Petition Circulates for Better Kodiak Mail Service Vessel
A community petition urges the Post Office Department and the Maritime Commission to provide a vessel of at least 2000 tons to improve mail service for Kodiak Alaska and other communities along the Alaska Peninsula. Signatures are being collected at local stores and offices including Krafts Knudsens City Market and Pacific Northern Airlines. The petition asks the Maritime Commission to assign the vessel to Berger Transportation Company to replace the Garland contract for Seward to Kodiak and westward routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
Maritime Commission
Kodiak Island
Alaska Peninsula
Kraft’s
Knudsen’s
City Market
Donnelley and Acheson
Bert’s
Insurance Department
Bank of Kodiak
Pacific Northern Airlines Office
B&b Bar
Post
Kodiak
Aleutian
Garland
U S C Men Arrive to Organize Kodiak USO Club
Two USO representatives arrive this week at Kodiak Naval Station to organize a local USO club. Elliot Hymans is named director and John A. Van Bis Jr. will draft interior plans for the former Kodiak Variety Store building. Stock and supplies are moved from the site. Hymans also plans a Junior Hostess Group to assist the USO. The Variety Store location remains undisclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USO
Kodiak Naval Station
Elliot Hymans
Kodiak Uso
John A. van Bis Jr
Hymans
Kodiak
Navy
Fire Siren Signals Map for Citizens and Report Number
The MIRROR publishes fire siren signals and the reporting number 2345. One long blast calls attention to a fire. follow with one to four short blasts to indicate location districts such as city docks Pillar Mountain Carlson Hill Mill Bay road North Brooklyn Avenue and Mission Tagura Road. Jail guards at the U S Federal Jail handle calls in cooperation with the city fire department. Walter O Hamilton USN and Noma A Scott of California were married recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mirror
City Dock
Shelikoff Hiway
Pillar Mountain
Carlson Hill
Mill Bay Road
Brooklyn Avenue
Mission
Tagura Road
U. S
Walter O. Hamilton
Usn
Noma A. Scott
California
Kodiak Water System and School Building Bid Window Opens
Alaska Public Works reports Kodiak to bid early 1952 for a 40 million gallon water reservoir filter plant and sewer lines with a $511,000 project cost and for an independent school district trade school building priced at about $465,000. Final plans are in preparation with Hubbell and Waller Engineering and Wm Arild Johnson and Associates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kodiak
Kodiak Independent School District
Alaska Public Works
Hubbell and Waller Engineering Corp
Seattle
Wm. Arild Johnson and
Alaska
Local Women Train as Red Cross Nurses Aides
Ten Kodiak women advance in Red Cross nurses aides program under Sister Mary Frances at Griffin Memorial Hospital. They complete 40 hours classwork and 40 hours supervised practice, earning caps and certificates in spring. group includes Lightfoot Jarvela Sutliff Given Haag Hansley Hoffman Keplinger Wilson Huer. Sutliff chairs committee.
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Red Cross
Mary Frances
Griffin Memorial Hospital
Margaret Lightfoot
Bonnie Jarvela
Hazel Sutliff
Alice Given
Dorothy Haag
Doris Hansley
Doris Hoffman
Jeannine Keplinger
June Wilson
Antjie Huer
Sutliff
The
Navy bids on Kodiak job come in overestimate
Bids for a Navy project at Kodiak Naval Station include joint bid by Johnson Drake and Piper with Puget Sound Bridge and Dredge at 5 248 000 dollars J A Jones Construction 6 175 000 Haddock McClure Gerrick and Swinerton 6 295 000 Rue Contracting Co 6 995 000 The Navy Department will study the offers in Washington and will select an award after review and government estimate not released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Navy
Kodiak Naval Station
Johnson, Drake and Piper
Puget Sound
J. A. Jones Construction Company
Haddock, McClure, Gerrick and
Swinerton
Rue Contracting Co
Navy Department
Washington, D. C
Also Mentioned on This Page
U.S.C
Alaska Steamship Company
ASC
F. A. Zeusler
Chamber of Commerce
Zeusler
C of C
Seward
Cof C
Prince William Sound
Coast Guard
F. A Zeusler
Falmouth
England
Kurt Carlsen
Kenneth Dancy
Turmoil
CP Oe
London
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