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Entered in the Postotfice at Kodiak, Alaska a9 Second
Class matter under act of Congress of MTirch 3, 1878.
KODIAK PUBLISHING COMPANY
William H. Lamme, Editor and Publisher
_ Lillian E. Lamme, Associate Editor_
Seniors Ready
For Graduation
Commencement week for the
•senior class of the Kodiak high
•school will begin with the Bac
oalaureate service Sunday after
noon, Mav 12, at 2:30 in the
Community Baptist Church.
Chaplain J. A Whitman of the
Navy will deliver the address.
He has chosen for his theme
''The Mystery of Growth."
Reverend Gregory S. Morony
wffl pronounce the benediction,
and Mrs. A. Holmes Johnson will
play the processional.
The public is cordially invited
to attend this service.
The senio ’class of 1946 has
completed their four yea-s of
study and will receive their dip
lomas on Thursday evening,
May 16. The exeicises will be
held in the Community Baptist
Church commencing at. 8 pm.
Miss Jane Naughton ia this
year’s V'aledictorian and Miss
Katherine Frost is Salutatoriao
Reverend Glen L Chandler will
deliver the Commencement ad
dress He has chosen for his sub
ject "Enduring Peace.”
—
Mrs. Catherine Blankenburg
will present the diplomas.
The eighth grade class will be
present in a body and will parti
cipate in the commencement pro
gram.
Those receiving their high
school diplomas are:
Elsie Anderson
Katherine Frost
Cecilia King
Jane Naughton
Vilma Oberholtzer
William Robertson
Church Chooses
New Officers
Officers for the fiscal year be
ginning May 1 of the Communi
ty Baptist church were chosen
Wednesday evening at the an
nual meeting held at the church,
with about 70 present Public in
stallation of the officers will be
conducted at the services tomor
row morning at 11:15.
A financial reonrt, for the past
year showed $3671 went for local
expenses, $655 for general mis
sion expenses; $386 for a special
postwar mission relief fund; and
other local benevolences $283.
Permanent improvements the
WHO MAKES
INSURANCE RATES?
Does the Board of Fire Underwriters make fire insurance
rates by inspiration? Does a group of comnanv executives or
underwriters sit around a conference table and decide arbi
trarily how much po'ioyholders shall pay for their fire insur
ance? If not. who is responsible for the cost of Insurance?
The answer is: Mr. John Q. Public makes his own rates.
In the pricing of merchandise the manufacturers establish
cost; in he pricing of fire insurance, the buyer establishes
cost.. Fire rates reflect conditions and circumstances in which
the property owning public places itself. The Board’s respon
sibility to those property owners is to help minimize fire
hazards and thus aid in lowering both losses and insurance
rates. But the actual (or call it factual) determination of
cates—high or low—is the rde of the insuring public.
The Board devises and advocates fire safety standards Some
of these measures relate to specific classes of risks, involving
construction, occupancy and hazards. Others are of commun
ity-wide concern—water systems, fire fighting equipment,
soning, congestion, building regulations. The degree of ad
herence to these proven safeguards is the yardstick for
measuring fire insurance rates
The improvements in water supply and fire fighting equip
ment in Kodiak have resulted in a reduction in fire insurance
rales during the past year.
Improvements in Fire Prevention will result in further
reductions!
When the city in which we livf maintains fire protection and
fi-e preven ion of hiyh standards, it makes for favorable rates
When you and I decide to build our home or business build
ing so the fire hazard is greatly reduced, more favorable rates
will be ours
past vear included acquisition of
a Hammond Electric organ and
$400 additionally was used for a
new automate water beater,
lawn, new hymn books and other
items. Money has been set aside
for Dainting of the sanctuary and
a fire retarding wall is to be
built around the furnace.
A special building fund has
been started with over $600, for
a planned addition to the church
for Sunday School space.
During the year 16 members
were welcomed into the church.
The new officers and board
memberships follow:
Secretary—Mrs. Hedly John
son
Treasurer—Mrs. Stanley Al
vine
Sunday School Superintendent
—N. iM. Chamberlain
Young People’s counselor—
Mrs Morris Burnham
Board of Deacons—N. M.
Chamber! in. Rev. Glen Chand
ler, Hedly Johnson, Mrs. N. M.
Chamberlain, Mrs. Stanley Al
vine.
Board of Trustees—Stanley
Alv;ne, Tom Williams, Morris
Burnham
j Rev. Gregory S. Morony is
pastor of the church.
Hospital Day
Tomorrow
Annual Hospital Day will be
observed at the Griffin Memorial
hospital on Sunday, May 12,
with open house from 2:00 pm
to 5 00 pm ThU observance each
year in hospitals throughout the
country honors the memory of
Florence Nightingale, whose
work among the sick and wound
ed British soldiers during the
Crimean war has become legend
ary
Florence Nightingale was born
in the city of Florence on May
12, 1820. She became interested
in visiting hospitals and in the
care oi the sick and while touring
with friends, she met two Sisters
of St. Vincent de Paul in Paris,
who gave her introductions to
members of their order in Alex
! andria, Egypt, where she visited
f their hospitals and learned the
j necessity of formal discipline in
hospital nursing. At Kaiserwerth,
London, Edinburgh and Paris
she studied methods of hospital
nursing, and became superinten
dent of the Hospital for Invalid
Gentlewomen in 1 ondon.
The suffeings of the sick and
wounded soldiers, especial'y at
Scutari, roused her to offer her
self and her services to her coun
try Her letter crossed one from
the Secretary of War asking her
to undertake the organization of
a military hospital there She
with her staff, nursed hundreds
of wounded victims of Balaklava,
and she has been immortalized
by Longfellow as “the Ladyr with
the Lamp’’ in his poem “Filo
| mena.”
Ihrrugh her superhuman ef
forts, the death rate in the mili
tary hospitals was reduced from
42 per cent in February, 1855, to
2 per cent in June. She had to
| face and fight opposition on the
part of government officials who
adhered to their red tape meth
ods and regarded her as a dan
gerous innovator. In spite of ill
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ness and opposition she remained
at her post until Turkey was
evacuated by the British Her
work was recognized by her gov
ernment, and until her death in
1910 she was constantly consult
ed by authorities
Hospital nursing has made
great progress since the time of
Florence Nightingale, but it was
her intrepid courage and selfless
devotion that awakened interest
in the training o- nurses and in
the necessity of reform in the
conduct of military hospitals.
A cordial invitation is extend
ed by the Grey Nuns to the gen
eral public to cad at the hospital
on Sunday afternoon. Refresh
ments wid be served in the Sis
I ters’ Community room.
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Bear Hunters Busy
Roy Howard, publisher of the
N. Y. World-Telegram and other
Scripps-Howard newspapers, and
Brig. Gen. Robert Bathurst,
Fort Richardson, Anchorage,
hunted the Kodiak bear this
I week at Uyak.
Pat Cannon was the guide for
Publisher Howard who shot
himself a 9 ft bear, and Gen
Bathurst got an 8 footer, with
Roy Madsen acting as his guide
under special permit.
Pat Cannon reported the party
sighted 53 bears during their trip.
The net tender Boxw’ood was
sent ahead to Uyak as a base of
operations and when weather
prevented a plane from going
[after the hurters they returned
on that vessel last night at 6 o’
clock.
Mr. toward, who has been to
the Orient, is to leave for New
York and expects to arrive there
Monday night.
Charles Madsen, president of
j the Kodiak Guides, bid bon voy
age to 2 hunting parties who left
by plane after a successful bear
hunt on Ugarik Bay.
All five of the persons, includ
ing 1 woman, got a bear, the
largest, a 10 ft specimen, being
bagged by Dr. Mark Greer
The party consisted o' :
E. G eser, Clinton, Iowa, Alf
Madsen, guide; Dr. M. H. Weir,
i Galesburg, Illinois, 0 car Nelson,
guide; Dr. & Mrs. Mark Greer,
Vandalia, Illinois, Eli Metrokin,
guide; Dr. Kurt Von Wedel, Ok
lahoma City, Charla* Madsen,
guide.
J Frederick Palmer, of Wauk
eshaw Wis.,and A1 Love, of Om
aha, Neb., aie due by plane
Monday and Mr. Madsen expects
to take them out Tuesday.
A conciliation conference will
be held at Kodiak Monday after
arrival of conciliation service of
ficials to meet with local fish
packers and the United Fisher
men of Alaska union.
The officials are expected by
p'ane Monday and the matter of
fish price" and cannery workers
t. •Jr
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wage* wit! be the subject of ueg.
otiations.
A heated chimney that caught
fire to the ceiling of the Bayview
rooms behind the Belmont caus
ed a fire alarm at 4:20 pm Thurs
day. The blaze was extinguished
with water from the fire truck.
About 10 minutes after the
fire department left the fire
broke out again in the Celotex
lining but George Magnusen, as
sistant fire chief was still there
and put it out
The rooms are used during
the season for McConaghy can
nery workers.
The OPA-Daby-Navy milk
front was quiet this week, with
the only report being that a«tion
is still expected from the Juneau
office, and that it will be delay
ed until the return of Director
Mrs. Mildred Hermann from
Washington, D. C.
Deputy U S. Marshal Paul
Herring spoke at the Rotary
club Tuesday, telling of his ex
periences negotiating in Wash
ington, D C fora new federal
jail building for Kodiak
Guests at the luncheon were
Joe Jones, Oicas Canning co.,
Carmel; A. Rogers, Grimes Pack
ing co ; Gordon Jenkins, Port
Bailey; and ~peed Dreyer, of 'lie
Viking Air Service.
Stan Nelson, manager of the
grocery department at Kraft’s,
who has been vacation ng in the
States with Mrs. Nelson, return
ed here on Wednesday’s plane.
He and Mrs. Nelson visited
I f> iends and relatives in the
Northwest and vacationed in
California
Mrs. Nelson is staying with
Mr Nelson’s parents at Enum
claw. Wash , for another month.
Marie Christofferson, young
i est daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Emil Christofferpon. and Bill
Perry Carter, recently discharg
ed from the Navy, were married
on May 9 at the Commissioner’s
office by U S Commissioner G.
W Bubendorf Witnesses were
Chatles and Flora Christofferson.
The husband is employed by
Harvey Edwards.
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Calendar of Events
High School Baccalaureate Ser
vice Baptist Church
Sunday, May 12, 2:30
Open House—Griffin Memorial
hospital, Hospital Day, May
12, 2 to 5 pm.
City Council meeting
Monday, City Hall, 7:30
Kodiak Gaiden Club
at Mrs. Edna Kraft’s.
Wednesday, 8 pm
High School Commencement Ex
eroises Baptist Church.
Thursday, 8 pm
Last Day of School
Fiiday, May 17
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