Bettinger To Attend
Statehood Meeting
Mayor Lee C. Bettinger lefi
■here Thursday for Anchorag*
lo attend a meeting of tin
Alaska Statehood Committe<
that will be held Jan. 6.
The meeting was called bs
Robert Atwood, chairman o:
ihe committee, and is expectec
to bring together 14 member:
from all parts of the territory
Bettinger is a member of th<
committee.
A warranty deed for lot 22,
block 3 of the Allman Addi
8»n, transferring the propertj
from Charles E.- Bryan tl
Tred Solberg, has been re
sorded.
Mrs. Paul Rivers of the
Kodiak Laundry left Dec. 26
for the states,to visit relative:
m Seattle and. her mother wh<
fives in Vancouver, Canada.
She plans to return in twi
weeks.
Kodiak Has Priority For
Water System — Mayor
!( I he Kodiak water and
! i sewer project has number one
j priority on the list of Alaskan
’ projects due to receive appro
priations from the two million
; dollar Alaska Public Works
1. program.
I Mayor Lee C. Bettinger. j
j recently returned from Wash-J
1 ington, where he went to, pro
test the cut in Alaskan funds,!
told the Chamber of Commerce
last week that Kodiak would
,1 receive around $600,000 4 for
the qity job. -
' ThStiuildfpg, program fo*
£§|p|Jfi$f graroppir school
muqt wait,fpr a later appro
priation but the Independent
School District board may
send; in an, application for.
“advance planning money’,*,
Mayor Bettinger said.
Speaking before a large C j
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of C meeting, Bettmger also
told the group that the land
transfer of property in the
east addition from the city to
the Alaska Housing Authority
had not taken place but that
the matter wo dd be taken
cart of this w tekend while he
is in Anchorage.
“I will meet Governor
Gruening there and arrange!
for the transfer,” he said
The mayor will also attend the
meeting of the Alaska State
hood Committee of which he
is a member.
“I don’t know when the
actual work on the water pro
ject will start,” Bettinger
said. “The bids must be called
for end the contracts let first.”
fie added that the engineers’
estimate for the water and
sewer project exceed the
$600,000 earmarked for Ko
diak.
‘‘Right now I don’t know
how the city will obtain the
additional money but we wilt
work it out some way,” he
declared.
He explained that the con
templated reservoir for the
new system will cost $450,000.
The plans also call for the ex
tension and improvement of
the present system.
* ‘I estimate that around a
million dollars will be spent
here before the project is
complete,” Bettinger stated.
■ He added that the housing
proj^et would begin as soon as
the water and sewer project
was started and said that he
had received splendid support
for the • housing work from
Rear Adfhiral C. A. F.
Sprague, commandant 17 th
Naval District, and Captain L.
J. Dow, cpipmandant Kodiak
‘“The water, sewer and
Housing jobs are all tied in
with the National Defense
Program,” Bettinger said.
Raises Given
At Base, Post
Wage raises for almost all
per diem employees have been j
ordered for the 17th naval
disyrict by Washington, D. C., j
the navy said this week, and
will go into effect during
January.
Wages for some 30 different
classes of workers were in
creased. Among them were
the following raises: helpers,
1.77 to 1.87; laborers, 1.67 to
1.73; auto mechanics, 2.18 to
2.26; sheet metal workers,
2.28 to 2.36; firemen, 2.01 to
2.05; chief quartermen,
quartermen, and leadingmen,
5 cents an hour raise.
A wage raise of approxi
mately nine cents an hour was
received as a Christmas pre
sent by about 19 ungraded
employees at Fort Greely.
The pay increase was effec
tive Dec. 18, the civilian per
sonnel office stated, and affects
anly aivil service wage boards
workers who are paid by the
hour instead of on a yearly
basis.
Hall's Plan*
Rescues' Daly
Vince Daly, pilot for Alaska
\irlines, and Alf Madsen,
local big game guide, made a
orced landing at Kaguyak on
December 28, when an engine
conked out on the two-engine
Widgeon.
The engine quit about 10
miles from Kaguyak as the
men were returning to Kodiak
from Karluk Lake where
Madsen had inspected his
hunting camp.
“We continued on one en
gine and made a landing at
the village. There was noth
ing to it,” Daly said.
The men remained , at the
home of J[oe Melovedoff,
Kaguyak resident, until Mon
day when they were picked
up by Gil Jarvela, flying a
plane for Bob< Hall Air , Ser
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vice.
A new engine will be se i ;
to Kaguyak on Robert vo 1
Scheme's mailboat and Da: r
will ride down in a Seabee t)
bring the Widgeon to Kodiak
he-said Wednesday.
Report For Physicals
Edward Naughton, post
office employe for the past
year, left Tuesday for Anchor
age for his pre-draft physical
exam. He will continue work
ing at the post office until
•called into the army.
Others who left at the same
time for their physicals were
Charles Jerling, Charles
Anderson, Bennett Grotecloss,
Gus Beaver, and tfennis
Knagin.
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