Cordova Cannery Fire Destroys Gear and Salmon Cans
A fire at Cordova Ocean dock destroyed gear from the Western Fisheries plant including the crab plant webr house and Filipino bunk house. Main cannery and warehouse survived. Estimated gear loss 50 to 60 thousand dollars. About 2,500 cases of one pound salmon cans also burned. The Hafferty cannery beside the plant was unharmed.
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Western Fisheries Company
Webr
Cordova
Hafferty
Western Fisheries Plant
Ocean Dock
Deposits Reach Air Time High at Bank of Kodiak
Bank of Kodiak shows escalating deposits from inception in 1940 to postwar highs. By June 1941 deposits reached 1,183,000 and by October that year 2,100,060.60. The bank crossed 3,000,000 in June 1914 and stood at 3,825,060.00 by January 1943 before dropping to 1,593,000 in September 1946 amid postwar recession.
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Kodiak
Bank of Kodiak
Woody Island to Get One Classroom School Building
A small school for children of government employees on Woody Island will be built this year. L. R. Durkee of the Housing and Home Finance Agency informed Mayor Lee C. Bettinger, who received bid notices for local contractors. Captain J. C. Tily of Kodiak Naval Station also received copies. Specifications call for a one classroom school building.
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Woody Island
L. R. Durkee
The
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Lee C. Bettinger
Bettinger
J. C. Tily
Kodiak Naval Station
Lundeberg UK Oversees Salmon Unloading Scheme
Frank McConaghy of Halferty Canneries arranged 75,000 cases of red and king salmon to be unloaded from the strike-bound Susitna freighter in Seattle. He flew to San Francisco to brief Sailor's Union chief Harry Lundeberg on moving the cargo amid a five week ship strike that halted all handling. McConaghy then returned to Kodiak.
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Frank McConaghy
Halferty Canneries, Inc
Alaska Steamship Co
Susitna
Seattle
McConaghy
San Francisco
Harry Lundeberg
Sailor’s Union of the Pacific
Lundeberg
Kodiak
Local building work advances on Kraft supermarket site
Lighting fixtures for Krafts new supermarket at Alaska Way and Brooklyn Avenue were installed this week. New refrigeration equipment arrived and plumbers installed rest room and heating fixtures. Jay Wolfs Kodiak Cleaners building on Alaska Way had windows installed. Both buildings are reinforced steel and concrete by Island Construction Co. of Ralph Shupp, Jay Tolbert and John Chase.
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Kraft
Alaska Way
Brooklyn Avenue
Jay Wolf
Kodiak Cleaner
Island Construction Co
Ralph Shupp
Jay Tolbert
John Chase
Fisherman Fined Fingers Lost at Cannery Hospitalized
Samuel Roberts of San Juan Fishing and Packing Co. was flown to Griffin Memorial Hospital by Bob Hall on Thursday after an accident at the cannery. He lost the tips of three fingers and is receiving hospital treatment.
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Samuel Roberts
San Juan
Miss Carolyn Acheson Joins D A Office This Summer
Miss Carolyn Acheson works in the D and A office this summer, continuing her duties in the local business office. The note highlights her placement and expected tasks during the season.
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Carolyn Acheson
D and A
Alaska Steam Breaks With PMA Strike Sparks Separate Talks
Alaska Steam has broken from the Pacific Maritime Association and seeks its own agreement with the Sailors Union of the Pacific. General manager D E Skinner says Coastwise Line is taking cargo, forcing the move. Talks with the union continue with planned follow ups while a prior six week strike rumor persists. Governor Gruening urged union leader Harry Lundeberg to separate the Alaska issue for possible settlement and criticized the lack of response to an earlier invitation.
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San Francisco
Alaska Steamship Company
Pacific Maritime Association
Striking Sailors Union of the Pacific
D. E. Skinner
Skinner
Sailor’s Union
Ernest Gruening
Harry Lundeberg
ASC
Lundeberg
Alaska
Missing Teen Agers Found On Island
Roy Sanford and Jack Frost, teen-agers from Kodiak Naval Station, were searched for by the Marshal's office and police after leaving the dock July 4 in a skiff. They stranded on Holliday Island, built a raft, reached Near Island, and were brought to town by a passing boat. Assessments will be mailed to property owners this week and the City Council will review assessments after August 1 with business forms due at City Hall by Aug. 1.
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Roy Sanford
Jack Frost
Kodiak Naval Station
Marshal’s Office
Holliday Island
Near Island
John Marshal
Board of Equalization
Eisenhower Wins GOP Nomination On First Ballot
Minnesota shifts its 19 votes to Eisenhower on the first ballot finishing the roll call. He tops 604 needed, clinching the Republican nomination as Alaska and Texas switches push the tally to a landslide. Taft Warren Stassen and MacArthur trail. Nixon’s page-continues.
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Chicago
Dwight Eisenhower
Minnesota
Ike
Texas
Weisenhower
MacArthur
Taft
Warren
B. Carroll Reece
Eisenhower
Stassen
Alaska
Gerritt
Heinie
Snider
Wasilla
GOP
Truman
Henry Lodge
Richard Nixon
Snider Votes With Taft Delegates At Alaska Test
Chicago reports three Alaska Republican delegates sided with Taft in the first factional test at the convention. Gerrit Heinie Snider of Wasilla, a territorial senator, is named as one Taft supporter. He previously presented Mrs. Eisenhower with furs valued at about $400, claims to have trapped them himself.
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Chicago
Alaska
Taft
Gerrit
Heinie’’ Snider
Wasilla
Territorial Senate
Eisenhower
Outside Fishermen Die In Storm
Three San Francisco fishermen died as Bristol Bay storms claimed nine boats and caused heavy gear losses. Eight more fishermen reported missing as 80 mph winds and near zero visibility overturned sail and power vessels during the height of the salmon run. Local Bristol Bay residents sheltered as Kodiak crews flew in. ten local fishermen were present when the storm struck.
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Bristol Bay
San Francisco
Bears Kill Cattle. Two Ranchers Lose Stock Near Pasag Shak
In the Pasag shak area, a bear killed two cattlemen’s livestock including a two year old heifer belonging to Bob High tower and a one year old owned by Joe Zentner. Zentner also lost a yearling in April. Zentner later killed a bear within 50 yards of the carcasses.
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Pasagshak
Bob Hightower
Joe Zentner
Zentner
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Cordova Cannery
Lundeberg U.K
PMA
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