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Clothing Drive
Launched By VFW
A pre-school clothes drive was
launched this week by the Veter
ans of Foreign Wars Katmai Post
7056, is was announced by W. P.
Cogiey, who is in charge of the
drive.
Anyone wishing to donate cloth
ing to the drive is asked to con- *
tact Cogley at phone 271 during
working: hours, or call him at 4094
evenings and weekends. Pickups
can be arranged at any time.
Texans Visit
Fields Family
A resident of Brownwood, Texas.
Mrs. S. G. Lefner, arrived in town
Jdly 28 to spenid three weeks with
the De Witt Fields family. Mrs.
Lefner is Mrs. Fields' mother. (
Yesterday, Mrs. Fields brother,
Dwight Lefner, and his family ar
rived to visit the Fields’ for the
text ten days.
Fletcher Family
Arrive Home Tues.
Mrs. Ina Fletcher, wife of Or
pheum Theatre manager John
Fletcher, and sons Rusty and Ray
mond returned to Kodiak Tuesday
morning after a two-month ab
sence.
They spent part of the time in
tCalifornia, and a few weeks in
Seward at the home of son Skip
ind his family. While in Seward,
Mrs. Fletcher managed the thea
tre while Skip and his wife, Marie,
and their son vacationed.
Present Awards
To Cub Scouts
lit an outdoor ceremony,-awards
were presented to four cub coats
whose parents were present it the
•cub scout picnic held at Cllfi Pomt
•Sunday afternoon.
Bear awards were given to Rich
ard Byrd and James Beukers. Pat
Poland was presented the Wolf
Award, while the Wolf Gold Ar
row went to Billie Bacus.
An estimated fifty persons, in
cluding several guests from out
of,town, were present at the pic
nic, which offered games and egg
larowing Contests ana races. Prizes
of books and plastic models were
given to the winners.
Plano Added
By Kodiak Airways
Kodiak Airways owner Bob Hall
vent to Anchorage Thursday morn
ing to take delivery on a Gruman
Goose.
Hall flew the new addition to
the Airways fleet of planes to
Kodiak Thursday afternoon.
Families Invited
To Island Camp
Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
August 14, 15 and 16, there will
be a family camp at the Communi
ty Baptist Church Woody Island
Camp. All families are invited.
The Baptist Missionary Boat, the
Evangel, will be available on the
above days to transport families
to and from Woody Island. Anyone
interested is asked to call Miss
Marlin at 2572 to make arrange
ments.
A charge of 50 cents will be
made for registration and 50 cents
for each meal at camp for each
member of the family over 6 years
of age. All people interested are
asked to be sure and register be
fore hand so that meals and activi
ties can be planned.
Junior High campers returned
to Kodiak on Monday. Senior camp
ers with their teachers, counsel
ors and cooks, about 50 in all,
started camp on Thursday after
noon.
Doctor Visits Hall Family
Dr. J. S. Lingenfelter, physician
and surgeon from Seattle, spent
a few days visiting the Boh Hall
family this week.
ANNUAL VOYAGE
Seward to Ketchikan
(via the Inside Passage)
ON SEPTEMBER 17TH, THE ALEUTIAN MAILBOAT EXPAN
SION WILL DEPART FROM SEWARD, ALASKA ON A THREE
DAY VOYAGE TO KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, VIA THE INLAND
PASSAGE. THIS IS AN ANNUAL TRIP FOR THE PURPOSE
OF ENTERING THE DRYDOCK IN KETCHIKAN. THE VES
SEL WILL REMAIN IN KETCHIKAN FOR APPROXIMATELY
ONE WEEK BEFORE RETURNING TO SEWARD.
COST OF THE TRIP IS $100.00 EACH WAY. ACCOMMODA
TIONS FOR SIXTEEN PASSENGERS.
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Captain N. P. Thomsen, USCG (ret.),
Aleutian Marine Transport Co., Inc.
P.O. Box 537, Seward, Alaska
or Phone Castle 4-5474 Seward
Here, There and Everywhere
By SIG DIGREE
Love-Making Ends In Tragedy
Some high-voltage love-making
went on the other day, and of all
places, atop a power pole and
power line. •
The billing and cooing ended
in tragedy, however, without bene
fit of caterwauling on the part of
the participants. There was no evi
dence of an “eternal triangle’ trag
edy for there was no third party.
It resembled more of a suicide
pact, in that it brought instant
death to the love-sick two-some.
Not to keep you in suspense any
longer, we will relate the events
as they were given us by KEA Man
ager Ole Johnson, from facts given
him by an eyewitness. Two sea
gulls, one sitting atop a pole and
the other on the attached 12,000
voltage line, in the Aleutian Homes
area, were exchanging tidbits
from the garbage dump, endear
meants, or whatever it is that sea
gulls do to show affection, which
brought their beaks together, this
giving them the full 12,000 voltage
charge.
Result: Two dead seagulls and
a disruption of power recorded at
KEA, about 9:30 Monday morning.
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THINGS WE’D NEVER KNOW
IF WE DIDN’T READ OUR MAIL:
The number of women 65 years of
age or older is growing far more
rapidly than the male portion of
this age bracket. By 1975 women
senior citizens will total 12.6 mil
lion, outnumbering men by an es
timated 3.3 million.
Some new words that have come
into use in 1958: “Traxle—an auto
mobile design in which the trans
mission is in the rear instead of
against the engine; “Hoopster” is
a person, usually a child or his
weight-worried mother, who uses
a hula hoop; “bottoming out” is a
term used by economists for de
scribing the lowest point in a re
cession; the hotel has graduated
from motel to “boatel” which is a
motel built over the water, where
people moor their boats during the
night; if you have a heavy foot on
the gas pedal, you obviously suf
fer from “roadamania;” “mega
corpse” means a million dead per
sons, such as could result from
nuclear warfare.
If you’re not “buggy” (from
“bug”—to annoy or confuse, and
coined by the “Beat Generation”)
you probably will be by our last
new phrase—“pinch effect”—that’s
the contraction that results from
magnetic interaction set up by a
parallel flow of currents in plas
ma (highly ionized gas).
I read with interest in the Aug
ust issue of The Reader’s Digest
an article entitled “Must We Tax
The Railroads Out of Business?”
by David I. Mackie, the latter an
expert in matters of railroads.
I’m an old fashioned boy who
loves to ride the railroads still.
It is a well-known fact that they
are having trouble—low on pas
senger traffic, high on costs. This
tax phase, though, is of interest.
Mr. Mackie points out that the rail
roads’ state and local tax bill for
1958 was a whopping 400 million
dollars. Railroads pay huge taxes
because they are the largest indus
trial owners of real estate in the
United States. Their tracks take
them into 96 percent of our 3067
counties, according to the article.
“In New Jersey, the Pennsyl
vania Railroad pad $5,800,000 in
taxes last year while earning only
$700,000.” When a railroad serving
Jersey City sold 33 acres assessed
at $621,296, it could get only $19,
472 for the parcel.
States, cities, towns, villages
and school districts each tak*? a
whack at the railroads. In New
York State alone the railroads con
tribute to more than 6000 taxing
bodies.
Another fact brought out in the
article was that, altogether, the
railroads’ state and local tax bill
for education in 1958—an esti
mated 140 million dollars—was
equal to almost a third of the fed
eral government’s contribution to
the same school systems!
Mr. Mackie builds up a strong
case for the railroads and his con
tention is that the railroads are
taxed way and beyond that of air
lines, trucks and canal users.
We make no brief for railroads,
since it would require an enor
mous amount of research to get
a clear picture of what is fair in
this tax system. A point that comes
to mind after leading the article ft:
Have the railroads too much real
estate; and is there revenue be
ing derived from owned proper
ty that justifies some of this tax
ation?
We wouldn’t want to see the
railroads taxed out of existence.
We hope some day again to ride
the raus, reiax in the Ciuo ( , cat
a meal as the landscape fi- s be
fore us, and perchance to s :tvp at
night as we speed towards our
destination—untroubled by toad
amaniacs” on our highways.
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The mighty House of Dior hoist
ed dress hemlines above the knee-:
cap this week and thereby d vided
the feminine world into two ciunps,
not evenly, figuratively speaking,
either.
Some of the gals like the idea
of short dresses and most of them
don’t. But it can be summed up in
a few words, just who does and
who doesn’t: Them that has ’em,
want to show them—them that
hasn’t say “hide ’em.”
ELKS PICNIC AUGUST 3
The annual Elks picnic will be
held at Cliff Point, Sunday, August
16.
Bus leaves from Kraft’s Super
market at 1 p.m. Watch for further
announcements next week.
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