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Kodiak mirror., 1958-03-15
EXPERTS RECOMMEND USE OF VERMICULITE

Northwest garden authorities are recommending vermiculite more and more as a soil condi- tiOner.
 Vermiculite is lightweight sterile mineral which loosens soil, holds moisture.
 With spring gardening time here, the following list of the most popular uses of vermiculite will be helpful to the Northwest home gardner ##
 SOIL CONDITIONING If you have heavy garden soil, spade in vermiculite to create air channels and enable plant roots to penetrate the soil. If soil is sandy, vermicu- lite will give it body, hold the mois- ture. .#.
 NEW LAWNS Work vermicu- lite into the seed bed, then use it as top dressing to increase and hasten generation, and ito protect the lawn from drying out.
 PLAN TING VEGETABLES, FLOWERS-Instead of covering
Kodiak mirror., 1958-03-15
and Grace Pecore helping them celebrate the occasion ..

8 MN
 Why prepare lunch at home to- day? Just take the entire family to the Emblem Club luncheon at the Elks Hall for some of that good food prepared by Anna Mueller <. You can save some baking time, too, by buying pie or cake at the bake sale Lunch will be served from III am until 2 pm, and the public is cor dialy invited ..
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 Clam chOwder .. st am d clans baked clans all the clans one could eat. That's what we found at the Mcntmartre Mon day at their FREE clam bake !. mighty tasty food. prepared by Chef Mcdowell
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 tILd lGING, WHO IldS DEG1l III Washington, Oregon and California since early last May, returned to Kodiak Sunday Vera is now employed as cashier at Sport
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 We were relieved to learn that A. L. Sienko was paying our office a friendly visit instead of an official one ne IS from the Anchorage office of the Internal Revenue Service, and spent the past week in Kodiak on business MI. We are happy to report that all IRS personnel are NOT in human, as many people may think many of them are mighty nice and helpful like MT. Sienko
Kodiak mirror., 1958-03-15
Of This And That

Attention all Business and Professional Women's Club Mem berS make your dinner reser. vation for Monday evening before noon today with Lila Lester at phone 2146 . There will be ini- tiation of new members in addition to the program
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 If anyone has stray hunk of Kodiak Bear around the house, we can tell you how to dispose of it .. The following letter was re- gently received by Postmaster Briggs, who turned it over to Art Brooks, Chamber of Commerce Secretary, for action: Dear Post master, Will you send me post
Kodiak mirror., 1958-03-15
KODIAK MIRROR
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank all our friends for their sympathy and assistance during our recent bereavement
 (S) The Olsen Family
Kodiak mirror., 1958-03-15
NOTICE

If you can not get us on phone 313l, call 43O3 for oil delivery. or flee hours, l pm. to 5 pm. MoE- day through Thursday, pm. to ' pm. Friday.
 THOMPSON TRANSFER
Kodiak mirror., 1958-03-15
SOCIAL. NOTES Homemaking Happenings About 7o~n Gardening
 By Betha Digre<
By Betha Digre<

age stamp? And if you can, will you send me a piece of Kodiak Hear? Thank you.' The letter was sent by youngster in Chenango Forks, N.Y.. Evidently New York parents. and teachers need further education so that they can teach the children that Alaska really isn't a foreign country. Surely no one can blame the youngsters for their lack of know
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 There is brighter side to the picture, tho, as shown by letter we had few days ago from a school boy in Dayton, Ohio who wrote, Dear Sirs, I am a Fourth Grade student at Harmon School and we are studying about Alaska and I thought I would write to you. If you could send me copy of your newspaper I would be very grateful. If we could vote we would vote for you to be the forty ninth star on the American flag. Sincerely, Greg Bonner" Perhaps we would get quicker action on Statehood if we referred it to the school children, rather than to the sl0Wer-thinking, sloWer-acting poli- ticians in Washington, DC. Greg deserves compliment, too, for his neat looking letter and his legible handwriting
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 Happy Birthday wishes were in order Monday for Leon (Ole) Johnson x. and for Tenora Rock ney and Rupert Gurley on Tues day Tenora and Rupert were honored at a birthday dinner party at the Montmartre Tuesday even ing, with Ed Rockney and Eddie
Kodiak mirror., 1958-03-15
NOTICE

The Christian Science Society in the Chapel Annex on the Base of Kodiak holds services & Sun day School every Sunday at II a.m-
Kodiak mirror., 1958-03-15
GRANDMOTHERS CLUB SPONSOR SMORGASBORD

The Kodiak Grandmothers Club is sponsoring Smorgasbord, to be held at . pm Saturday. March 22, at the Civil Service Club #
 The Smorgasbord, which will be open to the public, will feature home cooking. There will also be music for dancing.
 Tickets are $2.50 each. For re- servations, call the Civil Service Club, 233, Wilma Shaw, 326 or Ruth Bushaw at 628 not later than noon Thursday, March 20.
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 HOW CAN I??????
 Q. How can remove white stains on furniture caused by water and heat? H. !. A. Mix half-and-half solution of turpentine and linseed oil, dip a cloth in it, and rub the spot. Or, cover the spots with camphorated oil for ten minutes, then rub dry with soft cloth. Still another method is to cover the stains with mineral oil and let it stay for a couple of days before polishing it with 3 cloth.
Kodiak mirror., 1958-03-15

Mirror Classified Ads get fast results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
It's National Jell-O On he-Day-
Before-Payday Week!

You can dine like king even when there's
nothing to count in the counting house!
A Jell-O dessert like this-bleSs its
thrifty little heart just looks expensive.
And when your family finishes second
helpings of this tastes-like-a-million treat,
they'll think it's the day after paydayl
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-09
Air Force Jet Starfighter Climbs To 0l.240 Feet

LOS ANGELES, LR - The United States claimed a new world altitude record of 91,249 feet Thursday.
 It was achieved in a 27-minute flight over the Mojave Desert by a Lockheed F1O4A Starfighter flown by Mai. Howard c. John son, 36, stationed at Hamilton Air Force Base, near San Fran cisco.
 The Air Force said the alti- tude he reached exceeded by more than two miles the mark of 8O,190 feet recorded May by a French experimental plane.
 This, in turn, had topped the altitude of 76,928 feet achieved April 16 by Navy It. Cmdr George c. Watkins, in a Gruman F11F-1F in a flight over Ed wards AFB, Calf.
 Gen. Nathan Twining, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, calls the Starfighter "the most advanced plane of it's type ever developed"
 The 17-mile climb by the Starfighter, designed to exceed the speed of sound in straight upward flight, was started at 11:4O am. and completed 27 minutes later.
 The F104A flies on razor blade wings and is powered by Gen. eral Electric J79 jet engine The wings lading edges are so sharp they are covered with felt strips when the craft is on the ground to prevent injury to crewmen. The wings measure only 712 feet from the fuselage to the tips while the body of the lance shaped plane is 5434 feet long.
 The Starfighter is the lightest weight jet combat plane in the U. s. Air Force fleet.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-09
DISTINCTIVE NAME NEEDED

The new section of the Nome Scool has a lovely small auditorium which has served many purposes since it put to and has been designated the mult-purpose room.
 The name suits it serves the community in manyways However the time has come when it should have identifying it with little more distinction and dignity as 1t is more than a room.
 It could be named after some person who is worthy of recognition in the educational field in Nome some teacher, maybe appropriate Eskimo name It would be opportunity of honoring local person
 The Nugget would be glad to publish suggestions to be presented to the Nome School Board for consideration
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-09
ASTRONOMY NOTES
 By OLAF HALVERSON

Two asteroids that come close to the earth are Apollo and Ado his. When Apollo is at peri helion it is inside the orbit of Venus. The perihelion distance of Adonis is only slightly great CT than Mercury's mean distance from the sun. This asteroid passes little more than mil lion miles from the earth's orbit.
 Another neighborly asteroid, Icarus, which passes within 4 million miles of the earth's or bit, attracted attention in 1949. It left a long trail on photo graph by Baade with the 48-inch Schmidt telescope of the Palo- mar Observatory. At perihel- ion it's distance from the sun is less than 20 million miles. It is the only known asteroid that ventures within the orbit of Mercury.
 Asteroids which have been detected within a few million miles of the earth are about a mile in diameter.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-09
AmundSOn Reports On Aviation Board Meeting

Rev. R. Amundson, the Second Division member of the Alaska Aeronautics Board, returned yes terday from a meeting at which four of the members attended in cluding Noel Wien, Alton Coon and Lyman Rice.
 On the agenda for the 1859 pro- gram for this area Rev. Amund- son reports that only the Shish- maref field is found to be in adequate for mail serve and work will be done on it.
 On the lower Yukon there has been little work done as the res- idents have been unable to agree on a spot appropriated for their use. They have petitioned the board for a DC-3 field to be placed where the engineers see fit as one is badly needed in that area.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-09
Wien Seeks Permit For Flight to Big Delta

WASHINGTON, B Wien Alaska Airlines asked the Civil Aeronautics Board Monday for authority to operate a scheduled service between Big Delta and Anchorage.
 Wien currently serves Big Delta on a route between Fair banks and Titlin.
 The airline said Big Delta, g town of 300, is near the Army post at Fort Greedy, which has a population of 1900.
 Wien proposed one round trip a day between Fairbanks and Anchorage by way of Big Delta.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-09
Troops To Leave Little Rock, Ark. On May 29th

WASHINGTON, R Presi- dent Eisenhower Thursday or dered withdrawal May 29 of all federal troops enforcing school integration at Little Rock, Ark.
 The President said in a state ment he hopes it will be unnec- essary to return the troops at the start of the school year next September.
 EisenhoWer's statement said:
 Since last September the federal government has stationed soldiers at the Little Rock High School to prevent obstruction of the orders of the U. s. District Court"
 Since the summer recess starts at the Central High School on May 28 and since there will be no further present need for the Guardsmen, have directed they be released May 29."
 "Following that date I trust that state and local officials and citizens will assume full respon- sibility and duty for seeing that the orders of the federal court are not obstructed."
 "The faithful execution of the of the responsibility will make it unnecessary for the federal government to preserve the Sn- tegrity of our judicial processes. ,"
 At Little Rock, Asst. Adjutant General William c. Page said a few over 400 officers and men still were federalized in con- nection with the integration con troversy.
 May 28 is the last day of classes at Central High and other public schools in Little Rock. Graduation exercises will be held at Central High May 27.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-09
Fort Sumner Flag Taken From Case First Time In 93 Years To Be Photographed

CHARLESTON, s. C., LR - The historic flag that flew over Fort Sumner when the first shots of the Civil War were fired was back in it's dramatically sealed case Thursday.
 The Is by 24-foot, shell-torn flag was taken out Wednesday for the first time in 93 years to be photographed in color by the National Park Service. The photograph is for inclusion in a book on the American flags evo- lution.
 The flag was last unfurled here in 1865 when federal troops raised it in ceremonies marking the wars end.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-09
Manslaughter Charged In Shooting of Husband Over "Other Woman"

ANCHORAGE, LR - Mrs. Betty Jean Mahaffey, 32, was convic- ted of manslaughter Wednesday in the New Years Day shooting of her husband, Robert Mahaffey, 34, son of a Seattle school teacher.
 The District Court judge made a strong recommendation for leniency.
 Mrs. Mahaffey had been charged with second degree mur- der in the "other woman" shoot ing at the Kodiak home of the J. s. Fish and Wildlife Service agent.
 She had based her defense up- on temporary insanity and said the bedroom staying was a form of self defense after he had threatened to do her bodily harm.
 Mrs. Mahaffey told the court her troubles stemmed from the fact Mahaffey had said he was in love with a Mrs. Nancy Tomlin- son Scott of Seattle.
 She remained free on bond af- ter the verdict and will appear for sentencing May 16.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-10
DORIS FLEEsoN

Lyndon johnson has now
firmly staked his presidential
hopes in the wild blue yon-
der.
AS Majority Leader Of the
Senate, Senator johnson can
pick and choose his commit
tee assignments as no other
Senator can. He rode his pre-
paredness subcommittee into
the post-Sputnik headlines.
His new Craftsmanship Of the
special committee which will
deal with the problems Of
exploration Of outer space
will keep Senator johnson
well in the forefront Of the
news.
Whether this can ever be
translated into political sup
port which will be effective
at the next Democratic Ma
tional Convention is another
matter. Senator johnson does
not admit to his candidacy,
yet he is. with his astonish-
ing vigor and persistence,
following a course which can
lead observers to no other
conclusion.
He is conspicuously WOO
ing some of the Democratic
Party's most conspicuous
eggheads. And he is doing
1t with the same grave charm
and determination as Vice
President Nixon is using on
Republicans. Reports are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-10
Senator Woos Democratic Egghe0ds,
Shows Viqor Despite Heart Attack

that Senator Johnson's tao.
tics are working at least in
some places.
For all the advantage that
his high position gives him,
Senator Johnson still has
hurdles on the way to the
White House which most
politicians would feel were
insurmountable.
II he has not entirely re-
covered from his heart at
tack he is, giving little evi-
dence of it. Yet the memory
Of it is still there. The rising
debate on a presidential dis
ability bill is evidence that
presidential illness or the
likelihood of 1t is in the minds
of Congress If not yet in
the minds Of voters. Demo-
Gratis who thought that
President Eisenhower's ILL
ness ought to have been
made an important issue in
the 1856 campaign will re-
main sensitive to the issue as
it effects Senator Johnson's
candidacy.
Although Senator johnson
as majority leader steered
last years civil rights bill
to passage by out-f1anking
the more hard-bitten South
erners, Texas is at least
partly of the Southern ira
dition and politicians from
other sections, mindful Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-10
The Real Aims Of the Communists

has q lot to say in scorn Of
Westerners because they de-
clare they believe in God.
Khrushchev doesn't like the
"atheistic" label pinned on
him by Western Spokesman
but does nothing to indicate
he or his followers have be-
come believers In God. In
stead he insists the Western
ers don't believe in God either
and cites local wars IN recent
years--as If self defense has
been held sinful by religion.
Most palpable are the omis-
sions. After denouncing the
one time Fascist govern
ments Of Italy and Germany
and accusing the West Of
having instigated an attack
on Russia by Hitler in 1871.
the Communist spokesman
forgets altogether that there
would not have been any
World War II if Stain and
Molotov themselves had not
made an alliance with Hitler
in 1889 which gave military
immunity to the Nazis on
their own Eastern Front
while they concentrated an
attack, in the West.
It is because Of arguments
Of such duplicity that the
world win be left to wonder
what Khrushchev really has
in mind. He repeatedly says
the Soviet Union has per-
fected arms mot only to des-
troy these bases but also to
strike a crushing retaliatory
blow against more remote OBJ
jectives."
Then why should Kru-
shchev worry any more about
the NATO bases or Western
military strength? Plainly
the Com m unist leaders
speech is full of inconsistent
cies. On the whole they en-
phasize that a summit"
meeting is not really desired
for purposes Of reaching any
agreement on armament but
primarily to demonstrate to
the worried people behind
the Iron Curtain that the
Communist leaders are the
oretically striving for Peace"
"a dom e site propaganda
game to quell unrest and the
protests Of those who suffer
privation in standards of liv-
ing as the rubles they are en-
titled to in wages are wasted
on armament.
Reproduction Rishts Reserved)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-10
Menshikov Set on PorIeyot Summit

Communist broadcasters in
Moscow, Peiping, Cairo ana
Damascus that Dulles must
go" we're taken up by neutral.
lists and others in the free
countries as well as by o mum.
Der Of neo-liberals in America.
Fortunately for us the
Kremlin overplayed its hand
when Premier Bulganin, in
his last communication to
Mr.. Eisenhower, indicated In
thinly yelled terms that the
Soviet Union would not deal
with the American Secretary
Of State. This caused such q
stir in the Senate that last
Thursday the senior Repub-
lican Senator Styles Bridges.
not always a defender Of
Mr.. Dulles, backed by the
Democratic deputy floor. .
leader. Mike Mansfield, sup
ported the Eisenhower
Dulles policies which can be
summed up in these few
words: Lets not fall into
another Communist trap"
The new Soviet Ambassas
dor will have to be more
skillful than Ambassador
Hans Dieckhof whom Hitler
sent to the United States In
1887 to soften up the Amer
lean Government toward
Nazi policies. He was a very
personable German who had
served in turn the empire,
the Weimar republic, and
the Third Reich. but he
failed. The administration
and the American people
had become aware Of what
his boss aimed at although
we were not the target Of
the German dictator as we
are now the target Of inter.
national communism.
Comrade Menshikov may
be able to secure some new
trade agreements Of Ques-
tionable value to us. But
considering the present cli-
mate in Washington it Is =
doubtful that he will be able.
to sell us a summit confer
ence without the prelimi.
naries on which Mr.. Dulles
insists,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-10
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Russian-United States cultural exchange may
prove less than electrfyng to both like the
Republicans and Democrats exchanging Harold Sassen and
Wayne-Mprse
The Navy brands the Armys Jupiter Rocket as waste
ful Absolutely right You shoot one Of those things
and you never do get It back.
Roy Johnson Of General Electric is named Government
boss of outer space Gen. Twning to Gen. Taylor "Wel
guess that takes Of Gen. Motorsi"
Promotion notes from g. o. p headquarters: Sherman
Adams has been named chief janitor replacing Dick Nixon
who has moved upstarS-and teaches the Bible
class.
be helped One Of his early morning Republican callers stole
his travel folders
Defense Chief Mclroy hints the Air Force may get jurs
dcon space The Air Force deserves to into
BY summer will be the only service that hasn't been there
vet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-10

Prime Minister Macmillan
has told Premier Bulganin
that advance preparations,
preferably by a foreign min
listers parley, are needed to
create "a reasonable pros
pect" that a heads-of-state
meeting would produce Com
crete results on specific is
Sues"
America stands fast-for
the time being-in refusing
to play the Kremlin game
and make a sad farce Gas in
1850 out Of the meeting be-
tween President Eisenhower
and the British, French and
Russian prim e ministers.
There is nothing our Govern
ment and the American peo-
pie desire more ardently than
the end Of the cold war which
is costing US not only cash
and substance but also
threatens our economic fab
ric.
In order to achieve even
a partial relaxation of the
international crisis it is
necessary that the Russians
give some proof by deeds that
they want to live peacefully.
An agreement at the lower
levels that Germany will be
reunited would offer a tang.
ible proof of the Kremlin's
good intentions. But at no
time in recent conversations
with the Soviet government
has there been any indication
that this is in their minds.
Comrade Khrushchev must
have received some miSin-
formation from his sources in
this country when he became
convinced that President
Eisenhower would be willing
to attend a top level parley
II 1t were not for the adj
vice of Secretary of State
Dulles. Khrushchev has at
tempted since last October
through his powerful prop
uganda media to get rid Of
Mr.. Dulles. The shouts of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-10

runs the big trucking union,
that after he came back from
the Washington courtroom an
officer of Local Isl told him:
1T wasn't bad enough that
you took a reporter down the
road. but now you testified
against us in Washington. If
we didn't have q case against
you before, we've got one now
that will stick"
Mr.. Pevin testified in WASH
ington that Local ISL refused
to take his union dues after he
accompanied q reporter along
the truck route from Provi-
dence to New Haven to inter-
view union truck drivers. He
said yesterday the local union
still is not taking his dues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-10
Johnson's Presidential HOPES

the Negro vote, may hesitate
to commit the party to SEN
ator johnson.
The majority leaders big
gest hurdle viii be his MANY
labors Of love for the oil in
dustry. The perennial bill to
exempt natural gas prices
from Federal regulation will
be up again at this session Of
Congress and cannot help but
make the support the Texan
gives that industry plain once
again. $40.
Labor's voice and that of
the Negro will loom large in
the next Democratic Conven-
ton. The liberal intellectuals
may be small in numbers but
they are vocal and will GER
tainly be heard. "Oil" is a
dirty word to most of these
groups.
How genuinely serious,
Senator Johnson's intentions
are cannot be said. Possibly,
as is the case with Estes Ke-
fauver. he is lost without a
goal toward which he can
determindedly drive. It is
doubtful that anyone. no
matter how close, could long
contain Senator Johnson's
vigor which apparently is
great enough to outweigh
when challenged. his remark
able intelligence. It would
perhaps seem easiest. after
all, to let him play out his
string, come hell or high
water.