Jury Awards Defendant In Boat Damage Trial
A Kodiak District Court jury of twelve awarded Emmet Jennings a defense verdict after he faced a $1500 claim for damage to the boat Helen W in an explosion incident. Evidence showed loaning of the boat and possible future purchase, with Fitzgerald expending over $2000 to ready it for salvage work.
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Emmet Jennings
Helen
Fitzgerald
Danger Bay
Kodiak
Russell E. Arnett
Anchorage
Walter French
French
Jennings
Frenchy
Zora Wilson
George Panamaroff
Isabel Pinnell
Stanley Alvine
Sadie Rhoades
Clarence King
Ray Wood
Doug Lohse
Helen Beakers
Pete Ramaglia
J. W. Ware
Dorothy Clark
J. L. McCarrey, Jr
Jimmie Drew Lockhart
Thurston T. Jackson
Nellie Naomi Griffin
Thomas E. Griffin
Mary Norris Shirley
James E Shirley
Jon F. Beverage
Pauline Annette Beverage
Teddy Malone
Theodore Malone
Old Harbor Pair in Boat Tragedy
From Old Harbor two youths Ella Agnet and Bill Hansen died when their skiff struck a rock near Amy Bay while berry picking and returning home. Ella leaves three children and a forthcoming fourth. Bill Hansen is survived by his father Durbin Hansen, a former Norway ski jumper, plus siblings. Air Department from Kodiak Naval Station assisted searches before bodies were recovered.
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Old Harbor
Ella Agnet
Bill Hansen
Port Hebron
Amy Bay
Agnet
Durbin Hansen
Norway
Providence Hospital
Anchorage
Hansen
Bill
Alfred
Ketchikan
Air Department
Kodiak Naval Station
Delegates Elected To Demo Conclave In Alaska
A three precinct Democratic caucus Oct 18 at the Elks Club elected 17 delegates for the Third Division Democratic Convention in Anchorage Oct 28 and 29. Kodiak precinct delegates included Buck Holyman Louis Thomas John Malutin Henry Hague and others while Mission Road and Naval Base also named representatives. The Kodiak Island Democratic Club meeting followed with Flora Spiegel resigning as Secretary and Anna Mae Vokacek elected Treasurer Rosemary O'Reilly named Secretary. Next meeting set for Nov 15 at the Elks Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elks Club
Anchorage
Bud Metzgar
Kodiak
Buck Holyman
Louis Thomas
John Malutin
Henry Hague
Anna Mae Vokecek
Jay Tolbert
Claudia Kilgore
Christine Tolbert
Marian Fitzgerald
Herbert Speigel
John Gibbons
Harold Stover
Ed Parker
Tiny Choski
Jim O'Reilly
Mission Road
Naval Base
John Waller
Jules Radinsky
Kodiak Island Area
Democratic Club
Jim Loan
Flora Spiegel
Anna Mae Vokacek
Rosemary O'Reilly
Retired Army Officers Roster Being Prepared
Retired Army officers in the Territory are invited by Major General James F. Collins to submit their names for a forthcoming quarterly roster. Send name rank service number and home address to the Adjutant General Headquarters United States Army Alaska Fort Richardson Alaska at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F. Collins
United States Army
Alaska
Adjutant General
Headquarters
Fort Richardson
Unique Citizenship Ceremony At Elks Club Lacks Candidates
A district court naturalization ceremony at the Elks Club featured the Naval Station commander James Grant and speakers praising American civic rights. With no new candidates present due to late notification, the program proceeded, highlighted by Navy Band performances and remarks on voting rights and jury equity.
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Elks Club
Elks Lodge
VFW
American Legion
National Guard
James Grant
Naval Station
United States
Nancy Templeton
McCarrey
America
Alaska
John Gibbons
Navy Band
Paul Jeyne
Kodiak School Superintendent Attends Anchorage Meetings
Schott of Conference Ivar Schott, Kodiak Superintendent, returned from Anchorage where he joined Territorial School Administrators meetings and the pre White House Conference on Education held there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivar Schott
Kodiak
Anchorage
Schott
Busy Kodiak District Court Judge Faces Heavy Docket
Judge J L McCarrey, presiding since 1953, reports a crowded calendar across civil and criminal cases. From Oct 1953 to Aug 31 1955 court sessions reached 427 days, with hundreds of pleas, trials, judgments, and naturalizations processed amid rising filings and closures.
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District Court of
J. L. McCarrey
Kodiak
Annexation by Election Faces City Boundary Move
Judge McCarrey ruled in favor of a petition to annex the area north of current city limits. The move, supported by residents on Mission Road to the U S Commissioners office, may await a January election after city counsel prepares the order. Eldon Foster opposed, citing local improvements.
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McCarrey
H. F. MacDonald
Russ Arnett
MacDonald
Kodiak
Eldon Foster
Mission Road
U. S. Commissioers Office
Decision Rendered In Cache Lifting
Jack Lee of Kodiak won a judgement against A J Cichoski of Kodiak for removing Lee’s provisions and prospecting supplies from a cache at Wide Bay in summer 1953. Cichoski admitted taking the supplies aboard his boat. Lee receives 278.89 plus costs. Cichoski plans to appeal.
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Jack Lee
Kodiak
A. J. Cichoski
Wide Bay
Cichoski
Lee
Choski
Cessnas Planned Yearlong Europe Trip From New York
Dennis and Earl Cessna set out on a lengthy journey to Germany and the European continent sailing from New York in a few weeks. They will spend several weeks in Germany visiting relatives, pause in Seattle for medical attention, and plan to return to Kodiak about a year later.
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Dennis
Earl Cessna
Germany
European
New York
Europe
Seattle
Kodiak
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U. S
George Alexander
Mike B. Williams
Isabell Vergene Preston
Jennings-Fitzgerald
Elks Hall
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