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Mayor Proclaims
Official .proclamation of 1959
'National Business Women’s Weekr
I, Merrill Coon, Mayor of Kodiak,
Alaska, do hereby proclaim Octo
ber 4th, 1959 through October 19th,
1959 to be National Business Wom
en’s Week.
This annual Week, sponsored
throughout the United States by
The National Federation of Busi
B. P. W. Week
ness and Professional Women’s
Clubs, Inc., is set aside to pay tri
bute to women in business and the
professions, and the contribution
they make to the nation. The theme
of 1959 “National Business Wom
en’s Week” is “A Right Turn to a
Confident Future.”
(s) Merrill C. Coon
Mayor
Here, There and Everywhere
By SIG DIGREE
Below is a poem that might say
in a different way how you feel
when you reach a certain period
in life. Or are vou one of those
who seemingly have tasted from
the Fountain of Youth?
MY GET UP AND GET
HAS GOT UP AND GOT
How do I know that my youth is
all spent?
Well, my get up and go has got
up and went.
But in spite of it all I'm able to
grin
When I think where my get up
'has been.
Old age is golden, so I've heard
it said,
But sometimes I wonder as I get
out of bed—
With my ears in a drawer and my
teeth in a cup
My eyes on the table until I wake
up.
Ere sleep dims my eyes I say to
myself
“Is there anything else I should
have laid on the shelf?”
I’m happy to say as I close my
door,
“My friends are the same-^only
perhaps more.”
When I was young, my slippers
were red,
I could k;ck my heels right over
my head.
When I grew older, my slippers
were blue,
But still I could dance the whole
.night through.
Now I 3m old, my slippers are
black,
I walk to the store—and PUFF
my way back.
The reason I know my youth is
•all spent,
My get up and go has got up and
went.
But I really don’t mind when I
think with a grin
Of all the grand places my get
up has been.
Since I’ve retired from life’s com
petition
I busy myself with complete repeti
tion.
I get up each morning, dust off
my wits,
Pick up the paper and read the
“Obits.”
If my name is missing, I know
I’m not dead,
So I eat a good breakfast and go
back to bed.
—Anon
WHO’LL DO THE WORK^
This is an age of statistics.
There are so many of them, of so
many different kinds, that at times
it seems we are in da: :;er of
drowning in a sea of statistics that
threatens to engulf us on every
side.
Accordingly, we were amused
the other day by a bit of statistical
horseplay that a friend was kind
enough to send to Us. We will con
cede at the outset that the statistics
in this case are wholly assailable,
but, the conclusion is one with
which we sometimes find ourselve
in agreement.
Population of United States
POPULATION BALANCE SHEET
• Oct. 1, 1958
Population of United States 175,000,000
Population over age 65 57,300,000
People left to work • . 117,700,000
People under age 21 64,700,000
People left to work 53,000,000
Government employees * 24,000,000
People left to work ' 1 ' » 29,000,000
People in armed forces 12,000,000
People left to work ' ‘ 17,000,000
City and state workers 16,800,000
People left to work i. 200,000
Insane and in hospitals ’ * " • 126^000
People left to work 74,000
Bums and drunks 62,000
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People left to work 12,000
In jails and prisons 11 998
People left to work *2
i ‘You and me, and you better get busy as I'm getting sick
and tired of running this country alone
:• ITfom the Chicago Sun-Times
Ship Is Named
After Kodiak Island
KODIAK, Alaska, Oct 1—The
U.S Navy has named one of its
ships after this rugged island.
A brief press dispatch from
Washington, D.C., received here
today said the landing ship LSM
161, previously known by num
ber only, was assigned the name
USS KODIAK.
Commissioned in 1944, the 204
foot service vessel has been ply
ing Alaskan waters for several
years from its home port at the
U.S. Naval Station here.
The USS KODIAK is command
ed by Lieutenant Jack L. Marriott,
USN, of College Park,, Md., and
has a crew of about 50 officers and
men.
Three other landing ships were
assigned the names of towns at
the same time, the dispatch said.
They were the USS OCEANSIDE
(Calif.), USS LAKELAND (Fla.),
and the USS RARITAN (New Jer
sey).
They are the only ships of their
type now in use by the Navy.
MATS Will Not
Hy Circle R&ute
SEATTLE — Wl— The Military
Air Transport Service is to aban
don the great circle route to the
Orien except for emergency
flights, the Seattle Times Wash
ington correspondent rays.
MATS compander, Lt. Gen. Wil
liam II. Turner, says the advant
age o; the shorter distance over
the Aleutians is offset by poorer
weather. It will o areietpotnTA
weather. It will operate into Shem
ya on special missions only. The
six-month contract between MATS
and Northwest Orient Airlines for
ground support ended Wednesday.
Price Index Study
JUNEAU —(#)— Studies for the
first Federal consumer price index
in the state will (begin next week
in Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Mrs. Ethel D. Hoover, director
of the special price studies for the
Bureau of Laibor Statistics, said the
fall survey covers consumer in
come, expenditures and savings.
The data on consumer expendi
tures at the two cities is to be
made in the spring. Price index
studies may be expanded later to
cover Juneau and Ketchikan. Stud
ies are being financed by a $100,
000 appropriation requested by
Alaskas senators.
ALLOWED IN SWEDEN—Actress
Audrey Hepburn, shown holding
her Yorkshire terrier “Famous,”
won permission of customs offi
cials in Stockholm to allow the
dog to enter Sweden. Officials
first said the animal would have
to stay in quarantine but gave in
after an hour to the pleas of Miss
Hepburn who went to Sweden for
the first showing there of her new
film, “The Nun’s Story.”
(AP Wirephoto)
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PICTURE FROM SPACE—National Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration scientists released in Washintgon, D. C., what they term the
first crude picture of the earth and its cloud cover from the paddle
wheel satellite. Signal pattern, left, was recorded at a Hawaiian1
tracking station Aug. 14 while the satellite was 17,000 miles up in space
over Mexico. Right photo shows interpretation of signal meaning
superimposed on photograph of a globe. (AP Wirephoto)
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