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Saturday
6:00—Rise and Shine
7:00—News, Weather & Announ
cements
7:15—Latin Beat
7:30—Polka Party
8:00—Starr of Space
8:25—Uncle Paul
8:30—No School Today
8:55—The Thing Called Life
9:00—Inheritance
9:25—Great Disasters
9:30—Galen Drake
9:55—Robert Mill
10:00—News, & Announcements
10:15—Robert Q. Lewis
10:30—Inheritance
11:00—Syncopation Piece
11:25—AFRS Speaks
11:30—Science of the Air
12:00—Hawaii Calls
12:30—Weather, News
12:45—Music For Americans
1:00—Army Hour
1:30—Hollywood Music Hall
1.55—Art Baker’s Notebook
2:00—By Request
3:00—AFRS News
3:15—Eddie Fisher
3:30—Memo For Americans
4:00—America’s Popular Music
5:00—Power Biggs
5:30—Portrait in Music
6:00—AFRTS News
6:15—Sports For the Record
6:30—Rancho 960
7:00—Edgar Bergen
7:30—Lone Ranger
7:50—Camp Fire
8:00—Jack Carson
8:30—John Steel
8:55—The Weather Marches
9:00—AFRTS News
9:15—Teddy Wilson
9:30—Grand Ole Opera
10:00—Johnny Dollar
10:30—Modern Moods
11:00—After Hours
1:00—Sign Off
Sunday
8;00—Weather and News
8:15—Music For Sunday
I 8:55—The Weather Marches
9:00—Protestant Hour
9:30—Negro College Choir
9:55—Robert Mill
10:00—Catholic Hour
10:30—Eternal Light
11:00—Fine Arts String Quartet
11:25—AFRS Speaks
11:30—Invitation to Learning
12:00—Howard Barlow
12:45—Stand By
1:00—Philadelphia Orchestra
1:55—Art Baker Notebook
2:00—Bookshelf of the World
2:30—On a Sunday Afternoon
2:45—This Thing Called Life
3:00—AFRTS News
3:15—Three Sons
3:30—New England (Survey)
3:55—Popular Vocal
4:00—Bulletin Board
4:05—Biography in Sound
5:00—Serenade to Romance
6:00—AFRTS News
6:15—Sports Rehash
6:30—Sunday with aGrroway
6:55—HiFi Musical
7:00—Mitch Miller
7:45—Serenade in Blue
7:30—Sunday with Garroway
8:00—What’s My Line
8:25—Johnny Lee Wells
8:30—Life is Worth Living
8:55—'The Weather Marches
9:00—AFRTS News
9:15—To Be Perfectly Frank
9:30—Our Miss Brooks
9:50—Guy Lombardo
10:00—Adventures of Sherlock
10:30—Sunday Reveries
11:00—Sign Off
Daily
6:00—Morning Show
7 00—News, Weather & Announ
cements
7:15—Morning Show
8:00—Turn Back the Clock
8:25—AFRS Speaks
8:3o—Don McNeil Breakfast Club'
9:00—Make Up Your Mind
9: xo—i oi and the World
9:30—Tennessee Ernie Show
10:00—Nows, Announcements
10:30—Musical Notes & Anecdotes
11:30—Music by Rex Koury
11:45—Bob Crosby
12:00—Noonday Music
12:30—Weather and News
1:00—Behind the Story
1:30—Carnival of Music
2:00—Martin Block
2:30—Concert Hall
3:00—AFRTS News
3:15—Bing Crosby
3:30—Fibber McGee & Molly
3:40—Harmony Rangers
3:45—At Ease
4:00—Music Shop
4:30—Matinee
5:30—The Penthouse
6:00—AFRTS News
7:55—Ebony and Ivory
10:00-AFRTS News
10:15—Jukebox Journal
10:30—Night Watch
11:30—One Night Stand
11:55—Organ Music
12:00—Midnight—Sign off
Monday
10:15—Bobby Hammach
11:00—Greatest Story Ever Told
12:45—Musical Express
1:15—Science Editor
5:00—Treasury Bandstand
6:15—Time Out For Sports
6:30—Alaska Hayride
7:00—Ed Sullivan
7:30—Honey Mooners
8:00—Contest Theatre
8:45—Land of the Free
9:00—Best of Groucho
9:30—Box Thirteen
8:55—The Todds
9:40—The Weather Marches
Tuesday
12:45—Guest Star
1:15—My First Fifty Years
5:00—Treasury of Music
6:15—Time out for Sports
6:30—Northern Roundup
7:00—Perry Como
7:15—Terrea Lea
7:30—$64,000 Question
9:00—Music for America
8:30—-You Are There $
9:00—People Are Funny
9:30—The Whistler
Wednesday
10:15—In the Mood
11:00—Mid-Week Devotions
12:45—Musical Express
1:15—Adventures in Research
5:00—Mostly Dixie
6:15—Boxing
7:00—Dinah Shore
7:15—Out of the North
7:30—Tex Williams
9:00—People Are Funny
8:30—Gunsmoke
9:00—Truth or Consequences
9:30—John Steel
Thursday
10:15—Moods and Melodies
11:00—Christians in Action
12:45—Guest Star
1:15—Literary Greats
5:00—Marines in Review
6:15—Time out for Sports
6:30—Alaskan Hayride
7:00—Perry Como
7:15—Rosemary Clooney
7:30—Gene Autry
8:00—On Stage
8:30—Liberty Theatre
9:00—Truth or Consequences
9:30—Dragnet
Friday
11:00—Ava Maria Hour
1:15—Adventures in Science
5:00—Navy Hour
6:15—Time Out for Sports
6:30—Northern Roundup
7:00—Arthur Godfrey
7:30—Wheel of Chance
8:00—Meet Millie
8:30—Let George Do It
9:00—Two For the Money
9:30—Suspense
Ti v -tank Writes of
Foi gotten People
Ted Bank II, professor, scientist
and explorer, who has made fre
quent trips through Kodiak, has
written a oook entitled ' Birthplace
of tne winds,” which was recently
review^u. in the New York Times
Book i\cvlew. Bank was instrumen
tal in iuunding the Kodiak andt
Aleutian Islands Historical Society.'
Bank, according to the articles
written by Raymond Holden, first
saw the Aleutians as a member
of the American troops who were
sent there shortly after the Japs
landed on Kiska and Attu. Later
he returned to his studies at the
University of Michigan.
His professor there urged hint
to return to the Aleutians to study
the ethnobotany of the Aleutian
people. Back at Atka, he sought
some prehistoric burial caves upon
which he had stumbled during the
war without having time to ex
plore them.
In the reviewer’s own words, “In
spite of the fact that he is not a
very artful writer, his narrative
gives a vivid picture of a wld and
wonderful land, of flowing hill
sides, great snowy volcanoes, some
of them still belching smoke, great
cliffs alive with sea birds, unchart
ed rocks, and dangerous offshore
islands grim with skeletons and
relics of an ancient people.”
The writer continues: “Bank is
a friendly, sympathetic soul. He
likes people. The remains of the
noble race of Aleuts, which once
numbered more than 20,000 and
now is reduced perhaps to less
than 1,000, aroused his interest. He
got to know many of these abused
and misrepresented people, and
they, seeing that he loved them
and their land, confided in him.
They knew that he respected their
tradition and would not ridicule
them.”
Bank learned the true story of
the mistreatment these people suf
fered at the hands first of the vio
lently cruel Russians and then of
the heedless Americans.
“The average age at Atka,” Bank
writes, “was only twenty-five years
old. We found that only four men
and two women out of the sixty-six
in the village were over fifty. Of
the eleven families at Atka, nine
families had been visited by tuberc
ulosis during the past two decades,
six by veneral disease, and six by
pneumonia. Influenza had ravaged
them all .... It was an old story.
The history of mankind is unfor
tunately filled with such chapters
as the decline of the Aleut—a
people once hardy and populous,
admirably adapted physically and
culturally to a rigorous environ
ment, but now impoverished, di
seased and spiritually weakened,
their numbers alarmingly reduced,
and their family culture all but de
stroyed.’’
Swans Pay Visit
Land Near Beach
Many people felt this week that
Spring was definitely here when
word quickly spread around that
seven swans had alighted near the
beach in front of the Baptist Mis
sion.
The visitation of these beautiful
birds, known as the Whistling
Swan, is not uncommon. Each year
two or three and often more land
in the environs of Kodiak. These
seven evoked much interest, and
considerable camera work, as a
continuous stream of cars headed
for the beach at the end of Mis
sion Road.
These swans were all young.
Their plumage, instead of being
pure white as on the older, birds,
was ashen-grey and darker on the
neck. Both old and young, swans
are famous for their stately ap
pearance in the water, largely to
constantly changing but always
graceful arching of their necks.
The swan builds its nest on the
coasts and islands of the Arctic
Sea, in the far-off archipelagoes of
the great frozen north. The mother
covers the eggs carefully with
mossy nest lining to insure warmth
and safety. The egg hatches by the
last of June. The cygnets are led
to the water, where they feed and
grow under the midnight sun.
Danger of extinction comes to
these birds, when the parents
molt out of their flight feathers,
and are unable to fly. They then
fall victims to the natives. In late
September or October they are on
their way south. “It is hard to see
just why this bird is called the
whistling swan—their calls have
great variety. Some high keyed
notes may come from younger
birds, but old males sound the
bass horn. When flocks are high
in the air, the leader utters a high
note, which is repeated by flock
after flock. This may have given
the bird its name.”
The expression “Swan Song,”
often used, is derived from this
bird. When it is mortally wounded
in the air, and is sinking slowly'
down, it begins its death song,'
which has been described a#/
“plaintiff and musical and sounds
at times like the soft running of
an octave.”
The larger Trumpeter Swan is
much rcjore scarce and rarely seen.
PETTY OFFICERS MEET
AFTER TEN YEARS APA»vT >
Robert G. Fowler, AK1, walked
into the FasRon 114’s Personnel
Office last week. He was greeted
by Donald R. Arbogast, PNl. lead
ing petty officer of the office.
Both of these petty officers were
among the original personnel of
the Service Squadron when it was
commissioned here at Kodiak jn
September of 1946. The men had
not seen each other in nearly
ten years.
SHIP REPAIR COMMENDED
The Cordiva Correspondent for
the Board of Underwriters ot New
York sent a letter commending
the Naval Station’s Ship Repair
Unit for the ‘excellent manner in
which the repair of the S. S. Sea
fair was accomplished.”
The merchant ship was damaged
while docking here last month.
T'A
Tommy Gallagher has the
grazing lease for Long Island
THOMPSON TRANSFER
Oldest Oil Transfer Cn.
in Kodiak!
a We limit our activities to hauling oil
consequently .you can depend upon us
to serve you.
Erich Mueller, prop.
PHONE 3181 or 4303
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Serving complete Chinese style dinners
and American dishes
Chuck Wagon Wednesday - All you can eat $3.00
Half price for children under 12 years
No charge for children under 8 years
Come out and bring the family
New Hours 5 pm till