Eodiak Klirror
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Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
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Entered :n the Postoffice at Kodiak, Alaska as Second
Class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1878.
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Paper Drive
The Boy Scout program is well established here in Ko
diak and once a year the organization promotes a drive for
funds to'refill the coffers that take care of the immediate
needs of the troops. This fund raising campaign isn’t enough
to fully cover the expense involved in operating the welfare
of the Scouts. {
Starting on November first the scouts are having a
waste paper drive, whereby they will call at your home and
pick up all the accumulation of waste paper which many of
you have been stewing about of late because you have not
been able to burn because of a City Ordinance.
A deal has been offered to the Scouts, both in Town .
and on the Base. The Supply Department, packing section,
will purchase all the old newspaper the Scouts collect for a 1
penny a pound. If each of you subscribe for one paper plus]
what magazines and cataloges the average household accumu-|
lates during the mornh would pack them into a pile so they |
could be picked up every Saturday, the Scouts would be most
grateful. I
Norman Sutliff, the Troop Scoutmaster says, “Thej
penny a pound we get for the waste paper that the Scouts j
pick up1, \V!ouid earn enough money to carry the Troop j
for the whole year.” j
Save your old papers, magazines and any other form \
of paper you ordinarily acquire throughout the week, put them (
in a bundle-and then tell some Boy Scout where they are, and j
you will accomplish two things.
You.will'answer that ticklish question on burning with-!
in the City limits and you will help support one of greatest]
kid organizations that has ever been organized.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SCOUT TROOP
TWIT'S n FRIT
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SPENDTHRIFT
THE MOST BIBULOUS SPENDTHRIFT IN HISTORY
WAS PRINCE ESZTERHAZV (I78b-©fe«. HE
POSSESSED ONE OF THE GREATEST FORTUNES
IN EUROPE,BUT DELIGHTED IN EXHIBITING
HIS CONTEMPT FOR AAONEY. IN WANTON dis
plays OF WASTEFULNESS, HE DESTROYED A
HORSE WHICH HAD WON THE ENGLISH DERBY,
UNEP HIS COAT WITH A VALUABLE PAINTING
WHERE DO THEY ALL 60 ?
TRAFFIC OVER THE SIX BRIDGES AND TUNNELS
\ LEADING INTO NEW YORK CITY TOTALLED OVER
\ 75,000,000 VEHICLES THIS PAST YEAR,
i 28,000,000 CARS PASSED OVER the GEORGE
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NOTICE ,
Reservations for Thanksgiv-1
ing are now being accepted by'
the Elks Steward, Tim Gil
more. Watch the Mirror for
menu & developments.
LITTER To EDITOR
Dear Editor:
The “MIRROR’S”statement
in last week’s editorial to the
effect that in all probability
the school work m’ssed by Na
tional Guarders and basketball
players would not have to be
made up is a dangerous error
of opinion. Scho 1 work in
Kodiak is not treated lightly.
Kodiak High School warrior’s,
whether they be with the
basketball team or with the
national guard, have to keep
up with their school work.
The boys who will depart
shortly for the national guard
encampment at Anchorage,
have long ago been afforded,
detailed lists of the work they
!
\
will miss while they are gone.
They are expected to work at
these lists while they are gone
and they must have the work
done by the end of the six
weeks marking period, or they
flunk. The national guard has
been asked for assistance in
this matter, and they have re- ^
sponded by setting upa special
study period during the An
chorage encampment so that ^
scnool boys can have the time j
necessary to do this assigned
work, and so they won.t fail. |
This system of assigning!
work in advance and then re
quiring that it be done also
holds true for the basketball
players when they go to the
tournament each spring. Here
though, we have a little more
control.No player who is doing
poorly in schoblis allowed to
go in t* e fiffet place. J
One vital point missed by
the MIRROR in tfus editorial
is that the young people under
discussion ate minors. As min
ors the final permission to go
either to the basketball tourn
ament or to join the national
guard rests not with the high ,
school or the national guard
but with the parents of these
boys. _ ;
We guide, and train, but it
is the parents who give the
permission and hence control
these activities.
[s] D. A. Morgan, Principal
Kodiak High School
LEONARD AUDITIONS !
Dave Leonard, recent man.’
ager of the Ships Tavern for
Harry Gottschalk, is to be
auditioned for the Arthur
Godfrey Talent Scout program
on November 4th in New
j York City.
Stan Lee sent four of Dave’s
| recordings, one classical, one
operatic and two popular
numbers to the Godfrty Show
Committee and the group was
very enthused over Dave’s
prospects for a successful
audition.
Dave is in Hollywood at the
present time and he will leave
immediately for New York for
the audition on the 4th. If his
audition is successful he will
be signed for a television date
and Stan Lee will join him in
jNew York and act as his talent
I Mr. Leonard’s wife Nancy
, is_in Seattle {staying with
[friends.^
my nmis
The City Council,,at its last
regular fortnightly meeting
voted unanimously to take
over the Federal Jail and set,
up the operation as a City
function. The Council was!
faced with the problem of
either taking over the jail and
operateing it as city property
or have the Federal Govern
ment operate it as they have!
the Dast three years, which
would necessitate the ousting
of the Police Office from the
premises. The figured cost of
the addtional expense to the
City by operatiug the jai was
figured tobe around $3,UOO.00,
while on the other hand to
find a suitable office for tne
police department, with its 2
way radio and office fixtures
would amount to a great deal
more.
To help offset this added ex
pense, Mr. Casey the Superin
tendent of Territorial Police |
suggested boosting the room!
and board of all Federal
prisoners from $2.00 to $3.00 a
day. The U.S. Marshal’s Office
which has al ways been housed
in the building would pay the
city a rental.
After carefully considering
the proposal of the Territorial
Jail Superintendent, the Coun
cil voted unanimusly to take
over the jail by a motion from
Councilman Cannon and a
second by CounciltnanDeVeau.
There are two surplus pum
pers at the Naval Station
which are badly needed by the
City to back up the apparatus
here, which the Naval Station
offered to the City for their re
moval. The Council gladly ac
cepted them.
The Dock Committee gave
a very thorough report on the
condition of the City Dock.
The Committee felt *hat four
channel were of a most urgent
nature The switch which oper
ates the Dock lights is in need
of immediate repair. The pre
sent one is a fire hazard, and
during stormy weather shorts
out causing a fire works dis
play around the post on which
it hangs. The warming room
on the Dock is a liability in its
present condition due to not
enough heat to insure produce
from freezing during cold
weather. Here again is a fire
hazard due to the manner in
which the stove in the warm
room is hooked up with its
stack protruding through the
side of the building. By mov
ing a partition in the building,
it will afford some badly need
ed room in the warm room,
and the heater can be placed
on a cement slap which was
built for that purpose and the
stove pipe can be hooked up
into a regular chimney with a
forced draft that will give
more heat and burn less fuel.
Rest rooms at the City Dock
also came up for a great de^l
of discussion and their instal
lation will be forthcoming in
the near furture.
The fourth drastic measure
which is urgently needed in
the Dock area is the repair of
the ramp the KEA men must
use to read the meters supply
ing the Doc area with electric
ity. It is unsafe and could be
i instrumental in causing the
I KEA meter reader’s death by
slipping into the ocean below.
The Council voted unani
mously to repair these defects
at the City Dock, with other
inprovements of not such a
drastic nature to come at a
later date.
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