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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Owners Seek Knowledge of Dog's Fate
Dear Editor:,
For the past two weeks our dog
"Buskin” has been missing. We
have advertised and offered a re
ward for information and have
•walked many miles and driven
many more by auto-in a iBruit'ess
search/ His name was on bus col
lar as well as/dog tag hfo. $2- a
Mack and* white springer, neck
* ntff*and chest pure white, about
65 pounds.
Deeply do wo feel the loss and
sadly do we realize that we will
not again enjoy his company or
hear his welcoming bark.
Someone, somewhere in this
commanity surely must have some
knowledge or information about
him. If so, whether it be good or
bad. plear>3, in the name of every
fcnow. Make it anonymous if you
know. Make k , unanimous if you
wish but remove this dread un
certainty.
It is quite possible that ho has
come to grief thru the evil doings
of some individuals who hate dogs
(as well as hating most every
thing and everybody else in the
world).
Readily, do we admit that con
trols must be maintain^ over
stray and vicious animals. There
are times also when their bark
ing, if um-3strained, can annoy
and they do occasionsly trespass
on someone’s property. But they
are unaware of these things. Is it
reasonable or just to judge a
dog’s ability to think and reason
by human standards?
'Should they innocently offend
in some way is it a offense that
merits a death penalty? Ratl er in
such cases let the offended party
call the police who will remove
them and either hold them for
the>: proper owners or dispose of
them in some other way.
From the experiences of many
whore pets mysteriously disap
pear and forever vanish and from
our own observations, it would
seem that there is urgent need for
the establishing of a branch of the
Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals here in the
Kodiak area. It would fill a long
felt need and could aminister hu
manely to the needs of all animals
an& prosecute those who maltreat
them or take the law in their own
hands.
Buskin was with us many years.
He was a good doggie, always a
gentleman and a kindly fellow, as
all who knew him will testify. He
had a host of friends and we miss
him more than we can tell in this,
perhaps, our final tribute to one
of God’s little creatures, truly
man’s best friend, who gave a full
measure of devotion and who was
faithful to the last.
Marie and E.L. Cardinal
Box 1011
Daughter Born
Donna Jean, woighing 9 lbs. 6%
OBs., was born on June 29 to
Dorothy Regina and Roy Opper
man Gillespie, EN2, USN.
Donna Jean is the Gillespie’s
fourth child. The family resides
on the Naval Station.
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^ "FATHER OF
Greek Drama" was killed
WHEN AN EAGLE, MISTAKING
HIS BALD HEAD FOR A
ROCK, DROPPED A TORTOISE
ON HIM IN AN EFFORT TO
CRACK THE SHELL TO MAKE
the tender meat
ACCESSIBLE/
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Here, There and Everywhere
By SIG DIGREE
A one-man campaign , is being
waged by Son. Bob Logan of Cor
dova in an effort to enlist the sup
port of Pacific Coast states in
preserving the salmon fisheries,
according to word received from
Portland, where Bob has been gett
ing in a few licks on this vital sub
ject.
He talked to Gov. Edmund
Brown of California and former
senator Knowland, and also ad
dressed a committee of the Cali
fornia Senate. It appears he made
headway with all of these.
Logan was very critical of the
expanded operations of the
Russian fishing fleet, which ap
pears to present an even bigger
threat to the fisheries than does
Japan. Herbert Lundy, Editor of
the Editorial page of the Oregon
ian, quoted him as saying that the
Soviet Union now has the biggest
Ashing feet in the world—12,387
motorized * ssels at last authoriz
ed count, in 1956—and a plan to
expand the freezing of ish on the
high seas to two billion pounds
annually by 1955. If also has a
fishery research and man a Spirent
program he says, involving 50
organizations and thousands of
scientist? • •
Acoo~<7?r>cr to the article.
Russia’s b?g factorv-traw'W*; and
mother shins are equal to there of
any western country. T**e Soviet
high seas fishery expanded from
3.3 billion pounds in 19^8 to 5.6
billion pounds in 1956. He roars
it has gone much higher since.
According to-Lundy, Sen. Logan
has it from a/Chinese source that
the first two shipments from the
Russian fleet off Bristol Bay went
directly to Red China. “In effect,”
he is quoted as saying, “our fish
are being used to hold the Russian
Chineie Alliance together.”
Logan pointed out to the Cali
fornia and Oregon bigwigs facts
that we are thoroughly conversant
with here. Ever since the war,, h*3
said, the Japanese have been stepp
ing up their salmon netting opera
tions in the North Pacific. They
employ, he said, mile-long, drift
ing mesh screens which guide the
immature salmon into gillnets and
can mak*2 no distinction between
salmon spawned in Alaska, British
Columbia and the Columbia River
system, and those spawned in Asia
and Siberia.
With depleted fish stocks in
Alaskan waters, and while Alas
ka’s 7,000 licensed fishermen
sweat it out. Logan stated, the
Japanese last year sold three
quarters of a million cases of sal
mon in the port of Seattle.
The Senator made the observa
tion that on almost any Friday,
fish from Iceland will be found on
the menu for the men at the mili
tary bases in Alaska—he named
Elmendorf, Ladd Field, Kodiak
and Fort Richardson.
* * *
We had a letter last week from
another former Kodiak resident,
and fomer editor of Kodiak’s one
time daily—The Kodiak Island and
North Pacific News. Dick Whittak
er writes from Portland. whe»3 he
is attending Northwesten College
of Law. Upon graduation fco in
tends to return to Alaska. He is
currently a special agent for the
Board of Medical Examiners,
checking malpractice in Oregon.
Ho also says he spent a session
with the Oregon Legislature as
clerk Tor the Senate Education
Committee.
* * *
HEED THE HANDWRITING
State governments taken to
gether ran practically $2 billion
“in the red” in the 1958 fiscal
year as the rise in expenditures
outstripped the increase in reve
nues from all sources by a wide
margin, according to the U. S.
Bureau of the Census.
Total expenditures in the 1958
fiscal period rose $3.9 billions to
an aggregate of $28.1 billions,
while revenues increased by $1.5
billions to $26.2 billions.
Eight of the 50 States, which
now include Alaska and Hawaii,
had total expenditures in the 1958
fiscal year equivalent to over
$200 per capita.
POLIO CLINIC JULY 11
There will be a Polio Immuniza
tion Clinic at the Kodiak Health
Center on July 11, from 10:30 a.m.
Vaccine is now available for the
fourth shot. Anyone who complet
ed their basic series of three shots
one year or more ago,, will be
giwn the fourth shot.
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SISTERS ATTEND BOARD MEET
Sister Callista, Sister Superior at
Griffin Memorial Hosptal,, and
Sister Hilary recently attended a
meeting of the Blue Cross Board
of Trustees in Seattle.
NOTICE
The CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SOCIETY holds services each
Sunday at 11 a.m., Sunday School
at 9:30 a.m. and Testimonial meet
ings the third Wednesday ef each
month at 8 p.m. Reading Room
open each Wednesday 6 to 8 p.m.
Address: Corner of Mission
Road and Alaska Way, across
from the Post Office.
NOTICE
A Public hearing on construc
tion of an alternate route for
Tagura Road will be held at the
next regular City Council meeting
July 9th.
^ DOUGLAS G. PRESTON
City Clerk-Treasurer
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proper training in all place he learns about
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July 6-July 17
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