Palmer Fair On
From Sept. 2-5
The Alaska State Fair at Palmer
will get under way Saturday, Sep
tember 3, with a big parade in the
morning followed by a succession
of events to be held each succeed
ing day.
The parade will include more
than 14 floats, special entries, four
band units, marching units and
Mike Conners, TV celebrity, who
will also perform daily during the
fair.
A horse show will be held Sep
tember 4 and 5, according to Char
les Tinch, Fair manager, with com
petitive events, gymkhana, parade
of colors, and an exhibition of
champion stock horse and rider.
Horse races will also be held each
day of the fair, beginning Sep
tember 2.
Ninety-six parachute drops will
be made by members of the Fort
Richardson Sport Parachute Club.
The jumpers will be carried aloft
in a U. S. Army H-21 helicopter
and at the time of the arrival of
Sen. John Kennedy on September
3, a mass jump will be made, with
jumpers setting off red, white and
blue smoke flares. Twelve jumpers
will be sky-diving twice a day dur
ing the fair.
A diamond studded gold ribbon
pin and a cash award of $50 will
again be given as top honors in the
yeast baking department, a highly
competitive event in the culinary
department of the fair.
KENNEDY JOHNSON CLUB
TO BE FORMED HERE
An organization meeting of the
Kennedy-Johnson club will be held
at 8 p.m. Tuesday, September 6
at the Fishermen’s Hall.
Club officers will be elected at
the meeting to which all interested
persons are invited. Co-chairmen
of the membership drive are Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Cannon.
POLICE SLOGAN
Be blind to safety and you may
never see.
The Sturmers
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fession for the first time; I became
a professor of foreign languages
in the University of Santo Tomas,
and had also many private classes.
Mrs. Sturmer established a school
of Physical Culture so we earned
enough money to have a decent
life. Then in 1935 I had another
change of profession. A Russian
Orthodox priest came to Manila
for the first time and together we
built up a Russian church. I was
the first choir director, and first
psalm reader, and first deacon for
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing
will be held at City Hall on September 22nd, 1960
at 3:00 p.m.
This hearing is on the exclusion from the Kodiak
City limits of Holiday, Crooked and Popof Islands,
petition for such exclusion having been filed by the
owners and the lessee of these islands.
Douglas G. Preston
City Clerk-Treasurer
Publish Sept. 3, 10, 17, 1960.
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the next 10 years. I had been also
a life insurance agent and was
managing an agency for radio re
ceiving sets, and finally, my own
office for importing goods from
the United States. Well, those ac
tivities were stopped by the invad
ing and conquering Japanese
troops. For a while I manufactured
cigar and shoe boxes from guinit
but during the fighting the factory,
and the church, and parsonage
were all destroyed by the Japanese.
We were living sometimes under
the trees adjoining the church site.
Then we found a Nippa shack that
was not burned and we lived there
while I worked in the base cen
sor’s office of the American Army.
Then we got visas from the U. S.,
with the help of my classmates in
San Francisco, and we went to
Berkeley, Calif., at the end of
January, 1946.”
Father Sturmer first coached stu
dents of foreign languages from the
University of California. This was
not difficult; he is fluent in Rus
sian, English, French, and also
knows German, Spanish. Polish and
Latin.
“Then I got a job instructing in
Russian in the Army Language
School in Monterey, Calif. I stayed
there for seven years and a half;
for a time the iNavy borrowed me
for the Naval Postgraduate School
in Del Monte. I wrote the Compre
hensive Course in Russian which
the Army Language School uses;
it is in 10 volumes of 14 lessons
and comprises 1330 hours. At the
same time I was psalm reader,
afterward deacon, and then priest
in the Russian Orthodox Church in
Berkeley, so I traveled between
the two cities every weekend for
the seven years and a half.”
When Father Sturmer heard
that Russian Orthodox priests were
badly needed in Alaska, he applied
for any parish in the territory,
neither knowing nor caring which
area he might be given. They gave
him Kodiak, and the Sturmers
came in December of 1954, much
to the amazement and disappoint
ment of the Army Language
School, whose Dean tendered an
extraordinary letter of recommen
dation. The Dean spoke of Father
Sturmer’s penetrating intelligence,
cooperativeness and unusual recep
tiveness to new ideas. The Dean
recommended him for “any posi
tion of (great responsibility which
his versatile abilities may lead
him to apply.”
Father Stunner went on with
their story. “In Kodiak we found
no priest, no psalm reader, so Mrs.
Sturmer and I felt all right. Mrs.
Sturmer had equal experience in
psalm reading because she has
helped me since 1934.
“There are many things to do
here; I am a priest, I am a book
keeper. I am some kind of real
estate agent because the church
owns lots of land in town given
by Presidential decree to the Or
thodox Church of America (this
Kodiak Assembly
of God Church
Mission Road
Pastor Win. L. Cummins
Phone 6491
“Not By Might, Nor By Power,
But By My Spirit, Saith the
Lord of Hosts.”
SERVICE SCHEDULE
SUNDAY
Sunday School.10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship ... 11:00 a.m.
Christ’s Ambassadors 6:30 p.m.
Evangelistic Service .. 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY
Missionettes.1:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
Women’s Prayer
Meeting.2:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Prayer & Bible Study 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Youth Meeting.7:00 p.m.
goes back to the old days when
the church owned much property),
and I am collector for leases of
land. I am teaching languages on
the base, then I am having Bible
School for my own parishioners.
Now for the sixth year I am edit
ing and publishing the monthly
church matgazine, Glad Tidings.
Besides that I have eight more
churches to supervise on Kodiak
Island and the Alaska Peninsula.
And I am a member of almost all
the clubs and societies of Kodiak.”
Mrs. Sturmer added in her gen
tle, melodious voice, “Besides be
ing psalm reader, which is the main
thing, and choir director, I am also
a member of the Business and Pro
fessional Women’s Club, am one
of the volunteer librarians in the
town library, and I am a Grey Lady
at the hospital. Our children are
two, a son in Torrance. Calif., and
a daughter in Berkeley. Just two
days ago we received a wire telling
us that now we have another grand
child; that makes seven.”
The Sturmer home is office as
well, with a great desk and filing
cabinets filling one part of the
living room, but the dominating
things here are a corner, beauti
fully kept, with a handsome hang
ing and religious articles, and the
many pictures of family and
friends which adorn the four walls.
One hopes that in their life of
I KASHEVAROFF STREET J
j INTERDENOMINATIONAL J
Sunday School .10 a.m.
Morning Service .11 a.m.
Evening Service.7:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting
Wednesday.7:30 p.m.
Saturday Evening
Service .7:30 p.m.
service on Kodiak Island. Father
Roman Sturmer and Xenia Stur
mer, his wife, will find a timeless
haven, far from the violences and
disasters which in the past, have
marked their life.
Church of God
Fred Mamaloff, Pastor
Sunday School. 10 a.m.
Morning Worship.11 a.m.
Evening Service .... 7:30 p.m.
Mid Week Service ... 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday
Youth Service .. 7 p.m. Friday
Located off Mission Rd.
near the hospital.
Christian Science
Society
Sunday School . 9:30 a. m.
Sunday Service 11:00 a. m.
Testimony Meeting .. 4th Wed.
8:00 p.m.
Reading Room.Wed.
7-8 p. m.
Located on Shelikoff
near Cope St.
Harbor Light
Pentecostal
Chapel
Kenneth W. French, pastor
Sunday Services
Sunday School .... 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship .. 11:00 a.m.
Evangelistic Service 7:45 p.m.
Weekday Services
Wednesday & Friday 7:45 p.m.
“A friendly church with a
timely message."
(Located on Mission Road,
about one-half mile from
postoffice).
The Community Baptist Church
Rev. Lewis White
“The Big White Church on the Hill"
Sunday School—9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship—11:00 a.m.
Youth Fellowship Groups—6:30 p.m.
Evening Worship—7:30 p.m.
Mid Week Service—7:30 p.m. Wednesday
“HOLDING FORTH THE WORD OF LIFE"
KODIAK DIRECTORY
BARTENDERS LOCAL 875 A.F.L.
Meets on 2nd Sunday of every
month, 12 noon at Fishermen’s
Hall.
KODIAK
EMBLEM
CLUB
No. 187
Meets 1st & 3rd
Thursday at
8 p.m. at the
Elks Club.
KODIAK LODGE NO. 1772 BPOE
Meets every Friday
evening
at 8:30 p.m.
Visiting Slemlieis Welcome
ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS
SYSTEM
Hours of Business
Monday thru Friday, 9 am to 6 pm
Saturday, 9 am to 12 noon
Sundays and Holidays, Closed
Emergency wires may be filed
during the closed office hours at
the message center.
KODIAK
LODGE
F. & A. M.
No. 295
Meetings — Stated 3rd Monday,
8 p.m. at Kodiak Masonic Temple
BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL
WOMEN’S CLUB
Business Meeting—1st Monday at
7:30 p.m.
Dinner Meeting—3rd Monday at
7:00 p.m. at Island Fountain.
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Regular meetings 1st and 3rd
Tuesdays, 8 p.m.,
at the VFW Hall.
JACK ALLMAN POST NO. 17
AMERICAN LEGION
meets the 1st Thursday of every
month at 7:30 p.m. at the
American Legion Dug-Out
above city hall.