r&L. 6 NO. 43
"News oj oAmericas Last Frontier”
KODIAK, ALASKA DECEMBER 31, 1946
PRICE 10 CENTB
Program On
Tuesday
The big community Christ
inas program, sponsored annual
ly by the Rotary club, is all set
for Chiistmas eve, Tuesday,
Dec. 2i, at the Orpheum theatre
Admission is free and no seats
are reserved. The first show, at
T pm, is for children and children
accompanied by parents, and the
iscond performance at 8 pm is
for adults.
Main event for the youngsters
will be a personal appearance of
Santa Claus, who has promised
to be on hand with a bag of can
dy and fruit for every child.
Then there will also be com
munity singing, recitations by
Jnne Magnusen and Linda Koch;
folk dances, (Jingle Bells and
Mitzi Peutchdi); a Christmas
tableau; a Christmas dance by
Isabelle and Marie Nelson and a
girl’s chorus.
The dancers are Alma Nelsom
Viviau Pagano, Thelma Cobb,
Maltha Olsen, Marie Cope, Sal
he Heitman, Nancy Norman,
Geneneva Owen, Hazel-Marie
Owen, Isabel Nelson, Sheila Bril
k»
The eingeis are Marilyn Cham
berlain, Gladys Pagsno, Bea
Mali)tin, lone Norton, Cherie
Morrison, Lorraine Magrmsen,
Bet y Kizer.
All school grades are repre
«ented in the participants, and
Miss Keck and Miss Kramer are
in charge of the school portico
of the’program.
Joseph Q Thompson, 19, a
tailor stationed at the base, has
been missing since last Sunday
end information as to his where,
ebouts is sought.
Fred Sol berg, local raneher
returned from a trip to the
States on Wednesday's plane.
Two Ships
Due Soon
The La ins, whieh sailed Wed
*esdav, is st II scheduled to ar
nve about Dec, 26 at Kodiak,
the local Alaska Steamship office
Sports
The Reef Knot, relief ship
htwn Portland, sailed from that
P°rt Tuesday and will arrive
tare about the eud of the month
toming via Seward and Seldovia
Christmas Greetings
This issue of the Mirror con
tains personally selected mes
ses designed to carry the best
Holiday Wishes from the prog
^ive merchants of Kodiak to
^ou, who are their costume's
ad friends.
^We unreservedly recommend a
Store Robbed
On Second Try
Two attempts were made to
break into the O Kraft & Son
store over the weekend, the sec
ond one successful and $15 in
veterans’ tax money from the
men’s department and about $9
in the till of the women’s depart
ment was stolen
On Saturday night a second
story window was broken about
a rear shed-roofed addition, but
the window opened into a stair
well and apparently no one ent
ered.
On Sunday night George Mag
nusen, night patrolman, discov
ered the rear door of the men’s
deoartment open about 8:50 and
it was discovered another win
dow adjacent to the first had
been broken and entered. The
\ person took the tax money in its
1 cigar box and the till money and
i apparently left by the back door
Nothing else was missing.
A footprint was left in the
snow the first n ght, but heavy
snow Sunday night obliterated
any tracks.
The following Kodiak people
have been summoned for petit
jury duty, and are to be in An
chorage at 10 am Dec. 30, depu-1
ty U. S. Marshal Paul Herring
report: ;
! Jim Angell, Morris Burnham,!
Bette de Youdk, Ruth Frame,
Everett Kocb, William Larame,
J. Marlz, W. P. Nekeferoff, Mar
garet von Scheele, Harry Wal
lace, Richard Welcome and Wil
liam Worth.
Okeh Jail
Site Twice
Voters in a sesond special elec*
tion on Tuesday approved grant
ing of city hall property to the
federal government for a jail,
this time granting a larger lot,
100 by 78.5 feet, as requested by
the g >vernment subsequent to
the first election in August,
when a smaller lot was approved.
On Tuesday 72 voted for and
6 voted against, as compared to
81 for and 5 against in August.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Paul
Herring received word this week
that plans are ou the way to
Kodiak and construction of the
$140,000 structure is hoped to
be completed by next summer.
Election officials were: Oscar
Nelson, Mrs. Pete Magnusen, H.
M. Coul ey, judges; Zenita Ox
ford and Janet Saunders, clerks.
Jake La Follette, taxi opera
tor, has filed suit in the Anchor
age distiict court against John
Chase and Jay Tolbert, contract
ors, for $2200.
A taxi of La Fnllette’s, diiven
by Norman Spencer, was damag
ed on Oct. 24 at the base when
it ran into the rear of a Navy
truck that had just crashed head
on in a tractor operated by John
Chase, which was pul'i'iga quon.
set but Damages of $1200 and
$1000 for the uiontii the vehie'e
was not in operation are sought.
School closed with room prog
rams at 2:30 yesterday, and will
open again Monday, Dec. 30.
Car Benefit
Dance Tonight
The danse sponsored by the
Kodiak Masonie club, for the
purpose of raising funds for a
“car for Curtis” (Public Health
Nurse Marion Curtis) is tonight,'
and the public is invited to'
Blinn’s hall for a gala evening, j
Dancing tunes will be furnish-j
ed by the 4 Hits and a Miss,
with dancing from 9 to 1.
Annual Ball
New Year’s Eve
The annual New Year's Eve
ball, one of the big dances of the
year will be held at Blinn’s hall
on Dec. 31. This year, to accom
modate the overflow crowd, the
Community Center will be an
“annex” to Blinn’s, with dancing
geiug on simultaneously on both
floors.
The 4 Hits and a Miss have
been engaged to rumish the mu
sic and tickets may be bought in
advance as well as at the box of
fice.
The big dance is sponsored
every year by Kodiak’s Volun
teer Fire Department, and is the
on'v fund-raising event given by
that g»oup
I
I Bonnie McPeak, fourth grade
teacher, left by plane Sunday for
Longview, Wash where she was
cal’fcd by the serious illness of
her mother. She will not return
and Mrs. Henry Neseth is taking
her place.
‘Peace On Earth-Good Wi!l To Men'
Big Plane
Damaged
A DC-3 21-passenger plane of
Pacific Northern Airli' ee wae
damaged in attempting a landing
at the bate on its arrival on its
regular run from Anchorage
Monday.
The plane reportedly under
shot the north-south runway and
when it struck the landing gear
struts were poked through one
wing, a right tire blew out and
the plane skidded about 209 feet
before coming to a rest.
No one aboard was injured.
Gasoline spilled on the runway
and both propellers were bent.
Passengers were V. G. Elba, o#
the insurance department of tbe
Bank of Kodiak; Mildred Huff,
wife of a Negro civilian employe
at the base; and J. M. Wanthew,
salesman for Wiesfield & Gold
berg, Seattle jewelers. Tony Go
mez was pilot, Dick Chamber
lain co-pilot and Gladys Newell,
stewardess. The landing blow
was described as sharp, but the
stewardess said there was no ex
citement among the passengers.
Officials of FNA arrived by
plane Wednesday, and R. C.
Williams, superintendent of en
gineering and maintenance, stay
ed over to supervise repairs. He
estimated the plane would be in
service 2 weeks after parv.8 are
received.
There will be no change in tbe
4-times a week PNA schedule.
School children have sold
$210.67 worth of Christmas
Seals, with Mrs. George Keel
ing’s fifth leading, with $55.
Buses On
Run Again
Busps of the Tagura Transit
i.vstem, off the Kodiak-base run
lecause of driver*union diffieuU
,i»s, began running this week
ind are expected to be on a full
chedule by next week.
John Kibler, in charge of th>
nises, is planning to purchase
hem from the ccmpany, of
tbich P. J Watkinson has been
igent.
Kibler is a recent arrival from
Iremerton. He and the Team
ter’e Union reached an agree
ieet on a driver contract befo e
he buses were put into opin
ion
.ast 1946 Mirror
1 his December 21*t issue of
lie Kodiak Mirror is the la*t
for the year 1946.
As has been the custom in
ast years tbe issue betwee i
Christmas and New Year’s will
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