"News of cAmerica’s Last Frontier’
VOL 10 NO 47
KODIAK, ALASKA JANUARY 27, 1951
PRICE 10 CENTS
Legislature
In Session
By Jim Hutcheson
Juneau (A3) — The Terri
torial legislature finally got
squared away Thursday for.
flue lawmaking job that
Wought it here.
Final hurdle was the dead
lack over the presidency of
tte Senate where parties are
•aenly divided and both par
ties divided into factions.
Gunnard Engebreth, Anchor
age Republican, was finally
elected for an unprecedented
second term as president.
Engebreth polled a bare'
«pht-to seven victory when
Democrat William Beltz ab
stained from voting and broke
fee party alignment.
Both houses held a joint
session for Governor Gruen
ing’s message. For the first
time in many sessions his
Message brought plaudits
from both supporters and
opponents. Senators described
it as the most conciliatory,
aonconttoversial message he
ever gave.
Republicans liked his state
ments of no new taxes needed,
the budget should be
balanced, territorial account- j
ing and auditing should be
overhauled, government
modernized and the governor
relieved of his duties on most
•f the 21 boards on which he
serves.
The Governor emphasized j
tbe need of Alaska civilian j
defense legislation and urged
Alaskans to “bear the torch”
» democracy’s front line out
post.
His stand on no new taxes
nade it unanimous as Re
publican leader, Senator
Butrovich and Democratic:
leader, Senator McCutcheon
both favored that policy.!
However, McCutcheon favors
nising the cigaret tax to five
cents a pack because when the'
three cent tax was levied
most stores added the five j
•nyway. He thinks they j
would absorb the extra two I
cents without adding to the i
price. The added money would
go to schools. |
Boxing Finals Tonight
The Alaska Armed Forces j
boxing tournament will end;
with the finals this evening at j
the navy gymnasium, and a|
presentation banquet will be j
held tomorrow evening at the1
chiefs’ mess.
All armed forces are repre-1
sented in the tourney, for!
which elimination matches |
were held Thursday and last j
evenings. _ j
KEA Candidates,
By-Laws Proposed
The Kodiak Electric As
sociation nominating com
mittee has selected 17 candi
dates for election to the board
of directors at the annual
meeting March 5.
Nine directors will be
elected during the meeting.
The following names will
appear on the ballot: Wilton
White, Morris Burnham, Mar
shall Crutcher, Leo Sears, H.
E. Spencer, Basil Clark and
John Chase, all of whom are
on the 1950 board, C. E.
Anderson, Cecil Wilson, H.
F. MacDonald, Henry Breck.
berg, Harold Pratt, A1 Miller,
David Gibson, William Lam
me, Larry Bucy and Jack
Wolfe.
Plans to send sample ballots
and proposed changes in the
by-laws, for the coming year,
with the January bills were
announced by Leon Johnson,
manager of the plant.
It was emphasized that the
ballots found in the monthly
statements are sample ballots
and cannot be accepted if
filled out and mailed to the
KEA. All eligible voters must
attend the election or arrange
for a proxy to be present and
vote for them.
Two proposed changes in
the by-laws, to come before
the meeting, include another
attempt to rid the member
ship list of the cooperative of
persons who no longer use
electricity or who have moved
from town.
A move last year to drop a
member from the rolls of the
KEA without notice after he
had ceased to purchase electri
city for three months was
defeated.
The proposed amendment
this year suggests that mem
bership consist of active and
inactive members, the latter
to be those who are not cur>t
rently buying electricity. Both
classes of membership would
enjoy the same privileges, but
the number necessary for a
quorum for the annual meet
ing would be based on the
actual number of active mem
bers.
Henley's Sister
Queen Candidate
Miss Beth Henley, sister of
David Henley, Kodiak pilot
and rancher, has been named
a candidate for the Anchorage
Fur Rendezvous queen.
Miss Henley, who is em
ployed as an architectural
draftsman by the Civil Aero
nautics Administration, was
nominated by the Anchorage
Ski C'ub.
Benefit Ball
Tonight
The annual March of Dimes
Dance under the auspices of
the Business and Professional
Women’s Club will be held to
night from 9 pm to 2 am at
the Elk’s Club.
A baked food sale will be
held in conjunction with the
dance. Anyone wishing to
donate cakes or pies may
leave them at the club today,
after 3:30 pm.
Admission to the dance has
been set at $1.20 per person.
All receipts received from
the dance and bake sale go to
the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis
In addition to the money
raised from the dance the
BPW will receive other monies
ilroni Lilt; jars oiaceu in
various business establish
ments for receiving the con
tributions.
Marcia and Lloyd Heberlee
will play for the dance.
Tickets for the annual event
went on sale Wednesday.
ACCA Plans
Member Drive
The membership canjpa gn
of the Kodiak chapter of the
Alaska Crippled Children’s
Association will get under
way early in February.
Plans for it were made at
aa executive meeting Wednes
day evening at the home of
Mrs. John Springhill, presi
dent.
“A membership drive is
necessary at this time because
the recent polio epidemic in
Alaska depleted our polio
funds and there are many
other children who are in need
of orthopedic care who can
not receive it because of lack
of funds,” Mrs. Springhill
said.
The- forthcoming Yukon
River Ball and the Easter seal
sale were also discussed at
the meeting. Those attending
were Mrs. Henry Haag, Mrs.
Pat Lynch, Mrs. Reuben Te
sarik and Mrs. Dera Meyers.
A Navy PBY piloted by
Chief D. H. Champler flew to
Cold Bay Thursday to bring
six year old Clyde Mack to
Kodiak for treatment of a
broken wrist.
Earlier the Coast Guard
Cutter Clover took the boy
from his home at King Cove
to Cold Bay.
Bob Dawson, Jr., -Sidney
Hubley, Iver Malutin and
John Holland left Tuesday for
| Ft. Richardson to take pre
induction physical exams.
BULLETIN
Washington (^P) — The
government froze both prices
and wages as of midnight
Thursday for the highest level
between December 19, 1950
and January 25, 1951 it was
announced late yesterday.
Most foods are exempt be
cause they are below parity.
Beef, veal and lamb are above
parity. Egg prices were also
rozen.
I
Kodiak Project
Assured-Bartlett
| A recent story in the An
chorage News listed six A
laskan communities slated to.
receive a total of $1,922,250
: from the 1951 appropriation
I for Alaska Public Works.
Kodiak was not listed
To al’nv any fears that the
people of Kodiak might have
Delegate E. L. Bartlett sent
the following letter to Mayor
Lee C. Bettinger:
“You should not be alarmed
because Kodiak is not included.
I am told that the Juneau
office did not complete the re
port in time to include Kodiak
with the ones named in the
first press release. It will be
along soon.”
The mayor recently returned
from Washington where he
had gone to seek federa'
financical assistance for the
watei* and sewer project. He
had been assured that Kodiak
would be included in the next
appropriation.
The story carried by the
News was released by Secre
tary of the Interior Chapman
who said negotiations will be
completed soon for engineer
ing services for the projects.
John D. Argetsinger, dis
trict engineer for Alaska, has
written Mayor Bettinger that
the plans for the water and
sewer project have been
cleared by the Juneau office of
the Alaska Public Works and
have been forwarded to Wash
ington for approval.
To Give Inhalator j
An inhalator for use by the
Kodiak volunteer fire depart
ment has been purchased by
Cootie Pup Tent No, 7, Kodiak
Bear, of Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and will be presented to
the fire department this even-1
ing. j
The presentation will take
place at the VFW Club at 8
pm. The mayor, councilmen
and members of the fire de
partment have been invited
for the occasion.
Dorian Coogan is now work
ing in the typewriter repair
shop at the naval station.
Appraising
Land Here
The land in the east add*
tion, marked as the site for
the Kodiak housing project,
was under appraisal this week
! by W. F. Meek and Victor
Fisher of the Bureau of Land
Management, prior to trans
fering the land to the Alaska
Housing Authority.
Following the transfer to
j the AHA the land will be sold
to the contractor for the huild
ing of the houses.
“We are making an ap
praisal that will stand un
under the scrutiny of the
bureaus in Washington,”
Meek said. Meek added that
the appraisal was his primary
purpose in coming to Kodiak .
“1952 will be a big year for
Kodiak in regard to the open
ing up of more land for home
sites and settlement, ” Meek
declared. He explained that
his secondary purpose was to
examine land north of town
(area surrounding Potato
Patch lake on Mission road
and north of the Montmartre
Inn) in view of having it sur
veyed forhomesites.
Ray Lewis and associates,
contractor for the project,
plan to come to Kodiak this
week to discuss with city and
navy officials the rental scale
and other matters.
Board Suggests
Local Harbor
As part of the general drive
to strengthen the territory,
the Alaska Development
Board has recommended to
Delegate E. L. Bartlett that
he introduce into Congress a
special act to appropriate the
funds necessary to construct
during 1951 all the harbor
improvement projects in A
laska which have been ap
proved by the Corps of Engi
neers and authorized by Con
gress.
Involved in the move are
the Kodiak harbor project.,
authorized by Congress a",
long ago as 1940, and costing
$58,000, ten other small boat
harbor projects, a chanmej
dredging proposal, and a
river protection project.
“Only $3,979,000 would be
needed to build every single
one of the Alaska projects
awaiting money from Gan
gress,” George Sundborg, con
sultant to the board, wrote
Bartlett. Most of the project?,
have been authorized ever
since 1945 but no money h&<:
been forthcoming for their
construction.