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parate organization and is a non
0fit corporation that operates on
very narrow margin, but they,
o, are going to see if they can
nd some of the items that may
i reduced, in this particular case.
Again, many thanks, and our
nd regards to you and to Ben
enson.
Lucius Hill, M.D.
(Dr. Hill is the physician and
urgeon who treated Benny in Se
ttle.)
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I EXCUSE US, PLEASE
Somehow the Ides of March
caught up with us. Due to the
smallness of the two recent edi
tions of the Mirror as well as to
the reduced page size due to a
shipping misunderstanding, we
have been running a week be
hind on all special occasions.
We were a week behind getting
the Girl Scout news in, and last
week it should have been Red
Cross stories, but they are ap
pearing this week.
We hope things are back to
normal soon. Our only explana
tion for the smaller sized paper
is that the roof leaked and the
paper shrunk, honest.
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INGENUITY
Some unidentified party in An
chorage mailed this along for the
column, and we believe it merits
appearing in the Mirror. It is en
titled “Hook, Line and Thinker.”
The salesman had been working
for the department store only a
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Dry Doods
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week but at the monthly meeting
he won the bonus for the moot
sales. The sales manager couldn’t
get over it. “Now stand up,” he
insisted, “and tell us how you sold
so much.”
“Well, the salesman said mod
estly, “one thing led to another. A
customer came in and I sold him
some fishhooks. Then I said,
“You’ll need a line for these fish
hooks,” and I sold him some line.
Then I said, “You’ll need a rod
to go with the line, and sold him
a rod. Then I said, ‘Of course, with
this beautiful rod you’ll need a
reel, and I sold him the reel.
“Then I said to him, ‘You ought
to have a boat so you can use your
new reel and rod, line and hooks,’
and sold him a boat. Then I said,
‘What good is a boat without a
motor?’ and I sold him a motor.
Next I told him, ‘So where do you
go with fishhooks, a line, a rod, a
reel and a motorboat in the city?
You need a boat trailer’ and I sold
him the trailer to go with his boat.
And then I finalized the whole
thing. ‘How’re you going to pull
the trailer without a car?’ and I
sold him a car.”
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There was a stunned silence.
Finally the sales manager spoke.
“But there’s something I don’t
understand. I didn’t hire you for
sporting goods. I assigned you to
the greeting card department.”
“Oh, yes,” the salesman agreed,
cheerfully. “I forgot that part.
This customer came in originally
friend in the hospital with an ap
for a get-well card for his girl
pendectomy. When I heard that, I
said, “You’ve got nothing to do for
six weeks so you might as well go
fishing’.”
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Big business news is in the
offing this week or next concern
ing a merger or take-over, a sale
and the establishment of a new
business. None of them involve
the Alaska Ice and Storage whose
expansion plans and future pro
gram should be forthcoming
shortly.
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PLANS FROM CATALOG
Didja notice where Rep. Maurice
Smith of Fairbanks came up with
the idea of ordering something out
of Sears-Roebuck?
Smith asked Leonard P. Lowell,
director of the Division of Public
buildings, when he learned tha/t the
architectural fees for the Kodiak
vocational school were estimated
at $65,000.
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CLARK’S GARAGE
DODGE SALES & SERVICES DART
THE QUIET DEPENDABLE DODGES
GOODYEAR TIRE DEALER
CAR PARTS FOR ALL MAKES
MUFFLERS — TAIL PIPES — BRAKES
CLARK’S GARAGE
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“Or perhaps a Better Homes ani
Gardens might have a design,” sug
gested Smith when he learned that
the architectural fees on the Nome
school totaled $62,000.
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KODIAK KOLLECTION: Low
ell Wakefield of Wakefield Fish
eries and Port Wakefield was an
overnight visitor in Kodiak and
told us that he would ship us 50
of his company’s choice King
Crab recipe books available for
you (incidentally he will be head
ing for London in May). .. . The
most urgent need we have now
in our town is for home-building,
don’t you agree? . . . Work is
moving ahead on the Banks mar
ket building at the intersection
of Resanoff slated to open in
May. . . . State Sanitarian Harry
Carter is aiming at cleaning up
the city dump and it’s a good tar
get. . . . Also in the line of im
provements what was formerly
known as Kraft’s bargain cen
ter and toy shop is being con
verted into a sporting goods and
gun department. . . . Frank Irick
in his new office which was for
merly occupied by Fashion
Heights. . . . We applaud the
cross section of Officers and
Beard of Trustees members
elected by the ARA this past
Saturday. . . . And a farewell to
the ACS lads leaving this week
who have been so accommodating
to the press and everyone who
docs business with them. . . -
Guess we weren’t up early
enough Sunday morning but Ray
Shannon tells us the St. Patrick’s
parade down the Main Stem was
the best ever. . . . And the two
Anchorage men lost between the
Triplets and the Barren Islands
this past wreek barely made it in
to the airport when they first
landed here, according to ob
servers.
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“PROFIT?
WHO HEEDS IT!”
To many Americans these days, ‘Profit’ has become an al
most evil word. Yet everyone in the country favors a fast rate of
growth for the U.S. economy. This is like being for transporta
tion but against the wheel. Under our system, you simply can’t
have economic growth or material progress w ithout profits
Take Union Oil’s case. During the last 10 years, the public
demand for petroleum products in our marketing territory has
grown from 885,000 barrels per day to 1,215,000. To keep pace
with these growing needs, Union Oil has had to invest some
$280,000,000 in refining, marketing and distribution facilities
alone. To say nothing of the even larger amounts we have in
vested in the search for more oil and gas reserves.
Where did we get the money to do this? Part of it came
from funds set aside to replace worn out facilities. Part of it
came from net profits — slightly more than half of which we
customarily plow back into the business each year. And part
of it we borrowed. But, in any case, these necessary facilities
would have been impossible without profits.
So would a lot of other things. Taxes on profits of U.S.
corporations provide our Federal Government enough revenue
each year to pay the entire costs of operating the Departments
of Agriculture, Commerce, Health Education and Welfare, La
bor and State; plus the Atomic Energy Commission, C.A.B.,
F.H.A., Veterans Administration and the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.
Without profits, all our nation’s research and development
on new and improved products would falter. In fact, practically
every product your family uses owes its existence to profits.
And every one of the 68^ million jobs in the country—public
or private—is dependent on profits.
So when you’re talking about our nation’s economic growth
and welfare, profit is not just a part of the system, it is the
very foundation of the entire American economy. You simply
can’t have one without the other.
Your comments invited. Write: President, Union Oil Com
pany of California, Union Oil Center, Los Angeles 17, California.
Union Oil Company of California
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