lixodiak Mirror
" cNe<ws of cA meric a'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
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for the people shall not perish from the earth.'—Lincoln
As Others See Us
Evacuees who recently left Kodiak are probably spending many
an evening telling the folks outside about their experiences on
"America’s last frontier.” We’d like to hear some of the stories,
but we hope they aren’t all like the one told by a lady who left here
and was interviewed by the press as soon as she got home. Accur
acy was not her best point.
We quote.
"Best available living quarters are rough huts”—The rough hut
she lived in was the Taylor apartments Of course we have “rough
huts” but they’re hardly the “best available” ...
“Electricity was uncertain because the Kodiak Power company
lines are overloaded”—Very true, the Community Power company
lines ars overloaded, but she might have put in a plug for KEA,
which is taking over with expanded equipment.
"Food prices are exorbitant....25 cents for a loaf of bread, 40
cents for a quart of milk, 65 cents for a pound of butter”—It’s the
freight ! And we d like to know where she got the milk at 4o cents
a quart—we pay 50.
She continued that she “enjoyed her residence in Kodiak, which
is not as cold as (name of home town deleted) but much more
windy. We had an 80-mile gale there once. There’s not so much
snowr, but a lot of rain and the streets are very icy. All women wear
high rubber boots with ‘creepers’. These are steal clamps fastened
on the boots with cleats to dig into the ice. They also w>ear muk
lak’s, shoes made of walrus or caribou. There are two kinds—one
for wrater, one for snow.” That’s good local color, and w-e com
mend her for it
But “the majority of Kodiak's population consists of natives, she
said, known as Aleuts or Klooch ” Not majority—those days are
gone forever. And those last two words are not synonymous! Hardly!
She goes on. “the signal corps, where all messages are taken care
of since there are no telephones.” More correctly, the signal corps
corresponds to Western Union, and who said we didn’t have tele
phones? We know absolutely of three, we used one once, and we
have it on good authority that there are more than twelve. No
telephones, indeed!
"Still in Kodiak are her dogs—she believes there will be no more
convoys escorting evacuees ships and would rather have her dogs
stay in Alaska than to risk sending them without a convoy.” Nc
comment, only isn’t that military information—w'e mean about
the ships, not the dogs—
At the end of the interview she expresses the hope that she
may come back to Kodiak in the near future.. .We only hope, dear
lady, that your next sojourn will be longer than three months, and
do drop in to the Mirror office. Our Information Bureau will be
glad to toll you what a Klooch is.
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ACCOUNTS
This bank has 3000 accounts on its books, al
most equally divided in number between
checking and savings accounts. During 1941 we
handled over 300,000 checks and 27,000 deposits
On January 1, 1941 our deposits were $ 525,717.44
On January 1, 1942 our deposits were $1,785,979.44
Gain in deposits . $1,260,262.00
Help Buy A
BOMSBR
With A
BOND
Defense (;atrol
Mon. 0. P., Allman, Jess
Blinn, Bryan, Bayou.
Tue. 0. P., Chichoski, Bur
nett, Bussee, Bartee.
Wed. 0. P., Norquist, George
Blinn, Bebich, Chernoff.
Thur. 0, P., Potteiger, Cole
man, Hicks, Clifton.
Fri. 0. P., Noble, Duncan,
Detloff, Eaton.
Sat. O. P., Rodgers, Coon,
Guerin. Helgensen.
Sun. 0. P., Neseth, Hayner.
Haines, Higeins.
Mission Road Patrol
Mon. Jenkins, Victor Porter
Tue. Reynolds, Roely
Wed. Leo Sears, Therek
Thur Walkoff, Blankenship
Fri. Butler, Cox
Sat. Martin, Miell
Sun. Lewis, Lynch
Meeting Sunday, 7 p. m. Le
gion hall.
$1000 Goa! Exceeded For
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his appreciation of the work ev
eryone did. “Everyone asked to
aid did a fine job of it ” he said,
“and I am really appreciative. It
is impossible to name everyone
who helped, but I particularly
want to thank station KODK for
splended additional publicity and
the very material aid which con
tributed to success far exceeding
our expectations. Besides exceed
ing our quota for this year, we
beat last year’s total by more
than 100 per cent.”
At a committee meeting in the
bank building yesterday a reso
lution was approved forwarding
the funds to the Governor’s
office One half of the money
will be sent to the nat'onal
foundation from there, and the
other half has been pledged to the
Crippled Children’s program of
the territory, in which fight for
health it will be matched dollar
for dollar by additional federal
funds.
NOTICE
To Whom It May Concern:
I do not profess to be a drug
less physician, namely, a chiro
practor or osteopath. I am a reg
istered nurse, graduate masseuse
and hydrotherapist. I give only
natural treatments, manipula
tions and exercises.
Signed, Salena Thomas, R. N.
NOTICE
The Partnership heretofore ex
isting under the name and style
of Star Taxi and the Star Cafe,
in the City of Kodiak, Alaska,
is this day dissolved by mutual
consent. All persons who are in
debted to the undersigned are
requested to pay the same to Joe
Mulqueen. All bills against the
said partnership will be paid by
Joe Mulqueen.
Dated this 24th day of Jan
uary, 1942.
R. M. Green
0. T. Mulqueen
I Watch!!
for the
GRAND OPENING
of the
CLUB
MONTMARTRE
(mo-mart)
SATURDAY
February 21, 1942
See Clark Odekirk For Membership
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FOR DEFENSE
Buy
DEFENSE
BONDS
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AT POST OFFICE or BANK
■y
^ t y f r
THE
“Home o^ Hospitality”
in Kodiak
Belmont Hotel and Bar
Jorgen Fredrickson, Owner
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Have you tried one of cMtke s tasty lunches
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!! FIRE SALE !
Wednesday
Feb. 11,10 a.m
FUR COATS SLACK SUITS STREET DRESS
INTERLINED SPORT COATS
TAILORED SUITS FUR TRIMMED COATS
Wallets Wrist Watch Bands Radios
Electric Appliances Electric Shavers
and numerous other items
Every thing greatly reduced, due to slight damage by
smoke and water, for quick clearance
H. PINCH/ Jeweler
Across from the Mecca Bar
OPEN EVENINGS ’TILL 7:30