Alaska Road Commission Conducts
Kodiak Island Highway Traffic Survey
i ne Alaska Road Commiss
ion, under the direction of
Commissioner Paul Stover, is
conducting a most unusual sur
in the Kodiak Area. Tt con
•Ists of a re a J count as to the
number of vehicles that pass
over a given pointin ona weeks
time. The purpose is to deter
mine which roads are most
heavily used, and whether or
those that are used th« heav
iest .need reconstruction or
!>*▼»£. Checks will be made
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af four different locations on
four of Kodiaks highways. To
date the statistics reveal:
Abbert Highway (the orig
inal name of the Base Road)
! for one week starting June 26
' and running through July 3rd;
a total of 6,373 ears passed over
the highway. The highest days
traffie was 1,218 cars and the
daily low wason a Sunday with
575 cars passing over this giv
en point near the intersection
of the Base Road and the City
Deck Road.
Community Garden Road
(the original name of thehigh
way now known as Mission
Road) total for the week of
July 6th through July 13th,
8.353 cars passed over the
highway. The daily high on
July 10th was 1395 and the dai
ly low on July 8th. curiously a
Thursday, was 1,0-1
■The count on Mill Bay Road
is in process at the present
time and three day totals are
all that are available. The
count started on July 13th and
for that day 505 cars passed
over the given point. On July
14th 539 cars and July 15th505
the same as the first day of
the count
When this survey is complet
ed the Road Commission will
have a very accurate account
ing on the Kodiak Road traffic
and it is hoped that through
the survey seme criteria
may be reached as to what
roads need paving and which
ones need to be reconstructed.
“The progress so far made
in our fight against cancer
supports our hope that science
will one day conquer this dis
ease as it has so many others.'
President Dwight Eisenhower.
There will be a meeting for
Labor Day Carnival Chairman
at St Mary’s Rectory on Tues
day night at 7:30 pm. Any in
terested people are urged to at
tend.
Mar'Lou Apparel s»nop
Sold To Marge Gibbons
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Mar’Lou, Ladies Apparel,1
changes ownership as of July
20th when Marvia Hedloff the t
present owner turns over the j
shop to its new owner Margar
et (Margie) Gibbons.
Marvis opened the Ladies
Apparel shop four years ago
and it has remained in the pre-|
sent location at the corner of j
Main and Brooklyn for the en
ure periuu. one o«u *****
band Robert Hedloff, City
Clerk until the first of August,
are sailing on the S.S. Alaska
for Seattle and from therethey
will take a trip through sever
al States on an extended vaca
tion.
Margie Gibbons, until last
Saturday July 10th,was Secre
tary to Marshall Cruthcher,
President of the Bank, Kodiak
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