Operation Mike Fund Climbs
Rotary, Elks Club
Hold Auction
\
Kodiak Rotary Club raised i
$158.25 within 20 minutes
Tuesday for Operation Mike.!
Under the persuasive chant
of John Gibbons the members
of the club divested them
selves of their neckwear and
eagerly paid for them again.
The gaudy and colorful car
vats sold from $2.25 to $8.50.
The money will be turned
over to Mrs. Henry Haag,
secretary of the Alaska Crip
pled Childrens Association*
whp are sponsoring the local
drive to aid Michael Naumoff,!
disabled Kodiak Island youth,
who plans to attend a trade
school in the states and then
come to Kediak to open a
radio shop.
The Elks’ Club has raised
around $500 by auctions and
other projects for the fund,
John Gibbons told the MIR
ROR Tuesday. The local Elks
expect to raise some additional
money for the fund.
Clark Lethin, Boy Scout
executive for the territory,
told the club of Territorial
activities of the scouts follow
ing the tie auction. He met
with members of'1 the Kodiak
Scout Executive Board Mon
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Other guests attending the
meeting besides Lethin were
Walter Sipprell, Rotarian of
the Nome .club, Norman
Smith, Tom Carr, Jim Over
man, Gibbons, Sig Digree,
Howard Wakefield. Jack
Brooks and Robert Sharp.
Garden Club Raises
Money By Sales
Everything from aprons to
display shadow boxes is bring
ing money into the Kodiak
Garden Club’s Operation Mike!
, fund.
The garden club is one of j
the many local organizations!
which has been contacted by
the ACCA in the drive to
raise money which will send
Mike Naumoff, Kodiak Island
crippled boy, to radio school.
At a recent meeting of the I
gardeners, it was suggested j
that each member be given a
$2 starter from the club trea
sury, and see how much she
could boost it to.
Mrs. Ben Kraft spent hers
for material for aprons which
she made and sold for $20.
Mrs. Bob Hall, club president,
is selling African violet start
er plants and home made jelly
and has already netted $17.
Mrs. John Rogers is making
maple chopping boards and
aprons, and Mrs. Royal Mun
son is cooking casserole dishes
which can be bought by busy
housewives who haven’t time
to cook dinner. j
Needlework items are being j
made by several members, a- i
mong them Mrs. Ed Rockney I
who has crocheted small caps; j
and Mrs. Andy Peterson, whoj
is making doilies.
Mrs. John Given has made
a stationery or hanky box and
decorated the bottom, on the
inside, with an arrangement'
made with fall leaves and |
shrubs and dried corn. She
will present it to some lucky
person shortly.
I Mrs- Sig Digreeof the base
is selling ceramic shadow
boxes decorated with drift
| wood, to raise her share of the
| club’s Operation Mike fund.
Old Harbor Man
Reported Missing
The U. S. Deputy Marshal’s
office ha^ been requested to
search for a missing 24 year
old Old Harbor nian.
biester Auguiak, son of
Timitry Auquiak, was last
seen in Kodiak on the evening
of October 29. Nester formerly
worked for Robert von
Sfcheele aboard the Shuyak,
Island mail boat. U. S. Deputy
Marshal Clarence Dizney re
i ceived a letter from the miss
j ing man’s father dated No
Ivember 9, asking that he
search for the young man.
Auguiak is described as
weighing 134 pounds, five
feet six inches tall, brown
eyes and black hair. He is of
Aleut descent and is a fisher
man by trade.
Anyone having information
regarding his whereabouts is
requested to contact the
deputy marshal at Kodiak.
Social Security
Goes Up Jnn. 1
i
Your social security tax rate
for the coming years will in
crease on January 1, 1954.
"The social security rate
for persons whose work counts
toward old age and survivors
insurance will increase from
one and one-half percent to
two percent,” James G.
Browne manager of the Jun
eau social security office, an
nounced this week.
The increase is in accor
dance with the 1950 amend
ments to the SS law and was
enacted by Congress in an
ticipation of future obligations
(of the program, Browne ex
■ plained.
; Employees in jobs covered
! by the law will have two per
. cent taken from their pay up
to earnings of $3600 per year,
i The employer will contribute
an equal amount.
The new rates will apply to
all taxable wages paid after
December 31, 1953, regardless
of when earned.
Employers will be furnished
late this year with income tax
witholding tables and Federal
Insurance Contributions Act
(social security taxes) tables
reflecting rate applicable next
year.
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