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Juneau, Alaska
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"News of ^America’s Last Frontier”
POL. 7 NO. 41 ~ KODIAK. ALASKA DECEMBER 13, 1947_PHICE HI CENTS
Curfew Law
Amended .
Although the Kodiak school
tochers withdrew their resol
ttioD regarding a new curfew
isling and although the Com
Bunity Center had voted at a
board meeting to ask for a delay
before initiating such a ruling,
the Common Council on Mon
Ay night voted in favor of the
proposed amendment to Ordio
■toe 97.
A controversial question for
■veral weeks, the curfew issue
ns settled at the meeting by
asking it unlawful for children
aider 16 years old to be in pub
fie places, as well as the p:e
riously defined streets, alleys,
iod vacant lots after 9 pm. on
■cfcool nights unless accompan
iad by parents. During the sum
aer the curfew hour will be 10
•’dock. It is extended to 11
•’dock on Friday and Saturday
rights and on religious holidays
m other occasions for which the.
Council must be asked to cancel
it.
The school teachers io a resol
rioo to the council had asked
hr a stringent measure since
they felt that the children
ihoufd be at home at an early
hmr. The Community Center
hosrd, although it went on rec
«rd at last week’s meeting as
fcsiring a delay in voting on the
■••sure for six weeks, did not
usd in their request in writing
0 the council. The teachers
rithdrew their resolution to
raid public controversy, a
Idler from Superintendent Tom
DUeiback stated.
The council also passed the
imposed ordinance setting a |
lUiO peddler’s license fee for any
m who has no established place
ii bus ness in Kodiak but who
sells direct to the consumer. The
proposed ord'nancs on a l cpnce
he for vehicles was given to the
pdicial committee for further
tody.
The only bid received for in
mnce on the City Dock, from
M Bank < f Kodiak, was accept*
id by the council. Both fire in
stance and extended coverage
plieies will be written.
The council approved the
transfer of a taxi permit from (
Arthur Deering to John Sobn;i
«d granted a permit to Gerald '
Dietz to move a quonset hut •
trough the city.
liquor licenses renewed at the
•mting weie: Vera and Dorian
Coogan, Bud and Oneita Metz
ptf. dispensary, Town Club;
hba Springhill, retail, Dad’s
liquor Store; John Brodtkorb,
Mail, Cap’n John’s
Mrs Fred Sargent left on the ]
feaali to visit her daughter in I
Itftav Area in California_L
Rod, Gun Club
Meets Tonight
Plans for its Christmas turkey
shoot will be made by the Kod
iak Rod and Gun Club at its se
cond annual party tonight at the
Casino Sporting Club.
The shoot will probably be held
on the Sunday before Christmas.
Members of the club who are
not present this evening may
sign up for the event with Wil
ton White at O. Kraft & Son,
with Tom Nachand at the Mer
chantile Co., or with Gene Er
win at the Variety Store.
The party tonight will be t
get together after a summer and
fall lull and will be for members
and guests.
Present membership of the
club is 125 but if membeis miss
3 meetings in the future with nc
written explanation they will be
dropped from club rolls. The
membership will be held, event
ually to 25 persons, and only on
application and at the withdraw
al of members will new cnee be
accepted.
Sale of Christy’s Bakery to the
present lessees of it, Everett
Koch and Walter Erickson, was
recorded this week in the Kodiak
Reco1 ding Office. Sellers of the
property and equipment were
Harry and Fieeta Christopher
son.
Mr. and Mrs Hollis Mulfo'd,
who left on the Deoali, will
make their home in Robinsdale,
Minn. They were residents of
Kodiak for several years.
Local Man
Succumbs
William Morgan, 47, a resident
of Alaska for 25 years, died at
his home on Raspberry Straits
Sunday. Mrs Morgrn was with
him and said he suddenly co'lap
sed after asking for a drink of
water
The body was brought to Ko
diak Thursday and the funeral
will be held today at 2 pm at the
Community Baptist Church.
Mr. Morgan was born in De
troit, Mich., Sept. 23, 1900 and
had no known relatives. He is
survived by his wife, Irma,
whom he married here in 1939.
I
League Meeting
Tomorrow
A community meeting will be
held at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon
at the Community’Center to dis
cuss the proposed League of
Better Citizenship and the con
solidated school district plans.
William Stone will preside.
Jurors Summoned
Summoned to appear in An
chorage «t 10 a. m on January 5
to serve as petit jurrors in the
District Court are the following:
William A. Anderson, Glen L
Channler, Selma Chichenoff c
Afognak, Mrs H M Cousley,
Edward Getty R. C King Vic
toria McCutcheon, Pearle Rold
of Ouzinkie, Ted Rozak, Tom
Williams, anb J W Thompson.
Gift Items Lined Up
For First Baby of 1948
A shower of lovely and useful
gifts will rain upon Kodiak’?
first baby of the New Year fot
the iirpt time, in 1948, according
to plans now being made by lo
cal businesses under the sponsor
ship of the Kodiak Mirror.
Many merchandise items have
been offered by stores in town
and it is hoped that other busi
nesses which have nothing ap«
propriate to donate from then
own concerns will purchase gifts
or add to the savings account
opened by the Bank of Kodiak.
All presents will be delivered
10 the mother at the hospital by
the Mirror.
Parents of the New Year
Baby will not have to be resi
dents of Kodiak itself.
A baby born here to an NOB
couple or to parents from fsome
nearby island who come here for
the event will qualify for the a
wards
Following is a lisl to date ol
contributors and their gifts:
0 V«.f>.ndSoILatoK|fi^
Store)—one dozen gauze diapers
Knudsen’s Kodiak Fountain —
big soft stuffed toy.
Kodiak Mercantile Co —large
clothes basket.
Margo Lester Studio—portaait
of the baby
Bank of Kodiak—will open a
saving account with one dollar
and also give a Diggy bank.
Rhoades Furnitue Stoe—
“Trainer” i ursery seat.
Tal'ey’s Beauty Sa'on and
Lingerie Shop—white wool car
riage blanket.
Bert’s Drug Store—Johnson
Baby Gift Set.
Polar Bear Cafe—Five dollars
to bank account.
Watson Cleauers—Box of ci
gars for father.
Kobiak Mirror—Babv night
gowns.
Silk Dress—Baby bootees
Orpheum Theatre— three
months pass for mother.
Christy’s Bakery—a baby gift.
Double-Rich Bakery—Five
tfuuuiiiliiiM
Plants Received
From Old Country
Gooseberry bushes and cur
rant cutings from the farm
where he was born near Bergen,
Norway, have been received here
by Rasmus O. Urdabl and plant
ed by him on his Mission Road
homestead near the Beachcomb
ers.
Believed by Mr. UrdabI to be
the first such plants sent to Ala
ska from the old country, the
berries were shipped to him by
air from Norway by his nephew
at the request of Mr. Urdahl.
“I want to experiment with the
plants and perhaps in time have
about a 20 by 50 foot plot of
them,” Mr. Udahl said. “They
are an exceptionally hardy plant
and since the part of Norway
from which they come is in the
same latitude as we are, I think
they will grow successfully.”
The plants left Norway on
October 14th and arrived at the
quarantine station for plant life
at Hoboken, N. J. a week later,
and after being inspected, left
theie the next day. They didn!t
arrive in Kodiak until December
4 and Mr. Udah! has no idea
where they were in the interim.
The unexplained month’s de
lay may have been fatal to the
plants, although he won’t know
or sure until next spring They
were packed in oil cloth and
peat moss, but the moss was
completely dried out by the time
the dmhes weie received, and
Mi. Urdahl fears the plants may
tiave g tten too dry.
fn order to get the plants intc
the Untied States, Mr. Urdahl
bad to contact the University of
Alaska which in turn wrote the
Department of Agriculture iD
Washington, which got in touch
with the quarantine station in
New Jersey From the latte-,
Mr. Urdahl received a wiitten
notice of permission to import
the plants, and that notice was
sent to Norway and then follow
ed the berries dack along the
way to Kodiak.
The cost of shipping the
plan's from Norway was 31 kro
ner, or six dollars.
Fire Misses Talleyfs
A nariow escape from fire sav
ed Talley’s Beauty Salon early
Saturday morning, when soot in
the stove ch mney backfired.
Ue Bettinger, who owns the
building, was having coffee at
Grayce’s Cafe when the explo
sion cccured, and rushed into
Talley’s in time to extinguish
the small blaze which had start
ed. Scot damage to lingerie in
the shop amounted to about
$300 for which there was no in
surance, according to Smiley
Baglmm.
Death cans
R.R. Lunday
"Bob ’ Lunday, lormer mau»
ger of the Orpheum Theatre,
died on Nov. 11 on Sitkinak Is
land at the south end of Kodiak
Island, according to word
brought here Saturday by Von
Scheele’s mail boat.
Death apparently came from
a heart attack while he and two
companions were attempting to
get back to his cabin after a
storm prevented their return by
boat.
With him were Alfred Naum
off and Alfred Azhuyak, or Ali
tak, whom he had taken to the
island with him on a trip to sal
vage a motor he had left on the
beach on a previous trip. Mr.
Lunday had a few cows on the
island and had plans for devel
oping a homesite there.
According to Naumoff, who
came to Kodiak on the mail
boat Saturday to enter the hos
pital for treatment having no
connection with the trip, the
three men had left the cabin m
a dory to go to a large raf that
had wa hed ashore about 8 miles
away. While there a storm came
up and prevented their return in
the dory, so they started biking
crosscountry.
Mr. Lunday tired quickly and
betati stumbling as tuey walked
along, Naumoff said, and finally
the 2 men hsd to cirrybim
for about 4 miles to an unford
able stieam.
They decided to wait for the
tide to go out and when it did
(continuer* on oasre 13)
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For Sole, Rent
The Ci*y expects to offer for
sa’p, in the near futuie, 3 small
cab ns on the road to the City
Dock, formerly occupied by
guards at the base gate, A. A.
Owen, chairman of the city dock
and wharfage committee, has
announced.
Bids will be asked for the
purchasing and removing of the
buildings, he said.
The City is alsi desirous of
renting three laige warehouses
at the dock, according to Mr.
OweD. They will be rented as
complete units, not in sections
to different lessees.
All habitable buildings in the
dock area are already occuried.
Mr. and Mrs ATilham McPhee
have rented a house, Mr Imon
Pennington js operating the
Kodiak Inn, and Mr and Mrs.
Tiny Tesarik are living in the
i home formerly med by the
superintendent of the old can
nery in the area.
TheCAA has also rented a