News of oAmericas Last Frontier
W)L14 NO 10
KODIAK, SALAS K A
NAY 15 1954
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PRICE 1 (/CENTS
Ken Lee
Commits
Kenneth J. Lee, well known
headman in the Carpenter
Shop at the Kodiak Naval Sta
tion, eommited suicide Thurs
day morning with a 30-06 at
$:40 am, at his home on Mis
sion Road. No explanation for
the act was given.
Lee. 61 years of age, was
on annual leave from his Civil
Service job at the Base for
the two days preceding his
suicide. He had breakfast with
his wife Evelyn at 6:30, car
rod on a normal conversation
daring the meal, arose from
the table, went into the bed
room to finish dressing for
work, and his wife heard the
shot Lee was lying on the
floor in the bedroom, but still
alive.
He was immediately re
moved to Griffin Memorial
Hospital by the Police Depart
ment and succumbed to the
wound at 10:00 am.
Kenneth J. Lee, was born
April 3, 19C3 at Kent, Wash
ington. He is survived by a
brother also employed on the
Naval Station in the carpenter
shop, his wife Evelyn and one
daughter Virginia living at
home. Another daughter Mrs.
Kenneth Loughton resides in
Kodiak. A daughter Mrs.
Theodore Woods of Honolulu,
Hawaii, and Mrs. Thomas
Rockney, another dauehter in
Oregon. Lee had one sister
Olive Westby residing in Se
attle.
A Coroners Jury met Fri
day at 1:30 and determined
the cause of death to be self
inflicted gun shot wounds.
Kodiak Emblem Club
Awards Scholarship
Miss Natalie Ponchene, 1954
induate of Kodiak High
School has been awarded a
$200 scholarship by the Kodiak
Emblem Club.
The scholarship so given is
to apply on tuition, board and
loom, or school entrance ex
cuses at the college chosen
by the recipient
The basis for the award is
oharacter, scholastic standing
*d the graduate’s own am
bition and need for further
education.
Wednesday, May 12th, seve
tol Kodiak citizens left via
pNA for the South. Wes
Rhoades left for Anchorage.
Henry (Swede) Breckberg
jwd Emmett Jennings left for
Seattle on business trips.
Fisneries Head
Shows Films At
Rotary Meeting
Rotary had a most pleasant
surprise in store for the mem
bers at the regular weekly
meeting last Tuesday noon.
As guests of Emil Knudsen,
three members of the Alaska
Department of fisheries, were
present and Clarence Ander.
son, head of the Department
presented an interesting movie
on Salmon Preservation.
Following this movie the
Navy Public Information De -
partment had a film shown in
honor of Armed Forces Day
which is May 15th.
Other guests present at the
luncheon were, Father Hil
ferty, Cstholic Chaplain at
the Naval Station, Ray Moyer,
Alaska representative for
Hiram Walker Distillery,
Peoria, Illinois, C. R. King,
the replacement for Walt
Sipprell, Alaska Steam, and
Clarence Dizney had as their
guests Chief Roland Vickery
and his four patrolmen, Ovid
McKinley, John Boucher
Curtis Saxton and Louis Lyle.
President Jack Hinckle was
absent’ being one of the dele
gates on the Statehood trek to
the Capitol at Washington,
D.C.
Garden Club To Hold
Exposition At USO
The Kodiak Garden Club
are planning an African Vio
let Exhibit to be held at the
USO on June 6th and 7th. Al 1
the citizens of Kodiak are in
vited to exhibit their speci
mens of the Saintpaulias they
are cultivating at home. The
object of the exhibit is to give
visitors arriving in Kodiak on
the first excursion trip this
spring, h little added attrac
tion.
This show is non-compete
tive and open to the public
free of charge.
Those exhibiting plants
please have them at the USO
by 1 pm Sunday, June ,6th so
they may be arranged bn the
I tables for the exhibit \
j Hours of the show arO: Sun
day from 2 to 5 pm and 7 to 9
Dm. Monday from 10 am to
3 pm. _
Kuhnley Arrived Wed.
Orrin Khunley, Superinten
dent for the Halferty Can
nery, in Kodiak, arrived in
Kodiak on Wednesday May 12,
to prepare for the spring open
ing of the local cannery. Orrin
has been in Kodiak for the
past nine years and is well
known by most Kodiak resi
dents.
Kodiak Celebrates
Armed Forces Day
The might of our
Armed Forces will be on
display here in Kodiak
today, May 15th, as
Armed Forces Day is be
ing celebrated through
out the military patroled
world.
Today we are no near
er to that, everlasting
peace,that people talk a.
bout than we were De
cember 7th 1941. The
Communists have not
shown any definite signs
of a real and sincere
peace. In Korea what
little signs were mani
fested in peace talks
have all bogged down
and ceased to exist. What
once was the great
country of Germany is
now divided into sectors
which as they stand will
never be unified. The
Soviet govern one sector
and they are at odds with
all the other sectors by
squelching any evidence
of such things as free
elections, free speech
and so forth. Listen to
these startling statistics
of the Soviet might and
then reason why the rest
of the free world has to;
be military patrolled for
the sake of safety. Today
the Red Army has 175
divisions in . Russia with
anothsr 70 divisions from
its satellite countries. It
also has 20,000 operation
al planes reaay to take
off and employ their
destruction on an enemy.
Their Navy is the second
largest in the world, and
their submarines outnum
ber our own. The USSR
has a much greater stock
pile of atomic bombs than
would be necessary for a
peaceful world.
According to President
Eisenhower, here is the
"why” of our power for
peace.
"We live not in an in
stant of peril, but in an
age of peril - a time of
tension and watchful
ness. The peril we face is
all the more dangerous
because it is physical, in
the sense of military
might, and also moral
and spiritual, in the sense
that it seeks to destroy
our way of life.”
This is the reason the
United States keeps an
Armed Force of 3,359,797
to insure the peace loving
world it may live in some
semblence of a peaceful
existence.
Mothers Honored
By Local B.P.O.E.
On Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day ceremonies
presented by B.P.O.E. No.
1772 were held at 2 pm last
Sunday at the Elks Hall.
Approximately 100 people
were present at the annual
even*.
As in the past, corsages
were presented to the oldest
mother; youngest mother;
mother with the most chil
dren; mother with most
grandchildren and the young
est grandmother.
Irv Bowman, Exalted Ruler
of the loc?l lodge presented
the following with beautiful
corsages of red roses. Mrs.
Jessie Mary Dolan, oldest
mother; Mrs. Shirley Meyers,
youngest mother; Mrs. Dunin
Hartman, mother with the
most children; Mrs. John
Hubley, mother with the most
grandchildren and Mrs. Jay
Tolbert, youngest grand
mother.
This year three additional
corsages were presented. Mrs.
Don Crawford, for the most
recent mother; Mrs. Leon
Johnson, for the most recent
mother-to-be. Last, but not
least, Mrs. John Springhill,
pianist’ received a corsage for
her time and talent that she
has so graciously given on so
many occasions.
• During the ceremony, Dave
Leonard sang “Mother Mc
Cree” and “Little Mother Of
Mine”' accompanied on the
piano by Mrs. John Springhill.
Those who attended will
long remember the impressive
ritual and the beautiful car
nation that each one received
as they entered.
Local Cab Driver Loses
Permit For One Year
Ed Crockett plead guilty to
the charge of being drunk,
was fined $25.00 and his chaf
feurs license revoked for the
period of one year. He drove
a local cab and revoking his
chaffeur’s license prohibits
him from operating a cab for
that period.
Crockett called the Chief of
Police last week and later the
same day went to the police
| station and said to the Chief,
“Well here I am what are you
going to do about it?” The
Chief placed him under arrest
| and later released him on the
advice of counsel retained by
I the defendent. Due to illness
of the defenders’ Counsel
the case was postponed until
Tuesday May 11. Saturday
Crockett again turned himself
in, plead guilty and was fined
as stated above.
Alaskans
Arrive In v"’
Washington:
Mayor Jack Hinckle and,*
fifty Alaskans have arrived in,
Washington D.C. to promote*
good will toward Statehood^
for Alaska. And with the dele->
gation went 100 pounds of our
famous Kodiak King Grab. Onv
the delegations arrival im>
Washington the King Crab: *
was placed on the menus of**
the restaurants in both the,*
House and the Senate for a*
treat from Alaska -and spe- ‘
cificly Kodiak. The tables in, :
both restaurants were decor
ated with the Alaskan Flag;
and book matches were dis
tributed to members of both
Houses to aid in the fight for •
statehood. Mayor Hinckle was
one of a group of eight of the
Delegation from Alaska that
met with Speaker Martin and^
after the meeting he made the’
statement “I feel that Alaska]
is certainly entitled to State- *
hood in principle.” •• !
On the other hand Chairman’*
Miller (R-Neb) of the House]
Interior Committee made the •
statement during discussions]
with the delegation.” If
Alaskans are not prepared to,
accept the partition of; Alaska i
(that is just the populated
areas) they would get noth
ing.” The delegation will re--,
main in Washington a week. '
HS Graduates To Hold
Baccaluarete Sunday !
The graduating class of
1954 from Kodiak High School -
will hold the Baccaluarete Ex>
ercises in the Orpheum.
Theatre on Sunday May 16th j
at 1 pm. Speaker for the gala\
occassion will be George Wick/'
teacher at the local High'
School in the field of Science
and Shop work.
The invocation will be given 1
by Reverend John Molletti,
the benediction by Reverend
Judson E. Masters. Before
and after the Graduating Ad
dress the Girls Chorus of the ,
Hige School will sing two se
lections, first "Cherubin” by
Bortniansky, and second “Lift
Up Thy Heart,” by Geneya
Psater, written in 1551.
Commencement Exercises'
will be held at the USO oj>
Tuesday May 18, at 8 pm
Opening with the Processional*
Pomp and Circumstance
played by Mrs. Betty Spring
hill and the invocation by
Reverend J. Talbott, Pastor
of St. Mary's Catholic Church,
■the Girls Choras will sing
“Wiedgenlied.”
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