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&(e‘ws of cAmtrica’s Last frontier
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Shakespeare Waa Right?
We had an election last Tuesday and 523 Kodiak voters
went to the polls for Alaska’s 1964 privileges.
In an effort to get people to come out and cast their
fVallot, a service was set up to try and make it easier for
workers and house wives to get away from the home and
office.
Taxis were provided, cost free for transportation, baby
Bitter delivered by taxi, while mother voted and any other
tittle favor that could be extended was attempted, and the
■gesture paid for itself in votes.
Some people refuse to vote because “They do not want
to serve as jurors, or they lose money by leaving their jobs for
jury duty, etc. I wonder who pays these same individuals to
go to church?
Suppose everyone refused to serve on a jury, then
what? I guess Shakespeare was right. “The world is a stage
?»rd all the people actors.”
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COMMENT
The baseball world whs
.stunned recently when, on the
day before the Major League
opened, the St. Louis Cardi
nals of the National League
announced they had traded
awav a grea*- star, Enos
Slaughter, to the New York
Yankees of the American
League Slaughter had been
with the Cardinals for thirteen
active seasons, having joined
them in 1938.
famed for his hustle and
considered one of the great
players of the National League
Enos (Country) Slaughter
holds a 13-year .3C5 batting
average with the Cards.
Moreover, only one player
still active in the League has
more hits than Slaughter, ftan
Musial. Only one has more
runs batted in, Ted Williams.
St Louis baseball fans
could hardly believe their ears
when the announcement came
that Slaughter had been
traded to the Yankees, in re
turn for four comparatively
minor players. Owner August
Busch’s statement that Enos
was traded to make way for a
youth movement failed to ap
pease fans, who thought
Slaughter deserved to stay
with the Cardinals as long as
he performed efficiently. Most
baseball fans, in all cities,
agreed with that sentiment.
It is a poor commentary on
any baseball organization
when a hustling ball player
the likes of Slaughter, with a
13-year «305 batting average,
is traded perhaps partially be
:ause of a high, but justified,
salary. Jolted by the news,
Slaughter broke down and
jobbed, but he might find con
solation in the fact that he go
ing to a famous baseball or
ganization, the New Yoik
Yankees, and playing fo>
Casey Stengel might be i
happy experience, after all.
Those who saw “Country”
almost single-handedly win
the World Series for the Car
dinals in 1946. and all those
Cardinal fans who have
watched him over the years,
will always have a warm spot
in their hearts for Slaughter,
one of the games great figures
King Replaces Sipprell
As Alaska Staam Agt.
j Clarence R. King arrived
| in Kodiak Monday aboard the
S. S. Lucidor to replace Walt
Sipprell as Kodiak’s perman
ent agent for the Alaska
Steamship Co. King had pre
viously spent 3 years in Se
ward and 5 years in Seattle
working for Alaska Steam.
King’s wife Ethel and his
5-year-old daughter Joan ar
aived in Kodiak aboard PNA’s
evening flight on Thursday.
Walt Sipprell, who has been
acting as temporary agent,
will leave for Seattle within
the next two weeks. He will
spend approximately a month
tn Seattle and then will return
to Alaska to take over the
duties of agent at Nome.
Note of Thanks
We wish to thank the Team
sters Local 500 and all other
persons who did such a splen
did job on getting out the
vote.
Kodiak Island Area
Democratic Club
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank the people
Kodiak for their expressions
if kindness in our recent be
reavement.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Godfrey
Mr. & Mrs. Fitzgerald & Son
Mr. & Mrs. T. W. Godfrey &
Family
I>av c A. Norris. i6. 8n en
!»j»ted man from the Naval Sta
ion was arrested last week by
"he local police, for reckles,
driving and operating motor
vehicle while under the i„.
fluence of intoxicants.
Several telephone calls had
been received and the city
squad car finally spotted the
sailor and car weaving South
on Main Street and immedi.
ately gave chase. Norris near,
j ly tipped over as he made the
jturn at the Bank of Kodiak
and then turned off of Main
onto Bering Way and wm
caught in a vacant lot at the
water front, apparently un
aware he had turned into j
dead-end street.
He was placed under arrest
and charged on the above
charges, jailed and went to
court the following morning,
He was fined $200 and had his
drivers license revoked for 1
year. He had been drinking in
his car. having had some bud
dies buy, the intoxicants for
him.
Kodiak’s two bakefy con
cerns’ LaLande and Naugh
ton, arnounced today that ef
fective Monday, May 1, 1954
that they will enforce a gene
al price increase on most
bakery goods.
Both agree that the increase
will include most of the bakery
goods with the exception of
pullman, small white and
small wheat bread.
Naughton and LaLande ex
plained that this increase has
come into being, due to the
steady increase in freight
rates, merchandise and labor.
Max LaLande pointed out
that this is the first price
raise that any bakery in Ko
diak has made in the past
eight years. _
The Grandmother’s club
will nold their regular meet
ing next Wednesday, April 7,
at the home of Mrs. Marshall
Crutcher.
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