Ixodiak mirror
- “&{eiv3 of America's Last frontier ’
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska by the
KODIAK PUBLISHING COMPANY
William H. Lamme, Editor and Publisher
Lillian E. Lamme, Associate Editor
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for republication of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the
local news published herein.
Seattle Representative — The Alaska Newspapers,
1011 American Bank Building, Seattle, Washington.
" . . . that government of the people, by the people,
for the people shall not perish from the earth.'—Lincoln
... And Many More Of Them
1‘ you look on page one you’ll see that this issue of the
Kodiak Mirror is numbered Vol. II, No 1, which records
the passing of the first milestone on what we hope wiil be a long
chi ear Just a year ago today Kodiak’s first printed newspaper
made its appearance.
Its fun looking through the files—it’s thought-provoking to
♦vonder what will appear in type in the future There’s just one
thing we are sure of printing, maybe not this year, but the sooner
the better: it may be an omen too—the words “Japan Sui renders”
in our biggest type just fits across the top of the page.
On our next birthday we hope we can look back and see them
there!
Time Marches On
We wrote an editorial, recently discussing the vagaries of time
which was brought on by the change to daylight saving. No sooner
did it appear than a man from ye Signal Corpse stopped us, and
l>ointed that we had made a mistake. Honolulu, he informed us.
would not have the same time we did, even if it had have gone on
daylight saving, because it was in a time-and-a half belt, that is
2 and 1-2 hours different from San Francisco (pre-daylight saving)
Oh, we said. Later we dropped into the Signal Corpse office. No.
■aid another, it’s not another half hour that Honolulu is off
but 20 minutes. And, he added, I think it’s the only place in the
world that is that way. Oh, we said again. That very evening we
picked up a newspaper, and there was a picture of 8 clocks, show
ing the time from New York to Singapore. We started at the right
The chart showed that when it was 6 p. m., Sunday, in New York
if was 5 in Chicago, 3 in Frisco, and—well, well—1:30 in Honolulu,
doing on it was 11 a. m Monday at. Wake Island, 9:30 at Tokyo
8 at Manila and 7 at Singapore.
By delving into the encyclopedia, Vol. 22,JTextiles to \ asc. we
also found that when the 24 time belts were adopted Holland was
and still is a hold out. What’s more some of the countries, instea<
of differing by an integral of one hour, took a half-hour. For in
stance,some of the British dominions, Venezuela and Uruguay. 1 her
too, we could m.ntion that some countries reckon time from 0 t<
24, starting at midnight, and that astronomy counts from 0 to 24
but starts at noon. “The terms Greenwich Civil lime. Weltzei
and Universal Time denote time measured from Greenwich meai
midnight and are not ambiguous. For time reckoned from meat
noon the expression Greenwich Mean Astronomical lime is tin
most satisfactory.”
At tills point in our perusing we deoided we were getting pretty
smart on the subject of time, so we decided to try it out on on
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For The Convenience
of those having urgent banking business who are unable to
come to the bank during regular banking hours we will be
open on
Sunday: 10 to 12
When the days lengthen sufficiently we will resume being
open on Saturday evenings
WAR LESSON NO. I /
Bismarck
PEARL HARBOR
PRINCE OF WALES
REPULSE
HARUNA
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Printer’s Devil No. 2. We should have known better.
“When it is 12 p. m. in Kodiak,” we asked him, “what time is
in Tokyo?”
“Time to lick the Japs,” he said, quick-like.
And that’s as good a place as any to drop the subject. Plunk.
Pedestrians who are abroad after dark are being urge by auth
orities on the West Coast to wear or d splay something white
so they may be seen by drivers with blacked out lights.
Women ars advised to carry a white scarf or shawl, men to dis
play a white handerchief or folded newspaper (a Kodiak Mirror)
and children to wear a white raincoat or other colored coat
This bit of advise might not be a bad idea to fallow on Kodiak
streets where headlights regulation'for vehicles make practically
no provision for illumination of the roadway. Many times drivers
are unable to see pedestrians more than a few feet away
64 City Voters
Register So Far
After the first week of regis
tration 64 voters are eligible to
vote in the coming city election
(o be hdd April 7. At that time
a mayor, 3 councilmen, city
clerk, city treasurer and one
member of the school board will
be elected and two ordinances
will be voted on. Voters have un
til April 4 to register.
i Filing for the vacant position*
closes March 23 and so far nc
; ,ne has filed for any of the offi
i cos. Individuals may file by ap
i i lication showing names of 2(,
> bona fide voters, or a caucus oi
voters may nominate one can
- didate for each position.
The qualification of voters was
carried incorrectly in the election
notice of the last issue Voters
must reside one year in the ter
ritory, and 6 months in the city
not one year in the city as was
stated. The corrected notice ap
pears on page 10.
The registration book is oper
at the office of Warren A. Taylor
] and filings for the positions mus;
I be made at the city clerk s offict
in the city hall.
Harold Gronsroo, formeilj
of Anchorage and Juneau, is
now in charge of the local offic<
of the Territorial Employmeni
Service. _
Ethel Smith has returned to
work at the Star cafe aftei an
absence of some weeks, the re
suit of breaking a log in a fall on
the ice of the recent cold spell.
FOil SAI.E—House trailer, fur
nished. Will accept any reason
able offer. See Roy Grafing,
N. A S. P-16, Room 24.3-7-2p
■mrntnpm
Otto Kraft Diet;
Store Found,
Word has been received h*
of the death in Seattle on Mail
2 of Otto Kraft, well-known fc
mer resident and founder of r,
of Kodiak’s largest, and old
business enterprises, the 0 Kt|
& Son store. Mr Kraft hadn
been in good health for a nu
ber of years and had suffered,
tacks from heart trouble
He was born in Berlin, Q
many, April 17, 1865 and cai
to this country when 18 y^
old. In 1885 he arrived in Kodi
and began working for the Nor
American Commercial compa.
With the dissolution of that cm
pany in 1903 Mr. Kraft boug
their store, which was the fa
runner of the present enlarg
concern bearing his name.
1909 he was joined in the bn
ness by his son Ben.
Mr. Kraft’s first wife, neeTi
ana Stafayoff, passed away
1919. In 1921 he married Chi
tina Silverman in Seattle. B*?i(
his widow he is survived byi
children and eight grandchildn
Ben and Albert Kraft and M .
Jess Blinu, of Kodiak; En }
Kraft and Mrs. H. J. Hunt, k
of Phoenix, Arizona; and M
Al Bogen, of Seattle. <
He retired from active busine j
on July 31, 1940, and on ti j
date sold his interest in the Kn (
store to his son Ben present j
ner. Since his retirement hell
made his home in Seattle. j
Funeral arrangements we (
not known here. Ben Kraft as ^
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Blinn weie
waiting the arrival of the m ^
plane to take them to Fairba j
and thence to Seattle. The pli J
due since Wednesday, had j
, arrived up to last night. j
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