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An Unusual Situation
The Kodiak Chamber of Commerce Tourist Committee an
nounced this past week that no concentrated effort will be made to
get tourist groups here.
This stand marks Kodiak as the most unusual city among the
50 states in that we are not crying for tourists.
The committee stand was that we simply don’t have facilities
to take care of any large number of tourists, and it is better to have
a handful of tourists who leave with a favorable impression of out
island than a drove of dissatisfied ones.
While other Alaskan communities are desperately figuring
ways and means of getting tourists, we want them only when we can
properly take care of them.
With the advent of home building approaching commercial
construction can’t be too far behind and with it will come hotels and
motels and ultimately tourists. Perhaps it’s better this way. When
we are ready for them we can welcome them with open arms and
they can spread the glories of Kodiak with ringing sincerity—B.M.
The Gripers
Som* men who come to Alaska are the kind we can do without.
They gripe about the smallest things till we could fairly shout.
They gripe about the weather. They gripe about the food.
They gripe about most everything whether bad or good.
So here’s to all the Gripers. Just take a tip from me.
Alaska is no place for you, so kindly let us be.
Just keep on going. Mister. Keep on going South.
For you are just the type that we can do without.
Whether you’re from Texas or the State of Alabam
If you don’t like Alaska we don’t give a ham.
For we, the True Alaskans, take things as they come.
Be it luck or weather we’re never on the hum.
So keep on going. Mister. Don’t ever com back here.
For we have done without you for many and many a year.
The sun will rise without you and it will also set.
That day you came up is the day that we regret.
We appreciate the blue skies, the sunshine and the rain,
The wild flowers in profusion, all of nature is our gain.
As each season rolls around, there’s always something new.
You can bet we love Alaska. You can bet your life we do.
So keep on going, Mister, and never come around.
We need men in Alaska, hard working, sane and sound.
Just keep on going, Mister. You can’t take it, anyhow.
We don’t mean tomorrow, but we do mean now.
If there are gripers in Seattle who are heading up this way,
We are giving them fair warning to kindly stay away.
Just keep on going, Mister, but head the other way.
When you learn to be a he-man you may come up to stay.
—Jennie Bainter, Sterling, Alaska.
Will Your Christmas
Be Merry?
We mailed our 1962 Christmas Club Checks last week, and
find that the recipients of these checks are very happy people.
They have all the money they want for their Christmas
shopping, and many of them have money left over with which
to start a regular savings account and start a new Christmas
Club.
Now is the time to join our 1963 Christmas Savings Club.
Please ask us about U.
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NATIONAL BANK
OF ALASKA
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
and Federal Reserve System
Shall We Join Them? 3 Ladies Teams
Join Eight Men’s Entries In City League
The Kodiak City Basketball
League opened Monday night with
a full slate of action. This year new
teams have entered, along with a
bonus for the fans, as three ladies
teams will fight it out for the
ladies basketball crown.
The league this year consists of
teams from PNA, National Guard,
Kraft’s, Coast Guard, the Coast
Guard ship Storis, the High School
Independents, Curley’s Clippers,
and a new entry composed of teach
ers and other unattached players.
This latter team is in need of a lo
cal sponsor and will make a fine
showing with plenty of talented
players in its lineup.
The three ladies teams will play
once a week in the prelim games
at 7 p.m. on Mondays.
Kraft’s, APA Win
City League basketball offi
cially opened Monday as the hus
tling Kraft cagers paced by Billy
Frost scored a win over a strong
Storis five by a 46-36 count in an
exciting contest. The half-time
score was 20-19 with Kraft’s
holding the edge ,and it wasn’t
until the final minutes that
Kraft’s pulled away from the sur
prisingly strong Storis team.
The preliminary between Alas
ka Packers and the high school
girls w as a crowd pleaser as the
winners led by Olivia Huer who
scored 20 points showed the
younger generation a few points
of the game.
The Spruce Cape Ladies meet
the APA team at 7 p.m. Dec. 3.
City league games next week
will see Storis meeting Curley’s
Clippers on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at
6:30 and the National Guard
meets last year’s champs, the
Coast Guard team at 8 p.m.
Thursday night’s action will in
clude Coast Guard vs. Curley’s
at 6:30 and PNA against the
D&A quintet at 8 p.m.
This year promises to be a bij
one for the city league with lot
of new performers manning thi
teams and a lot of enthusiasm ha
been shown, as everyone will bi
trying to win the coveted cit;
championship. This year the D&/
sponsored traveling trophy will d<
retired to the team winning th(
playoff and two new trophies wil
be awarded, one a permanent tro
phy for the league champ and one
traveling trophy for the playoff
winner.
Games will be played on Mon
day, Tuesday and Thursday nights,
with two games scheduled for each
night. The prelim will begin at
6:30 and the second game at 8 ex
cept when the ladies are playing.
Their game will begin at 7 p m.
Admission will be 50 cents for
adults and 25 cents for students
and children.
POST OFFICE TO CLOSE
The post office will be closed
next Thursday, Nov. 22, in ob
servance of Thanksgiving Day.
Pacific Northern Airlines will
have only one plane on that day,
the morning flight. Mail will be
dispatched and distributed to boxes
but no other service will be pro
vided.
VETERAN’S DAY
Veteran’s Day which fell on Sun
! day, Nov. 11, was observed as a
' holiday on Monday, Nov. 12, by
! military personnel.
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CARD OF THANKS
' Mr. and Mrs. Herman Leite wish
L to express their thanks to those
: who gave blood to their baby.
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