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KODIAK .
DIARY ...
Somewhere in the Aleutians
2nd. Lt. Irving C Rosvold, with
the Alaska Communications Sys
tem, has just received from his
former draft board a card pro
claiming that the bearer has
been permanently deferred on
occupational grounds.
Rosvold was a resident of
Kodiak before the war, and at
one time worked at the Helsel
Photo company and was a mem-]
ber of the local Rotary club.
Thinking the army could use the
technical knowledge he had
gathered in Alaska while work
ing as an engineer and radio
man after schooling at Oregon
State College, he tried for many
months after the attack on
Dutch Harbor to offer his ser
vice's to the government.
"Wait until you’re drafted,”
his board told him, “then we’ll
see to it that you are placed in
the best position.”
Impatient to get to work,
Rosvold volunteered foi service
and was inducted at. Fort Gree
ly, Alaska, in September, 1942,
where be was working at the
time with the army engineers.
He was assigned to the Alaska
Communications System and
sent to Anchorage, Alaska
Four months later he earned a
commission and was assigned to
a post in the Aleutians. His de
ferment card caught up with
him there last week.
He plans to keep it for a
souvenir.
A case recently arose in a lo
cal court as the aftermath of a
family affair during which the
man and defendant in question
brandished a revolver
As in all such cases the ques
tion of the ownership of the gun
came up. Only this time the
answers were different. The gun
belonged to the judge trying the
ease. Some time before he had
loaned it to a lawyer friend.
The lawyer friend had loaned it
to the defendant accused of
brandishing it.
And the lawyer was the de
fendant’s counsel.
Asked if he thought lending
the gun again may not be a
good way to drum up business,
the judge said no. he entertained
no such idea of the matter.
We weren’t there, thank good
ness, but from what we hear of
it the rush that greeted the sale
of green stuffs after the last boat
might have been termed “The
Charge of the Vegetable
Brigade”.
It was the worst rush yet, one
store manager said, probably
due to the eons of time that had
passed between boats. Next
(time, the store manager said,
he is going to arrange to take a
picture of it. He is sure, he said,
that Ripley, Life and the Kodiak
Mirror will be interested in se
curing the scene
The doors were opened at 9
am. One shopper said she got
there ten minutes later, and all
the corn-on-the-cob was gone.
Another lady who got there a
little before ten had to be satis
fied with hearing about the
grapes, pears and peaches.
The first rush cleaned out the
bins, and then the fun began.
One woman explains the sys
tem. “I stood by the bins,” she
said, “knowing they would come
out te refill them. I saw the
man. loaded with peaches, ap
proaching from the back of the
store. By the time he pushed
through the crowd and got to
me and the bin he didn’t have
a peach left. So I changed my
technique and position and got
to the back of the store, too.
The next batch of peaches that
came by with a man I grabbed
and got 4 of them. When I got
home I found they had finger
nail marks in them, but I didn’t
care ”
Some of the ladies, trying to
get one jump ahead, moved
from the advance guard and
started wandering back into the
stock room, and had to le
shooed out
One lady, large and stolid, ex
plained: “Look at me. I’m big
enough that I just got planted
and grabbed everything I could
reach. But I sure felt sorry for
some of the little women.”
A few ladies made the mis
take of placing a vegetable or
two on the counter while they
sought more, and when they got
back the first load had dis
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