"News of oAmencds Last Frontier5
VOL 11 NO 6
KODIAK, ALASKA
APRIL 7, 1951
PRICE 10 CENTS
Chamber Protests
Plan To Cut Fishing
Telegrams protesting the
proposed “concentration
©fern” of the Defense Fisher
ies Administration were sent
Co Washington, D. C., this
week by the Kodiak Chamber
«# Commerce.
©nn Kuhnley, superintend
ent of the Kodiak Whiz-Hal
fcrty Inc. cannery, Pat Can
aan, president of the United
fishermen of Alaska, anbJoe
Kerrigan, business agent for
the UFA, explained the pro
posed concentration plan co
flic C of C Thursday.
The proposed plan calls for
the restriction of fishing in j
1951 in Cook Inlet, Alaska
Peninsula, and Bristol Bay
te drift net fishermen who'
fished those areas in 1949.
However fishermen who used
beach seines in 1950 may fish
the three areas, Cannon said.
Cannon returned recently
from Washington where he
had gone to protest the propo
sal and seek aid from Dele
gate E. L. Bartlett in combat
ting the proposal.
Kuhnley and Cannon told
the C of C that the limited
fishing in the three areas
would result in fishermen
from those areas converging
on the Kodiak area. Kodiak
fishermen would be unable t#
fish in the three areas where
the fishing is limited.
“Senators from the north
west states and Bartlett are
working to have the proposal
modified or set aside,” Can
non said.
Local fishermen have inves
ted in gear and boats for fish
ms at Chignik and Cook Inlet
tins season.
During World War 2 a simi
tar plan for concentrating the
fishing and canning was in ef
fect However local fishermen
I that the proposed pjan for
f season is unfair.
The C of C unanimously fa
rmed the resolution to send
telegrams to the various de
partments at Washington.
Ben Kraft returned home
Flriday after spending several
weeks in the states. He visited
in Seattle and in Arizona.
Ray Martin jr., son of Ray
Martin, owner of the Club
lienor Store, arrived in Ko*
4iak yesterday. He will make
his home here with his father.
The Garden Club will meet
Wednesday evening at 8 pm
at the home of Mrs Eldridge
Cardinal. Refreshments will
be served.
Er^kine Library
Being Shipped
Herb Hilscher, author of A- (
laska .Now, and publicity dir-j
ector for the University of A
laska, began an inventory of
the W. J. Erskine library yes
terday prior to shipping it to
the university.
The library, the most com
plete collection of books on
Alaska, was purchased from
the W. J. Erskine estate by
D. E. Skinner, vice-president
of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany.
“The university is deeply
grateful to Mr. Skinner for
this valuable contribution.
The books will be placed in
the Skinner Library at the u
niversity and a plaque stating
that they are from the W. J.
Erskine collection will be
placed nearby,” Hilscher said.
When Hilscher completes
his inventory the books will
be shipped to Seward by ASC
freighter and from there go
up the railroad to Fairbanks.
While here Hilscher talked
to the high school students a
bout obtaining scholarships at
the university and displayed
16 photographs, made around
the turn of the century, by a
Norwegian photographer
named Gotesman. The photo
graphs are part of a collection
of 70 that were presented to
the university by Ove Selig,
who found the old plates in a
Seattle warehouse.
Hilscher plans to put the
photos on display at some local
store.
Mrs. John Gibbons is help,
ing Hilscher with the invento
ry of the books.
NMU Election
Sought From NLRB
v San Francisco (<P)— CTO
National Maritime Union will
attempt through a National
Labor Relations Board election
to wrest the bargaining con
trol of 6,000 west coast ship
stewards from the Marine
Cooks and Stewards Union.
An NMU vice-president said
the union would file a petition
of election within a week. He
also stated that the NMU has
pledges of support from more
than 30% of the MCS con
trolled workers.
The MSC was ousted from
the CIO last year on charges
of following the communist
party line.
Rochelles Sell
Unique Interest
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. “Doc”
Rochelle have sold their half
interest in tne Club Unique to
to their a ners, Mr. and
Mrs. Darrein Chaffin of Woody
Island.
A bill of sale for the trans- J
fer of the bar was recorded,
yesterday. The sale was effec
tive April 1.
A dissolution of partnership
was also recorded. The four
bought the Unique about two
years ago from Mt. and Mrs.
Bud Metzgar.
Rochelle plans to devote his
time to the guide business and
to do some fishing this summ
er.
This is the third liquor bus
iness sale in recent weeks
Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace
bought the interest.- of their
partners, Mr. and Mrs. John
Bergsma in the Idle Hour Bar
and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gott
schalk purchased Tony’s Bar
and Liquor Store from Mr.
and Mrs. Dick Butler.
Glean Up To
Start Monday
The annual Kodiak Clean
up Drive gets under way
Monday under the supervision
of Jake Foley, manager of the
American Legion Club.
The debris you have been
stacking up the past year will
be picked up, free of charge,
sometime this week if you will
place it near the street where
the trucks can load it without
much trouble.
The city council has ap
propriated $300, of city funds,
for the drive. This money will
be used to hire collectors and
trucks. The city trucks are all
in use at present so local
transfer companies’ vehicles
will behired to collect the
debris.
John Gibbons, local garbage
1 contractor, has offered his
garbage truck without
charge for the clean-up work.
Donat** Lunches
To Drlvo
A1 Miller, owner of the
Montmartre Inn, contributed
the money he received Thurs
day for lunches for Chamber
of Commerce members to the
annual Kodiak Clean-Up
drive.
President Merrill Coon
thanked Miller for his contri
bution. The Chamber of Com
merce holds its regular bi
weekly luncheons at the Mont
martre.
»®Mlt£dV«Ces
6d °y defenders
Coast Guard
Helps Two
The Coast Guard Air De
tachment at Kodiak Naval
Station made two mercy miss
ions to Sand Point the past
week to bring Mr. and Mrs.
John Pol lari to Kodiak for
hospital treatment.
The first flight was made
Monday when a request for
assistance was received by the
CG. Lt. jg J. M. Weber and
Lt. G. W. Wagner piloted the
PBY which picked up Pollari
and brought him to Kodiak.
Late Monday evening the!
CG again received a request!
for assistance from Sand
Point. It was reported thati
Mrs. Pollari was suffering se-i
vere abdominal pains and re-j
quired medical assistance.
A flight was made early the
following morning and she
was brought to Kodiak and
hospitalized.
Pilots on the flight were Lt.
jg H. G. Cassel and Chief W.j
K. Cooper. Navy doctor D.!
Schufeldt accompanied the
flight. Crewmen were C. G. i
Graff. D. MacPetrie, M. Pitts,
and R. Patiterson. Crewmen
on the first flight were J. E.
Lacey. K. L. Bright, J. W.
Winklepeck and J. L. Barnett
0. H. Sack„ navy pharmacist
mate, went on the flight.
Both flights were coordinat-;
ed by Capt. L. J. Dow, comm-!
ander Air Sea Rescue area 2.!
Press Correspondents
Cover Exercises
Two news service repre
sentatives and a photograph
er-cameraman from Acme
Wirephoto and Wamer-Pathe
News were here this week to
cover operation “Firestep”.
John DiMeo, Associated
Press correspondent, and Pet
er Hayes, United Press, visit- \
ed Kodiak Thursday. They ar
rived aboard a MATS plane,
with Don Cutter, photograph
er and cameraman.
DiMeo’s articles were made
available to the MIRROR
which has an associate mem- J
bership with the Associated;
Press. 1
Elks Initiation
The following eleven men
were initiated into Kodiak
BPOE 1772 last week: J. J
De Bon, F. Crouch C. W.
Reynolds, R Dawson, R. Ce
bula P. W. Stevens, L. J.
Larson. C. A. Naldrett, V.
H. Da’y and T. P. Renshaw.
Joy John DiMeo
Associated Press
Correspondent in Kodiak
Aggressor forces that made »
landing early Thursday morn
ing on this rugged Island were
completely wiped out by de
fending forces at mid-morning
yesterday.
Thus, the first major land
assault of “operation firestep”
was completely stopped, with
maneuver umpires ruling that
the entire aggressor army was
annihilated.
The aggressor forces made
their first contact with the de
fenders Thursday morning
amid a snowstorm of near
blizzard proportions. Friday,
in a flanking movement that
completely encircled the ag
gressor troops by 10 am, the
first major phase of the opera
tion was brought to a success
ful close. The aggressors did
not reach the main part of the
huge naval base.
Arriving by simulated sub
marine landings, a full com
pany of aggressor troops
“landed” near Larsen Bay
and set up a command post at.
the Ski Chalet.
Wearing distinctive green
uniforms, with helmets re
sembling Trojan soldiers’ of
bygone eras, the enemy troops
prepared their assault. Many
of the aggressor troops gave
added realism to the maneu
vers by conversing in a
foreign language.
Maneuver director for the
Kodiak phase of the war
maneuvers, Colonel W. P.
Grace, USA, commended the
defenders of the island for
their excellent work. Com
mander of the defending
forces was Captain L. J.
Dow, USN, commander Ko
diak Naval Station,
- Kodiak—Simulated bombing
and strafing attacks were
made on the naval base
throughout the week, in sup
port of the aggressor landings
from submarines.
Blackouts were in effect
during several nights and the
naval radio station issued
frequent bulletins.
The so-called enemy also
intensified their bombing and
strafing sorties on military
installations in Anchorage and
Fairbanks and command head
quarters in Anchorage was
“bombed”.
A practice evacuation was
held at the be so on '1 hursday
?s aggressor g'Oind forces
ra^ether bi 1 to >,e tie
statior.