SOCIAL NOTES
— Homemaking —
Happening* About Town
— Gardening —
Of This and That
By Betha Digree
Santple ballots with certain
recommended candidates’ names
checked off were given to a young
ster, by a member of the group
sponsoring these candidates, to be
distributed around town before
election. We have been informed
by a reliable person that one can
didate who was not on the recom
mended list gave the young lad
a dollar, saying that he, the candi
date, would distribute the samples.
Our source added that the same
candidate had a pile of the marked
ballots in his home which he used
for scratch paper while waiting for
election returns.
Our informant did not know if
all the samples were there, but
there seems to be more than a
reasonable doubt that any were
actually distributed by the man.
We were also told that he seemed
highly amused by this action. We
do not know personally, of course,
that this happened as we were not
present. But we do have faith in
the honesty and integrity of the
person who told us of the incident
. . . Two virtues that ALL candi
dates should possess . . .
Chief of Police Roland Vickery
and his family, enroute to Florida
for vacation, wrote that the trip
has been wonderful but that the
temperature has been high ... 98
degrees in Ranton, N. M. when
they spent a night there . . .
Mariane Fitzgerald, Kodiak Ho
tel manager, returned last week
from the mainland where she vaca
tioned the past month . . . She
spent most of her time at Mc
Carthy, with a few days in Anchor
age . . . Mariane said she had a
pleasant time, and especially en
joyed a helicopter ride over the
Miss Sue Daly
Married In Japan
The marriage of their daughter,
Ellen Sue, to Ltjg James Shepard
Cogswell, USNR, on July 1 has
been announced by Mr. and Mrs.
Vincent H. Daly. The wedding was
held at the U S. Embassy in Tokyo,
Japan.
The Daly family resided in Ko
diak several years before moving
Outside.
Kennecott Copper Mine and the
Chitina area which she described
as truly beautiful country . . .
Mariane added that she had thor
oughly relaxed and had rested
while she was gone . . .
Gene Sundberg, Kraft’s Super
market employee, may have pos
sibly lost some of his desire to
keep his lawn neat and trim . . .
While he was mowing Wednesday
evening, he slipped on the damp
grass, the mower ran over his foot,
breaking three of Gene’s toes . . .
We do hope that Gene will not
become too discouraged by his
mishap. Kodiak needs more people
who will make their home grounds
as attractive as Gene and Phyllis
Sundberg have made theirs . . .
Driftwood To Be
Subject Of Talk
Guest speaker at the social meet
ing and luncheon of the Navy
Wives Club to be held at the Mecca
49 Room at 1:00 p.m. on Monday,
August 22, will be Mrs. Nina
Johnson. Mrs. Johnson will speak
on the subject of selection of drift
wood and the art of making ar
rangements.
All members of the club are
urged to attend the meeting and
are invited to bring guests.
For reservations, call Sylvia
Stockdill at 6354 or Melba Pajari
at 617.
Mary Cornelius
Visits Anchorage
Mrs. Mary Cornelius spent a
week in Anchorage visiting Dr.
and Mrs. Victor Strash and family,
who have purchased a home there.
Dr. and Mrs. Strash will be re
turning to Sanak Island, on the
Aleutian Chain, when school re
opens. Both Dr. and Mrs. Strash
tauight in the village school last
year. They lived in Kodiak a few
years when Dr. Strash was on the
staff of the Kodiak high school.
MRS. ROSE PEYTON
IN SEATTLE HOSPITAL
Mrs. Rose Peyton left Tuesday
morning for Seattle where she
entered Virginia Mason Hospital
for examination and possible sur
gery. Mrs. Peyton has been em
ployed as clerk at Knudsen’s.
Anna’s Apparel
JUST ARRIVED!!!
NEW IMPORTED KNITS
‘Cadillac’ from Italy
‘Promenade’ from Germany
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Clothing for the “Lady-in-waiting.”
Large Family No Special Problem
To Cmdr. Richmond & Wife Barbara
By Miriam J. Angell
Cmdr. and Mrs. Chester A. Rich
mond are the first to admit that
their chief claim to fame is their
family of seven children, the
youngest of whom is seven months
old and the eldest seventeen years
old. but in some circles they are
also known as the skipper of the
Coast Guard Air Detachment and
his Barbara.
Unaccustomed to such a large
family we •were interested to
know' how Barbara Richmond man
ages to keep an orderly home and
at the same tme take part in many
outside activities. “We keep all the
work on a schedule and I put re
only place on Oahu Island where
there was any loss of life. I was
wakened at seven ten one morning
by a pounding on the door. There
was water up to the floor and the
pounding was our boat. Chet’s
co-pilot’s wife lived next door;
she came over and we watched the
big wave recede, and smaller ones
wash in. Houses on all sides were
flattened and sucked under by the
first wave but we didn’t have sense
enough to run. As it happened, we
were in the only safe place in that
area; the coral reef just out from
our house split the wave and saved
us. Several people on both sides
were drowned. A Navy chief who
CMDR. and MRS. CHESTER A. RICHMOND
minder notes in the kitchen and
all around the house; if the family
sees it in writing they can’t forget
it. I don’t think the problems are
any more special than having five
or four or two children. It just
costs more; they eat and eat, and
go on eating. I bought six pairs of
shoes today and there are several
more to buy yet. Yes, I’ll name the
children so you can keep them
straight . . . There is Bob, seven
teen; John, fifteen; Jim, twelve;
Tricia, eight; Kathleen (Corky),
four; Maureen (Tammy), three;
and Tom, who will be seven months
next week.”
Cmdr. Richmond said, “Every
once in a while I stop and think
how old I’ll be when the last one
gets out of high school and it’s a
pretty fantastic figure. We’ll have
grandchildren by then for sure.
We have only six at home right
now; Bob is working this summer
on a three-man purse seiner out
of Lazy Bay. Our son is cook,
among other things, and knowing
how little he likes to cook we
wonder what sort of meals he
serves. It’s a wonderful experience
for him.”
How have the Richmonds moved
around so widely (they have had
children born in all four corners
of the United States) with their
family? Mrs. Richmond answered
this. “We had a trailer for some
years until we outgrew it when
the fifth child was born. We went
back and forth across the country
and made vacations of our trans
fers, and we sometimes used the
trailer as a guest house when we
settled down at the various sta
tions. We bought it before the days
of the big plush houses on wheels;
flower pots fell and broke, things
turned over all the time, or slid
around. We had some funny times
in that.” Chet Richmond suggested
that they might go back to a trailer
as the children go off the top and
the family gets smaller.
“Up until now,” Mrs. Richmond
said, “our most interesting tour
probably was Hawaii because it
w'as there in 1946 that we had a
severe tidal wave. Chet was away
and our house w*as in Punuluu
(which means scatters coral), the
was driving nearby saw the first
wave coming, jumped out of his
car and ran for the hills. He saved
himself but he never saw his car
aigain. The Army came to evacuate
us and the two children and I were
not allowed to return home until
three days after. To this day I
don’t know why I took with me the
things I did; I gathered up my
alligator shoes, the baby’s milk
and my cigarettes, and left every
thing valuable except the children.
“We would emphasize very
strongly that we like Kodiak. I
think the whole family does. It’s a
good place for children; now, to
night John is at Teen Club and we
know he is safe going and coming.
I never worry here as I did in the
states when the boys were out.”
Cmdr. Richmond added, “Weath
er doesn’t bother us in this family
at all. I like my job and would
like to extend for a year.”
We wanted him to talk about
his job and the effects of the area
weather on the Coast Guard Air
Detachment.
“Well, I think pilots may get
used to flying in worse weather
than they thought they would get
used to, but the weather out the
Aleutian chain is so notorious,
they know what they’re coming to.
“In my job I actually wear two
hats, as commanding officer of the
Air Det and as Coordinator of Air
Sea Rescue for this area, divided
among the three ships, Storis,
Bittersweet and Sedge, and the
Air Detachment. The Air Det han
dles about seventy per cent of the
SAR calls. Last fiscal year we had
one hundred and sixty-four SAR
cases of which some were assist
ance cases, but the majority were
evacuations of ill persons from
isolated places. The ships take the
assistance cases; we handle the
evacuations with thirteen pilots,
three UFs and a C123. The C123 is
used almost exclusively for our
logistic responsibility of all Coast
Guard units in Western Alaska.
Hinchinbrook and Cape St. Elias
are supplied by air drops with
parachutes; basically we supply
everything to them except oil and
men. We now make scheduled
flights to Adak, St. Paul, Sitkinak,
Attu and Cape Sarachef. Flight
time has increased considerably in
1960. There is more business, I
guess, as Alaska grows and there
are more people in the 9tate.
“Our area of over all respon
sibility for rescue services extends
from Yakutat to West Umnak and
up in the Bering Sea as far as
Romanzof, just south of St. Law
rence Island . . . really the water
areas and the peninsula. We have
an agreement with the other mili
tary services. No, we have no spec
ial problems except that it is far
ther between stops, and of course,
the weather.”
Cmdr. Ricnmond was born and
raised in California; he graduated
from the Coast Guard Academy in
1941, and made a good many con
voy runs out of Iceland until he
went to flight training in 1942.
“I got over my desire to go to
sea because my father was never
at home. He was a sea captain,
skipper of a tanker for thirty
seven years. He went to sea at
the age of fourteen, in a square
rigger As I got older he was at
home more but for most of my life
he came home every two years and
painted the house. When I was a
small boy, he took me with him,
and my mother and sister; later in
high school I wanted to quit and
go to sea like my father. Neither
parent would hear of this but they
let me go to China on a Norwegian
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