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/m.ia N0 56 KODIAK. ALASKA FEBRUARY 27. 1954 PRICE 10 CENTS
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Duty Tours
Cut-Bubers
!A release has just been re
eeived from the O ffice of Pub
lic Information at the Base
Which may have an effect on
the City of Kodiak citizenery.
To wit:
“Changes of the tours of
duty for Naval Personnel in
the Seventeenth Naval Dis
trict have been approved by
the Bureau of Naval Person
nel in Washington, D. C.
For Kodiak this change in
volves INCREASING the
tour of Married O.ffiiers and
Enlisted Personnel with de
pendents in tne area to 24
months. DECREASING the
tours of duty for single Of
ficers an I Ealisted Personnel
mil married Officers and En
listed Personnel whose de
pendents are not in the area to
12 months.
A conference among repre
sentatives of ConaSerPac;
ComAirPac; Com 17; NavSta
Adakand NavStaKodiak will
take place on the 15th of
March 1954 for the purpose of
working out the detoils in im
plementing this change.”
A Riutine Dayjl
For A Bush Pilot
It never rains for Kodiak
Airways but what it pours, or
perhaps we should say ‘it
snows. Friday, the 19 th Bob
Hall and Al C ratty responded
to a dRl from Shearwater,
Kadiak Cannery, to the effect
that Paul Chya was in great
distress. Immediately after the
plane had departed from Ko
diak the weather closed in and
ti»e plane wa3 umble to re
torn. The plane took off from
Shearwater, progressed to the
seath end of the Island and
returned via the west side, as
far as Ouzinkie, keeping in
touch with Kodiak and the
Coast Guard during the flight.
Upon landing at Ouzinkie the
Coast Guard Vessel Bitter
sweet was called and early
that evening Paul Chya was
relieved of an inflammed ap
pendix at Griffin Memorial
Hospital by Dr. A. Holmes
Johnson.
Shortly after the plane had
left Kodiak Miss Cora Ober
lies, Island Health Nurse re
ceived word of an epidemic of
Hepatitis in the village of
Ahkiok. As plane3 were un
able to leave Kodiak she was
taken to the village on a Naval j
Station vessel where she and
Dr. McFarlan from the Naval
Station administered to the
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Slks Bubble Ball
& Banquet Tonite
More than 300 local Elks
have reservations for the big
3. P. 0. E. charity dance of
the year, the Purple Bubble
Ball, which will be held to
night at the Elk’s Hall.
A candlelight dinner will be
served the early part of the
evening, beginning at 6 pm.
Dancing will commence at 10
pm. A floor show will be
stage! later in the evening.
Irv Bowman, in charge of
the affair, stated. “In past
1 years the Purple Bubble Ball
has attracted a large atten
dance, but according to the
way reservations are being
placed, this years Ball should
be the biggest.” “A1 Miller,
in charge of the dinner, is pre
pared to feed the more than
300 who will attend.”
“We would like to particul
j arly call attention to out of
town Elks.” Bowman stated,
i “Any and all of them who
[ would like to be present are
particularly invited to attend.”
j Proceeds derived from the
| dance will be turned over to
1 Elk’s charities.
Guard Unit Activated
A local National Guard Unit
was activated in Kodiak on
February the seventeenth and
inspected by Colonel Henry
M. Zellar, Inspector General
for the United States Army,
Alaska, and his Administrative
Assistant, Chief Warrant Of
ficer Blunt.
Attending the Activation Cere
monies were twenty-five men.
who after taking and passing
their Dhysicals were organized
into Co. D. 207th Inf. Bn.
(Sep) of Kodiak.
This Company is a Heavy
Weapons Company of the A
laskan Territorial National
Guard. Other Infantry Units
have been organized and acti
vated in all the larger Alaskan
cities.
First Lieutenant Gil Jar
vela has been appointed the
Company Commander of the
Unit and anyone with any
questions as to the method or
know how of joining the Com
pany can call Lt. Jarvela at
4531 for enlistment purposes.
*C? POLICE BULLETIN «£?
Police Chief R. E. Vickery
announced Thursday that the
following owners of vehicles
bearing the below license num
bers have delinquent traffic
tickets in the Police station.
Licence Numbers: Alaska
10984, 66902, 10722. 11392,
11522, 67177. Vickery ad
vises settlement to these de
linquent citations will be ap
preciated.
Police Guard After Threat
...ran i
Police officers flank Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis)
as he leaves a Philadelphia railroad station (Feb. 22) after
police said they received an anonymous threat on the Sen a'
tor's life. McCarthy was in Philadelphia to receive the an
nual good citizenship medal of the Philadelphia Chapter of
the Sons of the American Revolution “for outstandng servjce
in rooting out subversive influences.” The award touched off
a controversy in which several chapter members said they
would not take part in the program. (A’wirephoto)
Jackson Day Dinner Is Highlighted
By Democratic Clubs Inauguration
The Kodiak Island Area
Democratic Club held its regu
lar monthly meeting on Tues
day February 23rd at the
Elks Club Rooms and Presi
dent Bud Metzgar presided.
Buck Hoylman, the newly
elected Vice President and
Chairman of the by-laws com
mittee presented the by-law's
as drawn up by his committee
and they were , unanimously
adopted by the body.
The Jackson Day Dinner
plans were discussed and
Metzgar appointed John Gib
bons as General Chairman of
the gala event. The most ap
propriate day was determined
to be on Jacksons birthday or
March 15th.
Speakers for the event were
discussed and after due con
sideration Wendall Kay was
selected to give the key-note
speech. All the Territorial
candidates on the Democratic
ticket will be invited to attend.
A1 Miller, Jan Beukers and
Claudia Kilgore were ap
pointed on the food committe
for the dinner.
Before adjournment stress
was placed on the forty mem
bers present to bring neigh
bors and friends to the next
regular meeting whichwill be
held the fourth Tuesday in
March.
WOWS AND DASHES
The siren blew; the warn
ing blast and one long howl.
Mentally the city location
registers — down town. WOW
thirty mile an hour wind
temperature around 15° WOW
again - crawl into my top coat
and Stetson - wish I had gloves
and ear muffs - make a mad
dash for the firehall - meet Aj
Miller coming back from fire,
hall - false alarm at Alf Mad.
sens - WOW
Called Maxine - she said :
“Something dropped down in
stove - blew fire under stov e
dashed to phone to call 234 5
dashed back to kitchen - fire
was out - dashed back to phone
just in time - WOW the ap
paratus had not left the hal
thank goodness - a deep sigh’
False alarm._
|Ike Backs
Army Set; j
Washington D. C. (■#*) — j
Secretary of the Arms 8te- ;
vens with backing frtrttf Presi- |
dent Eisenhower served no- ]
tice that he will never accede O
to any abuse, browbeating-or
humiliation to Army witnesses I
by Senator McCarthy cn other I
investigators. \ }
Immediately the McCarthy- 1
Stevens fued erupted anew,
The senator accused the Army J
Chief of making a
pletely false statement.” Ste- (
vens said he had received as- (
surance from the Senate In- j
vestigation sub-committ33 _
Wednesday that the abuse to
witnesses would not repeat
and not be permitted in the
future.
McCarthy exploded nurs
day night that '‘Absolutely no
concession has been made that
any witness was abused,”
McCarthy said to promise not
to abuse them in the future
would be an admission of
abuse in the past. 1 ‘Any wit
ness from the Army, any
where else, if not frank arid
truthful will be vigorously
examined to get the truth {
about Communist activities,” \
the senator stated.
GOP leaders had worked
all day Thursday in an at
tempt to heal the breach be- >
tween the Senator and the 'j
Army Chief. The reaction
among the rank and file of
the Pentagon is generally
bitter. One comment ma^le,
was that, ‘‘The President taay)
as well appoint Joe McCarthy^
Secretary of the Army now.” .1
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Queen Frances Reigns
The High School Basketball
Dance held Thursday
evening at the Elks Club* was
a huge success according to all.
reports from those attending.
Dancing was enjoyed by alk
the Bunny Hoppers as well as
those that watched from thet
proceedings from the sidelines.
The selecting of the Basketbalp
Queen was a h’gh-lite of the
program The same method ad
opted by the Rose Bowl Comm
ittee was used,judging the
contestant on five standard
points, Social Grace, Beauty,
Tyoical High School Girl In
terest. and Abilities and
Posture The results of the five
judges, John Gibbons, Pop
Mates, Jack Hinkel. Henry
Hagg and James Bennett were
most gratifying to the crowd
that were in attendance. T ic
Queen elect was Miss Frances
Lindsley, second Miss Carol
Tolbert and third Miss Linda
Rockstad. , f
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