{577NO. 9
oAmericas Last Frontier”
KODIAK, ALASKA APRIL 28, 1945
PRICE 10 CEIW?
New Act In
Effect Soon
Nearly every employer of one
it more persons now comes with
in the scope of the Unemploy
ment, Compensation Act, accord
iog to Harry B DeLand, field
auditor and adviser, who arrived
in Kodiak Sunday from Juneau
vis Anchorage.
The new law enacted at the
last territorial legislature goes
into effect on July 1 this year
and means that the first filing,
which is quarterly, will be made
for the September quarter, due
before Oct. 31, DeLand said.
A good general rule for the
employer to follow is to file this
return if he is filing Social
Security returns, as the same
exceptions prevail.
The tax to be paid is 2.7 per
cent of the payroll, but it is not
deductible from the payroll.
Prior to the new law only em
ployers of 8 or more were re
quired to pay the tax.
A form will be sent to every
known employer sometime in
June and this must be filled out
and returned so a determination
if liability can be made. Any
imployer who does not receive
Ibis form and who hires any
person for any period of time
should contact the Juneau office.
All information rsgarding the
payment of the tax and liability
should be obtained from the
Alaska Unemployment Compen
lation Commission at Juneau, or
from Mr. DeLand, who is stay
ing at the Sunbeam hotel. Em
ployees seeking information on
their benefits from unemploy
ment insurance should see Miss
Nan Holt, at the local U. S.
Employment office.
DeLand is also checking on
delinquencies of employers of 8
or more who were not properly
advised as to their liability
under the previous law.
City Going After
Machine Revenue
The city council has diiected
*hat the police department make
> survey of a!I coin-operated
®achines, and owners will be
killed by the city for licenses due
®° them, it was reported that
every machine in town is delin
quent, both owned privately and
ky operators, some of the delin
quencies running back as far as
Jyears.
Making Phone Survey
Mrs. Martha Kostrometinoff,
franchise holder for Kodiak’s
Projected telephone system, ar
rived from Sitka this week and
• making a survey for her com
tony and is investigating possible
buildings.
Faulty Car Brakes
Causes P. O. Accident
Many post office patrons have
just about jerked the post office
door off to get their mail but it
remained for Dr. A Holmes
Johnson to run into the building
with his car on his way on the
same mission Wednesday.
As he drove down the hill his
brakes refused to work and he hit
the front corner of the buil ting
near the door.
Result: a wall shoved out of
line, quarter-round flying across
the lobby, two broken headlights,
several letters.
Woman Injured
In Fall Off Dock
Angelina Mikilinak, who was
visiting in Kodiak from her
home on Woody Island, fell off
Erskine’s dock Monday as she
was preparing to return home on
a small navy boat. She struck a
boom next to the boat and crew
members rescued her and she
was taken immediately to the
hospital.
She was still in the hospital
yesterday, where she is receiving
treatment for 2 fractured ribs,
a fractured vertebra, and con
tusions.
Lot Applications Cause
Many Procedure Queries
Land owners in Kodiak were
flocking for applications for
deeds this week as required un
der the town site approval and
granting of lots, and the final
publication of the notice of such
step appears in this issue, which
means that 120 days from today
every land owner must have
made such application to pre
vent his land being sold later at
public auction.
All applications made before
May will be considered as having
been made at the same time,
but after May 1 all applications
will be acted upon by the town
site trustee in the order of their
fih»g.
Already discrepancies in own
ership claims are appearing.
Cases have arisen where a
property owner discovers some
one else has been paying his
taxes and investigation of quit
claim deeds has shown others
where property overlays or
boundary lines are differently
described.
Some persons living between
the old city limits boundary near
the Sam Sears home, and the
new extended limits on Mission
road have tried to file applica
tions. That additional territory
was surveyed at a later date,
and only that land in the first
survey is now affected. However,
the plat of that district was ap
proved as of February, 1942,
according to the best informa
tion obtainable here, and will be
processed in a similar fashion,
with granting of deeds, at a
later date. This does not apply
to patented land in the area,
just as present applications do
not apply to patented land in
the townsite proper.
Much discussion has arisen
over the issuance of deeds to na
tives and non-restricted deeds
to non-natives. The law govern
ing this is an act of Congress,
dated May 25, 1926, which was
drawn specifically to protect
natives by providing for the
issuance of restricted deeds to
them which require permission,
through the local land office, to
sell it, and provides further that
the laud is non-taxable and non
assessable and not attachable
for debts.
The townsite trustee can
make no exceptions to the re
stricted deed provision, accord
ing to George F. Folta, counsel
at large, Depa' tment of Interior,
Juneau. A wire from the Mirror
to George Parks, the trustee,
was turned over to Mr. Folta,
who replied:
“The act of Congress vests no
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William A. Wellesley, itiner
ant logger, is held in Portland,
Ore., in connection with the
finding of a mumified head and
hands near Fort Bragg, Calif,
has admitted, according to Fol
ger Emerson, assistant district
attorney of Alameda, Calif.,
that he knew the man, whose
name was Austin Barber.
Wellesley denied any knowl
e 'ge of t he slaying which is be
lieved to have occurred 2 years
ago, Emerson said.
Penny Drive To Aid
Children’sHospital
Once again the people of Kod
iak are being called upon to join
in the annual Penny Drive of the
Children’s Orthopedic Hospital,
Seattle, a drive being conducted
throughout Alaska for the insti
tution which, during 1944, ha
44 children from Alaska among
its patients.
Of these 3 were from Kodiak
and the total days respectively
for each at the hospital were 652t
253, and 274. Larsen’s Bay and
Karluk were also represented a
mong the 1944 patients
Fifteen new Alaska patiens
were admitted during the year,
and all are given general medical
care, X-rays, laboratory work,
dental examinations and treat
ments as indicated, plus school
work and occupational therapy if
patien.s are a suitable age.
Tubercular joints, of which
there are many, require frame
and traction treatment, casts,
repeated X-rays, surgery and
braces. Other cases of burns and
congenital defects require special
care and in many cases, plastic
surgery.
Much of this work is carried
on through the funds derived
from the Penny Drive. This year
in Kodiak, Mrs. Marian Blinn,
drive chairman, announced, the
Campfire Girls have distributed
to as many homes as possible
small envelopes in which the
people may place their contribu
tion. Beginning this Monday the
girls will go to these homes again
lo collect the contributions
In addition, Mrs. Blinn an
nounced, throughout the month
of May Penny Drive jars will be
placed in local business houses
for additional donation .
“Don’t forget your change—
and when you see the Penny
Drive jars, don’t forget the Chil
dren’s Orthopedic hospital.”
Local Cleanup
Period Coming
A city-wide Cleanup Week
will be proclaimed beginning
May 15 and continuing for 2
weeks, as the result of city
council action directed at mak
ing the town more presentable
by a thorough "spring cleaning”.
In connection with the drive,
the council will prepare a list of
hazardous and unsightly struc
tures, especially in regard to re
mains of burned buildings, and
will order them removed, or as
Ordinance 64 provides, remove
them at city expense and assess
the charge against the owner
All owners will be given a full
opportunity to comply with the
ordinance first.
Further plans for the drive
will be announced later.
Dud Drive
Nears Goal
Today sees the last house- to
house pickup of old clothes, and
those wishing a truck to call
must leave their names at the
Island fountain, Kodiak foun
tain, Men’s Store or Kodiak
Mercantile before 4 pm. No
clothes will be accepted anywhere
except at the KEA plant Sunday
morning, at which time the drive
officially closes.
All men and women who wish
to participate in the packing and
shipping of the clothes will be
certainly welcome at the KEA
plant Saturday night at 7:30 or
Sunday beginning at 9:30 am.
The clothes must be ported and
packed into 100-pound bundles
for snipping, and a goodly num
ber o volunteers can make short
work of it.
Kodiak s quota is 2 and a nail
tons and Stanley Nelson, chair
man, said he believes Kodiak
and vicinity will go over the top
and that he will have the official
figure ready next week.
A number of individuals and
couples have already promised
to show up for the packing job
but after a look at the stack of
clothing at the plant Stanley
Nelson issued his call for v-'ore
volunteers.
Prizes Awarded
In Kite Contest
Fourteen boys entered the
kite contest and many mote
were on hand for it Sunday on
Signal Hill as the kites weri
flown and judged by Harry Holt,
Stanley Nelson and Herbert
Francis.
Prizes were awarded as fol
lows:
Best flight: 1st Prize $5—
Team of Sidney Hubley, Laur
ence Anderson & Ivar Main tin.
2nd Prize 13—Team of - Bob
Lear & Jack Nelson
3rd Prize $2—John Clayton.
Best construction, $5 Fuze—
Michael Kerr, Jr.
No unusual kite was entered
so the other prize was distribut
ed among the other contestants
for honorable mention. Prizes of
$1 each were given; Team of
John & George Beukers, James
Tolbert, Sammy Nelson, Gale
Munson, Max Folsom, Jr. and
Niel Nielson.
The winning kites are now on
display at the Island Fountain.
Max Folsom, scoutmaster,
who conducted the contest said
the success of it had led to plan ;
for another one soon.
Washington (A*)—The War
Department reported that Pvt
Roy Bailey, son of Charles D.
Bailey, of Sitka, was wounded in
Eufope.