Yom Kippur
Services Planned
Religious services for Yom
Kippur, Jewish high holiday,
will be held Tuesday and Wed
nesday at Hillside Chapel at
Kodiak Naval Station.
Services will start Tuesday
evening at 6:15 pm. The morn
ing service will start at 10:30
Wednesday and will be follow
ed by the memorial service at
at 11 am.
Jules Radinsky will conduct
the services. He read the ser
vices for the Jewish New
Year, Rosh Hashanah, Sunday
at the chapel.
Iron Creek Cannery
Destroyed By Fire
A fire of unknown origin
destroyed the cannery and
herring reduction plant of the
Southwest Canning Company
in Raspberry Straits Monday
night.
The loss was estimated at
$350,000 by an official of the
company. The only buildings
left standing at Iron Creek,
site of the cannery, were a
cookhouse and bunkhouse.
The fire is believed to have
started around 10:30 pm. Olaf
Floe, president of the com
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pany, was at the cannery
when the fire occurred and
brought word of the fire Tues
day morning when he was
here enroute to Seattle.
Late Tuesday a navy pilot
from Kodiak Naval Station
flew over the area and said
only a couple of small build
ings were standing. The flier
said the remains of the dock
and cannery were still smoul
dering.
Until reorganization of the
company a year ago, it was
known as Southwestern Fish
: ery Comany. Headquarters
for the firm is at 222 Bell St.
Terminal.
School Notes
Seniors ordered school
sweaters and class pins this
week. The sweaters are knit
of blue wool with the Kodiak
High School emblem in gold.
! Before selecting rings the
class decided to send for sam
ples.
The first party of the school
year was given by the seniors
Friday night at 8:30 at the
community center. Each stud
ent was allowed to bring one
guest. Dancing and refresh
ments were the highlights of
the evening. A senior commit
tee decorated the center with
wall drawings of books and
i uicjl o cum vvitii opening wu:ua
on the blackboard to suggest
the idea of going back to
school.
Marie Swenson
A new student in Kodiak
High School is Joyce Wyatt,
freshman, from Inglewood,
Calif., who played the part of
one of the nurses in the na
vy’s production of South Pac
ific at the naval base.
Eddie May
Tryouts for the basketball
team were held Thursday and
Friday with 16 boys turning
out. Coach Howard Carpenter
is showing the boys several
different plays that could be
worked when the team plays
in the Navy League which be
gins October 1. The squad
practices every school day in
the schoolyard from 4 to 5 pm*
During physical education
class the boys have been play
ing softball.
Gene Sundberg
The sixth graders, who
have elections every week to
give each pupil a chance, have
elected the following officers:
Philip Wyatt, president; Otto
Mahle, vice president; Sally
Aulerich, secretary-treasurer.
Dick Skinner
Polar Bears is the title
which the fifth graders will
go by from now on. This week
the class formed a literature
club called the Polar Bears,
which requires each pupil to
read ten books or more if he
ever hopes to become a mem
ber. Each time a boon is read
continued on page 4
Civil Defense
Films Available
Juneau — A comprehensive
program on civil defense
training for school has recent
ly been completed and is now
available to all schools in the
territory.
The course consists of a
number of drills instructing
children in the necessary steps
to minimize casualties in e
vent of an enemy bombing
raid.
Also available are movies
and strip film on Civil Defense
to aid the teachers in their
course of instruction.
Local directors will handle
distribution of programs to all
schools in their community.
George Sonntag, commander
of the VFW, is director for
Kodiak.
| Connie Strickland To
Be Married Today
Mrs. Connie Strickland, for
| mer D and A clerk, and
j Charles Christoffersen. winter
watchman for Whiz-Halferty,
I will be married at 8:30 this
; evening by Commissioner A.
M. Vokacex.
Andy Petersen, uncle of the
bridegroom, will give the
bride away. Pete Hjelmeir
will be best man and Mrs.
Carmen Propin will be matron
, of honor.
I Invitations have been issued
I for a wedding reception to be
held at 9 pm at the Mont
, martre Inn, following the
wedding.
The wedding of Vivian
Wiest to Charles Weaver,
scheduled for last evening,
has been postponed for two
weeks.
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