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WL18 NO. 30_ KODIAK, ALASKA, AUGUST 1, 1959_ /- ~_PRI6E » CPTO
Capt Lincoln, Jr.
law In Command
Offering congratulations to the
men who served under him, and
to the civilian workers on the
Naval Station, who, he said, did
M “excellent job” during his tour
•i duty here, Capt. R. B. Jacoby,
read his orders for a change of
duty and transferred his command
to his successor, Capt. N. R. Lin
coln, in a ceremony held at the
Naval Station Monday afternoon.
“Despite the cutbacks of both
military and civilian personnel,”
Capt. Jacoby stated, “we have
been able to maintain the neces
sary services in the manner expect
ed of us.”
Jacoby paid tribute to the offi
cers in the various commands, and
to Adm. Arnold McKechnie, for
assistance in meeting the problems
le has had to face. He said he and
Ms wife have thoroughly enjoyed
toeir stay here. Capt. *nd Mrs.
Jacoby left for New OrL 'os Tues
day morning.
Capt N. R. Lincoln, Jr., USN.
followed with reading his orders
and then gave a short speech in
which he stated he had visited the
coin was assigned as operations of
ficer of Commander, Carrier Divi
sion 3, and subsequently served as
commanding r officer of Utility
Squadron 7, attended the Armed
Forces Staff College and was as
signed to the office of the Chief of
Naval Operations. He also served
aboard the Carrier Essex as Ope
rations Officer. He comes to Ko
diak from duty on the staff, Chief
Naval Air Technical Training,
Memphis, Tenn.
His wife, the former Dorothy
Ann Smith, of Traverse City, Mich
igan, and three children, Mary 13,
Jay 11, and Susan 9, accompanied
him to Kodiak.
Capt. Lincoln is authorized to
wear the American Defense, Amer
ican Theater, Asiatic-Pacific with
three stars, WWII Victory Medal,
Navy Occupation, China Service
and National Defense Medals.
Fishermen Appear
For Violations
Figures are not available before
going to press as to the number,
but many fishermen have beetn ar
raigned before the U. S. Commis
sioner on violations of fishing
regulations.
am
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various commands on the station
and “liked what I saw.” He and his
vrife and three children are look
ing forward to a pleasant duty
here. /
Capt. Lincoln, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Nathan R. Lincoln, of Trav
erse City, Michigan, enlisted in
the Navy as an apprentice seaman,
May, 1934, and upon completion
of recruit training, served aboard
the U<SS Wyoming for two years.
Me received an appointment to the
Naval Academy in June, 1936.
Graduating in 1940, he was as
signed to the carrier USS Sara
toga and saw action aboard that
ship against the Japanese in the
Pacific until his transfer to flight
school at Pensacola, Florida. Upon
completing flight training he was
assigned to Patrol Squadron 212
and served as executive officer
and later as commanding officer
of that squadron, which served in
hoth the Atlantic and Pacific thea
ters of war.
After World War II, Capt. Lin
NEW DIRECTOR ofr MINES
JUNEAU (AP) — Former Ter
ritorial mining engineer, James
A. Williams, Juneau, has been
named the director of the mines,
Mineral division of the State de
partment of Natural Resources. «
Chamber Seeks To
Accomplish Goals
"To Survey and Project” is the
motto adopted by members of the
Board of Directors of the Cham
ber of Commerce, at a meeting of
that group held Thursday morn
ing, according to Chamber presi
dent, Dr. Bob Johnson.
The object of the group is to
accompiisn a survey into tne needs
of the community, and project into
st to meet these
needs. Each committee in the or
ganization will hold meetings, and
act as study groups with these
objects in mind.
The Industrial Committee of the
Chamber will hold a meeting in
the near future, and will give a
preliminary report at the next
meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce Thursday.
Bill Poland, C of C representa
tive at the meeting in Juneau on
roads, will also report at that meet
ing, according to Dr. Johnson.
Newsmen On Tour
To Visit Kodiak
A group of about 24 newspaper
men are slated to arrive in Kodiak,
Monday, August 10, for an over
night stay.
The group is from the National
Editorial Association, and will be
on tour of Alaskan cities and vil
lages. Prior to coming here they
wil have visited Juneau, Fair
banks. Nome, Anchorage, and sev
eral other towns.
Mayor Coon and a group of Ka
diak businessmen are collaborat
ing with Rear Adm. Arnold-Aic
Kechnie and Navy officials in ar
ranging a program for them dur
ing their stay here.
The group, 'mainly editors of
weeklies and some dailies through
out the U.S., are on a study mis
sion of Alaska. From here they
wjil go to Seattle, and will visit
Hawaii before returning home.
Carpenters Pulled Off Of School Job
Work has again come to a stand
still on the six room addition to
the elementary school. Carpenters
were pulled off the job Friday,
following a letter from^the head
of the Carpenter’s Union in An
chorage.
Work has been going on since
July 5 at the site, and carpenters
have worked from time to time
since, but due to failure of an
agreement on the proposed de
mands of the carpenters in their
Marine Corps VIP
To Visit Kodiak
Gen. Randolph McC. Pate, U. S.
Marine corps commandant, will be
in Kodiak, Monday, August 4. He
began a tour of Alaskan military
installations Friday, with his ar
rival in Anchorage.
Full military honors will be ex
tended him here on his arrival.
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New School Bill
Loss To Alaska
WASHINGTON (AP)—Alaska’s
Commissioner of Education testi
fied Wednesday against a bill he
said would cut Federal aid to Al
isga schools by close to one mil
strike with the Associated Con
tractors on the mainland, the loc*
work has been halted.
The Inlet Company* an Anchor
age firm, is the contractor for th
school job.
Group Endorses
Hike In Gas Tax
JUNEAU (AP)—A State gaso
line tax of at least 7 cents a gal
lon, 2 cent boost over the present
levy, has been endorsed by the
first annual Alaska Road Confer
ence.
The conference, with 19 Alas
ka cities and Chambers of Com
merce participating, also adopted a
report saying “It appears reason
ably certain a general obligation
State bond issue to be necessary”
to finance various public works
projects, including new highways.
A conference finance committee
report said the State will need
aboujpt $3,400,000 per annum more
between July 1, 1960, and June 30,
1963, than is available for road
purposes if it is to take advantage
of Federal aid funds, for road con
struction and build needed farm
and access roads.
Bill Poland, City Manager of
Kodiak, attended the conference.
New Flag Raised Over Will Rogers-Wiley Post Memorial
A 49 star flag was raised Thurs
day over the Will Itogers-Wiley
Post memorial at Point Barrow,
Alaska, the northernmost commu
nity in the United States.
Under directions from Rear Ad
niral A. W. McKechnie, USN, Com
mander Alaskan Sea Frontier and
Commandant 17th Naval District,
Commander Price Lewis, Jr., USN,
of Tuca, N.Y., captain of the Navy
icebreaker USS STATEN ISLAND,
placed the new flag over the site
where Will Rogers and Wiley Post
were killed when their single en
gine plane crashed nearly 24 years
‘go on August 16, 1935.
Two aircraft of Helicopter Utilv
ty Squadron ONE from Imperial
Beach, Calif., piloted by Lieuten
ant (j.g.) D. T. Danielson, USN, of
Billings, Mont., and Lieutenant
(j.g.) W. E. Seigle, USN, of Argen
tine, Mich., carried Commander
Lewis, R. V. Kendal, photograph
er’s mate first class, USN, of Or
lando, Fla., and R. M. Watta, avia
tion metalsmith third class, USN,
of Chicago, 111., from the ship to
the bleak Arctic site.
Two monunients and a flagpole
make up the austere memorial.
The first was built a few years
after the accident by the Masons
of Claremore, Okla., Rogers’ birth
place. The second was completed
in 1954 by Jessie Stuhs, a child
hood friend of Rogers, who also
erected the‘flagpole.
The icebreaker, STATEN IS
LAND, is in the Barrow area en
gaged in the resupply of military
establishments along the Alaskan
Arctic coast, and conducting ocean
ographic surveys in the Beufort
Sea area.
The STATEN ISLAND is the
first Navy ship to each this area
since Alaska became a state.
Last year, crewmen from the
Navy icebreaker USS BURTON
ISLAND placed the last 48-star
flag on the Rogers-Po6t memorial.
Along The
Waterfront
Shrimp boats which formerly
operated here are now fishing out ■
of Seward where it is supposed
they have a more satisfactory deal
with the operators.
£
Crab fishermen here are not idle
but are fishing salmon untfl Aug
ust 13. Negotiations with canner
ies will b£gin, on that date, ac
cording to “Bumps” Poland, Sec
retary of the fishermen's union
here.
• &
The SUZIE Q and the ELDORA
DO have both delivered crab dur
ing July and are presently fishing
fOr~Wakefield Fisheries. They de
liver crab to the DEEP SEA, a
Wakefield floating cannery, an
chored off Woody Island, which
is going full blast.
“The seagulls are not squawk
ing,” according to Bumps.
w
The winter season is looking
brighter than ever before, accord
ing to him. There will be at least
four operations around the fsland
plus the Port Wakefield shore sta
tion and the DEEP SEA and
REEFER KING as floaters.
All have indicated an interest
in building a bona fide Alaska
fleet of fishermen.
t i
The COASTAL RAMBLER ar
rived in port Wednesday morning
and departed Tuesday after load
ing 15,025 cases of salmon from the
local canneries. The ship is making
stops at canneries around tfce Is
land, loading salmon.
The Alaska Steamship m/v TA
TALINE is due in August 12, on a
regular call, according to Lou
Veerman, agent here for the com
pany.
The salmon picture is by no
means bright this week, with the
two local canneries operating but
by no means at capacity.
£
King Crab, Inc. put in one shift
with a full crew this week. Other
than that the fish have been^com
ing in iiv small quantities.
Cris Poulson left this week for
Anchorage.
_ £
aiferfys have been
some each day, but unless there
is a show of fish soon, the winter
looks bleak.
John Borseth, general manager
for Parks passed though town this
week, as did Ralph Hendrickson.
£
Further information on the for
eign fishing boats operation, as
revealed by the Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries of the FWS, in
dicate both the efforts of Japan
and Russia are big, efficient and
modern. The Russian ships arc all
equipped with radar. Although the
Soviet equipment is more upto
dte and modern, the Red $eet
does not appear to be doing as
good a job of fishing.
A Russian priest on St. Paul Is
land in the Pribilofs, near which
the Soviet fishing fleet passed,
reported after listening to radio
messages between the Russian ves
sels that there appears to be a
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