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tinued from page 6)
of filing all her own. She
let immense air mail ea
accumulate, unopened*
en on some cold morning
use them for fuel in the
itove. The only defect in
tern was that it caused
lot of correspondence,
to Juneau that she ‘‘had
reived such and such a
5t”!
the cubic inch business
have lieen thrown out of
on that one. But Mrs.
is the conscientious type,
le information is probably
' on the way.
hall have to visit the OPA
at a later date to learn
happens next from Wash
, 7'his is the kind of tning
i to get to the (cube) root!
mg the several photograph
ling Ivod.ak data for na
I publications we talked to
■ ho spent the most time
Iteing I'. 1 with questions
I caid party, we decided toj
|e for ourselves.
Iiat,’’we queried,“had been
bst striking facet encount
puring the writer's in vesti
b in Kodiak?
answer came quickly,
weie two things,
first, he said, was the hos
(v and spirit of cooperation,
the Alaska towns 4ie had
n, at Kodiak there was a
r elTort to be accominodat
i providing mateiial and
md suggestions. It had
mazing This spirit far ex i
, and the other Alaska j
pat came closest to Kodiak
i respect was Fairbanks It
limply wonderful working
Kodiak, he explained, there
nore libelous backbiting <
»ny other place he had ev-1 I
m in
iJ v. riters who have been
that met with in other
liak, the writer said,
other facet wasn’t so good
said it anyway.
any town, he explained,
ran into some of that sort
ing; that is, they would
r material from one source
not her source would give
imon of the previous source
as derogatory, to say the
I his he expected, and Used
information to temper his
tipation. But in Kodiak!
hewed. In Kodiak, he had
seen anything like it. Al
without exception, he said(
source of information got
d about by some other
and libelous, he said was
nly way to describe the
remarks.He wondered why
as so marked,
tried to explain that we
Ived it was a condition of all
er towns, and that Kodiak,
;J9e of its insular nature and
of hinterlands and remote
would naturally develop an
vated aspect of all that
!1 towns implied,
e asked for samples of what
ad m mind, which he pro
d, but they were very unin
to us. We had heard
them all before.
The enly point we would like
to make is that when strangers,
, especially strangers with press
J credentials, call oa us, it might
' behoove us to keep our mouths
! shut when it comes to indulging
in petty personalities.
Thinking it over, we might
, try it some time when strangers
j aren't around.
| A crewman of a Canadian hal
j ibut boat dropped into one of
I our emporiums to look things
over.
He got to examining ivory
souvenirs, and being in a slight
state of inebriation did what
even a sober person might do—
he tried on an ivory ring. The
ring stuck.
Try as he would the ring would
not come off, so he merely asked
the clerk how much it was, and
ou being told $42, produced that
amount and left with the ring.
A day or two later one of his
buddies said the man still had
not been able to doff off the ring.
We hope no one takes advant
age of this tale and starts polish
big up the small sizes.
Attention All
Eagle Members
A meeting was called Aug 11
at hex Pairott's studio for or
ganizing the charter of the
Eagles lodge
Thirty applications so far have
been turned in, Mr Parrott said.
Now that fishing is over Mr i
Parrott wishes to announce that
applicants that are interested
please contact him at the Mecca
bar any time after 7 pm.
It is also very important that
other brothers of the Eagles con
tact him to pick up applications
so that through the help of other]
members the full quota of 100]
applications may be filled within
a short time.
The Eagles is a beneficial and l
social organization which also
fosters civic and welfare projects
in the communities in which it
has Aeries.
Loretta Nachand, daughter of
Tom Nachand, returned to Sea
ttle to continue her schooling in
that city.
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