Kodiak Mirror
••9ff-ws 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
Kodiak Diary
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■elves—in fact, we’ll make it
within 1 hour...What employee
of the naval air station, after
being on one recently, came to
unly to discover that he had ac
acquired a blowtorch and a sold
ering iron in his sub rosa mean
derings? He has no idea where
or how he acquired them, but we
assume he is a solder but wiser
young man. . . Charlie Madsen’s
story in the Mirror,in two parts
(the story, not the Mirror) caus
ed a complete sellout of that
issue, and we have had many
calls for copies of it since. For
the information of those seeking
it the same article, complete in
one issue, appears in the current
number of the Fort Greely pub
licatien, the Kodiak Bear. . Hel
sel’s foto company can’t cross us
up that way. After mentioning
that “that cute baby picture in
the window is of the Basil O’Neil’s
offspring” we discover that there
are four pictures of youngster?
thereon displayed Our apologies
to the other six parents especial
ly to the ones who came down to
tell ik about it...A couple of pas
.aengprs dashed bag and baggage
out to a commercial plane the
other day all agog about starting
their vacation trip only to give
their two seats up to two army
officers, last minute passengers.
But they got to leave on the next
plane.
Maybe the Alaska highway is
oompleted and we don’t know;
it—there was a young magazine
.salesman just knocking on all the
■ doors in the neighborhood — the
first one we’ve seen...A seaman
came into the office and wanted
4o know what that volcano a
oross the bay, smoking so vigor
ously, was. The garbage dump,
we had to disillusion him with.
He took us down some, too. We
were telling how old the Russian
church was — very old, we said.
1 saw one in Peru, he replied,
that was 500 yearsold... Just when
we hear about a pending business
deal somebody concerned asks
us not to print it until it is all
settled...Hobart Wiseman, who’s
Dlat.form in the last city election,
in which he ran for councilman,
included a plank asking for nush
niks for the public, will welcome
the latest news ..Roy Hoffman
has relinquished operation of the
coffee shop at the base. It will
be run by the Contractoi’s after
August 1... There are lovely
and increasingly rare items in
Mrs. Heberlee’s own collection,
now on display at the H. Pinch
store. Our favorite of the lot of
native handicraft is Disney’s
Dopey in ivory. Digging in
front of the present offices of U.
S. Commissioner Charles C.
Naughton has disclosed a biick
walk, running in front of the
office towards the house. We
can’t find out who first put it
there. The bricks, red, were
covered w th the well-known
layer of ash, which makes it ap
pear it was built before the e
ruption in 1912. Do any old tim
ers remember it?. , The power of
the press is a wonderful thing
One of our admirers(?) left us a
carton of fresh home-grown
strawberries after reading our
our reminiscences about said
berries last week. Assuming the i
power of a plenipotentiary of
the WPB or OPA we PDQ is
sued a ration order on them.
Violations have reduced the pre
sent total to 5 berries left... No
body can tell us tke drinking
water isn’t any good. We know
it at least sustains li e— we’ve
seen some of the living things
come out of the faucet...Our re
cent request for a copy of the
Mirror dated March 14, for
which we offered 25 cents, got
response— id form of a counter
offer of one for 50 cents... even
we don’t think they’re worth
that much,..
That was swell censored stuff
we had this week . . .
The More Bonds We Buy
The More Planes Will Fly.
*
War Saving Bonds
are a good investment
buy all you can
Henton Hunting Camp
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utilized.
Accommodations will be pro
vided for both men and women.
Mrs. Henton, now in Seattle, will
join her husband in Anchorage
and go t.o the camp with him
location of the camp will be an
nounced later.
Seeks Low Fares
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Smith, emphasizing that he
was speaking as a citizen and not
as a representative of the Labor
Council, then asked that the
council grant such a fianehise to
a “responsible party’’ and thus
make it possible for them to set
a cheaper fare. Declaring that he
had in mind people of the lower
brackets, and that in addition it
would be a patriotic gesture to
ward rubber conservation to
give such a franchise to the
Kodiak Transit Bus line because,
Smith said, the days of taxis
were numbered by the tire ration
ing program, he a^ked that a
franchise be given “if that is
necessary to get cheap transport
ation.” Smith said the trend
elsewhere in the interest of
conservation of rubber, gas and
vehicles was toward buses as the
major means of transportation.
Basil O’Neil and Bill Smith,
Jr., owners of the Kodiak Tran
sit Line were present at the meet
ing to present their stand against
what they had thought was to
be a demandior lower bus fare0,
svhich they told the council they
lad tried for a period of time and
lad not found successful. They
jointed out that they had not
mown a franchise was going to
je suggested, but that even such
t po-sibility of having one would
rot assure that the bus line could
jperate on a 25 per cent fare
The point was brought out by
he council that both the taxi
md the bus companies had sub
stantial investments in their bus
iness and that any benefits of a
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I franchise might not outweigh
the losses to the other group.
The whole matter of cheaper
f; res and a franchise was placed
in a committee for report at the
next meeting. Members of the
committee are Ben Sholl, James
Fierce and Mrs. Ben Kraft.
Ray Martin presented draw
ings of projected latrines to be
constructed and maintained by
the Army in town. Each building
will be 12 by 20 feet of frame
construction with concrete floor
ing, and one was suggested for
each end of town to supplement
similar facilities to be provided
in the prophylaxis station on the
city hall property. Word has
come from the Army that con
struction on the station will
start this month if nothing
arises to prevent it The Street
and Street Improvement com
mittee was instructed to look
into appropriate sites for the la
trines and present their sugges
tions at the next meeting
Councilman William Smith,
Sr., reported that he had written
Delegate Dimond in regard to
shipping space for Kodiak, and
was awaiting answer.
Warren Taylor reported that
no answer had been received
' trom the Department of Interior
j on the request for land to
j be used as a cemetery. There
I have been seven burials
I already in the plot of ground
asked for.
A letter was read from W. T.
Erskine, in whi«h he expressed
a willingness to donate a portion
of land to widen Mission road
near the hospital if the city would
acquire public land on (he oppo
site side of the roae for the same
purpose. The matter was referred
to the Street committee. .
A delegation from the Volun
teer Fire department reported
that, tests showed that the new
fire trucks cannot draw water
from the bay at Erskine’s dock
at low tide, and that a large sump
or water supply near the center
of town is needed. The matter
was referred to the Fire commit
tee.
Notice
After August 1 the undersign
ed will not be responsible for any
bills contracted for by the Is
land Transfer Co.
Fred HentoD
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