^bor Meetings
KODIAK
£gflTRAL LABOR COUNCIL
njeeta the 1st Sunday
j tafth month at 10 a. m.
ffebermen’s Union Hall
P*d Me***w, President
^flanstrom, Vice-President
A. F. of L.
Carpenters Local No. 2162
geets on the 1st, A 3rd, Sun
jaj of each Month at 1:30 p.m.
^ tbs Union Hall
U. S. Signal Corps.
__ Hours of Business —
Week-days, 8 until 8
todays A Holidays same hours
general
REMODELING
and
CONTRACT
CONSTRUCTION
of
RESIDENCES
A STORES
‘Free Estimates”
J. N. Steffgen
Contractor
Felder Building
SUCH FUN! SUCH GALS! SUCH SONGS!
Red SKELTON -Eleanor POWELL
"I dood it!”
with.Jimmy Dorsey • • > and his orchestra
and . . LENA HORNE ** HAZEL SCOTT . . together
plus .. HELEN O’CONNELL** BOB EBERLE.. vocals
It's an M-G-M Picture
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SUN.
MON.
THE THEATRE THAT’S FIRST
Kodiak Diary
(continued from page 3)
interview she gave to a New
York paper has reached ub. The
article, headlined “Men without
women in the Far North”, says:
“Some American servicemen
stationed at Alaskan outposts
haven’t seen or talked to a
woman for more than a year.
“When they go into Kodiak
from a spell of clearing forests
and building rosds at isolated
stations they are overcome with
shyness, according to Louis
Plumb.
“Some of the men arrive with
icicles hanging from their
beards,” Miss Plumb told us.
They’re all hands and feet They
just sit on the nearest chair and
stare.”
“We’d offer the shy man a cup
of coffee. Usually he’d shake his
head no, and sit like a stick, just
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looking at us. Wt’d set a cup of
coffee in front of him. Our cups
were shell-pink and the men
loved them!
“But this fellow is afraid if he
touches the cup he’ll break it.
We leave it there on the table,
in front of him, and go away.
When we come back, the cup is
empty, and he’s looking a little
sheepish. We fill the cup and
beat it again. After the second
or third cup, we sit down. The
regulars start kidding and pretty
soon he breaks into a grin and
starts talking to us. Two days
later he cooks a meatball and
spaghetti dinner for us.”
“Kodiak, a good-sized town
for Alaska, she told us, had a
population of 700 before the war.
Now swollen with American
troops, it is like n frontier town.
There are two movie houses,
and several stores. Cooking is
done on coal, oil or wood stoves.
Houses are lit by kerosene lamps
in some parts of town, by elec
tricity in others. The streets are
still unpaved.”
There is some more too, but
that is the most interesting
part.
We might quibble a bit about
some points, such as mentioning j
I we cook with electricity, too,
but typing this is such a strain
by the light of a kerosene lamp.
We’ll let that shy soldier stuff
get by, also aH we’ve never offer
ed any the use of a shell-pink
cup, and so can’t say.
But we can’t let that “icicles
hanging from their beards” bus
iness eet by us. Miss Plumb
should know that a bearded ed
itor, so adorned 35 months com
pared to her 13 months in Kod
iak, would not let such a Plumb
fabrication get by. Our voice,
however muffled, should be an
authority on that.
We have never had any
icicles in ours. Further than
that we say nat.
Note to Republicans—Even if
the Democrats did win—Buy
War Bonds!
Buy Island Home
Dr. and Mrs. A Bates Jonet
have purchased a home on Cam
ina island west of JStandwood,
Wash., according to word re
ceived by friends here, where Dr.
Jones practiced before his re
tirement.
Among their neighbors if
Harry Becker, who formerly
owned the photo company in
Kodiak now known as Helsel’s
Fowvll-Skelton At Lyric
Already a matchless box-offiM.
team. Red Skelton and Eleai>or
Powell are surrounded with top
talent for their newest comedy
musical, M-G-M’s “I Dood It.
Jimmy Dorsey and bis band,
Hazel Scott and Lena Horne and
a throng of capable newcomers
add zest to the laugh-packed
filmusical.
The picture spotlights Skel
ton, at his zany best. As Joseph
Rivington Reynolds, of a dry
cleaning emporium, Red has a
role tailor-made for his vigorous
buffoonery
Eleanor Powell garners the
most spectacular dancing assign
ment of her career as Constance
Shaw, actress idolized by fikel*
ton.
HEAR IT!
To be heard on “I Dood It”
will be the Lyric's extended
range sound reproduction circuit
which runs the electrical sound
signal is a continous circle tak
ing off only the purest clearest
part for presentation to the au
dience; this also permils the use
of the speakers to the full capa
bility of their design.
Is Graduated
Merritte Holden, former elec
trical employe at the base and
orchestra leader in town, recent
ly graduated from the U. S.
Maritime Officer’s School at
Alameda, Calif, and shortly af
terward shipped as Third En
gineer on a Liberty ship.
Yearns For North
Sulo Riutta (known as
Soup), former foreman of a line
crew at the naval base for three
years now has a position in Cur
acao, the Netherland West In
dies. He says he prefers the
North.
Mrs, Anna Wilson, fiom Un
ga, underwent a tonsil operation
this week at the GM hospital.
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