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How To Be Second Class
“Only second-class people make
a second-class nation.’’
That arresting statement forms
the headline for an advertisement
recently published in national mag
azines by an American business
firm, Warner & Swasey. The ad
vertisement itself goes on to say:
“People who want to be paid
without working enough to earn it
are second-class people . . . People
who want to be protected without
having the courage to fight and
earn their own protection are sec
ond-class citizens. People more anx
ious for security than self-respect,
comfort above accomplishment, for
’peace in our time’ above integrity
—all these shallow self-seeking
people are dragging America down
to the second-class nation status.
For a hundred years of hard-work
ing self support America was re
s p e c t e d, prosperous, unselfish,
without being made a fool.
“Run this nation once more by
hard work—and for those Ameri
cans with self-respect, not for
whiners — and we’d sweep that
scornful ‘second-class’ sneer and
all excuses for it down the rat hole
where it belongs.”
June Is Dairy Month
An effort is being made to supply
Kodiak with fresh milk by the new
management of the former Kodiak
Creamery.
Now the Nixon’s Creamery, the
firm daily brings to Kodiak fresh
milk from the dairy. Given the
green light by the City Sanitarian
and the State Health Department,
Mr. A1 Nixon of Nixon’s Dairy, is
conducting a one-man effort to
bring fresh milk for the Kodiak
market. It is an uphill battle, for
he has to contend with a customer
trend which has been allowed to
build up over the past several years
of using powdered or frozen milk.
By keeping his standards for
cleanliness high both here at the
creamery and at the dairy, and by
improving his product and service
as he goes along, acceptance of the
local product should win out. For
everyone likes fresh milk.
June is Dairy Month throughout
the U. S. and has been for the past
25 years. It was so designated in
recognition of the dairy industry’s
important contribution to the
health and welfare of the Ameri
can people.
We urge you, if you already
haven't, to buy a quart or two of
the local product, as an encourage
ment to one man’s effort to provide
a needed product. Kodiak can well
use a dairy and a creamery.
Sorry—Temporarily Out of
The fast selling nationally advertised
Nutri- io
food supplement
More In Soon!
7Hn&. SetAa "Dtyiee
is the local distributor
of Nutri-Bio products
Call 486-5123 or 486-5124
for information
For Your Health’s Sake
Better Nutrition Through
NUTRI-BIO
Reflections .
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main problem is to divert it to our
use.
What we are trying to say is that
a city’s prime function is to provide
water—for its industries, sanita
tion, its people. Kodiak, we are
given to understand, doesn’t suffer
for lack of water as far as these
three are concerned.
But it is new industries we have
to be concerned about. New indus
tries shy away from a city without
a good water supply.
Whatever it takes to get that
water, we should get it.
Since writing this we have
learned that the City Manager and
the Council are working on a pro
ject to increase the water supply.
It is our hope they will follow
through and soon to get the needed
water to encourage more indus
tries here.
* * *
One thing we need is the cold
storage plant, and we need it bad.
Canadian halibut boats have come
into Kodiak since we became a Cus
toms port—in fact about 11 of them
last month. Halibut could be
dumped off here in thousands and
millions of pounds yearly—think
how many dollars we lose during
the halibut season with these boats
not being tied up here in between
trips!
Materials have already arrived
for the cold storage construction
and another barge load is on its
way, and with most of the paper
work completed or near comple
tion, the plant is apparently to be
come a realty. June 1, 1962 has
been set as the target date. It would
be of benefit to all concerned to
see this date pushed up to include
the 1962 halibut season.
* * •
“To the delight of taxpayers, the
City Council last night set the 1961
real property tax levy at the low
rate of 15 mills, two mills lower
than last year.”
No, this didn’t happen in Kodiak.
This is a quote from the Fairbanks
News-Miner. We read that just be
fore we received our tax state
ments—there was some sort of
small comfort to read where con
sideration is being given to down
grading taxes rather than upping
them.
Oddities in the news. In Roches
ter, N. Y., Murdock Philpotts has
solved the mystery of why his ra
dio controlled garage door myster
iously opened and closed at about
the same time every day. The
door’s frequency was the same as
that used by an airlines flight that
passed over his garage regularly
in its landing approach ... In De
troit, a salesman, John Culen, told
police that thieves broke into his
parked car and stole 8 football
shoes, 5 bowling shoes, and 6 ice
skates. All were samples—for the
right foot ... In Chicago, 2 psy
chologists report that some incom
patible marriages are as strong as
the rock of Gibraltar. They told
the American Psychiatric Associa
tion that some couples who can’t
live together happily—also can’t
live apart. They said these discord
ant marriages are held together
because each partner provides the
other with an outlet for destructive
impulses to deprive and punish
A woman in London went to court
rather than pay the plumber for
installing a new bathtub. The tub,
she said, has bumps in the bottom
of it. The judge agreed that such
a tub does not have an “esthetic
quality,” and he cut the plumber’s
bill in half. The name of the
woman with the bumpy bottomed
tub is: Mrs. Isobel Bottoms.
* * •
A little boy wanted $100, so he
decided to pray for it. He prayed
for two weeks. Still no $100; so he
decided to write the Lord. Postal
authorities, noting the address,
forwarded the letter to the Presi
dent of the United States.
The President, amused, sent the
boy a check for $5, believing that
would seem like a lot of mony to a
boy. The delighted youngster wrote
the Lord a letter of thanks, but
closed by saying:
“I noticed You routed Your let
ter through Washington. As usual,
those stinkers deducted 95 per
cent.”
—Walter County (Tex.)
Record.
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