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NEWS-FEMININE-VIEWS
Base Will Hold Inaugural Ball1
n hat promises to be Kodiak
Island’s greatest social event will
take place next Saturday even
ing, May 1G, when contractor
and service people at the base
continue the fun they’ve been
liaving with a gubernatorial elec
tion by staging a governor’s In
augural Ball.
The event, a semi-formal, in
vitational affair, will be held in
the Contractor Theatre begin
ning at 8 o’clock. Arrangements
have been made with town
officials to transport women liv
ing in town in military vehicles
so there will be no violation of
the regulation prohibiting civilian
cars on the street after midnight.
Winner of the election by 234,
567*890 votes was Miss Mary
Sat her, contractor nurse. She
will lead the grand march at the
dance and fake the inaugural
oath. Her election marks the
first time a woman has sat in a
governor’s chair in the history of
Kod ak Island—or for that mat
ter in all Alaskan history—fol
lowing a full blown campaign
carried out in the pages of the
Wiiliwaws, naval air station pub
lication, and on Press Club pro
grams over KODK.
She won over four other can
didates: Jack Agnew and Henry
Slaughter of the contractors,
Private First Class Ralph Roth
■of the Army and Yeoman First
Class Phillip Chapman of the
Navy.
An Army band will play for
the inaugural ball. Although wo
men will wear long dresses to
the dance, theme of the affair
witf be that of an old fashioned
political rally. The theatre will
be decorated accoidingly.
UTAH WOOLEN MILLS call
McCarrey, Sunbeam Hotel For
Appointment.
Mrs. Porter wife of N. K. i
Porter, school principal, is leav
ing this week for an extended
visit with her parents in Med
ford, Oregon.
2 Births Recorded
The cigar business picked up
this week with additions to the
forces at the U. S. Marshal’s of
fice and the Signal Corps.
A son was born Monday to
Mr. and Mrs Jack King, a id the
proud father, a deputy U. S.
Marshal, insists the boy weighed
“over 9 pounds in just a light
baby blanket.”
Lt. Roy F Downing did the
cigar dispensing at the Signal
Corps, where he is officer in
charge, upon receipt of a tele
gram from Bakersfield, Califor
nia, that his wife gave birth to a
girl, Jean Evalyn, on May 6.
Mrs. Downing left Kodiak in
January and has been staying
with her brother’s family. It is
their first child.
Mrs. Hobart Wiseman left for
Sedro Wooley, Washington,
tvhere she was called by the ill
ness of her mother
NOTICE OF MEETING
Members of the Red Cross
Volunteer Service w’ill meet at
die Griffin Memorial hospital
ruesday at 2 p. m. Everyone is
welcome to attend the meeting
djjji ms
Dependable
Courteous
Service
E. K. GUERIN
Owner
Member of
ASSOCIATED CABS
I^eal Silk Hosiery cMills, Inc.
Mrs. H. B. cAllaback
Slacks, Hosiery, Lingerie, Dresses
Men’s Socks, Shirts, Pajamas
Will call on you some time next week.
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ALASKA TRANSFER CO.
STORAGE
OF ALL KINDS
GRAVEL HAULED FURNITURE MOVED
LLOYD SWAN/ Owner
Warehouse on Channel Road
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SEAMAN-REHM NUPTIALS
Clara Rehm, Hebron, North
Dakota at present teaohing in
Kodiak, this week became the
bride of Warren Seaman, Wash
ington, D C. in a ring ceremony
performed by Rev. Gregory S
Mornoy at tin Community Bap
tist Church at 8 p. m. May 2.
Attendants were Celia Keeling
and Ivan Swisher.
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