Here There Everywhere
Kadiak made history this year
on the 4fh of July—but it was the
wrong kind of history. All the old
i-ners we talked to said it was the
.first 4th celebration that was com
pletely washed out. At the rate it
continues to rain, it might be a
good idea to emulate the old pat
riarch, Noah, and build an ark,
and run all events on the water. A
Kodiak Seafair might be the an
swer.
*****
Then again, it might be a good
idea to think of a huge arena
where events of this nature can be
celebrated regardless of the weath
er. Maybe thats a good point iu
favor of building an Armor/ here
A thought on a rainy 4th o
July: What ik more lifeless anc
depressing than to see a wet- sog
gy piece of bunting hanging fron
an abandoned booth?
The following advertisement
Wanted—General Soaking Rain
Please Rush. Cliff Perkins," ap
peared recently in the Wes
Branch, Iowa Times. The papei
went into the mail about 3:00 it
the morning. By suppertime tlu
rain came and brought an end tc
an 8-months dry spell. It is esti
Notary
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mated this advertisement was
worth millions to the residents of
Cedar County and the State of
Iowa. Maybe the 4th of July Plan
ning Committee should have put
• an ad in the Mirror asking for
I SUNSHINE. You can be sure you
don’t have to argue with Cliff
Perkins and his friends on the
power of the hometown press, and
its business-getting ads.
*****
Anyway, here goes. We’ll try
anything once. WANTED—SUN
SHINE TODAY. ALL DAY. (Sign
ed) Kodiak.
*****
Another famous Alaskan bush
pilot has made his last flight. Jack
Whaley, who has flown the haz
ardous north country for many
years, in all kinds of planes, was
killed the other day when his
newly acquired twin-engine De
Haviland Dove aircraft crashed 30
miles north of Moses Point on the
Seward Peninsula. Hi is a brother
of another bush pilot who fore
sook the plane to promote tourist
travel to Alaska—Frank Whaley.
The latter is executive director of
AVA.
*****
Fairbanks and Anchorage were
treated to some good baseball for
one day each when the Seattle
Rainers demonstrated why they
are at the top of the heap in the
Pacific Coast League. Homers
were batted over the fence quite
freely in both towns. In Anchor
age almost 3000 people in attend
ance were said to have acted like
rabid ball fans, cheering the play
ers when they made a good play.
Starting this month the Alaska
ESC will process approximately
825 employee claims (received
since January 1, 1956) for refund
of employee contributions paid in
excess of $18 per individual on
1955 wages. These claims total
$10,000, accordng to the agency.
Officials of the agency caution
that anyone having a claim for
overpaid contributions on 1955
wages should contact them on or
before December 31, 1956. Re
funds are not automatic. The law
also provides that refunds be made
to those individuals who have
been paid less than $450 during
1955.
INSIDE INFORMATION: The
day may soon be in sight when
the physician can “throw away his
stethoscope” in diagnosing various
heart ailments and depend, in
stead, on X-rays that will show the
blood as it speeds through the
heart’s valves. This is the antici
pation of Dr. Charles T. Dotter,
head of the Department of Radi
ology, University of Oregon Medi
cal School, who has helped devel
op a new electronic switch that
makes possible X-ray exposures at
speeds as short as 1/1000 of a sec
ond. This compares with a prev
vious X-ray speed of 1/60 to 1/120
of a second provided by most
equipment.
Herbert Hoover, Ty Cobb, Henry
Ford and “Rocky” Marciano have
foresaken their civilian occupa
tions for the lives of sailors aboard
the attack aircraft USS Randolph.
In addition, Phil Harris, Wayne
Morris, George Murphy and Rob
ert Ryan are wielding swabs and
standing watches aboard the same
ship. In case you get the idea
these leaders in their various fields
have joined the Navy, it must be
added that all of the people men
tioned are sailors with names simi
lar to those of the more famous
and better paid civilian personali
ties. '
A man walked into Bellevue
Hospital and said, ”1 feel sick.”
But doctors of broad experience
were puzzled as to what the ill
ness was. The symptoms were
strange to them. Finally the cor
rect diagnosis was made—small
pox. Why should doctors have en
countered any difficulty in diag
nosing this once-common disease?
The reason is that smallpox is vir
tually unknown. At the time of the
Bellevue incident, it is said there
has been only three cases in New
York during the previous 25 years
and the last death from smallpox
had occurred in 1912.
*****
Here, in inference, is a great
testimonial to medical progress.
Smallpox is but one of the diseases
whch have been conquered. The
list is long. And long, too, is the
chronicle of progress in treating
and minimizing the effects of di
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