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KODIAK
£\TRAL LABOR COUNCU
mepts the 1st Sunday
of each month at 10 a. m.
Fishermen’s Union Hall
| Glen Robinson. Preeident
I Stuart Nuckois, Secretary
A. F. of L.
Carpenters Local No. 2162
Meets on the 1st, & 3rd, Fri
of each Month at 7:30 p.m.
the Union Hall
HAMSTERS,CHAUFFEURS,
WAREHOUSEMEN & HELP
ERS Union, Local No 500
Meetings 2nd & 4th Mondays
11 am Union Hall
U. S. Signal Corps.
— Hours of Business —
DAILY:— y am to 5 pm
Sundays & Holidays—
i am to 10 am & 4 pm to 5 pm
i anergeney wires only may be
filed during closed hours of
k receiving office.
a: AMERICAN LEGION
POST No. 17
MEETINGS
mi A 4th Tuesdays 8 pm
Legion Building
VDe&ths of 3 old time Alaskans
*serecently reported at Cordo
L i
Clifford Cayo’iette, 80, who lo
*d some valuable claims in
(•McCarthy area, died Jan. 30
the Cordova hospital.
Laly (Louise) Velcheff, 64,
onery watchman, was found
ad of natural causes in his box
rhome on Mile 13 road.
|James L. Grange, also known
[James Watson, clam digger
d watchman for G. P. Halfer
Po. properties, died at his
®e at Point Whileshed.
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT of the
INTERIOR
General Land Office
* District Land Office
Anchorage, Alaska
» June 12, j940
Notice Is hereby given that
wyau’s Inc., has filed an appli
**°n for a soldier’s additional
■©eatead, Anchorage, serial
*01, for a tract of land em
ceed in U.S. Survey No. 2371,
®taining 9.89 acres, situated
Ube west shore of Chip Cove,
Moser Bay, an arm of Alitak
ay, Kodiak Island, in latitude
^ degrees 01’ 42” N. longitude
M degrees 09’ 12” W, and it is
lw in the files of the District
*°d Office, Anchorage, Alaska,
Any and all persons claiming
Iversely any of the above men
°°ed land should file their ad
,rse claims in the district land
®ce within the period of pub
5ation or thirty days thereafter,
! they will be barred by the
revisions of the Statutes.
igned) George A. Lingo
Register
*ate First Publication: 3-2-46
*ate Last Publication: 4-27-46
Kodiak Diary
<ontinued from page 10)
Anchorage report-' and the next
m< ruing broadcast that the dan
ger was over. The Navy, which
we can vouch used utmost care
and investigated thoroughly be
fore issuing any infoimation,
was disgruntled by the erroneous
report and issued an official dis
claimer of responsibility for it.
Tne haywire report put Assoe
iat-tjd Press up in the air—at the
same time they were broadcast
ing our wire that a wave cf dim
inishing intensity might be com
ing to Kodiak so be ready, the
“opposition” (United Press, via
Anchorage) had authentic infor
mation that the wave was 100 ft.
high and would hit at 5:30 am!
JP wired us that they were
sticking to our information, but
if the exact height wap known
and tune it would hit, why did
n’t we send them the dope?
We felt like wiring back that
we hoped the erroneous wave as
reported in Anchorage would
wipe out i he erroneous Rasputin
as reported from Anchorage but
we couldn’t bring ourselves to
being that catty.
/liter it was mi uvei, lug urn
cial Navy releases and local As
sociated Press dispatches needed
no correcting.
After the false report we sent
out a wire briefly telling about it
and ended by saying that Kodi
ak people had gone back to their
homes to listen to their radios to
see if the expected wave would
mateiiahze
We couldn’t help noticing that
an Anchorage paper inserted the
word “new” to make it read'
“went home to see if a “new”
wave would be coming”, indicat
ing that someone was bound and
determined to make it appear we
had had one.
Early Tuesday morning we
sent a wire that all was well, no
wave had come, and soon there
after the Navy, after thoroughly
checking all points, sent one or
similar nature. But the local Sig
nal Corps was already being
flooded with incoming wires from
friends and relatives in the
States, inquiring “how are you”
and “how much damage was
there.”?!
The erroneous alarm was re
grettable, but it gave people
something to talk about even if
they didn’t need it.
We were down town when the
siren blew. Grabbing the official
ballots for the city election the
next day,* we headed for the hills
with the rest of them. A local
businessman earlier in the day
had asked what we would do if,
and laughed at us when we told
him and said he wouldn’t move
a foot. We pointed out that we
didn’t really expect a wave, but
that if we were to discover we
weie wrong we would rather be
incorrect high and dry than all
wet all wet.
On our way up Knudsen hill
we saw a little boy in a sweater
with long drawers below danc
ing in the snow screaming “ma
ma”! Further up we ran into an
inevitable drunk, whose friends
were having trouble to get h m
to go with them. We stood below
Knudsen’s apartment until a
man came out of a house and
said they had just broadcast the
report was false. We felt very
safe standing that high up, but
we probably wouldn’t have if we
had known that the Louis Savoy
family, from the end apartment,
had fled from there to the Mont
martre for the night
we never tuougui, aujuuc
would go to the Montmartre to
keep dry, but about 16 people
spent the night there. Others
gathered in buildings of the Sig
nal Corps atop Signal Hill, where
a soldier said they reminded him
of “French refugees.” Still others
spent the night in the Baptist
church.
The William Simeonoffs and
little Simeonoffs, next to the
Kodiak Bottling Works, went up
the hill in the plant truck, with
Lilian Morris and Mildred Bet
tinger. Frozen out about 1 am
they went back to the second
floor of the plant and after the
little Simeonoffs and others were
safely tucked in Miss Morris,
cool, calm and dignified head of
the Women’s club, faiDted.
The Frank McConaghys and
Beanie Sumerlins rushed from
the cannery clear up to—Er
skine’s house.
Bryan Tnorsheim took his
family high on the hill to stay
with the RalphShupp’s and then
went back to his home in tbe
lowlands and went to sleep.
Mrs. Bessie Wallin, on Mission
road, headed for the woods with
canned goods and an alarm clock
—but no can opener.
Jacquelin Smith ran up to
Ray Martin, standing in front
of his store, and handed him an
arm load of things. “What’ll I
do with these?” Ray asked.
“Throw them in tbe truck,” she
said, indicating the row of Smith
tiansfer trucks lined up along
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Bide. So he did.
In the afternoon some ran up
to the bank with articles and
money for safe keeping. But at
least one man went to get his
out—for safe keeping.
After the whole thing was
over, Olaf Halverson, former lo
cal teacher and amateur astron
omer, brought in his report on
the occurrence He advanced
sometime ago, as reuorted in the
Mirror, a theory that the pull of
planets causes earthquakes.
Said he of Monday’s happen
ings:
“FiOm m astronomical stand
point the earthquake which
caused the tidal wave last Mon
day has significant meaning. The
moon and sun were both exert
ing an attracting force according
to Newton’s law of universal
gravitation. It is also significant
that the moon was on the celest
ial equator and the sun only 4
degrees north of it thus making
it possible for both to pull in the
same general direction.
“The planet Mercury was also
in the same line of strain being
in conjunction with the sun. Jup
iter and Neptune were in a posi
tion to act simultaneously. The
moon was approaching perigee,
i its closest point to the eqfth, so
j that its attracting power was
greater.
.“Thus it appears there were
celestial forces which released a
previously existing strain ii the
earth’s crust.”
KememDering tpe time once
before when the planets got to
gether, end Mr. Halverson pre
dicted in our columns an earth
quake, that Associated Press
confirmed oceuried, we believe
Mr. Halverson has something
there. Only we’re glad we didn’t
know about Jupiter and Nep
tune at the time, or they’d have
Navy planes out by now still
looking for us.
On Tuesday, as we were work
ing at our desk, after 1 hour’s
sleep the night before and the
false alatm and the news and tha
rumors and the reports and all
the local stories of experiences
the night before, bill Bailey
brought in that book that we
quoted above.
1 “You know,” he said, “I’ve
got a book here that says there’s
no such thing as a tidal wave.”
And we read it, and it said it.
If you see us going around
making glub glub sounds by
riffling our lower lip with our
finger*, —now you know why.
Ouzinkie News
A baby boy was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Squartsoff,
March 21.
Mr. Connelly called the boys
together to organize a Boy Scout
troop. Nine of the boys in the
upper grades will be Scouts, and
5 in Mrs. Connelly’s room will
be Cubs.
We chose Jack Katelnikoff for
Scribe, Alec Gregorioff fo; Treas
urer and Bill Connelly for Patrol
leader.
George Shanagin, Alec Gregor
ioff, Zack Katelnikoff and Bill
Connelly recited the oath, motto
and laws.
Jerry Gugel is a former Eagle
Scout.
Mrs. Connelly has started the
Girl Scouts. We elected Marie
Cbichenoff and Verna Anderson
as patrol leaders. Nellie Smith is
our Scout Leader.
Paris Pestrikoff and Jaukie
Nelson in two separate sliding
accidents were victims of bump
ing into trees.
Sunday, March 24 Pefe Walk
off’s house caught fire from a red
hot chimney hut was discovered
in time to be put out.
Last Sunday the John Katelni
kof house caught fire apparently
j from a flue and was seriously
damaged and the roof burned
off. A fire bucket brigade fought
Ijtfor several hours and kept it
from burning clear to the ground.
The Oregon Wolf went to
Kodiak to get 5 men for the
Grimes Packing company at Ou
zinkie and 10 men to work at
Carmel. They got permission to
go right mto Woman’s Bay to
get the men from the Denali.
Alfred Torsen has a new bike
that came on the Oiegon Wolf.
Judy Tibbels of the Mission
accidentally knocked the radio
off the table. It went dead and
the right side came off. They got
it to working and the side was
taped on with 12 Band-Aids.
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For the convenience of people
living on the Naval Base who
wish to attend Church services
in Kodiak the following Bus
schedule is in effect:
!
:
SUNDAY BUS SCHEDULE
Church Bus leaves Recreation Building 0915
Liberty Bus
1400
1700
(EammunttQ laptiat (Ulmrrl) I
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