Here There Everywhere
Once again Kodiak survived a
Md fire. Though it didn’t take
* rre than 15 or 20 minutes for the
in Aleutian Homes to burn
i ght down to its foundation, it
ts largely due to the manner in
v “uch the house was laid out in
l ie project that saved a great
Sit are of the project from going
U > in flames. Other areas in Ko
>k (and some Stateside ones,
IU r we know of) would have burn
ed >ut because of the close prox
i uty of the houses to each other.
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On the other hand, the house
burned down like a good beach
fire. The dry wood, paint and ott
er combustible material addei
fuel to the flames. The heat fron
it could be felt more than thirt;
feet away.
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It seems everytime we rea<
about an area flooded out, or whei
some other calamity befalls it, th<
National Guard, or some othei
law enforcement agency endeavor,
to protect private property fron
perhaps the lowest form of hu
mans, the pilferers who pry int(
the few remaining remnants oi
personal belongings of people ir
distress. Kodiak, though noted a.
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a friendly town, has this same type
of being. When Mrs. Richardson,
who lost about everything in the
- fire Monday, returned to the char
l red mass that was once her home,
1 several women were pawing
' through the only partially salvag
ed piece of furniture left, a bur
eau. One of them became highly
I indignant when the owner asked
t them to leave, and told her in ;io
, uncertain terms she had as much
. rignt there as she (the owner)
j nad. Of course she was straighten
! ed out on that point. Her attitude
. can be aptly described as ‘un
, mitigated gall.”
On the lighter side. A local bride
was tucked in on the night prior
to her wedding day, for the last
sleep under the parental roof. She
was allowed the privilege ol sleep
ing in in the morning, by an in
dulgent mother. About 8,30 in the
morning, the mother heard
screaming and shouting emanat
ing from the bedroom. Rushing in
she found the bride-to-be in tears,
and qear hysteria. When the bed
covers !Wfere pulled back, there* was
reVealfe'd the family cat, proudly
displaying a litter of nfewly born
kitte^sV 't&Tijr' ’the' leat ’bhose her
betrothed! mistress’ bedroom as a
ca't's materrtity Wart};' we twill
neyer knpW.'Or is this an omen?
It must’ 1^ sortie kind’ of portent
of the, future. We’ll let the bride
figuire‘if put.
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Two Sisters from Griffin Mem
orial Hospital were seen climbing
up Pillar Mountain a few days ago.
They were doing what we have
threatened to do for nearly four
teen years.
Phones are soon to be installed
in the Aleutian Homes area. Work
started this week, according to
John Cushing, manager of the Ko
diak Telephone Company. Tele
phone service will start for some
area residents next month. “Dog
bites a man” isn't considered news
anymore, but that’s what happened
to Gordon Jenkins, KTC employee,
who started work in the area Tues
day. He fell twenty-two feet from
a pole shortly after, and there
may be a relation between the two
events. It’s no use suggesting tele
phone men carry candy with them
to give to the dogs, because an ex
periment was carried out in De
troit for mailmen to carry candy
to: make the dogs more friendly.
It made the friendly dogs friendli
er, and the mean dogs meaner. At
the end of the experiment, there
were it bites as compared to 9
(£qir the. same month a year ago.
r,-.A »c}p}lar a pound for the lowly
cabbag^i.is heing offered by the
blfttaaiiaka Valley Fair Associa
tim)rr$50 will be paid for a cab
bage., weighing in at fifty pounds
or . qiprg. Largest cabbage on rec
ord is £8 pounds—that’s a lot of
cabbage!
* *
Apparently pink salmon in the
State, of Washington can tell an
even-numbered year from an odd
numbered year. They only come
into that State’s coastal waters in
the odd-numbered years—even af
ter 30 years of trying to change
their ways by the Fisheries Depart
ment. The department now be
lieves the time to train the fish Is
when they’re young—real young.
They are bringing in one million
eggs from nearby B. C. in the
hope they can train them to fre
quent their waters in the ever,
years as well.
*****
B. C., incidentally, has a prob
lem. They waqt to keep their fish
and have their cheap hydroelectric
power, too. It seems they haven’t
licked the problem of damming a '■
river for power, and still allow the
salmon to spawn and come to the
sea again. The mighty Fraser Riv
er, which tumbles more than 5000
feet from the Rocky Mountain
snowfields to the sea, is seen as a
potential source of more than 10
million horsepower in cheap elec
tricity—a “key to a multi-million
dollar industrial empire,” as
against a 50 million a year salmon
industry. Emil Knudsen, one-time
fisherman, puts it neatly when he
says, " destroy the salmon, and
you destroy food. The question is,
do you want power, or do you
want food?"
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B.P.O.E. Elks Lodge No. 1772
has the distinction (to use the
term loosely) of having installed
the first colored or decorated
telephone in town. We don’t know
whether “Sister” Gilmore is re
sponsible for the choice ot red
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