getting around
By Shirley Black
!t w a satisfying thing for a
journalist to discover a real hu
man interest story. A story about
one person s achievements; stories
of successful battles against seem
ingly insurmountable difficulties
®r stories about particular hard
ships that have a happy ending.
The journalist likes to write
them, and they are the stories
people read and remember.
What made me start thinking
about these things was a story I
read this week in “Coronet” maga
zine. I enjoyed reading it and at
the same time was washing that I
could have written it.
Reminiscent of Grandma Moses,
the story concerned a grandmoth
er in Texas who is winning
national acclaim as a painter.
Mahaffey is her name and she is
the mother of eight children. Her
painting began in a most unortho
dox fashion when she was 17 and
was in a geometry class at the Col
lege of Industrial Arts, Denton.
With the other students she com
pleted an assignment where they
had to create a design based on a
church window. Coming from the
r
“backwoods” where there wasn't a
proper church, the young Grand
ma Mahaffey did an abstract de
sign, hoping for the best. It won a
State prize.
The story goes on to tell of some
of the hardships she and “Papa
Mahaffey” endured—and how the
unquenchable force in the Texas
woman helped to overcome them.
Once in the depression, when her
husband was threatened with be
ing laid off from his job as truck
driver, Grandma Mahaffey cheer
fully started a grocery business on
a capital of $13. Within three
years she had three more stores
a«d is now worth % million dol
lars. , ;
In between running a business,
bringing up a family, adopting
more children, and now helping to
run a ranch, Grandma Mahaffey
continued painting in every avail
able spare moment. She kept at it
and succeeded.
This will give you some idea of
the story.
And the point of my summaris
ing it? Well, the thought struck
me that stories similar to those hu
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man interest stories we read in
national magazines about people
in communities far distant from
Kodiak are right here. It’s a mat
ter of finding them.
One way of doing that may be
this: start a “Match the Story”
feature. Take a National Magazine
human interest story, publish a
resume of it, and ask below if any
local people have had similar ex
periences. Then publish their
story.
It might sound a bit like a TV
show, but—
Are there any Grandma Mahaf
fey’s around?
Firearms Barred
On Civair Boat
To protect children and families
traveling on the CAA boat Civ Air
15, the Civil Aeronautics Admini
stration has announced this week
that all firearms will be barred
from the boat.
Recently parties from both town
and base have boarded the boat
armed with rifles with which to
shoot rabbits on Woody Island.
A spokesman for CivAir said
“There have been no shooting in
cidents yet but we feel that there
is a danger that someone will be
careless over over handling fire
arms on the boat and someone will
get hurt.”
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Monday: 8 p.m. Bingo.
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New Management
For Alaska Transfer
Management of Alaska Transfer
and Martin Van Lines will be tak
en over on October 1 by Milton H.
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Smith, Jr. and Charles A. PoweH
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Smith, Sr,
will no longer be active in the"
firm, but the city garbage disposal
contract will still be handled by
Smith Sr. ,
Powell , is a nephew of the
Smiths and comes to Kodiak from
Salem, Oregon. He is married and
has one daughter, 5 years old. Hi*
family plan to join him here in siE
months.
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