"News of cAmerica’s Last Frontier’
VOL 11 NO 12
KODIAK. ALASKA
MAY 19, 1961
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Chaplain Weise Gives
Commencement Talk
Tfcc greatest thing in the
vnrid for any individual to
possess is not power or money
bat a “great love of human
hind’’, Chaplain John W.
Weise of the Kcdiak Naval
Station told members of the
Kadiak high school graduating
class Thursday evening.
There are many kinds of
love. Chaplain Weise pointed
apt, for inanimate things, for
one’s family and friends, but
the most important kind of
^ love, he said is a “genuine
ojmpathy and creative inter
hit in one’s neighbors’ wel~
fBMin »l
Chaplain Weise pinch-hitted
as commencement speaker for
Dr. Terris Moore, University
ef Alaska president, who was
unable to be present because
ef the cancellation of Thurs
day evening’s plane on which
he was due to arrive.
In an expression of their
thanks to Chaplain Weise for
addressing them on a last-min
ute invitation, members of the
senior class presented him
with a Paul Bond water color
of a local scene.
The University of Alaska
scholarship awarded annually
to each high school in the ter
ritory was presented to Donald
dark, class salutatorian.
Marie Cope received an a
ward for being neither absent
mar tardy during her four
years in high school, and the
following graduating eighth
graders were cited for a year
of perfect attendance: James
Anderson, Marie Anderson,
William Frost, Niel Neilsen,
Nieklos Pestrikoff, Alice Pon
chene and Irene SimeonofF.
Kodiak’s week-long seige of
rain and fog lifted temporarily
Friday morning and the plane
carrying Dr. Moore landed at
the Naval Station. He immedi
ately called Superintendent
Schott and expressed his re
grets on being unable to ad
dress the students.
f- He left latef in the day for
the return trip to Fairbanks.
Fmmds Exhausted
< ■ Anchorage - Funds for pay
mentof jurors in the Third
Division are virtually ex
boosted. Judge Anthony J.
Dimond told jurors who
Imported in to the District
Court this week, the Anchor
age Times reported.
I' Although additional funds
vrOt he allocated Judge Di
gMndsnid he Hid iM fee 1
justified in undertaking jury
eases until the financial situa
tion was cleared up.
Civil Defense
For Alaska
Washington (A) A Senai.
approved bill exempting A
laska from providing match
ing funds for the Civil De
fense Act was on the way to
the House this week.
The Senate Armed Services
Committee said in a report on
the bill that “by direct taxa
tion the Territory is contribut
ing a substantially larger a
mount on a per capita basis
than any other state or terri
tory for civil defense pur
poses”.
Under the present Civil De
fense Act federal aid which is
given to the Territory or state
is limited to matching funds.
The committee said the im
mensity of the Alaska pro
gram requires that federal
participation be increased if
there is to be a proper civil
defe nse for the Territory.
City Council
Highlights
Th^ following building per
mits were approved Monday
night by the city council: To
Neil Sargent a permit to apply
tarpaper to a barn on lot 1,
block 4; To Harry Gottschalk a
permit to remodel the building
known as Tony’s.
Elmer Johnson, certified
public accountant of Ketchi
kan, Alaska, has been employ
ed to audit the city books.
The audit will cover the past
two fiscal years. Johnson is
now in Juneau but will return
to Kodiak later in the summer
to do the work.
Permission to remove part
of the curb in front of the
vacant lot between the burned
out Lyric Theatre and the
VPW building was given Art
Kizer by the city council Mon
day night
Kizer plans to fill and make
additional space for the park
ing of taxi cabs in the lot.
At a meeting Monday night
the city council approved the
transfer of taxi license 130>
held by Dorothy Jeanne And
erson. to Art and Lorena
Kizer. fc .
Juneau reS”
Wallis George,
dent and president of the
diak Ice and Cold Storage Co»;
Inc., has notified the Kodiak
City Council that work on the
cold storage plant at the-city:
!Continued on pager4?
Red Pressure
On Allies
By the Associated Press
Tokyo—Spearheads of an
estimatee 768,000 Reds struck
through a hole in the Allied
lines in east-central Korea
but were bled to a halt.
New intelligence estimates
of the Red forces arrayed for
the second spring offensive
put the number of Chinese at
557,000 and the North Koreans
at 211,000. Officers at Genera]
Headquarters in ’fokyo said
the majority of the 768,000
troops were in the 'forward^
areas directly opposing the
United Nations troops.
Red troops at the fighting
front poured through a gap in
the South Koreans lines about
75 miles northeast of Seoul on
the third day of the offensive.
The Reds also rolled back the
Allies from that point east
ward to the coast, but were
checked in the center and
were temporarily halted north
of Seoul.
The enemy was paying with
heavy losses all across the
peninsula. One Allied officer
said Communist casualties
were ‘ 'tremendous. ’ ’
U. S. Eighth Army Head
quarters said the Reds “defi
ninely have achieved a major
penetration” south and south
east of Inje in east-central
Korea. The firepower of Allied
warships, planes, artillery and
dug-in troops took a heavy
toll of 96,000 Chinese spear
heading the vast offensive
1 force.
Michigan Hunter
Gets Big Bear
George E. Johnson, Grand
Lodge, Michigan, shot a large
Kodiak bear near Olga Bay
recently.
Johnson’s bear measured
11 feet in length and was a
light golden color. The skull,
measured 17 3-4 inches by
12 7-8 inches. The measure
ments are being sent to the
Boone and Crockett Club of
New York because Johnson
believes the bear is of near
record size.
Mrs. Johnson accompanied
her husband on the hunt
Johnson hunted with guides
Bill Pinnell and Morris Tolif
son.. They flew to Olga Bay
for the hunt in a Bob Hall
Air Service widgeon.
m
'4Blphday a BeJj.Jlalt' Air Ser
vice plane rnaditAhetoergeney
flight to Ou^j&ikiSito bring
for
treatment of a broken jaw.
GiljJarvela made
the BelfanA.- " *
t in
Armed Forces Parade
Scheduled For Today
Vets Checks
Being Mailed
Checks are now being
mailed representing $12,750,
QOO in cash for veterans, the
Veterans Administration an
nounced this week. This is
the second special National
Service Life Insurance divi
dend on term policies.
Checks are curreo*tjs being
mailed at the rate of 150,000
per week. Veterans are re
quested not to write the VA
about the dividend as it will
only slow up the mailing of
checks. However, after the
policy holder has received a
check and has a question a
bout the payment he shield
write to the district offiee
handling his account. Infor
mation accompanying his
dividend check will tell the
veteran where to write.
Judgement Given
On Local Case
A district court judgemen
for $2,627.31 in favor of Paci
fic Northern AirlineB, against
Ralph ishupp, John Chase and
Jay Tolbert, doing business as
Shupp, Chase and Tolbert,
has been recorded here.
The airline recently sued
the local construction com
pany for airline fares it claim
ed had been unpaid. The
judgement was given in dis
trict court on Apnl 30.
The defendants must pay
interest at the rate of 6%
until the debt is paid, an at
torney fee of $297, and court
costs of $30.20, according to
the court decree.
Visits Daughter Hare
WilliarajB. Tuthiil, D. D.,
Rochester, N. Y., arrived in
Kodiak.recently for,, a visit
with his daughter Mrs. Char
les Sutliff. This is his first
visit to the territory.
Mr. Tuthiil is 83 years 'bid
and made the trip from New
York to Kodiak by plane. He
may remain here all summer.
In Detroit he met Henry J.
Bishop, 79, father of Mrs. A.
Holmes Johnson, and the two
travelled here , on the same
plan*1. s-s
A special plane is due to air
rive here today from Juneau,
bringing Kodiak IslancLsetud
ents from the Alaska Native
Service school at Mt. Edge
umbe home for the summer..
The Armed Forces Baj.
parade scheduled for 10 an
today will be cancelled if tfc*
weather is inclement. '
Persons are urged to Kster -
to Navy radio station WVCQ
as a bulletin will be issued if
the parade is called off.
Clear weather will bring
forth one of the largest pa -
rades Kodiak has witiiessec
tor several years.
Marching unit* from the
Army, Nany* and Marine
Corps plus a Navy band wS* -
march in observaxse of
Armed Forces Day.
The high school drum aafi*
bugle corps, a Boy 9eo»« ~
troop, the VFW and Auxili
ary, the American Legion am
Auxiliary, pie Elks and Ko -
diak "Rotary Club will b
represented in the parade^
Weather permitting, tfc- -
parade will form at Id am k -
front of Griffin Memoria: -
Hospital, march down Mission
Road to the eorner ot Main
Street down to South Mill Bay
road, along Alaska Way, past
Kraft’s store on Brooklyn
ave. and then disband.
Women of the Americas
Legion Auxiliary will begin
their annual Poppy Day sale
today.
Posters urging the purchase
of the red flowers' have" been
placed around town. A con
test sponsored by the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary for
school children was held.
In Group A the following
were winners: Caroline Gal
lagher, first; Margo Arche
bald, second; Sandra Perkins,
third.
Group B: Charles Richard
son, first; Carol Wall, second,:
James Anderson, third
Group C: Caroline Reft*
first, Marsha Martin, second;
Sandra Dalton, third. Lee
Bromfield received honorable
mention.
A party of four, three me* •
and a woman, from the U. S .
Corps of Engineers win am**
here Monday to start probings
and soundings for the sma! •
boat harbor, Merrill Coon,,
president of the Chamber e?
Commerce, announced yester
day. t
The party will make tests te •
determine the depth of thf
tSrjHS&Bgfat
BWOKlyff AVd., to the ebanne^.
is .vorking at the naval
tion. __