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“chfe'ws of America's Last frontier
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
Yearly Subscription Rate $5.00
Entered :n the Postoffice at Kodiak, Alaska as Second
Class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1878.
MIRROR PUBLISHING COMPANY
Melton L. Crawford, Editor and Publisher
Jeanne R. Crawford, Associate Editor
Candace Crawford, Executive Editor
"... that oomernment of the oeoole. by the people,
for the people shall not perish from the earth.'—Lincoln
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use
for /eDublication of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the
local news nublished herein.
We’re Defrauding You-of the News!
The Kodiak Mirror has a circulation of around 1,400 of
which about 150 copies are mailed to subscribers away from
Kodiak.
Sometimes those 150 copies cause us extra work be
cause of the archaic postal laws of the United States, rigidly
enforced in Kodiak more than elsewhere in the territory.
Several weeks aero, we ran a list of dates in all the
papers except those 150, in which we put “This Story Re
moved Because of Postal Laws and Regulations”. It’s a lot of
extra work, but we wanted our local readers to get all the
news, even if the mail subscribers couldn’t.
This week we’re up against the same problem. The law
forbids the mailing of anything whatever that has to do with
a lottery, lest the U. S. Mails be caught engaging in any at-j
tempt to defraud anyone. That includes the famous Nenana
Ice Pool.
Rather than go to all the extra work of removing type
once the paper is on the press, we won’t print the story of the
ice break this year. We can’t tell you that the — broke
Mon— at 5:04 pm, and mail a paper with the story in it. We
can’t tell you that one man, Charles Montjoy of Juneau, won
$102,000 of which Uncle Sam collected about $69,000 (probab
ly by mail.)
Booklets, printed at government expense on govern
ment printing presses, on Alaska and sent through the mails
can tell about the ice pool, but we can’t mail our papers with
that information in it, and we refuse, on the principle of the
thing, to put out a special “mail edition” one more time.
So if you want to know about the traditional Alaska
spring event, you’ll have to read the Anchorage daily papers
which came by mail and carried a detailed story in Tuesday’s
papers, as did other Alaskan newspapers.
They are governed by the same postal laws as the Ko-:
diak MIRROR but for some reason, they get away with it.
We can’t I
Donald W. Klamrowski, 21
year old Coast Guardsman
who held a firearms exhibition
last week, pled guilty to two
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| charges and was fined $50 on
each in U. S. Commissioner,
A. M. Vokacek’s court Mon-!
day.
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A SALUTE TO OUR
ARMED FORCES
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In these United States the armed forces always [
have been the defenders and servants of our civil govern- 1 >
ment, not its masters.
Speed of travel has destroyed our old frontiers of
space. The defences which remain are the loyalty, the <
competence and the courage of our armed forces. They 1 i
and their calling command our respect and admiration. |
Kodiak is proud of its association with the Navy - i
| and the other services on this Armed Forces Day. 1 ;
Closed every Thursday
Banking service at N. O. B., Fridays, Old Administration Building, fl:00 ••30 T M
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
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Ur A Pays $2ii,UU0
jSn Ser.efits
The United Fishermen of A
laska, AFL, have paid more
than $20,000 in death benefits
in the last four years, Joe
Kerrigan, secretary-treasurer,
said yesterday.
Notices to all members of,
the union and affiliated unions!
concerning the payment of
yearly dues has been posted
at all canneries around the
island.
The Death Benefit Fund of
the fishermen’s union was es
tablished by setting aside a
portion of the yearly dues.
The sum paid by the union
upon the death of a member
is $500. On the death of a
cannery worker, in the affili
ated union, $250 is paid.
Only survivors of members
in good standing are eligible
to reqeive^ the ..jj^ath be^^fft
payment. “By good standing
is meant, all past and current
dues of members, having been;
paid into the union treasury,”1
Kerrigan said.
The dues and assessments |
of members are payable at
the start of the season and
must be paid on or before
July 1 of each year. All dues
charged are for the year, not
for the season, Kerrigan said.
Only fishermen and their
affiliates, clam diggers, cold
storage workers, cannery
tenders, and cannery workers
are covered in the benefit.
Fishermen’s dues are $25 for
old members. New members
pay the same dues plus a $10
initiation fee, plus a $5 death
benefit or a total of $40.
The membership in the UF
A in 1951 was 986 fishermen
and 185 cannery workers. The
combined assests at the close
of the 1951 year for the union
totaled over $55,000, Kerrigan
stated.
Local Bear Hunters
Have Successful Hunt
Five local big game hunters
completed a successful bear
hunt in the Zachar Bay area
recently and returned with
five trophies.
Harry Meyers and Harry I
Wall of Kodiak Naval Station,!
Harry Gottschalk of Tony’s1
Bar, Wes Welsh of Woody
Island and Zora Wilson, bar
ber, spent several days at Joe
Maxwell’s place on the Sheli
kof side of Kodiak Island.
They made the trip with Vince
Daly of Collins Air Service.
The hunters bagged three
bears in Zachar Bay and two
at Brown’s Lagoon. They
used skiffs and dories belong
ing to Maxwell. The men car
ried a variety of rifles. Gotts
chalk used the new slide ac
tion 760 Remington, Wilson a
.360 magnum and one of the
other hunters a .348 Win
chester.
The bear skins are at Max
well’s place being “fleshed”)
prior to being tanned.
The Kodiak High School
leld a picnic last Friday on
Woody Island. Members of
;he faculty accompanied the
students on the trip. 1
Hospital News
BIRTHS:
To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W.
Butler, a son, May 15. weight,
3 lbs., 2 oz. name, Thomas
William III.
To Mr. and Mrs. Axel
Brooks, a son, May 13, weight,
j 8 lbs. name, Larry Eugene.
J Kodiak schools closed yes
jterday for the summer.
; Seniors finished their work
| last week and were graduated
' on May 8.
newA%D
Mrs. Nellie Erskine was one of the finest women
who ever lived in Kodiak. She made an attractive home
for her husband, cared for two children and kept a
lovely garden.
When the war came, she devoted herself to help
ing and entertaining the armed forces, officers and en
listed men alike. One night, as she returned from chape
roning a group of girls at a dance for enlisted men at U.
S. N. S., she suffered a fatal heart attack. She was
buried on the brow of a hill, back of the Montmartre
Inn, in view of Kodiak, where she lived and was beloved.
There her husband erected a red granite monu
ment bearing the ,name^lRSKiINE.*.Some vandal has
shot the monup’ent’with a score of bullets, defiling the
grave and doing damage amounting to hundreds of
dollars. «
A reward of $100.00 will be paid to the first per
son furnishing leads to the arrest and conviction of the
persons or any person guilty of commiting this offense,
past or future.
MARSHALL CRUTCHER
Executor of the Estate of
Wilbur Julian Erskine, Deceased.
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SAT. 17 MAY—Armed Forces Day. Wanted: Twelve
stalwart, muscle-bound Elks to carry
the enormous Star-Spangled Banner
down Alaskan Way. Form at the Com
munity Center at 9:30 am and march to
the martial strains of Ye U. S. Navy
Band through the shower of ticker-tape
thrown from the ACS window. (Only
place in town that ticker-tapes)
Volunteers ? ? ? ? ?
SUN., 18 May—Breakfast Deluxe—10:00—2:00
Can you imagine a French Baker, A
Swede Plumber, and a Norse Electrician
Cheffingi^? Whipped Cream and Sar
dines—our specialty.
WAPITI WISDOM.
To Argue with a fool is ambiguous!
By-standers might not know which is which!
WILBUR the WISTFUL WAPITI