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Can Kodiak Be Beautiful ?
It is gratifying to read from
time to time about an entire city
with sufficient pride that declares
4 holiday from routine activities
and instead puts in a day of clean
up
£priogville, Utah is one such
(own. Every year the entire town
resident; make it a community
protect? and declare the Friday
before Easter town cleanup day.
Metfr women and children spend
entire day getting rid of junk,
raking lawns, picking up litter so
that their town can look its best
an Easter Sunday.
The Civic Improvement com
mittee has set aside Saturday,
April 11 as such a day in Kodiak.
City trucks will be pressed into
•ervice on that day, as well as
trucks furnished by Russ Wright
and Harry Felton for the purpose
of hauling accumulated junk away
ftom all parts of the City. A big
group of volunteers will assemble
a^the City Hall early in the morn
ing, and the big job of clewing
the town will begin. ,
In order for this cleanup to be
fully effective, it wil be necessary
tor home owners, renters, and all
(hose who have junk around their
homes and business premises; to
assemble the stuff into heaps
along the roadside. It will then be
picked up.
This is an opportunity that
many homeowners will welcome.
Over a period of a winter there
Usually collects a certain amount
of junk. To get rid of it is the
problem. That problem can easily
be solved—it’s hauled away for
FREE.
Besides that factor, which is a
good argument for cooperating,
there is another good reason for
helping out in this campaign. If
you were going to have your pic
ture taken you would want to
spruce up—look your best. For
afterall,. many of your friends and
relatives near and far are going
to see those picctures.
So it is with Kodiak. Amos
Berg, the photographer who has
been shooting film of the king
crab operation the past month or
so, will return to Kodiak shortly
for shots of the town to incorpo
rate in the movie when completed.
Kodiak, too, even as you when
it is having its picture tak
en, should look its best. Cleaning
up the town will go a long way in
enhancing its appearance.
As we have said before—we say
it again^-Kodiak is really photo
genic, a really beautiful town.
Many people are going to view
this movie—not in Kodiak but all
over the United States and Alas
ka. All will agree the least we can
do is put our best foot forward.
The beauty of it is, we can bring
out so much beauty with just one
day of concerted effort. Join in
the cleanup.
Then, too, there are a lot of
people talking about going one
step further—applying a little
paint where needed. That, too, is
a splendid idea. For these movies
are going to be in color. A splash
of color never hurt any town.
P.O. Film on TV
A film, “Light on Democracy”,
being distributed by the Federal
Postal Employees Association, will
be shown on TV today at 5 p.m.
It depicts various civil service
workers and their jobs.
r7 Spring Is Here!!
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i ^pring.tfme “ cleanup and paint-up time.
Lets makp Kodialrtfce cleanest city in the
new state,
f See usj about home improvement loans
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Ofd‘Jack Lee is back." *• ' ' ‘
Looking as chipper as* ever the*
old prospector has returned froth
the Pioneers Home at Sitka, where
he has been staying for some time
now. He has been missed on the
streets of Kodiak since early last
year.
His comments on the Pioneers
Home were few, but they indicat
ed he liked the idea of having his
bed linen changed weekly and
meals cooked and served to him.
He no doubt found this life quite
different from that of the pros
pector.
Jack has witnessed many a sun
rise, sat by many a campfire as he
has worked his mining claims. He
has seen Alaska grow from the
untamed wilderness that it was to
the frontier country later. That,
we believe, was more to his lik
ing than the present, with cities
towns plagued with problems and
growing pains.
We don’t know how much Jack
thinks about the old days. We
think it must be often. But those
same eyes that sought out the
yellow sparkling gold from the
streams now are turned to the
lawmakers at Juneau. His re
marks were caustic when he spoke
of some of their doings. In fact
some of the boys who stood^ by
listened to him, thought it might
be a good idea to have him down
there as a representative. No
doubt of it, he would probably
shake ’em up.
But, alas, jack says he is on a
leave of absence from the Sitka
home, and: will return in the fall;
We don’t know whether he is go
ing to stake another mining claim,
or, is just back to visit his old
friends, but all joking aside, he
deserves a rest and a little con
tentment, and if he can find that
among the senior citizens of Alas
ka now residing in Sitka, more
power to him. There’s a little bit
of envy in most of us when we
listen to him. We know we can
never again capture the spirit of
an untamed Alaska such as that
which existed when he first back
packed into its untrod interior.
* * *
We got a new slant on travel
the other day. You may think it
costs money to travel and you
know it costs money to be sick or
have an operation. But more than
likely you never thought of link
ing the two and saving money
somewhere along the line, did
you?
We gained this new slant on
linking travel and "hospital bills
from another old-timer in Kodiak.
Rasmus Urdahl trar^lated the fol
lowing from the well-known Wash
ington Posten, a Norwegian news
paper published in the United
States. It goes something like this:
A fellow Norwegian who lives
in Seattle, Washington, was telling
about his son there who got sick
when he was on a trip to Norway
and had to go to a hospital for an
operation. The whole account for
9 days in the hospital for opera
tion, doctor, nurses, medicine and
other expenses amounted to the
same* as they charge for one days
stay in a ^hospital f Seattle.*
: The father to the * ti>/ and ai
prominent surgeon in Norway,
.figured oat that in case the father
at some future date should need
an operation—for example, for
ulcer of the stomach or any other
sickness could save money by buy
ing a round trip ticket to Norway
and spend a couple of weeks in a
hospital for the same amount as
they charge for one day in a Se
attle hospital.
STOP ME IF YOU HAVE
HEARD THIS ONE: It was a mid
dle-aged couple and a man’s wife
had been badgering him for
months to take some “youth” pills
she had been reading about. Fin
ally he relented one night before
he was going to bed and took
several from a box she had bought
for him. The next morning his
wife kept shaking him to get up.
“Get up,” she stormed, “it’s
time you were out of bed-”
“All right, all right,” he said,
defiantly, squinting one eye open,
“I'll get up. But T won’t go to
school.”
We were reminded of that one
this week on receiving in the mail
a piece of advertising that shows
a man and wife, in bed, the hus
band pounding the pillow, and the
wife sitting up with a baffled look
on her face and saying; “He
didn’t even kiss me good night.”
Since we haven’t had any com- -
plaints along that line,, we of
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(OFFICIAL PUBLICATION)
Report -of the Financial Condition
OF .;<■
The Bank of Kodiak located at Kodiak, Alaska, Territory of Alaska, at the close of business on the 31st
day of March, 1959.
ASSETS
Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve balances, and
cash items in process of collection (Schedule D, item 8) .. $ 877,847.34
United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed (Schedule B, item 10) 2,089,970.98
Obligations of States, Territories and political subdivisions . 556,847.78
Other bonds, notes, and debentures (Attach full schedule) ... ' 42o!614*25
Loans and discounts (including $31.63 overdrafts) (Schedule A, item 12) . 1,195446.09
Bank premises owned, None, furniture and fixtures $14,353.73 .. 14,353.73
Investments and other assets indirectly representing bank premises or
other real estate ..... 80,000.00
Other assets (Schedule H, item 6) . 3,712.31
TOTAL ASSETS . 5,238,492.48
- - -r LIABILITIES
Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations (Schedule E, item 1) 1,657,301.78
Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations (Schedule F, item 1) .. 1,351,881.80
Deposits of United States Government (including postal savings)
(Schedule E, item 2, and Schedule F, item 2) . 746,149.03
Deposits of States, Territories and political subdivisions
(Schedule E, item 3, and Schedule F, item 3) . 995,487.49
Deposits of banks (Schedule E, items 4 and 5, and Schedule F, items 4 and 5) .. 1 060 00
Other Deposits (certified and officers' checks, etc.) (Schedule E, item 6) . 8,755.58
TOTAL DEPOSITS (items 13 to 18, inclusive) $4,760,635.68 (Ain't not to be extended)
Other liabilities (Schedule 1, item 6) .. 4,266.94
TOTAL LIABILITIES (not including subordinated obligations shown below) .... 4,764,902.62
CAPITALACCOUNTS
Capital Stock (No. of shares 1,600) (Total par value $160,000.00) ./. $ 160,000.00
Surplus .... . . 160,000.00
Undivided profits ...• 144 824 81
Reserves for income taxes .# 8 765
TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS .473 589 86
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS ./i 5,238,492 48
I, Mary E. Sorum, .Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above state
ment is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
CORRECT—ATTEST: -Vi
Mary E. Sorum • \ *,
Cashier j
Ben Kraft \
A1 Hochberger
Directors
Place for Official Seal to be
affixed by Officer before
whom acknowledged.
Notary must not be an offi
cer or director of the
bank.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TERRITORY OF ALASKA) SS.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of April, 1959,
and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this bank.
Harriet K. Guhrke, Notary Public
Notary Public in and for Territory of Alaska
My commission expires June 23, 1959