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Reflections
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from personal property taxes or
sales tax, is used in one form or
another for civic improvements
from which all derive a benefit.
It’s not an ethical argument to say
doing away with the obnoxious per
sonal property tax is for the bene
fitof just those who have personal
property — and who doesn’t — all
will pay for the benefits derived.
It’s really a painless form of taxa
tion.
One more word on the sales tax
for the above purpose—it's being
tried in a couple of cities in Alaska,
and reports to date indicate it is
working out very well. These are
Fairbanks and Juneau.
But whether you favor the tax or
not, the main thing is to get out
and vote and express yourself in
no uncertain terms. The will of the
majority will prevail.
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ABRACADABRA
If you can’t figure out taxes, fig
ure this one! Take your age, multi
ply by 2, add 5, multiply by 50, sub
tract 365, add the loose change in
your pocket under a dollar, then
add 115. The first two figures in
the answer are your age and the
last two are the change in your
pocket.
• •
Someone said: “It’s much better
to sit tight than to drive that way.”
• • •
SHORT AND SWEET
Hear about the woman who lost
20 pounds by moving the bathroom
scale? She put it in front of the
refrigerator . . . Any day now we
can look for some dancer to call
herself “Busy Body” . . . Sign in a
Mineola, N. Y., self-service laun
dromat: “Please remove your cloth
ing after you’ve finished your laun
dry.” . . . The Internal Revenue
Bureau reports there are only 139
persons who report on income of
a million dollars a year . . . The
Statue of Liberty—75 year old in
October—has had only one bath
in her life: a steam job in 1932 . . .
Self-lighting cigarettes are due on
the market by Christmas; the ciga
rette tip can be ignited by rubbing
it on the package’s surface.
m * •
This is for me. Anyone can type
on a newly developed typewriter
which hears, spells, and records
the spoken word. The machine
picks up syllables in a microphone,
quickly refers to spelling informa
tion in an electronic “memory,”
and pecks out the letters.
# * *
And, a real estate man, Robert
Love, moved from Rutland to Pax
ton, Mass., and left 5 town jobs
vacant in Rutland. Love was town
water and sewer commissioner, a
policeman, deputy fire engineer
and assistant forest warden.
* • *
Here’s an item from the San Di
ego Union, Sept. 24 issue, sent in
by Cmdr. Roger Burum, who will
be remembered as the legal officer
stationed here not too long ago:
The story concerns a Seabee, now
in San Diego, but who was at Adak
for three years, where he fished
and hunted to his hearts content.
“It was peaceful up there,” he said.
This was after he went on a hunt
ing trip near San Diego, and found
himself looking down the barrel
of a 30-06. “I went up there for five
days,” Murphy said, “and stayed
two . . . Why, that’s dangerous.” It
was after Murphy peered through
his binoculars and saw the 30-06
trained on him that he decided to
go home — it was then he yearned
for the peace and quiet of Adak.
Heritage Road
By JOHN TEENE
He Knew The Horse
He was a huge cowboy, ribbed
with muscle. He had fists like
chunks of oak. He liked to fight,
drive cattle, and hobnob with the
Indians. His fame, however, rests
on the way he could paint breath
taking pictures. And his story is of
a woman’s love—won and cherished
against bitter odds.
His name? Frederic Remington,
America’s most renowned painter
of the Old West.
He was born 100 years ago, Oc
tober 1, 1861.
Today Remington’s paintings of
Indian fights, covered wagon treks,
and other frontier subjects are
worth up to $50,000. But in 1884,
he rode out of the West, discour
aged and broke. His saddlebags
were crammed with drawings that
wouldn’t sell for $10. Behind him
lay four rough years as ranch hand,
sheepherder, gold prospector, and
scout — from Canada to Arizona.
Ahead, only poverty and more fail
ure as an artist.
But Frederic Remington was
stubborn. A (New Yorker who had
played football at Yale, he had
turned his back on easy Eastern
life. One night at a campfire in
Montana, he had heard an old
wagoner tell of Sioux scalpings,
buffalo hunts, and other episodes
of a vanishing life. The wagoner
had sighed, “In a few years the
railroad will come. Then the fron
tier will be finished.”
Then and there Frederic Rem
ington had decided to immortalize
the Golden West in oil and crayon.
He went on painting. Eva Caten,
the gentle New York girl whom he
had left behind on his first trip,
joined him. The newlyweds moved
to Kansas City. There they endured
terrible poverty. Within a year,
Remington had to send his wife
back to New York to recover her
health.
The desperate artist followed.
In a Brooklyn boarding house, he
and Eva started again. Remington
took art lessons. Dressed in worn
cowboy gear, he shouldered his
way into editors’ officers. Again
and again they turned down his
drawings. At last, Harper’s Weekly
bought a sketch. Then a publisher
took two more. The payments for
all three totaled $30.
Within a year, the Remingtons
were meeting expenses. Eventually
the plainsman-artist received
$1,000 for the illustration rights
to a painting — and then sold the
original canvas.
Once Remington gained popular
favor, he never lost it. Everyone
from art critics to saddle tramps
recognized his genius. He was a
stickler for detail. On his canvases,
the tomahawking redskins had to
be wearing the correct feathers
and paint for their tribes. The
bucking mustangs had to be kick
ing their hooves in just the true,
wild fashion.
Year by year, Remington gath
ered a vast collection of frontier
relics — knives, pistols, arrows.
They served his passion for authen
tic models. He built a studio out
side of New York City big enough
for a horseman to drive into. He
worked there 10 hours a day.
Celebrity and fortune arrived.
But the muscular ex-cowboy kept
his love for rough-hewn living.
Each year he revisited the West.
His keen eye picked out scenes to
paint in his studio 2,000 miles away.
In the next quarter-century, he
produced 2,800 paintings and draw
ings, 25 bronze statues, 13 books,
and hundreds of magazine illustra
tions.
Acute appendicitis took him at
48. The woman he loved — and had
struggled to win — gathered up his
art. Today it is enshrined at the
Remington Memorial, Ogdenburg,
New York. It is a priceless heritage
to Americans who want to know
the real hues of the pioneer West.
It is a monument to the genial,
barrel-built painter who once asked
that his epitaph read simply: “He
knew the horse.”
Civil Defense
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(Brooklyn) and Millbay Road is
Route #1 — Mission Road to the
cutoff road over to Millbay Road is
Route #2.
The route you take will be de
termined by your residence loca
tion: those living north of Millbay
Road will use Route #1 and those
south of Millbay Road will use
Route #2. Both of these routes will
be one-way roads with two lanes of
traffic traveling in an easterly di
rection. Only emergency vehicles
will be allowed to travel towards
the city area.
You should have prepared, be
forehand, emergency food and
clothing to be immediately loaded
into your auto to take with you.
Your minimum food supply for
your family should be a fourteen
(14) day supply; clothing should
be provided for warmth and dry
ness.
Should you be in the downtown
area when the Take Cover Signal
sounds, there are several locations
in which you could take shelter.
These are: the Elks Bowling Lanes
on Harbor Ave., the City Hall
Building, the Federal Jail building
now used by the Alaska Dept, of
Fish & Game, the Kodiak High
School and the National Guard
Armory.
There are many vacancies in our
organization in which we urgently
ask for volunteers. In order to have
a workable Civil Defense we must
have more help, your help. Up to
now the work has been done by
four or five devoted volunteers.
There are openings for auxiliary
police and firemen, transportation,
supply, medical services, welfare
and communications. You may call
City Manager Bill Poland, Police
Chief Vickery or CD Director Art
Brooks for more information.
Let’s get the job done in ’61.
OLAF HALVERSON BEQUESTS
$1,000 MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHI
A student fund titled the “Olaf
Halverson Memorial Scholarship”
has been set up in Nome, through
the generosity of Halverson, who
died in 1960. Halverson was a for
mer high school principal here in
Kodiak.
Legal Notice
SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE.
STATE OF ALASKA
THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT
)
In the Matter of the )
)
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT)
)
OF ROBERT von SCHEELE, )
)
Deceased. )
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No. 60-134P (Kodiak)
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
ACCOUNT, REPORT AND
PETITION FOR DISTRIBUTION
AND DISCHARGE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that MARG ARETE von SCHEELE,
executrix of the estate of Robert
von Scheele, deceased; has this day
filed in the court her Final Account
and Report and Petition for Final
Distribution and Discharge in the
above entitled estate, and that the
court has designated Wednesday
the 1st day of November, 1961, at
the hour of 10:00 o’clock in the
Forenoon of said day, as the time,
and the office of the Probate Mas
ter, Third Judicial District at An
chorage, Alaska, as the place, when
and where said Report, Account
and Petition will be heard; and
all persons interested in said es
tate are hereby required to file
their objections to the said report,
acount and petition, if any they
have, in writing, on or before the
said day, in the court, and to ap
pear at the time and place afore
said and present their objections;
and at the said hearing the court
will determine what persons are
to take the estate under the laws of
the State.
DATED at Anchorage, Alaska,
this 5th day of September, 1961.
R. K. Yondell,
Probate Master
Publish. September 8. 15, 22, 29
and October 6, 1961.
Legal Notice
STATEMENT REQUIRED BY
THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912,
AS AMENDED BY THE ACTS
OF MARCH 3, 1933, AND JULY
2, 1946 (Title 39, United States
Code, Section 233) SHOWING
THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGE
MENT, AND CIRCULATION OF
The Kodiak Mirror published
Weekly at Kodiak, Alaska for Sep
tember 22, 1961.
1. The names and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing
editor, and business managers are:
Publisher, Sig J. Digree, Box
1307, Kodiak, Alaska. Editor, Sig J.
Digree, Box 1307, Kodiak, Alaska.
2. The owner is:
Sig J. Digree, Box 1307, Kodiak,
Alaska.
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owning or holding 1 percent or
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me this 13th day of September,
1961.
[SEAL] Harriet K. Guhrke
(My commission
expires 6-15, 1963)
City Ends Probe
Of Building Odor
The City has written “finis” on
its investigation of the gas odors in
the Frontier Shop.
City Manager Poland turned in
a report to the Council outlining
the City’s efforts to detect the ori
gin of the smells. Borings were
made on the property, and around
it, and sump water tests were con
ducted, but findings pointed to
cause being local, that is, on the
premises. Little evidence pointed
to the origin from tank leaks from
Patterson’s Service Station above
the premises, although the owner,
“Blackie” Patterson has put in new
storage {anks.
CARD OF THANKS
On behalf of the officers and
members of the Alaska Association
of Realtors I wish to thank the Ko
diak Chamber of Commerce, Ko
diak Electric Association, Pacific
Northern Airlines, The Elks, civic
officials, other civic organizations,
and especially the citizens of Ko
diak, who as hosts to my Realtor
friends, found places for them to
stay and entertained them in their
homes during their stay here at
Kodiak. Your efforts certainly
helped to make the convention a
success.
George H. Cornelius
Vice President
1961 Convention Chairman
READY FOR TITLE BOUT — Here are the figures on cham
pion Emile Griffith and Benny (Kid) Paret for their welterweight
title fight in New York 9/30/61) (AP Wirephoto