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EDITORIAL
A WORLD TOO SMALL
FOR ANYTHING BUT BROTHERHOOD
, By David Sarnoff
Chairman of the Board
i Radio Corporation of America
f Underlying -the fundamental
problems of our (ime is the fate
ful fact that science and technol
ogy have narrowed the world to a
neighborhood before man has
broadened it to a brotherhood.
* Though man has come to under
stand, in a large measure, the com
plexities of the electron and the
itom, he is still far from under
standing his fellow man.
Though he has learned to see
md hear electronically to the outer
•eaches of the universe, his mind
las been unable to cross the nar
•ow boundaries of prejudice.
I Though he has made impressive
•strides toward the conquest of
puter space, he still has much to
gleam about the intricacies of in
sier space—about man himself and
mis aspirations for freedom and
Justice.
» More than ever before, therefore,
ftve must rededicate ourselves to
^he principle of Brotherhood which
Iruns like a golden thread through
Jthe rich tapestry of our history. It
is a principle enshrined in the Dec
laration of Independence by Wash
ington, Jefferson and the other
♦Founding fathers; a principle cap
tured in prose by Tom Paine, and
Jturned into living verse by Walt
iWhitman; a principle which over
She years has fired men’s imagina
tions and kindled their hopes for
fe better world.
| To remind us of the towering
•importance of this principle, the
INational Conference of Christians
•and Jews sponsors Brotherhood
Week each year duirng the month
of February. Its purpose is to un
derscore the fact that Brother
hood, to be fully meaningful, must
be expressed in terms of action, of
something we can all do every day
of the year.
And there is something we can
do. We can start today by treating
one another—rich and poor, Christ
ian and Jew, colored and white —
in a way that will clearly reflect
our belief in the basic ideal of
Brotherhood — an ideal which has
illuminated America’s greatest
hours. In this way, each of us
can help bring about an awareness
of its importance to each of us in
dividually, to our nation and to the
world, which has become too small
for anything but Brotherhood.
2 Kodiak Pupils
Win With Posters
Lynn Couch of the Kodiak high
school place second in the State
wide Dental Health Poster Contest
held recently. Lynn won a $25 Gov
ernment Bond and an Achieve
ment Plaque, and was one of three
to qualify.
One of six to win a third place
ward and an Achievement Plaque
was Elana Ross, also of the Kodiak
high school.
A total of 180 posters were for
v.arded to Anchorage and entered
in the Statewide contest as rep
resentative winners of contests
conducted at each school. It is es
timated that about 1,800 dental
health posters were completed by
pupils throughout Alaska.
THE
KODIAK AREA CHAMBER
OF
COMMERCE
URGES YOU
TO
VOTE
ON THE
RATIFICATION
ORDINANCE -*244
Mirrored Reflections
By Sig Digree__
Florida beckons! It may be a
still small voice that tickles the
eardrums, but we just finished a
piece we received in the mails
glorifying that particular state in
general and a certain piece of real
estate in particular.
It was all very interesting and
enticing. Real estate prices so low
and if you haven’t $695 for a 14
acre, buy it at $10 down, and $10
a month. Where land is so fertile
you can almost put a stick in the
ground and watch it grow . . . Liv
ing is cheap, life is abundant . . .
live like a country squire and yet
only a few miles from town . . .
Beautiful beach, miles of it ... A
temperate clime in a semi-tropical
setting . . . cooled by gulf breezes
in summer . . . warmed by the gulf
in winter . . . comfortable 70 de
gree (thats me) all-year-round.
lie lie lie
The pictures of course that went
with it were also enticing. Happy,
contented, healthy looking people
everywhere, frolicking, swimming,
picnicing, playing games, or just
plain sitting—take your choice.
According to this blurp, people live
longer in Florida. And well they
might if you can believe half of
what you read in the folder de
scribing this heaven on earth . . .
It says Florida has no state income
tax whatever . . . You save on mu
nicipal and county taxes ... As an
example, in 1960, total real estate
taxes on a $13,000 house in Marion
County amounted to only $5.59 for
the year ... You can sell without
paying state income tax on your
gains ... No state inheritance tax
. . .You save on clothing and heat
ing bills; and on building construc
tion ... You save money on food
bills—garden produce is cheap or
you can raise your own in your own
backyard. Fruit, too . . . Plenty of
fish.
Will somebody tell me what’s
wrong with the place before I send
the $10 I have been eyeing so ten
derly the last few minutes.
* * *
TOP THIS ONE. It posts the
U. S. government for storage $14,
000 a day for flaxseed and rye;
oats $15,000; rice $17,000; soybeans
$23,000; milk and butter $29,000;
barley $64,000 and cotton $76,000.
“But these are peanuts,” comments
the Arlington, Texas, Citizen,
compared to the big boys. Have a
good look: Grain sorghums cost
$262,000 a day .. . Corn costs $444,
000 ^ day . .. wheat $579,000 a day
for storage.” Total cost of storage
for all these commodities comes to
well over $550,000,000 a year.
* * *
We are gratified to see the Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce and the
officers of the Chamber of Com
merce are supporting the sale of
the cold storage facilities/ and ask
for ratification of Ord. 244.
Should ratification of the or
dinance go through, as we feel sure
it will, it will be gratifying to see
the old cold storage building being
put to some use, and activity in the
area bring more work and greater
payrolls to the community . . .
Hope to see you at the polls.
^ ^ *
Several good old fashioned bar
bershop quartets will warble in
competition Feb. 24-25 at Forest
Grove, Ore., where they are staging
their annual Gay Nineties festival.
It’s a gala occasion from all reports
with County Fair atmosphere . . .
Glad to see the old tradition of bal
lad singing quartets kept up. Al
ways did like them.
* * •
We’re going to watch with in
terest the voting in Fairbanks
when the residents go to the polls
March 21 to decide a very import
ant issue—whether to raise the
sales tax and repeal the personal
property tax. It has been worked
out that by raising the sales tax,
sufficient revenue would be col
lected thereby to do away with the
personnal property tax. It looks
like the proposal has merit. We
never have thought much of paying
personal property taxes. We have
paid now for so many years on old
worn out furniture and belongings,
it’s like paying on a dead horse.
Waterfront
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away at the coating of ice. For
tunately it can be said the ice was
not formed in the nearby waters
of Kodiak but began forming as
the boat was anchored in Puale
Bay over on the mainland. The
skipper, Merrill Hennington, de
cided to get out of the cold spot
but fast, and crossed the Shelikof
Straits with a load of crab, arriv
ing here late Tuesday.
Other members of the crew are
Merrill’s brother Joe, and Barney
Corgatelli, Sr.
&
The first step has been made
in Old Harbor someday getting a
small boat basin. While U. S. Army
Engineers Gale Gronwald and
Jiggs Tice were in Kodiak last
week, they went over to Old Har
bor to look over the proposed pro
ject. Gronwald stated on his return
that a small basin is needed there
as there are at present 16 resident
boats and about 40 altogether in
the summer. There is a little bay
that would lend itself to such a pro
ject, but he said, they did not do
any sounding or make a survey as
so far none such has been author
ized. It was just a project for fu
ture planning, he said.*
X
Lot3 of crab reported these days.
All canneries seem to be getting
their share, although Alaska Pack
ers aren’t running anywhere near
capacity, as tenders are bringing
in the crab. One is expected how
ever in a day or so. Archie Nelson,
skippering the Georgie brought in
a load from the Tonki Bay area.
Del Valentine, Superintendent,
is in the South 48 rounding up a
crew of clam diggers in prepara
tion for clam canning, which will
start about a month earlier this
year. The cannery expects to get
under way about April 1.
Pete Marinkowitz is in charge
during Del’s absence. Nick Spano
vik is now on hand as the new for
man. He is an old-time employee of
the cannery, and has been coming
up for many years. Charlie Chris
toffersen is still around and tells
me he has been on the job for
about 16 years now. Gene Hill,
biologist in the research depart
ment for the company, is still here.
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Said to be a “scorching hearing,
the hearing held at Juneau on the
proposed ferry systems brought
some strong arguments for it and
a few not so strong against it. Felix
Toner, who made a pretty thorough
study of the Southeast ferry pro
posal, stated revenues could be ex
pected to reach a point whereby
they would pay all operating costs
of the system, exclusive of debt
service by the end of the fourth
year of operation.
State Commissioner of Public
Works, Richard Downing stated it
would cost $300 million to con
struct highways to serve the same
purpose as the marine highway.
V.V
More workers are need at King
Crab, according to Bob Springhill.
The cannery is running two shifts
with plenty of crab and shrimp
coming in. Power failure one day
this week slowed them down a
little.
The Landlubber
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