Alumni Triumph
In Season Game
On Friday night, one of the
largest crowds to see a local game
watched the high school Bears
lead for almost the entire game,
then lose to the experienced Kodi
ak high school Alumni by a score
of 64-52.
The Bears overcame an early
Alumni lead by quick baskets by
Allain and Ellison to go into a 31
29 half time lead. The lead chang
ed hands often during the 3rd
quarter with the Alumni scoring
17 points to the high school boys
15. Then with the Bears rebounding
crippled by fouls, the Alumni mov
ed into a lead midway of the
fibtirth quarter, and won handily
b# a 64-52 margin.
Leading the Btears was Danny
Ojsoai with 13 points, followed by
©had EH iso® «itb 12 and Don Buck
ingham with 10. High for the
A<lra»m was Js^limg with 84 points.
Sixteen Years
(Contwced from Ph@e 10)
ffltey’v© teen important t© me all
ms? l£fie. Whan we did g© to sc tool
St was a long seven miles away;
we hiked or rode hooisaback, or
dp wtoitar, drove a sleigh.”
A*®»r ©oJlmge Mrs. Chaffin taught
$h elementary schools in Montana
<i®d Wisetesin for tev«® years.
HfHesn in wartime, by intensive
$tad(y, She became a ground school
instructor for Northern Montana
College Civilian Pilot Training
Corps, and later, for the Baker
School of Flying in Oregon. “I
taught there in what was called
War Training Service for Army
and Navy Air Cadets. The first
graduates went into the Ferry
Command. Oh, how I had to study
to keep up with them in all those
subjects—aircraft maintenance, in
struments, navigation, weather,
even the psychology of instruction.
I loved flying and had my own
pilot’s license.”
That afternoon went all too
quickly and we had to get down
to the dock to make the last boat
back to town. Later we returned
for another visit, and this time
also met Darrell Chaffin, Yule’s
husband, and manager of the FAA
station.
We learned that he was born in
Montana but was raised in East
ern Oregon, country much like his
present surroundings. “Daring the
war I was with the Bureau of Pu
blic Roads when they were build
ing the Alcan Highway. I visited
nay daughter at the Baker School
of Flying and met Yule. I really
bud to push her; wo Were married
a few weeks later. I told Yule if
she married me I wanted to take
her hack to Alaska with me. By
this time I had joined CAA (wow
FA A) and the only way we could
come up together was as a hus
baod-wife communicator te®aa. She
agreed and we came to Woody
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KNUDSEN’S — Where All Kodiak Shops
Island 16 years ago and have never
wanted to leave.
“In FA A you bid on a station
of your choice and hope you get
it. Most employees rebid from time
to time because ordinarily pro
motions don’t come too quickly
to those who stay put. But we were
happy here and I decided the pro
motions were not of primary im
portance.” Customary or not, pro
motions came, and as station man
ager, Darrell Chaffin and his
family live happily and comfort
ably on the island they love so
well. Their first home was in a
dormitory, long before the pre
sent houses and apartments were
built; later, wanting a place to
themselves, they moved to an a
bandoned building and virtually
camped out in very simple style.
Life was busy in those war days
and beyond. Yule worked for
seven years as a communicator,
then tauight school for two years
whqn the lower grades were hous
ed in a basement room. But better
housing and a new school have
replaced the old, and the sixteen
families of the FAA eonamunity
now live quite well with all the
modern conveniences.
Patricia Chaffin, twelve, attends
the bright and well ©quipped ©ae
rfiKkin class where Mrs. Hansen
teaches seventeen children scatt
ered through eij^ht grades. Jerry
Chaffin, eighteen, takes tike daily
PAA boat run t© got t© Kodiak
High Seibjool, as do six other teen
agers. A nicely Hanaiskad recrea
tion hall in the residential area is
available for all eonamunity activi
ties and the monthly station par
ties. Yule Chaffin was making
plans to diecorate the hall for
Thanksgiving, when all the PAA
families will celebrate together.
We visited the PAA office build
ing where operators take cere of
one of the busiest otf sudh stations
in Alaska. Darrell Chaffin added
Church of God
Fred Mamaloff, Pastor
Sunday School ...•.10 a.m.
Morning Wordnp.11 ajn.
Evening Service_7:30 p.m.
Mid Week Service ... 7:3® p.m.
Wednesday
Youth Service .. 7 p.m. Friday
Located off Mission Ed.
near the hospital.
L ..
Christian Science
Society
Sunday School .9:30 a. m.
Sunday Service 11:00 a. m.J
Testimony Meeting .. 4tb Wed.
3:00 p.m.
Reading Room.Wed.
7-8 p. m.
Located on Shelikoff
near Cope St.
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 ... 11:00a.m.
Christ’s Ambassadors 6:30 p.m
evangelistic Service .. 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY
Vlissionettes .l:30p.m
TUESDAY
Women’s Prayer
Meeting .2:00 p.m
WEDNES
^raver & B ble St 30 p m
FRIDAY
Youth Meeting 7 00 p m
‘‘For almost 20 years this place
has been open 24 hours a day; it
never closes.”
To go back a bit, he described a
modest ranching venture he shares
with the Baptist Mission. “I have
a grazing lease on 400 acres of the
island and raise cattle as a sort
of hobby. Of course it supplies us
with beef too. I bought some head
from a rancher about ten years
ago and now have about 14 Here
fords. The Mission has about forty
head and we run them together.
They graze all year except from
January to May when we feed them
hay and grain. Incidentally, the
barn we use for fodder is the re
mains of a Russian log house. Let
ting the cattle wander as we do, we
have no breeding control, but it’s
too small an operation to put in
fences.
‘‘We’ll take a ride over to the
boat house and see the ‘Princess
Pat’, our boat that Jim Alwood is
repairing. The stern was badly
damaged in a storm but when he
finishes it will be like new again.
We use boats over here like people
use cars in town. We take them to
town or go out to Ouzinkie, Monk’s
Lagoon, Kalsin Eay. We have a
continuing safety program on boat
ing and I guess sometimes the
young fellows think I’m a ©rank
on the subject. But anyone who’s
been here for a white knows how
important safety precautions are
in these waters.” We saw a meat
concrete building in which FAA
men can build boats, and do dur
ing the winter months. It Is one
of the primeval eoM weather hob
bles.
“You knnw,” Mr. Ohaffin eon
tintted, “that Yule writes.” Indtoed
we did know, and adimiringly. Yule
Chaffin has had a number of arti
cles about both Woody and Kodiak
Islands published in Alaskan
magazines and she has good rea
son to believe that outside public
ations will soon print some of her
labors. She began about two years
ago to take a University of Wis
consin extension course, and
through it and her research, has
graduated from hobby to voca
tion.
As we write this interview,
storm winds sweep Kodiak and
Woody Islands, and the waters be
tween. But to the Ohaffins, aside
from possibility that Jerry may
have to spend a night in town if
the boat cannot land at home port,
the gale will matter not. For they
are home on their beautiful is
land where strong ties have held
them through productive, happy
years; weather and small annoy
ances are of little importance and
the future is of but one concern—
more years to enjoy.
Griffin Memorial
Hospital Notes
BIRTHS
A son, William Ballard, weigh
ing 8 bs. 5 ozs., was born on Oct
ober 28 to Judith and Miehcal
Fitzgerald.
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A dan ©titer, Cywtihfl'a 4MR&,
weighing 8 lbs. 6 csss., was tern
on October 25 to Karin and Robier-t
Leonard.
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A daughter, KaiShleen Bferfe,
Weighing 8 lbs. 8 ms., was Lpton ob
October Z2 t® Shirley tfwd
Heglin.
The Community Baptist Church
Bfcev. L®wis Whit©
“The Big White Chur eh ©a ttefrWil”
Sunday School—9:45 a.m.
Ktoratog Worship—11:00 a.na.
Youth Fellowship Groups—6:80 p.tn.
Evening Worship—7:30 p.m.
Mid Week Service—7:30 pm. Wednesday
“HOI.DJNG FORTH TE® WORD OF LIFE*'
BARTENDERS LOCAL 875 A.F.L.
Meets on 2nd Sunday of every
month, 11 a.m. at Fishermen’s
Hall.
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.
•SMS*
Visiting Memlieis Welcome
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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 ISLAND JAYCEES
Meet the 1st. and 3rd
Wednesday of each
month.
pr o p.m.
; ‘martre
’em"”'
Meetings — Stated 8r4 Ifitmft#.
8 p.m. at Kodiak Masonic Tenj>pife
BUSINESS & WWIHHIlMOIHHWilIJi
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. I*
AMERICAN LEGION
meets the 1st Thursday of eveiy
month at 7:30 p.m. at the
American Legion Dug-Ou'
above city hall
KODIAK ISLAND
TOASTMASTERS CLUB N°
Dinner meetings every Tr
from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Tn the Montmartre Bas^r?1
'r;sitcrs are cordially ;nv"