*-•6 License Denied
Local Man
An application Neil''' Sar
gent for a taxi license . -\y.as
denied by members b# ' the
Kodiak city council recently.
In denying the application a
member explained that an
ordinance governing the num
ber of permits issued within
the corporate limits was
limited and that “public con
venience and necessity must
be shown before additional
licenses are granted.”
Sargent held a taxi cab
license during 1948, he told
the council.
Paul Hansen, Alaska Air
lines pilot, flew a Grumman
widgeon to Kodiak Tuesday.
The plane will be based here
and will bring to three the
number of widgeons the com
pany has based here.
Egg Oyster % "solved
At Baptist lf< '-ion •.
The mystery of the missing.
eggs and hens and the sot
lion of the mur ler _/f severe
hens ar, toe Kodiak Baptist
Mission w as solved an
avenged late Tuesday afte
noon.
The solution to the mystery
was made by Eli Waseli, 14,
resident of the mission, when
he went to the hen house to
gather eggs and surprised a
large eagle in the midst of
having an egg “omlet.” j
Waseli, on seeing the huge
! dark shape in the hen house
i immediately slammed the door
and ran to one of the mission
i houses to get his .22 single
i shot rifle. He also picked up
1 the one and only .22 cartridge
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to the hen house
m k dead aim and
■inp spread of the
winged thief mea
' vie from tip to
in Stone, superinten
<' nr • f 'he mission, said that
’.id ;ot know an eagle was
the wcinty and was sur
mised rp-it one would come so
close to such a thickly popu
lated area.
Bear Hunters
Due Tuesday
Bob Hall Air Service has
been chartered by Hal Waugh,
licensed guide, to fly equip
ment, food, supplies and mail
to Karluk Lake where Waugh
is establishing a hunting
camp.
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Gibson
are scheduled to arrive here
i on May 8, and will be flown to
; Karluk Lake in.one of Hall’s
planes. Two other guides,
working for Waugh, are now
at the lake preparing the
icamp.
Late in June Dr. and Mrs.
| Ralph G. Schott, Beltsville,
• Maryland, are scheduled to
j arrive here and hunt bear
j with Bill Pinnell and Mcrris
iTolafson at their hunting
camp at Olga Bay.
Dr. Schott is chief of the
division of tnimal husbandry
for the U. S. government at
l Washington. D. C. He has
j expressed an interest in the
i livestock industry here. He
1 will examine the prospects of
j further development of the
industry here in such a way
as to have complete harmony
with the U. S. Fish and Wild
life Service, Russ Swartz,
operation manager for Bob
Hall Air Service said yester
day.
Wheeldons Return
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wheel
don returned to Kodiak Wed
nesday after spending several
weeks in the states.
They visited friends and
relatives in Iowa. Mrs. Wheel
don, who flew to the states
ahead of her husband, made a
trip through the west with
Mrs. Ben Kraft and Mrs. Bea
Nachtweih.
She later joined her hus
band for the return trip to
Kodiak.
I '
The following building per
mits were approved during
the last meeting uf the city j
oouncil: Whiz Halferty, Inc.,,
to remodel and add a web loft i
to the cannery near the Don-1
nelley and Acheson dock; Wil
lard Hall, remodel residence
on lot 9, block 18; A1 King,
remodel building on lot 11,
block 3.
The Union Oil Company re
ceived a permit to move a
small office building to the
company’s property near the
city dock.
itaves On Vncntioa
Mrs. Waiter O’Brien and
twoohildren left Monday a
board a 4-engine PNA piarie
for a vacation in the states.'
She will go to Minneapolis,
Minnesota, to visit Mr. O’
Brien’s parents and later to
Texas and California.
O’Brien, bookkeeper at
Kraft’s, wili leave today to
join his wife and children. He
plans to return around May
26.
Orville and Ed Nye, for
mer Kodiak residents, re
irned to Kodiak aboard the
Funston recently to work at
Kodiak Naval Station.
Their families, who are now
in Bandon, Oregon, will join
the two here as soon as hous
ing is available.
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Hunts Bear.
Earl 1'Ihefseh, pHotographer
for Book;’ ^igazine, and John
Day, owner of the Blue Moon
Ranch at Medford,'Ore., flew
to Uganik Bay Tuesday in an
Alaska Airlines plane to hunt
Kodiak bear.
Guides Alf Madsen and Eli
Metrokin accompanied the
men on the hunt. Jake Blanc,
local resident, is camp cook
for the party.
Theisen will fly to the in
terior to take a series of
pictures following the hunt,
he said Tuesday. Pictures of
the hunt at Uganik will be
made.
Day and Theisen were
guests of the Kodiak Rotary
at the regular luncheon .Tues
day noon. , .
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