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The Job’s Only Half Done
Voters in Alaska overwhelmingly approved the General Obli
gation Proposal No. 4 for $2,200,000 in bonds to build a vocational
school in the Kodiak-Aleutian senatorial district. All other bond is
sues on Tuesday’s ballot also received heavy approval.
But the job is only half-done, as residents of Nome can tell you.
Voters approved a similar vocational school for Nome but to date
not a spadeful of dirt has been turned.
Contrary to the metropolitan press in Anchorage and Fairbanks,
we do not consider this a “pork-barrel” measure to appease our
state representative and senator, but as a mandate from the entire
state of Alaska.
The people in the state have put it over, and now we charge our
State Senator A1 Owen and State Representative Gil Jarvela to fol
low through. This should be item No. 1 on their agenda w’hen the
legislature convenes again, and if it bogs down we will know where
the responsibility lies.—B.M.
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor:
We teen-agers of Kodiak are go
ing to miss Dan Steadman a great
deal. He was instrumental in get
ting our present Kodiak ^ outh Or
ganization started. He was the first
chairman of the adult advisory
council for the group and for quite
some time he and his wife, \ erna.
were the only chaperones and
sponsors. Dan was in charge of the
Crab Festival bingo booth spon
sored by the Teen Club, he helped
set up their Fourth of July food
booth at the Armory for the
Smoker, and he was active in get
ting the first public Teen Club
sponsored dance at the Elks Club
organized.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Brunstad, Treasurer
Kodiak Youth Organization
CITY, BANK TO CLOSE
In addition to the postoffice, the
city hall and the Kodiak branch of
the National Bank of Alaska will
be closed on Monday, Nov. 12 in
observance of Veterans Day which
this year falls on Sunday but will
be observed on Monday.
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Safety Belt Film,
“Mystery Guest”
Viewed By Rotary
Kodiak Rotarians saw a film on
safety belts made by the Univer
sity of California and distributed
by Standard Oil at Tuesday s meet
ing at the Mecca.
Arranging the film was Merrill
Coon. Standard distributor for Ko
diak.
A “Mystery Guest-’ appearec
with Roy H. (Perry) Madsen, and
after his disguise was removed il
proved to be Charles A. (Chuck)
Powell. GOP candidate for statt
representative.
Honorary member Rear Admira
F. E. Bakutis was present as wa;
Cmdr. John White, Base legal of
ficer, and M/Sgt. Ivan Best, M/Sgi
H. Rose of Anchorage and S/Sgt
Chuck Hayward of Juneau.
SEASON TICKETS
Season tickets for the Kodia
high school Bears season will b
on sale at the door of the gymm
sium on Friday night. Prices ar
S8 for adults and S4 for students.
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-- Kodiak Kap sules —
(By Bill Mason)
(continued from page I)
Jose. “You pronounce that
wrong,” said the man. “It’s San
Ho-Say. In California all the J s
are pronounced Hs." Dismissing
the point he asked. "When were
you there?”
The woman thought a mo
ment. then answered, “In Hune
and Huly.”
* • • *
Newspapermen aren’t often as
stupid as they appear. For exam
pie. we know of one copyreader
in the midwest who couldn’t be
lieve it when he read a reporter’s
story' about the theft of 2.025 pigs
That’s a log of pigs,” he
growled, and called the farmer tc
check the copy. “Is it true that you
lost 2.025 pigs?” he asked.
“Yeth.” lisped the farmer.
Thanks,” said the copyreadei
and corrected the copy to read
"two sows and 25 pigs.”
• • • •
In the old days a man who
died with his boots on was
known as a ‘bad man.’
Now he’s a pedestrian.
• * * *
Before we overlook it. a tip oi
our hat (if we owned one) to th<
Kodiak Education Association foi
its effort to push for the G.O
Proposal No. 4 in last Tuesday’:
voting. Although limited in funds
the teachers did what they eouk
for the proposal fully aware of it:
value for a large number o
youngsters not now receiving :
high school education.
• • • •
SCENE AND HERD: Appar
ently “Cuckoos on the Hearth”
was a howling success from all
reports received down this way,
and again Kodiak turned out to
support the high school carnival
in good style. . .. Homer Thomp
son, manager of the P.l'.D. dis
trict in Homer, sees a great fu
ture with the Homer Kodiak
ferry with Kodiakans receiving
produce from the mainland and
ma'r.landers getting beef from
the is’ands. . . . Kodiak Suppliers
will be a mw business firm to
start up h^re soon. . . . Pity the
poor candidates like Nick Be
gich anil Bob Stratton, Jr., who
have to campaign all over West
ern Alaska for the senator-at
large position (their campaign
ing costs must have come close
to the top). . . . The Sunday, Oct.
21. edition of the Los Angeles
Herald Examiner earri“d o pic
ture of Dr. E. E. Hedblom, head
of the staff at the Naval Station
hospital along with two of the
Russian fishermen, one a woman,
one a man he performed surgery
on. . . . Time’s a’wastin’ with
Thanksgiving just about 10 days
awav, and that means that
Christmas is only about a month
away.
• • * *
OVERHEARD: A bachelor is a
man who can pull his socks on
from either end, and we don t
know who figured out the $600 tax
exemption for a wife, but it must
have been that same bachelor. . . .
Sympathy is what one woman of
fers another in exchange for de
tails. . . . And then there’s the fel
low who out lines the march of
civilization as follows: “From tree
top to cave. From cave to sky
scraper. From skyscraper to bomb
shelter.
* • * *
RUMOR SQUELCHED: Ac
cording to reliable reports emit
ting from the Base, there is no
truth to the report that the
armed strength of the base will
be doubled by the addition of
another LSM, a la USS Kbdiak.
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