SOCIAL HOLES
- Homemaking -
Happenings About Town
— Gardening _
Of This and That
By BETHA DIGREE
Be sure to mark February 27 on
yoiir calender . . . That’s the day
to go to the Russian Orthodox
Church basement tor some of that
very fine home cooked food.
Fathefr Stunner has informed us
that the ladies will begin serving
at 11:00 a.m. and continue until
7:00 p.m., unless the food supply
is depleted earlier. We’ve decided
to just “forget’’ to older grocery
delivery that day . . .
A year ago Louise Coon, wife of
Kodiak’s Mayor MeSrprill Coon, was
given a beautiful parakeet who
was named “Mac”. “Mac” quickly
became a member of the family,
chattering away, flying alnound the
house, and perching here and
there. His favdrpte perch is the
rim of Lbuise’s glasses. Merrill,
Louise and young son Corky al
ways thought that “Mac” was a
boy bird, but one day recent
ly Louise found a tiny egg in a
corner of “his”, cage. Now “Mac”
has 'been renamed “Maxine”, and
she is still laying eggs. She now
has a house guest (or should one
say cage guest?) who claims
“Kelly” as his name. Louise is
hoping that this time there is no
mistake, and that eventually there
will be some tiny,, fluttering new
birds . . .
To Helen Hall and Lillian Lamme
—Happy Birthday greetings. They
both celebrated theilr; natal day
Tuesday, February 16.
Tenora Rockney, Who, with her
husband, operates the Flranltier
Shop and Shoe Box, returned home
last Friday from a vacation Chit
side. Tenora had a bit of bad luck
when she reached home. An infec
tion developed in her ear and she
went to the hospital Sunday, where
she spent this past week.Ed
expects that she will be released
this weekend.
Rena Corgatelli, daughter of
Louise and young son Cot iky al
Sr., has been chosen as a delegate
to the Model United Nations which
wiU be held in April in San Flnan
ctsco . . . Rena is a sophomore at
Seattle University, Seattle . . .
Rena Kizer, who has been in
chatrtge of Knudsen’s Outfitters the
few months, left Tuesday for
Seattle because of illness in her
immediate family. Rena was in
charge of Kraft’s DLjy Goods De
partment for several months after
her arrival here from Fairbanks a
year ago . . . We will miss her
friendliness and courtesy, and
wish her much luck . . .
Mrs. Haggland
Special Guest
Of Garden Club
The Kodiak Garden Club will
meet at the home of Mrs. Alice
Given on Tuesday, February 23rd,
at 8:00 instead of the regular meet
ing night on Wednesday. Special
guest for the evening will be Mrs.
Paul B. Haggland of Fairbanks,
Alaska who is 1st Executive Vice
President of the Alaska Federa
tion of Garden (Clubs. Prog'.tam for
the evening will be “The World In
Your Garden” presented by Mrs.
Marge Farrell, which deals with
the origin and development of
everyday vegetables as we know
them. Guests are welcome. Please
call 4592 or 0-230.
Brownies Hold
Bevel Saturday
The Brownies will celebrate
their own special day with a
Brownie Revel on Saturday, Feb
ruary 20 from 10 a m. to 2 p.m. at
the National Guafcd Armory.
There will be games with an
Hawaiian accent, stories told by
guest storyteller Mrs. Bill Smith,
and Ifula dancing.
All Brownies are ^requested to
wear play clothes that can take
active play and sitting on the
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floor. They should also take with
them a “Nosebag” lunch and
drinks in disposable cartons, bags,
sacks or cans.
Mrs. Haggland
To Speak To BPW
Guest speaker at the dinner
meeting of the Kodiak Business
and Professional Women’s Club to
be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb
ruary 22 at the Island Fountain
will be Mrs. Marge Haggland,
Fairbanks, Director District 2.
Mrs. Haggland will also show color
slides of Alaskan wild flowets,
home and garden flowers.
Several guests have been invit
ed to attend the dinne)r\ including
members of the Kodiak Garden
Club. •
The following appointments
were made at the last business ses
sion: Betty Springhill, vice presi
dent; Marcia Craig, cards and
gins chairman; Marian Johnson,
scholarships chairman, and Marie
Reynolds, Public Relations.
One new member, Makjie Car
dinal, and one returning member,
Manie Reynolds, were welcomed
into the club.
Exploring Arts
Part Of Program
For Girl! Scouts
Since its earliest days the Girl
Scout organisation has stressed
exploration of the arts as an im
portant factor in dfiveliping a well
rounded, personality. Today the
Girl Scouts are placing greater em
phasis than ever on training in this
area. During the past two years
the national organization has spon
sored an international Arts Festi
val fdh girls and co-sponsored a
series of coast-to-coast television
programs on "Adventuring in the
Hand Arts.” The local GkrJ Scout
show appears on AFRS-TV at 3:30
pm on Saturday. At the present
time it is sending a mobile training
unit, staffed by educators in the
arts, on a projected three year tour
of the United States. Known as
the Adis Caravan, this unit will
•bring up-to-date training in arts
and crafts, music and dance, liter
ature and drama to Girl Scout
councils throughout the country.
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One of the most striking trends
otf the past 10 years is the way that
women have been returning to
work after the age of 35—pre urn
ably after their children are well
established in school.
Recent statistics illustrate the
trend: today about 36 per cent of
women over 35 have jobs; 10 years
ago only 30 per cent were working.
Now, however, it appears as if
this trend is going to reverse,
states the Institute of Life Insur
ance on the basis of studies by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
If the trend reverses as expect
ed, it means that women will face
increasing competition for jobs by
men. As the Bureau puts
it: “The competition of larger num
bers of young adult men—could
well have a dampening effect in
the rate of increase in labor force
participation by women.”
The reason for this statement is
simply that during the 1960’s there
will be a large increase in the num
ber of young people seeking jobs.
This increase represents the com
ing-of-age of children born during
the “baby boom” of World Wax II
and of the postwar years. In a
very real sense, these young peo
ple, just entering what is caned
the “job market,” will be compet
ing with mature women re-enter
ing the same “market.”
This obviously creates a prob
lem for the homemaker who to
day is thinking about returning to
work in a few years, when her
children are well in their teens.
Her reasons for wanting to do so
are sound. She may want to put
money aside for a youngster’s ed
ucation, or help her husband in
financing a home of their own—
or just build up the family’s nest
egg of savings.
One thing she can begin to do
righ/t now is come to a decision on
the kind of work she would like to
do, and start preparing for it as
soon as possible. It would also
stand her in good stead to expect
competition from young men in
search of career opportunities of
their own.
A point in her favor in the next
five years at least, is that there
will be something of a scarcity
of skilled workers in the “central”
ages between 25 and 45, and that
to meet this need employers will
turn to three groups, older work
ers, women and young people.
Undoubtedly, some women re
turning to jobs can count on
skills or experience they have al
ready have, but in all likelihood
the majority will need retraining
or at least a good brushing up in
job requirements. The woman
who prepares herself for a job
ahead of time will be in a better
position than others who are un
prepared. It will also pay to
day's housewife to alert herself
to opportunities in new kinds of
jobs. For example, with a
scarcity of skilled workers in the
offing, employers may consider
hiring women workers in a vari
ety of jobs not previously open to
women.
Incidentally, the difficulties fac
ed by American women past 35 in
finding jobs are also shared by
women in other nations. Last
October, at a meeting held in
Geneva, Switzerland under the aus
pices of the International Labor
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Mrs. Lyle Strickler
Above is pictured Mrs. Lyle
Strickler, as she performed in the
PTA Benefit show on the Naval
Station last week. A recent arrival
on the station, and having theatri
cal experience, Mrs. Strickler di
rected the show as well as perform
ed.
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