BREAD
NOW 20c
In full compliance with the new
OPA regulation
BEGINNING MONDAY, MARCH It
CHRISTY'S BAKERY
"Let Your 'Baker Bo Your Baking”
(Christy’s Bread is available Saturday evening and Sundays
at Knudsen’s Kodiak Fountain)
GOOD FOOD!!
GOOD FUN ! !
(AND A FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE
at the
beachcombers
OPEN
DAILY
SUE SCRANTON
at the Piano
KODIAK SKATING RINK
Open 6 to 9 pm every night,
plus a Matinee Sunday, 1:30 to 3:30 im
Get the SKATING Habit!
Reservations for Private Parties Available
Notice
Please pay all Thompson
Transfer bills at the office of
G. W. Bubendorf.
Thompson Transfer Co.
3-16
“If it’s good eats you're mis
sln’, it's because you’re missin’,
the Yum Yum eats.”
Orders sent out on call, open
from 6 till 3 am, and later on
party orders. Closed Sundays.
Yum Yum. (adv)
Letter To The Editor
To the Editor:
I am a veteran, recently dis
charged from the Navy, who has
been employed for the past
month or so, by the Civil Service
Commission at the Naval Oper
ating Base, Kodiak. During my
hitch with the Navy I’ve seen
evidence of poor working and
living conditions on various bas
es, but none that would in any
way compare with those at Kod
iak.
The people here in Alaska and
those in the States who want to
work for the Civil Service Com
mission at Kodiak should be
more fully acquainted with just
what is going on at the business
end ot this joint Navy and Civil
Service structure.
Existing conditions on the
base are very poor for the civilian
and multiplied threefold for the
enlisted man. The only alterna
tive for an enlisted man is to sit
tight and “sweat” out their
points. For the civilian there are
angles to be worked. Organiza
tions, petitions and giisvance
committees to be formed. Yet al1
this so far has fallen short.
A good deal of the headache
suffered by Naval authorities is
their dealing with civilian per
sonnel who cannot, be whipped
into line by court martial or
quieted by censorship and secur
ity regulations. The choice the
civil service worker must under
stand is either accept the condi
tions imposed on them by the
great moguls or they must get
together and either individually
or collectively do something
about them.
Civilians, instead of having a
messhall of tht ir own, must
stand in line with the sailors,
eating the same G1 fare. Married
couples can rent a duplex apart
ment complete with cooking fac
ilities, bathroom aud ihe -
ege of consuming on the pren,i~
es, 1 quart of whisky per Wee£*
The single men living atop “OO0'
centration” hill are forced to Pa'
almost as much rent for a r0o^
in an abandoned CB barrack_
And incidentally the single men
are also refused commissary stota
privileges, should they desite *
supplement, to their GI rations
At regular intervals, Mai inn
MP’s make a tour of the civiil1Ut
bachelor quarters. One old fel
low, quite along in years, waa *.
wakened about midnight by the
Marines, arrested and taken be
fore the Marine colonel, wbo
realizing an error, hastily apolo
gized and had the old fellow es
corted back to his room.
Going to and coming from the
town of Kodiak, in passing
through the Marine gate, all cir
ilians are subjected to a thorough
shakedown of his person.
Civilian employees living ta
the barracks are hauled to and
from the messhall sometimes by
a regular bus and sometimes via
a “cattle-wagon” or an tbe back
of a stake truck. That is an ex
ample of the splendid busservioe
of which certain “propaganda''
pamphlets boast.
After thinking it over, talking
it over, I’ve decided there is no
middle ground whatever. I’m
sure those who read this aril!
think as I do, that a thorough
investigation should be made
and the situation remedied ac
cordingly.
Unless this step is taken, them
will continue to be much dissat
isfaction and unrest, and f<W
those misled peop’e who are be
ing recruited from the States,
many more broken promises.
Sincerely,
Robert K. Bloom
Box 1171
Kodiak, Alaska
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