Litraiy-Museum
Juneau, Alaska.
"News of ^Americas Last Frontier”
VOL. 5 NO. 46
KODIAK, ALASKA JaNUARY 19, 1946
PRICE 10 CENTS
Home Calls
To Get Duds
The boxes left at various spots
around town to receive old clothes
are in no danger of wearing out
before the drive is over, as Harry
Holt, drive chairman, announced
this week that very little clothing
is being turned in.
So to make it easier for contri
butors ahouse-to-house collection
at homes will be undertaken on
Fri and Sat., Jan. 25 and 26
Everyone willing to help is asked
to have the old clothes and bed
ding ready on those dates, and it
isn’t neceosary to sort the gar
ments. The local Boy Scouts will
help in picking up the clothes
and loading them on trucks and
volunteer workers will pack them
later.
To meet the quota of a nation
al goal of 100,000,000 garments
(that’s no typographical error)
it will beiecessary for Kodiak
to furnish a garment for every
man, woman and child in town.
That means at least 1200 indivi
dual articles will have to he do
nated.
Recently approximately 25,
*100,000 people in war-torn count
ries overseas received the cloth
ing donated in the last drive, (in
which Kodiak made its quota)
but this was only a small per
centage of those destitute.
Millions are even now inade
quately clad for winter, for
health, and for self respect. It is
estimated in China alone 200
million people are in desperate
need of clothing.
Among tnese threadbare mil
lions aie people of every' age and
from every walk of life—babes,
school boys and girls, aged farm
couples, clerks, doctors, teachers,
5oung mothers, sick and fear
haunted ex-prisoners of war, the
nearly hopeless wrecks from
slave camps, and even city offi
cials.
Yet these people are trying to
rebuild their factories and their
lives, and they need clothes for
courage, protection and survival.
These people are asking only
for serviceable things. The
clothes sent last year made the
difference between a hoped for
Happy New Year and no new
year at all for mauy.
So get your garments ready(
Write a note and put with them,
fcnd give them to the Boy Scouts
chen they call this coming week.
Kadio equipment of the Paci
fic Northern Airlines is now sta
tioned in the rear office of U. S.
Commissioner G. W. Bubendorf.
It could not bo used in the
building of the Club Liquor
itore, airline agents, because of
oterference from tire Signal
Corps.
Judges Named
For Contest
Thinking caps are on and
hands are busy as school child
ren this week are designing post
ers to advertise the Community
Center, as well as earn six stud
ents a prize in the Bank of Ko
diak-Kodiak Mirror Poster con
test.
A set of three prizes, of $5, and
$3 and $2 for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
places, respectively, for both the
grade school and high school, is
being offered.
All poste. s must be turned in
to the Bank of Kodiak, and next
Friday is the deadline of the con
test. Judges who will select the
best posters are O.A. Torgerson,
Father Vincent Edge, and Wil
liam Lamme.
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Law “Retards”
Washington (T5)—Liberaliza
tion of the shore spare law that
requires that 80 i ods be left be
tween homesteads on navigable
waters of Alaska is urged upon
the Interior Department by Del
egate Bartlett, who said the law
is retarding development of the
Territory.
The Secretary of the Interior
has the right under the law to
waive the requirement.
Witnesses Called
For Davis Trial
Witnesses in the Emanuel Da
vis trial for rape will leave here
[by plane Sunday, George Slaw
son, in charge of the Marshal’s
office, announced today.
Leaving will be Mrs. Ag
raphiua Chernikoff, Mrs. Pari
scovia Davis, Alice Lucille Davis,
Pete Chiehenoff, and Dr. A.
Holmes Johnson, the latter leav
ing Mouday.
Candidate Visits
Robert “Bud” Wsrren, candi
date for Territorial lepresenta
tive, and Stanley McCutcheon,
brother of Sgt Steve McCutch
eon, the latter a candidate for
the senate, arrived yesterday
from Anchorage on a campaign
trip. They expect to leave Mon
day.
Both men are sporting at
tempts at a beard, which they
hastily explained was part of the
coming Anchorage Rendezvous,
and not a disguise.
Special Election
The special election for the
3rd Division, to elect a Territor
ial representative and senator,
will be held at the city hall Tues
day, January 29.
Announcements of the candi
dates, endorsements and official
notices will be found on pages 4,
6, 7, 8, and 10.
Cordova Is
DueMonday
The local office of the Alaska
Steamship company has been in
formed that the Cordova is due
heie from Seattle sometime next
Monday.
Another vessel, the Alaska, is
expected ‘ to leave Seattle about
Januaiy 26, bound for Kodiak.
2 Local Boys
Staying In Army
Adak—(Special)—Tech. Fifth
Grade Jacob Osbekoff, of Kodi
ak, Alaska, until recently assign
ed to the Harbor Craft detach
ment of this station, has enlisted
in the regular Army of the U. S.
for 1 year.
Corporal Osbekoff has served
in the Aleutians as a seaman
since May, 1945. He received
basic Paining at Ft. Richardson,
Alaska. Corporal Osbekoff will
nave a 60-day furlough at home
before leaving on his new assign
ment. He was honorably dis
chaiged from the Army of the U.
S. on Jan. 4 and was sworn into
the United States Army the fol
lowing day.
His mother, Mary P. Osbekoff
resides at Kodiak.
Pfc. Patrick Julius Anderson
of Kodiak, lecently assigned to
the Harbor Craft detachment
here, has enlisted in the regular
Army for 1 year.
Pfc. Anderson has served in
the Aleutians as a seaman since
1940.
Pfc. Anderson will have thirty
days furlough at home before his
new assignment. He was honora
bly discharged from the Army
on Jan. 4 and was sworn into the
United States Army the follow
ing day.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ju
lius Anderton, reside at Kodiak.
Rent regulu t ons arc now a
mended to allow the UPA, on
new housing units, to fix ceiling
rents by ascertaining the gener
ally prevailing rent for compara
ble accomodations as of March
1942, and adding an allowance to
compensate the builder for in
creased costs of construction
since 1939.
Trip Costly
Washington (41) — Delegate
Bartlett said he intends to offer
legislation to authorize the ser
vices to allow Alaskans discharg
ed in the U. S. the actual cost of
the trip home and to reimburse
men who already have spent
more than their allowance to get
back to Alaska.
He said sone men have spent
$300 more than allowed to get
home.
Center Drive
Facts In Brief
WHAT—A drive to raise
funds to maintain a full-time
director and center program.
WHEN—Starting January 28,
for two weeks.
WHY—To enable Kodiak to
fill its lack of recieational facil
ities, in regard to adults, child
ren, and servicemen.
WHERE—City wide—the first
week of the drive will be concen
trated on businesses, the second
week on homes.
HOW MUCH NEEDED—At
least $5000.
The Drive Committee—Char
les Madsen, Jack Allman, A A.
Owen, C. Dizney, Mrs.Paul Her
ring, D. F. Chaffin, and James
Martz.
Alaska Girds
Washington (P)—Alaska is
girding fcr the fight against any
increase in steamship rates and
“we’re going to fight with tvery
ihing we have.” said Governor
Grueningon his annual visit here
to help prepare the Alaskan bud
get to be submitted to Congress.
Gruening said he hoped the
P.esident’s budget would recom
mend additional appropriations
for agriculture in the Territory.
Plane Reports
Ketchikan — A coast guard
boat lias been dispatched to in
vestigate reports of finding of
several articles on an island beach
that may have come from a Pri
vateer plane missing on a Kodiak
to Seattle run.
Kodiak — A Privateer plane
cracked up on a landing strip
near Buskin river on Saturday,
it was reported. There was no
loss of life.
Olivia McPeak, of Palmer, has
been added to the staff of the lo
cal school, replacing Grace Mc
lnich, who resigned to go to
Fairbanks.
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Terry Hugg, insurance adjust
er, arrived on yesterday’s plane
Omits Canneries
Washington (JP)—Secretary
Ickes issued an order exclud ng
the area used by canneries from
the previous order recognizing
possessory right by the natives
to 273,000 acres in Southeastern
Alaska.
The cannery areas are being
excluded, lie said, because it was
shown that natives welcomed
their construction as they pro
vide a ready market for their fish.
Mrs Nettie Ellison, from A
fognak, underwent an appendec
I tomy at the GM hospital Jan. 12.
Posts Filled
For Center
The groundwork for the Kodi
ak Community CeDter Fund
drive was laid, and permanent
committees of the board named,
at a meeting of that organiza
tion he'd Thursday night at the
Bank of Kodiak, with President
A. Holmes Johnson presiding.
The finance committee was in
structed to get an itemized ac
count of expenses from the Red
Cross, who formerly operated the
building as a Servicemen’s Cent
er, and from them to compute a
budget for the first year’s opera
tion.
The drive will be conducted
for two weeks, beginning on Jan.
28 and continuing into Feb.,
with the first week devoted to
business houses and the second
week to homes throughout town.
It will be under the direction of
the Finance committee, with
Charles Madsen, chairman; and
Jack Allman, A. A. Owen, C.
Disney, Mrs. Paul Heriing, D.F.
Chaffin and James Martz.
Receipts will be printed to be
furnished contributors as a rec
ord for income tax purposes, as
the donations will be a deduct
ible contribution.
Other committees named at
the meeting were:
House - Morris Burnham, Hol
lis Mumford.
Program—Mai cus Meyer, Max
Folsom.
Library-Ilarry Holt, Pat
Wright, Sister Hilary, and Mrs.
Louise Coon.
The Executive board consists
of the officers, President A.
Holmes Johnson, Vice-president
LJ. Norman and Secretary Wal
ter Sipprell, and two elected
members, who are Marcus Mey
er and Harry Holt.
Three resolutions were passed
at the meeting, thanking the A
merican Red Cross, donators of
furniture for the center; the A
merican Legion, owneis of the
building; and the City of Kodi
ak, which leased the building for
the center’s use, for making it
possible to undertake this new
contribution to the town’s well
being.
The.American Legion will offi
daily relinquish the building on
February 1.
Non-Support Case
Dismissed
A complaint filed by Alma
Heaton, changing abandonment
and non-supporl as the lawlul
wedded wife of Don Heaton, was
to be heard befoie U.iS. Commis
sioner G. W. Bubendorf last Sat
urday
When the complainant failed
to appear the case was dismissed.