ;for
he h arbo r a'ter 5thJe * i arm y
ngineers dredge it and build
:he breakwater, he added. j
At the conclusion of the
meeting. Stanley said he had'
obtained “good leads’’ on
much of the economic infor
mation he needed for the re-1
port from his office, but added i
that an economist might
spend a few days here de
veloping further the figures
which were outlined at Tues
day’s meeting.
Merrill Coon, Chamber of
Commerce president who has
! worked for several years to
[obtain the boat harbor, as
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si&Utt'Stanley in conducting
the meeting.
Former Marshal
Dies In Seattle
James H. Pattec^n,.. who
was marshal of the third-divi
sion before tfye late Paul Her
ring, uiea l^st week at Lake
side, Calif., the Anchorage
Times reports. Masonic
funeral services were held at
Seattle for him. ■
Patterson, who served as
maashal from November, 1939
until May 1949, had owned
and operated an avocado farm
at Lakeside. He was about 77
years old.
James Connors, former
Juneau resident and recently
of Seattle, arrived in Kodiak
this week to take up his duties
as bookkeeper at the Whks
Halferty lac., cannery.
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