KODIAK .
DIARY ...
Baby Victor Tylor, who re
cently made the news by becom
ing an honorary member of the
Bartenders’ Union, is now the
possessor of Membership Ticket
No. 1 of the newly opened Town
Club.
This younger generation!
We have an apology to make
Last week in this column we
mentioned the name of Thomas
Allen Szewezykowski, Jr. It
should have been Szewezykowski,
Jr.
Add-Vital-Information—A new
movie stars name is John Hodiak
And the Phillippine chief of
the Japanese external affairs de
partment has the name, Kodaki
Both similarities are mere co
incidences, esp. cially th& latter.
Word corner from Seattle via
Associated Press that a shipment
of heavy underwear for use in
the Pacific Northwest and Alas
ka is now on its way to Seattle.
Allan Willard, representative
of the Office of Civilian Require
ment said a survey showed stocks
of such apparel, worn by fisher
men, loggers and other essential
workers, wer^ depleted and mer
chants were unable to replenish
stock. In the meantime the re
quests for the long handles
mounted
The shipment is coming from:
the Army Quartermasters depot
at Philadelphia.
Long underwear is what you ]
buy a suit of when you leave for
Kodiak and then hardly ever
wear.
We don’t know whether the
gang at the post office saw it or
not but a letter recently came
through with the following on
the envelope:
“If not delivered in 5 days,
try like h - - 1 on the 6th.”
It was from Bill Taylor, at
Washington State College.
Sis, of Sis’s place, has donated
$17 to the girls of the Home Ec
onomics course in the local
school, to be used to buy what
ever they want for their elass.
The reason the amount is that
odd $17 is that the donation con
sisted of 1 roll each of quarters,
dimes and nickels.
We received the following
item:
Dear Sir:
Please print this in your paper
Sincere beet regards, Merry
Xmas and a Happy New Year
to all my friends in Kodiak.
It was signed b y James
Spracher of the U. S. M. M and
came from Seattle.
Silmon Spencer, the bearded
member of the A. T. Beckett
company construction crew, left
recently for his home in Ten
nessee on a vacation.
Having seen the beard in all
its rugged awesomeness we fee1
obligated, almost, to have As
sociated Press warn his friends
and relatives what to expect.
How anyone can wear a thing
tike that. . .
On second thought we won’t
bother AP. Silmon could get a
ticket only as far as Sitka and is
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going to take his chances on
transportation from there. Tran
sportation being what it is, it
might well be that his 30-days
leave will be Sitka-spent.
A recent city prisoner was put
to work on the roads at f 10 per
diem, the work to run for 25
days. After 10 days it was found
that said prisoner seemed to have
the mistaken irlea he eould draw
his pay without working accord
ing to the foreman, so he was
yanked off said sinecure. After
his vacation was up he went to
the city clerk, we presume, to ob
tain his 1100.
The city clerk made a fe w nec
essary deductions. There was the
combined withholding and vic
tory tax social security, board
bill plus 60 cents a day for a
lunch that was put up for him at
one of the restaurants as he
worked out of town, the matter
of his fine, plus $32 that he had
authorized be drawn from his pay
to pay a private debt he ewed.
The check, after said deduc
tions, totalled $9.62.
The man then went around
telling sundry listeners that he
worked 10 days for this city and
had a check for only $9.62 to
show for it.
We print this to show he was
telling the truth.
Carl Mendell, former owner of
the Atlas Transfer of this city,
has passed the examinations for
Air Corps and has started his
training. Fie is located at Camp
Haan, California.
The Fourth National War
Loan drive, with a goal set by
Secretary Morgenthau of 14
bill on dollars, will be conducted
during the peiiod fiom Jan. 18
to Feb. 15.
Major emphasis will be placed
on a <5,100,500 quota for in
dividuals. During the period
from Jan. 18 to Feb 1 only sales
to individuals will be reported
to the treasury. Sales to other
non-banking investors will be
included in the reports beginning
Feb. 1.
Commerical banks will be al
lowed to make a limited invest
ment, of their time deposits in
the 2 1-4 and 2 1-2 per cent
bonds.
Securities to be offered will in
clude series 3, F and G savings
bonds, series C notes, 2 1-2 per
cent bonds of 1956-70, 2 1-4 per
cent bonds of 1956-59 and seven
eights per cent certificates of in
debtedness.
Col Johh W. Robinson, com
manding, Fort Groely, spoke to
the Rotary Club this week on
his experiences in the Aleutians,
especially in regard to time spent
at Amchitka and Kiska. He des
cribed the work of engineers in
construction projects and the
difficulties involved, and gave
some exciting eye-witness ac
counts of Jap bombing raids.
He gave high praise to the
Alaskan-trained soldiers, saying
he was superior to the soldier
trained in the Lnited States.
Guests at the luncheon in
cluded Comdr. Chas. Frisbie,
Sid Old, Paul Frets, and Rev.
John Winter.
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