Kodiak Kapsules—
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when someone mentioned plans
for the winter, and Rear Ad
miral Bakutis jumped from his
seat and said, “Don’t mention it.
I’m just beginning to get warm.”
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SO WE’RE TOLD: The salmon
fishing promises to be the best in
a decade, and now there’s talk of
spreading the activity into the
dungeness crab and mechanical
diggers for clams, all for a brighter
economic picture hereabouts. . . .
Von at the Montmartre has motel
plans in mind, and it will take that
to get more tourists to come our
way. . . . Radio listening is a pleas
ure hereabouts (with no shrieking
commercials to distract the listen
er). .. . One of the happiest kids
in town Sunday was Wesley Wilej
who caught himself a halibut while
fishing with Sig Digree. . . . Won
der, proportionately, if any com
munity in Alaska has more resi
dents and former residents at the
Alaska Day ceremony at Seattle
than did Kodiak. . . . The City
Council surprised at finishing a
meeting in less than two hours,
stayed around another hour just
to make it look right in getting
home. . . . And aside to AFRS-TV
and to Sister Hillary at Griffin
Memorial: thanks a million for the
TV Log and the hospital news, and
now if the rest of you will coop
erate and call or stop by with your
locals, you, too, can join our “I
Love You, Too Club.”
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AND NOW YOU KNOW:
Where the dollars are; the U.S.
Mint has 74 million silver dol
lars on hand and hasn’t stamped
one out since 1935. . . . That it
just could be that Alaska is the
50th state instead of the 49th; it
seems that in 1784 four Western
Counties of North Carolina se
ceded and became the state of
Franklin, setting up their capital
in Tennessee. ... Alaska has the
longest seacoast of any state in
the U.S. with 6,640 miles; Flor
ida is a poor second with 1,197.
. . . And while we’ve never seen
it around our harbor, Portuguese
fishermen often paint eyes on
their boats to guide them to the
fish.
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It took a Committee of the An
chorage Chamber of Commerce 12
pages to come up with some sort
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of recommendation on the Kodiajc
Ferry, and then they didn’t, which
brings us to the point, why does it
always take the largest city so long
to realize that they wouldn’t be so
large if there wasn’t a multitude
of smaller communities to contrib
ute to its economic welfare and
growth?
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On the lighter side: Down at
the Mirror office we have a cou
ple of signs designed for those
who persist in worrying: They
read like this:
“Don’t take life too seriously.
. . . You’ll never get out of it
alive anyway.”
Or this one which is designed
to boom the newspaper lineage:
“Don’t worry, if you’re in debt.
You can have your funeral notice
printed and sent to your cred
itors for only $1.98. Get per
manently rid of that low feel
ing.”
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A learned character with a stack
of college degrees has come up
with the thought that a key to a
person’s character can be found in
his answers to the three questions:
“What is your ambition,” “What
is your hobby?” and “What is
Your Pet Peeve?”
This might be broken down fur
ther on 10 age levels as follows
for the male of the species: (re
member ambition is first; hobby
is second; and peeve is third).
AGE 10: (1) To be a cowboy, (2)
playing cops and robbers, (3) doing
anything I hafta. AGE 20: (1) to
become a counselor at a girl’s
camp, (2) girls, (3) working. AGE
25: (1) to have lots of children,
(2) playing baseball, (3) bachelor
friends. AGE 30: to be promoted
to office manager, (2) children, (3)
children. Age 35: (1) planned par
enthood, (2) watching baseball, (3)
bathroom scales.
AGE 40: (1) a month’s paid va
cation (alone), (2) 36 holes of golf
a week, (3) references to receding
hairlines. AGE 45: (1) To get sick
enough to go to bed and enjoy it,
(2) 18 holes of golf a week, (3)
people with money. AGE 55: (1)
None listed, (2) miniature golf,
(3) young people. AGE 65: To pro
mote increase in Social Security
benefits, (2) staring, (3) list ap
pended. AGE 90: To get sued for
alienation of affections, (2) sitting,
(3) anything that happened in the
last 20 years.
RETURN TO KODIAK
Mr. and Mrs. Ole Johnson and
Mark returned home Sunday from
a two weeks vacation which took
them to the World’s Fair. Their
daughter, Rita, will stay at Au
burn, Washington, for some time
with the Bob Gaines’ former Ko
diak residents. The Johnsons also
visited Victoria on their trip.
Among The First
Douglas R. Wood of Kodiak, son
of Coast Guard Chief of the Ko
diak Air Detachment, was one of
the first four enlistees to take
the oath at the new Anchorage
Army Enlisting Center, Room 9
of the Federal Building in late
June. Wood will go to military
police school.
If time is money then most peo
ple should have more loot than
they know what to do with.
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Archers Schedule
The Kodiak Bowmen will hold
an archery golf shoot on Woody
Island on Sunday, July 22, weather
permitting.
Free transportation will be pro
vided. Cost of the shoot is 50 cents,
and a charge of $1 will be made
Golf Shoot Sunday
for the steak fry. The archers wiU
leave from the small boat harbor
at 9:30 a.m. The shoot is open to
everyone and families are wel
come. All persons planning to at
tend are asked to gather at the
office at the harbor.
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