How Boatmen May Get Rid Of
Their Oldest Problem—The Seagull
New York—Few chores are
more discouraging than the pros
pect of cleaning off a boat after it
has served as a resort area for
several-hundred sea gull families.
After extensive investigation of
this sea gull problem, Popular
Boating magazine has come up in
the current (May) issue with a
number of tongue-in-cheek sug
gestions for ridding yourself of
the critters. Here are a few:
1. Rig your boat with a phono
graph and speaker system. Loud
and unfriendly recorded voices
can then be used to scare off the
birds. The voices can shout rude
epithets like, “Take off!”
“Seram!” and “Your father is a
chicken!”
2. Put your laundry to work.
Cover your boat with flapping
laundry and streamers. Not only
you but your boat m;</ t..d up
cleaner.
3 Stuffed owls sometimes work
on buildings in driving off unwant
ed birds. Why not try them on
your boat. However, a word of
warning. A Massachusetts boat
man recently tried this ploy, only
to return the next morning and
find 35 friendly owls pacing the
deck.
4. Give them the electric chair
treatment. Cover your boat with
electric wiring. The first gull who
lands will get a painful shock. As
he squawks and hops about on one
foot, stick your head through the
cabih d£or and shout, “Last one in
the water is a rotten egg!” No sea
gull wants to be a rotten egg.
5. Use dynamite, acid, poison
gas! 'Hie boat may be completely
worthless after this treatment,
but at least you will have shown
those gulls who is boss. *
6. Put up a “For Sale” sign. This
will solve the problem for the
owner if not for the boat. The
skipper might then consider mak
Letter To The Editor
A Visit
Practical applied Christian
teaching are blooming in many
hued kindnesses on a gentle bluff
at Mission Lake in Kodiak. Here at
the^ Elitist Mission, many native
children from all over Alaska,
have found understanding, sym
pathy and care.
Orphanages, like old folks
homes, still carry a dismal notion.
But the institutional impression is
absent at this pine grove. Rather,
it is a place where children have
open gangway to all surroundings,
and where mistrust and fear does
not thrive.
This challenge of bringing and
giving moral, ethical, physical
guidance and help to homeless
little ones, has drawn many won
derful people from our pleasant
land; and being here and doing
this, is so satisfying to them all,
that they even resent a well earn
ed vacation.
Chief Christoffersen, MCB 9
(Ed. note: The writer of the
above states he has /been here but
a couple of weeks, but on a visit
to the Mission, was impressed and
pleased about the way it is manag
ed.)
Advice
Telephone operator to new girl
she is breaking in: “No honey, you
say ‘Just a minute please.’ Not
‘Hang on to your pants, Mister.’ ”
—Jax Air News, United States
Naval Air Station, Jacksonville,
Fla.
year, 75,00Q students
attend American colleges and juig
. verskies (aiftecbin^Hcholarsl^ps.
submarine.
While some of these suggestions
can be classified under the “last
resort” category, says Popular
Boating, “they were nevertheless
formulated by boatmen who have
spent long hours watching gulls on
their own boats at anchor.”
Curfew Enforced
Warns PD Chief
Police Chief Vickery has issued
a warning that the City curfew
ruling will be strictly enforced.
The City Ordinance states that
anyone under the age of 18 must
be off the streets by midnight on
Friday and Saturday, unless ac
companied by a parent or guard
ian. There is an eleven p.m. cur
few Sunday through Thursday*, the
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Chief stated.
Only exceptions are for.. civic
affairs or school activities. “The
Police Department does not want
to impose hardships on the young
sters, but we must enforce the
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ordinance,” Vickery stated. Public
dances are not considered as civic
affairs, he added.
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