rrNewi of cAmerica’s Last Frontier’
VOL 11 NO 12
KODIAK, ALASKA
MAY 26, 1951
PRICE 10 CENTS
PNA Given
Seattle Run
Pacific Northern Airlines
aaeounced the opening of a
direct route from Alaska to
Seattle and Portland yester
day.
A wire received by Ray
Martin, local agent for the
airline, from A. G. Woodley,
president of the company,
reads as follows: “President
Uruman signed an order a
warding PNA a route to
Seattle and Portland. Service
tastart within 60 days.”
In the past PNA ooerated a
scheduled airline only as far
south, along the Alaska
coast, as Juneau. Further
details will be announced
later, Martin said.
i
More OPS
Rulings
Juneau—A report that stores
doing less than $100,000 a year
business would be exempt
from ceiling price regulations
was labeled as inaccurate yes
terday by Fred G. Hanford,
territorial director of the Office
of Price Stabilization.
The OPS last week exempt
ed frozen fish and shellfish
from price control. Fresh
fruits and vegetables are now
under price control in Alaska
if they are shipped here from
outside.
The announcement from the
OPS said that retail ceiling
prices on passenger automo
biles must be reduced to com
pensate for the recent elimin
ation of spare tires and tubes.
The National Production
Authority ordered the elimina
tion of the fifth tire and tube
to conserve rubber. The order
provides that dealers must
bow reduce the selling price
•f automobiles by an amount
equal to the manufacturer’s
charge to them of the elimin
ated equipment, plus the am
ount of the dealer’s own mark- ■
op on the tire.
OPS also reminded that re
quiring a customer to purchase
additional equipment, services
or repairs as a condition of the
sale of a new automobile is
prohibited. Likewise, requir
iag a purchaser to trade in a
«ar or commodity as a condi
tion of sale is i legal.
Mrs. Marshall Crutcher re
turned this week after several
montns in Southeastern A
laska and the states. Accom
panying her to spend the sum
mer was her granddaughter
Leslie Crutcher, 6, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
t' • ’;cri
VFW Popple,
On Sale Today
The Bale of Veterans of
Foreign Wars poppies will
begin today. Edward Best,
veteran of World War II
currently employed at Kodiak
Naval Station, is chairman of
theVtW’s 1951 drive.
The local drive is sponsored
by VFW post 7056.
Women of the VFW Auxili
ary and volunteer workers
will distribute the poppies in
town and on Kodiak Naval
Station. All proceeds from the
sales go for the benefit of dis
abled war veterans and their
dependents, Best said.
The poppies are made in
government hospitals by con
valescent veterans with the
approval of the Veterans
Administration, Best added.
Late Bulletins
By Associated Press
London— British diplomats
tried in a dozen world capitals
to wet down the sparks of a
possible war which might
spring from the explosive
Anglo-Iran oil dispute.
The envoys asked nations
with some influence in Tehran
to calm the Iranian leaders
and help settle the crisis.
Meanwhile, Iran fixed a seven
day deadline for the British
owned Anglo Iranian Oil Com
pany to start talks on ways of
turning over the vast Persian
Gulf holdings to the govern
ment.
Washington—General Omar
Bradley disclosed the total
casualties from all causes in
the Korean War as 141,995,
doubling the total figure pre
viously released,
San Francisco — Federal j
Judge Edward Murphy has
taken under advisement the
question of the constitu
tionality of the government
loyalty check for maritime
workers. He indicated he
would rule on the case of 10
maritime workers, members
of the ILWU, and Marine
Cooks and Stewards Unions
which was brought into court.
The unions asked that the
screening program of the
Coast Guard be declared un
constitutional.
A crocheted bed spread made
by the women of the Ouzinkie
Church will he given away to
night at 8:55 from the stage
of the Orpheum Theatre.
The bed spread was sche
duled to be awarded to some
theatre patron on May 4 but
„h - event was delayed.
Allies Move
Forward
By the Associated Press
Tokyo—The Allies poured
tanks and troops across the
38th parallel into North Korea
yesterday blocking the east
central highway retreat of
many Reds who were caught
in South Korea.
Allied reinforcements in
creased the threat to the Reds
of splitting the withdrawing
Chinese Red armies. One Al
lied tank force made a daring
thrust Thursday for 13 miles
into enemy territory.
The retreating Reds were
sowing mine fields across a 25
mile front and attempting to
pour heavy artillery fire into
the advancing Allied forces.
Lt. Gen. James Van Fleet,
commander Eighth Army,
served notice to his troops
that he was not stopping at
any “controversial” boundary.
The Reds were reinforcing
their rear guards Allied ob
servers noted and powerful
enemy supplies were being
rushed to the south from rear
areas and the Manchurian
border.
Coast Guatd Flies
Mercy Mission
The Coast Guard Air De
tachment at Kodiak Naval
Station added another mercy
flight to its long list this
week when it flew to King
Cove and brought a 13-year
old boy to Griffin Memorial
Hospital for an emergency op
eration.
The Alaska Communications
System station at Cold Bay
radioed for help Thursday.
The message was received by
the CG at 12:30 pm and at 1
12:49 pm a PBY piloted by Lt.
jg. H. G. Cassel and Lt. D. H. ;
Luzius took off on the mission.
The plane landed at King
Cove at 4:30 pm and took Gor
don Berntsen, who was ill,
and his father, Nick, aboard
the big plane. The plane land- :
ed at the Navy base at 8:34 :
pm and the sick boy was taken
to the hospital. i
Crewmen on flight were J.
E. Lacey, T. G. Standley, A.
L. Morris and J. E. Winkle
peck. Navy hospital eorpsman
W. O. Weiss was also on the
flight. The flight was coordin- j
ated by Crpt. L. J. Dow, com-,
mander of COMSAR 2.
i
A! Kropf, Fish and Wildlife
Service pilot, arrived this
week w th his i rumman j
Goose for the summer season. '
‘Alaska Forces
Shield’ - Twining
Military forces in Alaska
must be deployed for the most
part in the main population
centers of Fairbanks, Anchor
age and Kodiak, Gen. Nathan
F. Twining, vice-chief of staff
of the U. S. Air Force, told
the commencement gathering
at the University of Alaska
Monday.
General Twining, former
head of the Alaska Command
and war-time commander of
the 15th Air Force, was one
of the four speakers on the
University’s commencement
program. Others were Gover
nor Ernest Gruening, Gover
nor Earl Warren of California
and Bradford Washburn,
noted mountain climber and
scientist.
“ The presence of the mili
tary in Alaska serves as a
shining shield against the
corroding fingers of an in
vasion of this hemisphere an
invasion whose object would
be the seizure of Alaska and
its utilization as a base from
which to launch effective at
tacks against the U. S. and
Canada.”
General Twining was
awarded the honorary degree
f doctor of laws. It is the
;econd time in the history of
.he university that an honor
las been conferred upon a
military man.
He further pointed to the
Importance of Alaska in the
military role andsaid, ‘‘closely
connected to the security of
Alaska is thecapacity of using
this area in support of the
strategic air offensive as our
primary force of retaliation in
case of aggression.
Telephone Book
Deadline Monday
The deadline'' for placing
idvertisements in the new
Kodiak Telephone Company
rook is Monday.
The book will be published
jy the Kodiak MIRROR.
Business houses who have not
submitted their ad copy
should call 3123 or see Gene
Urawford before 4 pm Mon
lay.
Persons wishing to make
changes in the listing of phone
lumbers are requested to call
Ed Cushing at the Kodiak
relephone Company on Mon
lay. May 28. 1951.
Stan Nelson, partner in the!
B & B Par, returned home
Thursday via NWA and PNA.
A homecoming party was
given to the returning travel
ler Thursday night, J. G.
Mart?, said Friday morning.
Parade
Wednesday
A Veterans of Foreign War
sponsored parade* followed by
memorial services at the
cemetery and at the Donnelley
and Acheson dock, will be
held Wednesday in observance
of Memorial Day, a spokes
man for the VFW said yester
day.
The parade is scheduled to
form at 10:45 am on Brooklyn
Avenue near Kraft’s and
Knudsen’s stores. Those
marching in the parade will
walk up Alaska Way and con
tinue out Mill Bay road to the
services there.
Following services at the
cemetery the various unite
will go to the D & A dock for
services for those who died
and are buried at sea.
Members of the VFW
Auxiliary will also march in
the parade and, according to a
VFW spokesman, the Kodiak
Bugle Corps will also partici
pate.
The Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps, plus a Navy band
will be in the parade. A Navy
helicopter will drop a wreath
on the water during the ser
vices at the dock, according to
the VFW parade chairman.
Five Hunters Shoot
Kedick Betrs
Five hunters were flown
from Alf Madsen’s Karluk
Lake hunting camp to town
rhursday after several days of
hunting Kodiak bears. All iivc
hunters obtained a trophy.
Mr. and Mrs. K. K. Irving,
Muncie, Indiana, and their
son, Donald, 13, remained in
town until Friday to board a
plane for their return home.
B. R. Straker, Zanesville.
Dhio, and C. R. Campbell
Bridgeville, Pa., left on Thurs
iay’s plane.
Mrs. Irving, using a 30.06,
shot an 8 foot. 10 inch bear.
Donald downed a 9 foot, 2 inch
Kodiak with the same caliber
rifle. Irving used a 375 mag
aum and got a 10 foot, 6 inch
;rophy. He also received a
skinned nose as a result of
dipping on the snow
when he fired the heavy gun.
The hunting party Ashed
md took still and moving pic
;ures while at Karluk Lake.
Besides Madsen, John Mor
ion and Eli Metrokin acted ar
guides for the hunteis. Jake
Plane was camp cook for the
, a.ty.
Hen-y Strom, local car
enter, flew to Sewar 1 this
weekt) .i i rs. Strom who
is in the sanitarn m there.