"New* of oAmericas Last Frontier’
PRICE 10.Ct.MS
V( 11 NO 9
KODIAK, ALASKA
APRIL 28, 1951
Baby Show
Tomorrow
Children, one, two, and
three years old will be on their
best behavior and will be
Peeked out in their best bib
and tucker as the Third An
anal Baby Show opens at the
Gfrpheum Theatre at 1 pm.,
tomorrow.
Children in the three age
groups may enter the show
provided their parents pur
chase a $1.00 entry blank and
fltitout.
Each young contestant will
meeive a bag of candy from
the women of the Veterans
«i Foreign Wars Auxiliary,
mfem with the VFW, are
sponsoring the show.
Prizes have been offered by
many business houses and
other prizes are being col
lected, Mrs. Robert King,
publicity chairman, said
yesterday.
Entry blanks may be ob
tained at Bert’s Drug Store
and at Foster’s Store in the
Mission Road district. Mem
bers of the Auxiliary also have
Me entry blanks.
As in Dast years a repre
rentative of each of the three
military branches of service
represented on Kodiak Island
will be judges.
Mrs. Willard Hall is chair
man of the show.
Boat Harbor Report
Sought By Cot C
Do you have it? That is the
question the Chamber of Com
merce is asking anyone who
mar had access to the files on
m small boat harbor for Kod
Ut.
What the C of C is looking
far is a report, on the $200, OOC
damage done to small boats
koe over the past 10 years be
came of the lack of a small
hwt harbor.
This week Merrill Coon re
Miiirrt a letter from the Dis
tort Officer, United States
Carps of Engineers, request
er a copy of the report. The
dfeer explained that his office
sms unable to find a copy
mhwh he understood was on
fit:
Coon requests anyone know
mg, or thinking they know,
where the report is at this
moment to please call him.
Jaki Fo'ev. chairman of the
Cham >er of Commerce com
mittee for the clean-up drive,
reported to Merrill Coon presi
dent of the C of C, that the
total money expended foi
labor and trucks amounted tc
$270.
I Easier Services
jAt Russian Church
Easter Services at the Greek
Russian Orthodox Church will
be resumed today at 4 pm.
The pre-Easter observances
began yescerday at 2 pm and
were again held at 6 am this
morning. Tonight the Easter
Service will begin at 11:30 pm.
The public is invited to attend
the services.
Father Alexander Popoff,
priest at the church, is con
ducting the services.
Tomorrow the religious de
votions will begin at 4 pm and
the final service will be held
Monday at 9 am.
Russian Easter follows the
traditional Easter by one
month this year.
Elk Season
Out This Year
There will be no special elk
shoot on Afognak Island this
year because of a limited sur
plus of males, the local game
commission office, revealed
this week.
New Fish and Game regula
; tions will be released to the
public shortly.
I Big game hunters will get a
crack at Alaska’s mountain
sheep this year and the new
1951 hunting regulations will
allow an unlimited number of
sheep permits to be issued.
| Hunting of bison in the Big
1 Delta area will%be repeated
this year with 25 permits is
sued by public drawing.
Final Action End a
Firestep Exorclao
i Headquarters, Alaska, Com
mand— The manuevers are
over. Alaska’s exercise
“Firestep” was officially ter
minated this week.
In a final action that elimin
ated the “aggressor” from
the territory, a motorized
“enemy” force moved toward
the Army post at Big Delta.
Air strikes finally brought
about the surrender of the last
remaining “aggressor” forces
and ended the 24 day test of
Alaska’s air and ground
forces.
| Kodiak—Early in the exer
cise the Naval Station was
successfully defended against
:the “aggressor” forces. Capt.
| L. J. Dow. commandant Ko
Uliak Naval Station, com
j manded the defending forces
"here.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kave, of
Kodiak Naval Station, plan to
leave on the Funston for a
„ vacation in the states.
Allies Forced
To Withdraw
By the Associated Press
Allied forces withdrew
southward on both ends of the
i blazing hundred mile Korean
front. The fall of Seoul ap
peared imminent. In the event
i the allies retreat from Seoul it
| will mark the fifth time the
city has changed hands.
Great masses of Chinese j
Communists swarmed down
the rainswept approaches toj
the battered capital. Fighting ;
delaying actions, United Na-1
tions troops began falling back
through Uijongbu, communi
cations hub 11 miles north of
Seoul. Yangu, on the central j
front, has been abandoned by j
the Allies. !
Latest reports said the Allies
still maintained contact and a
toehold in Red Korea in the
extreme east of the line, but
nowhere else on active fight
ing fronts.
Defense Bill
Considered
Washington (A>)—The Sen-j
ate Armed Services sub-com-j
mittee said that G7% of A-j
laska’s population lives in
critical target areas and the
Territory should be exempted i
from providing its own civil
defense.
Testimony was given in
support of legislation that
would exempt Alaska from |
contributing to civil defense.
in the same degree that states
must.
Governor Omening, Dele- j
gate Bartlett and civil de-,
fense officials all joined in
urging prompt action by the
committee.
“We can’t afford to wait.
The need may arise at any
time,” Bartlett declared. He
disclosed that plans, call for
spending nearly a Billion in
military construction in the
territory in the coming year.
He further revealed that in
the coming year it was con
templated building large
underground shelters de
signed to accomodate 22,000
persons and in an emergency
they could do duty as hos
pitals.
Tony’s Liquor Store will
j move from the corner on j
[Brooklyn avenue into a sec-1
tion of Tony’s Bar. A separate
unit is being built near the
lunch counter for the package
goods. It will be partitioned
off and an entrance made to j
,the building from the Alaska
; Way side.
Residents May Obtain
TB Vaccinations
William Sargent
Buried Here
l
Funeral services for William
Sargent, 41, well-known local
fisherman, were held Thursday
at the Greek-Russian Orthodox
Church at 2 pm.
He died April 13, at the Vet
erans Hospital in Portland. His
body was brought to Kodiak
by plane and was accompanied
by his sister, Mrs. Howard
Schmitt of Portland.
His body was taken to the
home of his mother, Mrs. Fred
Sargent, on arrival here Wed
nesday night.
William Fredrick Sargent [
was born in Kodiak on Jan. 14,!
1910. He was a life long resid-1
ent of Kodiak, with the excep-]
tion of several years in thej
Airforce during World War II.!
He was skipper of the Sea
Bird, fishing boat, last season
and worked for Whiz-Halferty.
Surviving, besides his sister, •
Mrs. Schmitt, and his mother,
Mrs. Sargent, are his wife,
Mrs. Alice Sargent of Kodiak,
five brothers, Edward, Alvin,
Walter, Neil and Ted. Other
sisters are Mrs. James Cleg
horn, Mrs. Corinne Petrich,
Mrs. H. W. Case and Mrs. N. I
B. Case. J
Burial was in the old ceme- ]
tery on Mill Bay road.
Red Cross Nears
Fund Goal
The local fund raising cam- i
paign by the American Red
Cross is near its quota for this
rear, L. K. Wodlinger, chair
man of the local chapter, said
yesterday.
“We have had splendid con-'
;ributions from Kodiak Naval
Station and from the people in
Kodiak,” Wodlinger declared.
He added that the drive j
would terminate Monday and
.hat any late contributions
would he appreciated. Persons j
wishing to contribute may.
eave their donations at Bert’s,
Drug Store. j
Washington (-F)— Labor’
Department surveys show
that living costs in the major
Alaskan cities are almost half
again as high as in Seattle. It
showed prices for food sor
v ces. including rent, which is
40% higher in Anchorage aid
17% higher in Fairbanks than
in Seattle for February.
Kodiak figures are not yet
a jailabl .
All residents of the Kodiak
area may soon receive BO'
vaccinations against tuber
culosis as soon as a supply is
available, Mary Jane Hurley,
Public Health Nurse, an
nounced yesterday.
She explained that BCG,
which is named after two
French scientists, was dis
covered in 1906 and has pro
ven to give persons resistance
against tuberculosis.
A study beginning in 193& .
by Dr. Joseph Aronson of the
Office of Indian Affairs shows
that BCG vaccinations re
duced tuberculosis deaths to
one-seventh and the number
of tuberculosis cases to one
fifth. The study was made
among 3,000 cases in the U. B.
and Alaska.
Although the period of pro
tection by BCG is still un
known. Department of. Health
officials say that partial pro
tection may last as long as
five years, Miss Hurley said.
Since its first use in 192*
over 40 million persons
throughout the world have re
ceived BCG vaccinations. The
Alaska Department of Health
began using BCG as one phase
of its tuberculosis control pro
gram in the fall of 1948.
Since then over 9,000 person?*
have received the vaccina
tions.
me nrst step in tne pro
cedure is the giving of a
tuberculin test which shows
whether the individual has
ever been infected with tuber
culosis. If the reaction is
negative the person is vacci
nated with BCG, Mi66 Hurley
explained.
Dr. Wendell Matthews,
Mrs. Hudson, R. N., and Mi**
Cole, R. N., of the Alaska De
partment of Health, are ex
pected to arrive in Kadiak- aa
May 6 to give tuberculin tests
md BCG vaccinations.
taLande Selected
Elks Dletrlct Deputy
Max LaLande, trustee of
Kodiak B.P.O.E. Lodge 1772;
was selected by the Alaskan
rerritorial jfilks Association
for appointment as District
Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler
it Alaska West for the coming
year.
LaLande was proposed for
ffice during the Elks Conven
tion last week. Final approval
rests with the Grand Exalted
Ruler of B.P.O.E.
Martin Lamprecht is now
employed at Knudsen’s.