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The Good Old Summertime
The calendar tells us that it is now summer but the
season that is Kodiak’s loveliest isn’t actually here yet, al-.
ough the summer solstice has been passed.
Still to come, as they always do in July and August,
are the warm sunny days when the channel and harbor are
full of outboard motor boats with passengers bent on just
boating, or perhaps a fish or two; when the bright green
side of Pillar Mountain is cut only by the mark of the trail up
which tiny figures climb.
Summer is the time of the wild flowers filling the fields,
when it’s possible to pick twenty varieties in a small area';
it’s the time, early in the season, of pink salmonberry blos
soms along the roads and in the cooi woods, and later of the
red and salmon-colored berries, being sought by ambitious
housewives.
Summer will still come, we are sure, with its days for
picnicking along Mill Bay or on Near Island.
Summer too means the Fourth of July, which is really
j HE day of summer i i Kodiak. It is only a little over two
weeks away, and because it has never failed us, in the way of
weather, we know it will usher in Kodiak’s real summer
season, regardless of what the calendar now tells us.
A. L. Rogers Leaves
For Scow Bay
A. L. Rogers, well known
cannery superintendent for
Grimes Packing Co. for seve
ral years, left via PNA Tues
day ft r Scow Bay where he
has purchased an interest in a
cannery.
Early this year Grimes
Packing Co. was sold to the
Ouzinkie Packing Corpora
-
tion, which is owned by Eric
Bulmer and Associates.
Rogers remained with Bulmer
for several months to help him
become acquainted with the
routine of the cannery.
Accompanying Rogers to
Scow Bay, which is five miles
from Petersburg, were his
wife, Mrs. Rogers, and two
children. Rogers’ partner in
the new cannery is Jerry
Oaksmith.
| tyancUti (fydumti
j (Eds. note: For the past'
j three weeks our Garden Club
columnist has been busy
’gardening, (we presume) and
‘ has been too busy to write the
[ weekly column. However, she
' got her hands out of the soil
, and onto a typewriter early
this week.)
Warning to African Violet j
growers: Do not use chlori
nated water. Do have water
at room temperature.
When planting seeds in
open ground it is advisable to
use a seed disinfectant to
guard against “damping-off”. J
The next meeting of the Ko
diak Garden Club will be held !
at the home of Mrs. Glen
Banks on Wednesday. The
program will cover floral ar-.
rangements. Members are re-1
i minded to bring their own j
i materials. Guests are wel
come.
Hospital News
| BIRTHS:
To Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. j
I Handley, a son, Brian Roy,1
June 12, weight, 6 lbs., 8 oz.
Medical attention: Michel
Delagnes, Pete Lindseth, Leo
Lyster, Jerry Hollman, Mrs.
| Betty Nibblett, Walter Much
jow, Svea Breckberg, Walter
i Kizer, Hans Sorensen.
| Minor surgery: Philip Katel
nikoff.
Chief Jack Biggs, USN, has
returned to Kodiak Naval Sta
tion after spending several
weeks at the Bremerton Naval
Hospital for special treatment.
Lorraine Magnuson is em
ployed in the bookkeeping de
partment of the Bank of Kod
iak.
INTEREST PAID
ON SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
AFTER JULY 1
Deposits received by July 10 will earn
interest from July 1. Transfer your bank
account to Kodiak without loss of interest.
Each account insured to $10,000.00 by
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Banking servio* at N. O. R.. Fridavs, Old Administration Building, 5:00 ®:30 P. M
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
Closed every Thursday
Town Tidbits
Little Rita Johnson, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ole Joh n
son, went outside to play in
the yard of their Carlson - Hill
home one recent day. Shortly
she was back in the house to
tell her mother, “I can’t play
out there. Someone left a
germ in our yard.”
Thelma, naturally curious,
asked her daughter to take
her out and show her the
germ. Rita did, and pointed
out a small worm that had
just come up out of the earth.
From Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Rogan, former Kodiak High
teachers now summer school
ing at Brigham City, Utah
comes a postcard, (by airmail,
bless them.)
Rogie says that ‘‘summer
school is a lot of fun but we
are homesick for a good
rain.”
Beetle adds that “we’re
feasting on fresh vegetables
and milk and unfrozen meat. .
but the hot weather is fierce!”
Further word from the
couple should come in about
five weeks when they will
send, they say, a letter (baby
girl), telegram (boy, or
twins) or make a phone call
(three or more)! (Parentheti
cal comment ours).
Sister Hilary, who is a
talented oil painter and book
reviewer, is trying her skill in
a new artistic field now. She
is making flowers out of wood
fiber, from kits that furnish
the raw materials only.
She made the sweet peas
and other blossoms for the
recent Barfield-Torgramsen
wedding, and is selling her
artificial posies through Nor
man’s Photo Shop. . .
Another vacationer is Mrs.
Peter Hjelmeir, who went to
Minneapolis last month to
spend the summer with her
mother who had been ill.
Lee writes that “the
weather is swell but oh! the
mosquitoes!” Outside of the
bugs, she writes, she is en
joying herself. . . .
Allies Probe For n
Red Offensive j
Tokyo (^T)— Eighth ArmvB
tank and infantry patrols rol- l
led into Kaesong, northwest
ern gateway to Seoul, Thurs
day as Allied forces girded for
a possible limited enemy offen
sive by Communists troops on
Monday which is the annivers
ary of the start of the Korean
(War. |
Allied patrols encountered ]
no opposition on entering the '
city but enemy rifle fire spat
tered the tanks south of the
city as the patrols returned to
Allied lines.
The action was tne f rst maj
or ground activity in almost a
week along the western front.
In the air C. S. Air Force jet
fighters tangled with Russian
made jets in several fights.
Meanwhile, General Mat
thew B. Ridgeway appealed to
| the United Nations for more
soldiers to fight Communist
aggression in Korea in a mes
sage directed to U.N. mem
bers who have not yet contri
buted troops.
In Washington President
Truman warned that American
cities lie open to “devastating’’
atomic attacks. He asked Con
gress to raise 535 million dol
lars for civil defense.
j Mr. and Mrs. Claude D
Norris have purchased pro
perty from Lester H. Daniels,
lot 16 block 1 of the Allman
addition, and a warranty deed
for the transfer has been re
corded.
Mrs. Gene Marlar, former
Bank of Kodiak employe, has
been named assistant cashier
of the City Bank of Anchor
age by the board of directors.
The Marlars have lived in
Anchorage for several months.
A warranty deed for lot 1,
block 3 of the Allman addi
tion, from Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Forrister to Paul H.
Stover, has been recorded.
Allies Continue To Push North
United Nations forces (solid arrows) collapsed the Com
munist defense triangle (shaded) by taking the southern key
cities of Chorwon and Kumhwa. Reds (open arrows) were
withdrawing toward Kumsong and were moving back to the
Pyonggang area. Red resistance weakened on all Korean
lonts except east of the Hwachon reservoir. (^P wirephoto)