"News oj cAmerica’s Last Frontier”
KODIAK, ALASKA MAY 19, 1945
PRICE 10 CENT?
VOL. 5 NO. 12
Olson Says
City Should
Get Refund
Action to deprive any Alaska
towns of liquor license revenue
for this year has not been taken,
it was indicated in a wire from
Oscar G.Olson, Territorial Treas
urer, in reply to a query from
the Mirror following the story
last week which was based on in
formation furnished the U. S.
Commissioner’s office by Jack
Jenkins, license officer for the
3rd Division, who was in Kodiak
a few days. It was reported at
the time that Kodiak was one of
5 Alaska towns not to receive
license refunds because' of non
enfoicement of liquor laws.
Mr. Olson’s wne from Juneau
said:
“Your telegrams to this office
and liquor control board received.
Jack Jenkins’ report to this of
fice has not been received. Re
funds will be made to all incorp.
orated towns providing officials
of said incorporated towns act
ively enforce liquor laws and
regulations as per chapter 78,
Session Laws of Alaska, 1937.
Am forwarding you copy of Chap
ter 78 together with amend
ments.”
Mr. Olson did not say wheth
er Mr. Jenkins’ report, if unfav
orable, might bring action to re
fuse the refunds this year.
Police Car Theft
Gets Man 360 Days
Merrill Helwig, who arrived
recently from Anchorage, pled
guilty to a charge of petty lar
ceny Friday and was sentenced
to 360 days by U. S. Commis
sioner C. C Naughton. He stole
the city police car from in front
»f the Mecca Thursday evening
ind he was picked up by Art Ki
ser, Jim Angell and Maurice
Chamberlain as he sat in it after
Jriviug into a ditch near the
Club Montmartre.
Papers on Helwig in heated he
^as a parolee from the Walla
Valla state penitentiary, Police
^hief George Magnusen, who
rened the complaint, said.
School Year Ends
Anna Belle Metrokin, Elinore
Tolt and Sam Morrison were
•resented with diplomas by Mrs.
-ouise Coon, president of the
Kodiak School board, at the
graduation exercises held Thurs
day evening at the Community
baptist church.
Yesterday was the last day of
chool, with students putting in
heir final appearance to pick up
heir report cards. Final function
f the year was the Junior-Senior
Vom which was held last night
t Blinn’s hall.
Chouinard Gets Suspended Sentence!
Contest Winner Gets First *7th' Bond
Last Rites Held For
Mrs. Harry Holt
Funeral services were held
Wednesday at 2:30 pm at the
Community Baptist church for
Mrs. Harry Holt, wife of the
Kodiak school superintendent,
who passed away at the Griffin
Memorial hospital Monday after
a heart attack that followed s
long illness. A large crowd at
tended the last rites, conducted
by Rev. Gregory S. Morony, and
throughout town business houses
closed in respect to her memory.
The local schools were also dis
missed for the afternoon.
Rev. John Winter sang two
solos, “Goodnight Here, Good
Morning There” and “Abide
With Me”, accompanied by Miss
Estelle Mailin.
Interment was in the city cem
etery and pallbearers, all mem
bers of the Rotary club at Mr.
Holt’s request, were Emil Knud
sen, Marcus Meyer, Stanley Nel
son, Merrill Coon, Eric Blanken
burg and Lee Bettinger.
May Anna Holt was born in
Colfax, Wash., on December 12,
1890, and she and Mr. Holt were
marrie^ in Spokane on August
14, 1919. Mr. and Mrs Holt
first came to Alaska and Kodiak
in 1931 and Mr. Holt was in
charge of the school here until
1934. They next moved to Sew
ard where they stayed for 8
years, and were in Homer 2
years before returning to Kodiak
last summer.
Besides Mr. Holt the deceased
is survived by two children;
Elinore, a member of the gradu
ating class of Kodiak high school
this year, and Edward, a re
search chemist forthegovernment
at Washington State College,
Pullman, Wash. She also leaves
two brotheis; Arthur Spacek,
Tacoma, Wash., and Orjie Spa
cek, Tekoa, Wash.
Mi8. Bessie **a'hn (left) w.l.«;
ner of a $25 1 ond in ihe Mirror
VE day contest, receives her a
ward from O. A. Torgerson, bank
president and chairman of the
local bond drive The bond was
the first one sold in the 7t,h War
Loan Drive in Kodiak. (Photo
for the Kodiak Mirror by T. A.
Horsman.)
Called East By
Mother’s Death
Mrs. Gus Johnson, employee
at Kraft’s, left by plane yester
day for Chicago following receipt
of word Thursday of the death
of her mother, Mrs. William H.
Metz. The deceased's home was'
in Warren, Indiana, where Mr. ^
and Mrs. Johnson visited her(
this spring, but at the time of^
her death she was visiting a
daughter in New York. Death
was due to a stroke.
A1 Chouinard, former Kodiak
Railway Express agent in Kodi
ak, was given a 5-year suspend
ed sentence by Judge Anthony
Dimond in the District Court at
Anchorage Thursday morning,
according to word brought here
yesterday by Lawrence Seltzer
attorney Mr, Seltzer represented
Chouinard at his appearence for
sentence, which had been post
poned from the fall term of court
last year, and Chouinard pleaded
guilty to a charge of embezzle
ment, which was originally
brought in May, 1944.
The complaint alleged that
$7165 was embezzled by Chouin
ard from the Railway Express
company between June 1, 1943
and November 30, 1943
Chouinard, who visited his
family here last week when he
anived from the States, is em
ployed at present on a surveying
job in Anchorage, Mr. Seltzer
said.
Chouinard’s was the last of 3
embezzlement cases involving
Kodiak people. Jack Pardieu,
who as acting postmaster embez
zle i $1100.89 and Howard Fiead,
who as naval postal clerk embez
zled $4254.52, were each given
1-year suspended sentences this
spring by Judge Dimond.
Hunting Party
Gets Kodiak Bear
Dr. Eugene Sullivan, Pat Can
non and Stan Nelson returned
Saturday with a Kodiak bear
head trophy to show for their
hunting trip to the western side
of the island. The bear took 7
shots by Sullivan and Nelson to
get and was estimated to measure
about 10 feet and weigh 1300
pounds.
Meet Us In St. Louis, Louie, Say Cubs
$24,000 Is
NetEachFor
Ice Winners
Fairbanks (jP)—The ice in
the Tanana at Nenana broke at
9:41 am May 16 The ticket
nearest the time was 9:45 an»,
helc* by Tom Ringen and Rita
Harding, both of Seward. The
latest previous breakup of the
ice was at 1:32 pm May 15,1935.
About $100,000 will be paid
the holders of the winning ticket
as about 110,000 tickets at a dol
lar each were sold aud contest
expenses are about $10,000. Rev
enue officers said Ringen end
his partner would each pay
roughly $26,000 in income taxes,
leaving about $24,000 each.
The ice in the Cheua slough
broke at 1 56 pm May 15 and
winners were Dave Sanford and
Lena Leonard, both of Fairbanks,
who will split $1647.
Campfire Girls
Have Council Fire
The Yoyekoi Campfire group
held their first Council Fire hi a
candlelight ceremony Thursday,
May 10.
Thirteen girls earned their first
rank of Trail Seekei: Gail Blank
enburg, Marie Cope, Sylvia and
Ruby Larsen, Vivian Pagano,
Jeanne and Joanne Williams,
Nancy Norman, Geneva Owen,
Germaine Madsen, Alma Nelson,
Donna Fitzgerald and Marilyn
Chamberlain.
Guests were: Mrs. Ose&r .Nel
son, Mrs Warren Taylor, Cath
erine Blankenburg, Mr. and Mrs.
Norman, Hev. and Mrs. Mor
ony, and Mary Lou, Mrs. Wil
liams, Eunice von Scheele, Mrs.
Neilson, Mis. Jay Tolbert, Mrs.
Robert von Scheele, Mrs. Men
dell, xMrs. Winter and Mfs. A.
Owen.
At the regular meeting Tues
day 14 girls were present and one
guardian. We have 2 new guard
ians Mrs. Pearl Foster and M rs.
G W, Bubendorf. We sang 4
songs and played 2 nature games.
—Marie Cope, Scribe.
The Mighty 7th
The Mirror recommends the
advertisement on page 5. Read
it—heed it!
Charles Madsen, president of
the Kodiak Guides Association,
holds an armload of lively Kodi
ak bear cubs, 3 of a litter of 4,
of which one died, that were
caught by natives near La?sen’s
Bay, on the west side of Kodiak
island. The cubs have been or
dered by a zoo at St. Louis, Mo.,
and will be shipped on the Best
Denali. They are about 6 weeks
old. (Photo for the Kodiak Mir
ror by T. A. Horsman.)