"News of oAmencas Last Frontier”
KODIAK, ALASKA NOVEMBER 22, 1947
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Civic Group
it Sunday’s meeting at t he
faamunity Center a committee
chosen to draw up a con
ilitation and by laws for a new
mtnrn’ league, and as soon as
til work >s done another meet
jg will be called by temporary
William Stone The
^•mittee consists of Max La
Ij^de, chairman; A. £. Else,
paries Skinoer, Ellen Dawson,
■via Foster' and Tom Utter
teek
On the school situation it wa9
Kported another 15000 had been
Keeised by the school board but
Hat word was still aw aited from
ike attorney geoeral on the
board’s power to borrow.
G. W. Bubendorf reported
kgal work had delayed framing
the petition on a consolidated
chooi district and a committee
i I.eo Sears, Charles Madsen
ud John Gibbons was named tc
help on the project.
I Suits Filed
Complaints in 2 civil suits
rare issued this week at the
Dammissioner’s office.
In one W. G. Slawson, federal
jn) employe, seeks collection of
(1000 claimed loaned on a prom
mory note to Fred Solberg.
la the other Karl Brunstad,
ooer of rental property on
Miwioo road,seeks the eviction
rfLJ. Shaw and asks $70 in
bek rent.
Both cases will be heard next
Rnday
Drive Goes
Over Top
Over the top in a sensational
huh—the Kodiak Community
Carter's campaign for ’-18 nper
Uiog funds was concluded yes*
terd&y when the NOB-NAS
[immunity Chest delivered to
tbe Center a check tor $2016.64
•sthe Navy’s share of the fund.
Contributions from townspeople
lad reached more than $8600 of
We$8500 goal with still a few
People and organizations to be
Ward bora.
Kepeating his expression of
imprec ation for the practically |
unanimous support of townfolk
•ndtbe peop'e at NOB, Cam
paign Chairman James Marts j
•ndhis committee—Ben Kraft, i
Jargen Fredrickson, Marion
htigr.rald, Henry Breckberg
Gibbons, Oscar Nelson,
lao Sears, Marcus Meyer, and
Harjorie Gunderson—were re*
W»ng today in the glow of a job
*ell done.
The complete list of donors
•81 be published in the Mirror
• the near future.
‘Stinkie’ Won’t Do
For This One
Genus Mephitis arrived in
Kodiak recently by air and is
now visiting at the home of Mrs.,
Oacy McDonald. Genus is a
skunk!
Before you get visions or libel
for c&lliDg a person a skunk let
us assure you that Genus is real
ly a skunk—the four legged kind
with a white stripe down his
(or her!; back. Furthermore
Genus is a pet skunk and has
been completely and thoroughly
de-odorized.
Mrs. McDonald, who has im
ported Genus from outside a
couple of weeks ago, wants a
name for her new pet. She has
offered a ten dollar prize to the
grade school youngster who sub
mits the best name for the ani
ma before next Saturday, Nov
ember 29.
Entries should be left, in writ
ing, at the Community Ceuier.
Judges will be Mrs. McDonald,
John Gibbons and Ken Wad^.
Mr. and Mrs O. I . Grimes of
Seattle and Ouzmkie visited
in Washington, D. C. recently
while on a trip throughout the
[Tinted States. Mr. Grimes oper
ates a store and cannery at Ou
zmk e
Young Man
Kills Self
Funeral services were held
Thursday from the Community
Baptist church for Charles Wil
liam Anderson, son of Wvlliam
Charles Anderson, who shot
himself at his father’s home
next to Christy’s bakery at 9:30
Monday morning
He fired two shots with a
shotgun belonging to his father
in a bedroom of one of his bro
ther’s. His home was next to the
Kodiak Mirror office.
The deceased was 26 and is
survived by his wife, Stella and
a child, Mary Lou; his fathe ;
two brothers. LeRoy, of Kodiak
and Rudolph of Ketchikan; and
a sister, lrenp A fisherman, he
had been working for Ralph
Shupp, local contractor.
Canners Burned
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Tesarik
received burns last Friday even
ing when a jar of meat being
canned exploded. Mrs Tesarik
received 1st degree burns on one
arm and Mr. Tesarik was treat
ed fo 2nd di gree burns on the
face and hands.
The accident happened in
thnr home at the city dock.
Harvest Ball
On Wednesday
Kodiak’s Second Annual Har
vest ball will be held at the Com
munity Center Thanksgiving
Eve, when the Center’s Program
Council will play ho6t at 9 pm
to the people of the community
at a Thanksgiving celebration
and dance.
Costumes will be house-dress
es, calicos, ginghams, etc. for the
ladies and jeans and bright shirts
for the men. A decoration com
mittee under the leadership of
Joseph Heitman Jr. plans to
transform the Center into a
barn-dance setting for the occa
sion.
Music for dancing will be don
ated by the "Town Kids” orch
chestra
All residents of Kodiak young
and old, are invited to at end
the party. Admission will be
free
Department Called
The fire department was call
I ed at 5:19 pm to the Shore Pat
rol station at Brooklyn and
Alaska Way, where an overheat
ed stove set fire to a wall Sat
urday.
The fire was extinquished with
little damag *
1300 Sign For Mass X-ray
Everything is ready at the
Kodiak end for ma98 X-raying to
liegm Monday—but the equip
ment and clinic personnel missed
the Aleutian Mail boat at Seward
and it arrived yesterday morn
ing without them
Public Health Nurse Marion
Curtis was advised by phone
yesterday from Anchorage (hat
(he group had arrived at Anchor
age and are waiting for a break
in the weather so the Army can
fly them here -so will arrive, it is
hoped, before Monday.
Personnel is headed by Dr.
Marshall and includes a nurse,
SIR, I WISH YOUR DAUGHTER $
HAND IN /MARRIAGE; lVE^JOB,
A BANK ACCOUNT, AND lVE JUST
HAD MY CHEST X'RAYED//
aL X-ray technician, and a sac
retary Equipment is the most
up-to date available, using the
small and inexpensive four-by
five films These small fi!ms
when read by experts show up
anything suspicious in the chest
area.
Scheduled hou s of opfiat’ori
are as follows:
Monday A Friday—1 to 3 »nd
7 to 9
Tuesday—9 to 11:30 & l to
1:3o for school children & i :45
to 3 for adults
Wednesday—9 to 11:30 & 7 to
9
Mrs. Frank Beals, who ha*
completed the monumental task
of scheduling appointments and
filing registration cards, estim
ated that about 1300 people
have registered for X-rays. It is
urged that each person make
every effort to keep his or hei
appointment, since the smooth
and efficient running of the clinic
depende largely on this timing.
However, anyone who for some
unforseen reason misses his ap
pointment may still have an X
ray by reporting to the cl'nie at
any time during the scheduled
hours of operation. I his also ap
plies to anyone who has not re
gistered io advance.
4 Workers
Unreported
Four men, who left Kodiak a
month ago next Monday for the
cannery of the Cape Douglas
Canning Cordoration, at Swik
shak, on the mainland, have not
been heard from since leaving
Raspberry strait on their way
there.
A1 Fenner, who was employed
at the cannery this summer, att
empted to reach the cannery in a
Navy plane but fog prevented
seeing whether the boat the men
were on bad arrived and no rad
io contact has been made since.
The vessel was the company’s
Chignik No. 7.
If weather permits Mr.FenBer
will leave on August Heitman’s
boat today to go to Swikshak to
determine the whereabouts cf
the men.
The 4 men are A1 Chrisler,
watchman, Clifford West aDd
/.If Mattsen, all of Seattle; and
George Strong, of Aberdeen,
Chairman Named
Helen Cass, Red Cross repre
sentative, visited Kodiak this
week to confer with the local
chapter, and announced the ap
pointment of Thomas Utterback,
school superintendent, as chair
man of the coming Red Cross
drive next March.
The Regular meeting of tbe
Chamber of Commerce, next
Thursday, has been cancelled
because of the conflict with
Thanksgiving
Announce
Fund Gifts
The division or funds, a
mounting to $5816.64, real zed
in the Navy’s Community Chest
program this year was announ
ced t'day by Capt. R. L John
son, USN, commandant, NGB
NAS.
Allotments and recipients are,
Navy Relief Fund—$500
NOB Community Emergency
Fund—$1400
Kodiak Community Center—
$2016.64
Kodiak Baptist Mission—$700
Griffin Memorial Hospital—
$1000
Public Health Nurse (for
tmeigency aid for indigents)—
$200
It was stated the Comrnunily
Center received the largest a
mount because it offered the
“greatest opportunity for civic
improvement to the largest num
ber of military and civil?* ”