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THE WEARING OF THE GREEN
Today is Saint Patrick’s Day. All Irishmen will pay
•homage to their patron saint who is credited with driving all
•£»e snakes out of Ireland.
The traditional shamrocks will be in evidence today
and local haberdashers should do a fine business selling Kelly
Green ties.
The Leprechauns, little fairies usually conceived as
tricky old men who if caught may reveal the hiding place of
treasure, and all the little people should be dancing on the
snows of Kodiak today and tonight. They usually dance on the
green but the hardy Kodiak little people are used to snow.
The observance and celebration of St. Patrick’s day is
not confined to those of Irish ancestry. Anyone with a love of
folklore and mythology may celebrate the day.
During I'ue iaat war a first or second cousin of the Lep
rechauns made his appearance. He was the Gremlin and he
took great delight in associating with airmen.
Even in Alaska you find the Billikin, which the Eski
mos have carved as their likenesses in ivory.
So today if strange things happen. . . blame it on the
tittle people. . . for they’re probably being unusually mischie
vous on their special day.
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Doleman,
GAA employees at Woody Is
land, arrived in Kodiak from
Anchorage via PNA Wed
nesday.
They have been vacationing
i« Oklahoma Uity and drove
over the Alcan Highway and
to Anchorage prior to flying
■here.
Ellises Plan Trip
To California
Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Ellis
plan to leave tomorrow for a
vacation trp to California.
They will be gone several
weeks.
Ellis is head of the Insur
ance Department at the Bank
of Kodiak.
A new F. D. I. C. certificate hangs
in our lobby and bears witness to the fact
that each depositer is provided maximum
deposit insurance of $10,000.00.
For nearly seven years not one dollar
of any deposit has been lost in any F.I.D.C
insured bank.
The cost of this insurance is ours.
•* You get the benefit.
Rank of Kodiak
Ctaaad Mtf TkumUj
Banking sarrisa a» N. O. R, Fridays. Old ddariniatfaMon Building. MW MO P. M
MEMflKK FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
Town Tidbits
The conceptions som«
papers outside have of Akteki
never cease to be startling,
and needless to say, un
founded.
The latest article to come to
our attention is one received
by Swede Breckberg, from a
Wichita, Kansas paper, and it
is entitled Alaskan Gold Kush,
The friend who sent it to
Swede noted on it: “Hope
you are in on this.”
; The new gold rush, the clip
ping says, results from the
government’s defense pro
gram for which $200 million
have been appropriated.
The best part of the clip
ping, and the only part worth
quoting says: “Wages start
at more than $100 a week for
clerks, $200 for common
laborers while skilled union
workers earn as high as four
and five hundred dollars a
week.” . . .
Another interesting news
paper item brought to our at
tention recently was from a
Baltimore paper, telling of
the pamphlets on rats ordered
I by the seventh grade, from
Baltimore City Health De
partment. The department,
| apparently was interested
ifcnuugu in Kodiak to look it up
in a 1940 census or almanac,
and the results it found were
astounding!
It turned its information
over to the newspaper for a
good feature article which
ended up with this headline:
“City of 800 orders 1000
pamphlets on how to fight
rats.” We suggest to Oscar
Drake, seventh grade mentor,
that in return for the pamph
lets, he send the Baltimore
health department a recent
Kodiak census report. .. .
Following an old family
custom, Mrs. Norman Fjeld
heim again this year bought
her husband a new car for
his birthday. Displayed at
Kodiak Motors for several
days before the Fjeldheims
could get delivery on it, the
Chrysler Windsor, 1951 style,
drew a big audience every
day. . . .
It was really a “door”
prize last night at the annual
sophomore dance, Presented
with great fanfare, the
handsomely made miniature
nushnik door was carpentered
for the sophomore affair by
C. E. Anderson, shop teacher,
who built it with all the skill
he would devote to a living
room cabinet. . .
Hospital News
BIRTHS:
To Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Cote, a daughter, Susanna
Raenell, March 12, 8 lbs., 11
oz.
Mr. and Mrs. Justin J. Hol
man, a son, Ronald Olaf,
March 11, 6 lbs.. 13 oz.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Anderson, a daughter, Rita
Irene, March 12, 8 lbs., 9 oz.
Medical attention: David
and Suzanne Kraft. James
Mill Vekacek, T&lmage L.
Smith, Elaine Holman, Mrs.
Emil Knudsen.
ftffl crtONS
in Hi* WliiWOR
5 YEAR3 AGO—1946
City voters were to deter
mine at the comiug election if
i they wished to have the city
! negotiate for rhe purohase of
• the army dock, when and if it
; was declared surplus.
The city offered a lot near
! the FWS building as a site for
a new jail, since the quarters
leased from the Kodiak Realty
and Investment Co. were to be
vacated by June 30.
The Chamber of Commerce
asked that Katmai National
, Monument on the mainland be
abolished so that fishing can
be carried on m the area.
1 YEAR AGO 1950
The annual Red Cross was
to start with GeneMarlaras
chairman.
The PTA garve the basket
ball team a check for $100 to
be used for athletic equip
ment.
The city sought payment'
from the department of justice
f>r the site of the new jail.
Ralph Naughton
Leases Bakery
Ralph Naughton, who has
•■/'M ■ 1 f 1 ,
wint*o a uai\Ci ill
Ketchikan, arrived here Sun
day and has leased the former
Quality Bakery from Tom Wil
liams. He expects to start op
eration shortly.
Naughton is the son of Mrs.
C. C. Naughton. His wife will
join him here this summer.
Master Sergeant Arthur H.
Martin, stationed with the A
laska Communications System
here the past year, was trans- ‘
ferred to Cold Bay to take
charge of the station there.
Mrs. Martin and daughter
plan to remain in Kodiak un
til school is out
All!'*’5 J*tt
Red Forces
Tokyo (<P)—The allie. hit
stiffening Red resistance
the central front yesterday v*
heavy artillery fire kept «;■> a
steady pounding of e.'.cmy
line*
The communist mtrMt
northward appeared to be e» i
ing at a line along the looping
Honchin River on which !?*>•£
chon hangs like a pendant.
Thursday the Yanks were
reported to have taken Hong
chon which is 20 miles bcfow
the 38th parallel. The Reds re
portedly shelled the town as
the Yanks were entering the
outskirts.
Allied troops also entered
the South Korean capitol of
Seoul in force and received an
ovation from the city’s resid
ents.
Elks Hire
New Steward
Fred Wallace, former stew
ard of the Anchorage B. P.
0. E. lodge, has accepted the
position of steward of the Ko
diak lodge.
He arrived here Thursday.
Wallace was formerly man
ager of the Alpine Inn at An
chorage and a partner in tbe
Shamrock Cafe at Palmer.
In Hospital
Corporal Anton J. Gregori
off, nephew of Mrs. Ole Ol
sen of Kodiak, is in Travis
Air Base Hospital at ftur
field, Suisun. California re
cuperating from injuries suf
fered during demolition opere
tions in Germany.
Recently a picture of Gre
gorioff shaking hands with
Phii Regan, Irish tenor, whs
gave a radio show for hospital
patients at the base, was re
ceived by Mrs. Olsen.
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