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<2Wj of cAmerica's Last frontier
Vote!
It is a truism, to have an elec
tion, you have to have voters. In
the past a small percentage of
voters have turned out for munici
pal elections.
This may be caused by a feel
ing of the voter that his ballot
doesn't mean much anyway. He
may feel that whoever* is elected
to office is either OK With him, or
he dod.'Wl’t^khfliw'him, and so why
vote, or it makes no difference.
It does make a difference.
The more voters a.City official
is accountable to, the better he is
going to do his job. Then, too, in
difference in voting, enchances
the chance of an undesirable can
didate going into office..
Make sure you are on the eligi
bility list to vote—and. on October
2, take a few minutes off and ea*t
your vote.
Grobler Speaks
3efore Rotarians
Facts first hand in East Ger
many were revealed by Fritz Grob
ler, who spoke before the Rotary
Club Tuesday noon. He returned
recently from a three weeks stay
in the Russian zone.
Grobler has spoken before vari
ous groups in town and on the Na
val Station. His talk, entitled “In
side East Germany,” gave his lis
teners an eye-witness account of
conditions there. He left Germany
in 1929, and after a lapse of twen
ty-seven years returned to visit
his relatives, most of whom live
ul< the Bast Sector.
The speaker stated he encount
ered difficulty in getting into that
part of the country, to begin with.
It was impossible to get a visa un
til he arrived in West Germany.
The problem of bringing money
into the Russian zone had to be
met by devious ways. His stay in
the zone opened his eyes to the al
most unbearable conditions which
Germans lived. They were granted
few freedoms, had no incentive to
produce since what they made was
taken from them. They lived in
constant fear, he said, of some
soldier spying,ah them. It was dif
ficult to get the necessities of life.
Even gasoline for the car he was
driving bad to be procured for a
high price from soldiers. Grobler
visited his three sisters and their
families, and many friends while
there. He managed, he said, to get
around and see just how the Rus
sian government operated in the
zone. He concluded by saying:
“You knew right away on entering
the West Zone from the East Zone,
poods in the West Zone were kept
up, buildings were going up every
where.The biggest difference was
in the way the people acted. In the
East Zone, people seldom smiled,
and were dejected most of the
time. In the West Zone, people
smiled and carried on much as we
do in America.”
Present besides the members
were Prank McConaghy, H. H.
Stabler, Fritz Grobler, Ed Hess,
Jim Eslinger, Jess Ballard, Art
Hedges. Walter Heisel and Gordon
E. Munger.
KODIAK STAMP GROl’P
WILL MEET TONIGHT
The Kodiak Stamp group plan to
reorganize. A meeting has been
called for tonight beginning at 8
p.m: at the home of Bob Dawson
on Mill Bay Road.
PROCLAMATION
I. Leon H. Johnson, Mayor or
Kodiak, do hereby proclaim Sep
tember 23, 1953 through Septem
ber 29, 1956 to be
National Business Women’s Week
This annual Week, sponsored
throughout the United States
by the National Federation of
Business and Professional Wo
men’s Clubs, is set aside to pay
tribute to women in business and
the professions, and the contribu
tion iney make to the nation.
(s) Leon H. Johnson
Mayor of Kodiak
Here There Everywhere
(Continued from page 2)
. . . . Lowell Jones, former Safety
Officer on the Naval Station, now
has the Park TraveLodge at San
Diego, California. He says learn
ing a new business during the busy
vacation season took a lot out of
him and his wife. He is publishing
another pictorial map of*-Alaska,
which should be off the press soon.
If you think you have troubles,
tbink of one John Slater, who ii
building an addition to his newly
acquired home, and fell off the
roof Thursday. That isn’t all—he
has been home sick with the
whooping cough the past several
weeks. Besides being a wiser man.
he’s older—-his birthday was yes
terday.
LATE BULLETIN: In keeping
with our policy to bring you up to
the minute news, we want to re
port that since this column start
ed, snow on the surounding moun
tains is beyond the rumor stage.
Kiiimunjaro has nothing on them.
Kodiak is experiencing a cold snap
along with most parts of the
States, with ice forming these
nights, and the temperature re
ported unofficially as low as 33
above in the daytime! Anyway, of
ficially it was 37 degrees above.
The Autumn season begins Sep
tember 22. Are we going to skip
it entirely?
The Leader-Press of Elsinore,
California, had this to say: “A very
long time ago, England’s George
III was having a terrible time of it
with us Americans over taxes. He
laid a tax on tea. We not only
wouldn't pay it but we dumped
the tea overboard in Boston har
bor. We even rebelled—treason it
was! But hold! ... we don’t want
to get into the position of seeming
to advocate armed insurrection all
over again. It can’t be treason,
however, to think that George III,
if he could come back and see die
tax picture of today, wouid have
his reason scrambled worse than
it ever was!”
Here’s a parting thought, though
not very comforting. We haven’t
checked the accuracy of the fig
ures, but they are from the Press
Register, Clarksdale, Miss.: ' The
cost of ail government in the U.S.
averages, per person, $575 a year
That would make the average fam
ily tax bill about $1,900.”
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Take what comfort you can out
of the fact that the ‘‘real cost” of
food has dropped 20 per cent
since 1952, according to data sup
plied by the Department of Agri
culture and Department of Labor.
The “real cost” of a typical basket
of food, expressed in hours of
work, fell from 53.3 hours in 1952
to 40.9 hours in 1956, due to the
falling retail prices and rising
wages. In other words, it takes
less hours of work to gain more
purchasing power.
Dr. Bob Johnson
Toastmasters Head
A small but lively group of
Toastmasters met at the Mont
martre for their regular meeting
last Tuesday evening. Dr. Bob
Johnson was elected President for
the coming six months. All the of
ficers were elected unanimously.
Executive Vice-President is Har
old Booth. Amby Clegg was elect
ed Educational Vice-President and
Paul Bond will serve as Secretary
Treasurer. Sig Digree was elected
as Sergeant-at-arms.
The two principal speakers for
the evening were Rev. Talbott and
Harold Booth. Carl Huer was
Toastmaster, and Sig Digree handl
ed the Table Topics.
Assignments for next week are
as follows: Toastmaster, Frank
Sheff; Table Topics, Forrest Nor
ton; Chief Evaluator, Jules Radin
sky. Speakers for the next meet
ing are George Cornelius, and his
critic. Dr. A. Holmes Johnson;
John Maasuy, critic, Bob Dawson;
Merrill V<p>n with Emil ,Knudsen
as his critic and Sig Digree with
Don Wolf as critic. Gramarian,
Larry Wodlinger; Wizard of Oz,
Carl Huer.
Tour Being Made
Of CG Installation
Vice Admiral A. C. Richmond,
Commandant of the Coast Guard,
arrived in Kodiak Wednesday af
ternoon to make an official visit to
the Commander Alaskan Sea Fron
tier and the Coast Guard Air De
tachment on the Naval Station.
The visit is part of a tour of Al
askan Coast Guard Shore installa
tions that also includes the Loran
Station at Spruce Cape, Cape Sari
chef, Adak and Attu.
After completing his tour of the
Station Coast Guard activities, the
Admiral was entertained at a cock
tail party at the Officer’s Club He
left Thursday morning to continue
his tour, and expects to return to
Kodiak Saturday afternoon enroute
from Attu to Yakutat.
Included in the Admiral’s party
are Rear Admiral F. T. Kenner,
Captain R. T. Alexander, Captain
H. U. Scholl and Captain H. S.
Berdine.
CITY HOSPITAL NEWS
Admissions to Griffin Memorial
Hospital during the past week in
cluded Mrs. Pete Olsen, Mrs.
Grace Parker, Harry Sandness,
John Boucher, Jr., Nick Lukovitch,
Andrew Jager, Oscar Peterson and
Fred Anderson. Discharged were
Curtis Saxton, Oscar Peterson,
Alex Saracoff Nick Lukovitcn.
Mrs. Grace Parker, Harry Sanders,
Fred Anderson, Mrs. Richard Hart
man and infant, Betty Larionoff,
Alfred Hansen and Pearl Hold.
BIRTHS
Philip Eugene, 8 lbs., was born
on September 14 to Phyllis and
Gene Sundberg.
Brandie Wes, 7 lbs 9 ozs.. was
born on September 16 to Margaret
and John Ware.
Kathleen Ann, 7 lbs. 12 ozs., was
born on September 17 to Shirley
and Robert Sowder.
Leslie John, 8 lbs. 5 ozs., was
born on September 18 to Betty
and Charles Loftus.
BASE HOSPITAL BIRTHS
Danny Lee, weighing 7 bs. 5V4
ozs., was born on September 12 10
Martha Jane and Gerald T. Rey
nolds, PN3, USN. Danny Lee is
the Reynold's first child.
Richard Mark, weighing 5 lbs.,
9 ozs., was born on September 15
to Patricia Mary and Thomas Jo
seph Koening, CN, USN. Richard
is the Koenigs’ first child.
Robert Vincent, weighing 3 lbs.
10% ozs. was born on September
15 to Joy Denise and Robert Elgin
Hyler Lt., USN. Robert is the Hy
lers’ fourth child.
Michele Marie Jane, weighing
7 lbs. 11% ozs., was born on Sep
tember 15 to Dolores Ann and
Vernon Alexander Modglin, USN.
Michele is the Modglins’ second
child.
NOTICE TO MERCHANTS
OF KODIAk
Sales Tax Schedule cards will be available
at the City Hall by Wednesday, September
26.
Nick Frost
City Clerk
Kodiak, Alaska
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THE NOVEMBER 1956
KODIAK TELEPHONE DIRECTORY
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i our nome is where you spend
365 days each year, every year. It
should be the kind of a home you
v-njsy living in and take pride in.
Perhaps it needs a new roof, a new
foundation, an additional room or
other improvements.
We will be glad to help you fi
nance the necessary improvements
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