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Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
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Glass matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1878.
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Help The Fight
The recent encounter between an American Air Force
plane and a Russian MIG over the Arctic wastes hit most A
laskan with a terrific force. It “brought home” the threat
that hangs over us of an all-out-war and reminded us that “it
can happen here.”
Some Alaskans, as many Americans in the states, are
prone to view the Korean War as something remote and of
little consequence. To those men fighting in Korea and those
at home who must “sweat out” from day to day the fate of
their fighting men, the present war is real and threatening.
While Alaskans have seen litt'e evidence, to date, of
Soviet sympathizers and apologists they should never relax
their viligance and support of the Civil Defense measures now
being formulated.
We can materially assist our fighting men in Korea and
our government officials in Washington in the “Cold War” by
cooperating with and obeying all orders for blackouts and de
fense drills.
Do your part, as you did during World War II, by ob
serving blackout driKs and other defense measures.
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. When Mark Twain was editor of a western newspaper,
a reader found a spider in -his paper and wrote the edi
tor to ask if that was a sign of good or bad luck.
With his usual needle-witted appreciation of the situa
tion, the humorist answered in the following vein: “Old sub
scriber: Finding a spider in your paper was neither good or
bad luck for you. The spider was merely looking over our
paper to see which merchant is not advertising, so that he can
go to that store, spin his web across the door, and live a life
of undisturbed peace ever afterward.”
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graduate from college or training school,you’ll
know that the small day-to-day sacrifices you
have made were slight. Regular planned sav
ing can be a happy experience. It’s fun to
watch your goal come nearer and nearer as
the balance in your s avings book grows. Start
saving next payday—see us about opening
your saving account.
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Town Tidbits
A. man can find anything in
his lunch, put up by the little
i woman at home. Take Oscar
Hansen, Bank of Kodiak assis
tant cashier, for instance.
Oscar took his lunch to eat
at his desk one day last week,
and after he’d chomped
through a couple of sand
wiches, opened a little bundle!
of cookies Lois had wrapped i
up for him.
Bank customers, standing at
the windows, came in for a
share of Oscar’s surprise and
mystificat on when he showed
them that among the cookies
were two dog biscuits!
vvctb uscar in tiie uutfiiuust;:
Your conjecture is as good as
his on the subject. . .
The recent eruptions in the
Valley of 10,000 Smokes have
put Kodiak on the map all over
again in the states. Way back
in Conneticut, someone who
recalled the devastation from
the 1912 Katmai eruption, sent
a $50 contribution to the Mis
sion Board Headquarters in
New York, to help relieve the
situation at the Kodiak Baptist
Mission, “due to falling ash
from the current eruption”. . .
“Stubby” Wodlinger, Aire
dale dog that has been part of
the staff at Bert’s Drug Store
for years, died Sunday night1
jn his sleep. Stubby didn’t
have much pep lately but was
still a favorite of the kids who
came in the store. Stubby was
about 17 years old and had
been with Larry Wodlinger
for years. . . .
Ctnoie Christofferson, hard
ware clerk at Kraft’s, is still
chuckling over the prospective ;
gardener who purchased five ;
dollars worth of seeds last j
week. He spread the seed!
packages around the floor ofj
the store to determine justj
how he would plan his gar-1
den and what he wanted to
buy. He was an optimist, too:
bought watermelon seeds. . .
Honors for the creation of
the biggest “snow-man” in
Kodiak we have seen go to the
children of Mr. and Mrs.
August Heitman. The “giant”
was built Wednesday and a
ladder was used in the sculp-;
tural work on the head.
The big white man is stand-1
ing in the Heitman yard near
the SP headquarters.
The heavy snow Wednesday
provided an outlet for the]
talents of Mr. and Mrs. Bob!
Acheson’s children. They coh-|
structed a snow 'horse, com
plete with saddle.
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor:
There is a lot of work to be
had in Kodiak this winter and
yet you see numerous local
men walking the streets unem
ployed.
These are the same men you
have seen in town for the last
several years; the men you call
by their first names when you
see them on che streets or
when you have a cup of coffee
with them in one of the res
taurants.
T e reason they are unem
ployed is because the contrac
tors who get the jobs in or
near Kodiak are shipping men
in from elsewhere to do their
work and not giving the local
men a chance
Our local school building be
ing built on the hill is one ex
ample.
Sam Bergesen, of Tacoma,
has the job and he has had
half-dozen of his men up there
drawing pay all winter while
the local men, who worked for
him during the summer were
laid offl due to material short*
ages.
One of his men can’t speaK
the English language or un
derstand the instructions that
are given to him. and yet he is
on the job merely as a pen
sioner at the expense of the
people he is depriving of a job.
For these men to be on the
job, while the local men stand
j around and drool over the
, money that is being taken out
of town, is a sad situation;
■ but, the fact that they are be
|ing paid twenty one hours per
week overtime is adding in
sult to injury.
Some of the so-called con
tractors and their hired help
say that the outside men can
do the work better and more
efficently but this is not so.
I have worked alongside of
them and man for man the
local worker will hold his own
with any of them.
, [s] Elvin E. Foster
I Hospital News
BIRTHS:
To Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bur
chard, a daughter, March 20;
weight, 8 lbs., 2 oz.
NOTICE
1 All electrical power will be
off in the City of Kodiak from
3 am to fi am Monday, March
23 for substation lepairs. In
the event of inclement
weather power will not be in
terrupted.
[s] K. E. A.
CLAM FEED
Saturday Nite - March 21
STEAMED FRIED CHOWDER RAW
ELKS, their wives and guests
F rom 7 pm Music and Dancing
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