' News of oAmenca’s Last Frontier*
VOL. 11 NO 8
KODIAK, ALASKA MARCH 17, 1951
PRICE 10 CENTS
Bills Fill Legisiature
In Final Weeks
By Jim Hutcheson
< le Associatsd Press
Juneau (A5)—The legislature
passed bills by the dozen and
buried them by the shovelful
this week as it prepared to
head into the final weeKSof
<Sie home stretch.
Next week will be the one in
which the legislature decides
what is to be appropriated for
spending in the next two
years, even though some may
■ever be available for spend
ing if the Board of Adminis
tration freezes again, and
what new taxes, if any, are to
be levied.
The weeks highlight was the
quick House passage of an
$18,319 558 general appropria
tions bill, which is about
<5,000,000 above the one two
years ago but about $2,000,000
under budget requests.
The House passed the bill in
■coord time but indications are
that the Senate will work it
over with a sharp knife. Once
the cutting starts on many
legislators’ pet departments
and institutions the whole
thing may end up in a free
conference committee for re
drafting.
Numerous banking laws
which passed the House earlier
■cached the Senate this week.
An overall banking code and
ether revision laws passed, but
the Senate killed on an eight
to eight vote the small loans
act which would allow three
percent monthly interest rate
on balances.
The Senate’s kill on the bill
B the first setback suffered by
Marshall Crutcher, president
of the Bank of Kodiak and leg
islative chairman of the Alaska
Banker’s Association. He sup
ervised drawing the bills and
has nursed them along the
thorny legislative paths.
House measures approved by
the Senate this week include
Kodiaklans Called
To Jury Duty
Ten Kodiak residents have
keen called as petit jurors for
the Third District Court and
will report to Anchorage
April 2, at 10 am.
U. S. Deputy Marshal Clar
ence Dizney served notice on
the prospective jurors this
week. They are as follows:
M. S. Burnham, Peter
Chichenoff, W. H. Fish,
Margaret Fread, Allen Heit
man, Leon Johnson, Bud
Metzgar, Oscar Nelson,
Henry Neseth, Theodore CL
Robeson.
a bill for one dollar a year
sport fishing license for Alas
kans and three dolGrs for non
residents.
The Senate appn ■ ' ine bil
to remove the Governor from
,the Fisheries Experimental
I Commission. The Senate failed
I to approve a bill to outlaw
j fireworks in Alaska.
; The Senate had some excite
. ment Thursday when Heinie
Snider, Wasilla Republican,
walked out over the passage
j of the general territorial sal
ary increase bill, but he re
turned in the afternoon to find
Senator MacKenzie, Democrat,
suggesting he was not entitled
to his seat because he was a
Road Commission Employee
when he ran.
Snider responded he was
just a pick and shovel laborer
who was through working for
■ the Commission before he was
elected to the Senate.
Legion To Honor
KHS Team
The third annual banquet1
honoring the Kodiak Bears,
high school basketball team,
will be given Tuesday even
ing, March 27, by the Ameri
can Legion and its Auxiliary,
their commanders, Herbert
Spiegel and Mrs. Henry Haag,
said yesterday.
The Montmartre Inn up
stairs dining room will be the
scene of the dinner, which is
a public function. The affair
will start at 7 pm.
Tickets for the dinner,
priced at $3.00 per person,
are now on sale and may be
obtained from Vic Ellis, bank
insurance department; Cliff
Mowry, Kodiak Motors, or
legion or auxiliary members,
j Chaplain John Weise will be
invited as speaker, Spiegel
said. Members of the team
jwill be guests of the sponsor
ing groups, as will school
I superintendent Ivor Schott.
I Following the banquet, cash
j awards will be made by Mrs.
Reuben Tesarik of the auxili
ary to the three winners in j
the recent Americanism essay j
contest, Alma Nelson, Molly j
Mahle, and Marie Cope. I
( W. J. Wheeldon, of the Ko
diak Welding Works, left!
Thursday for a three or four
week vacation in Iowa.
He will visit a sister and'
aunts and uncles at Conrad,1
Iowa, and will join Mrs.
Wheeldon who is at the home
of his sister. Mrs. Wheeldon
left last month for the stateB.
Red Cross Plans
Fund Drive
The local American Red
Cross drive for funds has been
set for April 2 through 12, L.
K. Wodlinger, chairman of the
local chapter, said yesterday.
Mrs. Merrill Coon has been
named roll call cha rman for
this year and will be in charge
of the collection of funds.
No goal has been set this
year but efforts to obtain the
greatest amount of money ever
collected in Kodiak will be
made because of the need for
funds to operate blood banks.
The great need of whole
blood for U. S. troops fighting
in Korea, and the great a
mount of funds necessary to
operate the banks, will be an
incentive to members of the
Red Cross to make the drive a
success.
Not all of the money donated
to the drive will be used for
blood banks. A percentage of
every dollar collected stays in
Kodiak for disaster relief and
to care for needy cases.
Persons desiring to make
contributions to the Red Cross
fund may leave them at Bert’s
Drug Store or mail them te
the Kodiak Chapter of the
American Red Cross.
Base, Town
To Hear Cantata
The combined choirs of the
Community Baptist Church
and of Hillside Chapel at
Kodiak Naval Station will
present a Cantata on Wed
nesday and Friday of this
week.
Wednesday the perfor
mance will be at the Baptist
Church in Kodiak at 7:30 pm.
Friday, at 7:30 pm, it will be
given at the Hillside Chapel.
The Cantata is under the
direction of Russell Patterson
and Pat Jorden. Mrs. Dewitt
Fields is organist. The public
is invited to attend either or
both presentations.
Easter Sunrise Service at
the Community Baptist
Church has been set for 6 am
Easter morning.
The annual Holy Thursday
worship and communion will
be held at the church at 7:30
pm Thursday. The board of
deacons will assist the Rev.
R. N. Wilkinson with services.
The public is cordially in
vited to attend the services
both Thursday and Easter
morning.
W. E. “Red” Thompson,
Union Oil representative, was
an outgoing PNA passenger
Thursday.
City Receives $637,500
For Water,Sewer System
An allotment of $637,500 fori
the Kodiak water and sewer I
project has been approved by
Congress, Delegate E. L. Bart
lett wired Mayor Lee C. Bet
tinger Thursday.
The preliminary Dlans for
the project have been approv
ed and as soon as the firm of
Hubbell and Waller Engineer
ing Corporation completes the
plans, bids for the contract
will be advertised, Bettinger
said yesterday.
The Alaska Public Works'
agency will advertise for the!
1951 Fishing
May Be Cut
Seattle (A5) — A Defense]
Fisheries Adminstration of-'
ficial said Wednesday that aj
decision may be reached by |
the end of the week on a
“concentration plan” for A
laska fishing operations and
salmon canning.
While no official ruling has
been made the plan, if it goes
into effect, would involve con
solidations to conserve man
power and material in Bristol
Bay, Cook Inlet and the A
laska Peninsula.
The Kodiak and Chignik
areas are also to be con
sidered.
A voluntary program may
be put into effect in the re
gions if the committee agrees,
the Associated Press reported.
However, Pat Cannon,
president of the United
Fishermen of Alaska, de
parted hurriedly Thursday to
join the meeting and Orin
Kuhnley, superintendent of \
the local Whiz-Halferty Inc.,'
cannery here placed a call to
Frank McConagy, general
superintendent of the plant
here and at Cordova, for more
information.
Officials of the local union
pointed out that no decision
has been reached and that
the proposal may be likened jto
those suggested changes that
are made at fisheries hearings.
They are merely sugges
tions by the body but in the:
final analysis are not approved j
by government authority. )
Representatives of labor and J
industry are meeting in Se- •
attle in an effort to find a
solution to the problem.
A similar program was
carried out in World War II.
concentrating salmon canning,
in the most efficient operations
with other operators sharing
in the expense and production.
GIVE TO THE RED CROSS
bids and will award the con
tract to ii.« bidder it selects.
Mayor i ettinger made a trip
to W ashir,*. ton last fall to ob
tain the funds after Congress
had announceo a cut in appro
priations for Alaska.
“The housing development
in the east addition hinged on
our obtaining money for the
water and sewer project,/'
Bettinger said.
Actual work on the new
water and sewer system, whie*
includes a reservoir, should be'
under way by late spring, Bet
tinger said.
The original application sub
mitted by the city asked for
$600,000.
Washington (A3)— Secre
tary of the Interior Oscar
Chapman said $637,500 was al
lotted for improving and add
ing to the water and sewage
system at Kodiak.
He said the work on systems
would benefit the east addition
site where a 400 housing
development project was plan
ned.
PBY Searches
For Scow
The Mary J. II, self pro
pelled scow owned by Martin
Jensen and manned by three
local men was the object of a
search by a Coast Guard PBY
after it was reported overdme
in a trip from Seward to Ko
diak last Friday.
The scow was manned by
Ross Galbreath, Lew Peters
and Don Wolf, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jay Wolf.
The Coast Guard plane
searched the area between
Homer and Seward and later
contacted the ACS station at
Seward which reported t he.
scow was at Port Williams- «»
Shuyak Island. Bad weather
and poor visibility prevented
the plane from searching
there.
Around 11 pm the scow ar
rived in port here. The CG
was notified and cancelled a
dawn search which was
scheduled. Pilots of the plan*;
were Lt. D. H. Luzius. Lt.
jg. H. G. Cassel and crew
men were D. M. Neimrow,
D. L. Lynn. C. G. Graff and
G. D. Larsen.
Pat Cannon, president of
the United Fishermen of A
laskr, left via PNA and N VVA
airlines for Seattle Thursday
on business of the fishermrsV
union.