Kodiak Kapsules—
(continued from page 1)
As we circled Kodiak Island Sat
urday afternoon in the PNA
plane, our die-hard Texas missus
exclaimed looking down on the
island, “I told you that it wasn’t
as big as Texas.”
We didn’t have the heart to tell
her that this wasn’t all of Alaska.
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During the absence of Sig and
Betha Digree, yours truly will be
taking over the news duties.
It’s quite a job taking over a new
job in a community where you are
unknown, and we solicit your help
in making the Mirror a truly home
town newspaper.
We want to publish a lot of local
news—comings and goings and ac
tivities of all kinds on the islands.
As a small newspaper we cannot
hope to compete, nor will we try
to compete, with radio and tele
vision for spot and international
news.
Our interest lies in what is hap
pening in and around Kodiak and
what we can do to make it a better
place to live. And a big part of that
lies in you good people in giving us
a ring or stopping by and telling us
what’s happening—just in case we
miss it.
Our knowledge of the fishing in
dustry, we must confess, is limited.
In the Rocky Mountains of the
Lower 48, the angling conversation
is pretty well restricted to a 12
inch Rainbow or one pound brook
trout which required 40 minutes to
land.
So on that score, too, we hope
to learn and beg your indulgence
if we should commit a “goof.”
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ALONG THE ALCAN: Sur
prised to learn after a day or two
here that many Kodiakans have
never traveled the Alaskan high
way, and for those who have jour
neyed over it in the summer
months all 1,500 miles ( plus the
dust) are still there. . . . Busiest
spot along the highway away from
the cities seems to be the Watson
Lake area before you reach White
horse, Yukon, with lots of building
activity. ... At the Canadian de
partment stores you see such signs
as “Oddments” and “Cash and
Wrap” which we interpreted as
meaning “Odds and Ends” and
“Cash and Carry.’. . . Didn’t hear
too much noise about the Alaskan
primaries even though they are
slightly more than a month away.
. . . Biggest surprise was the num
ber of airplanes in the skies and
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SAILING FROM SEATTLE
July 11, 1962
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Northland.
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OVERHEARD IN ANCHOR
AGE: The story about an expec
tant father in the maternity ward
of a hospital.
The father had paced the hall
way for about two hours when the
doctor stepped out of the O.B.
room and with a solemn expres
sion announced. “I’m afraid your
baby will be a Cesearian.”
The young father jumped to
ward the doctor shaking his fist
and shouted, “He had better be a
Norwegian or there’s going to be
trouble.”
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IMPRESSIONS: The friendli
ness of the Kodiak folk whether
you have been introduced or not.
. . . The view of the docks on the
bright sunny Sunday. . . . The
church chimes Sunday morning.
. . . The complete stocks of food
stuffs and apparel stocked in the
local stores. . . . The surprise of
learning that you can get a daily
Seattle paper almost as soon as
you can in Seattle itself. . . . The
anticipation of both youngsters and
adults for Wednesday’s July
Fourth celebration. . . . The ease
in which local residents journey
to the World’s Fair and a weekend
to Anchorage. . . . The snappy sa
lute given at the Naval reservation.
. . . The surprise of learning that
it doesn’t rain every day (even
though it might threaten).... See
ing frozen and concentrated milk
for the first time and the next step
will be learning to like powdered
milk.... And wondering why fresh
crab, halibut and shrimp are not
sold at the local markets.
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One of the most beloved Amer
icans, Will Rogers, paid a visit to
the area of our birthplace shortly
before his fatal crash with Pilot
Wiley Post.
In his newspaper column he com
mented, “Durango, Colorado, is out
of the way of the world and glad
of it.”
This statement appeared just
about a week before his death as
a result of a plane crash.
As you look out on the vast Pa
cific you wonder if Will Rogers
didn’t prefer such locales — even
though he was probably the keen
est student of humanity this nation
has ever known.
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Not from Webster:
.. Cow: She’s a creature with four
stander-uppers, four puller-down
ers, two hookers, two lookers and
one switcher.
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Hope you had an enjoyable
Fourth of July ... it will be al
most two months to the day until
another holiday rolls around. And
that’s Labor Day, Sept. 3, the only
really “long” weekend of 1962.
VACATIONING HERE
Mr. and Mrs. John Keers are
presently spending their summer
vacation with their son and his
family, the Dr. Bruce Keers.
Kodiak-Aleutlan
Realty Services
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Properties
Franchised Dealer fer
Lockwall Hemes
APPRAISALS
LIFE INSURANCE
Notary Public
Staff Licensed and Bonded
by
State Real Estate Commission
George H. Cornelias, Broker
Fer Appointment Call 486-2960
Ron Short Home
From Annapolis
Alaska’s lone representative in
the Class of ’64 of the U.S. Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Maryland—
husky young Ron Short, is pres
ently home here in Kodiak on a
two-weeks vacation visit with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Short.
The 21-year-old Midshipman 2/C
Short, Kodiak High School gradu
ate (“Class of ’58”), successfully
completed his second year at the
Naval Academy this spring. Before
departing for a visit to Kodiak,
Midshipman Short spent two weeks
of intensive marine amphibious
training at Little Creek, Virginia.
Upon return to Annapolis he will
be sent to Pensacola, Florida, for
Navy Air Training courses.
Prior to his acceptance by the
Academy, Short spent eight months
in the U.S. Marine Corps. He re
ceived his appointment from Alas
ka’s U.S. Representative Ralph
Rivers.
“I suppose you could say that
I’ve been doing alright at the acad
emy,” the red-headed Kodiak “Mid
die” told us. “I’m proud to be one
of the men of Annapolis, he said,
adding with a chuckle . . . “I’ve
more than doubled my salary since
I entered the academy as a Plebe
two years ago ... I get $11 a month
now, last year I got $9 a month
and as a Plebe received $4 per
month!”
CALLED TO SWEDEN
Karin Leonard, wife of Kodiak
Airways pilot Bob Leonard,
learned Wednesday of the sudden
death of her father in Uppsala,
Sweden. She left Saturday to fiy
over the Pole via Scandinavian Air
lines going via Anchorage and
Copenhagen, to join her mother.
HALIBUT DERBY PERMIT
The city council approved a re
quest by the Outdoorsmen’s Club
for a permit to operate a game of
skill and chance (The Halibut Der
by—which begins July 7th) as re
quired by state law.
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or Problems
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