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Eodiak Mirror
“chfe-ws of America's Last frontier '
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
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Town Topics
Clarence Breedman, nephew
rf the late Oscar Breedman who
<iied from burns received in a
Src at the Breedman liquor
;;S£ore, arrived in Kodiak
Wednesday from his home in
3X5rIiland, Wash to attend to
^fitters of the Breedman estate.
®&rence worked for his uncle
far a number of years in Cor
dova, and n the son of Oscar’s
liwtker, the closest surviving
aetative.
Me left Seattle Monday.
At least 10 new cases of chick
*m. pox were reported this week
ure s, continuation of the epidemic
rih&i began two weeks ago.
Mrs. Mildred Hermann, OPA
dfinector for the territory, left
’&y plane i uesday for Anchorage
Hte. route to her home in Juneau.
B*ymond Bliss, former em
ploye of Siems-Drake, is now
wiGfe the General Pllectric com
pany in New York Mrs. Bliss,
*«6*s taught here in the local
sefcyol, is now teaching in New
TFork.
Mrs. Irene Peterson, from
Sfeainoff island, underwent a
major operation at the GM hos
pital yesterday.
Egill Ericson, of Seattle, this
month gets a new boat, the
North Coast. ms >e by the Gran*
dy Boat Works, Beattie. Erick
son formerly owned the Sunde,
requisitioned by the government
for use at Kodiak.
Mrs. Ben Kraft is enjoying a
two-weeks vacation at the Kraft
summer heme on Holiday island.
Jan Beukers, local cook and
part-time fisherman, left this
week for Seattle to look over op
portunities in herring fishing.
Pvt. Marshall B. Ross, who
has been stationed at Fort
Greely, left this week for Anchor
age for re-assignment. Mrs. Ross
is clerk of the local draft board.
Lt,. Jack J. Ross, his brother,
former base employe at Kodiak»
is now stationed in Guadalcanal
with the Army Transport Ser
vice.
Ray Harmon has sold his
boat, the Pelican, to Tom Wil
liams, and in turn purchased
from Oliver (Cappy) Campbell
the boat Iola.
The infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard St.ockwell, born
Dec. 8, was released from the
GM hospital Wednesday even
ing.
Joseph said to Pharaoh:
“Your problem is simple. No people can live
from hand to mouth without risking periodic
starvation. Some years will have generous har
vests, some poor Your only salvation is to set
aside in the good years enough store to tide you
through the lean ones.”
WAR SAVINGS BONDS purchased now will
protect against lean years later on.
.-*! HiS
President’s Birthday Ball * Jan. 30
By Associated Press
News Highlights
Gen. Mac Arthur’s Headqtrs.
Philippines—Clark Field, whose
13 airstrips constitute one of the
richest prizes of the Pacific war
was captured Thursday by
southward driving Yanks, along
with the adjacent fort of Stot
senburg. Other columns pushed
even deeper to within a scant 40
airline miles of Manila.
The campaign, which has yet
to run into any concentrated
Jap resistance, has avenged one
of America’s major setbacks in
the Pacific war. Clark field was
where the Jap dive bombers
wiped out Gen. MacArthur’s
main air strength in the Philip
pines early in the war. The field
gives the Americans an air base
to help blast open the landing
beaches of the coast of China.
As planes blast the Cavite
naval base columns moving
south from Clark field have
flanked Mount Arayat o* the
west. That mountain i3 the only
good defense barrier between
the enemy down the central
Luzon plain on the shortest
route to Manila.
USPFH Pearl Harbor—An
American naval task force shell
ed Iwo island while Superforts
and Liberator bombers ai-o at
tack the 8 sq. mile island with
more than 870 tons of bombs.
London—Russian tank spear
heads have driven to the eastern
bordei of the Prussian province
of Brandenburg, of which Berlin
is the capital, German broad
casts said, while the Red Army
Red Star asserted “we have
reached the last road—the road
we have dreamed about for 3
long years.”
Moscow reported yesterday
that Red Army forces weie 125
miles from Berlin & 2 other
capital cities of German provinc
es are threatened. All direct
communications with Breslau
are cut off The Germans declar
ed the Soviets have launched an
all outdrive on Konigsberg Mos
cow said German defenses along
the Oder river line are “cracking
under iron pressure” Moscow
dispatches reported flatly that
East Prussia is cut off and Ger
man troops there isolated. .-P cor
respondent Eddy Gilmore said
the Russian* are now starting
“the 'rim task of storming Kon
igs| u Elbing, 2 of the biggest
cei. -is of resistance German j
communique said there is bitter
fighting for Poznan, Bydgosez &
Torun. German high command
announced a fierce tank battle
has developed southwest of Glei
witz, important mining & coin-1
municat ons center in upper Sil-1
esia
Pans—American 9th & British!
2nd Armies cleared the entire1
west bank of the Roer river for
40 airline miles to below Duren,
achieving a stra'egic springboard
for attacks in the industrial
Rhineland Flame throwing in
fantry of the 9th Army advanced
more than a mile caoturing
Brachelen, 27 miles southwest of
Dusseldorf, and 97 Siegfried line
pillboxes. German survivors with
drew to the east bank of the riv
er. On the opposite flank of the
Western front Lt. Gen. Patches
7th Army appeared to have
brought a new German offensive
north of Alsace to a standstill.
Americans have sealed off pene
trations by 7 Nazi divisions &
slowly hammered the line back
to its original position in one of
the worst snow storms since war
started. House to house lighting
Infantile Paralysis
(Among essays written on the
subject of infantile paralysis by
students of the local school the
following one by Jane Naughton
was chosen for publication in the
Mirror.)
Once a year a nation-wide
collection is made to secure
money to help out victims of
infantile paralysis. The money
thus gathered swells into a
mighty fund and children walk
again and smile again because of
this.
Infantile or Essential paralysis
is a form of disease of spinal
paralysis occurring with
frequency among young chil
dren It often commences sud
denly and the paralysis may not
be observed until a few days
have elapsed. The symptoms are
fever, convulsions, and some
times vomiting, A characteristic
of the disease is that there is no
loss of sensation in the paralyzed
limb. The whole of the limb i9
not necessarily paralyzed; it is
often only a group of muscles.
Due to the impossibility to
trace the source of any single
case the control of the disease
has been especially difficult.
The old method of curing in
fantile paralysis was to keep the
affected parts in casts or splints
during the early acute stages.
Swimming treatments led to the
establishment of the Warm
Sprngs Foundation in 1927 by
President Roosevelt,
| An Australian nurse, Elizabeth
Kenny, began a revolutionary
method of treating infantile par
alysis which has been endorsed
by the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis in 1941 She
found that through the immedi
ate application of hot water
packs, and gentle massage and
exercise the victim could usually
escape crippling effects.
To avoid infantile paralysis
parents must keep their children
clean and watch the>r die*. They
must not tolerate flies, neglected
garbage, and sick animals around
the house.
We’ve given you this brief des
cription of Infantile paralysis to
le* you know what your money
goes for and again to urge you to
give as much as you can in this
p,resent drive to help crippled
children.
The storage tanks on the city
fire trucks have been red-leaded
to prevent their rusting.
continued in Schillersdorf. In the
sector southeast of Strasbourg
Germans are being herded int0
the woods. Snow 18 inches deep
in places bogging down infantry
& tanks & grounding planes,
hindered the 1st & 8rd Armies
hammering the Ardennes bulge
, flatter.
Rome—Snow & rain continued
to limit activities on Italian
front. Enemy showed extreme
sensitivity to 5th Army patrols
testing his defenses south of Bol
gna.
Notice
Warning
Taxi Business Permits
All persons who have renewed
their 1945 taxi business license
will be granted 10 days to make
application at the local OPA of
fice, Lyric theatre building, for
an Offlcj of Defense Transporta
tion permit.
Following the 10-day period
any taxi business license holder
who has not made such appli
cation will have his said license
automatically revoked
In the future all applications
for such renewals, after approval
by the city council, will be held
in abeyance until such ODT re
quirements have been met.
The Common Council
City of Kodiak
Card Of Thanks
I wish to thank all the friends
of my late uncle, Oscar Breed
man, for their kind attentions
during his illness and for the
floral offerings and expressions
of sympathy on his death.
Clarence Breed man
FOR RENT—2 furn. comp,
mod. houses 2 & 3 rooms.
Downtown Available 1st of
month. See Ben Bolden or
leave word at Victory Cafe.
2-3
FOR SALE—Several pair men a
hi-cut leather boots Kodiak
Shoe Repair Shop.
WE BUY"—Guns—Cameras
Radios. Harry Pinch, Jeweler.
FOR RENT—Books. All leading
titles, mysteries, westerns, r®
mances, novels. Reasons ®
rental fee. Frontier Book
Gift Shop. __,
WARNING—You will never
look a day younger. Have t ^
Portrait taken now at Nor ^
land Photo
LOCKS & KEYS—Locks re'
installed.
padlock
paired and
made for your
car,
not®
, pru(,
or order at Wodhng® t Cat.
homes or stores. Leave
Store. Kodiak Locksm
vice, C. “See” Disney.
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