Christmas Pageant Set At Orpheum This Monday
The Rotary Club sponsored Christmas pageant titled The Nativity will be staged at the Orpheum Theatre with two performances at 6 and 7 30 for different age groups Santa Claus will attend both shows and hand out candy fruit and favors The program will feature a school led production with a long cast of roles and a chorus listing many local names and participants
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Orpheum Theatre
Rotary Club
Santa Claus
Betty Carter
Kodiak Mirror skips Dec 29 issue for Jan 5 return
The Kodiak Mirror announces it will omit the December 29 edition as in prior years and resume publication with the January 5 issue, signaling no issue on the holiday week and a planned early January restart.
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Kodiak Mirror
Watch Night Eve In Offing at Community Baptist Church
The Community Baptist church announces a New Year’s Eve Watch Night event on Monday December 31 beginning at 8 pm with games and refreshments. The program closes with a Watch Night service at 11:30 pm led by Rev. Glen Chandler with Mrs. Gregory Morony and Rev. John Winter coordinating entertainment. the invitation is open to all.
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Community Baptist Church
Glen Chandler
Gregory Morony
John Winter
Christmas Music Sung For Club
A Rotary Club luncheon featured 4th Grade chorus directed by Mrs. Esther Meill singing O Come All Ye Faithful Heard the Bells on Christmas Day and Hark the Herald Angels Sing California Holly Silent Night. Soloist Isabel Nelson also performed with a quartet. Guests included John Johnson NOB Kodiak and Captain Walter Kraft.
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Esther Meill
Rotary Club
Isabel Nelson
Oscar Nelson
Irene Sundberg
Ruth Chase
Carol Gregoroff
Herald Angels
California
Natalie Ponchene
Dolores Moore
Gertrude Selig
Marie Anderson
Donald Winter
Mell
John Johnson
Nob, Kodiak
Walter Kraft
Christmas Eve Mass Planned at Former Red Cross Center
A midnight Mass will be held on Christmas Eve in the former Red Cross center with special Christmas music and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament immediately after. The public is invited to attend.
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Red Cross Center
Notable names listed in a regional roster update
Anna Pavloff Chichenoff Alice Brun Eleanor Nekeferoff Lor raine Magnusen Max Folsom Gene Sundberg Dickie Simeon off Raymond Hartman Gary Landin James Kizer Douglas Dawson Jimmy Scroggs appear in a regional roster feature. The names indicate players or affiliates connected to local teams or clubs cataloged in the period’s sports or community notes.
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Chichenoff
Anna Pavloff
Alice Brun
Eleanor Nekeferoff
Lorraine Magnusen
Max Folsom
Gene Sundberg
Dickie Simeonoff
Raymond Hartman
Gary Landin
James Kizer
Douglas Dawson
Jimmy Scroggs
Firemen's Ball New Year’s Eve at American Legion building
The Firemen’s Annual New Year’s Ball offers a chance at a $25 Victory Bond and raises funds for the Volunteer Fire department. Dancing 9 to 1 with a local orchestra in the American Legion building, first public dance since wartime Red Cross control. Open house at the firehall from 7 pm with buffet lunch. advance tickets on sale.
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American Legion
Red Cross
Turkey Shoot Set Amid Weather No Barrier
Tom Nachand announced a two day turkey shoot today and Sunday along Brooklyn Avenue with three classes advanced beginners and women and prizes for each. At Thursday council session members praised the Volunteer Fire Department for efficient fire handling over the past year and sent a letter of commendation on Christmas Eve eve.
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Brooklyn Avenue
Tom Nachand
Heavy rains flood Brooklyn avenue and town roads
Heavy rains began Sunday flooding Brooklyn avenue near Clark's garage and washing out road sections as culverts flooded. At Mrs Warren Taylor's apartment behind the Taylor office about 2 inches of water covered the floors at the storm peak.
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Brooklyn Avenue
Clark
Warren Taylor
Taylor
Pat Wright Heads Home to Seattle for Holidays
Town club manager Pat Wright departed on Monday for Seattle to spend the holidays with his parents. It marks his first trip to the States since discharge from the Army here.
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Pat Wright
Seattle
States
Merchants Bring Holiday Messages in Kodiak Mirror
Kodiak merchants present seasonal greetings and well wishes to readers and customers. The page also includes notices about holiday closings and related announcements from local businesses.
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Kodiak
Kodiak Mirror
Santa Claus Letters Routed Through Kodiak Rotary
A Kodiak boy mailed a letter to Santa at the local post office and another addressed to Santa Claus North Pole Alaska, mailed from California. The Rotary Club will forward the letters so Santa can receive them.
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Kodiak
Santa Claus
Maurice Briggs
North Pole
Alaska
California
Rotary Club
Santa
Enlisted Men Invite Kodiak Girls to Fort Greely Party
Army theatre event Sunday December 23 opens at 6 pm with The Bells of St Marys starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman at the Fort Greely Army theatre. After the show a formal dance runs 8:30 to 11 pm at the Service Club with refreshments during intermission and transportation from the bank at 5:30 pm.
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Fort Greely
Kodiak
Army Theatre
Anne Anderson
Marie Olson
Christmas gifts from community groups announced
Gifts made this week include a $100 donation from the Navy Welfare fund for children at the Kodiak Baptist Mission. Another $100 donation goes to the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, operators of the local hospital. The Bartenders Union contributed, and the Teamsters Union provided ice cream fruit and candy for 300 school students.
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Navy Welfare Fund
Kodiak Baptist Mission
Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart
Bartenders Union
Teamsters Union
Christmas Cantata Planned by Community Baptist Choir
The Community Baptist Church choir will present a full Christmas cantata The Star of Bethlehem by Carrie B Adams Sunday at 7 30 pm in the church sanctuary The program features solos duets and choir pieces with offerings dedicated to the Public Health Nurse and a list of choir members and names included.
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Community Baptist Church
Carrie B. Adams
Robert Dawson
Betty Carter
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Stanley Effinger
Mary
Donna Fitzgerald
Joseph
Donald Clark
Three Kings
Raymond Madsen
Ceetshell
Betty Heglin
Esther Levine
Marilyn Chamberlain
June Ruyle
Ane Norton
Gladys Pagano
Cleo Gregorioff
Eresa
Annie
Ornestine
Mirror
Mass
Turkey
Leland’ Barnes
N. M. Chamberlain
A. Holmes Johnson
Moun
Mesdames
P. J. Watekinson
Morris Burnham
Sterling Shephard
Stanley Alvine
Fred Miller
Leland Barnes
Jacqueline Smith
Edgar Burress
Eugene Bromley Basses
Robert Parkin
Fred Jordan
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