Here There Everywhere
Kotfiak has been called Ameri
cas Last Prontier. Many more
shootings like the one last week
end and this town will be fully
established as a last frontier. You
•*' <y go into the Last Chance Sa
loon and little do you know it may
be your last. Bad hombres aren’t
all in the western story books. Or
did the gunman get his idea from
“I, The Jury?"
*****
He read the wrong book. We
like the one we read many years
ago a lot better. The little fellow
w;ts knocked down, and instead of
bearing a grudge, he set about
training himself, and in a scien
tific way learned to box and de
fend himself. The result was that
when he practically forced a fight
on his former enemy, his training
served him in good stead, and he
was able to finish him off in noth
ing flat.
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What is it that makes the hu
man mind tick like an old rusty
alarm clock at times? The end re
sult of a shooting of this kind is
inevitably either death or life im
prisonment—the killer hasn’t add
ed one iota to his manhood—he
has rather taken some away. He
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can’t enjoy his revenge. And still
he plans it step by step as if it’s
the greatest act of his life—you
figure it out.
*****
Speaking about guns. We haven’t
asked the Chief about this, but we
heard of a case over the week-end
where a man was backed up
against the wall and frisked, and
a toy gun was taken away from
him.
* * * * *
Kodiak’s own Kim Clark, biolo
gist, naturalist, photographer, lec
turer, dancer and taxi driver,
came in for quite a write-up in the
Anchorage Times, July 9 issue. He
had entered the Mt. Marathon race
at Seward and finished tenth in
the large field of entrants. Kim’s
job with the FWS is to spot bears,
the Kodiak variety, and determine
the amount of salmon they de
stroy. He has been at It for about
five years now and has never car
ried a gun. Few bf us would care
much about that sort of an intro
duction'to a largfe Kodiak bear:
Kim’s Story is that*, the-bear won’t
bother ybu if ydd don’t bother
the bear. "I’m not scared-of them,**
Clark says, “but I do have plenty
oMreapett.” ' * ■ '■* 1
. . . . .
Kim has been at the business of
of spotting bears for five years
now, and has undoubtedly learned
a lot about them. In the interview,
he said thf bear feeds chiefly on
‘spawn outs’and dead fish. Spawn
outs, he explained, are female sal
mon, who have already'deposited
their eggs, and will die anyway.
How do you take a census of the
bear population? According to
Kim, a “trip wire” method is used,
which consists of a wire strung
across bear trails, and connected
in a tree with an inverted bottle
of paint. The bear obligingly pulls
the wire, out comes the cork, and
he is doused with paint. Each area
has different colors of paint.
Kim, being something of a nat
uralist and botanist too, bemoans
the taking of wildflowers from Ab
ercrombie. He went out there the
other day with his camera to take
some pictures of the rare orchids
that grow in the area and found
nothing but holes. Kim thinks they
should be left there for all to see
and to propagate for posterity, as
that is one of the few places in
which they are to be found. He
especially mentioned the orchid
commonly known as “lady slip
per.”
The first attempt at providing
a daily newspaper for Kodiak has
gone by the boards with the sus
pension of publication by the Ko
diak Islander. The editor, Dick
Whittaker, says he is going to try
again at some future day, when
be has some more money in his
pocket. He and his father and
mother intend to make Kodiak
their home.
A territorial audit of certain Al
laskan agencies has come up with
some startling conclusions. This is
particularly true of the Pioneer
Home in Sitka, where the auditor
alleged existed “a general inade
quacy of fiscal records, weak in
ternal control and a considerable
number of improper or question
able practices.” Other agencies
where the audit reports found dis
crepancies or need for improve
ment in fiscal practices included
the Territorial Department of La
bor, Department of Territorial Po
lice, Territorial Medical Board,
Veterans Service Council, Alaska
Visitors Association, Fishermen’s
Fund and Alaska Development
Board.
* • * * *
Records of cas£ received at the
Home are reported to be very
weak, and it seems certain gold
nuggets left by inmates have come
up missing. It seems the inference
is that there is a new type of “gold
miners” in Alaska, differing con
siderably from the old colorful in
dividual who worked hard for
what he got, and endured a little
hardship along with it.
last rites for jury
Funeral services were held for
Theodore Joseph Jury at the Ko
diak Mortuary. Wednesday at 2
p. m. Only relatives and intimate
friends were in attendance.
The body was cremated.
Indonesia officially became an
independent republic when it was
released from Dutch control in
1949.
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