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Mirrored Reflection
By SIG DIGHEE
What the weather is to be like
over the weekend is a subject that
shouldn’t be broached perhaps, es
pecially in front of those very ac
tive in the staging of the King Crab
Festival.
There’s not much consolation in
consulting last years records, but
the only solace is that it doesn’t
necessarily mean that there will be
a repeat performance by the
weather man. Since we can’t con
sult an oracle, we give you the av
erages for last year for the month
of May, ahd they’re by no means
good.
The average number of days with
precipitation of .01 inches or more
was 18.1 days. The precipitation
(there’s that nasty word again) in
inches, this is an average total, was
6.19, with a maximum in 24 hours
of 1.87 inches.
The average daily maximum
temperature was 47.5 degrees.
There have been some high temp
eratures recorded in May. In May
1942, 76.0 degrees was recorded.
Let’s hope that will be duplicated
this weekend. It’s off to a good
start at any rate.
Many wno nave tickets on toe
breakup of the ice on the Tanana
river at Nenana for early this
■month are holding their breaths
with the announcement expected
any moment. In fact it may happen
before this appears in print. Ac
cording to an Associated Press
wire received at press time, the
ice is unmoved as yet. “It is be
lieved to go out sometime today,”
tihe wire stated.
The Ice Classic has kept Alas
kans and Yukon territory (the
only two districts in which tickets
can be sold) residents guessing to
the tune of an annual average of
$106,000.
The ice has moved as early as
April 20, (1940) and as late as May
16, (1945). A “Hube Goldberg”
type of device records the exact
hour and minute that the ice
moves. A manager and sim-man
committee handle ail details con
nected with the classic.
The device, which spells failure
to most and winner to a few, con
sists of a speciiaLclock located in a
guard house on the river bank,
this being hooked by a Wire to a
tripod which is frozen in the ice
in the middle of the river. When
the ice moves, the wire stops the
clock.
A couple of Kodiakans came in
for a share of the spoils last year.
Who will be lucky this year?
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BORN 60 YEARS TOO LATE
OR IS IT TOO EARLY?
“An American male baby born
today can look forward to a work
ing lifetime of 42.3 years—11.2
years longer than the working-life
expectancy of a male baby born at
the start of this century.”
The above is a quotation from
“Health Information Foundation.”
I’m sure it’s true. But who wants
to work 11.2 years longer? There
are people who love work for works
sake. Others who want to work just
to keep out of mischief. Then there
are others who can play harder
after they have worked hard—a
sort of excuse, as it were. Then,
again, there might be some who
welcome the extra 11 years of
work, which gives them that many
more years in which to pile up a
little more of this worlds goods.
Then, of course, there might be the
wife who welcomes her husband
being able to work that much
longer, because otherwise she
would have him around the house
all day.
You know, when you stop to
think about that extra 11 years of
work, there’s all kinds of ideas,
most of them unpleasant, that crop
up. In this business I’m in, a days
work can’t be done in the regula
tion 8 hours—I defy anyone to do it
year in and year out. I started out
to kid you, members of the nations
working force, whatever your job.
But who am I kidding? As I write
this it is 9:30 p. m. There’s nothing
unusual about that. We manage to
work an extra three houfs at least
a day. That makes it eleven hours.
At that rate we work about 936
hours more a year than many of
you and multiply that by the 11.2,
it means we would work more
than 10,483.2 hours more than most
in that extra time. Is that good?
“In terms of manpower potential,
the H. I. F. report stated, “a group
of 100,000 males bom in 190002
could expect to put in an average
of 3,106,000 man-years of work dur
ing their lives. By 1958 the compar
able figure was 4.228,000 man
years. Thus the working-life ex
pectancy in man-years of a group
of 100,000 male infants has risen
by over 1 million since 190002, or
by about one-third. Discouraging,
isn’t it? Don’t break the news to
your infant yet. Let him howl
about other things, such as a wet
diaper.
There’s an encouraging side to
the picture.] Not only do American
males today have a longer work
ing lifetime, but they can also ex
pect to spend more years outside
the labor force. The average num
ber of non-working years for males
increased from 16.8 in 1900-02 to
24.1 in 1958.
Young men now enter the labor
force more than two years later,
on the average, than was true at
the turn of the century. And dur
ing the same period retirement-life
expectancy has more than doubled
—from 2.7 years for a 20-year old
male in 1900 to 6.3 years in 1958.
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Edgar Holcomb, engineer in
charge of the Kodiak Island Sites
projects, has reported to the Di
vision of Aviation that the con
tractor is moving to Karluk where
the next landing strip will be con
structed.
Nuptials Unite
Couple Sunday
The marriage of Miss Rolanna
Helen Vickery, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Roland Vickery of this
city, and Mr. David R. Crosley was
solemnized at St. Mary’s Catholic
church, Sunday evening, April 30.
The bride, wearing a white nylon
net gown with shoulder-length veil
attached to a crown of seed pears!,
carried a spray of red roses. She
was given in marriage by her
father.
Rev. M. E. Hoch officiated at the
ceremony, while Sister Hilary
played the traditional wedding
music.
Maid of honor, Miss Frances
Vickery, Mrs. Crosley’s sister, was
attired in a pink brocaded taffeta
gown with matching accessories
and carried a bouquet of pink car
nations. Mrs. Vickery chose a lilac
bued gown and matching acces
sories for her daughter’s wedding.
Mr. Michael Boyle acted as best
man for the groom. Mr. Crosley,
the son of Mrs. A1 Lashley, Doug
las, Wyoming, is attached to the
Kodiak Naval Station at present
but expects to be assigned a new
duty station in July.
A reception honoring the young
couple was held at the Vickery
residence following the ceremony.
Kodiak’s Maxwell
Is “Most Valuable’
E. C. Maxwell of Kodiak, was
awarded the most valuable player
award of the ALCOM tournament
which was staged in Anchorage
last weekend.
Maxwell played center on the
strong Kodiak team, which ad
vanced to the semi-finals when it
was nosed out by Fort Richardson
in a neck-and-neck battle that kept
the spectators on edge.
Maxwell, 6-foot, 2% inches tall,
scored a total of 94 points for an
average of 23% points for the four
games in which he played. The
lanky Navy center hauled down the
rebounds time after time and re
ceived praise from the various
coaches present.
Coach of the Navy team is G. C.
Schott. Other players are Strick
land, Lauderdale, Buss, McLouth,
Darden, and Hoist.
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, Alaska’s hospitals
are engaged in providing high
standard health care for our resi
dents; and
WHEREAS, our hospitals as
community service institutions
must be ever responsive to chang
ing community health needs; and
WHEREAS, our hospital, to pro
vide the best possible facilities for
health care for the public, look to
community cooperation and sup
port:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, William
A. Egan, Governor of Alaska, urge
that the residents of Alaska, in
recognition of
NATIONAL HOSPITAL WEEK,
MAY 7 - 13, 1961,
salute the hospitals of this
State for their provision of a vital
community service, and commend
them for providing the health care
services which their respective
communities need.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and
caused the Seal of tihe State of
Alaska to be affixed, this first day
of May, in the year of Our Lord,
nineteen hundred and sixty-one.
/s/ William A. Egan,
Governor of Alaska.
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Reception Honors
Mrs. Jack Metzgar
A well attended reception honor
ing Mrs. Jack Metzgar, who retires
this year after 30 years of teaching,
was given at the Kodiak high
school on Sunday afternoon, April
30. The affair was sponsored by
the Kodiak Parent Teachers As
sociation, the Board of Education
and the Kodiak Educational Asso
ciation.
At the reception, Mr. Schott,
superintendent of schools, gave
an impressive resume of Mrs. Metz
gar’s professional career.
Three of Mrs. Metzgar’s third
grade pupils, Edward Malutin,
Caral Frye and David Rodlie, pre
sented a tribute to their dedicated
teacher. Other third graders at
tended the guest book.
On behalf of the local school
board, Mrs. Dorothy Clark pre
sented Mrs. Metzgar with a check.
Mrs. Eunice Neseth presented a
gift from the Kodiak Educational
Association.
Some of the high points of her
teaching career were briefly told
by Mrs. Metzgar who also had oh
display some of her photograph
albums of Unalaska and Kodiak.
Upon the completion of her
thirtieth year of teaching this May,
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Metzgar plan an
extended trip for the coming year.
PLAN COMMENCEMENT
The fourtieth high school com
mencement and the fourteenth
Junior College commencement will
be celebrated by the Sheldon Jack
son schools at Sitka on May 10th,
according to an announcement by
the school.
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King-Crab
DANCE
ELKS CLUB
Floor Show By The Millikens
Friday, May 5,1961
Cerebral Palsy Fund Benefit
9:00 P. M.
Donation - $1.00