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Vol. VII. No. 3
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1950
Price 10 Cents
C.A.B. Hearing
In Seward
Tues. July 18
A meeting of the greatest
importance to Seward and its
citizens will be the hearing of
the Civil Aeronautics Board at
2:00 p.m. in the Commissioners
Court room.
Although the hearing is being
held for the purpose of consider
ation of several airlines on their
applications of convenience and
necessity for operation between
Anchorage and Seward, the best
interests of Seward will be serv
ed by the establishment of a
Seward based airline.
All townspeople interested in
the certification of a- Seward
based airline are urged to attend
the hearing next Tuesday.
$25.00 FINE FOR
LOCAL MAN
Kenneth M. Anderson was
fined S25.00 in Commissioners
Court Monday when found
guilty as charged of operating
a motor vehicle without valid
operators license.
Anderson also received a
warning against operating a ve
hicle with an overlength load
without having a red flag at
tached.
Patrolman George Puckett
warns all residents that it is un
lawful to carry loads extending
more than 41/2 feet beyond the
end of the bed of any vehicle
unless the load end is marked
with a warning red flag.
Tenants Protected
Under New Housing
And Rent Act
Increased responsibilities for
the Alaska communities in con
nection with federal rent con
trol which continues under the|
Housing and Rent Act of 1950, |
effective July 1, are included j
in the new’ law, it was stated i
today by Walter E. Walsh, Area j
Rent Director-Attorney.
He said that the new law is j
substantially the same as the
old one and that under it tenants
continue to be protected against
unreasonable rent increases and
against illegal evictions, while)
landlords are assured fair net.
operating incomes. i
“The Office of the Housing j
Expediter is continued to June
30, 1951 by the new law and
authorized to carry on rent con
trol administration through rent j
offices like ours," said Walsh.;
“However, even though the ■
law is extended one year, con-!
trol will continue after Decem
ber 31, of this year only if, be
fore that date, city officials take
affirmative action to declare
that a shortage of rental hous-1
ing exists that requires the con-1
tinuation of rent control.”
He added that this affirmative
action to continue federal rent j
control after December 31 could j
also be taken by popular refer-j
endum, conducted under local:
law. If no affirmative action is
taken, rent control ends Decern- j
ber 31.
The rent office pointed out J
that, as in the previous law, j
local rent control may be ended
at any time between July 1, 1950
and June 30, 1951 by a resolu
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Alaska Representative Attends Chicago
Conference on Children and Youth
Nationwide participation in
the Midcentury White House
Conference on Children and
Youth is now in full swing, ac
cording to George F. Crisman,
executive secretary of the Al
aska Commission on Children
and Youth, who has just return
ed to his Juneau headquarters
after attending an advisory
council meeting in Chicago. The
council on state and local action,
which has just closed its pre
conference meeting, was host to
150 persons representing the
states and territories, and two
observers from Germany and
France.
Crisman explained that local
action in Alaska encompasses
participation in the 1950 Mid
century White House Conference
by 195 communities in the ter
ritory, including those with pop
ulations as low as 50. Ttye Alas
ka Commission on Children and
Youth, established by proefama
tion of Governor Ernest Gruen
ing in January of this year, is
acting as liaison between the
local committees and the nation
al committee of the White House
Conference which is scheduled
to be held in Washington, D. C ,
December 3 to 7, 1950. “The
meeting in Chicago,” Crisman
said, “was one of the preconfer
ence activities wherein the rep
resentatives of the states and
territories reported on partici
pation of their citizens who are
gathering facts which will form
the basis for subsequent action.
After all, this is intended to
be a citizen’s conference, non
partisan and non-sectarian. The
purpose of the White House
Conference is to consider how
we can develop in children the
mental, emotional, and spiritual
qualities so necessary to indi
vidual happiness and responsi
ble citizenship, and what physi
cal, economic and social condi
tions are considered necessary
to this development.
The 1950 Midcentury White
House Conference will be the
fifth to be held in this century.
Ihe first one was conducted
under President Theodore
Koosevelt in 1909, the second un
der President Woodrow Wilson
in 1919, the third under Presi
dent Herbert Hoover in 1930,
and the last under President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940.
The National Commission on
Children and Youth, with mem
bers from 67 organizations, first
proposed a I960 conference at
its meeting in 1946. Plans have
been progressing since that time,
culminating in the meeting to
be held in December.
“Of particular note to Alas
kans,” Crisman said, ‘is the
report of local action which
was made to the advisory coun
cil regarding one of Alaska's
progressive communities, Sitka.
An account of formation of the
Youth Progress Organization of
Sitka was received with a great
deal of intdfest. The purpose of
the Sitka organization is ‘to pro
mote the welfare and training
of children in the home, school,
church and community; to raise
the standards of home and com
munity life; to secure adequate I
laws for the care and protection
of children and youth; to bring
into closer relation the home,
church, school and community
that parents and educators may
cooperate intelligently in the
training of the child, and to se
cure for every child the highest
advantages in physical, mental,
social and spiritual education.’
“Local committees for chil
dren and youth in the territory
will be holding additional meet
ings between now and the time
of White House Conference in
December,” Crisman explained,
“and the office of the Alaska
Commission on Children and
Youth is available at all times
for any assistance or informa
tion needed.”
Rev. R. Rolland Armstrong
of Juneau is chairman of the
Alaska commission.
Reed - Daniels
Wed In Formal
Ceremony
The most beautiful formal
wedding of the year joined Missl
Jacquelyn B. Reed and George!
H. Daniels in marriage, last
Thursday evening, July 6, in
the Seward Methodist Church,
Rev. Paul Irwin officiating.
The bride's gown was of
heavy white satin, made on a
yoke of transparent net with
trapunto embroidery around the
neckline. The gown had a short
train. Her veil was fingertip
length arranged in a cap, and
caught up with seed pearls. She
carried a white Bible with a
rainbow of four blush rosebuds
and lily of the valley, with
white satin streamers caught
with stephanotis and fern.
The only jewelry worn by
the bride was an antique neck
lace of carved ivory. A family
heirloom worn by the oldest
daughter for five generations.
It will be laid away now until
Mrs. Daniels oldest daughter
is ready to be married, or, if
she has none, the next oldest
granddaughter of the Reed fam-l
ily. It is an intricately carved!
rose of purest ivory.
Miss Wilma Myers, maid of
honor, wore a gown of green
organdie and carried a colonial
bouquet of green and white
carnations. Two bridesmaids
continued the rainbow effect.
Miss Jeanne Reed, sister of the
bride, was gowned in yellow,
net over taffeta, with a colonial
bouquet of lavendar Dutch iris.
Mrs. Edward Barnes, in a gown
of orchid net and taffeta, car
ried yellow daisies in colonial
arrangement.
Mr. Donald Smith was grooms
man; Perry Stockton and Ed
ward Barnes, ushers.
The wedding march and other
selections were played by Mrs.
Paul Irwin on the Roberta Smith
Memorial organ. Mrs. William
Bland sang ‘Because” and
“Always.”
One hundred fifty guests at
tended the reception in the
church parlor, where the many
gifts were displayed. The bride
and groom cut the four-tiered
wedding cake, which was sup
plemented with tiny tea cakes,
punch and coffee.
Mrs. Daniels is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Reed
of Seward. Jacquelyn attended
school in Seward for the past
six years, and is a popular mem
ber of the younger set.
Mr. Daniels has lived in Sew
ard for about three years. He
came here from his home in
Puyallup, Washington. He has
a position with the Alaska Rail
road .Mrs. W. A. Daniels, his
mother, attended the wedding.
The couple slipped away dur
ing the reception to change and
set out upon their wedding jour
ney. They are spending their
honeymon on Kenai Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. George H.
Daniels will be at home to their
friends at 203 Madison Avenue
after Friday, July 14.
CARD PARTY AT CATHOLIC j
PARISH HALL
So as to keep the people of;
Seward from going stale and
losing their skill at cards during
this quiet summer.season, the'
ladies of the Altar Society of
Sacred Heart Church announce;
a card game for Thursday eve-1
ning, July 13, in the Catholic
Parish Hall, at 8:00 o’clock.
Bridge, pinochle and canasta
will be the order of the eve
ning. All of Seward and their
summer visitors are invited.
Newlyweds Visit
Recreation Center
Last Week End
Sgt. and Mrs. Beasley, bride
and groom from Fort Richard
son, were among the 60 guests
at the U. S. Army Fish and
Recreation Center this past
week end.
Prizes were given for the big
gest and best fish over the week
end, and Sgt. Beasley received
this week’s award for the "big
gest catch.’’ Other awards were
given to Mrs. T. J. Morrison,
wife of Capt. Morrison. Port of
Whittier, for the biggest salt
water fish. Mrs. Morrison hook
ed a 27 inch halibut off Thumb's
Cove. As halibuts go. hers was
not a big one, but as her first
catch, Mrs. Morrison was more
than thrilled. Private Gross
caught the largest rainbow (the
exact size remains a secret.)
The group enjoyed movies
and dancing, with a party in the
recreation hall Monday evening.
Next Sunday camera enthu
siasts in Seward are invited to
accompany the recreation party
down the Bay in the BSP, which
will leave the Army Dock at
10:00 a.m. for an all day trip.
The Recreation Camp has
proved so popular that there is
full house every week and a
long waiting list.
The permanent party at the
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Governor Will
Speak At Lions
Club Luncheon
Governor Ernest Grucning
has accepted the invitation of
the Seward Lions Club to attend
their regular luncheon meeting
Friday noon in the Methodist
Church dining room.
Mr. Tom Howell, president of
the Lions, being away from
town, Charles C. Cole, past pres
ident, will officiate.
The Governor will meet the
people at 8 p.m. Thursday in the
City Council Chamber to talk
over the economic situation in
Seward and to answer questions
any one cares to put to him.
The names of any other mem
bers of the Governor's party
have not been made known
here.
HARRY E. SOUTHARD
APPOINTED TAX ASSESSOR
Harry E. Southard, long time
resident and taxpayer of Sew
ard, has been appointed tax
assessor to succeed the late A. A.
Fairweather. Mr. Southard, who
has held the office before, will
assume his duties immediately.
Text of Alaska Statehood Bill
As Presented to Senate
Listed below are the mam pro
visions of the Alaska Statehood
Bill as it goes to the Senate:
1. A total of 21,400.000 acres j
to the new state: 20 million to i
be granted after five years from
admission date of Alaska into
the Union with the state to select
land from the vacant, unappro
priated and unreserved public
lands in "reasonably compact
tracts” with surveys to be made
only of the exterior boundaries
of any area selected: 200.000
acres from the national forests
and another 200,000 acres from
the public domain "all of which
lands shall be primarily valu
able for uses other than timber
or mineral production and ad
jacent to established communi
ties or suitable for prospective
community centers and recrea
tional areas" with language pro
viding protection to those per
sons having valid, existing rights
to land in the national forests
or on the public domain; and 1
million acres to the state for
internal improvements, such as
penal institutions, asylums, etc.
The state may sell land granted
to it in tracts of not more than i
640 acres for any purpose. In- j
come and proceeds from the j
land granted to the state would ]
go for support of the public j
schools and other public educa- i
tional institutions. (The House-!
approved version of the bill pro- j
vided that four sections out of i
every township in Alaska would ;
go to the new state after surveys
had been completed, with lieu
selection allowed only within
the particular land district and
no provision made for any land
within the national forests. The
grant for internal improvements
is similar in both versions of
the bill.)
2. The new state would be
paid 37 V2 per cent of the reve
nues from the national forests
rather than the 25 per cent
which goes to Alaska as a ter
ritory and to the States.
3. A royalty of not more than
12 Vs per cent is reserved to the
state on all minerals produced
from lands sold by the state,
leaving to the state the rate to
be fixed from zero to 12V2 per
cent.
4. The bill to be reported will
contain language having to do
with the state’s disclaimer to
any land which may be found
lo be the property ot the natives
of Alaska, technically changed
from the House language, and
similar to language which has
been in every statehood enabling
act since 1889.
5. The one amendment made
at the last meeting of the com
mittee provides that no reserva
tions for use and occupancy of
the natives of Alaska may be
created pending action by the
people of AlasKa and the Con
gress in effecting statehood.
This amendment resulted after
Senator Butler had proposed
that in the statehood bill the
power of the Secretary of the
Interior under the Wheeler
Howard Act which was extended
to Alaska in 1936 to create In
dian reservations be repealed.
6. No person who advocates
the overthrow by force of the
government of Alaska or of the
United States or belongs to any
organization or party advocat
ing such overthrow may hold
any public office under the state
constitution.
7. The new state would con
trol its fisheries, as provided
in the House version, with re
tention of the Pribilof fur-seal
fishery, because of international
complications, in the federal
government with 50 per cent of
the net proceeds of this industry
to go to the new state and the
other 50 per cent to go into the
federal treasury for retirement
of tlie public debt.
8. Congress would have the
right to approve or reject the
state constitution, the House ver
sion providing a proclamation
by the President and no further
action by Congress following
enactment of the enabling act.
9. The federal building and
the federal jail at Juneau would
be granted to the state in addi
tion to the Governor’s House
as provided in the House bill.
10. Delegates to the constitu
tional convention would consist
of 29 delegates, seven from the
First Division, three from the
Second, seven from the Third
and four from, the Fourth with
eight delegates to be chosen at
large.
11. Certain technical amend
ments have been added over the
House version dealing with the
judicial and Federal Reserve
systems.