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The Nurse Leaves
Kodiak is without the services of a public health nurse
again. From the rate we are going Kodiak will have ah un
savory reputation with the Alaska Department of Health.
It has been suggested that a Board of Inquiry be set up
to establish the reasons for the health nurses leaving after
only a short tour of duty and without any explanation except
to their department heads.
It might be worth a try. A lot of residents would like to
know why the city can’t keep a public nurse.
Keep The Kids Away
The tendency to crowd around and watch an operation
of an earth mover or shovel is in all of us. But this week the
children have been rushing to the site of the 350 unit housing
project to watch the explosions of dynamite and ditching
powder.
Patrick Lynch and Company have a contract to do the
clearing and ditching at the site. Pat has asked the children
to stay away. If any parent h ts children tViat have been near
the building site th ey should warn them of the dangers and
see that they stay away.
Is there
a better reason
for saving money
♦Rank of Kodiak
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Book Review
By SISTER HILARY
Somewhere in his writings,
3.S. Lewis says: “I write my
books because no one else will
and I want to read them my
self.”
Applying this rather subtle
rony to some of our modern
literature, one is constrained
to believe that there can be no
other reason for the existence
of a large percentage of it. To
accept the timeworn, rather
misleading statement that
“Literature is Life” is some-i
what disheartening. If true,
j then life in our United States
| in these our times must be a
drab existence, to say nothing
worse about it. One picks up
| a promising-looking title, flips
through a few pages, and
finds pictured therein one or
more modern American fami
lies using language that lit
erally does not,,look well in
print,” living lives that violate
| all the codes of decency and
(morality. Yet we are expected
to accept the publisher’s assur
ance that these are works of
creative art, realistic, port
raying LIFE, with paragraphs
more of the same. Small won I
der that prominent families of
neighboring countries hesitate
to send their sons and daugh
ters to our American universi
ties for higher education. They
(judge us by what we read!
i lhere is an all-too-Drevalent
theory that popularity is a
guide to quality. One must
read the "best sellers’, re
gardless of the effect they
have on the mind; indeed, ly
ing carelessely about the home,
available to young as well as
older members of the family, j
are books that have the same
effect on the mind and char
acter ot the adolescent as
arsenic would have on his
i body .It would be interesting
to know criteria as used by
[publishers and book clubs in
accepting or rejecting offer
ings.
' Naturally, there is another
1 side to the picture. There are
i many worth-while books being
l published, particularly in
| childrens literature, but it is
; appalling to realize that so
jmany singled out tor high
j praise are mediocre offerings.
To be artistic, powerful, rest
rained, and no less important,
written in fine English, a book
need not be dull. Quite the
contrary. Such standards,
coupled with a plot that is
worthwhile, will make a rich
addition to the treasures of
the mind, to be recalled with
[renewed profit during mo
j ments of leisure.
i
Kids Gang Up
To See Explosions
} Additional hazards to the
dynamiting and ditching in the
east additon were presented to
Patrick Lynch this week as
flocks of children gathered to
watch the powder “go boom.”
Lynch holds a contract with
Aleutian Homes, Inc. for the
ditching and draining of the
350-unit housing site. Lynch
has requested parents to warn
their children about going to
the area.
Hospital News
BIRTHS: *
To Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J.
Reed, a son, October 15,
weight, 9 Ids; 10 oz. name
Anthony Jr.
To Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lee
Jones, a son, October 17,
weight, 7 lbs. 8 oz. name Roy
Lee, Jr.
To Mr. and Mrs. Carl Carl
son, a son, weight, 8 lbs., 6
oz., name, Carl Gustave.
To Mr. and Mrs. Louis J.
Horn, a son, Oct. 20, weight,
7 lbs., 2oz., name, Steven
Edward.
Wendell Kay Beats
Williamson
Wendell Kay, Anchorage
Democrat, was leading Fred
Williamson, Republican, by a
few votes for the tenth seat in
the Territorial House of Rep
resentatives.
A count during the middle
of the week gave Kay 4,736
votes and Williamson 4,681.
The first canvass of absentee j
ballots is scheduled forTues-)
day. There are 102 to be
counted.
All returns are in from 86
precincts in the Third Division j
1 except three.
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1 !
FWS Agent Surprised,
Roy Lindsley, U.S. Fish and!
■ WildlifeService representative]
who has surprised several j
fishermen at various times,
was on the receiving end of a
| surprise recently.
I Several friends dropped in1
on his birthday. After the
number of guests got larger)
[ he began to wonder if there!
j was enough coffee and cake in j
the house for them. His fears
were needless. Mrs. Lindsley1
had planned the party and had
prepared for the guests.
For the fourth successive
year federal income tax collec
tions in Alaska have shown a
substantial increase over the
lreceding year
income taxes collected in the
Territory in the latest fiscal
year totaled $41,006,579, a
ccording to the Bureau of
Internal Revenue. In 1951 the
total amount collected was
$36,894,861.
Cmdr. W.F. Dawson, for
merly of Kodiak Naval Sta
tion, has been named execu
tive officer the U S.S. Sitkoh
Bay, he has written friends
here.
I
The Business c»nd Profes
sional Women’s Club held
their regular dinner meeting
at the Montmartre Inn. Inter
national relations was the topi*
i for the evening.
j -
j The dredging of the entr
'ance channel to Women’s Bay
'at the Kodiak Naval Station
' will begin at an early date,
'Captain J.C. Tily, CEC, USN,
\ 17th ND, announced recently. |
• The Construction and En-i
1 gineering Co. and Osberg Con- j
' struction Co of Seattle will do
jthe woik.
COMIW & GOUT
Dob M. Fenner, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A.L. Fenner, is one
of 550 students who have en
rolled for the first’semester at
I Pacific University at Forest
Grove, Oregon.
This is Don,s third year of
college but his first at Pacific
University. He attended Ore
gon State for two years. He is
a graduate of Kodiak High
School.
Mrs. A. Holmes Johnson re
turned to Kodiak after spend
ing several weeks in the
states. Dr. and Mrs. Johnson
flew to Seattle to attend the
wedding of their son, R.
Holmes Johnson.
Dr. Johnson returned to his
practice immediately following
the wedding. Mrs. Johnson
visited Dr. Johnson’s mother
in Portland and his brother in
! Junction City, Oregon.
! Tom Johnson, winter watch
man at the cannery at Uyak
Bay, flew to Kodiak Friday
with Bob Hall. He plans a trip
outside and will return here
later in the winter.
—
| Andrew Laktonen was flown
from Karluk to Griffin Mem
i orial Hospital Friday in one of
i Bob Hall’s Grumman w;id
eons.
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Marina Shot
I Continued from page 1
1 proved materially under treat
j ment and was not committed
'or committable.” Stoddard
added, “he left the hospital on
his own volition.” The wire
from the Associated Pres*
stated that the hospital con
sidered the diagnosis of How
land confidential.
Records at the Kodiak Fede
ral Jail state that Howland
I was born in Lewiston, Maine.
I Howland said he was a resident
of Lisbon New Hampshire. He
has a wife and four children
in Lisbon.
Charges of first degree mur
der against Howland were
j signed by Capt. John A. Gus
! tafson, U. S. M. C. R.
I Cruz had recently returned
I from the states to complete his
tour of duty in Kodiak after
going home on emergency
leave for his mother’s funeral.
He was scheduled to leave Ko
diak for a tour of duty in the
states but his plane was can
celled. At the time the shoot
ng occured he was expectins
to leave within a few hours.
Pittsburgh (A5) —The coal
! strike spread unemployment
j among railroaders today as
, more than 322,000 miners car
ried their protest walkout into
its sixth day.
I The Baltimore and Ohio
I Railroad laid off 1,200 workers
| and the Norfolk and Western
I told another 300 there will be
; no paychecks for them until
| the miners return to the pits.