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Entered in the Postoffice at Kodiak, Alaska as Second
Class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1878.
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Not A Drop To Drink
What is wrong with Kodiaks’ Water Supply? It isn’t
even fit to bathe in, let alone drink. When one want3 a nice
i*4)ld drink of water, what is one served? An amber colored
liquid with particles of something, ranging from small flakes
of dead leaves to live leeches, floating in the glass. The live
4eech found by one of Kodiaks’s leading citizens was on dis
play in the window of the Log Cabin Liquor Store for about a
Have you tasted the stuff with an H'iJO label on it? My
advice is. DON’T! Let me tell you how it tastes. If you would
put a bucket under a freshly tarred roof and strain the liquid
■running off the roof through a two inch mesh chicken wire to
keep the logs and pieces of floating peat-bog out of the sample
then allow it to stand for twentv-four hours; then skim oft the
copper colored scuin which fonns on the surface, you wi 1
come up with a sample of Kodiaks’ drinking water.
The Kodiak kids are fortunate. They don’t have to take
little rubber battleships and animals to their tub with them.
With a little imagination one can see tiny ships and pieces of
debris that resemble Donald Duck and Hoarce Collar.
And FIFTEEN PERCENT' (15%) of the cities revenue
comes from the tax paid by Kodiak Citizens for the use of
that same water.
Brother! what a disgrace!
Please Mr. City Official — find out why the supply of
■water for the Citizens, fortunate enough to be on the Erskine
Line, is so nice and clear and cool, and then make the neces
sary changes to have the same product delivered to the ba
lance of your subscribers.
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Kodiak Hi
Loses Two
By Clarence Selig
Kodiak’s High School bas
ketball team suffered two d> -
feats this past week at th*
tournament held in Fairbanks
By losing these two games^
Kodiak was eliminated from
I the class A division of the
| tournament.
Anchorage delt the first de
j feat to the local team with a
155-43 victory. The Anchorage
■ five got off to a fast start with
a 13-5 first quarter lead, a lead
which they never relinquished.
High point man for the
Bears was Bill Frost with 16
points. Frost gave excellent
support to his team and also
made a good showing through
out the entire game. Credit is
also given to Brad Poland and
Bob Norton, both w ith 8 points
apiece. The local squad tried
hard to outdo the sharpshoot
ing Anchorage team but just
couldn’t make a go of it.
Seward handed Kodiak it’s
second defeat Wednesday
night by a score of 59-42. Bob
by Norton led the team with
18 points and Bill Frost with
15.
This" w^as Kodiak’s first ven
ture into the class A league. In
the years before they have
been participating in the B
league.
In the B league the Kodiak
Naval Base team has made a
good showing by defeating
both Cordova and Wasilla. The
sharpshooting Base squad
scored a victory over Cordova
by a- close margin of 63-61. It
was a close game all the way
with both teams exchanging
leads through the game.
The Hornets were led by
Jack Wren and Archie Lewis
both with 27 points each.
The base squad went on to
score another victory by de
feating Wasilla the score be
ing 64-24.
In its third game in tne
winner bracket the Hornets
defeated Valdez 65-37, Two^
(tournament records were I
smashed in this contest by the,
'Navy men, 65 points in a
! single game being the highest
1 score ever recorded in the B
league, and Wren of Hornets
j scored 33 points for a new
single scoring record.
I The Navy Hornets meet the
{winner of the Valdez-Nome
' contest Saturday night for the
Class B championship.
i Hnsmtal News
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I BIRTHS;
i Mr. and Mrs. George Mag
nusen announce the birth of 8
!0i, Robert Howard, born on
March 10th ’weighing 8 lbs.
! and 3 ounces.
Mr. and Mrs. William Bo
caste also had a son on March
the 10th. Thomas James
weighing 7 lbs. 14 oz’
i On March the 6th it was a
I daughter born to Mr. and Mr3.
I Leonard Chute named Ber
| tha Marie weighing 7 lbs.
’ 14 ounces.
U Of A Offers Exam.
Soil test.ng ih the latest ot
he services offer* d home
ardeners through the Uni
'eraity of Alaska’s Agricultu
ral Extension Service.
All samples will be tested
ree by the Extension Service.
Jardeners may take their
camples, properly labeled with
number, gardener’s name and
\ddress. to their nearest dis
trict agricultural agent or mail
it directly to the Agricultural I
Experiment Station, Palmer^
where the tests will be made, i
Separate soil samples should
be taken from fields or areas
in one field which differ in
productivity, crops or fertili
zation during the past three
years. From each of these
areas or gardens, take an
equal amount of soil from six
to eight places well distributed
over the area. These slices are
mixed wall in a clean pail and
a pint taken to be sent for
testing. The pint of soil is al
lowed to di y without the help
of oven or furnace, put in a
clean container and labeled
with sample number, garden
er’s name and address.
John Dale Bartan, on Fri
day March 12th, plead guilty
before the Commissioner’s
Court for not filing his Em
ployers Contribution Report.
Barton hired an employee to
drive his cab and he faiied to
send to the Employment Se- j
curity Commission the amount
due them in the form of Un
employment insurance He
pled gulity as charged and re
ceived a ten days sentenc
which was suspended and a
$10 fine, which he paid. The
complaining witnsss was W.
L. TaMarte of the Employ
n en Security Board of An
chorage,
The City Council approved
the first reading of an amend
ment to the Ordinance regard
ing the fine assessed for over
parking. The amendment re
duces the fine from three dol
lars to one dollar. i
Cm Mimed from page 1
•t-s. !/ udiak ]t.:; 1 < I ub
ic He went to A it*; in
the LSu 161 after Oa plain
Kickari. Base Medical Officer
had teen approached and
deemed the epidemic of suf
ficient magnitude to warrant
immediate action.
After careful study and in
vestigation the three agreed
the disease was introduced in
to Alitak by a fifteen year old
Native girl who went to Fair
banks on a visit and brought
the malady back with her All
18 inhabitants were examined
and 33 cases of advanced jaun
dice were discovered, and 7
others believed to be in the
early stages of the disease,
one half of the entire village.
The entire village was inocu
lated with gamma globlin, the
only known remedy for the
infection.
There are three prominent
sympfons of the disease. A
form of influenza followed by
dark urine and a definite
yellow to the skin. Preventa
tive measures are inoculation
to chose exposed. The gamma
globlin may be obtained from
the Public Health Nurse or
Dr. Johnson. There is plenty
of it. At the present time there
are a few cases of the disease
in Kodiak.
BASE HOSPITAL NEWS
A baby girl, weighing 6 lbs.
101 ozs . was born 28 February
1654 to Mrs. Eileen Margaret
Warner wife of Anthony (n)
Warner. YNC, USN, at the
Naval Station Infirmary, Ko
diak, Alaska.
A baby boy weighing 8 lbs.
7 2 ozs , was born 4 March
1954, ty Mrs. Alice Ruth Peve
1 house wife of Nolan (D) Peve
house, SKSN, USN at the
Naval Station Infirmary, Ko
diak, Alaska.
A baby boy weighing 7 lbs
Hi ozs.. was born 4 March
1954 to Mrs. Betty Dale Per
kins wife of John Eenjamin
Perkins PN2, USN at the Na
val Station Infirmary, Kodiak,
Alaska.
Canada’s Moe Garland, white shirt, battles two Russian
players for control of puck in front of Soviet net during world
ice hockey championship match at Stockholm. Sweden (Mar.
7). A Soviet player, left, watches the action. The Russians,
participating in world championship play for the first time
since tee sport was introduced in the Soviet eight years ago,
up set the favored Cananian sextet, 7-2, to win the world
title. (A’wirephoto)