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Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-26
They're Always With Us

The Board Equalization to hear complaints by citizens re- garng the of their property for the current tax roll
 d it's initial meeting last night and will meet each night next week
 For those who feel and subsequent tax out fine the place complain before the boad composed of eeAncil members.
 Taxpayers should be Of the ac before lodging th co- pants that they live the city they must be willing pay for it's upkeep Progress the of city facilities not go forward for nothing.
 Taxes practically all will be higher this year. but the Of everything going not only Of butter and eggs and clothes and other items, but of running city too
 As was pointed out m the council by the the majority of improvements valued at less than their apparent arket value.
 petition currently being circulated asking for relief from higher wish naturally have right they should also take advantage of the vded by law for making their complaints and should sOnaly before the equalization board.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-26

Delegate Bartlett this week advised Tom Nachand of the Rod and Gun Club that a larger appropriation would be available to the Interior Dept for the Alaska Game Commission than previously expected.
 The House allowed $l75,WO in it's appropriation for the com mission. The Senate however added S5O, ,0OO to the House ap-. propriation and in conference. House members agreed to the Senate restoration.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-26
CHIT CHAT
By Tenora Rockney

Jerry Sears and little Billy visited Peggy Sutliff on Sunday.
 Mrs Lucy Gregorioff and family. Mrs. MickelSo" and An ma Jean, Mrs. Hanson, Mrs. Marian Brown and Eddie. Mrs. Pete Chichenoff and Ruth pic. nicked on the beach at the Julia Walkoif home on Tuesday
 Several women and their small fry enjoyed a birthday picnic a, the Swede Breckbe g home on Wednesday It was little Svea and Bonnie Jeans birthdays
 The gal" seen b cycling mer r,iy down Mission rd and through town. rs,n or shine, Is Heled Wright. She is either so.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-26
Catholic Information
No hen ever laid a bad egg!

was, immediately after Baptism. just as pure as the saint and angels No fault of the Church sf a few of It's members, disregard ing It's teachings, step out oa their place in Code plan for them, into the corruptlpg influ- ences of the world
 The hen was made to lay fresh eggs; and it does It's fruits are the source of great benefit tor man and the propagation of the chicken tribe. The Church was made to bring man back to GOd' and it does. Its fruits of the past are the saints who rose to heroic heights of sanctity because they followed with all their hearts and wills the teachings of the Church It's products of today include many who. for the sa@s reason, will be saints of tho sa- ture; while of its moro thaA 33S 1886, ,OoO living members, thu vast majority are sincere beaiev- CTS and doers of Code cezn- mands. There will always be bad eggs. bad Catholics, and bad red head- ed fat men; but worse-sar ! worse there will always be Fssa Hardheads!
 FRs any thing Cafkoiic. ~sk s Catholic.
 CATHOLIC INFORMATION
 CLUB BOX l55
 RTZSEMENT)
Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-26
Town Tidbits

By a round ab0nt way word finally comes to Kodiak of the
 winner of the Aeronca Chief
 plane raffled in Valdez recently.
 A Juneau paper received here
 tells of a letter received in that city from Valdez which reports the winner of the plane as being John A Colvin, an "oldtimer to ! the westward who acts as guide to hunters and also takes others on packtrain trips".
 Dynamiting of the ground for the location of the new jail has surprised several of us this week. Workers in one small building thought it had been hit by 8 truck as the first blast went off |, and residents of a home in the area of the blasting were con- vinced, almost, that the new city hall had slipped off it skids and headed for the bay. Calmest of all was City Clerk Myrna Per- kiHs who wisely ignored the pro- ceedings and went on working and refused to worry. ..
 Ed Brooker, old-timer who re- gently went to the Pioneers Home in Sitka, has written of hIs safe arrival there and of his meeting with many old cronies, with whom he IS busy swapping stories of the gold rush days. ,.
 The Anchorage Times reports that cattle rustlers are at work on Jack McChord's Chirikof Is land ranch. ..
 A picture of Kodiak's Cub Scout Pack, described as the farthest west pack in America. is in the April issue of the Ro. tary magazine, the Rotarian. ..
Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-26
Might 0ut
By Jessie Holt

I shall escape from house and
 town; Go where the wild streams tum"
 ble down: Through a secret valley. up a
 lost, blue hill, I shall sing or shout, and have
 my will. I may find the first sweet-fern
 unfurled, And swing on the longest vine in
 the world; Whistle by the birch, and sleep
 beneath the pine, To heal this town-weary soul of
 mine. And if I come home in the stag
 gering dawn, To find my reputation gone, At all sly questions I shall smile: "Ah, yes. I have sinned. but
 I've lived while"
Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-26
RnnsA& sMS1ROe

A horse show to be pu. en by horse lovers of the town ana base is being planned for some time in August, and will probab' ly be held at the base.
 Persons interested are 'nvieea to contact Comdr N. A. Lid- stone at the base, phone 26S, or John A. Gibbons in town, phone 3632 VI
Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-26

The first egg that Erzra Hard, head ever ate was bad-unques tionably badl
 That was years ago, but with Ezra the memory has become an obsesslon. "All eggs are bad!" he cries. "Away with them! Away with the hen that lays them" No use reasoning with Ezra. He's an egg bigot.
 Unfortunately bad eggs" are not confined to the breakfast table. Humanity too has it's quo ta-all races, all ella sses. all reli gions. But the Catholic load egg" seems to smell worse taste wolse. and reflect most on the hen that lays it. Why is this, when the Catholic Church claims to be holy? Can 8 bad egg come from 8 good hen?
 Certainly not! But bear in mind that no hen ever laid a bad egg. The egg that makes you run for dear life, was, when first laid, just as fresh as the delicacy that delights your pal ate and nourishes your body. No fault of the hen if 8 few of it's products roll out of their place ln the scheme of things, into the corrupting heat of the world. In like manner the (atholis Church never produced bad man. The bad egg" Catholic nAYn ~Dvy-
Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-26

ing to fish from the dock or to give her husband @ bad time while he's working on their boat at the city dock
 MT. and Mrs Fred Bubendorf left for their home in Humble, Tex, Saturday Their daughter. Evelyn is remaining for a longer visit with Mrs. G. w. Bubendorf and her children.
 MT and Mrs. John Chase, Mrs E A. Koch, and Dave Gib- son viewed colored slides at the Rockney home Wednesday even- tug
 The la'ge yellow lilies are in blossom in Potato Patch Lake. You camera 'a"s can get some fine sho's ess eclally color ones.
 PHONE NO. CORRECTION
Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-26

Two horses were aboard the .Denali from Seattle, 1 for Ed Bryan and the other for Tommy Gallagher and his family
Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-26
Hospital News

Admitted for medical atten- tion: Gordon Meyer. Melvin Hall, Mrs. Nina Olsen, George Erickson, Mrs. Lorena Kizer, Charles A. Jackson; for minor surgery, William Slgmund.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-26

PHONE NO. CORRECTION KInsport, Della 4l92.
Laurel outlook., 1948-01-07
Round SehooIhouse Proves
Safe for Pioneer Teacher

BROOKLINE, VT.-Still standing
here is the only round red school
house in America-and therein lie
a tale.
In 1922, a tall, handsome man who
identified himself as DR.. John Will
son appeared in this village and ap-
piled for a job as schoolteacher.
Hired Immediately, he soon ar
ranged to have built the round red
schoolhouse which, with five win
dows, commanded a view of ap-
proaches from all directions.
Not until DR.. Wilson died was it
learned why he wanted to teach in a
schoolhouse which provided such
excellent visibility. Through certain
physical defects and other clues,
DR.. Wilson was identified in death as
the notorious Captain Thunderbolt,
a criminal who had escaped from a
British prison and sailed for New
England.
Captain Thunderbolt's accomplish
in crime, a man known as Light
ming, escaped with him and even
tually was hanged as a murderer in
Boston.
Laurel outlook., 1948-01-07
Tooth Decay Reduced by New
Method, Dentists Are Told

ROCHESTER, N. "a newly de-
veloped method for use of sodium
fluoride to cut tooth decay by an
estimated so per cent was revealed
by DR.. Basil G. Bibby, director of
Eastman dental dispensary.
Bibby, who began his experiments
at University of Rochester School of
Medicine and Dentistry before the
war, said the sodium fuoride was
mixed with distilled water and ap-
piled to the surface of the teeth.
apparently the fluoride is alb
sorbed through the surface of the
teeth and hardens the calcium phos-
phate of the tooth's enamel" he ex-
planned.
Tests performed on portions of
children's dentures showed 40 per
cent less decay in the treated teeth
than on non-treated areas, Bibby
said. The dentist added that al
though best results were obtained
with children between 10 and Is
years of age, the process also
worked "favorably' on adults.
Laurel outlook., 1948-01-07
u. S. Scientists Follow
Seal Herds to Arctic Sea

WASHINGTON. - U. S. scientists
have branded 10000 seal pups at
Alaska's Pribilof islands and are fol-
lowing them out past the Aleutians
to determine whether they migrate
into Japanese or Soviet waters. Lest
the government tread upon interna-
tional toes, however, the scientists
have been ordered to halt their west
ward journey at the international
date line. Where the seals go be-
yond that point will remain a mat
ter of conjecture.
1--WE want to find out whether the
entire herd goes down the Canadian
U. S. coast or whether it splits, part
of it travelling westward into So
Wet and Japanese waters" Dr.. Gus
tav A. Swanson, chief of the fish
and wildlife service, said.
Laurel outlook., 1948-01-07
Ak. Not Fires.
Foe Of Forests
Harvesting of Timber and
Lack of New Growth Are
Major Menaces.

WASHINGTON. - What is the big
gest destroyer of American for.
eStS?
Fire? No. It's the most spectacu'
lar, but it ranks only fourth among
the major enemies of our dwindling
national woodpile.
No. l %long-range menace, accord
ing to United States forest service
records, is the harvesting of tim
Der without providing sound meth
DDS for its replacement. Service
officials say reasonably good man
agement of the forests would double
the tree growth.
Second biggest drain is waste in
logging and manufacturing. Only 43
per cent by weight of the wood cut
or destroyed in logging or import
appears in products other than fuel.
Some 35 per cent is not used at all.
The remaining % per cent is used
as fuel, much of it ineficiently.
Damage by insects.
Third biggest drain is damage by
insects and diseases. The loss
from these is estimated at 622 mil
lion cubic feet a year, compared
with an average annual fire destruc-
ton of $50 million cubic feet.
Every year the cut and kill of saw
timber in the United States is one
and a half times as large as the
growth. The current annual growth
of saw timber is 35,301, 900, 900 board
feet. The drain is SO, 1898, 600, 900
board feet.
The forest service says n way
to get "a reasonable commodity cut
from the forest" is to take as much
of the harvest as practicable in the
form of poor and partially defective
trees and in trees of the less de-
sirable species. This would leave
more of the straight and more de-
sirable trees for future growth to-
ward high-quality products.
Value Destroyed.
Wedding, improved cutting, thin
ming and pruning in young stands
greatly increase the potential value
of later h~arvests.
A survey by the forest service
shows that II per cent of the own
ers of small woodlands cut their
trees in such a way that the cut
over land has no timber value left,
or almost none.
The small owners poor cutting
practices are so serious because
th~ree-fourths of the private COM
mercial forest acreage is in 4,200,-
900 small holdings of less than 5000
acres
The average size of these wood
lands is 62 acres
The forest service found that cut
ting practices + generally much
better on the large tracts of tim
berland held by lumber companies
and pulp companies, and on public
lands.
Laurel outlook., 1948-01-07
Righi.to.Lef Dishwashing
Best, College Tests Prove

PULLMAN, WASH. - If a house
wife is tuckered out at the end of a
hard day at the dishpan, chances
are she is a l~eft-to-right scrubber
instead of a right-to-left operator.
washing dishes from right to left
is more economical of time and mo-
tion," says Mrs. Elizabeth Wiley,
junior home economist, who is do
ing research on the subject for the
Washington state agricultural ex-
pertinent station.
Mrs. Wiley says that less total
dishwashing time is consumed in
the right-to-left approach than in
the left-to-right procedure.
Laurel outlook., 1948-01-07
Eloquent Missionary Is Given
Jeep, Five Bikes as She Sails

BOSTON. An eloquent 55-year-
old missionary vas or her way back
to Africa with a jeep station wagon
and five bicycles to help native pas
tors spread Christianity through the
bush.
Miss Mary W. Hurlbut of Sedalia,
Mo-, procured the vehicles through
the American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions, Boston, to speed up mission
airy service around Elende, West
Africa an area as large as New
York state.
A Congregational Christian teach
er there since 1924, she recently con-
Guided a years furlough.
Laurel outlook., 1948-01-07
Sport of LOggerS

Log rolling or birling has been a
favorite sport on the Pacific coast
for years. The lumberjack is, by
profession, a birler. In 1898 the ma
tional lumber association put on a
national championship during a con-
vention in Omaha, Neb. The sport is
believed to have originated about
1910 as a camp sport. The men stand
on opposite ends of the floating logs
and each tries to upset the other by
sudden twists of the log. The cham
pion usually is decided upon the best
two falls out of three.
Laurel outlook., 1948-01-07
Danish Greenland

Denmark's great colony of Green
land, the worlds largest island,
with an area of 100000 square
miles, is go times the size of the
mother country. It's population con-
sists of only $4,000 Greenlanders,
scattered in small settlements,
chiefly along the west coast, where
$4,000 square miles are ice-free.
About 1900 inhabit the east coast.
The interior of Greenland affords no
means of human subsistence. Inland
ice, miles in thickness, covers the
bulk of the island.
Laurel outlook., 1948-01-07
Measure Found
For Aptitudes
Factors in Human Ability.
Hitherto Unrecognized.
Useful in Tests.

WASHINGTON. - Wartime apti-
tude tests of army air forces have
revealed six hitherto unrecognized
factors in human ability which are
measurable, and there is a strong
suggestion of at least 10 others. This
has been reported to the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science by DR.. j. P. Guilford of the
University Of Southern California,
who had a leading part in construct
ing the tests.
First is the space factor" 1t
consists, he said, 'in a preceptual
arene of the arrangement of OBJ
jects with respect to right-left, up
down and in-out dimensions" Cor
rect choice as to dimension of
movement depends on it. This abil-
ity varies greatly from person to
person.
A factor which Guilford calls
"manipulatory Installation is
shown by a test requiring one to
imagine transformations, move
ments or other changes. A typical
test presents a picture of a square
of paper being folded one or more
times in successive steps and a hole
of given shape being cut out. The
person being examined selects one
of five other pictures, each showing
plausible a and holes, as the
paper would appear after being I'M
folded.
General Factors Vary.
Third is a general factor which
seems TO run through all mechani-
cal ability, from ~tinkering to skill in
manipulating a steam shovel. A
fourth factor is ability to estimate
correctly the length of lines. This
also varies greatly among individ-
uals.
Distinct from manipulatory visu-
alization is a factor which Guilford
calls visual memory"-the ability
to describe a stationary object from
memory. The two factors probably
depend, he says, IN different prop
critics of the visual corteX at the
back of the brain and they perhaps
are dependent on different groups of
brain cells. A person may be good
in one kind of INSTALLATION and
quite poor in the other.
Another new factor he describes
as "judgment-the ability to esti-
mate correctly sizes, times and dis
tances." "It actually may be a
fourth kind of reasoning" he says,
(which has been almost entirely
~a.c,Al -, ,onet info11inA~aA fnctc -
Last of the verified new factors is
psychometer coordination in finger
dexterity and use of arms and legs
in such tests as using mock airplane
controls.
Two Kinds of Reasoning.
He further discriminates ability
in two kinds of reasoning which do
not seem to be misunderstanding
by analogy and reasoning by induc-
ton and deduction. He says: "These
tests suggest that the term reason
ing conceals a number of unrecog-
nized functions. Some of these may
be determined biologically, but 9th
ers may be in the form of reason
ing habits brought about by educa-
ton. Until the v%ariables are better
defined in this area, studies or train
ing in thinking and of the problems
of formal discipline cannot be eff
fected adequately"
The air force tests also showed,
Guilford says, the probability of two
hitherto unrecognized forms of
space perception and two distinct
kinds of memory. All these factors,
it is pointed out in the report, are
statistically independent of each
other.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
Your children
How to keep child
from. being guLHbLe
BY ANNE BRADLEY

thoughtful that their children need
guidance themselves wogld
of realities.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
Canned Salmon

High price does not always
mean high quality in canned SAL
mon.
One brand, the cost of which
came to $1.34 a pound, stood third
from the bottom in the quality
list of AZ brands. And Deming's
and Libby's Red Alaska Sockeye,
both having good flavor and ap-
pearance, each cost only soc for
a l ID. can. The top grades of
salmon are generally accepted as
Chinook and Sockeye, followed by
Coho, Pink and Ehum, in that or
der. But there is good and poor
quality within each group. The
food value of salmon (protein,
vitamins and minerals is high re-
CARELESS of grade. Canned salmon
can make an excellent meat sub
stitute.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
Present state
OF atomic energy

DR.. Malcolm Dole, chemist, will
open series of five lectures, spon-
sored by the Science Division of
Illinois Progressive Citizens of
America, by discussing 'The Pres
ent State of the Atomic Energy
Problem" on Jan. 81.
This meeting at Curtiss Hall,
Fine Arts Building, 40 S. Michi-
gan av., will be followed by four
others in which problems of cur
rent interest will be discussed by
noted natural and social scien-
fists. Tickets may be secured from
Pea, 112 E. Walton ST., Superior
7035.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
dollars and sense
TeIevision Receivers

Television is still in its infancy
with regard to quality of receiv-
ers, availability of service and
quality of programs, Consumers
Union points out in the January
issue of Consumer Reports. But
if you live in an area where re-
ception is available, if you Like
to watch sports and if you don't
mind investing pretty heavily in
a set that may be obsolete within
few years, you may want to
buy television receiver.
Tests of seven showed most OF
them acceptable by today's neces-
sarily lenient standards, but prop
err installation and maintenance
are at least as important as the
quality of the sets themselves.
Among the acceptable receivers
were RCA 621TS $3.50 plus install
lation), 4x51s inch picture; RCA
721TS 1926 plus installation,
RCA 630TS t$377.60 plus install
lation), Emerson 545 ($375 plus in
stallationD and Philco 48-10OO ($395
plus installation, all having 6x8
inch pictures.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17

around the bathtub and the gray
appearance of white fabrics. Other
softeners rated Acceptable and
safe for hands and clothes include
Puro and Coop Household Clean
er. Bright Sail Washing Sal Soda
and Sof Wash, though more eco
nomicaI than the others, are
recommended with reservations,
since they are rather harsh. Where
water is hard, Gu recommends
that synthetic detergents be SUBJ
stituted for soap for washing WOOL
ems, and dishes, and for shampoo
ing the hair.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17

when he cannot go further by
himself.
UNDERLYING these s.ways to
find out" are scientific thinking
and scientific attitudes.
The child should learn to rely
on facts only. His constant ques-
ton should be, ''How do you
know? What is the proof?"
Instead of giving all the pat
answers, the parent should be
ready to say, Lets See-how can
we find out?"
This may seem too much trou-
bic at times, but it is the only
guarantee against guillibility and
credulity.
GRADUALLY the child should
learn to think in cause and effect
relationships; that nothing hap
pens without some cause, that
everything you or he or do pro-
duces some effect somewhere.
Eventually such scientific think
ing and scientific attitudes should
operate in all areas of human en-
deavor.
The individual Should become in
creasingly free from dogma and
superstition. He should be skep-
teal about all unexplained Cor
worse, unexplainable) mysteries.
He should appreciate the de-
gree of control which man can
have over his environment and
not escape into any fatalistic at,
titudes, such as, whats the use,
you can't change human nature"
Finally he should not be afraid
of change, but welcome expert
mentation and change if it is
based upon scientific findings.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
Can Openers

Of q brands of can openers
tested and rated, only IA passed
preliminary tests on simple abil-
ity to open cans. Others were
unable to open satisfactorily one
or another of the standards cans
for which they were intended.
Wall-type openers are best if
space is available. OF these Sears
Maid of Honor ($1.74 plus post
age) and Swing-A-Way ($2.29)
rated high. Where space is lin
tied, hand-type openers, though
less convenient to use, may be
substituted. Flint Precision ($1.5O
and Miracle Q5c) were among
high-quality brands.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
Supreme Court
frees Negro boy

WASHINGTON, Jan. IL. - The
Supreme Court today set aside by
ga vote, the first degree murder
conviction of John Harvey Haley,
.15-year-old Negro youth. Haley
had been sentenced to life i'm
prisonment in connection with the
Staying of a Canton confectioner
in 1945.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
Water Softeners

Consumers Union tests on water
softeners give first place to CAL
gon, rather expensive softening
agent which forms neither pre-
cipitate nor curd. 1t is the curd,
caused by the reaction of soap
and the minerals in hard water,
which is responsible for the ring
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17

But to know what will help the
child most and sustain him in his
adult life often becomes worri-.
some question.
Many times they see that to
give the child accurate knowledge
OF the world about him is not
enough, because there are new sit
uations to which his acquired
knowledge does not apply.
WHAT the modern child needs
is truly not wealth of unrelated
facts, a la Quiz Kids, but tools
with which to attack and solve
new problems. These tools are
"ways to find out"
The child can be encouraged to
find out by reading about the
problem in reliable books and
magazines; performing expert
ments; asking real authority
for information (such as a ZOO
keeper about animals or an cleo
trician about lights.
The adults role is to remind
the child, when a new problem
arises, of these ways of finding
a solution giving assistance