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Two Cent Jump
The price of oil products at
both major oil companies went
up two cents.
Standard Oil Company of
California and Union Oil Com
pany b th raised their prices
the same. This included gaso
line, kerosene, stove and die
sel oil, solvents and thinners. j
Th'lr; is.the first raise passed
oa to the consumer for a long
time. Earlier the local distri
butors were absorbing the
raises.
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Eskimo Customs Told
For Rotary By Madsen
ine eariy rjSKimo practice or
killing the elders of a tribe
when they became family Lin
dens and unable to product
their share of food was told
members of the Rotary CluL
Tuesday by Charles Madsen.
Madsen hunted walrus, seab
and polar bears along the
northern Siberian coast and
Alaskan coast in the early part
of this century.
The topic of his talk was
Patricide by Appointment. He
described two killings he wit
nessed and told of the burial
customs practiced by the Si
oerian Eskimos 40 years ago.
With the aid of a specially
drawn map Madsen traced
everal of his early expeditions
in the Beiing Sea and up into
the Chukotsk Sea on the Si
berian side.
An account of his experien
ces was given by a tape re
corder. Several enlarged pho
tographs, taken 40 years ago,
of his schooner, Siberian Eski
moes and walrus and bears
were shown the club.
At a meeting three weeks
ago Madsen told of other ex
periences in the arctic. Mad
sen witnessed the killing of a
father by his son. He related
that the elder consented to his
death because of his belief
that after death he would for
ever live where there was
plenty of hunting and food.
He also saw an old woman
killed because she had become
too old to do her share of the
work and was ill.
Guests attending the regu
lar Tuesday luncheon wrere H.
L. Rochelle, Charles Ryan of
Northwest Airlines, John
Cushing, Hruce Moore, Terri
torial Tax Collector, Bob Kes
sler, Bureau of Internal Reve
nue, E.G. Storr, Social Se
curity Administration, Ernest
Harding and Oscar Hansen.
Bettinger Withdraws
From Governor List
Washington (.P) — Mayor
Lee C. Bettinger removed
himself from the list of pos
sible successors to Governor
Ernest Gruening recently.
Earlier, the Anchorage
Times listed Hettinger’s name
among 15 others as a possible
successor to Gruening.
In Washington, Bettinger
said, “I am not a candidate for
governor of Alaska and I have
so informed Secretary of the
Interior Douglas McKay.”
He added that he would re
fuse the position were it of
fered to him, adding:
“I have no interest in the
Alaska governorship person
ally except as it applies to get
ting the right man in the job.”
He said he had conferred
with administration members
earlier concerning the Alaska
i post. He said he was not Dack
I ing any particular individual.
j The Business and Profes
sional Women,s Club held a
meeting Monday night at the
Montmartre Inn.
1 The program was inter
national affairs and on the
outstanding women in the
world today. The talks were
given by Edna Kra/t, Lillian
Smith and Ruby Yfalker.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Mil
ler, formerly of the CAa on
Woody Island, have announced
the birth of their fourth child
land first daughter, Kathleen
Marie, on Feb. 13. The baby
weighed 6 lbs. 12 oMr. and
Mrs. Miller, who left Kodiak
in 1949, are now at Weisler,
Idaho.
Funeral Services
Far Cap’n John
Masonic funeral services
were conducted Wednesday
or Captain John M. Brodtkorb
oy Kodiak Lodge No. 295. Tne
services were held at the Com.
munity 1 aprist Church and at
the cemetary.
Cap’n John, as he was
known locally, died at his
home February 1. He had lived
in Kodiak for several years
and was in business here.
Harder he followed the sea
and was a licensed master and
navigator for every ocean on
the globe.
John Maria Brodtkorb was
born in Perth, Scotland in
1880. His father was a Nor
weigan engineer and his
mother was Scottish. He left
home when he was 16 to be
come a seaman.
i He spent many years in
Alaska and prior to settling in
territory made Seattle his
home port. He is survived by
his wife, Nastasia, two step
children and nieces and nep
hews in Norway.
Burial was under the direc
tion of Kodiak Mortuary.
i
i Dick Lightfoot, son of Mr.
j and Mrs. Homer Lightfoot,
I entertained some friends
i Thursday in honor of his
J second birthday.
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