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Juneau, Alaska
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yOL. 6 NO. 15
KODIAK, ALASKA JUNE 8, 1946
PRICE 10 CENTS
Pacific Fleet
Head Visits
Naval Operating Base, Kodiak
—Admiral J. H. Towers, USN,
commander-in-chief of the U. S.
Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean
area, accompanied by his staff,
arrived here Thursday afternoon
on an inspection tour of Alaskan
and Aleutian Naval bases.
The visitors were gieeted at
the plane by Rear Admiral F. A.
Daubin, commander of the 17th
Naval District; Captain P. H.
Fitzgerald, chief of staff; Cap
tain R. R. Lyons, commander,
Naval Air Bases, and heads oi
departments on the staffs of
the commander of the 17th Nav
al District and commander oi
Naval Air Bases.
After arrival honors with a full
Marine Guard Admiral Towers
and staff conducted an inspec
tion of the Naval Operating Base.
In the Admiral’s party were:
Vice Admiral A E. Montgomery,
commander, Air Forces, Pacific;
Commodore W. E. Kellum;
Capt. S. B. Kelley; Capt. P. D
Stroop; Capt. H. B. Jones; and
Capt. F. N MacDonald.
The inspection party departed
from Honolulu on June 4th on a
direct flight to Seattle aboard a
4 motored Navy Skymaster
which made the 2700-mile flight
in 13 and one half hours. The
flight direct to Kodiak irom Se
attle was made in 7 hours and 45
minutes.
The Admiral and his party
left Kodiak early yesterday to
visit bases of the western Aleu
tians, including Adak and Shem
ja, afier which they will return
W Kodiak. On Sunday the party
will visit Anchorage and then
leave Kodiak Monday on a non
•top flight to Pearl Harbor.
I
H. E. Dawson, local photo
grapher, returned on the Denali
from a visit to Seattle, and
brought with him his mother,
Mts. F. B. Dawson.
> BPW Dance
Next Friday
The first dance to be sponsored
by the Kodiak Business & Pro
fessional Women's club will be
given next Friday evening, June
W, at. Blinn’s hall. The dance
*ill start at nine and continue
until one am, with dancing to
fhe music of the five-piece Town
Club band. Fleets Christopher
" *oa and Justine Hinckel are in
charge of arrangements. Tickets
. W|H go on sale today by all mem
bers of the club and the public
« *8 cordially invited to attend.
^ for those unable to procure tick
*fs previously, there will be
j ticket sales at the door, said
j birs. Hinckel.
Handie-Talkie
Used For Bear
For the first time on Kodiak
island a handie-talkie portable
radio-communication system was
used to get the famed Kodiak
bear, by a hunting party consist
ing of George Petty, artist, B T
Meredith, magazine publisher,
and C P Hunter, manager of the
sporting goods department of
Marshall Field’s, Chicago.
The experiment was instigated
by Mr. Hunter, and the handie
talkie, a 4-lb. instrument with
dry batteries, with a range of 5
miles, was used successfully to
direct hunters on the hills to
ward the bears, and resulted in
both Mr. Petty and Mr. Mere
dith getting a bear, each one a
bout a 10 footer.
Charles Madsen, local guide,
said that the instrument would
be effective on spring hunts,
when the bears are on the hills,
as the hunters could be 9een
from the beach and directed as
to which way the bear they were
stalking was going. He has order
ed 4 for his own future hums
Speed Dieyer brought the
hunting party back Saturday,
and a PNA plane, that had
| brought in 15 Filipinos for Ka
diak Fisheries, was called back
| to pick up the group after the
! plane was only 20 minutes out
of Anchorage on its return trip.
Gloria Delane left on yester
day’s plane with her aunt, Mrs.
! Goldie Kvas, and will visit in
Seattle for the summer.
Board Hears
Director
Ken Wade, new director of the
Kodiak Community Center, ar
rived on the Crane with 2 of his
children, and Mrs. Wade arrived
on the Denali with the other 2
children, and were busy this
week getting settled in their
apartment in the center building.
On Thursday night the center
board met with Mr. Wade t®
discuss preparations for an open
house and for inauguration of
the center activities.
Mr. Wade said he conceived
of 4 obligations of the center: ,
]. Asa service to young peo- j
pie, 2. To the entire commun
ity. 3. For the men of the Ar
my and Navy. 4. And as an
attraction and service to new
people and visitors to the com
munity.
Most of the meeting was tak
en up with a detailed discuss on
of various policies to be carried
out, including hours of the cen
ter, addition of a junior member
to the boaid, and preparation of
the building for a formal openiug
to be announced later.
Milk Back
In Kodiak
Milk is officially back in Kod
iak!
Since March 19, when the E.
E. Bell dairy ceased milk deliv
eries to town because of the
placement of specific prices on
milk, the town has done without
milk, except that which cafes
and a few others went to the
dairy and got themselves
Deliveries were resumed offic
ially on Thursday, and is being
sold at the OPA specific whole
sale price of 30 cents a quart.
The action followed the arrival
here of Helen Van Tuyl, Econo
mist, of the OPA Juneau office,
and a conference held with Cap
tain R. R. Lyons, of the Naval
base, and Mr and Mrs. Bell
tVith the arrival of Miss Van
Tuyl it was learned that the
OPA had pieviously informed
the dairy that if they sold milk
to the Navy under the contract
that provided a 34 cent-a-quart
wholesale the dairy would be
subject to prosecution for viola
tion. It was not known loca ly at
first if the OPA could have juris
diction over a Navy contract
that provided a higher price
than that set in a specific price
regulation. The OPA does have
such control, Miss Van Tuyl
said, with recourse against the
milk supplier
Milk will be supplied to the
base at the ceiling prise. If the
price is a hardship Mr. Bell still j
has recourse to prove such to the
OPA in seeking an adjustment
in the ceiling price. The new
Navy contract will not name a
specific price, Miss Van Tuyl
said, but will provide that the
ceiling price be the one observed.
Yesterday Mr. Bell left by
plane for Juneau, to try to get
an adjustment in the price. He
said he was going to see Mrs
Hermann and the Governor and
that if he didn’t get it straight
ened out would "slaughter” his
cows.
Action on the milk situation
had bees awaited eagerly in Ko
diak. Reported to have been de
layed because of Mrs. Mildred
Hermann’s absence in Washing
ton, D. C., it transpired that j
Miss Van Tuyl arrived here by I
plane the same day Mr and |
Mrs. Bell returned by boat from j
a trip to the States, wliere they
purchased 23 more cows.
At the time the dairy was not
ified it would be subject to vio
lation action if it sold to the
Navy at 34 cents, the loeal OPA
board was not provided with the ^
information.
A full page ad carried in the
Mirror during the milk stoppage
asking "How Come?” to the
navy cent act action, that cans
Accident Fatal
To Soldier
Pfc. Leon H Tucker, 19, of
Clayton, Delaware, died on
Tuesday as the result of injuries
received in an auto wreck Sun
day night near the Army dock
at Kodiak.
The car, an Army reconnais
ance vehicle, driven by the
young soldier while on duty, ap
parently got out of control and
ran off the road and down a 40
ft. embankment. Tucker receiv
ed a compound skull fracture.He
was taken to the Naval dispen
sary.
Another soldier. Pfc. Eldon
Horton was slightly injured in
the accident.
Burial of the deceased with
military honors is to take pisC£
at 10 am today with a Navj
Chaplain conduclingthe service!
with a combined Army-Marint
I escort.
Pfc. Tucker is survived by hif
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvej
Tucker, Basset street, Clayton
Delaware.
Ultimatum
Is Issued
At another fish price negotia
tion meeting held last night an
ultimatum was issued by fisher
man representatives that if the
salmon industry does not pre
sent “a constructive offer” by 7
pm tonight (Saturday), there
will be no fish put in cans on
Kodiak island this year.
Steele Culbertson representa
tive of Alaska Canned Salmon
Industry, Inc., returned to Kod
iak by plane yesterday from An
chorage after a week’s absence,
and requested the meeting.
. He had left last Friday aftei
the union had offered to submit
to their members a price sched
ule of 50 (reds & silvers)—2C
(chums) and 12 (pinks) if the
canners would agree to the
prices, which, however, were not
acceptable.
Last nights’s meeting lasted
only 15 minutes when Mr. Cul
bertson reported he had no pro
posal to make and told the union
that their pievious offer was so
far out of Hdc that the canners
could not consider it. The fisher
men stood by their last offer and
after issuance of the ultimatum
the meeting was over.
ed much discussion here reached
wide circulation
Miss Van Tuyl, who has been
with Alaska OPA only a month,
said when asked, that she had
seen i»; in fact, that, a copy of it
was in the data file which >h.i
had with her
KEA Plans
Data Survey
A survey to determine the fu
ture power needs of Kodiak is to
be taken foi the Kodiak Electric
Association, and a questionnaire
will be mailed with monthly bills
that are to go out today.
Accompanying the question
naire will be an explanatory let
ter by Charles Nettle, president
of the KEA board, outlining the
purpose of the survey, which is
to determine future electrical
needs and will affect the eco
nomics of the whole cooperative.
A list of household electrical
appliances appears on the ques
tionnaire, and users are asked to
indicate:
1. What appliances are being
used now.
2. What appliances do you
plan to add when available.
3. What additional ones
would you buy if rates were re
duced?
The need for this information
is urgent, and users are request
ed to check off the items and en
close with payment, or leave at
the bank.
The survey was prepared after
a conference of Herbert Q. Bry
an, senior engineer and Elton L.
Bennett, auditor, of the REA.
The survey will be used as a bas
is to see what added equipment
is needed at the plant, and as a
basis forstudy of rate reductions,
if possible.
The information furnished will
be for the board’s use only, and
is not a commitment to purchase
I anything. *
School Problem
Stirs Council
Presentation of the school
budget for 1946-47 provoked a
heated discussion at the council
meeting Monday, resulted in a
refusal to approve $6000 includ
ed to allow for needed additions
for more student space, and caus
ed the council to take a strong
1 stand on the matter of restricted
deeds, which allow many parents
to not pay taxes, yet have their
children enjoy the benefits of the
of tbe school.
With the school expecting an
increase in enrollment n< xt year
and with the roomsalieady over
i flowing into 2 quonset huts set
(contimnd on page 9)
Flag Day Ceremony
Planned At Center
! For Flag Day, which is next
Friday, June 14, a ceremony will
j l>e conducted at the Kodiak
Community Center, in which the
local post of the Aineiiean Le
gion will present, a Hag to the
(Center for its use