Petty Girl's
Father On Hunt
George Petty, famed commer
cial artist noted for his pulchri
tudinous pin-ups, arrived here
Sunday by plane on his third
trip to Kodiak for Kodiak bear.
In 1937 he got his first bear;
and then returned in 1942 with
his son, who also got a bear for
his high school graduation pres
ent.
This time Mr. Petty is accom
panied by W. H. Fawcett, Jr.,
publisher of True, Mechanix Il
lustrated and other magazines,
and not only is the trip for the
purpose of getting bear, but also
for pictures and an article for
one of the Fawcett publications.
The party, accompanied by a
Mr Hunter, took photographs
all the way from Seattle to Kod
iak.
Petty had wired previous to
Charles Madsen, Leal guide, for
accommodations, but Mr Mad
sen was all booked up and could
not handle the party. So they
stopped at Homer and picked up
2 guides, Jim Waddell and Ted
Hersey.
Arriving Sunday the party
chartered the plane of the Vikiue
Aii Service to take them to Kar
luk lake. They told Speed Drey
er, pilot, that they will let him
know when they are ready to
coine back, in about a week or
10 days
Bubendorf Appointed
The temporary appointment
of (J VY Hubtndorf as a repre
rentative of the Department of
Taxation, at Juneau, was con
firmed in a wire received by
Commissioner Bubendorf early
this week
The appointment gives him
authority to collect for the fol
lowing:
School tax
Gear tax
Resident and non-resident
Fishermen’s Licenses
5.5. Lakina
OUTGOING:
Mrs. O. C. & Bill Connelly,
Mr. & Mrs. Howard Cameron,
Mrs. Maty Gehring, Mrs Dor
othy Cann.mi, W. A. Faquhar,
Helen Smith, Marie Green, Alice
Bandrup.
INCOMING
Miss G. Schold, George Daniel
5.5. Denali
OUTGOING
Mrs. Ruth Eaton, Miss Anna
bel Metrokin, Mrs. Ellen For
sythe, Mrs. Frances Beckley,
Mrs Louise Olsen, Mrs. Yvonne
Bobrin & 2 sons, Miss Loena
Kramer, Miss Fr*-da Erfle, Rev
& Mrs. Winters & children, Mrs.
Helen Cherry & daughter, Mrs
Dora Manring <fc children, Mr.
& Mrs. Franklin “Doc” Harris,
Mr. & Mrs Virgil Colby & child
ren, Mrs. Eileen Beard, George
Daniel, Stanley Roskin, Joseph
Lauritsen
Mr and Mrs. Jack Benson are
now living at Bellevue, Wash.
Lt. Comdr. Benson, who before
the war was stationed at Kodiak
with the Fish and Wildlife ser
vice, expects his discharge from
the Navy this summer.
Kodiak Diary
(continued from page 6)
mind one commander of the base,
(let us blessedly call him Smith)
under whose reign the base came
to be referred to as “Smith’s
Love Nest”.
But the man whose name isn’t
Smith is gone, thank goodness,
and with the high pressures of
the war removed and with others
becoming responsible for the well
being of base affairs conditions
naturally reflect the change.
We’d hate to have someone
pick from the town of Kodiak
an isolated instance of official or
unofficial bungling, of which we
assume one could be found over
the past six years, and then
sweepingly judge the whole town
by it.
At the time of the alleged in
timidations” we asked a single
girl employee of the base about
how serious the situation was.
“I don’t Know,” she said, "it
doesn’t make any difference to
me I’ll still go with who I want
to anytime and if anybody does
n’t like it it’s no skin off of my
nose.”
Prior or subsequent to our
1 conversation we learned of no
authenticated instances of any
peeled proboscises.
The following epistle was re
ceived recently by the Chamber
of Commerce, and we are taking
it upon ourselves to answer it.
The letter reads exactly as
follows:
Chamber of Commerce
Kodiak, Alaska
Dear Sirs:
[ My clasmates and I were
wondering if you grow citrus
fruits, and if so were. Would
you please reply to this letter.
Sincerely yours,
Beverly Mae Geisenheiner,
1939 E. Bennett Ave.
Milwaukee 7, Wisconsin
Dear Beverly:
It would be such a pleasure to
reply 1 o your letter that we bor
rowed it from the Chamber of
Commerce so we could do it our
selves.
You see, a lot of people don’t
know very much about Alaska,
or Kodiak, and some of the craz
iest questions are asked
Most people have the impres
sion that all Alaska is nothing
but snow and ice and igloos and
Eskimos and here at Kodiak we
don’t have as much snow and
ice as you do in Milwaukee
sometimes and no igloos and no
Eskimos (maybe a coup'e or so)
and when people are always ask
ing about our ‘cold and frozen
north” we get a little tired of it.
Kodiak has lots of rain but
beautiful summers and we can
(continued on page 10)
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Harris
left on the Denali for an extend
ed vacation trip in the States,
and will visit relatives in Yaki
ma, Wash.
Mrs Harris, who has been lo
cal Draft Board clerk, said she
didn’t think she was coming
back, but that she bad said that
the last time she went out and
had changed her mind.
Mr. Harris, who is employed
at Er8kine,s, said he expected to
be back in about 3 months.
BPW Fetes Grads,
New Senior Girls
“The IV have it," said Lilian
Morris, president of the Kodiak
Business and Professional Wom
en’s club Monday evening in her
welcoming speech to the club’s
guests, the Senior and Junior
girls of Kodiak high school. In
dependence, initiative and intel
ligence she stressed as worth
while attributes. Graduating sen
iors who attended the dinner in
cluded Cecelia King, Jane Naugh
ton, Katherine Frost, Vilma
Oberholtzer and Elsie Anderson.
The junior gills were Mildred
Bettinger and Anna Pavloff.
Each girl received a rosebud cor
sage from the club'
Following the address of Miss
Morris Mabel Fenner, chairman
of the Membership committee,
introduced the new BPW initi
ates, Mary Sorum, Peg Suiliff
and Alice Haskell. Ellen Dawson,
accompanied by Mary Scum,
sang “The Golden Key”, official
BPW club song, and Beth
Wheeldon showed colored slides.
In concluding the evening’s
program Miss Morris displayed
a cedar gavel which was present
ed to the club by Emil Knudsen.
Fleeta Christopherson is pro
gram coordinator and Justine
Hinckel was in charge of arrange
ments for the evening, assisted
by Vi Sipprell and Marjorie Gun
derson
Former Kodiakian
Visits Yellowknife
Alex McComber, 82-year-old
sourdough who has been in near
ly every northern stampede since
1895 at Circle City, recently vis
ited the Yellowknife area beyond
Great Slave iake from Seattle,
where he has been staying, and
on his return to Seattle reported j
that the gold camp there is only
a rich man’s proposition.
A'ex “Dad” McComber is well
known in Kodiak, where he for
merly operated Dad’s Liquor
store next to the Mecca bar
He first came north in 1895
when he was at Circle City be
fore the Kl-ndike strike. Later
he stampeded to Dawson and
staked a rich claim, No 47, on
Hunker creek. Later he stamped,
ed to Nome, Fairbanks. Ruby
and other northern placer gold
camps, where he wooed dame
fortune with varying success.
“If I were only younger, I’d
stampede to the North Pole or
any other camp and stick ” Alex
said, “but as for Yellowknife, it’s
a young man’s country, where
he must have plenty of means
back of him.”
City Reverberated
Destruction of old explosives
stored at the Navy base was car
ried on this week, with the det
onations shaking houses in town,
rattling windows, and swinging
light fixtures
The first unannounced blasts
caused people to rush to doors
looking to see if a truck had hit
and many thought first of an
earthquake.
Mrs. Louise Olsen, mother of
William H. Olsen, local attorney,
left on the Denali on her way to
Kent, Wash , where she will visit
/. er daughter.
Lee Teague, special agent in
charge of the FBI in Alaska,
from Anchorage, was the guest
speaker at the Rotaiy luncheon
Tuesday at the Victory cafe.
Mr. Teague spoke on methods
of communication of foreign
spies during the last war.
Guests at the luncheon includ
ed 0. C. Kuhnley, Dr. J. F.
Martin of Portland, Frank Beals,
C. Culbertson and Paul Fretzs.
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