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Newspaper
Kodiak Mirror
Location
Kodiak, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1963
Page
1
A Chamber committee approved plans for a trial production of an outdoor theatre at Monoshka Bay in Kodiak. Organizer Brink says a natural setting plus local volunteers could support a 100 person production and a 500-seat site is being considered for tourists during Alaska’s Centennial era.
Earl Hillstrand plans a 750000 hotel in Kodiak with 60 rooms and a swimming pool. Mayor Pete Deveau said Hillstrand, owner of Land's End Motel in Homer, will appear before the city council to discuss tide lands leasing and the project timeline.
Skipper Don Surgan of the 45 ft SHAFTO delivered a load of Dungeness crab to Alaska Ice & Storage in Kodiak. His brother Bill is engineer aboard the vessel and crewman Bill Gray stands between them. The Suryan brothers, a West Coast fishing family, praise the local crab dubbed Ocean Crab, noting exceptional specimens. Don plans to move to Kodiak with his wife in January, delaying until after their fifth child is born.
A six member jury ruled Karluk fisherman Tim Shugak presumed dead after two witnesses testified he disappeared beneath Cape Shugak waters when his seine skiff swamped on July 23. Crewmates Charles Christensen and Joseph Hochmuth described the sinking and the unsuccessful search to recover his body.
Sol Urie of Seward, father of Sid and Martin Urie of Sollys Office, was named president of the Grand Igloo of the Pioneers of Alaska at the 47th annual Cordova convention held recently.
A meeting of local Democrats is scheduled for 8 p m Friday November 8 at Fishermen s Union Hall. Pete Deveau said delegates will be elected to attend the Southcentral Democratic Convention in Anchorage and urged all area Democrats from the Base Mission Road and City precincts to attend.
Kodiak was chosen as headquar ters of the Northern Alaska Region of the Industrial Workers of North America labor organization at the convention in Juneau last week. Frances Coles was appointed Regional Director pro tem and Lila Pepper Barron was the Kodiak delegate.
Kodiak High announces a gala carnival on November 8 at 6 30 p m with booths concessions games a Horror House bingo and a dance to 1 a m admission is one slim dime and includes a door prize chance First prize is a .300 Savage lever rifle second prize a transistor radio doors open 6 30 p m public invited and urged to save money and bring friends
The Kodiak Area Chamber of Commerce adopts a fisheries program after concerns raised by local fishermen regarding remarks by Lowell Wakefield. The report urges action to protect U S resources from foreign fleets, proposes a marine research station, a study group, and collaboration with federal agencies and universities to boost American harvesting and processing.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. in the Russian Church for Shirley P. Crawford, 39, found dead of natural causes in her Anchorage home. She is survived by her mother Margaret Heitman, five brothers and sisters, and five half siblings.
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