Here There and Everywhere
'The first item comes under Here
and There. Mr. and Mrs. R. James
Erickson are the proud parents of
•an 8 lb., 11 oz. boy. Little Mark
Roosevelt was born November 12,
at Everett, Washington.
James Erickson was stationed
here a number of years with ACS.
His marriage to his present wife,
Joan, took place earlier this year
here at Kodiak. The Ericksons now
live in the Washington city, having
left here this fall.
Dr. Paul Jaeger left here last
Monday via PNA for Pheonix, Ari
zona. He expects to return in about
two weeks.
Glen Robinson of Kenai spent a
few days in town this past week.
Mrs. Betty Dykes is now employ
ed as salesgirl at Knudsens. Mrs.
Marie Young is also working at
Knudsens, as fountain girl.
Mrs. Larry Benson left on the
MSTS ship Funston Monday for a
vacation. She plans to spend the
next two months in Washington.
Mrs. A.. F. Pearson was also on the
same ship. She plans to be on
hand for the arrival of two new
grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Leif Norman cele
brated their twenty-ninth wedding
anniversary last Monday. The day
passed as just another without any
special commemoration of the
event. The Normans are proprie
tors of Norman’s Photo Shop,
which they have operated since the
war years.
Walt Kraft is in the hospital. He
recently returned from the two
weeks encampment at Anchorage
•f the Alaska Home Guard.
Mrs. George Sonntag suffered
bruises and a sprain in a fall earli
er this week, caused when she slip
ped on some wet planks. There
were no broken bones, and she is
gradually recuperating.
A group of friends surprised
Father Gersasim Schmaltz at a
party on the occasion of his sixty
seventh birthday.
Father Schmaltz is well-known
here. He is serving as priest at
Ouzinkie and is living at Monks
Lagoon.He expects to be in Kodiak
for this week, but will return when
the weather is favorable. About
twenty people attended the party,
which was held at the home of
Nina Anderson on the 9th of No
vember.
The Alaska Cancer Crusade held
recently netted the sum of $38,302.
24 for all of the territory. This was
slightly less than the amount rais
ed last year, according to the Can
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cer Committee, but was a gratify
ing sum, they stated.
Roy Lombard, Public Works
Garage employee on the Naval Sta
tion, is on leave outside.
F. M. “Jack” Bourne is confined
to the Veteran’s Hospital in Miles
City, Montana. Jack was employed
on the Naval Station for ten years
before retiring early this summer.
Since leaving Kodiak, he and Mrs.
Bourne have been residing in
Billings, Montana.
You may think the weather here
is too chilly, wet or otherwise dis
comforting but the Pacific North
west from all accounts has been
suffering a little more than we
have in this “banana belt.” A cold
front, attributed as sweeping in
from the north Pacific, has envel
oped Washington, Oregon and Bri
tish, Columbia, and was particular
ly bad over the weekend. The cold
weather, accompanied by snow and
winds up to gale proportions, has
stirred up the Puget Sound and
the waters of British Columbia,
setting boats adrift and disrupting
ferry service.
This so-called “igloo” country of of its cold weather for which it has
Alaska is happy to pass on some become unjustly famous, to our
neighbors to the South.
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