=” Kodiak Kapsules —
(By Bill Mason)
(Continued From Page 1)
cal man at Pearl Harbor 21 years
ago on Dec. 7. He is Chief Ray W.
Cobb, now commander of the Ko
diak American Legion Post, who
was on a ship moored next to the
ill-fated Arizona.
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Public news releases we enjoy
reading:
From the current news release
from Commissioner Martin B.
Underwood, Department of Pub
lic Safety:
“Because of the increased
workload imposed on its limited
staff during the recent interna
tional crisis and the necessary
budget and annual report prepa
ration, the Division of Civil De
fense was unable to prepare a
progress report for this period.”
Consequently we have a little
more room in the waste basket
this week.
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Suppose you heard about the two
Kodiak housewives enjoying a
cocktail at the Montmartre. One
said, “Are you having another,
Helen?”
Helen answers, “No, it’s only the
way my coat is buttoned.”
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IT SAYS HERE: Don’t be dis
couraged if your children seem
to reject your advice; it isn’t
wasted, years later they will be
offering it to their children. . . .
Have you noticed how unimpor
tant your job is when you ask
I
for a raise and how important it
suddenly becomes when you
want a day off. ... A politician
is a man who approaches every
problem with an open mouth.
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Don’t know why the breakin
artists should concentrate on clean
ing and laundering establishments.
First it was the Kodiak Cleaners
for a total of four taps, and now in
the past two weeks, the Kodiak
Laundry, next to the Mirror, has
been broken into twice. At least
we credit them with intelligence
of futilely wasting their time in
a newspaper office.
Kodiak has much to be thank
ful this Christmas.
Looking at Alaska’s Depart
ment of Labor figures we note
that unemployment jumped from
1,534 to 2,086 in Anchorage last
week; in Fairbanks it increased
from 687 to 798; Ketchikan rose
from 213 to 257; Nome from 146
to 162; and at Petersburg it rose
from 113 to 171.
Here we’re talking about one
or two new industries starting
this month and more on the
agenda in early 1963.
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From the base comes a story
which found its way here from
Adak.
It seems like a visiting delega
tion stopped there recently and a
woman asked one of the officers
whether a seal they saw in the dis
tance was a male or female.
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Seven Are Fined
In Police Court
Intoxication and disorderly con
duct brought fines and jail sen
tences to seven offenders in Ko
diak this past week.
Luba Agnot was fined S100 and
given 30 days for intoxication
while Benjamin J. Golodoff was
given a $50 fine and 30 days, both
fines and sentences were sus
pended. Albert Cushing was
handed a 30 day jail sentence for
intoxication, while Willard Brunn
and Rudolph Anderson forfeited
$25 and $100 bail on the same
charge.
Arthur O. Kuhlmann and
George Quigley each forfeited $25
bail bonds for disorderly conduct.
“Madam,” replied the officer
sternly, “that is a question that
should be of interest only to an
other seal.”
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From “Caught in the Sluice
Box” by Buckwheat Charley in
Jessen’s Weekly we take note of
a big event recounted in these
words:
. .“Wal, this is the hig day wre has
al bin waitin fer . . . Yessir, on
this day in 1782, Martin Van
Buren was born. (He wus our
eighth president).
He never amounted to much,
tho, cuz that was before swimmin
pools had bin invented . . . be
sides, his attorney general wasn’t
even a DISTANT relative. (He
never had no brothers in the sen
ate, neither).
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That’s about it—for this week—
the Mirror staff is planning to
hold a Christmas party at the Ko
diak City Park if we can borrow a
bulldozer to scrape off the junk.
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Admiral’s “Quote”
Earns Him Life
Time C Of C Pass
From the Wednesday, Dec. 5,
edition of the “Washington Post”
and the column, “Service Set”
comes this comment by Dorothy
McCardle:
“One of the most personable
of the 15 Commandants now hold
ing their annual meeting in
Washington, Rear Admiral Fred
E. Itakutis, was extolling the
beauties of his command in Ko
diak, Alaska. The climate is bet
ter than that of Washington, he
said, and he ought to know since
he used to be stationed at Fort
Ritchie, Md.”
Thus, Admiral Bakutis becomes
a life-time honorary member of
the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce
strictly on the basis of that one
quotation.
P.O. To Open All
Day On Dec. 22
The Kodiak post office will re
main open all day next Saturday.
Dec. 22, mainly for distribution of
Christmas packages. All transac
tions will be handled except money
orders and COD’s.
From now to Christmas patrons
are urged to pick up their pack
ages immediately on receiving
package notices because of short
age of shelf space.
The post office will maintain
regular hours on Monday, the day
before Christmas. It will be closed
on Christmas day, and as all Pa
cific Northern Airlines planes are
canceled for that day there will oe
no distribution of mail.
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