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Here, There and Everywhere
By SIG DIGREE
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When we published an article in
last weeks Kodiak Mirror that the
local peeping Tom was living dang
erously, we weren’t kidding. What
we said about him wasn’t a fig
ment of the imagination as one of
©or readers implied in a telephone
•conwersafcioi; the next day.
. are leaving the invagination
outpourings to the rumor boys,
and believe me, they're at it again.
One rumor had it that the peeper
was coming in through a window,
the housewife let him have
it with a baseball bat. The word
was going the rounds that he
Handed in the hospital unconsious.
Everybody agreed that was the
best thing that could happen to
febn, b|it, unfortunately, none of
it was true.
The peeping boy must have
come to the realization that the
climate hereabouts .wasn't healthy
for *such «as hev for he has been
mighty quiet the ffast week. The
City police have (been deluged
with phone calls this - week, and
they have dutifully run down
©very cj.ue, but found all the re
ports unfounded. Women have
worked themselves into a jittery
frame of mind, and a newsboy
oaJn't ring a house Ibeil without
bringing fear to a left-alone wife.
It wasn’t our intention to bring
©n a scare in publishing the arti
cle, ‘ ibut with the thought that
forewarned is fore-armed.
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We highly endorse Sen. Bart
lotts proposal that all airmail im
properly addressed or for any
other reason returned to the send
er, be sent back airmail.
He mentions important mail
sent 'by physicians, from which an
answer is required. The same
holds true of mail sent by a busi
ness man in Alaska, though pos
sibly not as important, is imnort
atvt to him. These long waits
between boats can rx* costly Any
way airmail sent should warrant
airmail return.
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What is worse than that, how
ever. is a letter sent airmail, and
no reply is forthcoming. This in
many cases can be the fault of the
recipient, but in so many others
the fault lies elsewhere. We’ve
had several instances in the past
Heavy Traffic
Expected By PNA
Advanced reservations indicate
the heaviest traffic in history, both
to and from Alaska, for the
Christmas and New Year holiday
period, it was announced by
Harold A. Olsen, Pacific Northern
Airlines’ Vice-President of Traffic
and Sales.
Reservations this year are being
made earlier than in previous
years, Oisen pointed out, a num
ber of reservations 'have been on
the books for two or three months.
Pacific Northern extra flights
still (have -seats available both
northbound and southbound
month where the letters were
never received, and a second let
ter seni_ We have the fullest con
fidence in our local post office,
but somewhere along the way, the
letter gets lost, even between here
and Seattle. One prior to that was
between here and New York.
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Maybe its for reasons such as
the above that since the 1930’s,
admission rates to general hospit
als for treatment of ulcers have
quadrupled. We haven't checked
to see if the increase is from the
rank of postmasters, or from those
who use the mails_We*re only
kidding now, PM
The USS Kodiak
Has New Skipper
Lieut, (j.g.) Charles G. Felkins,
USN, of Biloxi, Miss., assumed
eommland of the landing ship USS
KODIAK during change of com
mand ceremonies <at the naval
station Wednesday, November 35.
The new skipper reported to his
Kodiak based ship from Newport,
R. I. where he served on board the
destroyer escort USS COURTNEY.
Arriving in Kodiak with him was
his wife, Anne, and their nine
month old son, David. She is the
former Miss Anne Hallberg,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.J.
Hallberg of Newport, R. I.
LTJG Felkins relieved Lieu
tenant Jack L. Marriott, USN, of
Woodlawn, Md., who served the
last ten of his 23 months on the
USS KODIAK as commanding of
ficer. He and his wife, Sara, and
their sons, Jack and David, de
parted Kodiak last Friday for
Norfolk, Va., where he will report
for duty on the staff of Command
Naval Air Force, Atlantic Fleet.
The 600 ton USS KODIAK is
home based at the Kodiak Naval
Station and is under the opera
tional control of the Alaskan Sea
Frontier. It is a service type ves
sel that carries a crew of 4 offic
ers and 49 enlisted men_
Otis A, Rooney
Dies In Portland.
Otis A. Rooney, 66, of Kodiak,
died November 23 in Portland,
Oregon.
The deceased had -been ill for
some time, and was in the Veter
ans Hospital there. He was buried
in the Willamette, cemetery.
Otis Rooney was employed at
the Naval Station Power Plant
since August 21, 1950. He is sur
vived by his wife, Ray, and two
sons, Otis A., Jr., and John
Rooney.
In the pagan world _of the 4th
Century, December 25 was already
a sacred day throughout the Ro
man Empire. It was Dies Natalis
Invicti Solis, the Birthday of the
Uaconquered Sun.
Explosion In Lab
Injures Boys Hand
-• An explosion caused by atl after
school hours experiment in the
high school science room caused
injury to Denton Andrews, one of
the students conducting the exper
iment.
The explosion which injured
young Andrews’ hand quite sever
ely, occured when he was mixing
the chemicals in a crucible and
agitating them with a pestle. The
mixing was too severe for the na
ture of the chemicals, causing the
explosion. The other student, John
ny Henthorne, was uninjured.
Teenie The Clown
Big Hit In Seward
Teenie the Clown went aboard
the Expansion on her trip to
Seward this week. Children from
the Jessie Lee Home attended the
show at the Liberty Theatre.
Teenie was enthusiastically re
ceived by one of the biggest
crowds seen for a long time, ac
cording to reports.
DAUGHTER BORN
Their first child, a daughter, was
bom on November 23 to Barbara
Jean and James Napier, Jr. The
•baby, Laurie Ann, 'weighed 7 Its.
11 ozs.
Mr. Napier, who is serving with
the USCG, and his wife make their
home at Qtrs. 11-A, Naval Station.
Uganik Bay News
By Kae Wagner
San Juan!s tender‘‘The Logger',
arrived from Seattle November 26.
After unloading, departed from
Kodiak the following day, to join
in operations of the Alaska King
Crab fleet.
Skipper Stan Bailey took us all
aboard and there have been some
great changes made since the ves
sel left here after salmon season.
‘The Logger" now boasts of
electric heat in all staterooms, etc,
a rotisserie, an electric washing
machine, and a T.V.
This is a work boat?
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. David
son entertained at a Thanksgiv
ing party for a few friends- While
there we met Mr. and Mrs. Way
ne Hans, the daughter and son-in
law of Senator and Mrs. A1 Owens
of Village Islands. Mrs. Hans ex
pects-her Mother and Dad home
from the state of Washington
Sometime around December 1.
Welcome home Hazel, and what’s
the good word, Senator?
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Jeppson
and their three children have re
turned to Kodiak. They plan to
live in the Bay again next spring.
That is good news. What we do
need here are more people.
Speech On Lands
At Chamber Meet
Bill Poe, president of the State
Real Estate Association, will be
the principal speaker at the
Chamber of Commerce meeting
Thursday. Also attending the
meeting will be Bill Saunders, a
lawyer from Anchorage.
Mr. Poe’s speech on the subject
of lands. Anyone interested is in
vited to attend.
NEW KARLUK BRIDGE
BEING FABRICATED
The new Karluk bridge is being
fabricated in Seattle at the present
time, according to Sen. E.L. (Bob)
Bartlett.
The old bridge collasped several
years ago. and had never been re
placed. Bartlett stated that the
new bridge is expected to be in
place some time this winter.
(Cent. From Page 1)
but who 'are from Kodiak or near
by. This is published for those
who may want to send Christmas
oahls^o them,- or a birthday card
at some future date: •* a
Charles Danielson, August 27,
1878; Walter Hand, Feb. 7, 1885;
John (Jack) H. Lee, Aug. 11,
1869; Arthur Marzan, March 21.
1874; Alexander Riddell, April 27.
1889; and Alex Woche, Feb. 23,
1888, from Afognak.
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