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Karl Armstrong, Marine Editor
Why Have We Been Lagging?
Virtually every week we notice in neighboring newspapers that
such and such a community received a federal grant for city im
provements, water sanitation or some other improvement.
We understand that Kodiak city officials are working towards
that goal now, but we seem to be months and even years behind
other Alaskan communities. We are not pinning the responsibility
on any one individual but if we are going to get “in on the federal
gravy”—even though eventually as taxpayers we all pay for these
so-called grants. We trust we’ll be a little more alert in the future
than we have in the past.—B.M.
Congratulations Are In Order
We believe that members of the Berean Baptist Church and of
the parish of St. James the Fisherman Church are due congratula
tions on their fine new edifices.
Everyone knows that it requires a good deal of money to do
any sort of building in Kodiak and those two Church structures are
a credit to the community and to the workers who spent long hours
in seeing that they were built.
Kodiak sooij may be known as the city of beautiful churches.
We are making great strides in that direction.
Again congratulations!—B.M.
Ted Kennedy Backs
Egan On Fisheries
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.)
has advised Gov. William Egan that
the Alaska Governor’s proposal for
creation of a cabinet level depart
ment of fisheries and ocean
ography. “has great merit . . . de
serves and will get the closest
study during the coming months.”
“Our states have a vital common
interest in the problems of the
fishing industry. I know we share
the deepest dedication to the cru
sade for progress in the industry.”
said the Bay State senator, a broth
er of the President.
New Corporation
In Island Fishing
Shelikof Corporation of Port
Wakefield is listed among the new
domestic corporations organized
during the month of December, ac
cording to the State Commissioner
of Commerce.
The new corporation listed its
capitalization at $100,000 for the
purpose of engaging in the fishing
business.
RETURNS TO KODIAK
Ed '“Commissar” Kratochvil,
manager of the Kodiak Elks Lodge
No. 1772, returned here Tuesday
from New York state where he
was called to attend the funeral
of his sister.
DR. E. E. BACH, Optometrist
Will Be in Kodiak Feb. 10 Thru
Feb. 14 To Do Eye Examinations
FOR APPOINTMENT CALL MRS. HUER AT
486-2451
SUNDAY SPECIALS
Boysenberry Pie.600 Ea.
Napoleons.200 Ea.
Open Day & Nite
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Letter to the Editor
Editor,
Sir:
I read with interest the letter
‘ The Sick American” which you
published in the Jan. 4 issue of
The Mirror. The further I read
the more pleased I became be
cause it said so many of the things
which each of us need to say to
ourselves and each other. Then I
read the final sentence “The letter
is signed, ‘Fed-up Citizen’!” Who
ever the author of that letter is,
one thing is sure, he’s Still The
Sick American!
This individual by his own ad
mission is the kind who “simply
doesn’t have it in him to fight any
one ever” but swears “by the living
God” that he is going to get well!"
His first step along the road to re
covery would have been a man
size stride if he’d have had to cour
age of his convictions to sign his
own name to his heroic letter.
You sir, I believe, published this
letter because you felt it was some
thing which might stir some of us
from the apathy which grips us
these days. But don’t you realize
that its the cloak of anonymity that
you allow to shield such men such
as Mr. X which has turned us into
a nation of sheep?
For all his new-found bravery,
Mr. X undoubtedly isnt sure
whether his neighbors or his
friends or his boss that holiest
of holies “Public Opinion” would
be in agreement with him, and
after all, how far along the road to
recovering—or finding—his pride
can you expect a man to travel
after writing himself one letter!
I believe the man who is unwill
ing to have the product of his mind
appear in conjunction with his
name is “The Sick American” in
the deepest sense of the phrase,
and hasn’t earned the right to an
audience. And you sir, and other
publishers alike, who grant his
cowardice the cloak of respectabil
ity in publication, do your readers
a great disservice.
Francis J. Pearson, RMC
MERH 5-C-B
U.S. Naval Station
Kodiak, Alaska.
CORRECTION
George McCorkle is the officer
in charge, not the desk sergeant
of the Kodiak Police Department,
as wrongly printed in last week’s
Mirror. Officer McCorkle replaces
Terry Wolf. The department’s only
sergeant is Sgt. John Boucher.
ATTENTION!
9th ANNUAL KODIAK
CITY BOWLING ASSN.
\ HANDICAP TOURNAMENT
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Will Be Held at Elks Lanes
on Feb. 1041 and Feb. 1647
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Deadline for Entries is
MIDNIGHT, FEB. 1
Entry Blanks May Be Obtained
at the Elks Lanes or Finch’s
Bowling Lanes on the Base.
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“Discovering Unity
In All Religion"
Theme Of Baha’is
In observance of World Religion
Day. the Baha’is of Kodiak and
friends met at the Ben Guhrke
home on Mission Road last Sunday
evening, Jan. 20. In many coun
tries around the world similar ob
servances were held. The theme,
“Discovering the Unity in All Re
ligion,” was developed by a panel
of six members of the local Baha’i
group, each of whom gave a brief
synopsis of one of the world’s six
great revealed religions: Hinduism,
Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Juda
ism, Christianity and Islam.
The coordinator, Robert Roys,
then pointed out the striking sim
ilarity in the basic principles of
these Faiths, that a new civilization
had been founded upon each, that
each had had the power to trans
form peoples, in some instances
from warring tribes into peace-lov
ing nations, that each of these re
ligions had had an almost identical
Golden Rule. Although stressing
much the same spiritual tenets,
each brought new social teachings
in accordance with the needs of
that particular age, in fact, God
has always anticipated the needs
of the world and has sent the
needed Message in advance of
man’s awareness of his need.”
PROPHECIES FULFILLED
“These Messengers are regarded
as Physicans,” Mr. Roys explained,
“whose task is to foster the well
being of the world and its peoples,
that, through the spirit of oneness,
they may heal the sickness of a
divided humanity . . . Little won
der, if the treatment prescribed by
the physician in this day should
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This Month
for the
Kodiak Elks
JAN. 25
Initiation and Steak Night
JAN. 26
Cerebral Palsy Dance
JAN. 27
Elks Family Breakfast
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