Now’s the Time!
to start buying your out of
town Christmas gifts. Books
make a perfect gift for every
one and can be mailed at
speeial rates.
KODIAK BOOK FAIR
Next to Commissioner's Office
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Classifieds
By calling at Christy’s Bakery
today the followine person will
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[2 loaves) Today’s winner—
Mrs. Bert Flotre
Bond Drive To Start
A nationwide bond drive will
start on Armistice Day, Nov. 11,
next Monday, and continue un
til Pearl Harbor Day, on Dec 7,
it has been announced by the
Treasury Department.
Newspapers, radio stations,
and banking institutions are be
ing asked to aid in giving publi
city to what is hoped will be the
largest peacetime bond campaign
ever conducted.
Kodiak Diary
(continued from page 3)
It came from one signed as M.
Lanen, in Rotterdam. The note
said :
"I have received your package
with articles and give them to
our members who were very is
need.
“We are so very grateful to
you, most of all for the kind
thoughts that are behind this all.
“It is sueh heartwarming acts
as the sending of gifts that cre
ates a friendship between the na
tions.”
The letter almost didn’t get
delivered, for it was addressed to
Miss BPW Pub, Kodiak.
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While we’re on foreign letters,
one has been received by Mrs
Everett Koch, of this city, from
a girl in the Philippines. The girl
was a guerilla, and knew Mrs.
Koch’s son, who saw service
there, and got her address from
a’cousin and wrote a long letter
that is a fascinating 3 page does*
ment.
It says in part:
"We were liberated from the
cruel Japs by your brave soldiers.
They are really klndbearted,
gentle and sympathetic. Oh, I’m
sure you’re the swellest people
God ever put on earth.
"You were very fortunate that
no real fighting occurred there.
While on our part, it was bloody
and horrible that no sight can
behold We strived hard in the
jungles with scanty food, cloth
ing and others It was a 3 yea s
stay in jungles, wandering from
place to place, searching for a
hiding place. . .knowing when
one is seen no doubt he’ll em
brace death at the very moment
he is seen by Japs . .our family
was despaired of our situation
wnen no aid came until general
MacArthur fulfilled his word?,
"I shall return” How happy I
was when a wave of airplanes
dropped leaflets in the mount
ains, which give more fire and
energy to the dispairmg gueril
las’ hearts It was a sight!
‘‘Although the war has ended,
still so many people are suffering
from its brutal effects like the
death of those close to our
hearts, and sickness from long
imprisonment in filthy prison
camps.”
Yet despite her dread experi
ences, she tells of herself with
disarming gaiety:
“I ana very willing to be a
friend of your family. I’ll give
you an imaginary sight of me
”1 am a Filipino, Catholic, i
high school girl of 18. I stand 5
ft. weigh 102 lbs. got lieht brown
hair and eyes, fair complexion
and a physical structure not bad
to look at. I love candies, outing)
playing active games, reading
books and magazines, declaim ■ I
ing.but best of all using lifebouy
soap ia my daily bath and pen
pal writing, especially in the
States. I dislike tight-fitting
clothes, noise and danoes. I’m
such a queer creature really ”
She closes with:
“If anyone will write to me
I’ll gladly answer them. I’ll be
very Interested if they write me
“My nickname is Preding My
folks call me Ding for short. You
can call me Fredda. I'm school
ing ia a Catholio institution call
ed Milagrosa Academy. I’ll be
graduating from the high school
if God permits.”
There is a lot more. If you
would like to get one of the most
interesting letters you’ve ever re
ceived, here is Ding’s address.
(And she’ll exchange snapshots.)
Miss Godofreda M. Dean
Calbavog, Samar
Philippines
It happens frequently at the
local post office. After the pack
ages are all distributed, people
go to the windows to state that
bo and bo sent them a package,
and it should be here, and will
they look around some more?
Or|the sign on the window says
the air mail is all out, and peo
ple call at the window to ask if
it is all out, because they are ex
pecting something and really, it
should be here.
Or what is worse, after hand
ling 600 some sacks of m«il on
one boat, Mr. Briggs, the post
master, will have the questioned
posed at him—“I didn’t get a
letter I was expecting—do you
know what happened to it?"
So when the Saturday Even
ing Post of October 12 came out
with that cartoon in it on psge^
100, a copy of it just had to be
posted on the post office wind
ow.
The cartoon shows a woman
and a postman The postman is
half out of sight in a mail bag,
with letters scattered all about,
and apparently he is looking for
something more.
The woman is saying: ‘‘Do
look again, Mr. Briggs. .. I’m
sure Aunt Minnie sent me a post
card.”
Of course, what makes it so
good, is the fact that the post
man’s name is Mr. Briggs, and
our postmaster’s name is Mr.
Briggs.
The Sa*urday Evening Post
says: “Use of a name which is
the same as that of any living
person is accidental.”
So the Post had an accident
Wes Rhoades, local furniture
furnisher, owns the property on
Brooklyn avenue where the Fen
ner family dwells
In the yard for sometime has
existed one (1) fir tree. Said one
(1) fii tree has been nurtured for
several years. Recently when
some work was being done in the
yard, Wes gave strict instructions
not to damage the tree, and the
worker was very particular, dig
ging about the fit with his bare
hands, so as not to injure its
roots.
The other morning, as the
Fenners as well as Wes will tell
yeu, the tree had disappeared
Completely.
Investigation seemed to point
reliably to the fact that it was
the work of some misguided
youth or youths, engaged in a
scavenger hunt. One of the scav
enges had to be a tree, and thus
the one (1) lone fir in the yatd
became the victim.
With pleDty of untended, un
wanted trees in the immediate
vicinity, it is a shame that a
man’s property had to be tres
passed and his arbor destroyed
by some unthinking clout,—or
elouts.
When we last saw Wes he said
he was “looking” for the person
responsible for the scavenger
hunt.
It’s a goad thing news wasn’t
scarce this week, or we’d have
told him the high school coach
epaiked the idea. But, we know
the latter intended no such wan
ton destruction.
How about another scavenge'
huDt? Object: to find one (1) fir
tree, to be planted in the vacant
spot in the Fenner-Rhoades yard?
Hang on to your trees, folks.
Chapter Sale
This Weekend
The new local chapter of the
Alaska Crippled Children** Ass
ociation will hold a sale this
weekend of memberships and
Christmes Cards, which arrived
here this week
The sale will be conducted in
both theaters, Friday through
Monday. Proceeds go for the
work of the association.
The publie is invited to the
next meeting of the chapter, to
be held at 8 pm next Thursday,
Nov. 14, at the Quonset hut on
the sehoolgrounds.
NOTICE
I, Helen Sorenson, will not be
responsible for any debts cont
racted by Tom Sorenson.
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of each month at 10 a. m.
Fishermen's Union Hall
Glen Robinson, President
Stuart Nuckols, Secretary
A. F. of L.
Carpenters Local No. 2162
Meets on the 1st, A 3rd, Fri
day of each Month at 7:3() p.m.
it the Union Hall.
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