_ Mr- Keithalim, Curator
The Seward Polaris & TKKU,Toa,ALMUSEU"
VOLUME 4 * INDEPENDENT ❖ SEWARD. ALASKA * JUNE 5. 1948 SEWARD. ALASKA * UNITED PRESS SERVICE ❖ PRICE 10 CENTS No. 9C
Kenai Peninsula Bus
Line to Start Service
What was once a vast wilder
ness. game reserve, and fisher
mans paradise is now to be ser
ved by a bus line.
H. H. Malcolm and D. F. Marsh
are the Alaskans back of the
move.
The new bus line* to serve the
Kenai Peninsula out of Seward
will commence operating within
a week or ten days. For the pre
sent it will proceed out of Seward
along tlie new highway as far
as completed roadway will per
mit. the town of Kenai being
the object ive at an early date.
The ultimate terminal point on
Kenai Peninsula is to be the
well known agricultural area of
Homer, Alaska.
All bus equipment together with
a complete supply of spare parts,
mechanical replacements and sup
plies arrived by Alaska Freight
Express Company steel barge, at
Seward this week. Buses for ser
vice on this new route are of
Kenworth Motor Coach Corpora
tion manufacture and have Mo
hair adjustable reclining back j
seats with head rests. The buses 1
are of 21 passenger capacity.
Illustrated folders have been '
printed and are in the hands of
many tourist travel bureaus, air- ^
plane and steamship transporta j
tion companies in the States ad- j
vertising the attractiveness of the
Kenai Peninsula scenery through
out the route of our travel area.
The originators of this enter
prise are men of long residence
of the Territory of Alaska, and
both residents of Seward. Mr.
Malcolm came to the Territory of1
Alaska in 1918 and for two years i
was associated with ,T. R. & Tom j
Heckman in canning salmon at
Ketchikan. Later established in j
Seldovia 1922 until 1942 and in ,
1943 became a resident of Sew- [
ard. Mr. D. F. Marsh now a re- 1
sident of Seward was sasociated
wth newspapers at Ketchikan,
Anchorage and Fairbanks Alaska !
j
and has been a resident of the
Territory for the past seven years. j
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BABY CONTEST
JULY 15TH
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The American Legion Auxi
liary is sponsoring a Baby Contest
July 4th with this thought in
—because July 4th is one
time in the year when all town
people get to-gether for mutual
enjoyment and because there are
so many new babies in Seward
at would be a good time to get
acquainted with our young folks. .
The age limit for contestants has
beenset at 2 years old. This will
include all babies up to 2 years
i old.
y Parents are ask to send in
« name and picture of baby alony
w ith their awn names to the Am- j
erican Legion Auxiliary, Box 402
Seward. Dead line for entrance
to contest is noon June 15th. For j
any other information contact
Mrs. Ted Lesko or Mrs. Gene j
Laniier.
After June 15th tickets will
be sold for 50 cents each en
titling th holder of said ticket
<to cast 100 votes for his favorite
contestant, besides maintaining
for himself a chance to win a S50
Cash prize at the drawing to be
neld July 4th at the Bank corner
directly following the start of
the- Marithon race. At this time
• he babies Iwil be gathered at
the Bank Corner and the towns
favorite given a S25.00 Savings
Bond along with the honorary
title of “Little Miss or Mr. Sew
ard ' for the day. Second prize to
baby winner will receive S10.00.
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WAS SHE AN ALBINO
MR. HUBBARD SAW ?
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Chas. Hubbard was in town to
day on business and told of see
ing the unusual sight of a very
black moose calf and a mother
who was all white but the hind
quarters which were brown.
Tom Babcock seems to be the
Only other person, so far who
#ias seen anything like this and
that was many years ago.
Be an excellent trophy but
thats Andy Simon’s territory, so
don’t be foolin’ ’round.
PASADENA LADIES
MAKE NEW FRIENDS
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Mrs. Grace Y. Hudson. Mrs. j
Burton E. Heartt both of South ,
Pasadena and Mrs. Mark F. Junes I
of Pasadena wore among those of
the Women's Club who made the
trip to Seward on the Aleutian.
While here they met many Se
ward people among whom were
the writer and his wife.
They told of the drouth in Cal. 1
ifornia, the worst in 46 years
and how the water level had
dropped so that many trees who’s
roots did not reach moisture with
ered and died. How, for the !
first time Christmas Tree Row :
had to be watered with fire;
hoses. (These Himilyan Firs were!
brought to the States by some |
explorer and given to Pasadena!
many years ago. They are lighted 1
during Christmas week and thou- 1
sands view them as they make j
the trip by auto or bus through
Altedena).
They told of the rationing of,
water and lights as well as pow |
er.
Avacado trees are dying and
Oranges also. The rain washes j
the scale and sprays from the or- 1
anges but this year there was
not enough rain to do this: pro-:
bably it will be necessary to
wash and dry oranges before
marketing.
The trip up while cool was
very enjoyable, and net at all
rough. j
They spoke of the scenery and
many plan to return and stay \
longer so as to make trips all
over the territory using Seward
as a base for many of these ex
peditions.
Interest was shown in ivory
work and the gold nuggets which
were shown in the windows,
many bought Robert Hall’s fine
slides of Kenai Peninsula views
of scenery and game.
The Aleutian left about 9 a.m.
Friday, June 4 with many persons
who saw Seward and Alaska for
the first time and who plan to
return for another visit but
choosing June instead of May for
the trip, May being stell a little
early.
EYE ‘SPOTS’
Marilyn Mundt ho'ds “polka do!”
patterns used in experiments to de
termine how tl'<> human eye detects
Ziaininess in photographic enlarge
ments. With the charts, which are
ronventional patterns ot the graini
acss >ei n in photographic negatives,
scientists arc trying to learn eharac
{eristics of various patterns and
ivhat determines “just perceptible”
Ziaininess. according to National
Patent Council.
BALMAT AND KINSLL
BAG SMALL BLAR
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Paul Balmat and Carl Kinsel
took a trip to tlie edge of town
and came hack with two beauti
ful hides—rather small but in
first class shape. One was brown
from a “brownie” cub and the
other was black. The two were
within a quarter of mile of each
other and weighed about 150 lbs.
apiece.
RAILWAY EXPRESS CO. HERE
DOES BUSINESS AS USUAL
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Mr. L. O. Head. President of
Railway Express Agency, said to
day that his company has not been
officially consulted about any
purported change in its status as
an express carrier, as recently re
ported in the press. Nor had any
studies of its package traffic, pro
perties or other services been
made to justify such a statement,
he said. I
It was pointed out that in 1947.
the customers of Railway- Express
paid $442,000,000 for transporting
193.000.000 express shipments.
"This is incontrovertible evid
ence of I he huge public demand
and need for the c-onplete trans
portation service which Railroad
Express is providing." Mr. Head
continued, “and it will undoubt
edly take more than an expres- 1
•Tun of opinion to do away with
that need." |
If. as claimed, the handling of
small package traffic by express
is uneconomical to the railroads,
it will likewise be uneconomical
to the taxpayer, who is already
l
pay ing the heavy annual loss |
sustained in parcel post service to j
which it has been suggested a
certain part of the traffic now
being handled by Railroad Ex
press Agency be diverted.
The above information furnished
by local Railway Express Agent
Don S. Wilson.
[[' " JOIM RAYROU SAVINGS ,
Hi-Way News
Courtesy of Mrs. Harold Maxwell
People, thar’ are b'ar about!
And 1 ain't kiddin’. Last Friday
veiling I got up from the dinner
lahle to get the the dessert and.
glancing out the window, stared
straight into the face of three
black bears—a mama bear and
iwo yearlings. They were about
twenty feet from the house and
advancing steadily. 1 made fran
tic gestures to Harold and the
i hildcrn. trying to get them quiet
ly. up from the table and to tile
window, so that the bears would
not take fright and run. However,
as they rose frdm the table, the
bears stopped, looked and listen
ed. Harold .had no gun in the
housi mid so tore out the door
and over to the Gillespies, burst
ing in upon Aniiitta and tiic baby
and iioileiing for the gun. By the
lime he got bark outside with it,
the bears were disappearing up
,. for batik into the woods. Har
1 i hur ie i aero . i. i ■ field and
up the bank aft r them, and we
didn't see him a; .in for two
hours, when he came limping and
panting into the field without any
bear. He and Lee have been
hunting every -pare minute since
thin, un i! Wedn.-s day night they
came in with a small mama bear
;.nd a yearling- not the same
bears, however, that visited us
Friday. That mama bear was
much bigger. Harold is still look
ing for her.
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Yesterday the Highway Gals
met at Sylvia West's home, where
they had their usual good time.
Those there were Annetta Gilles
pie. Bobbie Douglas. Creo Ives,
Ed th Douglas. Mrs. Bud. Opal
Bryan. Ruby Steele. Linda Faulk,
ner. Sylvia's daughter Mary, baby
Mary Bryan and baby Raymond
Gillespie. Baby Gillespie simply
fascinated baby Mary, who could
not figure him out. Sylvia served
an appetizing lunch of ham and
lettuce sandwiches, potntoe salad,
white cake and coffee. Our next
get-together will bo on June 17th
at Erma Johnson's place.
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Th ee little orphans are being
cared for out here. They are black
cocker spaniels from the Home in
the Woods whose mother died
shortly after they were born.
The Wests have two and the
Stephenses have the other. They
are being fed with a bottle and
I understand they keep Mary
West and the Stephenses fairly
busy.
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There is a line, big mother dog
out here on the highway who has
beautiful lilters of pups. She is
the Lyle Douglases’ “Sandy”, and
she recently produced an extre
mely handsome litter, out of
which two healthy brownish-gray
ish male pups are still unspoken
for. The Withcrups have spoken
for a curly red-brown one with
a black face, the Gillespies chose
the lit t lest one, a white puppy
with black spots, we chose the
biggest one. white with brown
spots and 1 don’t know who has
asked for the fourth. All of these
puppies were the biggest, healthi
est puppies at birth many of us
out here had ever seen.
Wc have just acquired anothe
dog, too. She is a pink-eyed,
pink-nosed, six-months old golden
retriever which we got from the
Lloyd Rogers in town. She has
been out here since Sunday and
has certainly added much to the
richness of our childern’s lives.
She is very alert and full of pep
and not the least shy about de
manding her rights.
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The Gillespies are taking care
of Kay McCann’s red cocker “Las
sie“. which Kay and Ginger Gay
brought out here Wednesday.
Wednesday night Lassie was lone
some and blue and so she howl
ed about it off and on during
the wee, small hours. Last night
Ray took her for a nice, long hike
through the woods and talked the
situation over wth her. By the
time they returned. she was
convinced she was understood and
appreciated and her feelings tho
roughly commiserated with and
she was content to remain quiet
through the night. This morning
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