1960 HS Graduate
Joins Waves Here
In an enlistment ceremony Janu
ary 18 at the U. S. Naval Station,
Kodiak, Sandra F. Luque, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John 0. Luque,
Brooklyn Ave., Kodiak, was sworn
into Lie WAVES branch of the
U. S. Navy.
Sandra F. Luque
U. S. Navy Photo
Sandra, a 1960 graduate of Kodiak
High School, will report to the
naval training center, Bainbridge,
Maryland for training and assign
ment to one of the Navy’s occu
pational fields.
It is notable that she is the
f.rst WAVE from Kodiak to en
list in the U. S. Navy in several
years.
The Luque family arrived here
nine years ago from Prince Ed
ward Island. Canada. Mr. Luque
is employed by Lazy Bay Cannery
in Alitak. In addition to Sandra,
the Luque's have a son, Bruce,
stationed with the U. S. Army at
Fort Richardson, Anchorage.
Former Residents
In Car Accident
Rose Graziano and Mildred Cro
well, residents here for a number
of years, were both injured badly
in an accident which occurred late
Friday, January 13th.
A car in which they were pass
engers, got out of control and
flipped over on the highway. The
accident happened at Doylestown.
Pa. Both are in the hospital there.
Miss Graziano has a fractured
right knee and is suffering from
lacerations. Milderd Crowell also
has a fractured rght knee, broken
left wrist, three broken ribs. Her
face is badly cut requiring more
than twenty stitches in her fore
head alone.
Also in the car was Miss Blanche
Clifton, who suffered a fractured
scull and a fractured collarbone.
Miss Clifton was a visitor here in
1959. Rose Graziano and Mildred
Crowell are attending school in
the East.
Study Now Made
On Teacher Needs
A high salary doesn't necessar
ily mean you get the best qualified
teachers, Rotarians at their lunch
eon Tuesday noon learned. But a
fair wage does attract teachers
who are capable and have the
qualifications.
W. A. Hoover, Superintendent of
On-Base Schoois, spoke to the
group on the subject of "Teacher’s
Certification.” He is a member of
a State committee studying the
subject. The committee is sub
mitting proposals to the Education
Department, with a view of adop
tion.
An applicant with three years
of college can teach in Aiasjca. A
BA is required for a regular cer
tificate, he said, although there
are several types of certificates.
Life certificates have been discon
tinued, he said. Many qualification
requirements are waived he said
in instances where a teacher is
needed to fill a position tempor
ari'y in an isolated area.
Among guests present besides
Mr. Hoover were Rev. Lewis
White and Don Wolf. New student
member for the next six weeks is
Jack Trent.
Tne 34 coral atolls in the
Marshall Islands contain only 74
square miles of land area, but they
extend over more than 180,000
square miles of ocean.
“Gossip too often goes in one
ear and out the mouth.”
March of Dimes Aids Child Polio Victim;
She Dedicates Herself to Helping Blind
At one despairing point
during Mary Jo Phillips’
seven-year confinement in
a hospital near Boston, and
while she was an iron-lung
prisoner of polio, a nurs
ing nun read aloud to the
frightened little girl these
words of the tormented
Job:
“I was eyes to the blind.”
Mary Jo, herself tormented
after seven operations and three
months in an iron lung, never
forgot Job's words. At Ken
nedy Memorial Hospital, Bright
on, a nun and physical thera
pist suggested that since the
plight of the blind touched
Mary Jo deeply, she might
want to try her hand at tran
scribing Braille.
Nothing interested her more.
Mary Jo’s fascination with
learning to write for the sight
less was healthy in two ways.
Physically, the manual effort
of applying the Braille awl to
the fiberboard strengthened her
thin arms and fingers once
paralyzed by polio. And spiri
tually, this labor of love for
those even more terribly af
flicted than she, expressed her
gratitude to God at surviving
her own ordeal.
The first words Mary Jo
wrote in Braille, for the blind
to read through their finger
tips, were those of the unhap
py Job. (The Old Testament
Eatriarch was reminding the
ord of his own succor to those
whose eyes had failed.)
Mary Jo, who is 14 and has
spent ’half of those years in
hospitals, now is home with
her overjoyed parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Phillips of Whit
man, Mass. In her wheel chair,
the child continues her plucky
fight today against the ravages
of bulbar polio.
With $32,000 in March of
Dimes contributions. The Na
tional Foundation has brought
Mary Jo along to the point
where she can type slowly,
write, paint water colors, dress
herself “with just a little help,”
and even walk a few steps sup
ported by her crutches.
But above all, the little girl
is devoted to her labors with
Braille. When she completes
the “bible" that is never far
from her, “Standard English
Using special awl for writing in Braille, Mary Jo Phillips
punches out text on fiberboard.
wrn— ri r— i ■ 11 ■ n mia
' Mary Jo's first line of Braille, written for the blind during
her seven-year hospital stay, fighting polio.
Braille in 20 Lessons” (she
sleeps with it under her pil
low), Mary Jo is planning to
transcribe fairy tales and
Mother Goose rhymes into the
pointed-dot vocabulary of those
who live in darkness.
When four years hence her
home instructor gives Mary Jo
her high school diploma, she
plans thereafter to study the
teaching of Braille to blind
children. That will be Mary
Jo's inspiring career, a lifetime
| of serving selflessly as “eyes
I to the blind.’*
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On The Screen
Friday and Saturday. Showing of
the great war film “Bismark."
Sunday and Monday. "The Horse
Soldiers”--one of the most dra
matic and exciting incidents of
the Civil War supplies the fabric
for this story, filmed at a cost of
$6,500,000 and directed by John
Ford. John Wayne and William
Holden star.
The story deals with the incred
ibly bold and heroic six-hundred
mile raid through Confederate ter
ritory of Benjamin Grierson and
his brigade of Union cavalry. His
torians have credited this remark
able feat with having mercifully
shortened the conflict by as much
as a full year, with the saving of
perhaps 100,000 lives.
Hoot Gibson, star of yesteryear
and Althea Gibson, young Negro
girl athlete, are featured. In De
Luxe color filmed on location in
Mississippi and Louisiana.
Tuesday and Wednesday. “The
Miracle”—a highspirited costume
drama, loaded with extras, burn
ing villages, Napoleon’s armies,
galloping grenadiers, gypsy rev
elries, and eye-popping sets.
Carrol Baker plays the starring
feminine role of the girl who abon
dons her postulant vestments for
a wild fling as a gypsy dancer. Her
leading man is Roger Moore.
Warner Bros' presentation of
‘The Miracle’ is in Teohnirama
and Technicolor.
NEWCASTLE, Wyo. (AP)—Ted
Draper’s missing cat has popped
up—under the hood of a car in
Osage, 15 miles away. The car’s
owner, Roy Jones, said the cat
appeared unhurt but he couldn’t
figure out how it got there.
To Show Slides
At Luncheon Of
Navy Wives Club
Mrs. Yule Chaffin, of Woody
Island will be the guest speaker
at the Kodiak Island Navy Wives
Club social and luncheon, Monday,
January 23. The meeting will be
held at the Civil Service Club at
1 pm
Mrs. Chaffin will present slides
and offer a commentary on them.
Reservations will be taken by
Melba Pajari at 487-5817, and Syl
via Stockdill at 486-2661, but no
later than 12 noon Saturday, Janu
ary 21. All enlisted men’s wives
are invited to attend.
MOON ROCKET
travel will take place in the near
future but we have not received
the insurance applications to take
to the moon. You can be sure
when that rocket is
LAUNCHED
:his up-to-date agency will be
right there to handle the
insurance
FROM
those who are interested. For the
present, we offer the latest,
competent insurance in
KODIAK!
Art Brooks
Phone 486—2215
Kodiak Insurance
& Bldg Corp
LOU VEERMAN
Agent
486—2656
SAILING FROM SEATTLE
MS TATALINA
February 1, 1961
Seward (Mail Only), Womens Bay,
Kodiak, Cordova.
KNUDSEN’S
1961 Hunting and Fishing Licenses
are now available at Knudsem’s
and the Outfitters. Get them
early and enjoy a full year of
hunting and fishing.
Models, Glue, Cement
Waterman Pens and Pencils.
Fur-lined Boots, Just the item
For Cold Hind Feet.
Film, Cameras, Photo Finishing
Hunting Knives, Hand Guns, Rifles,
Powder and Primers.
KNIISEN’S — Where All Kodiak Shops