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"News of cAmerica’s Last Frontier’
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VOL 11 NO 28
KODIAK, ALASKA SEPTEMBER 15, 1951
PRICE 10 CENTS
Progressive Party To
Caucus Monday At 2 pm
Ihe annual meeting of the
Kodiak Progressive Party will
be held Monday in the Or
pheum Theatre at 2 pm.
The yearly caucus is for the
purpose of selecting candid
ates for the general city elec
tion. This year the group will
select four candidates for the
city council and a candidate
for mayor.
In addition to the slate of
city offiicials the group will
select three residents whose
names will appear on the In
dependent School District e
lection ballot.
It is likely that members of
the Progressive party will go
on record Monday as favoring
the purchase - of the planned
water and sewer system.
Bulletin
John S. ‘Mac’ McLaughlin’s
name was filed late yesterday
as a candidate for the position
of councilman for the one year
term, the MIRROR learned
shortly before press time. <
He is sponsored by Team
sters Local 500.
Bonds in the amount of $750,
000 must be posted as collater
al. For the bond issue to pass,
of those who vote, 65% must
vote in the affirmative “to au
thorize the city to enter into
a contract to purchase the u
tilities”.
Another bond issue regard
ing the purchasing of the
planned new grade school will
also be settled at the October
2 election. An official of the
Progressive party indicaced
that the group favored the
proposal.
Kumors ol several candid
ates for council and mayor
have been current this week
but by closing time yesterday
at the City hall no notice of fil
ings had been made.
The Central Labor Council
usually holds a caucus each
year to draw up a slate. No
such meeting or slate has been
made public so far this year.
Notices of filing and of reg
istration have appeared in the
past two issues of the MIR
ROR and are also published
in this issue
Deadline for filing is Tues
day, Sept. 19, 1951, at mid
night. The registration book
is open during office hours, 9
am to 5 pm at the city hall,
Monday through Saturday.
Notice has been given that
the registration book will close
Saturday, Sept. 29, 1951, at 4
pm.
Marines AWOL
To Ouzinkie
Two young Marines were
back at Kodiak Naval Station
this week after an eight day
sojourn at Ouzinkie without
official leave.
Until Wednesday PFC Law
rence E. Bailey, 21, and PFC
James N. Quinn, 18, were of
ficially listed as missing since
8:30 am Sept. 4 when they
failed to answer roll call.
Marine search parties had
scoured the area around
the Naval Station and sent
dispatches to Coast Guard de
tachments to check all civilian
ships for the missing Marine
privates.
Wednesday the men reques
ted the cannery at Ouzinkie to
radio, through the ACS, the
commanding officer their
whereabouts. A helicopter
was sent to Ouzinkie and on
its arrival Bailey decided to
not return and ran into the
spruce timbered hills. Quinn
returned to base in the heli
copter.
Late Wednesday a Marine
search party caught up with
Quinn and a boat was sent to
bring him back to his base.
The men said they walked
for three days without food to
the beach opposite Spruce Is
land from their base and that
a fishing boat took them a
cross to Ouzinkie.
The two were awaiting dis
ciplinary action when they
took leave.
Curfew For Minors
To Be Enforced
The curfew on children 16
years and under will be rigid
ly enforced, Carter Seymour,
chief of police, announded
yesterday.
He pointed to Ordinance 121
which specifically states that
all children 16 and under must
be off the streets by 9 pm,
Sept. 1, through May 16, un
less accompanied by their par
ents or legal guardian.
Children of this age group
may be on the streets until 11
pm on Friday and Saturday or
on religious holidays if, in the
latter case, a recognized social
or civic group requests and
receives permission from the
city council.
"In the event school activi
ties, such as basketball
games, musicals or plays, are
planned during the week the
police department will cooper
ate if the events go beyond
the curfew,” Seymour said.
local Squadron
Is Grounded
Washington (A5) The ground
ing of Naval Patrol Squadron
9 at Kodiak for ‘ ‘morale rea
sons” was reported Thurs
day. The statement was made
by Navy Undersecretary
Francis Whitehair to Con
gressman Hugh Mitchell of
Seattle.
Mitchell recently requested
the grounding following the
crashes of three navy Priva
teers.
Whitehair said the Com
mander of the Alaska Sea
Frontier, Rear Adm. C. A. F.
Sprague, had ordered the
grounding of the big planes.
A special inquiry board was
convened by order of the
Commander in Chief, Pacific
Fleet. Whitehair said the in
quiry must be confidential be
cause of the nature of the
squadron’s operations.
Sunday School
Week Observed
Nacional Sunday School
week will be observed by the
Community Baptist Church
September 16 to 23, Mrs. L.V.
Howe, general superintendent
of the Sunday School, said
yesterday.
Tomorrow at 1 pm the board
of teachers and officers will
meet in the dining room of the
church for a pot-luck dinner
and business meeting.
Wednesday will be marked
by a visit of the Sunday school
classes to the weekly prayer
meeting. Pupils will sit with
their teachers and join in the
service, which begins at 7:30
Dm.
A buffet supper will be serv-1
ed for all the members and
their families at 6:30 pm Fri
day. An evening of fellowship
and a program will follow.
The annual promotion day
exercises will end the week’s
activities when the Sunday
School pupils meet Sunday,
Sept. 23, at 9:45 am for a ser
vice featuring the awarding of
certificates to those promoted
to higher classes.
The public is invited to at
tend all services.
New Public Works
Officer At Base
Captain J. C. Tily relieved
Captain W. F. Wesanen as
district public works officer
this week. Capt. Wesanen has
been assigned to the U. S.
Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth,
N. H.
Leonard Hopkins, Anchor
age sporting goods salesman,
was in Kodiak this week.
FWS Proposes 5-Year
Closure At Red River
Truman Fires
Lew Williams
Washington (A5)— A White
House spokesman said Wed
nesday that President Truman
has fired Llewellyn M. Will
iams as secretary of Alaska
and named Joseph W. Kehoe
as his successor.
Kehoe is now judge of the
District Court at Nome.
Williams’ dismissal was dis
closed by Irving Perimeter, a
member of the White House
press staff. He said he did
not know the reason for the
action.
Williams has been serving
his second four-year term as
territorial secretary. He is a
former Spokane, Tacoma, and
Juneau newspaperman and is
owner of the Wrangell Sentin
el.
Kehoe has been judge of
the Nome court for four
years. He previously served as
U. S. Commissioner and as a
member of the territorial leg
islature.
Williams, when notified by
telephone of the president’s
action said, “after all he is the
boss, it’s the courteous tiling
to let him do the talking first.
As a newspaperman I have the
rest of my life to write about
it.”
The president said he fired
Williams on the grounds of in
competence and that politics
were not involved. Governor
Gruening said Williams’ resig
nation had been asked in Jan
uary.
Marshall Resigns
As Secretary
Washington (-P) — George
C. Marshall resigned this
week as secretary of defense.
He will be succeeded by the
present undersecretary, Rob
ert A. Lovett.
Marshall said he was re
scuing for “very personal
reasons”.
Upon the resignation of De
fense Secretary Louis John
son a year ago Marshall came
out of retirement to become
the first proffessional military
man to head a U. S. military
department since 1916.
The Business and Profes
sional Women’s Club’s regular
dinner meeting will be held
Monday at the Montmartre
Inn. All members are urged to
attend.
Fred Solberg was an incom
ing PNA passenger Monday.
Kodiak fishermen will hear
several startling proposals
Monday during the annual
Fish and Wildlife Service
hearings at the union hall.
The meeting will start at
7:30 pm.
It will be proposed that the
Red River area be closed to all
fishing for one red salmon cy
cle (five years); that the Ali
tak district remain closed, ex
cept for the eastern portion of
Olga Bay, for five years; that
the season be shortened in
other districts, and gill net
fishing be prohibited in all of
the Kodiak area.
The FWS has issued a state
ment explaining the various
proposals: “In all areas the
early runs of red salmon have
declined continuously for sev
eral years and only by a delay
ed opening can we be assured
of anything like adequate ear
ly seeding.
“This can be borne out by
the failure to obtain the regu
latory spring escapement at
Karluk and Red River in 1951,
despite early closures in each
district.”
Open season for the Karluk
district next year is to be from
June 16 to July 15, according
to the FWS proposal. Propo
sals for other districts are: op
en season, mainland and gen
eral districts, to be from June
16 to July 15, from July 31 to
Aug. 13, and from Sept, 10 to
30. Afognak district to be
from July lu to 15, from July
31 to Aug. 13, and from Sept.
10 to 30.
“Closing of the Red River
appears to be an unwanted ne
cessity,” the FWS explanato
ry statement said. “Despite
the fact that the district was
closed for most of the 1951
season, the Red River escape
ment will not be much more
than 60 or 90 thousand short
of the regulatory requirement
which in itself is less than the
system should receive to as
sure the future of the fish
ery.”
“The Drohibition of drift
gill nets is proposed only to
prevent the expansion of fish
ing effort in an area which is
already suffering from over
exploitation: a new fishery
can not be permitted in an ar
ea which for several years has
shown an alarming decrease
in abundance of fish,” accord
ing to the FWS statement.
Following the meeting here,
the FWS officials will go t
Anchorage to hold a meeting
Thursday.