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Peninsula-Chain News
VOLUME 5 ♦> INDEPENDENT ❖ SEWARD, ALASKA * SATURDAY JULY 31. 1948 * UNITED PRESS SERVICE * PRICE 10 CENTS No. 8
Eng. Metcalf & Rivers Check Work Needed Here
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The small boat harbor is to
bo rehabilitated and work will
start within a week or 10 days
according to Territorial Engineer
Metcalf and Engineer Rivers who
is in charge of this district.
Army type iron pontoons or
floats will be placed along the
north side of the breakwater so
boats tied in there will nose into
the wind.
Depths, piling penetration and
specifications are on file in An
chorage and as soon as completed
and arranged, the City will take
over a contract on much the same
basis as the Veteran's Housing
Project. However, Engineer Rivers
has asked that Engineer Wm Estes
be placed in charge and he will
make his reports direct to Rivers
and the City.
Work should start shortly
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3n regard to the airport not
much can be done this year but
arrangements are being made to
commence work early in the
spring.
The fact no heavy machinery is
available on the ground is the
reason given.
No contractor is available so
heavy equipment must be brought
in from some other point and
limited money on hand would be
exhausted before a wheel was
turned and the idle machinery
would be forced to set until
spring.
Neither Metcalf nor Rivers are
averse to giving a contract at
this time if a contractor with the
type of machinery required was
cn the ground.
Plans to spent $60 000 on the
airstrip by the Army fell through
and the money was diverted to
Homer.
Plans and specifications. infor-.
mat ion, etc. will be rounded up
again and as soon as the paper
work is done arrangements will
be made to start work early in
the spring.
Mayor Lanier expects to keep
close contact with both Engineers
and is anxious to see work start
ed as soon as possible.
The consensus of the opinion
on the Marshal Plan is that it
s to help people without a Red
' ■ nt to their name.
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Maybe we are "out of luck."
•' ff our beam,” "goofy." “foolish."
"silly.” or just "plain damphools."
but we are pinning our faith to
the best Harbor in the North Pa
< ific, Resurrection Bay the se
cond deepest in the world, with
. pen water the year around be
sides being the most beautiful.
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The city today is full of peti
tions. Some for men who do
tneir duty and for some who, it
s alleged, do not. Many of the
allegations it will be hard to
prove and some may be so.
Some who do not sign are merely
waiting for a change in National
administration.
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SUBSCRIBE TO THE POLARIS NOW
PARIS COMMUNISTS
TELL HOW TO TAKE
CONTROL OF CITIES
By ROBERT D GRAFF
U. P Staff Correspondent
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PA R I S t UP. t—A communist
military blueprint for seizing con
trol of a city and smashing back
tanks and armored columns has
been published in the party's
army weekly, France d’Abord
(France First'.
The magazine which was barred
recently from French army bar
racks by the government but
boasts a military circulation of
"nearly 1(10,000," published the
blueprints under the title of "The
Role of Cities in Modern Com
bat."
The article cited two rules of
thumb for defending a city or any
section of it. First was “whoever
controls the rooftops controls the
whole street." The second maxim
was "in street fighting, the shot
that counts is the shot that kills."
Audacity Called For
Illustrated by diagrams, the un
signed article said:
"War in the streets is carried
on by audacity, resolution, and
exploitation of the possibilities of
the terrain. In brief, it is carried
on by offensive to the death, be
cause more than in any other
form of fighting, morale plays the
decisive role. Ideological founda
tions for the fighting are thus es
sential as well as the formation
of trained leaders.”
The article was written more
from the point of view of the
population defending a city
against an armed and mechanized
invader than from the viewpoint
of a professional army It said:
"The absence of wide arcs of
fire weighs the odds in favor of
light individual armament and
permits poorly equipped forces to
resist victoriously and to over
come an adversary who has very
superior modern weapons at his
disposal.
"The defensive is generally or
ganized around islands of resist
ante. Two procedures are princi
pally used: barricading the streets
and occupying public or private
buildings."
Night Fighting Best
Describing possible offensive
tactics for seizing a city or widen
• ng the area under control.
France d'Abord said:
“Fanned out armored columns
are not the only offensive means
which exists. Small assault group
knowing the terrain well but
working independently of each
other, especially during the night,
are capable of obtaining better
results still.
“In fact, night battle is particu
larly effective in a city because
the streets furnish excellent
points of aim. The obscurity para
lyzes in large part the opposition
by hiding vantage points and gun
emplacements.
“Thus shock detachments back
ed by a freindly population us
ing to the maxium the effects of
surprise, exploiting the gamut of
passageways offered by a big
city (rooftops, interior courts, se- j
wets, subway tubes) are capable
of knocking out forces very super- 1
ior in number.” I
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Ice cream was first served in
the United States in 1809 at a i
White House dinner, World Book i
Encyclopedia reports.
World News
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SHOOTING WAR
MAY BE NEARER
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Russia is preparing to close
three or the 4 air corriders into
Beilin and the Allies state that
fighter-planes will convoy the
commodii y-bearing planes to Ber
lin.
President Truman blames the
high prices on Congress During
the last regular session of that
, body he furnished a statement of
115 pages giving facts and figures
| on costs and the high cost of liv
ing which apparently Congress
by-passed.
: Senator Taft answered the ac
* cusation.
He does not feel that inflation
can be stopped by curbing foreign
exports.
Senator Snyler states that cas
tor oil and price control neither
I of which he likes are sometimes
necessary.
It was announced about this
time that hogs hit a new high
of $31.00 per 100 in the Chicago
amrket.
Many want to hear what the
Republican candidate. Dewey has
to say.
If congress can dispose of the
Poll tax by next Wednesday an
adjournment may be in order
, it was promised, by some of the
Republicans.
They are sitting back enjoying
the filabustering of the Southern
D e m o c r a t s who are working
against the measure.
The cost of the special session
is not great, comparatively speak
ing as the Congressmen draw a
salary per year. The extra cost
is more or less embodied in the
amount drawn by persons in a
monthly pay-check
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Assistant Secretary of Com
merce Blaisdell is on the spot for
having hired a man by the name
of Rymington about whose loyal
ty there seems to be some ques
t ion.
He was hired without an FBI
or a grand jury check-up
A Miss Bently now claims there
are many communists in high of
fices and there have been many
strings pulled since 1935 when
she joined to place them there.
In 1938 she stated she “went un
derground.” or kept out of trac
table activities so far as possible, j
These high up officials are j
checking military as well as poli- 1
tical affairs, she stated.
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Ambassador Smith and his co
terie have encountered a Russian ;
road block. Thi> is the statement
that Molotov is on a vacation or
"out of town". They will ask for
a conference with Premier Stalin.
They ask a lifting of the block
ade into Berlin as the price of en
gaging in a 4-Power conference in
order to straighten things out in
Berlin.
The explosion in the I B. Far
ben plant killed 138, injured ser
iously between 150 and 200 and
nearly a thousand were injured
but not seriously. Col Parten,
of Tennessee was amazed ta see
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Stars on Cavalcade
Lovely Irene Dunne (above)
will portray Harriet Pullen in
Hie Cavalcade of America
drama. "Queen of Heartbreak
Trail,” on NBC. Monday. May
17th. Harriet Pullen’s story is
one of a woman's ingenuity.
Hear the way"' in which this
widowed mother of four made
a home for them in Skagway,
Alaska, and became a success
ful business woman as well./
NEW FIRE-FIGHTING UNIT
TO ARRIVE SOON
A new mobile tank-pumper unit
an important addition to the fire
lighting equipment of the U. S
Forest Service on the Kenai Pen
insula. will be put into service
upon its arrival in Seward soon.
Division Supervisor Max V. Reg
er reports that a new Dodge Pow
envagon has been specially out
fitted by the Forest Service shops
in Portland and turned over to
his division for fire suppression
duties.
'1 he Dodge carries a several
hundred gallon tank and pumpers
with power for intake from!
streams or lakes and for hose
outlets. Two men can operate!
tho unit_ maintaining communi- !
cation with fire headquarters at
hawing via two-way radio.
Operation base for the pumper i
will be the Kenai Lake Ranger :
Sit.tion at Mile 24. Reger has re
quested all Kenai residents to,
promptly report and fires dis- !
covered on national forest land
by phone to the hawing head- !
quarters. I
V. F. W. CHIEF BRANNAMAN
WRITES FRIENDS HERE.
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Word was received that great
er hope is held for the recovery
of Miss Brannaman’s fiancee who
was in a highway accident about
May 15th.
In company with two other
young men, traveling at a moa
cr.ite rate they crashed into the
rear of an unlighted comm ricul.
truck-trailer- The driver and one
of the young men escaped with
superficial injuries but the third
member was a victim of a very
bad concussion.
The accident occurred about 10
days before his graduation from
the Colorado Sshool of Mines.
(We have been unable to secure
the young man's name.)
He served with young Branna
man until Brannaman was killed
in the fighting on Okinawa. They
had been pals since schoolboy
days.
Friends are very glad to hear of
the turn for the better of the
patient and are hoping to hear
of his complete recovery.
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ST. LOUIS TO SEWARD IN
15 DAYS IN A MODEL A.
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Robert L. Gilliland and his
bride climbed into the Model A
Ford Coup on July 8 at St- Louis
and splashed thru mud holes and
bad road where others stuck is
arriving in Anchorage on July
23rd.
“The model A," he said, “was
the car for the trip. We went
right along in mud holes with the
chassis on top of the ground and
wheels embedded.” "Surely the
ear for the Alcan Highway.”
Mr. and Mrs. Gilliland were
married last September in St.
Louis at the home of the bride.
They were here for a few days
about Easter.
Gilliland plans to return to the
States soon and locate at St.
Louis.
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NEW PASTOR
ARRIVES IN SEWARD
The Rev. Martin Borbeck. S- J.
arrived in Seward Thursday -o
take over the duties of Pastor of
the Sacred Heart Catholic Church
He was formerly at Missoula,
Montana.
Masses on Sunday will be at
8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Mass on wee's
days at 8 a.m.
Confessions will be heard on
Saturday from 3 to 4 p.m. and
at 7:30 p.m.
DEER..
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With over five hundred names
on petitions addressed to Dele
gate Bartlett in Washington, a
move to get deer planted on the
peninsula is underway.
The instigator, Richard Dangler,
who won the 4-H trip to Chicago
last year has names on his peti
tions from Seldovia to Hope and
practically every small settlement
on the Peninsula.
Young Dangler, who is 17 years
of age. has undertaken this move
in the belief that deer are as
much a part of a sportsman's
bag as moose, goats or sheep and
a few years protection will en
able propagation of a good num
RICHARD DANGLER IN MOVE
TO PLANT DEER ON KENAI
PEN.; PETITIONS CIRCULATED
ber of deer.
Deer in the country will have a
tendency to cut down causalties
among moose it is claimed and
deer are more easily handled in
the woods so far as packing-out
is concerned.
Whether “blacktail" or ‘'white
tail" deer are brought is inmater
ial just so we get deer he stated
It is planned to turn them
loose near Cooper's Landing< Ken
ai, Homer and Seldovia.
Those who wish to sign the pe
tition may do so at the Polaris
office if they have not already
done so. Petitions may also bo
signed at the Co-Op and John
son's Hardware.