VOL 10 NO 60
KODIAK. ALASKA FEBRUARY 17. 1951
PRICE 10 CENTS
Riley vs Club Continues;
Hirth Guilty Of Larceny
The civil suit of Herbert A.
Hiley, magician, against the
tese Civil Service Club, ask
ing for damages allegedly
done his professional para
phernalia while it was stored
at the club, will enter its
second day today in District
Court.
Court will be in session at
10 am at the Union Hall with
Jmdge Anthony J. Dimond
presiding.
Riley, represented by Tal
mage L. Smith, is asking for
J1825 for the property plus re
imbursement for engagements
he claims he cannot fulfill
without it, as well as court
costs and attorney fees. De
fendants in the suit, officers'
and directors of the club, are
represented by William Ren
frew, Anchorage attorney.
Jurors hearing the suit are
Cecil Hartman, Dorothy
Clark, Anne Anderson, Dora
Gorgatelli, Merrill Coon,
Marion Lynch, Katherine
Anderson, Alice McDonald,
George F. Drewes, W. H.
Fish, Bill Fitzgerald and Alice
Sholl.
Another jury which heard a
criminal case Wednesday and
Thursday found its defen
dant, Arthur Hirth. Jr., guilty
•f larceny in stealing five
tires, property of the U. S.
government, valued at less
than $100, and found Hirth
not guilty of a charge of con
cealing the property for his
own use.
Hirth received a sentence of ‘
one year from Judge Dimond, i
to be served in the Kodiak
jail. j
Jurors were Pete Hjelmeir.
John Kifer, Alfred Anderson,,
Stu Nuckols, John Malutin,
Robert Owen, T. C. Robinson, |
Evelyn Rave, George Kappos,
John Me Laughlin, Ole Olsen,
and Frieda Blinn.
Hirth was represented by
Smith. J. Earl Cooper, U. S.
attorney, pled the govern
ment’s case.
Monday, the suit of Ben i
Bolden against Ralph Shupp,.
asking payment for steel mat
ting allegedly sold Shupp for
the street paving job, will
probably get underway. A
jury will hear the suit, in
which Buell Nesbett will rep
resent Bolden and John C.
Hughes the defendant.
The final case on the court’s
calendar here is the appeal of
H. F. MacDonald, in the City
of Kodiak’s suit against him
for an unpaid water bill. Ear
lier, in commissioner’s court
here, a decision against Mac
Donald was entered. Smith is
representing MacDonald and
Buell Nesbett the city. This
will also be a jury hearing.
Anderson Sentenced
William Anderson, 25, who
confessed several weeks ago to
breaking into local stores and
stealing women’s lingerie, and
had been bound over to the
grand jury on a charge of
breaking and entering the
Baptist Mission, waived the
jury and pled guilty on three
counts in District Court here
yesterday.
Anderson pled guilty to
breaking into Krafts and Don
nelley and Acheson, and of
breaking a window at the Bap
tist Mission rummage sale
room. He received suspended
three year sentences, to run
concurrently, on the first two
charges, and a suspended six
months sentence on the Mis
sion charge.
The court heard that Ander
son had made restitution to
Krafts and D and A, and had
turned the stolen property
over to the Mission to pay for
the broken window.
Rent Interviews
Continue Today
Dorothy D. Tyner, area rent
control representative, will be
at room 24, Kodiak Hotel, to
day. I
Dorothy D. Tyner, area
rent control representative
from Anchorage, arrived in
Kodiak Wednesday to confer
with landlords and tenants re-i
garding rent increases in the
Kodiak area. j
Miss Tyner interviewed
tenants who had reported
rent increases. She pointed
out that under certain provi
sions landlords may be en
titled to increases but that
such action must be approved
and cleared with the rent con
trol office before the rent
could be raised. The tenant
must be notified by the rent
control office before he is
obliged to pay higher rents.
Rent control is in effect
until March 31, 1951 regard
less of whether incorporated
cities have voted to throw off
or retain controls, Miss Tyner
said.
A meeting will be held next
Sunday, Feb. 25, at 3 pm at the
Community Center, of all per
sons interested in civil defense,
George Sonntag, city civil de
fense director, sa;d yesterday.
Church Dedication
Tomorrow
The formal dedication of the
Christian Education Addition
of the Community Baptist
Church will begin tomorrow
| at 4 pm.
The public is invited to all
of the sendees.
The Rev. R. N. Wilkinson
has chosen as his dedicatory
sermon topic What Shall We
Bring. The program will begin
with an organ prelude and will
be followed with a call to wor
ship. The senior and youth
choirs will sing and prayers
and scripture reading will
follow.
At the close of the dedica
tion service, friends are in
vited to inspect the new
buildinv. Church workers will
assist in answering questions
concerning tne use of the
rooms. A buffet supper will be
served in the church dining
room.
The addition to the church
is a result of a cooperative
project of the local congrega
tion and the American Baptist
Home Mission Society of the
American (Northern) Baptist
Convention.
The building was made
possible by gifts from mem
bers and friends of the church
and interested individuals of
Kodiak who have contributed
over $10,000 over a period of
three years.
A grant of money and a
long term loan was made a
vailable by the Home Mission
Society to bring the total ex
pended to over $50,000, Rev.
Wilkinson said.
The Rev. John B. Dahl
supervised the construction
which began in May. 1950.
Kodiak Crabs Make
Washington Debut
Kodiak’s king crab industry
received publicity in Washing
ton, D. C. this week when the
delicious sea food was served
at a banquet for the Columbia
Broadcasting System.
Lee C. Bettinger shipped 10
fresh frozen crabs by air ex
press to Mrs. Hazel Markel,
CBS employee, newspaper
woman and fashion authority,
who gave the banquet.
Women attending the dinner
wore king mb hats, made
from the shell and trim
med and gilded, Bettinger
said. He wired Leon Johnson,
KEA manager, now in the
capital, to try to attend the
banquet.
Charles Jerling and Charles
Anderson reported to Ft.
| Richardson this week, to be
' inducted into the army.
Kodiak Bear Issue Is
Before Legislature
A telegram protesting the
Chamber of Commerce and,
the Kodiak Livestock Growers
Association’s suggestion that
protection be withdrawn on
bears on the northeast end of
Kodiak Island was sent to
Clarence Rhode, U. S. Fish
and Wildlife head at Juneau,
Tuesday by local big game
guides.
Following a meeting Mon
day night the following five
guides and local residents
signed the telegram: H. L.
“Doc” Rochelle, partner in
the Club Unique, Pat Cannon,
president of the United Fisher
men of Alaska, Alf Madsen,
Oscar Nelson and Eli Metro
kin, fishermen.
The telegram pointed to the
money the town received from
sportsmen who come here to
hunt bear and pointed out
that the guides feel the pre
sent laws offer sufficient pro
tection to the cattle.
The suggestion sent by the
C of C and KLGA asked that
a line be drawn from Viekoda
Bay to Ugak Bay and that an
open season on bear be allowed j
northeast of this line. It wasj
stated that cattle depredation!
by bear was hurting the I
cattlemen financially. j
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Flying Saucers
Big Navy Balloons!
New York (A1)— A Navyi
official confirmed today that!
“flying saucers” really*
existed, but actually were
huge plastic ballons used in
high-altitude cosmic ray
studies.
Dr. Urner Liddel, chief of
the nuclear physics branch of
the Office of Naval Research,
made this disclosure in an
article in the current Look
Magazine.
The Navy balloons, Liddel
declared, were 100 feet in
diameter and sometimes rose
to a height of 19 miles. He
added that winds might sweep
them along at 200 miles an
hour.
At dusk, the slanting rays
of the sun lighted up the bal-;
loons’ bottoms, giving them
the saucer-like appearances,1
Liddel said.
Liddel said the existence of
the big balloons was kept
secret because the project was
connected with atomic de-:
velopments.
These balloons, (called sky
hooks by the Navy), were
first used in 1947, about the
first time the disks were first
' sighted.
Juneau (JP)— A year round
open season on Kodiak bears
was asked this week in a joint
memorial introduced in the
House.
The measure calling the
bears a menace to livestock,
was introduced by Reps.
Chester C. Carlson of Cordova
and Jack Scavenius of Anchor
age, both Democrats.
It said that the records
show more than 200 head of
livestock were killed in recent
years by Kodiak bears.
. Introduction of the me
morial brought on a clash be
tween Karl Brunstad, who
took the Livestock Growers’
recommendation to Juneau,
and Clarence Rnode, Alaska
Director of the Fish and Wild
life Service.
Rhode contented that most
cattle casualties are due t©
weakness of cattle at the time
of winter foraging season
when they succumb to ob
stacles that wouldn’t bother
them later in the season.
He predicted that an open
season on Kodiak Island would
exterminate the bears and
destroy one of Kodiak’s major
attractions and source of in
come. He added, “there is
plenty of room on the island
feor both bear and cattle.”
Brunstad hotly retorted
from the gallery that even the
game commission literature
conceded the brownies were
biggt r on Kodiak than in Kat
mai monument.
The vote on the memorial,
which is only a recommenda
tion to the Secretary of the
Interior, was postponed fit the
request of Amelia Gunderson,
Ketchikan, who said, “We
have heard nothing but bear
stories all day and I don’t
want to vote now without
thinking about them.”
Become Citizens
Eric Blankenburg. formerly
a German subject, received hits
American citizenship papers in
District Court this week. He is
owner of the Kodiak Jewelry
store.
David Cassar, of Syrian
birth, also became a naturaliz
ed American citizen during
Thursday’s session of the
court.
Playschool Off
Play school for four and
five year old youngsters at
the Community Center has
been discontinued until
further notice because of
measles,in town.