The Sullivans
(Continued from Page 8)
in Korea. One newspaper account
describes a battle in which his de
tachment was surrounded by Red
Chinese. War Correspondent H. D.
Quigg wrote, “He has a full blown,
bright brown handlebar mustache.
He gained fame when he threw
his carbine like a javelin and
speared a Communist Chinese
machine gunner. The machine gun
ner dropped like a rock.”
Kitty Sullivan said, “I saved
everything in those days, and all
that Time and Life had on Korea
when Sully was there. At that time
you didn’t belong if you weren’t
wounded. Every one of our friends
was wounded two or three times,
and one had the record, 14 times.
I got a wire saying Sully was
wounded but there were no de
tails; it worried me because I
didn’t hear from him for about a
week. Up until December seventh
he wrote every day, even in com
bat. As I learned later, the wound
was not serious; he couldn’t write
because they were on the march
out from Chosin Reservoir. We
Heard about the march and I knew
his division would get through, but
I worried about how many would
get through. They all came back;
they did not leave one man be
hind. The dead rode and the
wounded walked.”
Major Sullivan opened David
Douglas Duncan’s pictorial history
of the Marines in Korea and leafed
through it, pointing to faces he
knew and commenting on incidents
depicted. “Here is one taken when
it stayed about 25 degrees below
zero for a week. We lived out in it,
no shelter. Duncan is an ex-Marine
and he lived it all with us. When
he couldn’t get to Chosin, he walk
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Women’s new Fall coats, suits, dresses, etc.;
school sweaters.
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ed to meet us and took these pic
tures of the march.”
We asked Kitty Sullivan to talk
about herself and she told us she
had lived in West Virginia all her
life. Weirton is home. “I have al
ways been interested in stage work.
Remember when all the little
movie stars had sausage curls? I
was about six or seven, lots of
curls, and Hollywood offered me
a movie contract, but my family
wouldn’t let me go. I did many
plays throughout school. When I
graduated from high school I want
ed to go to iNew York to study for
the stage, but I was just 16 and my
father thought me too young. He
persuaded me to go to business
college instead. After two years of
that I went to work for Weirton
Steel. When the war started I
didn’t want to be a WAVE or WAC,
but something a little different, so
I went to the Marine recruiting
office in Pittsburgh to talk to the
officer about being a Marine. He
told me that the Marines had no
intention of having women in the
corps, and that I was too little
anyway.
“The Marines did decide to let
women in just a few months later,
but their director said there was
no way I could get a waiver for my
size. (Mrs. Sullivan is exactly one
half inch under five feet, if she
stretches.) I went back home, just
as determined as ever, and then I
was lucky. My boss at Weirton
Steel introduced me to the Secre
tary of the Navy who let me tell
him how badly I wanted to be a
lady Marine, and he arranged a
waiver.
“I did my duty at Quantico, Vir
ginia, where I met Sully, who was
going through OCS. We were mar
ried on November 24, 1945, and I
got out of the Marines four days
later.
“The only duty overseas I’ve
been allowed to go to was in Tsing
tao, China. The Marines were there
as guests of the Chinese National
ist Government because the Navy
was there to help the Chinese train
a Navy of its own.”
The major continued, “We went
in originally to accept the surren
der of the Japanese because they
did not want it accepted by the
Chinese Communists. Conditions in
1949 were deteriorating; the Com
munist army was camped on the
outskirts of the city and in early
October, Marine families were
given the opportunity to evacuate.
Famine would be rampant, we
were told, and there was fear of
molestation by the starving popu
lace.”
Kitty Sullivan said, with some
emphasis, “Only one Marine wife
elected to go. Then we were told
there would be an orderly evacu
ation of all Americans on ships
leaving in November, December
and January. I didn’t want to leave
but eventually I had to, and came
out on the last ship. The Marines
were the last ones out. It was ex
citing; I always like to be at that
Kodiak Assembly
of God Church
Mission Road
Pastor Wm. L. Cummins
Phone 6491
“Not By Might, Nor By Power,
But By My Spirit, Saith the
Lord of Hosts.”
SERVICE SCHEDULE
SUNDAY
Sunday School.10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship ... 11:00 a.m.
Christ’s Ambassadors 6:30 p.m.
Evangelistic Service .. 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY
Missionettes.1:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
Women’s Prayer
Meeting.2:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Prayer & Bible Study 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Youth Meeting.7:00 p.m.
little pitch of excitement."
When we asked for a recipe, she
laughed and shook her head. “I
don’t have a recipe. I’m not a good
cook and I don't like housekeeping.
I never got over those seven
servants in China. They cooked and
did everything and I’m still spoiled.
I like doing PTA work and things
that take me out with people. I
like people and being where they
are.”
One School Bus
A Day Scheduled
The school bus schedule was an
nounced this week by Buck Long
mire, who is in charge of the
Kodiak Transit here.
There will be only one school
bus during the day, which will run
in the morning. The bus will leave
the Beachcombers at 8:30 a.m.,
continue on down Mission Road,
leaving the Post Office building
at 8:37. It will depart at 8:40 from
in front of Tony’s Bar, turning at
Brooklyn Avenue and the Aleutian
Homes area, leaving N. Boulevard
and Birch streets at 8:42 a.m.
WELL, HURRAY!
The town of Mt. Tabor, N. J.,
recently notified that it was eligi
ble for a shining, new, enlarged
Post Office building, to be built
with federal and therefore “free”
Sunday School .10 a.m.
Morning Service .11 a.m.
Evening Service.7:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting
Wednesday.7:30 p.m.
Saturday Evening
Service .7:30 p.m.
money, said thanks anyway but the
old one was still serving pretty
well.
If you have something to sell
try a classified ad in the Mirror.
They bring quick results.
Church of God
Fred Mamaloff, Pastor
Sunday School.10 a.m.
Morning Worship.11 a.m.
Evening Service_7:30 p.m.
Mid Week Service ... 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday
Youth Service .. 7 p.m. Friday
Located off Mission Rd.
near the hospital.
Christian Science
Society
Sunday School.9:30 a. m.
Sunday Service_11:00 a. m.
Testimony Meeting .. 4th Wed.
8:00 p.m.
Reading Room.Wed.
7-8 p. m.
Located on Shelikoff
near Cope St.
Harbor Light
Pentecostal
Chapel
Kenneth W. French, pastor
Sunday Services
Sunday School .... 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship .. 11:00 a.m.
Evangelistic Service 7:45 p.m
Weekday Services
Wednesday & Friday 7:45 p.m.
“A friendly church with a
timely message.”
(Located on Mission Road,
about one-half mile from
postoffice).
The Community Baptist Church
Rev. Lewis White
“The Big White Church on the Hill”
Sunday School—9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship—11:00 a.m.
Youth Fellowship Groups—6:30 p.m.
Evening Worship—7:30 p.m.
Mid Week Service—7:30 p.m. Wednesday
“HOLDING FORTH THE WORD OF LIFE”
KODIAK DIRECTORY
BARTENDERS LOCAL 875 A.F.L.
Meets on 2nd Sunday of every
month, 12 noon at Fishermen’s
Hall.
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KODIAK
EMBLEM
CLUB
\ No. 187
| Meets 1st & 3rd
Thursday at
8 p.m. at the
Elks Club.
KODIAK LODGE NO. 1772 BPOE
Meets every Friday
evening
at 8:30 p.m.
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Visiting Memheis Welcome
ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS
SYSTEM
Hours of Business
Monday thru Friday, 9 am to 6 pm
Saturday, 9 am to 12 noon
Sundays and Holidays, Closed
Emergency wires may be filed
during the closed office hours at
the message center.
KODIAK
LODGE
F. & A. M.
No. 295
Meetings — Stated 3rd Monday,
8 p.m. at Kodiak Masonic Temple
BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL
WOMEN’S CLUB
Business Meeting—1st Monday at
7:30 p.m.
Dinner Meeting—3rd Monday at
7:00 p.m. at Island Fountain.
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Regular meetings 1st and 3rd
Tuesdays, 8 p.m.,
at the VFW Hall.
JACK ALLMAN POST NO. 17
AMERICAN LEGION
meets the 1st Thursday of every
month at 7:30 p.m. at the
American Legion Dug-Out
above city hall.