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Let Fairbanks Have It
Kodiak is loosing some of its (fame?) as the most “rat
infested city’’ in the Territory. A recent editorial in the Fair
banks News-Miner decried the city’s apathetic attitude to the
serious health threat posed by the increasing rat population.
According to the editorial, a sanitary engineer described
Fairbanks as “just one big dump.” The engineer, a trained
federal sanitation official, said Fairbanks “teems with dan
gerous rats—which are a menace to the health of every person
living in this vicinity.”
While we sympathize with the residents of Fairbanks,
and the distress of the News-Miner editor, we continue to
wonder if local residents are really conscious of the serious
threat to health that a rat infested city holds.
Locally, the City Police Department, Health and Wel
fare Council and Dr. A. Holmes Johnson are constantly work
ing and advising residents to take measures to eradicate the
rats.
Anyone noticing signs of rats or knowing that rats are
on their property have only to call Chief of Pulice Ovid Mc
Kinley and rat poison will be delivered to them. If the person
does not know how to “plant” the poison the police will do
the job for them.
Since Fairbanks is making a bid for the most “rat in
fested city” lets let them win the crown. Continue to destroy
the habitations of these dangerous rodents and keep up the
“baiting program.”
Kodiak B P. 0.13. 1772 h?si
invited the Third District;
Court party to be their guests
Sunday morning for the regu
lar lodge breakfast.
Expected to arrive with the
court party isM.E.S. Brunelle.
Clerk of the Distric t Court
and Past Exalted Ruler of the
Cordova Lodge. Brunelle holds
card no. 1 in the Cordova
Lodge.
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I nmiroMAL banks ■
Each state and territory regulates its own
“state” or “territorial” banks. Some states exer
cise strong regulation; some are not so strict.
One of the main differences between states
and between state and national banks is the limit
on loans to any one borrower.
In general, national banks are limited to 10
per cent of their combined capital and surplus.
State laws vary. Some set a 10 per cent limit; most
allow 15 per cent of capital and surplus.
The laws of Alaska allow loans of 35 per cent
of capital and surplus, a limit far higher than any
other state or territory. Most authorities feel that
35 per cent is too large and is unsound.
There are two “territorial” banks which are
members of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Our bank is one of them, doth have agreed to limit
loans to any one borrower to 15 per cent of their
capital and surplus.
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Kodiak Bears
Win AtKNS j
! The Kodiak High School
basketball team is winning
regularly in the Navy League, j
. The team is young and inex
perienced but has kept pace]
with older teams. Coach How-j
ard Carpenter, said yesterday. '
The Kodiak “Bears” have1,
won two out of three games in
the fast Naval Station com- ■
petition. Lexie Fadaoff of the
Bea,-s quintet is the oldest in
experience with three years of
service on the team. Wayne
Morrison, a high school junior,
is another experienced player,
Carpenter said.
Sophomores on the squad are,
Billy Frost, Jimmy Anderson, |
Alfred Torgramsen, Bobbie
Norton and Carl Smith. Fresh
men are Mike Fitzgerald, Brad
Poland, Butch ‘Gallagher,
Buddy Squartsoff, Alexis Pop^
off and Tommy Swenson,
1 Carpenter said he was“in
the process of fitting the boys
into positions and trying to
find a starting combination
that has an all-round scoring
punch* *
The Kodiak Bears have won
three out of our championship
cups in the Fur Rendezvous
tournaments in Anchorage.
The playing schedule for the
remainder of the month is:
Dec. 17, Bears vs Air Depart
ment: Dec. 27. Bears vs M.S.T.
S.; Dec. 30, P.N.A. Flyers vs
Bears.
Female Goaf.
Joins Ml ale Herd
The U,S. Fish and Wildlife
Service released a female goat
this week in the Ugak Area.
This was the first “nanny goat
to be released on Kodiak Is
land and brings the goat
population to eight.
Earlier, seven male goats
were released at Hidden Basin
in Ugak Bay. Several attempts
to capture a female goat and
bring it to Kodiak have failed.
The FWS hopes the goats will
multiply.
Five more marten were re
leased on Afognak Island this
week. The FWS earlier planted
several of the fur bearing
animals on the island.
NOTICE
The Bank of Kodiak is will
ing to help finance the house
of the Lars Haglund estate.
Parties interested should con
tact the bank as soon as pos
sible and before December 23,
the date of the public sale.
Notice
Future sailings are
indefinite pend
ing settlement of I
present labor
problems
ALASKA
Steamship Co.
Sc outs Receive (
New Badges
Seven new Boy Scouts re
ceived their Tenderfoot Bad
ges Tuesday night in an im-;
pressive ceremony held in the'
Troop Quonset Hut. The
Scouts badges were pinned on
by their mothers.
Those receiving badges were
Billy Cummings, Mike Dailey,
John Kilgore, Tim Metrokin,
Jerry Olsen and Grant Wilson. 1
Among the speakers were
Max Lai ande, representing
the Elks Lodge which spon
sors the troop and Clifford
Smith, Field Executive of the
Alaskan Council of Boy Scouts
af America.
The induction of the new!
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scouts leaves only three
vacancies remaining in Troop
625. A Board of Review for
further advancement will be
held December 17, it was an
nounced during the meeting.
NOTICE
Section 3, Ordinance Nbr
40, stipulates that it shall be
the duty of the owner or occu
pants of any property abutt
ing upon any sidewalk in the
City of Kodiak to keep the
same free and clear of ice and
snow within six hours after
each snowfall. Violation of
this provision is punishable by
fine and imprisonment.
CITY OB' KODIAK
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