Alaskan League
To Meet Here
The League of Alaskan
Cities will hold a convention
in Kodiak the latter part of
October. Mayor Lee C. Bet
tinger announced yesterday.
Bettinger returned from
Anchorage early this week.
The League of Alaskan Cities
is composed of officials and
civic representatives from all
incorpoi..ted cities within the
territory and is dedicated to
improving and propagating
better city government. They
are also pledged to support
and work for the betterment
of the territory.
Boat Harbor Plans
Displayed To Group
Plans drawn by the U. S.
Corps of Engineers for a
small boat harbor here were
viewed by members of the
Chamber of Commerce, city
council, fishermen’s union and
other civic representatives
Wednesday at the Montmartre
Inn.
Kenneth Hoyt, engineer
with the C of E, displayed
the drawings and told the
group that the Anchorage of
fice needed a letter of appoval
before submitting the plans to
the Division office.
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The proposed plans cell for
a harbor that covers approxi
mately 11 acres and will ac
comdate over 300 small ves
sels. The engineers estimate
for the project wTas set at $1,
400,000 dollars.
The plans call for the con
struction of two breakwaters
and dredging of the harbor.
One breakwater will extend
along the reef from a point
near the Anderson property
on South Mill Bay road to
ward the Naval base. The
other will run from the beach
below the Malutin property
toward Near island. A 200
foot wide entrance will be be
tween the two breakwaters.
After the dredging is com
plete the harbor will accomo
date boats drawing 12 feet of
water and less.
The plans show that an
eight foot crown will be
placed on top.
The City of Kodiak must
bear the expense of floats and
other installations inside the
harbor. A copy of the plans
is now at the city hall.
Hoyt pointed out that after
his office submits the plans to
the division office they must
be approved and forwarded to
Washington for approval by
the head office.
Before any actual construc
tion can begin the plans must
be approved and the wmrk
authorized by Congress. Fol
lowing the authorization an
appropriation must then be
made.
Provided the division office
and the main office approve
and there are no objections,
the plans may be presented to
Congress in the spring of
1952. It is possible that no
actual construction will begin
until 1953 or later.
Hoyt was one of a group of
engineers who took soundings
and probings of the proposed
site in St. Paul’s Harbor
early this year. Rock for the
breakwater can be obtained
near Manashka Bay, Hoyt
said.
Tenora Rockney, vice presi
dent of the C of C, conducted
the meeting at the Mont
martre.
Suit Filed Against
A SC For $358,000
Seattle (A3)—A suit for ap
proximately $358,000 damages
resulting from a fire aboard
[ the Coastal Monarch last sum
mer in Alaskan waters was on
file in federal court against
the Alaska Steamship Co.
and the Terminal and Stevd
doring Co.
The suit was filed by 176
individuals and firms who
claim goods they shipped on
the vessel were damaged
when fire broke out in the No.
2 hold in July 1950 while the
vessel was enroute from Se
ward to Dutch Harbor.
The vessel stopped in Ko
diak after the fire was out and
did not complete its voyage to
the westward.
Metcalf Denies
Harbor Statement
Frank A. Metcalf, terri
torial highway engineer, de
nied telling Talmage L.
Smith, local attorney, that he
“had the money to build a
small boat harbor” at Kodiak.
Smith recently reported that
Metcalf had made the above
statement. The Kodiak Cham
ber of Commerce requested
V. G. Ellis, C of C secretary,
to write Metcalf.
In the letter to the local
group Metcalf denied the
statement but said, “I nave
already allocated $35,000 as
the first installment on the re
construction of your dock and
intend to carry it through to
final completion as the funds
become available.”
The Chamber of Commerce
is working with the U. S.
Corps of Engineers in an
j effort to obtain a small boat
harbor here. Prospects for the
construction of one here have
brightened within the past
few months.
Metcalf indicated in his
letter that should a harbor be
| constructed here the territory
j would see that the city re
: ceived a system of floats in
; the protected waters behind
the breakwater.
Local Boy Completes
Summer Work
Donald Clark, who worked
for the Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice this summer on Afog
nak Is., returned this week.
His mother, Mrs. Basil Clark,
flew to the island to spend
last weekend with him. Clark
t will attend the University of
: Alaska this fall.
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