— Kodiak Kapstuiles —
(By Bill Mason)
vcontinued from page 1)
the service personnel in their off
hours jobs? Well the one which
started resulted in an apology to
the owner of a firm coming from
one of the top ranking officers
simply because it wasn't so. . . .
If the price of canned King Crab
weren’t quite so high the Kodiak
Sandwich could soon surpass the
tuna sandwich in popularity (it’s
much tastier). . . . The Japanese
fishermen brought in during the
week just passed must have Blue
Cross, instead of Red Cross, as
they have been taken to Griffin
Memorial rather than the Base
hospital and the Kodiak Mirror
with its “beat up, has-been staff”
reached a new 10 year high for
circulation, publishing 2300
copies last Friday, and we were
out of them an hour after the
press run.... One of the staunch
iest Little League mothers in
the area is Mrs. Ralph W. Long
mire, who son has since out
grown playing Little League ball.
DIFFERENT THEN
Suppose you have heard the
George Washington yarn about the
“hillbilly” in Tennessee whose son
pushed the Chic Sales over into
the canyon.
His father came storming into
the cabin 15 minutes later and de
manded which son had done it.
Little Willie, age 10, spoke up
immediately and confessed that he
had committed the act, but thought
he should be excused from punish
ment because he was truthful about
the affair.
“Yeah,” snapped his Dad, “but
Washington’s Pa wasn’t sitting in
the cherry tree when Georgie cut
it down.”
* * * *
KODIAK KOLLECTION: Our
city is paying about $30,000 for
city manager and engineering serv
ices (which is considerably more
than some communities of twice
this size for one man doing both
jobs). ... At the next City Council
meeting Harbormaster A1 Fenner
will be on hand to defend some of
the statements made against him at
the last session as well as to add
his personal comments on some
other city situation (might be real
interesting if you are not doing
anything on the last day of the
month, Thursday, Feb. 28. . . . A
WANTED:
a fresh supply is needed for the
eomipg year, weather, children,
etc., has taken the toll on the
stakes put in over the last 3
years.
ME
roads are being built of survey
or’s stakes than anything else.
You can look forward to another
summer and a fresh group of
SURVEYOR’S
for our road. Lumber mills are
working overtime to get us a
new supply of i
STAKES!
Let us survey your insurance.
Kodiak Ssisisrance
INC.
Art ftrooks at 486—2215
suggestion has been made that the
city take over the garbage collec
tion to reduce the spillage along
Mission Road. . . . Sen. A1 Owen
of Uganik Bay has been introduc
ing so many bills in the legislature
he must have plans for running in
the fall of 1965. and he will prob
ably be opposed in his own party
by former Rep. Pete Deveau. . . .
Personable Bix Bonney, new man
ager of Alaska Ice and Storage fa
cilities here, is a close friend of
the John Cushings who ran the
Kodiak Telephone company for
years and years; and speaking of
telephones the Mirror is in the
process of printing a new direc
tory, due out before too many days.
. . . Howcum the newspapers and
other businesses don’t get off for
George’s Birthday like the bank,
the P.O., the city hall and any
and all federal employes. . . .
Strange, but one of the items we
haven’t seen in our classified de
partment is one trying to sell a
sewing machine.
* * * *
Oh well, you can’t win all the
time:
There is the story about the
jungle Olympics and a dejected
cheetah who was sitting on t’ne
sidelines having failed to win any
prizes.
“I can understanding having
lost the other events,” he said to
another cheetah who had also
failed to win anything, “But I
thought since we’re supposed to
be so fast that surely we’d win
the races. Imagine being outrun
by an elephant!”
“Well, that’s the way it goes, ’
his friend said philosophically.
“Cheetahs never win.”
* * * *
Contrary to a popular opinion,
restricted deed lands, and there is
much on Kodiak Island, cannot be
put on the tax rolls by action of
the Alaska Legislature.
It must come through federal
action—probably a decision handed
down by the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs, City Clerk Doug Preston in
forms us.
* * * *
Most grisly and apparently
true story to come out of the bis
tros here in years is the one
about the loaded gentleman who
pulled himself away from the
stool and headed for the dour.
From all appearances he was
having a terrific time trying to
shut the door and finally did on
the third try.
A horrified female patron
looking down on the floor
screamed when she saw a fingei
laying there. It had come off the
hand of our inebriated friend
who was staggering down the
street which could be traced by
a stream of blood.
The doctors sewed the finger
back on after a rush trip to the
hospital, and apparently he is
making out all rgiht.
DON’T FORGET SUNDAY
Give the whole family a treat.
Take them to the dinner at the
Russian Orthodox Church on Sun
day. The entire family can eat for
only $6.
Kodiak May Have
Pre - Registration
A bill to require pre-registration
of voters in any incorporated city
or borough in which more than
000 votes were cast in the 1962
general election has been sub
mitted to the Alaska Legislature
by Governor William A. Egan.
The bill also contains a provision
whereby voters in an incorporated
city of more than 1,000 population
may be required to pre-register, at
the option of the city. To exercise
the option, a city must pass an or
dinance requiring pre registration
and file a certified copy of it with
the Secretary of State at least 180
days before an election.
nominated for post
Mrs. Darrell Chaffin of Woody
Island is a candidate for the post of
treasurer of the Alaska Press
Women, an announcement from the
organization’s headquarters said.
The name of the Kodiak Tele
phone Company was inadvertently
left off the Boy Scout page in last
week’s Kodiak Mirror.
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