Eoaiafc Mirror
“&{e<nis of cA me rlea’s Last ‘frontier
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
Yearly Subscription Rate $5,00
Entered in the PostO'hce at Kodiak, Alaska as Second
Class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1878.
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Melton L. Crawford, Editor and Publisher
Jeanne R. Crawford, Associate Editor
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YOUR HELP NECESSARY
The current American Red Cross fund raising cam
paign! is not going as well as the voluntueer workers and
Members of the local chapter had planned.
A shortage of volunteer collectors and a shortage of
willing contributors have seriously endangered the record of
successful campaigns in Kodiak in previous years.
Those actively engaged in the present drive have re
peatedly stressed the great amount of good that will be de
rived by so many by your contribution to this year’s fund.
One project of the Red Cross this year is obtaining
whole blood for our fighting men in Korea. Money given to
your local Red Cros will finance the operation of blood banks
in larger cities and communities.
However, a part of every dollar that you give to the
local chapter stays here for unfortunate persons and to
alleviate, suffering in case of emergencies or disasters.
Give something this year to the Red Cross. Your dol
lars will save the life of some man fighting for you or will
help some unfortunate individual get to a hospital for
treatment.
Hospital News
RIRTHS:
To Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Stoddard, a son, Phillip
Gerald, April 10, weight 7
lbs., 8 oz.
To Mr. and Mrs. Gus Anton
sen jr., a daughter, Roberta
fiOuise, April 13, weight, 7
U>s., 15 oz.
MacARTHUR
continued froar page 1
dence he once claimed to pos
sess that some Congress
members received fees in con
nection with RFG loans.
Tobey said later that he did
not mean he would initiate
impeachment proceedings.
I. L. McLaughlin was a
PM A passenger for Anchorage
on Tuesday’s plane.
Butch Returns
From Vacation
Charles “Butch” Rush,
butcher at Kraft’s, returned
to Kodiak by plane Wednes
day after spending seven;
weeks in the states.
He visited Seattle, San
Francisco and Phoenix while:
outside. The trip outside j
was his first since 1947.
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Hospital Gets
Incubator
An Infant Incubator has ar
rived and been installed at
Griffin Memorial Hospital. It
may be viewed by the public
Ion Hospital Day which has
been set for May 12.
I Emmet Jennings was a
. passenger for Anchorage
Tuesday aboard PNA.
TRAVELERS CHEQUES
Wherever you go always have your
funds in Travelers Cheques. Spend them
anywhere like cash. Good until cashed.
Quickly refunded if lost.
Buy from any teller. 75 cents per
$100.00.
First Aid Classes
To Be Resumed
First Aid classes which have
been meeting at the school
building will be resumed this
week. Classes will meet on
Wednesday and Thursday
evenings at 7:30 pm.
Classes were suspended for
several days so that local in
structors could attend courses
being given by Ralph 0.
Zwolsman, field director for
the American Red Cross.
Zwolsman held classes for
local instructors at the Legion
Hall.
Gibbons Brother
Dies In Fire
John Gibbons, local resi
dent, has received word that
his brother James C. Gibbons,
35, Salmon City, Idaho, died
recently.'
Gibbons died in a theatre
fire as he was attempting to
rescue another volunteer fire
men who had been overcome
by smoke.
Wamelings Have
Second Child
The birth of a second grand
child was announced recently
by Mr. and Mrs. 0. A. Tor
gerson, former Kodiak resi
dents, their for daughter and
son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Wameling.
The child, a boy, was
named David Charles.
Torgerson was the foundei
of the Bank of Kodiak and
while here was president oi
the bank. He now lives in
Cathedral City, Calif. Mr. and
Mrs. Wameling live in Indio,
Calif.
GIVE to the RED CROSS
1 comm * coiir
I
! Frank McConaghy of Whiz
Halferty Inc. arrived in Ko
■ diak Wednesday via PNA. He
planned to go to Cordova
Thursday.
Mrs. Phyllis Webster and
| her two daughters left this
! week for Fairbanks, where
1 she will be married shortly to
i Sgt. Archie Zehe, ACS man
formerly stationed here.
Mrs. Bill Poland and her
son returned to Homer on
Wednesday’s plane. They had
been here for several weeks
• with Poland wh» came from
| Homer for the spring hunting
and fishing season.
i
1 Orin Kuhnley, Whiz-Hal
ferty superintendent, flew to
Homer Tuesday and returned
Wednesday evening.
i H. F. Rosier, representative
of Addressograph-Multigraph
Corp. of Seattle, was a Ko
diak visitor yesterday.
! Herb Hilscher of the Uni
versity of Alaska left Sun
day after preparing the W. J.
Erskine library for shipment
to the University, to which it
1 was given by D. E. Skinner
,of the Alaska Steamship Co.
J John Morton, private pilot
and part-time Kodiak resi
dent, arrived here via PNA
and NWA Tuesday. He has
been in Booneville, Missour
for the past five months with
his wife and family.
Sack Time
successful sleeping appears to be just a matter ol
practise. Two Second Division artillerymen find their Korea*
iulla'iy in the blasting of a 105mm howitzer asaomxkdea'kee)
. firing at enemy positions on central front. (^Pwirephotej
School Notes
by Donald Clark
Raymond Martin jr., son of
Ray Mariin local PNA agent,
entered the freshman class
Monday. He flew up from
Hollywood, California last
week.
(Getting into swing w;th
clean up week, fifth and sixth
grade boys were turned out
for • 1 If hour Monday after
noon to clean up the school
grounds. Most of the large
pile of trash which they
gathered was burnt during
the afternoon and evening by
the school custodian.
The immense 14 cylinder air
plane engine which has stood
in f ont of the shop building
for two year-; was loaded on a
Mission truck by several shop
boys, their instructor, and
Dewitt Fields, and hauled
away by the latter.
Jo Ann Knudsen and Max
Folsom have beenout of schoat
this week with the measels.
All other high school students
who had measles this year
have returned.
Seniors are proud of their
i class rings which arrived last
Saturday. Besides KHS 1951
the gold rings have individual
initials.
The Jostern company had
indicated that they would ship
the rings on April 30 but they
, were sent almost a month
! earlier in compliance with a
j special request.
j Mary Rhea, high school
I freshman and graduate from
| the eighth grade here, left
this week with her mother for
Nampa, Idaho where she once
attended school.
I Letter To Editor
i
Canton, Ohio
Dear Editor:
I just finished reading the
letter in your March 24 issue,
written by the Kodiak Stock
Growers, concerning the Kod
iak Bear. I just wanted to sajr
' that the Kodiak Bear are world
| famous and hope they always
I will be. .
I The idea of killing ' them off
is perfectly ridiculous. The
(Stock Growers sound a bit coo
; fused. I wonder if they realias
i they are in Alaska, not Texas,
i I can just visualize Kodiak
turned into a little “Texas”
with the residents wearing
parkas and cowboy boots. Not
that I have anything against
Texas but Kodiak is Kodiak
and Texas, Texas, so let’s keep
it that way and the bears
along with.
And incidentally, K.S.G., if
the “thundering herds of
cattle stampeding across the
plains of Texas is probable
music in your ears” perhaps
you’d better go back there be
fore a big black bear eats you
up along with your cattle.
L. J. S.
A former Kodiak resident
1 Leroy Wensef- a PNA
1 and NWA passenger for Se
attle Tuesday.