New Red Cross
Course Offered
At the request of both Griffin
Memorial and the Naval Station
hosiptals, the Kodiak Chapter of
the American Red Cross is spon
soring a new course for ladies who
would like to do volunteer work
in the hospitals. Both hospitals
need help at this time.
Rather more training will be
given in this Gray Lady course
than in some previous courses. It
is felt that this extra training will
make the service more interesting
and more rewarding both to the
volunteer and to the hospital.
Ladies wishing to serve at the
Griffin Memorial Hospital will
particularly look into this aspect
as the requirements of the two
hospitals are somewhat different.
The expanded course was success
fully pioneered on the Naval Sta
tion some months ago.
A preliminary meeting to plan
the details of the course was held
at the quarters of Mrs. G. H. Car
rithers Friday afternoon. Tentative
plans call for two joint classes in
the solarium of the Naval Station
Hospital on June 21 and 24 at 2:00
p.in. After this meeting the ladies
will be divided into two groups
for further training by the hos
pital in which they choose to serve.
Ladies interested in the training
course are urged to call Mrs. Jack
Hinckel or Mrs. Peggy Sutliff in
the city of Kodiak, or Mrs. Car
rithers or the Red Cross office
on the Naval Station before June
21 for further information and to
arrange for transportation if
needed.
ASHA Convention
Scheduled For
Kodiak in 1961
The 1961 convention of the Alas
ka State Hospital Association will
be held in Kodiak. The choice of
the convention city was made at
the recent convention held by the
Association in Sitka which was at
tended by Sisters Dorothy and St.
Hilary of Griffin Memorial Hos
pital.
The Sisters reported “A very
good meeting, with many problems
discussed, ideas exchanged and
work accomplished.”
Druggist Here
From Seattle
Neal Woodhouse, pharmacist,
and Mrs. Woodhouse arrived in
Kodiak last Saturday and will stay
indefinitely.
Woodhouse will be managing
Wodlinger’s Drug store while Lar
ry Wodlinger is recuperating fol
lowing surgery.
Mirror classifieds bring results.
MRS. GERBER VISITOR HERE
Mrs. Don Gerber and daughter
Susan spent a few hours in town
Friday while enroute to Port Wil
liams to join Mr. Gerber, super
intendent of Washington Fish and
Oyster Co. there. They plan to
end tne summer at Port Wil
liams before returning to their
home in Renton, Washington.
Mrs. Lsuise Hizer
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from the house where we are
living in that she has to get mar
ried; yes, she is right and, more
over the house is also too little
for us but because of our financial
condition, we really don’t know
where to go. Here at Naples house
rents are very high.”
Until “Mama Hizer’s compas
sion took concrete form the fam
ily’s total income was a painfully
insufficient twenty dollars a
month, including two dollars and
thirty-two pounds of pasta doled
out to them by the city govern
ment. One double bed and a cot,
a chest, a table and several chairs
was their furniture; the bed sheets
had been sold, one by one, for food.
Anna was described as a “sweet,
friendly child with black hair and
eves, extremely pale and delicate
and in need of plentiful, nourishing
'ood.”
Mrs. Hizer continued, “Of course
when you adopt a child you more
or less adopt her whole family;
you couldn’t develop the right
type of person otherwise. They are
a good Christian family and al
though they live in the slums, are
very proud. Last year we sent them
five dollars on Anna’s birthday
just to blow on anything they
wanted. They were so delighted
and Anna wrote that they drank
our health. Our monthly grant is
set at eight dollars, any necessary
medical care payments and peri
odic food and clothing packages
but w'e always send more than re
quired. I bad an idea that it would
mean more to the individual club
members if each one felt she
could contibute each month, so we
rass the Anna box at our meet
ings. The proceeds go to filling
and mailing boxes of food, some
clothing we have to buy, and the
postage. We send extra amounts
of money for special needs such
as shoes and at Christmas we col
lected almost eighty dollars and
sent the family a substantial sum
for their celebration as well as for
much needed household supplies
and clothes for Anna.”
Mrs. Hizer has mailed a steady
stream of her own packages and
letters to the Caleeas. Other club
members have written also and
have contributed packages and
money over and above the club’s
regular gifts. At the June club
meeting, Louise Hizer auctioned
off her considerable and unusually
fine collection of house plants and
Emblem Club Members Elks
HELP CELEBRATE OUR
10th Birthday
Saturday, June 18
Elks Hall
> ■— ■
COME EARLY
Live Music Free Buffet
Kodiak Emblem Club No. 187
This party is for Emblem Club members and their escorts,
Elks and their ladies.
driftwood containers for a grand
total of twenty-nine dollars for
Anna’s fund.
Anna’s letters of thanks reflect
her gratitude and a pouring out
of love to the foster mothers who
have made real for her her dreams
of warmth and comparative well
being. The carefully formed round
script spells out the simple de
light of the child to whom each
parcel is a treasure. “Thank you
for the money Money is so useful.
The parcel contained seven dress
es, a blouse, eight handkerchiefs,
a bag of flour, two packages soup,
two bars soap, a wool sweater, a
cake, a tin of peanuts. Thank you,
thank you from the bottom of my
heart. Some of the dresses are too
narrow; the cake was delicious
and we all ate it with joy.”
We knew of at least one other
interest for which Louise Hizer is
well known and we asked about
her ceramics. "I had never done
ceramics before, had no desire to.
When we came here I thought I
would have lots of idle time so I
brought along two things: a cor
respondence course which is a re
fresher college series, and tenta
tive plans for the home Hize and
I are going to build when he re
tires. I never took them out of the
envelope, I’ve been so busy. I got
so fascinated by ceramics that I
gave up bridge, bought books and
equipment and went to work to
learn the art.” How well she learn
ed, and with what artistry, is evi
dent in the collection of figurines
she has made and in the handsome
large bowl and lamp base of glazed
white, both with ivy leaves in bas
relief. There are many more lovely
pieces in the Hizer home and she
has given a good many to friends.
Three fine mosaics, made alto
gether of stones and polished bits
of glass from local beaches, hang
in the new Driftwood Room of the
Officers’ Club, designed, executed
and presented by Louise Hizer.
We wondered if she and Captain
Hizer, who is commanding officer
of AC/S Operations and Plans, had
seen much of Alaska. “Yes, we
have not passed up any opportun
ity to see as much as we could. We
saw Anchorage and Fairbanks last
summer, and Fort Yuokn, but the
most wonderful part of our trip
was from Whitehorse down to
Skagway on the narrow gauge
railway train. We rode in the
coach which Queen Elizabeth had
used: it was still decorated. The
scenery , is the most beautiful I
have ever seen and very interesting
because the route follows the one
the miners took to the Yuokn dur
ing the Gold Rush in ’98. We saw
Skagway and flew from there to
Juneau in a Grumman Goose, my
first water landing. Of course we
have both been to Adak. You know
we are leaving soon and will drive
down the Alcan.”
Mrs. Hizer also likes to garden
FATHER’S DAY
is on June 19th, mother, and if
you are giving him that new rod
& reel, you should insure it
before he be
COMES
permanently attached to it. We
will insure anything but his dis
position and
BEFORE
long he will get his new state
ment on
TAXES!
3401 Art Brooks 2561
Kodiak Insurance
& Bldg. Corp.
She once sold real estate when
Captain Hizer was out at sea. “I
dabble in everything; at least I’m
never bored. When we get to Wash
ington I’m going to buy a kiln and
give neighborhood lessons in cer
amics. I like to cook, too, and have
two crab recipes your readers
might like. This first one only
takes five minutes but tastes as if
you’d been slaving over a hot stove
all day.”
Seafood Bisque
1 can condensed clam chowder
(without tomatoes)
1 14-oz. can condensed milk
1 can mushroom soup
1 can crabmeat
Mix and heat, add a little milk
if too thick.
Crab Casserole
1 can crabmeat
1 cup cleaned cooked shrimp
2 cans mushroom soup
1 cup finely sliced celery
V* cup minced onion
Combine all and put in greased
casserole. Sprinkle shaved almonds
over top. Bake in 375 degree oven
about 25 minutes. Celery and onion
should be still crisp. Serve over
Chinese fried noodles.
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