KODIAK .
DIARY ...
^retary A. M. Haskell made
long trek from the KEA
,t Saturday to tell us we
^ scooped. Eino Kainulainen,
l8ger of the KEA, told us
1(jay we were scooped. If
0De else had known it, we
j,nbly would have been told
an.
The scoop: There was a fire at
,KEA plant Thursday night,
nther early Friday morning
)we failed to report it.
’The fire consisted of a burned
iiresistance coil (we are never
pe of our electrical terms) that
(«d »scorched place on the
iilchboard panel as large as an
janic waffle. The lights were
at during the “fire” for 4 min
r
ffe happened to be reading at
me up to and after the time
(lights were out. But having
ed through the vicissitudes of
iryears of electrical energy in
udiak, clear back in the days
*n the alternate current was
ttly alternate and seldom cur
it, and even at one time being
iboit current of any kind
ten the power plant burned
wn, it would take more than a
minute flicker to get our
riosity aroused enough to
ike the long, lonely journey
i to the KEA plant.
However, now that the power
nation is so improved that a
minute break means news we
BBleatch up with the times
d be more on the qui vive.
i bate being scooped—and on
It a story!
t is a very sick wind that
sn’t blow nobody no good, as
saying doesn’t go. This is
light to mind by the recent
iblement of the steamship
ihoes Re-conditioned f1
KODIAK SHOE
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Lakina on it’s recent outgoing
trip.
We are willing to wager that
at least 89 letters have since
gone winging their way to the
states, explaining to families-at
large that the reason their
Christinas present is late ‘’is be
cause the l.akina wrecked and
delayed our shipments.”
We might point out that the
local post office had warned that
all outgoing presents should
have been mailed by November
15 to arrive in the states on
time. But we wouldn’t.
Because we used the excuse,
too.
Those who have become ac
customed in Kodiak to seeing
the plethora of GI Issue sheep
lined coats, very appropriate to
our chilly spells, will enjoy the
story told by Chief Don Simpson,
local SEABEE officer, who for a
time was in the Guadalcanal
area.
It seems the natives there are
great for grabbing onto all “whito
man’s” clothes they can get. One
will have a pair of shoes with
native garb (very little of the
latter), another a shirt, or hat or
combinations.
Some of the effects achieved
are anything but sartorial per
fection Chief Simpson reported,
but the prize haberdasherana
was the result of a bunch of sheep
skin lined coats which were sent
there for Marines. The coats
were inappropriate for the men
but the natives thought they
were great.
They would wear the big, bul
ky and very warm things proud
ly around in a climate where 100
degrees at night was considered
cool.
To get the idea, imagine a
northern Eskimo dressed in a
loin cloth and machete.
It always seems to us that the
habit of gluing up first green
backs taken in by new establish
ments is a temptation for some
one to come along and swipe
them—but even more of a remp- j
j tation is the old habit of using1
money as a decorative note. Peo
ple who stick E. Pluribus
l Unum'* into bar floors and walls
or imbe 1 nickels in table tops
, should have no complaint when
someone comes along and snitch
es the dough, to phrase a coin.
Such robberies, however, seem
to be rare, but one occurred last
week in Fairbanks. Someone en
tered the Silver Dollar bar, rifled
the cash registers, stole $25 from I
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Alaska Transfer Co.
General Hauling
Freight
Baggage
Gravel
ROBERT C. KING, Owner
a cigar box, and picked out all
the silver dollars stuck in the
back bar to give the place its
name, to achieve a total theft of
$700.
Renaming the place the Cop
per Penny might be a good idea
if it weren’t for the size of the
picked pocks.
Joke of the Week: -
A man was complaining to a
neighbor about his wife’s habit
of keeping rabbits in the house.
“The rabbits are every where,”
he moaned. “They’re in the liv
ing room, and the kitchen where
we eat, and in the bedroom and
even on the bed, and I can’t sit
down without sitting on one.”
“Why”, suggested the neigh
bor, as a possible solution,
“don’t you open the doors and
windows sometime when your
wife isn’t looking, and let the
rabbits out?”
“What,” exclaimed the com
plainant indignantly, “and lose;
my pigeons!”—Brought back by
Merrill Coon as a result of his
recent trip Outside.
Kodiak’s local news dealers,
Bert’s, Knudsen’s and Wodling
er’s (arranged alphabetically)
were informed this week that be
ginning with the December 18th
issue of Time magazine, copies
will be flown to Alaska.
Here’s how Time puts it, curt
ly, clearly and concisely:
“To save paper and cargo
space, Time is already printing
a special edition on light-weight
paper for distribution out of the
U. S. We will rush a supply of
this edition from Chicago to
Seattle each week, put it on the
Friday morning planes, and—
weather permitting—we will de
liver Times'to Juneau and Fair
banks the same night, and to
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Xmas Cards
all kinds
Beautiful
Hand-Colored Cards of Kodiak
and
Cards for every member of the family
also
Curios and Souvenirs for Xmas
Come and See Them at
TOTEM SO WO CURIO
and
GIFT SHOP
"Largest Curio Store in Town”
TH e:
"Home of Hospitality'
in Kodiak
BELMONT BAR
Jorgen Fredrickson, Owner
Have a “Coke”=: Come, be blessed and be hapnv
“Coke”= Coca-Cola
It's natural for popular names to
acquire friendly abbreviations. That’s
why you hear Coca-Cola called “Coke”.
> ... from Idaho to Iceland
Havt a “Coke”, says the American soldier in Iceland, and in three
words he has made a friend. It works in Reykjavic as it does in
Rochester. ’Round the globe Coca-Cola stands for the pause that re
} freshes—has become the ice-breaker between kindiy-minded strangers;
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