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' of cAmerica 's Last ‘frontier _
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
Yearly Subscription Rate $5.00
Entered in the Postoffice at Kodiak, Alaska as Second
Class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1S78.
KODIAK PUBLISHING COMPANY
William H. Laiume, Editor and Publisher
Lillian E. Lamrne, Associate Editor
This Is An Editorial
I Any advertiser at any time has a perfect right to withdraw his
. Ivertising for any reason—economic, political, business, personal,
] ■ otherwise. But when one advertiser leads a group into taking
ich an action it smacks oF a boycott. And we don’t like it.
I Such an action was taken this week by the Kodiak Retail Liquor
'ealers Association and as a result all advertisements of all liquor
ialers have been removed from this issue of the Mirror as per a
I tier from that body
The letter was prepared by the leader of the action, whom we
itervlewed. As spokesman he expre sed himself as Dot liking the
latiner in which the Mirror is operated—some stories are too
*Qg, some are too short, “lots of things” that go on at the l .ham
er of Commerce meetings and council meetings never get in the
aper and mainly he does not like our lack of editorial po’icy.
. The letter says, underlined in red, that there should be “an ed
onal in each and every edition ”
©urine our conversation we found that no* only the Mirror is at
,«nit. There is also something the matter with the town that he
< an’t put his finger on. There is also something the' matter with
' lie council—he apparently could put his finger on that. The pres
et city regime, he said, has cost the city thousands and thousands
I dollars. We didn’t know why and had to ask. Because, he said,
f their refusal to cooperate with the Navy!
Before long his conversation brought up the loss of business to
own occasioned by the operation of a civilian bar at the base
“$10,000 in one month”, he said) and the matter of too much
’oliciug.
From that conversation and letter we have drawn our own con
tusion And briefly it is this. A town that supported over 20 liquor
icenses during boom times is no longer able to, as anyone could
lee would inevitably be true and the fact that such business has so
declined is now proving of concern.
We got the impiession that if we wrote an editorial it might be
chi such a subject., and this is only used as an example, that there
! is too much policing and that business is being hurt from it. Noth
i!l£ WOlllrl hp farfhpr frnm fnp.fr_
When Mayor Lee Bettinger announced at the beginning of his
term of office that he was going to see that there was enough and
proper policing to make it a decent town in which decent people
could walk upon the streets without being insulted, we were all for
it. Apparently the majority of people are because no one appeared
to oppose Mayor Bettinger at the polls and the majority of com
;inent about the mayor and council has consisted of high praise.
The association spokesman also said he didn’t care if the editor
ials he expected were not always in his line of thinking, it would
n’t make any difference. To that we offer a polite phooey.
We know another publisher who thought his advertisers might
respect such a difference of opinion on such a simple issue as to
whether a town should have a power plant from the Rural Elect
nAcation Administration or from Fairbanks-Morse, a orivate con
cern. This publisher came out one Saturday for Fairbanks-Morse
Before the press had cooled off that end of town joined with the
other end and formed an association with the business in the mid
dle and the letter that publisher received ordered a much laiger
amount of adveitising cancelled than the present one did.
That town was Kodiak and the paper was the Mirror and the
MEET MR. TAYLOR
It is our pleasure to announce that Mr.
Nathan Taylor has joined our staff as
Cashier.
He brings to us considerable banking ex
perience which will be helpful to our
customers and we welcome him to our
community.
mihhaher hart to recaat <« eet rhe advertising baok or quit huaia
We are not eomg to re.-ant and since the advertisers of Kodiak
have shown what »hey think of an editorial that takes sides none
now aopaar in the Mirror
If this matter had been hand'ed in any other way we would
have apprec ated the suggestions and interest and evtn now v\n
are examining our news stories in the hope of shortening those
that are too long and lengthening those that are too short.
Before we ch'se we would like to point out that of all the re
quests for editorials the majority have been demands for editorials
against past and present acti ns of some liquor dealers and prob
lems arising therefrom; and that if we were looking for an editori
al topic this week we could take our text from the Letter to the
Editor on page 7 and point out that when Kodiik was a friendly
little town” with people streaming into it the pressute was being
applied then to cut down on policing and that what policing they
had couldn’t prevent the town from being almost unfit to live in.
But if we did that this would be one of those articles that are
too long.
Couple Wed
On Thursday
Mabel Jane Kortan, clerk in
the supply department, NOB,
and Jamo Dale Picklesimer, U
S. Navy, were married on March
20 by U S. Commissioner G. W.
Bubendorf at the latter’s office.
Tbe couple was attended by
Jean Barnes and Eugere Smith.
The city council will meet
Monday at 7:30 at the city hall.
Federal Works Agency, Public
Buildings Administration, Wash
ington, D, C , March 12, 1947.
Sealed bids in duplicate will be
publicly opened in this office at 1
P. M., Standard Time, April 23,
' 1947, lor the Construction of the
, Federal Jail at Kodiak, Alaska.
Upon application, two sets of
drawings and specifications will
be supplied free to each general
contractor interested in submit
ting a bid. Drawings and speci
ficat ons may be obtained from
tne Division Engineer, Room
103, United States Court House
Seattle, Washington or at this
office and MUST be returned.
Contractors requiring additional
sets may obtain them by pur
chase from this office at a cost of
&5 00 per set, which will not. be
returned Checks offered as pay
ment, must be made payable to
the order of the Treasurer, U S
One set upon request, will be
furnished, in the discretion of the
Commissioner, to quantity sur
veyors and to builders’ exchang
es. chambers of commerce or
other organizations who will
guarantee to make them avail
able for any interested sub-con
tractor n-material firm but this
privilege will be withdrawn if the
aets are not returned after they
have accomplished their purpose
W K. Reynolds, Commissioner
of Public Bui'dings, Federal
Works Agency
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