KiMgfai To Stand
Trail
Pete Knagin, 34, Afognak
feorn fisherman, was taken to
Anchorage this week by U. S.
Deputy Marshal Clarence
Dizney to stand trial on a
charge of larceny.
Knagin is charged with
entering the B & B Bar on the
night of Jan. 27, and taking
548.82 in cash. His prelimin
ary hearing was held in com
missioner’s court.
Duning the hearing Knagin
said he did not remember a
thing about the night of Jan.
27, as he was drunk. He re
fused the court’s offer of legal
counsel.
Following the hearing he
was bound over to the Grand
Jury.
Rev. Wilkinson Addresses
Graduating Classes
Through the years of
American history common
men and women have been
propelled to the foreground in
the terrifying urgencies of
national need to strengthen
and maintain the strongholds
of freedom,” the Reverend R.
N. Wilkinson told the Kodiak
school graduating classes
Sunday.
He made the statement in
his bacculaureate address to
members of the 1951 senior
class and eighth grade. Rev.
Wilkinson’s address was titled
Strongholds Unconquered.
“At no time has America
suffered a permanent last
ng rupture of national se
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curity or unity. Her strong
holds have remained uncon
quered,” Rev. Wilkinson
said.
In illustrating his theme, he
told of a visit he made to the
aisioric U. S. S. Constitution
and how ‘‘Old Ironsides” con
tinues to stand as a symbol of
the great ideal, America, the
stronghold of the Uncon
quered.”
He cautioned the graduates
co guard their present liber
ties and to practice good
citizenship.
In closing Rev. Wilkinson
again referred to the famous
ship and said, “She is the
symbol ot a great nation,
strongly estbalished and
united in the principles of
personal liberty and justice
and freedom. She . . . repre
sents the America that now is.
She ... .is the prophecy of
the America which under
God and with your active help
is yet to be.”
New Navy PIO
Arrives
Lieut. Frank Brink, USN,
has relieved LCDR. Bob Rog
ers as District Public Infor
mation Officer for the 17th
Naval District
LCDR. Rogers will report to
Naval headquarters in Phila
delphia. He has served 18
months at Kodiak NavaL Sta
tion. Mrs. Rogers will ac
company her husband to his
new assignment.
Lieut. Brink was recently
recalled to active duty with
the Navy. He is acquainted
with Kodiak and its residents
as he was here, in a civilian
capacity, during March.
While here in March, Lieut.
Brink showed Alaskan movies
of the Lake George Break-up
and another titled Voice of
the Priblofs.
Mrs. Brink, who is now in
Anchorage, will join her hus
band here as soon as housing
is available. {
Elks Honor Mothers
For the third consecutive
year, Mrs. Louise Gregoroff
won the honors at the annual
Elks lodge mothers' day pro
gram Sunday and received the
corsage given by the group
for the oldest mother present.
A large group of women,
many with their children, at
tended the program, which
was conducted by John Gib
bons.
Mrs. Grant Wheeler was
feted as the youngest mother
in attendance at the affair.
Named as the “mother who
had brought up the most
children in Kodiak” was Mrs.
William Stone, wife of the
Baptist Mission superinten
dent.
Mrs. John Hubley received
a corsage for having four
grandsons in service, winning
over two mothers, each of
whom had two sons in uni
form.
CrrdisM Mamed
Education Head
Anchorage (A1)—Everett R.
Erickson, who has been
deputy commissioner, of edu
cation for Alaska, has been
named commissioner, to suc
ceed Dr. James Ryan who re
signed recently.
Erickson, who has a B. A.
and mast er of science in edu
cation taught five years in
Juneau schools, spent several
years in the department of
education of the University of
Alaska, and more than two
years in the territorial de
partment.
During the early part of the
Korean occupation he was
military head of the depart
ment of education of one of
the Korean provinces.
Buy m Kodiak
Kodiak Woman
Dies Monday
Mrs. Opal Sledge, 37. Ko
diak Laundry employee, died
Monday at 3:46 pm at Griffin
Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Sledge arrived here
several months ago from Se
attle. She was a friend of Mr.'
and Mrs. Paul Rivers, owners
of the laundry and made her
home with them.
Her mother, Mrs. Carrie
Johnson, Visalia, California,
was notified of her death.
Funeral arrangements were
incomplete late yesterday.
Mrs. Johnson wired Wed
nesday and requested that the
body be sent to the Angelos
Funer&I Home in Seattle.
Talmage L. Smith, local at
torney. flew to Anchorage via
PNA this week.
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