VOL 11 NO 11
KODIAK, ALASKA
MAY 12, 1951
PRICE 10 CENTS
Construction At Base
To Start June 1
A construction program
totaling over four million dol
lar 11 probably get under
way at Kodiak Naval Station
within the next 10 days, the
Navy announced yesterday.
Rear Admiral Clifton Spra
!«, USN, Commandant, 17th
Naval District, announced
jcsterday that Haddock-Mc
Chare-Gerwick and Swinerton
Gobs traction Company of San
Vkandsco were low bidders on
a proposed construction pro
ject at the U. S. Naval Sta
ins, Kodiak, Alaska.
Tae construction company s
hid was $4,247,000 and they
will construct 56 housing
wits, a runway and taxiway
extension, aviation gasoline
storage facilities and water
front improvements.
A recommendation for a
ward of the contract has been
submitted to the Bureau of
Yards and Docks, Navy De
partment, Washington. D. C.
by Rear Admiral L. N. Moel
ler, CEC, USN, of San Fran
cisco, Director of the Pacific
Alaska Division, Bureau of
Yards and Docks.
Actual construction opera
tions will begin by June 1,
1951. It is estimated that the
construction program will be
completed by June 1, 1952.
Carl Tinneli
Dies Thursday
Carl Tinneli, 34, Kodiak res
ident and recently employed
by the Kodiak Transit Co.,
died Thursday morning in the
Griffin Memorial hospital ac
9:40 am.
Be had been ill for over a
week before entering the hos
pital. Tinneli was born in
Znddyville, Iowa, Nov. 6,
1918. He is survived by his
wife, Isabel, of Kodiak,
whom he married Nov. 13,
I960, and his mother, Mrs.
Effie Thompson, Omaha, Neb
raska.
Be was a member of the
Baited Fishermen of Alaska
and the Teamsters Union. At
•ae time he was employed at
Fort Greely in a civilian capa
city.
Funeral services will be con
ducted by William Stone, sup
erintendent of the Baptist
Mission, at the Union Hall at
4:30 pm tomorrow.
His body will be cremated
by the Kodiak Mortuary.
Herbert Spiegel, Naval base
electrician, was scheduled to
leave for New York last night
where he plans to be married.
Fourth Fireworks
Qm This Year
A meeting between mem
bers of the Chamber of Com
merce and the Rotary Club
resulted in a decision to
eliminate the annual fourth of
July fireworks display this
year.
However, the annual fourth
of July celebration and parade
will be held. Races, games and
entertaiment for the children
will be provided and the an
nual base-town marathon will
probably be held.
Representatives from the
two civic groups explained
that the cost of providing
fireworks was considerable
and they felt the money could
be spent for some more
“worthwhile purpose.”
Strike Looms
Says Skinner
The International Long
shoremen’s and Warehouse
men’s Union has voted to go
on strike June 15 unless its
demand for a 30 cents an hour
increase in wages, pensions
and welfare benefits is met by
the Pacific Maritime Associa
tion, D. E. Skinner, general
manager of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, stated in a
letter to Governor Ernest
Gruening.
Skinner s letter was ad
dressed to the governor and
copies were sent to Alaska
Chambers of Commerce,
newspapers and ASC agents.
He asked the Governor to
lend his assistance in solving
“this difficult problem” ...
and requested that he give
his earnest attention in the
hope that an intelligent solu
tion will prevent increased
costs and therefore, further
increased rates.
The letter from Skinner to
the Governor was read to Hie
Kodiak Chamber of Commerce
following the regular luncheon
Thursday.
In his letter Skinner said,
“the 10 cents an hour in
crease in the wage pattern
established last year increased
this company’s (ASC) annual
labor costs by approximately
$600,000. . . the recent de
mands we now face would, if
met, further increase our an
nual labor costs by $1,800,
000.
The letter also pointed out
that “except for a decrease in
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BCG Vaccinations
Complete
The BCG team of the A
laska Department of Healtl
will complete us wjrk today
leaving a few children loatf
to visit the Health Centei
again, a few tender arms, am
several hundred persons wit!
increased resistance to tuber
culosis.
According to the record.
834 Kodiak residents anc
Naval base personnel wen
tuberculin tested. Approxf
mately one-third of those
tested were tuberculin pos
tive, which means that a1
sometime in their lives they
had harbored TB germs ir
their bodies which should have
given them a natural resis
tance to the germ.
No recommendation was
made to these people other
than the one made to every
community that it is a wise
health policy to have a rou
tine chest X-ray every one or
two years.
Those who showed a nega
tive reaction to the test were
vaccinated with the BCG vac
cine which should promote in
creased resistance to the
disease. This resistance is
supposed to last from one to
10 years but can be overcome
if the person is continually
exposed to tuberculosis.
It was suggested that those
vaccinated be tuberculin test
ed again within a year to
make sure the vaccination
“took”. A postive reaction at
this time will indicate that it
has taken.
Those vaccinated will have
a little bump over each prick
site which is slightly tender tc
the touch and itchy. These
little bumps will go away
within a few months.
“Grateful thanks are ex
tended t^ the members of the
Health and Welfare Council of
Kodiak, and to the women
who gave so generously of
their time in the program.
Mrs. Dorothy Haag, Virginia
Graf, Patricia Mitchell, and
Dolly Rohwer received special
thanks,” Mary Jane Hurley,
public health nurse, said.
She also thanked the Kodiak
Independent School system
for their co-operation in the
handling of the children.
Col. and Mrs. S. G. Lefner
left this week via Navy plane
after visiting here for three
weeks. Col. Lefner. a retired
Army officer, and Mrs. Lef
ner have been visiting their
daughter, Mrs. Dewitt Fields
of tl e Kodiak Baptist M s i 1.
Mrs. Neva Stjrey i» em
ployed in the office at Krafts.
Dr. Moore Will Give
Commencement Address
t
Baccalaurate
Services Sunday
Baccalaureate Services foi
the Kodiak High School and
Kodiak Grade School will bt
held tomorrow at 1:30 pm at
the Orpheum Theatre.
The Reverend R. N. Wil
kinson, Baptist minister, will
deliver the afternoon address.
He has chosen as his subject,
Strongholds Unconquered.
The Kodiak High School
chorus will sine two numbers
and Marie Nelson will play
Schubert’s Ave Maria on the
violin.
Beethoven’s, The Heaven’s
Resounding, will be played by
a Clarinet Ensemble and the
congregation will sing the
hymn, God of Our Fathers.
Mrs. John Springhill will
play the processional and
recessional and William W.
Stone, superintendent of the
Kodiak Baptist Mission, will
give the invocation and
benediction.
Property Tax
Held Valid
San Francisco (A’) — A de
cision by a District Court in
the Territory of Alaska hold
ing the 1949 Alaska property
tax invalid was reversed this
week by the Ninth U. S. Cir
cuit Court of Appeals.
The act called for a levy of
a one percent tax on all pro
perty, real and personal, in
the territory.
The opinion followed the
filing of an appeal by Terri
torial Tax Commissioner M.
P. Mullaney.
The tax was earlier held to
be invalid by Judge Harry
Pratt.
Coast Guard Malta*
Marcy Flight
The Coast Guard Detach
ment at Kodiak Naval Station
made another mercy flight this
week and brought Odin Mart
inson from Squaw Harbor to
Kodiak for treatment.
The assistance message was
received by COMSAR 2
through ACS KWA58 and the
Alaska Steamship freighter,
Square Knot.
A PBY piloted by Lieuts. H.
G. Cassel and D. H. Luzius
and with crew members R. D.
Borden, W. F. Corbett, R. F.
Bollinger and C. Graf, plus p
Vavy doctor and Cnrpsmai
made the fl'ght.
Dr. Terris Moore, president
of the University of Alaska,
will del \er the commence
ment address during the
school exercises Thursday at
the Orpheum Theatre.
Sally Crooks, senior, is class
valedictorian and Donald
Clark, senior, is salutatoriarv.
The commencement exer
cises are for the Kodiak High
School and Grade School
students. The exercises will
start at 8 pm.
ratner juouis c. rime, a. j.,
will give the invocation and
benediction. Mrs. John
Springhill will play the pro
cessional and recessional.
Ivor A. Schott, superinten
dent, will present the classes
for graduation and will make
the awards. Dr. A. Holmes
Johnson, president of the
Independent School District
board will present the gradu
sites with their diplomas.
Also listed in the program
are a flute solo by Marilyn
Crooks and a saxaphone sole
by Max Folsom. William
Frost will read the Eighth
Grade History and the Eighth
Grade Prophesy will be given
by Carol Larsen and Marie
Anderson.
The Girl’s Sextette, com
posed of C. Acheson, N.
Erickson, V. Foster, A.
James. I. Nelson and L. Tor
gramson, will sing, There’s
Music in the Air.
Seniors who will receive
diplomas are the following:
Alma Nelson, Marie Copt,
Molly Mahle, Sally Crooks,
Martha Olsen, Allan ChernofL
Sam Nelson, Robert Dawson
Donald Clark and Jerry Pear
son.
Those graduating from the
eighth grade are: James
Anderson, Marie Anderson
Cars)] Cherry Burton
Robert Christofferson, Norma
Fjeldheim, Jacqueline Foster,
William Frost, Georgia Heit
man, Carol Larsen, Patricia
Morey. Kenneth Nekeferoff
Leigh Nibloek, Niel Neilsen.
Robert Norton, Nickloe
Pestrikoff, Gloria Phillips,
Alice Ponchene, Charles
Richardson. Netty ShuravV
off, Tina Sburavloff, Irene
SimeonolF, Anita Smith, Re
becca Smith, Esther Sunc
berg, Thomas Swensen, Al
fred Torgramsen, Carol Tor
sen and Carole Wall.
The Square Knot, Alas*:,
Steams!) p O oiiwiij Let 1 to
inloa-’e'* fre;-rh« "iwi s)i; j f
ere th wee-. I left pat
Wednesday e v etn-g.