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DEFENSE!
Kodiak's Civil Defense Program may begin to take
siiape within the next few weeks due to the city council’s
• action in naming George Sonntag, Kodiak resident, civilian
Naval Station worker and active VFW member, to head the
organization.
Preliminary work on the program bogged down several
weeks ago because of inefficient or disinterested leadership
and as a result the civilian residents of the city and surround
ing area were without any plan for evacuation, care of in
jured or defense in the event of an enemy attack.
Sonntag’s appointment as director will do much toward
■setting up a protective plan of action. He has had considerable
experience in organization work within the VFW, having
been commander of sev ral posts in the states. He also helped
organize two posts in New York state and was instrumental
in organizing the Junior Council in Kodiak.
Besides his reputation and civic mindedness he will
need, and expect, the full cooperation of every person resid
ing in Kodiak. To successfully organize and carry into action
an efficient defense program is the duty of every man, wo
man and child.
In the event you are asked to serve in some capacity on
the civil defense staff, do so. It is for your protection.
Wedding Saturday
Scheduled for 9 o’clock next
Saturday morning is the wedd
ing of Miss Jane Naughton to
Gregory M. Foster, navy,
aerographer. !
The ceremony will take
place at St, Mary's Catholic1
Church, and will be read by
Father Louis B. Fink, S. J.
It will be followed by a wedd
ing breakfast at the Mont,
martre Inn.
The bride-to-be is the
daughter of Mrs. Charles C.
Naughton and the late Com
missioner Naughton, and
Foster is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Foster of Seattle.
IT’S TIME TO START SAVING
If you have the "savings habit”, you’ll save a
little out of income ALL THE TIME. If you
don’t, the time to start is NOW. The place—
here, with an insured savings account. Your
savings are safe and EARN FOR YOU.
Rank of Kodiak
CloMd mrr Thursday
! Banking HtrlM •! N. O. B, Friday*. Old Adminutntioo Building, #:00 S^SO I*. M
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Prizes Awarded
At Masquerade
Mrs. Alexander Popoff stole
the show and one of the prizes
Sunday night at the Russian
New Year’s Night masquerade
| ball, held at the Elks Club
; under the sponsorship of the
; Russian Women’s Club.
| VIrs. Popoff, who came as a
(well padded fat women, her
| face covered with a rubber
i mask, and who flounced
I around ostentatiously, won
I the nri^p for thp most comical
'me, and only when she
•d did other dancers
ve<- she wasn’t a man
masquerading as a woman, as
chey had thought.
The dance, which took in
more than $450, netted the
group about $375. they esti
mated this week.
Other prize winners
were the following: historical
costume, Miss Bea Malutin as
a Dutch lady and Mr. Morrill
as a pirate: most comical man,
Kim Clark, dressed as a wo
man; best dressed, Miss Astra
Antons, who wore an authen
tic Russian peasant costume,
and Miss Marcia Folsom as a
gypsy; most original, Becky
and Jane Smith as bums.; .
The prize waltz was won by
Mrs. Phyllis Webster and
Swede Breckberg.
Max Folsom was master of
ceremonies and judges for the
costumes were Miss Lorraine
Magnusen, Mrs. Angelina La
Lande, Wait Muller arid Clar
ence Selig.
City Payroll
Tops $7,000
The city payroll was $7,078.
14 for the month of Decem
ber. The figure includes
salaries for city employees,
longshoremen and the city
wharfinger.
The city council approved
payment of the payroll and
paid various other bills dur
ing the special council meet
ing Wednesday night.
Building permits to the
Union Oil Company for the
construction of warehouses
and other units on their pro
perty near the city dock were
approved by the council.
Wallis George, president of
the Kodiak Ice and Cold Stor
age Co., Inc., wrote the coun
cil that work on the cold stor
age building would be lesumed
this spring.
The work stopped last fall
because of inclement weather
and a shortage of materials.
Other business of the coun
cil included the decision to
hire an engineer to do pre
liminary work on the city
street improvement program.
The cost of the work will be
paid from the special Street
Improvement Fund made pos
sible by the collection of an
additional three mills, to the
regular 20 mill assessment, on
real and personal property
within the corporate limits of
the city.
The Street Improvement
Fund now has a total of $12,
000, Mayor Bettinger said.
Student Essay Tells Need Of ScHoo*;
Dawson Wins First Place In Contest
’ In an essay contest for Ko-|
diak high school seniors and i
juniors, about the need for aj
new school, Robert Dawson, j
a senior, has been declared
’ the winner.
The contest was sponsored
1 by the Kodiak PTA as part of
! its campaign to educate Ko-j
I diak as to the need for a new j
| school.
Two other students have'
| been named winners in the j
contest, and three have re
ceived honorable mention. i
This week, and for the next;
five weeks, the Kodiak MIR-.
KOR will print the first six |
essays, revealing each week
the writer of the theme. Stu
dents have not been told who
the winners are and will not.
know until they read the|
theme each week.
Prizes for the six will be,
awarded to them at the
March PTA meeting, March 1.
Dawson’s essay, entitled
Overcrowded Classrooms in
All Grades, appears below.
The second-place winner will
be published next week.
The Kodiak Public School
is definitely over crowded.lt s
a current problem that most
be solved now. Let me give
you an example of these
crowded conditions*
At the present time the
seventh grade enrollment is
forty pupils. Since the room
was originally built to serve
twenty-five students and now
is used to house forty child
ren. you can imagine what a
hard time it is to seat these
pupils comfortably. If any
more seventh graders enroll,
where are they going to put
them? In the hall? There isn't
a bigger room they can use; if
the class was divided into twe
groups, there is not the addi
tional classroom for the extra
group.
With the coming of new
students all the time, many of
them have to use the sa»*
books.
. Desks are also getting hard
to find, and consequently the
ones that are being used, are
broken ones that were thought
beyond repair, but because of
necessity have been put bade
into use.
The situation in the seventh
grade is a true picture of the
entire school. You may just
substitute any grade for the
seventh, and you will find
similar conditions. The only
solution to this over crowded
condition is a new school.
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Firemen Look In
Wrong MIRROR
With a roaring siren and
volunteer fireman Tommy
Gallagher at the wheel a big
red city fire truck came to a
screeching stop in front of the
MIRROR office last Saturday
morning.
Firemen leaped from the
rolling fire quencher and
wanted to know where the
MIRROR was ablaze.
They learned that the MIR
ROR wasn’t burning but that
the old office of the paper was
the scene of the fire.
Gallagher immediately re
mounted the fire truck and
took off. The former office of
the paper is located directly
behind the Polar Bear Cafe, >
owned and operated by Tom I
and Mary Gallagher.
The fire at the building be-!
hind the cafe was caused by a
man with a blow tor -h ..
tempting to thaw a frozen
water pipe. Damage was con
sidered slight.
George Steele and Ruby
Overton have applied for ai
marriage license.
Hospital flews
BIRTHS:
To Mr. and Mrs. Earl Komm
on Jan. 15, a girl, 7 lbs., 7 o*«,
named. Sylvia.
To Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
Coles of Afognak, on Jan. 18,
a boy, 7 lbs., Hi oz.. named,
Mark Taylor.
Miss Lilian Morris, Bank of
Kodiak employe, was admitted
to the hospital this week suf
fering from first degree burn*
received when she fell asleep
under a sun lamp.
Mrs. Gene Marlar, who has
worked at the Bank of Kodiak
for several years, left la*
weekend for Anchorage to
joihdier husband, who is with
the MSTS there.
NOTICE
Residents are urged to bod
all water before using. Due to
the inadequate supply in the
city reservoir the city water
crew started the emergency
pump at Beaver lake and are
again pumping water to the
city tank.
City of Kodiak
Water Department.
INSURANCE
is better than
MONEY IN THE BANK
to-ien diMAten. itni6e&
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT
BANK OF KODIAK PHONE 2233