New York Is Full Of Dutchmen,
Called Dunderheads, If This Is True
A little girl in Stamford,
Conn., wrote to Ensign Billy
Soose, stationed at NOB, Kodi
ak, and asked him for informat
ion for her geography class. He
wrote it, the class heard it, the
New York Sun got hold of it
and printed it, someone sent it
to Kodiak and we got our hands
on it.
A few excerpts will give you
samples of the “information”:—
auite a few Eskimos in our
town — Eskimos are called
Klootches. How they got the
name I don’t know—The little
ones speak English fairly well,
now that they have a school
here—The Klootches are good
craftmen. They carve very
beautiful salt shakers, ash trays,
miniature totem poles, egg cups
and lots of trinkets.
We don’t want to be too hard
on you Billy Soose ( seeing as
how you “won the middleweight
championship of the world” )
but before you send out any
more information we suggest
you brush np on local lore a bit.
The natives in Kodiak aren’t
Eskimos and Eskimos aren’t
necessarily called Klootches. If
you want to know where the
latter term came from you
might delve into Chinook jargon
a bit. The little ones ought to
speak fairly good English, con
sidering their mothers went to
school here too—and you might
have mentioned that if they
were bilingual the other lang
uage would be Russian. It
sounded, too, like you were en
dowing the local “Kskimos”
with native craftsmanship.
We suggest you investigate
native crafts from the King Is
land ivory to Thlingit totems
before writing your next letter.
This isn’t the first time we’ve
ran in to this sort of thing.
There was the woman who lay
in her skin-covered hut in
Kodiak and listened to the ice
break up, and the newspaper
that told of the soldiers here
trading with beads downtown,
and the one about the lieutenant
from the “bubbling hot spot of
Kodiak” and the constant ment
ion in Outside papers of the
“times Kodiak was bombed”
and so on, ad infinitum and-or
ad nauseam.
The moral of this story is
this: next time anyone, and this
means you and you, is tempted
to s—t—r—e—t—c—h things a
little bit when writing to chee
chako friends or relatives in the
States, just remember that it
may get into print and be sent
up here and end up in an article
like this.
Mrs. W. F. Lewis left by
plane Monday at 5 pm for
Brown, Calif., after receiving a
wire at 3 pm that her mother,
who is residing there, had suffer
ed a stroke.
John A. Kjelstad, employed at
Port Wakefield, passed through
Kodiak this week on his way
Outside, where he had been call
ed by the sudden illness of his
wife.
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Talmage A. Smith, attorney,
flew to Anchorage this week on
a short business trip.
N. M. Chamberlain, superin
tendent of the Baptist Mission,
was a guest at the Rotary lunch
eon this week.
Jack Delane, manager of the
Ship’s Tavern, underwent an
emergency appendectomy at
2:30 am Tuesday at the Griffin
Memorial hospital.
Charles Skinner was released
Monday from the Griffin Me
morial hospital after 4 days
medical attention.
Raymond Martin, local man
ager, Alaska Star Air Lines,
reported the following recent
passengers:
INCOMING:
Dorothy Miller and Vern
San dess.
OUTGOING:
Lillian Nance and baby, Delia
Anderson, Grace Polin, Doris
Castro, Talmage A. Smith.
Harold Palmer, formerly em
ployed at the Bank of Kodiak
and more recently at the base,
has accepted the position in
town of office manager for the
A. T Beckett Co., contractor’s
for the sewer and water system.
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Helen Marquart.
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